Above the Great Dao
Chapter 300 - 155: The Lost Yinchai

Chapter 300: Chapter 155: The Lost Yinchai

Chen Shi controlled the Golden Core, flying about in the Red Mountain Hall, and unwittingly came to the backyard, his heart moved slightly, "The Hall Master has been at the Red Mountain Lady’s place for several days and hasn’t come out. Could it be that the evil transformation is really severe?"

Quietly, the Golden Core sneaked into the backyard. Just then, a child with a sky-reaching braid, dressed in a white bellyband embroidered with red peonies, jumped in front of the Golden Core, blocking Chen Shi’s Golden Core, and said, "Scholar, without summons, you cannot enter!"

This sky-reaching braid child was the spiritual embodiment of Crane Child, tasked with guarding the backyard to prevent the intrusion of idlers.

Being a spiritual entity, it saw through the black Golden Core as Chen Shi’s, and thus blocked him.

Chen Shi retracted his Golden Core, and seeing it return, Crane Child finally felt relieved and went back into the porcelain crane body.

After a moment, Chen Shi’s true body hurried over, attempting to charge into the backyard.

Crane Child hastily blocked him, and Chen Shi said with a smile, "Little Crane, what is my relationship with the Lady? I am the Lady’s playmate! If you block me, the Lady will spank you!"

Crane Child exclaimed angrily, "Last time you took the Lady out to play, the Hall Master really did spank me! If you lead the Lady away again this time, the Hall Master might beat my buttocks to a pulp! Don’t even think about taking the Lady away again!"

Unable to break through, Chen Shi lit an incense stick and offered it, smiling, "Little Crane, I am not planning to take the Lady away but am concerned about the Hall Master. He’s been inside for many days, and as an instructor, I am quite worried about him. How is he now?"

They say you shouldn’t hit a smiling face, and although Crane Child was reluctant to accept his incense, the next moment, Chen Shi offered another stick, and hesitating any longer, he’d be presented with three sticks.

With a sigh, Crane Child accepted the three sticks of incense, grudgingly saying, "This must not set a precedent, and it must not happen again in the future."

It hesitated for a while, then said, "The situation with the Hall Master is not good. He cultivated the Lady’s cultivation technique, and evil energy entered his body, losing control of his mind in excitement, and he is now struggling to suppress his evil nature. But these past few days, there have been several relapses."

A surge of concern flashed through Chen Shi, and he asked, "When the Hall Master transforms into evil, what form of Evil Spirit does he become?"

He had previously seen strange visions of flesh growing behind Yu Tiancheng, but he didn’t know into what kind of Evil Spirit Yu Tiancheng would transform, though he suspected it wouldn’t be any ordinary Evil Spirit. Given Yu Tiancheng’s formidable strength, already at the Divinity Transformation Realm, his transformation could likely be a major threat!

Chen Shi compiled the "Evil Spirit Secret Records," documenting all kinds of Evil Spirits he encountered, and these past few days in the Red Mountain Hall, he consulted other Talisman Masters to add dozens more entries to the records.

"If Hall Master Yu turns evil, he would definitely transform into a most unusual Evil Spirit! It would paint a vivid Chapter in my record book!" Chen thought wholeheartedly.

He offered a few more incense sticks, but Crane Child was stubborn and didn’t talk, so Chen Shi eventually had to give up.

On the way to Gongzhou, Li Tianqing received a letter sent by Chen Shi, and upon opening it, his heart skipped a beat, "He already reached the Golden Core Fourth Transition? That fast? I wonder if it was before or after me."

Since they had met, the two had always competed in secret; whether it be in cultivation or in ’who Little Gold loves more,’ it was a constant rivalry, never willing to be outdone.

"However, Little Ten did say that the people of Gongzhou aren’t great, so I should be careful."

His thoughts were meticulous, and his insight was extremely sharp. In just over ten days, he safely arrived within the territory of Gongzhou Province.

Min River threaded through Gongzhou Province, making travel by boat much more convenient. Li Tianqing arrived at the dock to find a painted pleasure boat stopped there, recruiting students heading to the exams. The boatman and the boat girl were father and daughter, yet they were old acquaintances from Xinxiang County.

Li Tianqing approached, and the boat girl seeing him, couldn’t help but smile, saying, "Young brother, do you still remember me? Last time in Xinxiang County when you guys went to the brothel without money and got kicked out for not paying the girls, you rode on my boat."

Li Tianqing’s face turned red, and bowing his head in shame, unable to bear the embarrassment, he muttered, "Miss, it wasn’t me who went; it was my older brothers..."

"They made you pay, yet you had no money, so it was that youngster with you who paid the boat fare!"

The boat girl spoke quickly, teasing, "Do you have money to ride the boat this time?"

"Yes!"

Li Tianqing was very confident this time. On this trip back to Quanzhou, the Li family had increased his monthly allowance. Previously, he only received ten Silver per month, but now it had increased to fifty Silver, with an additional three Silver worth of Five Elements Phoenix Elixir, and two new sets of clothes each month, making him far more confident when spending money.

The boat girl waited a moment longer, and a few other scholars aspiring to sit the exams boarded, with over ten people ready to set sail when suddenly, a young monk supporting an old monk hurried towards them, shouting loudly, "Boatman, wait!"

The boatman used the bamboo pole to stabilize the boat, waiting for the two.

The young monk and the old monk jogged over. Li Tianqing seeing the old monk struggling, quickly went forward to help, but the boat girl suddenly raised her hand, swatting his hand away.

Startled, Li Tianqing looked towards the old monk, only to see the old monk dressed in a patched robe, terribly aged, his face covered in wrinkles piled into folds, his eye bags even layered, brimming with wrinkles.

His eyes were dim, squinting into slits, his whole body exuding an air of dimness, and a breath of death emanated from his body.

The boatman extended the bamboo pole, which the old monk grasped to wobbily board the boat.

The pleasure boat suddenly dipped, and a few scholars exclaimed, "The old monk is so heavy!"

The young monk also hurriedly boarded, supporting the old monk, and said to the boat girl, "My master is a bit heavier, I will pay extra."

The boat girl shook her head, saying, "We charge by headcount, not by weight. The old monk being so heavy, could it be that he has cultivated a golden body? Over a hundred years old, still able to seal his own acupoints, keeping his vitality from leaking out, surrounded by Buddha’s light, making the underworld emissaries unable to find you, unable to take your soul, someone capable of such feats must be a Zen Master from the Great Baoguo Temple."

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