Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 411 People Leave Their Names Behind, and the Scenery Remains Unique

"Master Chu, this 'Record of the Harmony of Medicine and Stone in the Northern Heaven' is the culmination of a thousand years of alchemy practice in our Northern Daoist school, and it also contains some of my own original ideas."

To express my gratitude to Master Chu for eliminating this great scourge of Qingsheng Temple, I wish to present this item to you.

"Why be so polite... wait, the prologue of your book mentions the Voidless Fiend Fire?"

"Indeed, when I discussed the Dao with Tongxuan, I discovered the wondrous uses of the Formless Evil Fire of the Great Void."

Although it is extremely potent, it can alter the fundamental potential of living beings, regardless of whether they are human, beast, insect, or ghost, and can naturally also be used in medicine.

Although I cannot understand why Tongxuan was able to collect so much Voidless Evil Fire, according to the records of the Taoist sages, when meteorites fall from the sky and are not destroyed upon landing, some of them often carry Voidless Evil Qi.

Therefore, I traveled to various places to search for unusual stones. Although I did not find many meteorites, I did find several unique mineral deposits.

I cultivated herbs in the mine. With my enlightened state of mind, I observed them closely and found that the same herbs grown in the mine were indeed vastly different from those grown outside.

Over the years, we, the humble Taoist priest and others, have not only gained more experience in the prescriptions for resolving the turbid essence of the moon, but also developed a method to harmonize the invisible evil fire of the earth's lungs and transform it for our own use.

Its essence overlaps with the utilization of the Voidless Evil Fire, which might help Master Chu master the secret techniques of the Profound School.

This is part of the conversation between Chu Tianshu and Kou Daoren on that day.

Now, sitting in the deep valley, leaning against a pine tree, he flips through these incredibly thick manuals with characters smaller than ants, and he still vividly remembers how he felt back then.

Is this some kind of medical compendium?!
They're literally using herbal samples as mothers and radioactive materials as fathers to cultivate new herbs.

Why not just call it "Observation Notes on Radiation Breeding by the Northern Celestial Master"?

Honestly, the research on radiation breeding in my hometown wasn't this outrageous.

After all, back in his hometown, there isn't a single forbidden expert who's so idle that he can spend all his time squatting by the herb garden, practicing his internal energy to study the changes and combinations of radiation and herbs.

However, my hometown already has a very broad foundation for research and application in radiation.

If we bring this information back, its practical value will be no less than that of the stone tablets of the Tongxuan School.

After all, even if those stone tablets have a higher limit, there is still a lot of content that remains undeciphered.

This document is very clear and detailed, with every important point described in great detail.

If we apply this to the existing technology in our hometown, it will probably blossom into something new very soon.

Moreover, the Tongxuan School used a lot of demonic perspectives when deciphering the stone tablet technology.

In comparison, these manuscripts by the Northern Celestial Master can be considered to be from the perspective of a normal practitioner.

Even though the characteristics of cultivation skills among people who practice normally in their hometowns are somewhat different due to global environmental issues, the skills they possess are still different from those in their native regions.

However, Chu Tianshu had already made comparisons in this regard.

If domestic spiritual practitioners learn some internal cultivation techniques for refining spirit and transforming qi, the quality of their internal energy will be in the same category as that of the Northern Celestial Masters sect.

If the Special Police Division still doesn't have enough manpower in this area...

The disciples of unorthodox practices who had gathered together in their own pharmacy all happened to be following the path of refining spirit into qi.

As the spirit world recovers, the pharmacy will cultivate an increasingly larger team, which will provide talent for research in this area.

"My Tranquilizing Pharmacy..."

Chu Tianshu muttered to himself, a smile unconsciously appearing on his face.

His plans for the pharmacy and Longmen Road were completely different.

Given the current situation, the Dragon Gate Path must fight and struggle. Without ruthlessness, it cannot stand firm, and without ruthlessness, it cannot suppress the demonic path.

The fact that the Dragon Gate Path teaches the Thirteen Deadly Swords upon entry will not change.

In Chu Tianshu's mind, the pharmacy was more like a safe haven, and it relied on auxiliary routes for profit.

It's clear from the initial team that they weren't primarily skilled in direct combat, but they were involved in things that could support combat power.

It's something you don't usually use in many situations, but it provides a solid foundation when you really need to.

"Are you leaving?"

Suddenly, the pine tree transmitted a sound.

Chu Tianshu was taken aback: "How did you figure that out?"

"intuition."

The pine branch swayed slightly, extending and bending in front of Chu Tianshu, forming a small, icy teacup containing a small cup of truffles.

Chu Tianshu placed the book on his lap, took the truffle with his left hand, and with his right hand, he squeezed out a ball of water essence, shaped it into a cup, and placed it on the pine branch.

"Strange, didn't you already possess the ability to manifest your spirit before?"

Chu Tianshu took a sip of the truffle and casually remarked, "Every time I see you with Xiaolan, you look like a spirit, but when you talk to me, you always seem like a tree?"

The pine tree speaks frankly.

"It's easier to manifest when I'm near Xiaolan, but when I'm near you, I always feel more at ease when I'm attached to my original form."

Chu Tianshu's cup stiffened slightly: "Huh? I've never done anything strange to your soul, have I?"

"It's just an instinct."

The pine tree said, "Your presence is too strong for me. Just having my soul appear in front of you gives me the feeling that I will die if you make a move."

"Even knowing you won't take action, I still prefer to chat with you using my real body."

Fine.

Chu Tianshu shook his head slightly and drank a little more truffle.

"Besides..."

The pine tree suddenly said, "Xiao Lan helps me come up with a name, but you don't."

Chu Tianshu coughed lightly, feeling both amused and exasperated.

“Fellow Daoist Tree, with your cultivation and experience, it would be impolite of me to presume to name you.”

The pine tree has always accepted the title of "fellow Daoist".

Chu Tianshu thought that the other party was naturally indifferent to fame and reputation.

The pine tree said, "So, if I invited you, would you be willing to help me think of a name?"

"of course."

Chu Tianshu smiled, turned his head, and looked up at the treetop. "Let me hear what name Xiao Lan gave you, fellow Daoist?"

After listing a long list of names, the pine tree hesitated and said, "I think the name 'Songshu' is quite good."

“But if you’re going to be a person, you should have a surname, right? Xiaolan said we could be named Zhuo, but I don’t really want to be called Zhuo Songshu.” Chu Tianshu repeated twice, “Songshu, that sounds similar to pine tree. If we’re talking about the meaning of the words, do you like reading?”

The pine tree said, "I like listening to people talk about books and watching them demonstrate the things in the books, but I don't like reading books myself. Words are static and lifeless."

"Words have a lot of fun. The shape of the characters, and even their arrangement, have many variations. Some of these can't be appreciated just by listening to audiobooks. For example, there was an author I really liked who used words to draw pictures, like eight horses surrounding a person... Never mind, that guy was probably just trying to get more words!"

Chu Tianshu did not agree with the other party's opinion, but he did not dwell on the topic and simply continued to ponder it.

“Reciting books means reading books. You like listening to books, but you don’t read them yourself.”

"A common surname, when placed before these two characters, sounds like someone is reading a book by themselves, no wonder you're not satisfied."

Thinking of this, he looked up at the treetop, and through the gaps in the branches, he saw the vast blue sky and wispy white clouds, and couldn't help but smile.

"The clouds may change, but the pine trees remain the same."

"How about reciting books in the clouds? White clouds travel in all directions, reading about a thousand years of history, and you can hear it all clearly."

The pine branches swayed gently, and a breeze stirred, causing the surrounding grass to rustle.

Pine Tree said happily, "I like this name, let's call it that!"

Chu Tianshu stood up with the book in his hand and patted the tree trunk.

"Listening to the clouds recite books is a great pleasure, but you must not develop the bad habit of reading by the clouds, relying only on hearsay and not knowing the true content."

"I just don't like reading for long periods of time, it's not that I don't read at all, besides, Xiaolan reads to me."

Yun Songshu smiled happily, repeatedly reciting his own name.

"Thank you. Many people in my memory have become blurry, but you helped me give me a name, and I will remember it for a long time."

"I hope that when you come back, I will be able to pull up tree roots and run all over the mountain."

Chu Tianshu imagined it for a moment.

It feels like even if it's just to see this scene, he'll definitely come to this valley to take a look next time he comes back.

"Then I look forward to it, fellow calligrapher."

Chu Tianshu turned and walked away, waving the book in farewell.

"I still need to say a few words to Xiao Liang and Xiao Lan. Until we meet again!"

The pine branches all swayed, as if they were waving their hands vigorously.

Half an hour later, Chu Tianshu walked out of the valley, watched by a group of people.

The legend of this number one person in the world traveling overseas and visiting various countries will soon spread.

In reality, Chu Tianshu only walked a dozen miles before returning to his hometown.

The furnishings in the house are still the same, but there's a faint smell of dust.

"Hmm, the smell of dust is fainter than I expected."

Based on the time he spent during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, if the ratio were two to one, almost five months would have passed back in his hometown.

Chu Tianshu took out his phone and the first thing he did was connect to the internet.

To my surprise, when I checked the date, only three months had passed back home.

Although the time ratios in the past were not always as precise as a true two to one.

But this deviation should be considered the largest.

Tap! Tap tap tap tap tap!

After not turning on my phone for a while, it started popping up a lot of random notification messages.

Only a few were from group chats; the rest were advertisements for various software.

Chu Tianshu always clears these kinds of notifications one by one.

However, he glanced around and found that many news articles and social media posts mentioned the same thing.

"A major supernatural event in New York?"

Chu Tianshu clicked in to take a look.

It turns out that two months ago, Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York, was completely included in the spillover zone, which caused a global media frenzy.

He checked the news dates and flipped through the pages.

"Oh, so the matter has been resolved."

After more than half a month, the overflow zone was broken.

However, this incident involves too many people and has attracted great public attention.

Protests have erupted in many parts of the Americas, demanding that the authorities accelerate the popularization of supernatural powers and open up channels for supernatural ascension, among other things.

Chu Tianshu had never paid attention to this kind of thing before, and only learned about it after seeing these news reports.

While China is already providing external alchemy and martial arts instruction to junior and senior high school students, only a few states on the other side of the world have made similar decisions.

Now that the protests have broken out, they've spread everywhere.

Even the states that made the right decisions were not spared from the demonstrations, and faced even more demands and protests.

Chu Tianshu browsed for a few minutes, but found it all a mess, so he exited the news app and went to check the Special Police Department's internal website to see what was going on in China.

While there aren't any events on the scale of Manhattan in China, the frequency of supernatural events is still on the rise recently.

Fortunately, thanks to the incident involving General Yun Gu, a large group of stubborn and treacherous martial arts lineages were also brought together.

This serves as a way to give these people a way out, and it's a logical step to hire them to assist in resolving incidents in various places.

The breakthrough at the expert level relied on the passage along the Yangtze River to enter the spirit world and collect various experimental data, as well as the cultivation progress and technological research of the military's key personnel...

The situation is generally expected to remain stable.

Chu Tianshu nodded to himself and sent an emoji in the group chat to indicate that he had returned.

Seeing that no one responded for a while, he put down his phone.

Going downstairs and out the back door, the bamboo forest was lush and green, the sky was bright and clear, and the scenery was exceptionally beautiful.

Chu Tianshu patted Sanqi, signaling it to fly a little further away, but Sanqi refused.

"Alright, it's good to have courage."

He took out the Heavenly Eye of the Void.

(End of this chapter)