From Celestial Official to Great Celestial Venerable

Chapter 85 Return
Qin Chuan and the others boarded the Creation Flying Ship, which was returning to Dongsheng Divine Continent.

It is still the familiar Ship of Creation.

Having been in Perfect World for nearly three months, I survived the attack by Myth and witnessed the destruction of the Barbarian God statue and the theft of the Barbarian God's soul by the Myth organization.

Later, due to his fortunate survival, he was received by the Perfect God King and bestowed with a mark.

Qin Chuan boarded the Ship of Fortune for the return journey, reflecting on the gains of the past three months.

It must be said that the gains from this three-month trip to the heavens are equivalent to several years spent holed up in his hometown. Not to mention the small teleportation talisman, the Guixu Divine Cave and other flying boat gains, the most precious unexpected gains are the three things he obtained from the Thunder Emperor, which made him rich overnight, as well as the God King's emblem, the calligraphy brush he was given, and some secret methods and planting experience and hybridization insights on spirit oranges obtained from the Green Mountain of the Moon Cold Palace.

Of course, the biggest political gain from this trip was promoting Jiuchuan at the Perfect Temple banquet, which also brought him into the sights of many important figures.

Since he was returning to the city, Qin Chuan naturally wouldn't give up on taking advantage of the Creation Ship any further.

However, he looked at Yuan Siyao beside him and saw that she looked gloomy and unhappy.

Qin Chuan initially thought the other person was simply reminded of something that had happened.

Unexpectedly, upon inquiry, while there was indeed a reason, something else was more important.

"The academy went to great lengths to send me to the Heavenly Exchange, and I was the only one who survived the calamity of the Ark of Creation. Yet, I couldn't understand much of what True Monarch Qi was saying about the Great Dao of Spiritual Origin. I'm so useless. If it were any of the other senior brothers or sisters from the academy, they would definitely be better than me. If Teacher Gu hadn't perished, he would have gained even more than me."

Yuan Siyao looked dejected and covered her face with her hands:
"I have let down the academy and I have failed this opportunity."

Seeing this, Qin Chuan didn't know how to comfort him, but asked curiously, "Is the Spirit Origin Dao so difficult to understand? Can I take a look?"

Yuan Siyao turned to look at him, remained silent for a moment, and although she didn't think Qin Chuan could see anything, she still handed him a jade talisman containing the image of Qi Cangming preaching that she had left behind through her magic.

Qin Chuan took it and touched his divine sense.

But when they saw the pioneer of the Lingyuan Dao, who was known as the first among all the heavens, expounding and demonstrating, spiritual energy fell from the void like a spring, landing on the ground and smashing out into Dao flowers. After breaking, they transformed into symbols and patterns, which, together with Qi Cangming's lecture, explained the principles of talismans to the many Daoist students below the stage.

Qin Chuan listened for about an incense stick's time.

Take the jade slip off.

Seeing this, Yuan Siyao subconsciously asked, "How was it? Was it like listening to a celestial book? Even I, a Daoist of the Spirit Source system, could only barely understand one-tenth of it, let alone you..."

"It's not that hard to understand."

Qin Chuan replied softly:
"For example, isn't this rune just a rune used by the Spirit Gathering Array to convert spirit crystals? It's just that it involves more runes."

While talking.

He then flicked his finger to draw a talisman, and spiritual power seeped out from his fingertips, drawing one of the many talismans of Qi Cangming in the image on the deck in front of the two of them.

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As soon as the rune took shape, a small vortex appeared on the spot, gathering the surrounding spiritual energy.

The next moment, the spiritual energy compressed and condensed into a single point, like a miniature nebula.

Finally, with a flash of white light, the spiritual energy nebula vortex disappeared, leaving behind a white crystal the size of a grain of rice.

"Qin Chuan!!"

Yuan Siyao's face flushed red as she looked incredulously at the young Taoist beside her:

"You, you actually managed to draw Qi Zhenjun's talisman? How did you do that?"

This talisman, though it may seem like it merely condenses and collapses spiritual energy into spiritual crystal particles, contains principles that can only be grasped at the Golden Core stage. It is related to the 'Golden Core Formation' principle in cultivation, although the spiritual principles required for Golden Core Formation are tens of millions of times greater than those of this small talisman, but they are indeed on the same level.

In other words, the reason why Yuan Siyao couldn't comprehend it was because, although she had exceptional talent, her cultivation level was still below the Golden Core stage, so she couldn't understand it at all.

"I……"

Startled by Yuan Siyao's question, Qin Chuan subconsciously snapped back to reality. It seemed he understood the principles of the runes without much effort. After a moment's thought and mental processing, he immediately arrived at the answer, thinking to himself:

"It turns out that I obtained the 'Returning to the Void Divine Cave' condensation method from this Creation Ship. Behind the condensation of this Returning to the Void Divine Cave are hundreds of thousands of various spiritual source runes. Some of them are not much different from what True Monarch Qi Cangming described, and can even be said to be exactly the same."

Since he has already mastered this method, there is naturally no problem of not understanding it or being unable to use it.

However, he could not give the real answer to Yuan Siyao's question, and only said slowly: "I have a lot of knowledge about talismans and formations, so I have some ability to apply them to other situations."

Yuan Siyao had no doubt about Qin Chuan's answer, because at this moment she seemed to have grasped at some lifeline, and she quickly stepped forward and pointed to a talisman in the jade slip: "Can you understand this?"

Qin Chuan glanced at it and nodded. This was one of the hundreds of runes he could understand.

"How do you draw this symbol? What's the underlying principle?" Yuan Siyao asked excitedly.

Seeing the thirst for knowledge in her eyes, Qin Chuan realized she was treating him like a tutor. He took a deep breath and, since he had nothing else to do, began to explain and demonstrate the concepts to her.

Yuan Siyao truly deserves to be called a prodigy of Xiaoxiang Academy. Being selected as a Daoist and surpassing her peers is the best proof of her strength. However, since she is from another world, she is not an important person at Qi Cangming's lecture conference and does not receive detailed explanations.

Now, with Qin Chuan explaining and analyzing the drawing methods of some runes and the principles of some rune patterns, the speed of comprehension is far greater than the previous half month of listening to the teachings.

The three-day voyage passed by unnoticed, and with Qin Chuan's help, she had already grasped thirty percent of what she had heard during this pilgrimage.

However, their harmonious learning atmosphere was soon disrupted by a sound from the Ship of Creation:

Fellow Daoists, we have successfully arrived at the end of our journey—the Blessed Land of Tianzhen Water in Xiaoxiang Cave, Dongsheng World.

This was the real voyage; there wasn't even any turbulence along the way, everything went smoothly.

The reason is simple: if the people of Perfect World and Dongsheng World allow the same thing to happen again, then it won't just be one or two people losing their hats and having their cultivation ruined, but a whole lot of people.

And when that voice reminds you of the moment.

When Master Xuanji came over and told them to disembark.

Yuan Siyao suddenly seemed to wake from a dream, looked at Qin Chuan beside her, and asked:

"Qin Chuan, after you disembark, you will take a flying boat back to Lushan Jiuchuan and will not stay in Xiaoxiang Cave, right?"

Reminded by Qin Chuan, he withdrew his hands after three days of refining. After three days, he had once again refined the 'Chaos Returning to Nothingness Guiding' array composed of 365 divine acupoints, extracting the refining methods for two more divine acupoints. This was considered to have refined the array of the interdimensional flying boat to a degree of one percent.

Two more acupoints entered his body and emitted light, which means that if he goes to a place with spiritual energy or encounters a large amount of life essence in the future, he can store more of it in his body at once and then refine it slowly later.

At this moment, pulled back to his senses by Yuan Siyao's question, he looked into her eyes and smiled as he replied:
"Yes, I went to the capital with a mission, so I didn't have time to stay long. After I get back, I need to go to the county temple to report on my duties as soon as possible."

"Okay." Yuan Siyao was visibly disappointed.

So soon, it was time for everyone to say goodbye.

Even Master Xuanji will not return to Jiuchuan. He gained a lot from this trip to Perfect World and wants to continue his in-depth research on the Five-Colored Spirit Valley at Xiaoxiang Academy. Therefore, he bid farewell to Qin Chuan, leaving Qin Chuan to travel back to Jiuchuan alone by flying boat.

Before parting ways at the Sky Immortal Island, Qin Chuan bowed respectfully to the seniors and Yuan Siyao:

"This trip was largely thanks to the support of all the seniors. If there is an opportunity in the future, Qin Chuan may visit Xiaoxiang Academy to express his gratitude."

After saying that, he waved goodbye to Yuan Siyao.

"Qin Chuan, there are still many runes I don't understand."

Yuan Siyao watched Qin Chuan's departing figure and suddenly shouted:
"I will write to you for advice when you return to Jiuchuan."

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan turned around, smiled back, waved again, and bid farewell to his fellow Daoist of three months.

After parting ways with the Xiaoxiang Academy group, Qin Chuan didn't need to leave Zhenshui Station. He directly took the Qingming Ferry he had used before and returned to Lushan in half a day. During this half-day trip, he finally extracted all of the 'Small Teleportation Space Array'. He could set up an array at once and teleport more, larger, and farther objects.

He originally thought that after arriving at Mount Lu, he would have to find a way to return to Jiuchuan by himself.

Unexpectedly, upon exiting Qingming Ferry, one would see rows of red banners hanging at the station exit:
[A warm welcome to Fellow Daoist Qin Chuan on his safe return from beyond the heavens!]

Son of Jiuchuan! Son of Lushan!

Fellow Daoist Qin Chuan! The pride of the people of Lushan!

(End of this chapter)