Chapter 809: Time Shifts and Each Seeks
Feng Heshou did not touch the national fish at all, as it was used to entertain Chen Chuan. He himself just ate the meat and rice in front of him.
While eating, neither of them spoke, adhering to the old principle of not talking while eating.
Chen Chuan actually didn't have this concern, but since he was a guest, he had to respect the host's habits.
After finishing the national fish, he felt warm all over and his alienated tissues seemed to be much lazier. This feast was indeed good. The combination of different ingredients seemed to increase the nutritional value even more.
He remembered that Mr. Zhuan had told him later during a chat that there was a fighter in the Pure Faction who was particularly good at preparing food ingredients. Even if the food was originally not nutritious enough, he could combine it with some medicines to make it more effective than it should be, or even have more.
If you don’t have this method, you can only rely on the nutritional value of the ingredients themselves.
He was quite satisfied with the meal this time, as it was enough to make up for his consumption. In fact, they didn't fight for that long in total.
Seeing that he had finished eating, Feng Heshou put down his chopsticks and asked the waiter to take the bowls away. Then he brought a basin of water and a towel for the two of them to wash.
After the two of them finished cleaning up, the waiter poured them each a cup of fragrant dew.
Chen Chuan then asked, "Master Fenghe, are all these ingredients obtained from the rifts?"
Feng Heshou said, "Yes, in our Langtao Pavilion, these are usually prepared by the seniors for the juniors. Once a new sword sect appears, he will inherit the position of the Pavilion Master. The previous Pavilion Master will enter the rift and stay there permanently, fighting with certain beings on the other side of the rift every day.
In fact, if it's just for one or two people, and they're not looking for special ingredients, it's still relatively sufficient for the entire Langtao Pavilion. And if there's any leftovers, they can be exchanged with other pavilions, or sold to foreign forces and organizations that need it."
Chen Chuan nodded slightly. He knew that although some ingredients were not of much value to fighters due to the loss of nutrients, they were still very useful to ordinary fighters. Moreover, in the old times, some princes and nobles were very fond of such ingredients and were willing to pay a high price to buy them.
"The ingredients I used for my past training were provided by my teacher, the previous headmaster. If my disciple becomes a Sword Sect master, I will resign as headmaster and go to the depths of the rift to train myself and prepare these for my disciple until the day of my decision arrives."
Chen Chuan understood the meaning here. Fighters have a long lifespan and have plenty of time to do this after retiring from worldly affairs. Later generations rely on the help and support of previous generations to move forward.
However, this model is actually not stable. If any generation has a problem, the new owner will need to do it himself. If he himself gets caught up in it, the inheritance may be broken.
In this regard, the new era is completely different. There are armies stationed in the Fusion Land and the World Ring, and regular cleanups are carried out there. There are also many fighters stationed at the front line. It is unknown how many creatures coming from the opposite side and from the Fusion Land are cleared every day.
Moreover, the country can also produce medicines and high-energy nutrients for supplementation and substitution. This efficiency is totally incomparable to that of a fighter's personal hunting.
At this time, two attendants came up, replaced the incense in the burner, and opened the curtains on both sides, revealing the red flower trees planted outside, the bamboo forest below, and the sea in the distance.
Feng Heshou said: "Lang Tao Pavilion has been passed down to this day for 632 years. The earliest person to establish a pavilion overseas can be traced back to Master Hongfa of Donglu 800 years ago. After that, the masters of Donglu came to overseas one after another and spread their branches. Later, after a period of elimination, it was finally passed down to 21 branches.
Over the next few hundred years, it has only decreased and not increased.
As far as I know, more than a hundred years ago, there were only seven families left with the inheritance, but now, there are less than half of them.
In addition to the dangers encountered in the inheritance, the Great Alliance also established the World Ring. Although it blocked the continuous foreign invasion, it also affected our rifts.
The amount of food we can get has been greatly reduced, and we often need to go deep into very dangerous places to obtain it. The longer travel time means that even if we bring the food back, the nutritional value will be greatly lost, which requires the people who want to obtain it to go out more frequently.
This is very inconvenient, so the speed at which the inheritance has declined in the past hundred years is much faster than it was hundreds of years ago. The fact that our Langtao Pavilion has been able to survive is due to the fact that my teacher was still around ten years ago, but now he has disappeared."
Chen Chuan glanced at him. The so-called disappearance might mean that he was trapped in the deep, or he might have gone on the path of the first generation owner.
"If the three remaining museums, including our Langtao Museum, simply continue to operate as before, then at best they can only survive for another 10 to 20 years. If they don't join the nation or any other system, their ultimate fate will be extinction."
Feng Heshou looked at Chen Chuan, "So I need to make a choice."
Having said this, he stepped back a little, sat there and bowed to Chen Chuan.
"I would also like to ask Mr. Chen to go back and tell the Dashun government that I am willing to accept the Dashun government's conditions and join the Dashun as a subsidiary."
Chen Chuan sat up straight, nodded, and said, "I will take Master Fenghe's words back."
Feng Heshou bowed to him again, "Then, please."
After standing up, he looked at the Xuejun Sword in Chen Chuan's hand and said, "Mr. Chen, after becoming a fighter, your sword should not have been tempered yet."
Chen Chuan did not shy away from saying, "I haven't had time to do this yet."
Feng Heshou said: "We at Lang Tao Guan have been studying knife techniques for generations and attach great importance to knives. We also have many techniques and methods to improve the quality of knives.
If Mr. Chen doesn't mind, I can provide you with some materials and special minerals that may be of some help to you."
Chen Chuan said: "If that's the case, it couldn't be better."
Since the other party took the initiative to propose it, he would not refuse. To put it bluntly, he came here today as a communicator and witness.
Feng Heshou was also worried about the promises made to him by the Dashun government, and with him as a guarantor, they could feel at ease. These were the rewards given to him.
Feng Heshou said: "Lang Tao has been passed down for more than 600 years, and many methods have been developed on how to refine the sword. They are nothing more than two sets of methods, internal and external. The internal method is to use self-alienation organization and spirit to cultivate for a long time, and constantly sharpen it in killing and fighting, without adding any external things.
This method takes a long time and causes significant damage to the blade. Although the blade will repair itself, some damage is difficult to repair. Therefore, external training gradually became the mainstream, and internal training was only used as a supplement for daily practice.
We bring various materials and minerals from the other side of the rift to nourish the sword. This is the same as how fighters obtain food and nutrients. Of course, the steps are not that simple and require some special skills and conditions to refine.
We don't have much else in our museum, but we have a large collection of this type of material from past generations, which we can provide to Mr. Chen. We also have a knife maintenance room that we can lend to Mr. Chen. I hope Mr. Chen will not refuse."
Chen Chuanshuo said, "Then I'd be remiss to refuse. Um, is there a telegraph on the island? I need to send the news from here to the rear first."
On the airship coming here, the people from Ocean Development Group had greeted him and said that they would send a warship to follow and wait outside for a day. If things went well and convenient, they would send back the code agreed in advance, and they would naturally understand what he meant.
And if no news came back, they would mobilize warships and bombard the entire island with heavy artillery fire.
Feng Heshou said, "There's a telegram." He gave some instructions and asked a waiter to take Chen Chuan to the telegraph room.
After Chen Chuan arrived there, he sent the secret message and told the other party that he had some things to do here, so he would be back later and asked them to wait for a while.
The other side called back soon and said they would wait at sea for three days.
After the agreement was made, he turned back. Feng Heshou saw that he had handled it, so he took him to the sword-raising room. On the way, he asked, "Mr. Feng He, do you know the situation of An Yao Hall and Feng Lin Hall?"
Feng Heshou said, "Regarding the situation at sea, there hasn't been much interaction between Lang Tao Pavilion and the two families. They only expressed a consensus in the past when facing external oppression, but there has been almost no communication in the past twenty years.
If Mr. Chen wants to know what these two families will do, then I'll share my personal opinion. Fenglin Pavilion and the Linax Federation are deeply connected. Whether they like it or not, their island location does not allow them to turn to Dashun. They made their choice long ago.
I can't fathom An Yao Pavilion's intentions. Their leader, Xiao Yue Zhai, often acts without regard for the consequences. He used to be the most active sword sect on the sea, and he's been seen in public many times, earning the outside world's fear of An Yao Pavilion. His main disciples have repeatedly rejected Ferris Wheel Company's offers, but I think he'll eventually have to make a choice."
Chen Chuan nodded. It was difficult to say what was going on in Anyao Hall. It seemed as if they wanted to stick to their old ways, maintain their independence, and not depend on anyone. That was probably why they were so persistent in looking for cracks in Danliu Hall.
If they really got it, then there would be two cracks. If they could use perfect training methods to cultivate a fighter, then the current predicament seemed to be able to be solved a little, but in fact it did not solve the problem fundamentally, but only delayed the problem a little.
Besides, almost all the elite disciples of An Yaoguan's generation were killed by him in the last conflict with him, so it is difficult to say what choice he will make in the end.
Just as he was thinking about it, Feng Heshou stopped and said, "Mr. Chen, we've arrived at the knife-keeping room." He reached out and slowly pushed the heavy sliding door open. Then he made a gesture of invitation and said solemnly, "Mr. Chen, please come in."
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(End of this chapter)
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