Chapter 79 The next day, Xuandu was going to bring...
The next day, Xuandu was to take Ji, Jie, Zhong, and the other four back to Kunlun Mountain.
Cang Li gave each of them instructions in turn, and finally said:
"Be good, I'll come see you when I have time."
The four children nodded reluctantly. Xuandu led the four children onto auspicious clouds, then turned back to Cangli and said:
"Chief, we're leaving now."
Cang Li waved his hand: "Go ahead, be careful on the road."
Xuandu flew away from the human race and soon disappeared from sight.
Cang Li withdrew his gaze and looked back at the quiet cave. He was still not quite used to it and was thinking about finding something to do.
Humans don't have much to do right now. The rice they planted isn't ripe yet, so there's no rush to harvest it. Cang Li wandered around for a bit, but couldn't find any work to do, so he returned to his cave to meditate and cultivate, feeling rather dejected.
After fixing it for a while, Cang Li pulled out the collector system, which she hadn't looked at in a long time. Ever since she got angry about the things in the collector that she couldn't redeem despite having them unlocked, she hadn't looked at the collector much.
Cang Li has basically exchanged all the items in the collector that could be exchanged.
After looking through it, Cang Li realized that the ninth page had been unlocked at some point. The ninth page was different from what Cang Li had expected; it only contained one item.
[Instructional Text, limited to one purchase, 100 Gathering Points]
Cang Li paused for a moment, then subconsciously flipped forward and found himself on the sixth page, the "Education Ruler".
How can these things be paired up?
These two names sound like a set.
Cang Li hesitated for a moment, her intuition telling her—
Change!
After exchanging the teaching ruler and the teaching book, Cang Li took the items out of his backpack.
The teaching ruler is a long strip, seven inches and six fen long, six fen thick, and one inch wide. It looks like it is made of black jade, and it feels warm to the touch. It has mountain and rock patterns on it, and the knife work is neat. The top is engraved with four small seal characters that read "Teach and educate all living beings".
The Book of Teachings is not the book Cang Li thought it was. It is also made of jade. Unlike the Book of Teachings, the Book of Teachings is a piece of pure white jade without any impurities. It is shaped like a tablet-sized jade plate with flowing water patterns carved on the edges. The long side has the three characters "Book of Teachings" in the same font as the Book of Teachings.
Cang Li held the two items in his left and right hands, and they emitted a faint white light when brought close together, as if they were responding to each other.
Cang Li felt a connection she had never experienced before; these two things were meant to be hers.
When Cang Li used the Xuanyuan Sword and the Hongmeng Holy Sword, she never had this feeling. In Cang Li's hands, those two swords were no different from her axe, hoe, and sickle; she was simply using them.
But the book of teachings and the ruler of teachings are different; these two things seem to be engraved on Cang Li's soul.
Cang Li instinctively realized that anyone could betray her, but the Ruler of Instruction and the Book of Instruction would not.
These two items are probably the legendary companion magic treasures, like natal spiritual artifacts.
Cang Li laughed. After studying the two items, she discovered that the Teaching Ruler was probably an offensive magic weapon. If she used the Teaching Ruler to hit someone, as long as the target's cultivation level was lower than hers, they would fall into a state of confusion and be unable to attack her for a quarter of an hour. They would also become obedient to her. When her cultivation level was higher, she could even unlock the skill to attack the primordial spirit.
In general, there are no difficult moves to learn. You can just use it to hit people, preferably on the head. Even if someone with a higher cultivation level than her gets hit, they will still be able to clear their head after being hit.
Cang Li felt that the Ruler of Discipline was particularly suitable for her, and she should have changed it sooner.
The Book of Teachings and the Ruler of Teachings are a set, combining offense and defense. Cang Li can use spiritual power to write attack moves in the Book of Teachings with a success rate of 90%. When facing those with higher cultivation levels than herself, such as the Three Pure Ones, the attack is not very useful, but it can provide 100% defense for 15 minutes. This 15 minutes is enough time for her to run away if she can't win.
Overall, it's a very useful tool.
However, Cang Li felt that these two items should have more functions than just this, and further functions were yet to be developed.
Cang Li was overjoyed to have acquired two new name-based magic treasures. He recalled the method Taiqing had taught him in his spiritual mansion for nurturing name-based magic treasures and put the Teaching Ruler and Teaching Book into his spiritual mansion.
She had tried to put the Xuanyuan Sword or the Hongmeng Holy Sword into her soul before, but failed, probably because those two items did not belong to her. This time, however, she successfully put the Teaching Ruler and the Teaching Book into her soul palace. They floated under the big tree, emitting a faint light and resonating with the tree.
Cang Li instinctively began to use his primordial spirit to nurture and refine the Teaching Ruler and Teaching Book, deepening the connection between himself and his original magic weapon, making him more adept at using the magic weapon.
Xuandu took the four children back to Kunlun Mountain, and first led Ji, Jie, Zhong, and Yu to pay their respects to Taiqing.
Taiqing nodded slightly when he met the private.
The four children, however, seemed much less anxious after seeing Taiqing, and affectionately surrounded her, calling out:
"Master!"
"Master, your house is so beautiful!"
Taiqing didn't find the children noisy, after all, he had gotten used to it during his year with the human race.
Xuandu, wiping his sweat, asked, "Master, the Great Chief's idea is to let Ji, Jie, Zhong, and the rest of us cultivate on Kunlun Mountain. Our sect doesn't have many disciples, so it would be better to leave them behind and let Master personally teach them. What does Master think?"
Logically speaking, Xuandu's suggestion was excellent, but Taiqing didn't agree. He simply patted Yu's head and said calmly:
"They have no master-disciple relationship with me."
Xuan Du was somewhat troubled. He had already brought the person along. After thinking for a moment, Xuan Du said:
"Shall I escort them to your two senior uncles?"
Taiqing shook his head again: "No need. Although there is no master-disciple relationship, it is not impossible to teach them. Let them stay here. They do not need to become masters. You can teach them on a daily basis, and they can come with you to listen to the teachings every three days."
Xuan Du nodded, and fearing the four children would be disappointed, he went to comfort them:
"Don't mind me. Master is aloof and doesn't like noise. Although he didn't accept you as disciples, there's no one else in our sect but me. You'll be taught by Master personally, which is no different from being his personal disciples."
Ji Hejie said, "Xuan Du, we already knew that. When the Daoist Master lived among the human race, that's what he taught us."
The four children weren't disappointed at all; they were used to it. If Xuandu were to take them as disciples, he would have to call them senior brothers and sisters, since their cultivation was all taught by Taiqing.
Xuan Du: ?
He didn't know about this. Taiqing never mentioned it. He was born late; how could he possibly know about something that happened before he was born?!
Xuan Du remained silent for a moment, then listlessly led the four happy boys to their lodgings. The place was large, and fearing the children might be new to the area, Xuan Du arranged for their rooms to be adjacent, saying:
"You should get some rest. Tomorrow morning I'll take you to your uncle's place to familiarize yourselves with the way and recognize his face."
Jihe Jie led Zhong and Yu obediently, nodding, and then went back to their room.
As usual, Taiqing meditated in the evening, waiting to be pulled into Cangli's spiritual palace by an irresistible force.
Cang Li's cultivation time is fixed every night. She will enter meditation half an hour after sunset. She will also be pulled into her spiritual palace at this time. She will leave half an hour before sunrise. Cang Li said she needs to sleep for a while because people are not energetic if they don't sleep.
Taiqing had no idea where Cangli got these fallacies from. Cultivators who don't sleep for thousands of years won't experience any lack of energy.
But Cang Li liked it, and Tai Qing thought that compared to how seriously Cang Li cultivated before, doing it every day without fail, he would let her have her little quirk.
Sure enough, when the time came, Taiqing appeared in Cangli's spiritual mansion. Cangli had not yet arrived, but Taiqing immediately saw two things he had never seen before floating under the tree. With a thought, Taiqing appeared under the tree and looked up at the two things.
A ruler for moral education, a book for moral education.
Taiqing silently recited the name on it. He sensed Cangli's original aura from it and judged that this should be Cangli's natal magic weapon.
Strangely, he had never seen it before. His natal magic weapon should have been collected and nurtured by its master long ago, otherwise it wouldn't have reached such a tacit understanding.
But he had never seen Cang Li have these two items, and Cang Li had never mentioned them, so where did these things come from?
Cang Li quickly appeared inside the Spirit Mansion and ran over to Tai Qing. Even now, she still hadn't given up on trying to "see the muscles." Although she hadn't succeeded, Cang Li became more determined after each setback and even had the thought, "I created this, why can't I see it?" So every time she entered the Spirit Mansion, the first thing she did was to get physical.
Taiqing glanced to the side naturally, then silently looked at Cangli.
Cang Li withdrew his unsuccessful hand and leaned against the cushion next to him: "Stingy!"
Taiqing only went over and sat opposite Cangli after confirming that Cangli had given up his mischievous idea of stripping him of his clothes. He was ready to begin today's answer. In a sense, he was discussing the Dao with Cangli every day.
Cang Li lay on the mat, crossed her legs, and put her hands behind her head, looking at the teaching ruler and teaching book that had flown above her and followed her since she came in. After looking at them for a while, she reached out and picked up the teaching ruler, eager to try it out on Tai Qing. She couldn't hit the real thing, so how about hitting this fake one?
Taiqing looked at the ruler and realized that it was indeed Cangli's natal magic weapon.
Cang Li shook the ruler and finally gave up. No matter how crazy a person is, they shouldn't hit themselves.
"Daoist Master, look, I've acquired two new magic treasures today. They're so easy to use. I feel like they're my innate natal magic treasures. There was a mistake before that prevented them from ending up in my hands."
This is what Cang Li concluded after thinking for a long time. No matter how divine the collector is, it cannot produce such a perfect magic weapon without being refined. So it must be that the appraisal and collection system stole her golden finger from her transmigration and now she has to redeem it.
Collector: ...I should have just left those two things to rot in the store.
Taiqing looked at the ruler in Cangli's hand, and was thinking of a reason to take a look when Cangli shoved the ruler into his hand.
"Look!"
Cang Li didn't think anything was wrong. She had already cultivated to the point where she could split off little sprites. They were all on her side. She just wanted to see what was wrong with the ruler.
Taiqing felt a sudden weight in his hand and instinctively looked down, only to see...
The seven-inch and six-tenths-inch-long magic weapon emitted a faint glow, as if it was dissatisfied with being in his hands and wanted to return to Cang Li's hands.
Taiqing calmed down and carefully sensed it. His eyes changed slightly. This thing... was an innate magic treasure.
A previously unheard-of innate magical treasure appeared in Cang Li's hands, but Cang Li claimed that it was her innate magical treasure.
Taiqing calmly returned the ruler to Cangli, thinking to himself that he should take some time to visit the Nuwa Palace.
As the goddess who created Cangli, Nuwa knew best whether Cangli possessed any accompanying magical treasures.
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