lerbook #233 - The founder of Xinxue
#233 - The founder of Xinxue
Chapter 232: The Ancestor of Mind Learning
From today onwards, Zhang Chen would be the ancestor of this Mind Learning! Mastering the great path of Mind Learning!
As for the Qi Luck gathered within his body, and the treasure that suppressed Qi Luck nurtured within it, although Zhang Chen didn't yet know its use, he knew that anything related to Qi Luck was definitely not ordinary. The treasure nurtured by this Mind Learning Qi Luck was bound to be of great use.
Fortunately, Zhang Chen had him swear a Heart Demon Oath in advance, otherwise Zhang Chen really wouldn't have dared to continue staying with Zhu Xun. He might have had to run away immediately.
The reason was simple: he was afraid that Zhu Xun would have evil intentions, wanting to kill him and seize the identity of 'Ancestor'.
The two exchanged some polite words. Zhang Chen didn't want to attract too much attention. He was currently too weak. If he exposed his identity, he feared he wouldn't be able to protect the identity of the Ancestor of Mind Learning.
Therefore, Zhang Chen bargained with Zhu Xun for a long time before Zhu Xun reluctantly changed his address, no longer calling Zhang Chen 'Master', but addressing him as usual.
"That's right. Respect isn't about appearances, but about what's in the heart. As long as you respect me in your heart, why bother with superficial formalities?" Zhang Chen nodded in satisfaction upon persuading Zhu Xun.
"Sir, I never imagined that you, at such a young age, would have comprehended the essence of Mind Learning. That Chen Sanliang and his wife drove you away, but took in that heartless and ungrateful Chai Chuanxin. They were truly blind. If Chen Sanliang had been willing to take you as a disciple, would that Zhong Wubai have had any say in the Dao debate that day? No! Chen Sanliang's mere three-legged cat skills aren't worthy of taking you as a disciple!" Zhu Xun praised Zhang Chen incessantly, his eyes filled with suspicion as he looked at Zhang Chen:
"Sir, Chen Sanliang has been comprehending the Dao for sixty years, and he has only grasped the superficial aspects of Mind Learning. How could you have comprehended the principles of Mind Learning far beyond Chen Sanliang? Could it be that you are an old monster from some Confucian sect who has awakened after reincarnation?"
"I only accidentally heard a few essential words from a senior," Zhang Chen said with a smile, telling a lie.
Zhu Xun nodded upon hearing this: "That's what I thought. You are only fifteen years old this year, and you haven't read any books before. How could you comprehend such profound principles? You have almost perfected and constructed a complete Great Dao, unless you are an old monster who has possessed someone. However, from today onwards, the path of Mind Learning has been established!"
Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this: "That's right, from today onwards, Mind Learning has been established."
It was a pity that ordinary people couldn't see the gathering of Qi Luck, otherwise Zhu Xun would have definitely discovered the scene of Qi Luck gathering on Zhang Chen's body earlier, and known that Zhang Chen was the ancestor who created Mind Learning.
Zhu Xun drank the mutton soup in one gulp, and then looked at Zhang Chen with his eyes: "Master, I'm going to organize the Mind Learning classics, and strive to compile the knowledge of Mind Learning as soon as possible to spread it to the world, and promote my Mind Learning as soon as possible. I'll leave first, you eat slowly!"
Zhu Xun wanted to slip away after speaking, but Zhang Chen stopped him: "Wait, I still have something to ask you, where is my master's body?"
"I buried it! Buried at the foot of a mountain outside the city," Zhu Xun said.
Zhang Chen's eyelids twitched upon hearing this. He was still thinking about how to revive Han Suzhen, but who knew that Zhu Xun had actually buried her? Were his actions so swift?
"It's better to bury her! Han Suzhen's assassination of Fifth Master caused too much commotion. Burying her can also appease many people's hearts, and many things will come to an end. Moreover, it is almost impossible to bring someone back to life. I have lived for decades, and I have never heard anyone say that they have the ability to bring someone back to life. Master, you are probably thinking too beautifully. Even if you preserve her body, you don't have the means to bring her back to life," Zhu Xun said.
"Take me to pay my respects," Zhang Chen didn't refute Zhu Xun's words.
He felt that Zhu Xun's words were very correct. Many things become empty with death, and even the greatest grievances in life come to an end. With Han Suzhen's burial, many people's anger towards Han Suzhen and the Han family will be reduced.
Zhang Chen put down the mutton soup and followed Zhu Xun out of the city. At this time, Zhang Chen wore a bamboo hat and followed behind Zhu Xun. Although there were passing yamen runners on the way, no one came forward to question them.
The two came all the way outside the city, entered the mountain forest for ten miles, and on the mountainside of a large mountain, a newly built tomb appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.
"Your master is buried here. It's a pity that she spent her whole life running around for Chen Sanliang, but in the end, she ended up like this, without seeing the day Mind Learning was born," Zhu Xun sighed faintly, his voice full of anger at her for not living up to expectations: "She was blinded by lard. She was the proud daughter of the Han family, with a great future and endless glory and wealth to enjoy. How could she have fallen to this point?"
Zhang Chen was silent for a long time before saying: "What is love in this world, that it teaches people to vow to live and die together?"
Zhu Xun was stunned. For people like him, marriage was only for the benefit of the family. He would never have love of his own in this life! Perhaps he had, but in the face of family interests, everything could be abandoned.
The tomb was silent. The two stood in front of the tomb in silence, each thinking about their own thoughts.
Just at this moment, a sound of footsteps came from a distance, the sound of dead branches being crushed underfoot constantly crackling, causing Zhang Chen and Zhu Xun to turn their heads. They saw a figure walking from a distance.
The person who came was neatly dressed, with a sallow complexion and a hunched figure. He was carrying a basket in his hand and was walking towards the tomb.
"It's you! You still have the face to come here!" Zhu Xun's pupils shrank when he saw the person, and he couldn't help but burst out in anger: "If it weren't for your willfulness, because of your stubbornness, how could my cousin have fallen to this point?"
Chen Sanliang was silent upon hearing this. He seemed not to have heard Zhu Xun's scolding, and walked over without any reaction. He solemnly came to the tomb, took out the offerings from the basket and placed them neatly one by one, then lit the incense and knelt on the ground in front of the tomb, burning paper money.
After a long time, Chen Sanliang sighed faintly: "You blame Suzhen's death on me, but I want to blame Suzhen's death on the Academy. If your Academy hadn't been pressing step by step, and secretly using conspiracies and tricks, how could Suzhen have resorted to this strategy? How could she have been defeated?"
At this time, Chen Sanliang turned to look at Zhu Xun, his eyes bloodshot, with blood-red tears slowly sliding down: "The Academy is the culprit that killed Suzhen. You are the murderer! Your entire Academy is the murderer!"
"You yourself are arrogant and unruly, disobeying the Great Dao of the sages, causing the Academy to be furious. Later, you also wrote a memorial requesting the execution of the Prince of Pingbian, angering the Emperor. It is clearly your own death wish, how dare you blame it on us? It is you who do not abide by the rules, wanting to gain the Emperor's appreciation, and directly rise to prominence in one step, which led to all the tragedies. You are just fond of being ambitious and fond of vanity, how dare you come and bark at me?" Zhu Xun was not one to be trifled with either, and directly tore into Chen Sanliang.
“You're full of crap! It's clearly your academy that wants to seize my Dao, wants to steal my knowledge, and secretly used despicable means. You even have the nerve to accuse me? I only hate that the heavens are blind, actually allowing that dog thief Zhong Wubai to attain the Yang God realm.” Chen Sanliang's voice was filled with suppressed killing intent and rage.
Hearing Chen Sanliang's words, Zhu Xun coldly smiled: “You're just making impotent barks. If you truly had the talent to create a Dao, you wouldn't have sat idly in the Northern lands for decades, only comprehending a little bit of the surface. Your talent doesn't match your ambition, a classic case of incompetence.”
Hearing Zhu Xun's words, Chen Sanliang's body trembled with anger, his face pale, unable to utter a word. After a long while, Chen Sanliang finally said: “Don't be arrogant, sooner or later, I will make you pay the price!”
“You're just an incompetent scholar, what abilities do you have to shake the academy? Be careful not to implicate the Chen family behind you, dragging your Chen family into eternal damnation.” Zhu Xun's words were filled with contempt.
Chen Sanliang, hearing this, stopped arguing and instead picked up paper money and burned it in front of the grave.
After the paper money was burned, he stood up and looked at Zhang Chen: “I underestimated you. Thank you for avenging Suzhen. You are now worthy of becoming my disciple. Now that Suzhen is gone, you have nowhere to learn knowledge. I want to take you as my disciple, what do you say?”
Hearing this, Zhang Chen glanced at Chen Sanliang. He never expected that this arrogant and pedantic scholar would actually reverse his thinking and say such words.
Unfortunately, Zhang Chen has now become the founder of Mind Learning. Chen Sanliang's knowledge is worthless to him. Moreover, Chen Sanliang is now rejected by the world, so how could he become Chen Sanliang's disciple?
“The reason I took action was because Han Suzhen was my teacher, and only for that reason. As for your gratitude, you and I have no connection, and I don't need your gratitude. As for learning knowledge from you, let's forget it! I am not Chai Chuanxin, I don't have Chai Chuanxin's family background, so how am I worthy to become your disciple?” Zhang Chen's voice was very cold and calm, every word was distant, but every word was like a knife, stabbing into Chen Sanliang's heart.
Especially when the words 'Chai Chuanxin' were spoken, Chen Sanliang suddenly felt his throat surge, and a trace of blood suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth. His whole body swayed and almost fell, his face pale and bloodless.
Chai Chuanxin was the closed-door disciple he personally selected and chose! He was the heir he placed high hopes on. But it was the disciple he personally selected who stabbed his wife to death with a sword. Could there be anything more ironic in the world than this?
In Chen Sanliang's opinion, probably not.
Zhang Chen's words were calm, but every word, every line, was scolding Chen Sanliang for being blind.
Zhang Chen had been holding this anger in his heart for a long time. Seeing Chen Sanliang's miserable state at this time, he finally vented it out, feeling extremely happy in his heart.
Chen Sanliang looked at Zhang Chen with his eyes, his lips moved, but he was speechless. Only a sigh with a crying tone echoed in the jungle, appearing particularly desolate.
“Chen Sanliang, we should go!”
Just at this moment, a shout came from the jungle. A man in white stood under a large tree at some point, quietly watching the scene before him.
No one knew when the man arrived, or perhaps he should have been standing there all along.
Zhang Chen followed the sound and looked over, seeing the white-clothed man under the tree. The man was incomparably handsome, with a hint of femininity on his face, looking enchanting, even more beautiful than a woman by three points, even making this mountain forest pale in comparison.
In the next moment, Zhang Chen's pupils contracted rapidly, and a golden light burst from the depths of his eyes. Then the figure twisted for a while, and the man directly transformed into a fox as big as a wolfhound, with pure white fur.
“This is not a human!” Zhang Chen's heart suddenly jumped, but he quickly suppressed it.
Zhang Chen glanced at Zhu Xun, and saw a look of surprise on Zhu Xun's face after seeing the man, as if amazed by his handsomeness and femininity, and did not see the man's true form.
The white-clothed man's eyes were only on Chen Sanliang, ignoring Zhang Chen and Zhu Xun, as if the two were just ants, not worthy of entering the man's eyes at all.
“Arrogant! Disregard for others!” Two words flashed in Zhang Chen's mind.
Chen Sanliang turned around after hearing the words, staggering towards the man, and then the two walked together and disappeared into the mountains.
“What a handsome man, even more handsome than the most beautiful woman in the world by three points. If he were a woman, he would surely be alluring, bewitching the people of the world.” Zhu Xun said.
“He is not a human, he is a fox spirit.” Zhang Chen glanced at the mountain forest, and then lowered his voice to say.
“What? Is that true? Are you telling the truth?” Zhu Xun was shocked when he heard this, his eyes full of disbelief. In his eyes, that was clearly a person, how could he become a fox spirit?
And the only fox spirit in the world who can hide from his eyes and has such cultivation is: Bai Cang!
The old ancestor of the Fox Clan, Bai Cang!
“That's right, it's a fox spirit.” Zhang Chen said with certainty. Speaking of this, he thought of the fox ancestor that Fox Fairy Nuan said.
“Those beasts of the demon race are attracted by the aura of the Great Tomb, and actually crossed the White Bone Great Wall and came to the human world?” Zhu Xun's voice was now full of seriousness:
“No, this matter must be reported to the Surveillance Department and the Peace Suppression Prince's Mansion as soon as possible, otherwise there may be a big mess.”
After Zhu Xun finished speaking, he ignored Zhang Chen, and his figure flashed like he was using light work, stepping on the branches and drifting away.
The biggest characteristic of cultivating to the Yin God realm is that you can fly.
When the power of the soul is greater than the weight of the body, you can control the body to fly.
However, the human body is heavier than the Three Mountains and Five Peaks. Even a Yang God powerhouse who can move mountains would not run around carrying his own body.
It is too much effort to move one's own body, just like lifting oneself up, unable to lift oneself up.
Therefore, Zhu Xun constantly jumps up, just reducing the weight of his body like light work, shuttling through the mountains, instead of directly carrying his body to run.
“How could Chen Sanliang be mixed up with the demon race?” A thought flashed in Zhang Chen's mind.
The demon race in this world is different from the demon race in people's concepts. The demon race in this world is divided into two types: one is a group of wild beasts that have developed intelligence and gathered together to form a demon race.
The other is a great demon that has become established, using the human race's bloodline to reproduce, giving birth to half-demons.
This kind of half-demon has the appearance and wisdom of humans, and also perfectly inherits all the advantages of the demon race, avoiding the embarrassing situation where the great demon's descendants are still ordinary wild beasts, and avoiding the initial difficulty of enlightenment.