Chapter 135: Liu Yanpei's Notes_l |
“But I’ve only been in the temple for three years, perhaps elder Liu used to receive guests before.”
The junior cultivator quickly found an excuse for Chen Mobai’s words, easing the latter’s worries.
“Why don’t I help you clean it up.”
“This … thank you, benefactor.”
Having help is always welcome.
Chen Mobai watched Tang Panchui eat, and alongside the junior cultivator, they decided to clean up the remains together.
“This Elder Liu, has he always been in your Taixu Temple?”
“Yes, Elder Liu was one of the most senior people in our Taixu Temple. He was regarded as an elder brother by our abbot, but he was a solitary man. Over the years, he has been taking care of the temple’s miscellaneous items, and loves to go to the mountains to collect herbs. Often, he wouldn’t come back for more than ten days.”
As the two of them were talking, they arrived at Liu Yanpei’s room. A simple bed, a table, a wardrobe, a storage cabinet and rows of bookshelves lined up around the room, filled with all kinds of books.
“Elder Liu was also our temple’s doctor. He used to help us with the preparation of herbal medicines for common ailments like headaches and fevers. His treatments were truly effective.”
While the junior cultivator spoke, he unfolded the blankets on the bed and placed them on the floor, then bundled up all the clothes, medicine jars, pots and pans and other items in the room, prepared to pack them all up and dispose of them at the garbage dump for the Earth Masters to collect.
“Do you want to keep these?”
Chen Mobai pointed to the nearly too books on the shelf, thinking that within, there might be some clues as to why this Cultivator from the Five Elements Sect of the Tianhe Realm had come to Di Yuan Star.
“No need, the abbot said to dispose of everything.”
The junior cultivator glanced up while tidying the clothes and seeing that they were books, shook his head immediately.
“In that case, I’ll help to collect these.”
Chen Mobai picked up the mat on the bed, much like the junior cultivator did, and placed it on the floor, then removed each book one by one from the bookshelf.
Using his divine sense to scan each book, he made sure there were no hidden pages or content before placing them on the mat.
After about half an hour of tidying, he had finally finished sorting all the books, finding three to four empty notebooks.
These notebooks were strange, although blank, many pages were folded, as if they were constantly flipped through and written on.
Using his divine sense, he discovered a clue.
These notebooks were written with a special ink that likely only became visible after being washed with a specific solution. Alternatively, using divine sense to observe the handwriting made it appear even clearer.
“What was Elder Liu Yanpei’s cultivation level when he was alive?” “Late-stage Qi Cultivation, I’m not sure which layer specifically, but the abbot once said that among the people in Taixu Temple, Elder Liu had the highest cultivation level.”
Chen Mobai nodded in understanding. The high priest had only reached the sixth layer of Qi Cultivation. Liu Yanpei had used this method to hide his notes, so even if someone accidentally came into the temple, they wouldn’t see what he’d written.
“Just as well, I’ve been making talismans recently and need some notebooks for drafting. Why don’t you give these to me? I’m willing to donate some more Good Deed Points to the temple.”
“Oh, no, you just take them as you need.”
Upon hearing this, the junior cultivator hurriedly shook his head.
They were just a few blank notebooks after all, not worth much.
“Where is your temple’s garbage dump? I’ll use a spell to help you take everything over.”
While speaking, Chen Mobai activated the Propulsion Technique, picked up the bundled up blankets and mat, and under the guidance of the junior cultivator, dumped all of it on an open area to the south outside the temple.
“Thank you, benefactor.”
The junior cultivator was only at the third layer of Qi Cultivation. Without Chen Mobai’s help, he would have needed to make two trips to dispose of everything.
Now that everything was easily taken care of, he wore a satisfied smile. On the way back, Tang Panchui looked disgustedly at the notebooks in Chen Mobai’s hands.
The belongings of the dead are thought to bring bad luck.
Chen Mobai heard, rolled his eyes, and pretended not to hear.
Upon returning to Green Mountain Village, Chen Mobai sat on a recliner in the yard and began to decipher the invisible ink-written diary using his divine sense.
[Received news from a junior disciple, Han Yuan’s ancestor has passed away, and the Wood Vein and Metal Vein clans intend to rebel and split the sect. As a disciple of the Five Elements Sect, I will not allow this to happen.] [On the way, I encountered a senior from the Metal Vein clan. After the fight, although I managed to kill my opponent, I was severely injured. I had to look for a mountaintop with a hint of spiritual energy to recover.]
[The mountain was nameless, but at the spirit vein center of the mountaintop, there was a Taixu Temple. I stepped into it to heal under the statue, but when I woke up, I found myself in an alien continent.]
[According to the sect’s legend, the Tianhe Realm was initially a vast ocean. After the Mother of Water Refines the Void, she created five continents and four seas. I never expected it to be true. I can’t tell whether it is a blessing or a curse for me. Hopefully, the Cultivators on this alien continent are not from
the Devil Sect.]
At this point, Chen Mobai noticed that Liu Yanpei seemed to take a long time before continuing to write in his diary.
And the next content, hastily written, hinted at the tremendous shock Liu Yanpei must have felt when he wrote these lines.
[This place is not the Tianhe Realm, but an alien world called Di Yuan Star. The hundreds of millions of people here all possess a Spiritual Root and are all practicing immortal cultivation. Altogether, there are probably not as many Cultivators as those in the Tianhe realm. A sect called ‘Immortal Gate’ rules over this world. They even have two True Monarchs, who have achieved Divinity Transformation, and more than ten Nascent Souls. Could this be a celestial world?]
After the above entry, he stopped for quite a while before adding new content.
[I heard that the Immortal Gate sends troops every so often to wage expansion wars. We must not let them know the existence of the Tianhe Realm. Otherwise, Eastern Wilderness, as their entry point, will surely be destroyed by the strongest Five Elements Sect.]
[I don’t have an identity certificate, so I can only wander in rural outskirts. I dare not enter the reputed Thirty-Six Celestial Caves and Seventy-Two Blessed Lands. I heard that in these celestial cities, there are Jindan elders.]
Chen Mobai reached this point, which marked the end of a notebook. It described Liu Yanpei’s astonishment at the Immortal Gate and his cautious inquiries about the various situations of the Immortal Gate on the outskirts of the city.
Because he was undocumented, he wasn’t even able to buy a phone or go online.
After understanding the systems of the Immortal Gate and learning that there were two Jindan True People guarding the nearby Danxia City, he dared not seize it forcibly and had no choice but to retreat to the Taixu Mountain Range. Chen Mobai picked up the second notebook and finally discovered what happened after Liu Yanpei entered the Taixu Temple.
[I heard that there is another Taixu Temple located in the mountains. It has become clear to me that my arrival in this world may be related to this temple and 1 must find a way to infiltrate it..]