Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!

Chapter 1118 - 333: Starting from Zero? (3)

I looked through these ancient texts, not a single record of someone who has undergone re-cultivation has ever achieved their previous accomplishments again..."

I didn’t understand why, but even though the youth in front of me didn’t seem to have a high level of cultivation, whether judging by his status as a licensed person or the primordial qi fluctuations from his body, Zhan Li was very clear that the youth’s cultivation was definitely far below his own.

Yet, for some reason, she couldn’t help but candidly share her worries with this young man.

Lu Kang listened, his expression unchanged, still smiling faintly as he looked at Zhan Li: "So?"

"Hmm? What?" Zhan Li didn’t understand his meaning.

Lu Kang sighed, his gaze on Zhan Li growing deep: "Speaking deeply though we are strangers, we barely know each other, so if I offend the Cave Maiden with the following words, I ask that you don’t mind."

Zhan Li was moved, her face solemn, and she said earnestly, "Please, Fellow Daoist, do not hesitate to enlighten me!"

Lu Kang smiled leisurely and said, "Your cultivation in the Celestial Human Realm is superficial, but wasn’t your cultivation in the Third Realm also superficial? And was your cultivation in the Second Realm not superficial as well?

Since your entry into cultivation, you’ve relied too much on external forces and benefits and enjoyed too many conveniences and assistance, causing your path of cultivation to become unsteady from the start, and your mental realm has become disorderly and impure!"

Zhan Li’s mind buzzed, and countless thoughts surged forth as she looked at the youth in front of her, opening her mouth, but unable to utter a single word.

Lu Kang, however, continued to smile and said, "Doesn’t Fellow Daoist know that a great tree with weak roots is destined not to grow into a towering tree!

No matter how you cultivate the trunk and branches, what grows will still be frail and withered.

A house with an unstable foundation, even if you tear down and rebuild the structure above ground, will still be shaky and precarious!"

"Then, what do I..."

The youth put away his smile: "Uproot its foundation! Dig up its base! Replant! Rebuild! Re-cultivate! Start from scratch!"

Good heavens!

If Chen Yan were here, he surely couldn’t help but sigh.

This Lu Kang, or rather, this Hundred-Year-old Venerable, is ruthless enough!

The East Sea merely suggested Zhan Li abandon her Celestial Human Realm cultivation and fall back to the Third Realm to re-cultivate.

But this Hundred-Year-old Venerable directly asked Zhan Li to abandon all cultivation and start from zero!

Zhan Li listened, her complexion turning pale, her eyes vacant; for a moment, she was so shocked that she couldn’t think straight and muttered subconsciously, "Unstable foundation... unstable foundation...

Indeed, my Celestial Human Realm is false, but was my cultivation in the Third Realm true? Was my cultivation in the Second Realm true?

From the start, when I entered the path, my master bestowed me with great mana to help me, right from the beginning, my cultivation was not by my own skills...

Everything, everything is illusory..."

Lu Kang watched as Zhan Li became confused and muttered to herself, sighed lightly, gave her a respectful salute, and stopped talking to her. He calmly walked away, moved to the other side of the bookshelf, and took several thick ancient texts from it.

He didn’t even look at the books he had taken, stacking them together, checking their thickness, and smiling satisfactorily.

Then, he placed these secret ghost race Black Wood Tribe manuals on the ground as a pillow, lay back on them, and in no time, closed his eyes, his breathing gradually becoming calm and regular, and soon he was asleep again.

Poor Cave Maiden Zhan Li, having her mental state shattered by this Hundred-Year-old Venerable’s words, was even more devastating than the words she heard from the East Sea two days prior!

She stood there dazed, lost in thought, standing for several hours, occasionally muttering to herself in a low voice, her facial expressions shifting between confusion, conflict, and determination...

Just like a person gone mad.

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Chen Yan was reading.

This time, since he planned to read seriously, he simply started from the far edge of the hall’s row of stone cabinets. From the very first stone slab of the first row of stone cabinets!

Piece by piece, the stone slabs were taken down for him to browse - standing, sitting, lying...

Unconsciously, as the first row of bookcases was emptied, Chen Yan instinctively moved on to the second row of bookcases.

Reading intently, Chen Yan immersed himself in it fully.

The stone slabs recorded tribe after tribe from the "ancient" times, rising and falling, clouds rising and dispersing, prosperity, and decline.

There were once glorious tribe heroes admired by everyone, and also the desolation after their death as they turned to dust and bones.

He no longer meditated to move primordial qi, nor did he try to tempt that strange old man with gourmet meals.

Just so quietly, calmly, reading!!

Before he knew it, the second row of bookcases was also read through, then the third row, the fourth row...

In this room, time seemed nonexistent, no one knew how much time had passed...

Chen Yan finished another row of stone cabinets, laid down a stone slab in his hand, looking back at the row of cabinets behind him that he had emptied...

Chen Yan suddenly felt a shock in his heart!

"Oh no! How many days have passed? Damn, my Heaven-Crashing Ceremony!!!"

This wake-up call immediately changed Chen Yan’s expression.

Behind him, the stone cabinets already had more than ten rows walked past!! About a third of the entire first-layer collection had been read.

Days...

Chen Yan calculated silently; at least five to six days had passed!!

Five to six days!

The Heaven-Crashing Ceremony must have already taken place!

Why didn’t Brother Xiaohai from the East Sea come to call me?

Why didn’t the old lady come to see me either?

Chen Yan immediately put down the stone slab in his hand and strode to the door on the side of the hall, knocking hard on the door.

"Senior! Senior!!"

Chen Yan knocked vigorously on the door, making it bang, but remembering the old man’s words, he only dared to knock without daring to open the door.

After knocking several times, there was no response from inside.

Chen Yan’s face turned grim as he turned and walked to the other side of the hall towards the main door of the library, the door he initially entered.

He pushed hard against the door in front of him!

The door didn’t move!

He pulled harder!

The door didn’t move!

Chen Yan’s face subtly changed, and he thought to himself, slowly reached out again, and this time, gathered some primordial qi in his palm and slapped it against the door!

Bam!!

The door didn’t open, but Chen Yan was bounced back by the mana emanating from the array on the door, falling heavily to the ground!

"Puff!"

A soft laugh came from behind him, and Chen Yan clambered up from the ground embarrassedly, turning his head to look behind him. The eccentric old man was standing several meters away, leaning against a stone cabinet, smiling at him.

"Since you came in here, do you think you can leave so easily?" the old man’s face was smiling, but the meaning in his eyes made Chen Yan’s heart sink!

"What do you mean?" Chen Yan asked sharply.

"This is not a place you can come and go as you please."

Chen Yan frowned: "But the East Sea..."

"What does the East Sea matter? He doesn’t have a say about coming and going from this place."

Chen Yan was stunned, but then he shook his head.

No!

The East Sea wouldn’t harm me!

The old lady wouldn’t harm me, either!

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