The Underworld.
The Eighteenth Hall.
Only Qicai Dan, a robot, and a paper effigy standing guard were present.
Two spheres were doing homework on the table, one on the left and one on the right.
Indeed, the robot, having followed Qicai Dan for a while, had developed claws and could now write homework.
After writing for a bit, Qicai Dan couldn't help but look towards the entrance of the Eighteenth Hall.
【When will Master return?】
After the miscellaneous matters were dealt with, Master had thrown himself into the advanced cultivation chamber.
Besides assigning tasks to the Eighteenth Squad, he cultivated during the day and also at night.
He had barely returned.
【However, when Master returns, his strength will probably have increased again, right?】
Bored, Qicai Dan chatted for a while in cloud-like text bubbles, then looked at the robot.
【Why haven't you finished yet?】
The all-black robot looked up at it innocently.
It had been caught slacking off in class today and was punished with double the homework.
【Forget it, forget it, you continue.】
Qicai Dan put away its completed homework and aimlessly wandered around the Eighteenth Hall.
If there were mosquitoes or flies, it would probably chase and swat them.
'Huh?'
As it flew past a bookshelf, Qicai Dan paused.
'Aren't these the books Master borrowed from the 'Archive' before?'
It remembered that it was because it couldn't understand the words on them that it had the desire to learn.
To be a cultured egg.
'Hehe~ While Master is away, let's see what Master has been reading~'
Qicai Dan chuckled inwardly, glanced around, then swiftly pulled out those books and took them to a corner to read secretly.
Starting from the cover, it read word by word.
'Spirit, Beast, ??'
Qicai Dan was puzzled for a moment, skipped the two characters it didn't recognize, and continued reading.
'Spirit Beast??: High-end ingredients often require only the simplest preparation methods?'
Master wants to cook?
It looked at the next book title: 'Cultivating Innate Abilities from an Egg.'
Qicai Dan's golden light flashed. Master was thinking of it!
Hehe~
Upon seeing the title of the third book, Qicai Dan froze.
'How to Cultivate Delicious Ingredients from an Egg?!'
This, this seems a bit off?
What kind of book is this?
It opened it and found that it still didn't recognize many of the words.
But! There were many food pictures inside!
All made from eggs!
"!!!"
Qicai Dan was shocked.
Then it vigorously shook its egg body, no, it wasn't like that!
It had to go ask its teacher to see what these books were about!
The robot, which was doing its homework, looked up and saw Senior Qicai Dan 'swoosh' out.
Hurriedly, as if its butt was on fire.
For a moment,
Only it and a paper effigy without consciousness remained in the Eighteenth Hall.
"..."
The robot looked at the homework in front of it. Should it slack off a bit?
It placed the homework aside and started fiddling with itself again.
...
Those books were precisely what Jiang Lin had borrowed from the Archive after obtaining Qicai Dan.
Later, he was busy with the annual meeting and business trips...
And forgot to return them.
These four books were:
《Spirit Beast Raising Manual》
《Cultivating Innate Abilities from an Egg》
《How to Cultivate Delicious Ingredients from an Egg?》
《Spirit Beast Cuisine: High-end ingredients often require only the simplest preparation methods》
At that time, he never imagined that Qicai Dan would later go to school.
Even if it went to school, it also discovered these books.
...
Without mentioning how Qicai Dan found its teacher and described the situation.
Meanwhile, in the advanced cultivation chamber.
Jiang Lin sat cross-legged, surrounded by dense Yin energy.
In the four corners of the room, cultivation chamber stabilizers were affixed.
When the ghost energy within his body accumulated to a certain extent, it finally broke through in one go.
Breaking through the shackles and advancing to the late stage of the Ghost King realm!
Vast ghost energy surged into the newly formed space and quickly spread out.
Along with the breakthrough came familiar scenes.
It was as if a memory box had been knocked open, accompanied by a 'creak.'
Revealing the scenery within.
...
Opening his eyes, he saw a sea of blood red.
It wasn't very clear, as if it was boundless.
His body also seemed to be that of a small child with little arms and legs.
Encountering this situation for the second time, Jiang Lin's heart was already calm.
He simply reviewed the Meng Po Soup.
If this continues, will he remember all his past reincarnations?
Humans forget their past lives for two reasons: one, it is beneficial for the commencement of a new life and the normal operation of the mortal world.
Second, it is a form of protection for humans themselves.
Just as the brain selectively forgets unimportant things to make space for new things,
However, Jiang Lin thought about it.
If his strength continues to increase, he should be able to accommodate memories of more lives?
Moreover, each time he advanced a realm, he only recalled one or two lives, not all of them rushing in at once.
It was still acceptable.
In this way, Meng Po Soup still had some effect.
Jiang Lin mused with his thoughts wandering, while paying attention to the experiences of this life.
...
This life, unlike the previous ones, seemed to be from a more distant timeline.
Not only had humanity not entered an era of decline, but conversely, there were quite a few cultivators at that time.
Various sects rose and fell.
There were even legends of many ancestors ascending.
The path of cultivation was also finely divided into various types.
Alchemy cultivators, talisman cultivators, music cultivators, body cultivators, sword cultivators, painting cultivators...
In the eyes of ordinary people,
If someone in the family could enter a sect, whether as an inner or outer disciple,
That would be considered extremely fortunate.
Not only were the villagers envious, but even the officials held them in higher regard.
Jiang Lin in this life also became a member of the cultivation contingent.
Furthermore, he had unexpected talent in music cultivation.
—This was something the ghost messenger Jiang Lin did not possess.
As long as it was related to musical cultivation, after his teacher explained it once, he could quickly grasp it.
Even if the teacher hadn't explained it, he could understand about sixty to seventy percent by looking at jade slips himself.
When cultivating on his own, he rarely encountered any bottlenecks.
Everything seemed to happen naturally.
Seeing his great talent, his master who took him in asked him if he wanted to try other things?
For example, alchemy, drawing talismans, painting...
Jiang Lin did not refuse and tried them one by one.
Other disciples, even if they couldn't learn them well, could still learn one or two.
Drawing low-level talismans, making low-level pills, etc., were all problems.
But Jiang Lin couldn't.
It was as if all his skill points were invested in music cultivation; apart from that, he learned nothing else.
Alchemy resulted in exploding furnaces, talisman drawing failed, and painting could not condense spiritual energy.
"..."
Seeing this, the master who introduced him to cultivation could only give up.
"I was overthinking. This is also good.
You have a rare pure heart."
Jiang Lin looked at him with a dazed expression.
"Let's go, I'll take you to choose a musical instrument that suits you," his master said.
Just as sword cultivators choose swords, and alchemy cultivators choose cauldrons...
Music cultivators also needed to find a musical instrument that resonated with them.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Lin shook his head.
He reached into his pocket and took out a green leaf.
"This will suffice for me."
As if afraid his master wouldn't believe him, he held the ends of the leaf and brought it to his lips.
Using his breath, he made the leaf vibrate and produce sound.
The tone was bright, cheerful, and pleasant to the ear.
It couldn't help but evoke the chirping of birds in spring and the buzzing of cicadas in summer.
It made one feel happy.
...
(ps: This is the third update today, making up for yesterday's missed update~)