882: 246_6 882: 246_6 Apart from relying on Pills to slowly recover, the Divine Skills for healing were no longer of much use.
Once Cao Zhen realized this, he no longer rushed to treat his injuries but began to study the Cultivation Technique of Prosperous Age Skills.
Moreover, he discovered that the more he interacted with the villagers and began to slowly understand their lives, the more adept he became at cultivating the Prosperous Age Skills at night.
Prosperous Age refers to the prosperous times of all humanity, of the entire world.
Mortals are also a part of the world, and to understand mortals is to increasingly understand Prosperous Age.
In the following days, Cao Zhen began to interact more with the people of the village, and although his internal injuries had not recovered much, his activities were hardly affected.
Although he was once a mortal, he had lived in a modern society after all, and his understanding of ancient societies was limited to books and dramas.
Now, he was truly starting to understand the mortals of this world and how they lived.
Even at night, he began to connect with those people he had encountered before, to observe Mozi, Yu Qian, and Zhao Ji and understand their lives, to learn about different eras, different characters.
Unknowingly, his understanding of this world, of different worlds, grew more and more.
The more Cao Zhen understood, the more he realized that the speed of his cultivation of Prosperous Age Skills was increasing.
And as he cultivated the Prosperous Age Skills, the remnants of the Tribulation Array within him were unwittingly weakening, and his internal injuries began to slowly heal.
“This…
such a miraculous set of Prosperous Age Skills, can actually suppress and consume the remnants of the Tribulation Array’s breath inside me.
Perhaps, the existence of the Prosperous Age Skills is meant to counteract the Heavenly Tribulation, so it has remarkable effects on the injuries caused by the Tribulation Array?”
Cao Zhen could only understand it in this way.
Even after discovering that the Prosperous Age Skills could heal his internal injuries, he still went out every day to teach the children how to learn.
Time passed day by day.
Thanks to his Pills, Qiao Jingyao’s injuries had healed quickly, and after more than ten days, she was completely recovered.
But she did not leave, staying with the people in the village and the children, feeling as though she had returned to her Sect, to the days she spent living with the junior sect members and the nearby villagers.
Gradually, Cao Zhen’s injuries also recovered to the point where he could perform Sword Flight, but he did not leave either.
Moreover, news came from within the Hundred Peaks Sect that the remnants of the former Dynasty had not yet attacked the Hundred Peaks Sect, and it was unclear whether they were plotting something.
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.
On this day, like usual, Cao Zhen was teaching children in the village center, where the villagers typically sun-dried their grain, together with Qiao Jingyao.
Suddenly, two distinct sets of footsteps reached his ears.
Having stayed in the village for so long, Cao Zhen could clearly distinguish the footsteps of the villagers; these two clearly did not belong to the villagers, but were…
Cao Zhen turned his head and saw the figures of Ling Xi and Linghu Gudu in his sight.
“You’re here.
Wait for me, and after I give the children one last lesson, I’ll leave,” Cao Zhen nodded to them and then turned back, beginning to teach the children earnestly.
Linghu Gudu, watching Cao Zhen wholeheartedly teaching the children, found it hard to believe his own eyes for a moment.
Cao Zhen was teaching children?
A being with Great Ability reborn, the number one expert of the current Guardian Immortal Imperial Dynasty, a Sect Leader of a major Immortal Sect, teaching a group of mortal children like a private school teacher in such a remote village?
He considered himself a seasoned traveler who had been to many places, spending most of his life wandering the world on adventures.
He had extensive contact with mortals and believed he understood mortals better and could treat Immortals with relative equality more than many others.
But he admitted that he could not do as Cao Zhen did, to patiently teach so many mortal children and integrate into mortal life.
Linghu Gudu and Ling Xi had arrived early in the morning, but it was not until noon that Cao Zhen finished teaching and bid farewell to everyone in the village, including the children.
What surprised Linghu Gudu even more was that almost everyone in the village ran out to send Cao Zhen off.
“Master Qiao, take these boiled eggs with you for the road.”
“Master Qiao, this is Qi Aromatics, unique to our region.”
“Master Qiao, the road is not safe, let us accompany you.”
Looking at the enthusiastic villagers, Cao Zhen waved his hand and said, “It’s alright, my house servant here is skilled in martial arts, not a hundred bandits, but even if there were more, they would be no match.
Otherwise, my family would not have sent him to find me.
My fellow villagers, please go back.
The books for the children are all written and in Elder Xu’s house, in the room where I stayed…”
Cao Zhen spoke with the villagers for a long time, accepted a pile of local specialties, and then, accompanied by the other three, left for the outside.
He could have flown, and he had a Flying Boat, but he did not use it, walking instead on the village’s path, speaking as they went: “They don’t know we are Cultivators, they always thought we were just scholars and maidservants.
Let’s not reveal our true identities; it wouldn’t be good for them.”
Listening to Cao Zhen’s whisper, Linghu Gudu voiced the question that had been on his mind: “Your injuries should allow you to leave here and find a secluded place to slowly cultivate and heal.
Why stay in this village?
And you mean to say that all this while, you have lived like this, staying in this village all the time?”
A smile appeared on Cao Zhen’s face as he responded, “Indeed, haven’t I lived like this?
Is there anything wrong with that?”
Linghu Gudu was momentarily taken aback and then shook his head gently, “I don’t understand you, how you can patiently teach those children and immerse yourself in the life of mortals.
If it were me, I could handle a day or two, but any longer, and I couldn’t stand it.”
As he spoke, however, he stopped and bowed to Cao Zhen, “Alright, now that Ling Xi has found you, I should leave.
Let’s part ways here.”
“Where are you going?” asked Cao Zhen, and then suddenly extended an invitation, “Why not visit our Hundred Peaks Sect?”