Little Wang Li's matter had come to an end. The final outcome wasn't much different from what Zhang Kanwen had envisioned, which was to use the seven-star mugwort to prolong Wang Li's life for one year. The only difference was that the Heavenly Master's True Essence couldn't completely solve this problem. He had to cultivate until he reached the Yang God Heavenly Master level.
As for whether I could reach the Yang God Heavenly Master level after one year, I didn't know what to do at that time.
I didn't want to think about it, so I didn't want to think about it anymore. I focused on consolidating my cultivation base and made some talismans for emergencies.
Even at the Heavenly Master level, there weren't many ways to fight. They were just True Essence spells, talismans, and treasures.
I was a person who cherished my life. After cultivating for so many years, I had never stopped using talismans, which were foreign objects that could be used in an instant.
I made several sets of all the talismans I knew how to make. I also gave Zhang Kanwen and Fatty a few to save their lives. I kept a few for myself, and put the rest into Xiang Liu's leather bag.
This time, the yellow paper and cinnabar used to draw the talismans were of the highest quality. I just mentioned it casually, and Wang Yongjun ordered his men to deliver them to me the next day.
It had been a long time since I had experienced the feeling of financial distress in the secular world. When I first entered the path of cultivation, I felt pained because of one or two pieces of yellow paper. Now that I thought about it, it was so far away that I couldn't remember it clearly.
Since I had nothing to do, I decided to stay in Shenzhen. I meditated and cultivated every day, watching the sun rise from the horizon in the east to the mountains in the west. Just like that, a day passed. There was an indescribable tranquility in my heart.
I suddenly understood why the ancient cultivators liked to cultivate in seclusion. Without the disturbance of the secular world, they could become one with heaven and earth. It was a kind of cleansing and settling of their cultivation base and mind.
At first, Wang Yongjun came to me several times and invited me to dinner. He wanted to introduce some rich people to me. After I rejected him several times, he didn't mention it again.
I wasn't trying to humiliate him. Although Wang Yongjun was a mortal without any cultivation, he still settled a lot of things for me with his great influence in the mortal world. It was indeed a lot more convenient. To me, Wang Yongjun was an extremely important friend. I just didn't want and didn't need to associate with those people.
Feng Shui Master has always been inseparable from rich businessmen and dignitaries. This is not because Feng Shui Master is greedy for money. It is really that the practice needs a lot of materials and must be supported. This is not a shameful thing. Just like ordinary people work, they all rely on their own ability to eat.
If I was still in the Earthly Adept Realm, I would have to prepare for a rainy day. Even if I was unwilling, I would have to do something like gathering wealth. However, now that I have the cultivation of a Celestial Adept, the wealth of the secular world has lost its meaning to me. In terms of cultivation, I do not need too many resources. What I need more is to comprehend the Heavenly Dao.
Therefore, if he had the time, he might as well meditate and cultivate. Adding a trace of true essence was also a good thing.
I didn't know when it started, but I had a feeling that I had transcended the mortal world.
Come to think of it, it was probably after I became a Celestial Adept.
Before becoming a Celestial Adept, I had always regarded myself as a special, ordinary person. But now, I had a subconscious feeling that I was above everyone else. Vaguely, I no longer felt like an ordinary person.
A Celestial Adept could fly with his body, and his Dao energy and true essence were boundlessly mysterious. How could he be so different from the ordinary people in the mortal world?
The so-called cultivation was actually a way to advance to a higher level. Perhaps the Gods and Devils in the legends were actually creatures of a higher level.
This is just my guess, and I can't find the answer. Perhaps in the future, when I reach a higher realm, I will know the answer to these questions.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. Since the Hungry Ghost Festival was coming in a little more than a month, I decided to go back to my hometown to worship the ancestors.
I only needed to go back during the Hungry Ghost Festival. However, I hadn't been back to my hometown for some time, and I hadn't seen Fatty and Uncle Lin for a long time. It would be better for me to go back and stay in my hometown for a while.
After making up my mind, I informed Fatty.
These days, Fatty's life was much more interesting than mine. He and Wang Yongjun went to most of the dinner parties that I had declined.
His divination skills were indeed suitable for this kind of occasion. Just a little bit of it was enough to make those rich merchants who had been fooled by swindlers prostrate themselves before him. In Fatty's own words, they were looking at him as if he was a deity.
After listening to my plan, Fatty's eyes flashed with a gleam of nostalgia. He didn't want to stay in this prosperous place. He nodded and agreed. "These days, I've been thinking about going back to my hometown. I didn't expect that I would mention it to you first."
Cultivators could sense the Heavenly Path, and their thoughts were all predestined.
Fatty and I had the thought of going back to our hometown. Perhaps it was a sign that something would happen after we returned to our hometown.
Of course, it was just a thought. I didn't really care about it.
We packed our luggage and asked Wang Kun to help us book the plane tickets. Then, we prepared to depart.
But just as he was about to leave, something happened.
I had a talisman on me that looked like a child's scribbling. The messy lines on the talisman contained an extremely mysterious power. There wasn't much power, but it was extremely intricate. It interacted with each other to form a small magic formation.
This talisman wasn't used to control the enemy. It was a Sound Transmitting Talisman. It was a keepsake that Wang Can had given me. When he wanted to contact me, this talisman would shine. Then, it would turn the message Wang Can wanted to convey into a stream of Zhen Yuan. Then, I would receive his message from that stream of Zhen Yuan.
When he gave me the yellow paper, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Nowadays, electronic communication was very advanced. It was more convenient for us to leave each other's phone numbers and contact each other directly.
However, Wang Can insisted that I keep the talisman. He said that people in the Blessed Enclave used this kind of talisman to send messages. Moreover, the phone might not work all the time, but this talisman could be used anywhere as long as the user's True Essence didn't run out.
Since he was so insistent, I accepted the talisman. Anyway, it was just a piece of paper, and it didn't take up much space.
I didn't expect that I would use it today.
When the fatty and I were about to leave for the airport, I felt my body heat up. I felt something shiver. I took it out and found that it was the talisman.
I took out the talisman, and the lines on it sparkled. Soon, it condensed into a small white bead. I recalled the method Officer Wang had taught me. I gathered a wisp of True Qi at my fingertip and flicked it toward the bead.
The bead paused for a moment. Then, it spun and turned into a white mist, gently falling into my hand.
I held the white mist and closed my eyes. I then used my True Essence to read the message in the mist.
There was only one sentence on it. "To the Sage, Holy Spirit Guard Wang Can pays his respects.
The Wangwu Wonderland sincerely invites the Sage to come and observe the Heavenly Grand Ritual. "
"Third Baby, what did Wang Can say?" The fatty asked when he saw me close my eyes.
"He asked us to go to the Wangwu Wonderland." I opened my eyes and told him, "To participate in the … Heavenly Grand Ritual."
"What's that?" The fatty was bewildered. He looked at me in bewilderment.
"It's a grand event there."
Actually, I didn't know much about it. I recalled what Officer Wang had told me about the Heavenly Grand Ritual. I tried to explain to the fatty, "Officer Wang told me that there will be a competition at the Heavenly Grand Ritual."
"So, it's a very important event?"
"That should be the case. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent me a message."
"So, are we going back to our hometown?"
I was bewildered by the fatty's question. After thinking for a while, I answered, "Let's go to Wang Can's place first. There are still two months until the Zhongyuan Festival, so we're not in a hurry to go back to our hometown.
I heard from Wang Can that something troublesome was going to happen in the Wangwu Wonderland during the Heavenly Grand Ritual. Since he sent me a message, we have to go there and check it out. "
The fatty had always listened to me since he was a kid. Seeing that I had made a decision, he immediately agreed. I asked Wang Yongjun to help us book new tickets.
The Wangwu Wonderland was located on Mount Wangwu in Jiyuan, Henan Province. It was quite far from Shenzhen.
As soon as we got on the plane, the fatty asked for a blanket, wrapped it around his body, and fell asleep. I couldn't help but smile wryly when I saw him sleeping so soundly. This fellow was still at the Earth Master Realm. Before I had become a Heavenly Master, every time I got on a plane, I always felt flustered. I didn't know how he could adapt to the plane so well. Was it because he had a big heart and a big body?
Of course, I didn't feel any discomfort now. However, I didn't sleep. Instead, I looked at the scenery outside the window and quietly comprehended.
Meditating and adjusting one's breath were only a part of the Heavenly Master Realm's cultivation. More things needed to be comprehended.
Literally speaking, the word 'comprehended' didn't mean 'seeing more and thinking more'. Although I couldn't explain the mysteries behind it, seeing more and thinking more was always beneficial.
While looking at the magnificent scenery, I thought about the Wangwu Wonderland we would go to this time.
I knew a little about the Wangwu Wonderland. According to the records, Mount Wangwu was located in the northwest of Henan Province. It was connected to the Taihang Mountains in the east, the Zhongtiao Mountains in the west, the Taiyue Mountains in the north, and the Yellow River in the south. It could be said that it gathered the spiritual aura of the four directions. Since ancient times, it had been a famous blessed land. The holy land of the Quanzhen Sect was Mount Wangwu.
Apart from that, there was another rumor that interested me. According to the legends, Mount Wangwu was the place where the Yellow Emperor of the Xuanyuan clan prayed to the heavens. As one of the ancestors of the Chinese civilization, the Yellow Emperor of the ancient times would come here every year to pray for good weather and for the people's health.
That was why Wangwu was also called the Temple of Heaven in ancient times.
Of course, this Temple of Heaven wasn't the tourist attraction in the capital. Although they were both called the Temple of Heaven, they were thousands of miles apart.
I thought about the Xuanyuan Sword Sheath in my hands and wondered if I would encounter something related to my identity in my previous life on Wang Wu Mountain … ….
I was looking forward to it, but I was also a little scared.
After getting off the plane, I didn't immediately contact Wang Li. Instead, I took the fatty to wander around Mount Wangwu.
This place was the same as other famous mountains and rivers. It had many tourist attractions, such as balcony palaces and geological museums. Of course, I didn't want to go there to see them. Most of these attractions had been built by later generations, and some of them were fake. Of course, they didn't have a wisp of spiritual energy. I guessed this place wasn't the Wangwu Wonderland.
After wandering around for half a day, the fatty became impatient. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and complained, "Why don't you contact Wang Can? Why are you wandering around here?"
I wasn't in a hurry. Ever since I had learned about the Heavenly Wonderlands, I was very interested in them. If I called Wang Can to guide me, I would lose a lot of fun. It would be better to explore Mount Wangwu by myself. I wanted to see where the Wangwu Wonderland was. If I could find some clues, I would have some experience in searching for other Heavenly Wonderlands.