Chapter 272 – Enduring Eternity (IV)

Chapter 272

Enduring Eternity (IV)

… so, how do I bring it up?

I mean, I’ve already kind of ousted myself–I’m fairly certain that at least Long Tao, Wan Lan, and even Lao Shun now know that I’m not exactly just some random guy with very deep parental heritage.

But I’ve kind of been burning through things these past few days–first with Xing Feng and then with Lao Shun and the recipe–if I whip out yet another thing, won’t even the thinnest of veils I’ve got now just be completely pulled back?

Eh.

We came to a rest after finally coming out of the worst parts of the forest–the corpses littering every inch of the place were gone, now only buried in the patches of moss, and Xing Feng finally woke up.

It was a bit of a scene, with the girls gaslighting him (for his own good… yikes, I don’t like the sound of that) that he’d all just dreamed it up and that he was actually quite tired and slept for a whole day straight!

… whether the kid bought it or pretended to buy it, I don’t know, but he calmed down as Long Tao started cooking yet another meal. There wasn’t much he could do, though, with our dwindling supplies; I’d have planned on getting a few extra things in the city, but being unceremoniously dragged out so quickly kind of got in the way of that.

And, at least according to the one map of this place in my head, I don’t think there are any major settlements nearby. Perhaps some villages and such, but I’m really not in the mood to just stumble and meander about blindly on the off chance we’ll come upon a random, hidden village.

“I have something for you.” My announcement was met with a rather comedic response; everyone scurried over from their corners as though chased by demons, looking up at me while sitting on their knees, eyes expectant.

Even Long Tao arose from his comatose, meditative state and joined us.

I started slowly taking out one tome after another and handing them over while offering an ‘explanation.’

“I have been perusing my, uh, my aunt’s heritage,” I said. “Looking for something that I can make to be a central method of cultivation. My hope is to use it at the very beginning, until everyone establishes their own path, which is when I can look for something else more specific to the individual’s circumstances. Most of you, I imagine, won’t get any benefit out of it, as you’d have developed so wonderfully, but I’d still like you to learn it–should our little group ever become even bigger, I’d like to have at least one unifying factor between all of us.”

“…”

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“Hm? What do you want?” I caught Lao Shun sitting next to me, hand stretched out.

“Where is my copy?”

“… what?”

“This unifying method. I want to learn it, too.”

“Why?”

“I’m curious.”

“Don’t you have a recipe to study?”

“That’s that, and this is this.”

“… whatever.” I shrugged and gave him my copy, and he took it with a faint grin, scurrying back into the shadows immediately after.