134: Chapter 134 Remembrance Stone, The Return Journey

"Absolutely!" Jiang Zibo's attitude took a complete 180-degree turn once he learned Su Fan came from the legendary Ancestral Star.

"Cultivation techniques were originally our clan's inheritance; it's just that your lineage lost it."

"Come with me, I'll take you to the Cultivation Tower to receive the inheritance," Jiang Zibo said with a smile.

"Then I shall trouble Holy Lord Jiang." Su Fan was all smiles, his eyes betraying a hint of excitement. It would be a lie to say he wasn't thrilled at the prospect of finally encountering legendary cultivation.

The two followed Jiang Zibo out of the archive room, navigated through several twists and turns, and eventually arrived before a massive nine-story pagoda.

"This is the Cultivation Tower," Jiang Zibo introduced.

"The first floor is the Inheritance Room, while the second through ninth floors are Cultivation Rooms."

The three entered the first floor, which contained many individual rooms.

Jiang Zibo opened one of the rooms. It wasn't large but was very clean, containing only a prayer mat and a small wooden table.

On the wooden table sat a transparent crystal about the size of a fist.

"Sit on the mat and place the thought stone against your forehead; you will then receive the Guidance Technique and the God-Forging Technique," Jiang Zibo said with a smile.

Su Fan and Xia Feifei shared a look, both seeing the helplessness in the other's eyes.

"Holy Lord Jiang, we are currently in Android bodies. Our original bodies are on the other side of the starry sky, so we cannot learn this way," Su Fan explained with an embarrassed expression.

"That makes things rather difficult. We do have paper versions of the Guidance Technique and God-Forging Technique, but written descriptions cannot compare to direct mental transmission."

"Learning the paper versions of the Guidance Technique and God-Forging Technique is prone to errors. Once an error occurs, it can cause unpredictable danger to both the body and the mind," Jiang Zibo warned solemnly.

Su Fan frowned. He had hoped to obtain the cultivation methods immediately, but being stuck like this was very frustrating.

"How about this, I'll show you the paper versions of the Guidance Technique and God-Forging Technique."

Under Jiang Zibo's lead, Su Fan and the others arrived at the basement level of the Cultivation Tower.

"Look, these are the manuals for the Guidance Technique and the God-Forging Technique."

Jiang Zibo pointed to two piles of books in the room.

"The pile on the left is the Guidance Technique, and the pile on the right is the God-Forging Technique."

Su Fan stared at the two piles in shock. "There must be at least several hundred books here!"

"There is only one manual each for the Guidance Technique and the God-Forging Technique—those thin golden books at the very top," Jiang Zibo explained with a laugh.

"The rest are all explanations, annotations, and gradual insights regarding these two techniques."

Hearing this, Su Fan breathed a sigh of relief. He stepped forward and picked up the thin, dozens-of-pages-long Guidance Technique manual and began to read.

"The universe is pure and profound, the supreme has no law, draw the spirit into the body..."

The more Su Fan read, the more bewildered he became. He recognized every single character in the Guidance Technique, but when put together, he couldn't understand a single sentence!

Jiang Zibo watched him from the side with a beaming smile. Seeing Su Fan's dazed expression, the smile on his face grew even wider.

"Feifei, you take a look and see if you can understand it." Su Fan handed the Guidance Technique to Xia Feifei, then reached out for the God-Forging Technique to continue his reading.

"The gods are immortal, psychic forging of the spirit, observe the true self from above..."

Su Fan set down the God-Forging Technique in a daze once more. His only thought was: What on earth is this crap?!

He hadn't felt this powerless even when he first started learning Classical Chinese!

"Su Fan, how about we just don't learn this? Is this something a normal person can understand?" Xia Feifei also set down the Guidance Technique with a look of utter confusion.

It had been a long time since she felt this way. The last time was in college when she had a momentary lapse in judgment and took Oracle Bone Script as an elective!

"Now you know why there are so many extra books!" Jiang Zibo said with a laugh.

"I see now. Without annotations and explanations, I think even an immortal would be baffled," Su Fan grumbled.

"Go ahead and look at those explanation and annotation books. I'll be right here; if there's anything you don't understand, I'll answer it for you."

Jiang Zibo's service attitude was excellent, but Su Fan felt like the man was suppressing a laugh.

"Fine, we'll look a bit longer." Su Fan picked up an annotation book for the Guidance Technique and started reading.

Xia Feifei didn't move; she currently had zero interest in cultivation.

"Feifei, why aren't you reading?" Su Fan asked curiously.

"Not reading, not reading! Not even if you kill me!"

"I think we can just borrow a few thought stones from Holy Lord Jiang. We can learn these two techniques directly once we get home. There's no need for all this trouble." Xia Feifei looked at Su Fan as if he were a slow child.

"I was just in a hurry to try out cultivation." Su Fan was actually just being stubborn; since Jiang Zibo said learning from the paper versions was hard, he insisted on trying.

"Haste makes waste! It's useless even if you learn it now; we don't have any spirit stones at home anyway," Xia Feifei muttered.

This hit a sore spot. Even if they learned the Guidance Technique and God-Forging Technique right now, Earth and Mars had no spirit stones for their original bodies to use for cultivation!

Su Fan was about to put down the cultivation books when a new idea struck him.

He picked up the books again, flipping through them one by one. On the surface, he was reading, but in reality, he was having Red Queen record the contents of these cultivation techniques and all the related books.

Seeing Su Fan reading again, Xia Feifei could only boredly pick up a volume of cultivation annotations and start browsing.

Two days passed in a flash, and Red Queen had recorded both piles of cultivation books into her database.

"Holy Lord Jiang, we are preparing to head back. Could you lend us a few thought stones?" Su Fan asked politely.

"No problem! I'll give you ten!" Jiang Zibo said readily. "If it weren't for the fact that these are difficult to make and the materials are very scarce, I would certainly give you more."

"How are thought stones made?" Su Fan asked curiously.

"thought stones must be made using a special, rare material," Jiang Zibo explained. "Unfortunately, this precious material is very scarce on Shengyuan Star."

"Only cultivators in the Spirit Forging Realm can create thought stones."

"Using Mental Energy, a Spirit Forging Realm cultivator organizes their detailed process and insights regarding the Guidance Technique and God-Forging Technique, then carves them into the special material."

Su Fan nodded. It seemed he would have to keep an eye out for this material in the future.

"Feifei, let's go!"

"The Great Elder and the others are waiting for us to return."

"Sigh—it'll take another 20-plus years to get back," Xia Feifei complained.

"What's 20-plus years? It's not like you have to stay on the spaceship every day. Your original body back home can do whatever it wants."

Su Fan didn't want to wait either, but independently developing a Tianyuan Mothership took too much time. For the time being, the system simply couldn't upgrade.

Without an upgrade, the tianyuan could only crawl its way back home!

Subsequently, under Jiang Zibo's warm send-off, the two returned to the Tianyuan Mothership with ten thought stones.

To facilitate future contact, Su Fan left one of his Androids with Jiang Zibo.

After a brief wave goodbye, the Tianyuan Mothership soared into the sky, embarking on its journey home!

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