24 You Were Supposed to Know My Talent... (2/2)
Lyu Qingchen probably guessed what the lad was thinking, and said more seriously with a cold voice, ”How can they be deemed as normal people after being forced to change their body mechanism?
”Humans are those who live in nature, and nature is what's beyond humans!
”To absorb primordial Qi into their bodies, they have to integrate their bodies into nature.
”While only Haotian can be taken as real nature!
”As a result, what Devil's Doctrine do is extremely evil and never would be allowed!”
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When they were approaching Chang'an, Ning Que came to the elder's carriage again without an invitation one night. The starry night made the campsite appear silver, and made him seem even sneakier.
The light in the carriage was still on, Lyu Qingchen was reading the notes that Ning Que took during these days. Looking at the tiny regular script on the papers, he couldn't figure out how he could write such exquisite calligraphy in such a shaky carriage. His face was filled with admiration.
All of a sudden, he wrinkled his eyebrows and put down the papers in hand, and said towards the curtain, ”Come in.”
Ning Que stepped up into the carriage and sat in the previous position with his hands on knees, asking after a while of silence, ”Sir, I still can't figure out why you spend so much time in teaching me since I don't have any potential to be a cultivator?”
The lad looked up with his extraordinary bright eyes and asked with a shaking voice, ”Is it because of your discovery of my talent?”
Lyu Qingchen looked at him surprisingly with his mouth opened up slightly, asking after a while of hesitation, ”What's... your talent?”
Now it was Ning Que's turn to be surprised, he asked embarrassedly, ”If I knew what my talent was, I'd not come to ask you.”
The elder shakingly pointed to the lad's nose with his thin finger. He didn't know what else to say to him.
”Sir, I have a lot of secrets.” Ning Que seemed not to be giving up on convincing this sublime being at Seethrough State that he had extraordinary talents. He rubbed his face nervously and said, ”After I came to the City of Wei, people there all think that I'm so lazy that I even would fall asleep in the carriage anytime. But that's not true. Actually, I meditate when I'm sleeping.
”You don't have to be surprised, it's true... You know there's no entertainment in a border town, the only thing I love to do every day is writing, and I'm also reading the Article on the Response of the Tao during my spare time. You also know that book is really boring, and I can't help feeling sleepy while I'm reading it. But as I recall now, that's meditation instead of sleeping.”
Ning Que said seriously, ”At the beginning of sleep, I could feel that the buildings, people, and everything around me were flying away from me. The entire world became a place where everything was infusing together. I could even vaguely feel some mysterious breath...”
Lyu Qingchen's expression was becoming more serious. Although doing meditation while sleeping was extremely rare, it was still recorded before and could be found in the Classics of Haotian Taoism.
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