75 Chapter 75 (1/2)
A person was standing with both of his hands on his forehead. The man's name was Zhang Zhi, he had just turned forty this year but due to his cultivation, he looked like a man in his late twenties. He was the one that took the first spot for the foundation establishment elders at the clan tournament. Due to his fairly young age and high cultivation level, he was highly regarded amongst the clan.
Half an hour earlier he and the other tournament participants were brought into a room. There he saw some copied over manuscripts, even while they were walking in some women clan members were diligently working on copying them down from some nearby notes. He straightened out as he saw that their current Patriarch was standing there, handing down some papers to people that were copying them over.
”Ah, I see that you all are here, could you all just line up. There is much work to do, best if you line up in order of your tournament placement.”
The patriarch ordered while waving his hand around, moving it in a certain direction. The Zhang clan elders looked at each other and just followed the instructions, lining up by the wall. Zhi was the first one getting approached by their new leader, he was slightly shorter than Zhang Dong and had a more ectomorph like physique. He looked at the silver-haired man in front of him as he placed his hand on his shoulder, he could feel some strange energy wash over him the moment that happened.
”Zhang Zhi, Great Circle, 40 years old... you should probably switch to sword arts from those spear arts...you practice the Dragontide method, I see...”
Zhi was a bit astonished that the man that he never interacted with started naming things that he shouldn't know. The man started claiming that he was better at the sword than the spear, he had followed in his father's footsteps that was quite renowned for his spearmanship. The white-haired Patriarch mumbled to himself for a moment before placing his index finger on Zhi's forehead.
”This might feeeeel a bit funny, just bare with it...”
The moment Zhi heard those words he could feel information getting forced into his brain. This knowledge was something that he knew by heart, it was about his cultivation method the Dragontide Manuscript. It was different though, the wisdom contained was far superior to the understanding of the technique he previously had. He backed away, holding onto his head in shock as most of the knowledge remained intact. He instinctively wanted to seclude himself and try out the improved cultivation method.
”T-this...”
Before he could say something the Patriarch looked to one of the people that was copying down his scribbles. Talking to them in a pleasantly sounding bassy voice.
”One Improved Dragontide manual, please~”
He said while one of the girls brought over the goods, Zhang Zhi got the item shoved into his palms his eyes going wide as it was the same cultivation method that was imparted into him, just written down the ink didn't even look dry.
”If you have any questions, they should be answered in there, now go reinforce the foundation, you have a week.”
Zhang Dong had improved his Impartation of Knowledge skill, but it still wasn't perfect so he needed those copied over manuscripts with all the required data. Zhang Zhi being the typical cultivator nut started shaking furiously as he looked at the manuscript in front of him. He knew that improving cultivation methods that you didn't make yourself was extremely hard. But there it was, his family art improved even he could tell that it was far beyond anything the clan had in their library.
He was baffled, he wanted to hug the man in front of him and beg him to take him on as a disciple. But he managed to stop himself, for one this man was the clan's Patriarch and he already had disciples, two he was ten years younger than him. The others next to Zhi glanced in his direction, they saw his eyes redden and his lower lip quivering not really sure what was happening.
”Thank you, Patriarch, this Zhang Zhi will never forget this act of kindness!”
What followed was a furious display of ass-kissing in the form of kowtowing, which made the Patriarch's eyebrows twitch momentarily. He coughed into his hand and moved over to the second person. He placed his hand on the older looking man and within a couple of minutes, the man was down on his knees, thanking the young clan leader for being so benevolent.
Zhang Dong started moving past the quivering clan members, trying not to look at their over the top behavior. Everyone was receiving the improved versions of their cultivation methods. The ones that had yet to receive their manual had stars in their eyes and sweaty palms, they looked like a bunch of puppies before you fed them. Most of the people were old men past their forties, so the looks on their faces were priceless, Matt had to force himself to not laugh in front of them.
”Oh, you're Liu's and Xue's...”
About at the end of the line, was the mother of his graying disciples. She and Xue looked very similar, having that unhealthy white complexion that people in this world liked so much. She looked a bit more refined than her daughter that still had some baby fat stuck on her face, also she was quite flat. She made up for that deficiency with her back end, which was quite large in comparison.
”Zhang Jie greets the Patriarch.”
She gave him the usual bow of respect before Zhang Dong went through the motions and imparted the improved Rainwater Sutra art to her. The woman was wondering what was the deal with this man, her children just couldn't shut up about how great he was. She finally knew how those two brats started progressing so fast, this man teaching methods were quite unusual. Her head was throbbing but her knowledge of the cultivation arts increased by leaps and bounds.
”You should tell gramps to not cultivate before I look through his cultivation art, it has way too many flaws in it.”
She figured that this 'Gramps' that the new Patriarch was talking about was her grandfather Zhang Jin, she didn't know if she should laugh or cry about the way this man refereed to her adored grandfather.