"Not at all, not at all, that would be kind of twisted."
"Brother, next time something happens, let’s do it together again, fighting demons and defending the path with you, that’s really great."
"I remember even when you perform divination, you can still retain some of your memories and consciousness, right?"
Tan Wenbin still remembered the last time on the school playground, he went easy on his own brow.
"Not complete, but I can remember some, kind of like being in a foggy dream."
"Do you remember me sticking a needle in you?"
"I remember, Brother, you were amazing, that move was really useful!"
"If we had let the child go then, how could we have pursued Granny Yu? For this kind of evil spirit manipulating familial affection, we should spare no cost to kill her!
By the way, Brother, do you still have any of those talisman needles?"
"What do you want to do?"
"I know these talismans are very precious, but I really want some to take back for my master and grandfather to use."
"Ah You, you’re really too filial."
"After the three Asking Road Incenses burn out, we can no longer maintain the divination state, and the adults also have to leave.
Having these talisman needles means we have another round, can keep doing a lot of things, which is too important for us, the officials!"
"I understand, but the side effect is huge, it’s very easy to ruin oneself."
Lin Shuyou exclaimed, "What doesn’t have side effects? If it’s effective, isn’t it supposed to have side effects?"
"Actually, there are some more gradual methods whose side effects aren’t that severe."
Tan Wenbin remembered that Brother Xiao Yuan had prepared a complete set previously, but Brother Xiao Yuan wasn’t there at the time, and the only method available to him was the roughest and simplest.
"Really?" Lin Shuyou excitedly sat up from the bed again, pulling at his wound, his mouth twitching in pain, "Is there really such a thing?"
"Brother, can you teach me?"
"You’re giving Brother too much credit."
"Is it something Brother Xiao Yuan knows? I... I thought if Brother Xiao Yuan knew it, you would too."
"You’re underestimating my Brother Xiao Yuan."
"Brother, what do I need to do for Brother Xiao Yuan to teach me those methods?"
"You just need to stand still, Yuanzi will help you experience it."
"How could I do that!"
"No worries, it’s the right thing to do, the right thing to do."
"Brother, you and Brother Xiao Yuan, you’re really too good to me, teaching me such precious things."
"It’s what you exchanged with your life."
"Yes, these things, they’re so precious that they’re worth exchanging one’s life for."
"Hey, what I meant was, it’ll be used on you."
"Not only willing to teach me, but also willing to help me experience it firsthand, demonstrate?"
Tan Wenbin finally couldn’t hold back any longer, stood up, reached out and touched Lin Shuyou’s forehead, muttering:
"Your fever has gone down, did your brain get damaged yesterday?"
Tan Wenbin felt that Lin Shuyou seemed to be talking nonsense, not that it was hard to communicate, but rather it was so easy to communicate it felt unreal.
His own Yuanzi treated him like a tool, and he himself actually ended up writing an article "Self-cultivation of a Tool Person" and posted it on the dormitory door to start reciting.
Actually, this is because Tan Wenbin has been in the field for a rather short time, and since he entered the field, Li Zhiyuan sporadically tossed some books for him to read.
He still has "Jianghu Chronicles" and "Righteous Demon Extermination Records" on his dormitory desk, casually thrown out, those are treasures that would cause his peers to go red-eyed and desperately scramble for them.
In short, Tan Wenbin is somewhat of a "why eat minced meat".
For a sect family whose heritage isn’t incredibly ancient, it’s already difficult to carry on the existing heritage, not to mention to further research, expand, and disseminate it.
This does not only require thriving generations within the sect and time to settle, but also needs a genius to suddenly appear in the sect, who can fully grasp the existing heritage in a very short time and elevate the heritage system to break the limits.
Such geniuses are really rare.
Just look at the Yin family, a family that has been passed down since the Eastern Han, two thousand years, and they have only produced one Yin Changsheng.
From a different angle, it means that the contribution of Yin Changsheng alone has allowed his descendants to live off the old wealth for two thousand years.
Liu Yumei, seeing the talent of Li Zhiyuan, did not hesitate to break all the rules, letting the Li and Qin families shoulder the responsibility together.
Because this value is really too great, even the Dragon King family cannot refuse the powerful temptation of having a Yin Changsheng appear in the heritage.
Li Zhiyuan himself also had access to the books in Li Sanjiang’s house basement when he entered the field.
A year after entering the field, he directly entered the gate of the Qin and Liu families.
He himself did not realize, those methods he temporarily devised to make the tool person perform better, what they meant to others.
In the eyes of others, that was something truly worth exchanging one’s life for.
Equivalent to a new township enterprise whose products are sent to national-level laboratories for analysis, testing, and enhancement, pointing out new directions for future development.
This is no longer a matter of how much one is willing to pay; under normal circumstances, it’s simply an impossible occurrence.
Lin Shuyou just happened to catch this period when Run Sheng was not around at Li Zhiyuan’s side.
Otherwise, his position at Li Zhiyuan’s side would be equivalent to having an extra "Gatekeeper" in the dormitory.
"Brother Bin, I’m fine, could you plead with Brother Xiao Yuan for me, as long as he’s willing to teach me, I’ll do anything, I can join you guys and defend the path against demons together!"