641: Chapter 440 641: Chapter 440 Sometimes, you naively display your abilities or show off your admired items without the capability to protect such treasures.
For instance, presently, though intending to keep a low profile for business purposes, you reveal many abilities instead of cultivating and ascending discreetly.
“Yun Duoduo, I’m giving you an insect egg for you to rear by yourself!”
“Mm-hmm, thank you, you’ve been so good to me, Jiang Tang!”
Yun Duoduo’s smile bloomed with joy, as beautiful as a flower in full blossom, almost bewitching Jiang Tang into a daze.
Jiang Tang gave Yun Duoduo a female insect egg, not considering it preferential treatment, because to her, the pet was merely another weapon on him, trained to transform, attack, and defend.
Yun Duoduo was delighted to receive the gift, and no matter how busy Jiang Tang was, she kept herself equally occupied, and when she eventually reared the Insect Sprite, she discovered it was a female and excitedly conceived a new idea.
Could she breed even mightier elves for her family than those they already possessed?
Yun Duoduo joyfully contracted with the reared sprite and embarked on the breeding endeavor; she did not keep this silver sprite with the others.
It was too formidable—flower sprites could only submit and face a fate of being dominated upon encountering it.
Yun Duoduo certainly didn’t want her other pets to disobey her.
Yuan Baozhu had been in low spirits these past few days, seeing Jiang Tang dissolve a Buddhist Seal and obtain the book encapsulating such Spells of the Buddhist Sect—which her Buddhist Sect family desperately needed.
Initially, she hadn’t given it much thought, as at that time, when Jiang Tang visited her family to study their Buddhist texts, he understood nothing.
Yet, the moment she saw Jiang Tang undo the monkey’s seal, absorbing the emitted Buddha Light herself, she absorbed it.
At that point, she didn’t overthink, assuming it was Jiang Tang’s powerful pet that could lift the seal and decipher the Buddhist talismans.
She even witnessed Jiang Tang’s pet hand over to him a box containing Buddha Light, which led her to ponder if Jiang Tang’s past life had been that of an Immortal Buddha Ancestor?
In her family’s lore, there were tales of mortals becoming Immortals, reincarnating in The Mortal Realm, and then cultivating to become Immortals again—these individuals had a karmic connection with the Buddha!
Yuan Baozhu did not believe that a man learning such Buddhist Law would become a Monk; their Buddhist family’s traditions included women marrying and men taking wives without strict precepts about abstaining from dog meat or alcohol, nor dwelling on the notions of emptiness in form and form in emptiness.
Just a few days ago, Jiang Tang conjured a Buddha’s Seal Spell, and their family’s elder surfaced, obsessing over that Buddha’s Seal Spell and desiring to master this spell.
Contemplating breaking formations, they sought the one who could set the Buddhist Seal.
Yuan Baozhu saw an opportunity when the Magical Treasure entered the sea—at that moment, people were at leisure, some cultivating, some refining artifacts, and even cooking.
While some were concocting Pills, she wanted to seize the chance to learn the Buddha’s Seal Spell that the elder aspired to master.
She timidly asked Jiang Tang, “Jiang Tang, does this Buddhist Seal you possess belong to our Buddhist Sect?
How did you come across such a Heavenly Book, and could you teach it to me?”
Jiang Tang…
again, someone coveted the Secret Manual I possess.
Should I give it or not?
The beauty before him was merely eager to learn; since joining his side, she had done no wrong, nor stirred trouble willingly, occasionally as inconspicuous as if nonexistent, only sometimes, like other women, showing signs of jealousy!
It was a sign of care, gratifying his male ego; a sweet girl with such modest requests deserved his aid, as he would do for others, so why not fulfill her modest wish?
This mutual need held an allure and kept others in his company.
As for the book of Buddha’s Seal Spell, it was akin to a Heavenly Book; he himself had only grasped the surface.
Such seals were merely one aspect of Buddhist Law, not lightly taught to others.
However, imparting another Cultivation Technique was feasible.
Buddhist cultivation entailed more than just the Seal Spell; it included Buddhist Techniques and Powers.
Jiang Tang glanced through the book’s preface, which detailed various methods of chanting sutras, regarded by many as a mundane activity.
But this book of his is not like that.
The language that is chanted can be used to attack, defend, cultivate, and benefit all beings.
The concept of my Buddha’s compassion does not involve the killing of living beings indiscriminately, nor can I bear to see the calamities of the world!
“Yuan Baozhu, I will teach you a scripture.
Beyond that, I cannot impart anything to you, nor can I teach you!”
Yuan Baozhu had wondered why, with so many secret manuals in Jiang Tang’s possession and his teachings to others, he did not reserve some secrets for himself.
Later, when she met Hua Xian’er, even their siblings’ alchemy skill, having been guided by Jiang Tang, was still inferior to Jiang Tang’s.
Jiang Tang also taught some families, and perhaps the Immortal Sect had alchemy skill, but none of these people were strong enough to refine supreme elixirs.
At this moment, having seen Su Feifei or some men from the base also learning alchemy, regardless of how strong their techniques were, the best they could do was to refine high-level pills.
Yuan Baozhu had her thoughts.
It was possible that Jiang Tang was keeping secrets, which was understandable.
Perhaps others also had their suspicions, but no one asked.
With their level of cultivation, indeed, none was as strong as the others.
As a master, Jiang Tang would not teach the most powerful abilities to others.
Anyone would think so.
If not the heir of a family, one might not receive the highest teachings.
Even some disciples of the Immortal Sect, ordinary disciples without a master, and even direct disciples with a master, might not learn the true teachings of the master.
No matter how they studied, they could not uncover the secrets hidden by the master.
At this moment, Yuan Baozhu understood all the more that Jiang Tang had many secrets and many secret manuals, the highest abilities of which he would never teach to others.
For example, now that he could teach her a scripture, perhaps it would benefit her for the rest of her life.
Once learned, she could even teach it to her family.
She ought not to be too greedy.
Or perhaps that sealing spell, as a capable being, he could not use it, for using it might harm his body.
Perhaps Jiang Tang was acting out of protection for her.
“Jiang Tang, thank you.
I want to ask if I learn this scripture, can I teach it to my family?”
Jiang Tang…
This woman was not too greedy, and she still held some care for her family.
Those who did for the family, with a filial heart, had decent character.
“You can, that’s up to you, but if you haven’t mastered it, you should not recklessly impart it to others.”
“I won’t.
May I ask you?” Yuan Baozhu’s gaze was fervent as she looked at Jiang Tang, this man was too powerful, seeming to know everything.
Learning even a little from him already brought her boundless benefits.
To follow him for a lifetime.
“Mhm, you may!”
Jiang Tang used a jade slip to copy a segment of scriptures and passed on the woman-friendly scripture to Yuan Baozhu.
Yuan Baozhu took the jade slip and memorized every word in her mind, taking advantage of that brief moment, then recited it once in front of Jiang Tang, using their method of chanting.
Her chanting did not utilize spiritual power or weapons, and there was no fluctuation.
Standing before a powerful being, had she done so before an ordinary person, the result might have been different.
As Jiang Tang listened to Yuan Baozhu recite the scriptures, this was the first time he had heard a woman chant in front of him.
The monks in temples were all male, which was different from their Buddhist cultivators.
It’s not that only monks or nuns can be cultivators—contemporary cultivators, as long as they cultivate the mind, can become the kind of cultivators they wish to be.
Having acted as a master for once, Jiang Tang’s Buddhist cultivation power was fully derived from the mana in the Buddhist seal box and the Buddha Light within the seal.
Eryao had translated this book for him, which he had read over in his spare time, but he had not yet deeply cultivated it.
In terms of understanding the cultivation of Immortals and Buddhas, he was far from it.
Teaching an ordinary cultivator, with his insight into Buddhist scriptures, was more than enough.
Jiang Tang and Yuan Baozhu studied the Buddhist scriptures together, and the other women listening to their chanting felt somewhat out of place.
They even somewhat blamed Yuan Baozhu for monopolizing Jiang Tang’s attention, worrying that she might make Jiang Tang join their ranks of monks.
How could that be allowed?
The other eight women joined forces, exerting all their charm, attempting to distract Jiang Tang’s attention!