964: Chapter 260_4 964: Chapter 260_4 Song Xianbi was full of amazement and exclaimed, “What’s happening?
How has someone attained enlightenment?
And such a profound one at that!
Who has attained it?”
After his initial surprise, Chang Tiance quickly reacted and shouted, “Master, it’s the Sect Leader!
The Sect Leader just visited our Immortal Pen Peak and went to see Disciple Chen Shizhi, so…”
“It’s Shizhi who has attained enlightenment!
Come, let’s go see…”
Song Xianbi immediately flew out, swiftly heading towards the mountain where Chen Shizhi was located.
As the light of enlightenment grew stronger, everyone within the Hundred Peaks Sect noticed that someone had attained enlightenment.
“Someone has attained enlightenment, and it’s a tremendous one!”
“It’s someone from the Book Tao Peak who has attained enlightenment!”
“It’s coming from the direction of the Immortal Pen Peak.”
“Let’s go and see who has attained enlightenment!”
“Someone from the Immortal Pen Peak has attained enlightenment; are we from the Wonderful Pen Peak about to be surpassed by them?” He Miaobi quickly put down what he was busy with and flew directly towards the direction of Immortal Pen Peak.
Enlightenment usually occurs in an instant, but there are special cases.
Currently, under Cao Zhen’s deliberate guidance, Chen Shizhi maintained a state of enlightenment.
Meanwhile, shadows of people had already arrived, flying in.
Song Xianbi was the first to arrive nearby.
“It is indeed Chen Shizhi who has attained enlightenment.
What is the Sect Leader writing?”
Song Xianbi looked at the characters written by Cao Zhen and, upon seeing them, instantly immersed himself; he had seen many precious writings penned by the Sect Leader before, even those the Sect Leader had written with all his force, which were even more exquisite than the characters before his eyes.
However, the characters before his eyes displayed a style the Sect Leader had never shown before, one which he was incredibly familiar with.
This was unmistakably Chen Shizhi’s style of writing!
The Sect Leader was mimicking Chen Shizhi’s writing—no, not mimicking; the Sect Leader’s writing was clearly superior to Chen Shizhi’s.
The Sect Leader was teaching Chen Shizhi, guiding him!
Song Xianbi couldn’t think any further, as he was completely immersed in Cao Zhen’s writing, not just him, but also the crowd from the Immortal Pen Peak who had followed him.
Even the later arrivals, He Miaobi and Xu Ruyi, quickly immersed in it as well.
However, they were just immersed, not experiencing enlightenment.
Cao Zhen’s writing targeted Chen Shizhi specifically; their style was different from Chen Shizhi’s, so naturally, they wouldn’t attain enlightenment.
Gradually, Cao Zhen’s style started to transform again; the words began to move away from Chen Shizhi’s style, looking as if they had no distinct style, yet they seemed like Chen Shizhi’s style, and each character became more profound and exquisite.
He was guiding Chen Shizhi, but he couldn’t keep guiding him forever.
Doing so would easily fix Chen Shizhi’s writing to the current style, which would affect his future in the Dao of Calligraphy.
What he needed to do now was to make Chen Shizhi forget these current styles, not to be affected by them.
Cao Zhen wrote one word at a time, slowly, and the speed of his writing also became slower and slower; even now, the characters he wrote almost reached his peak level.
While Chen Shizhi, who had been in a state of enlightenment, suddenly emitted a brilliant gleam in his eyes.
His enlightenment had ended!
Cao Zhen, noticing the change in Chen Shizhi, also finally stopped.
Following this, Chen Shizhi’s voice came through.
“Thank you, Sect Leader, for your guidance.
This kindness, Shizhi will never forget,” Chen Shizhi said and was about to kneel down.
Initially, when Cao Zhen helped people like Wu Jianzi and Qing Mozi attain enlightenment, they all did the same—they directly knelt down!
Such a favor of enlightenment is an immense grace in the world of Immortal Cultivation!
But as Chen Shizhi’s body just began to bend, a gentle force came, not strong yet powerful enough that upon touching it, his body involuntarily straightened itself.
Cao Zhen waved his hand gently, interrupting Chen Shizhi’s kneeling and said, “You and I are classmates; there’s no need to be so formal.”
Around them, people saw Chen Shizhi end his enlightenment and came forward one after another to congratulate him.
“Congratulations, Brother Shizhi.”
“Brother, this enlightenment must have greatly advanced your knowledge of calligraphy.
It may not take long before you make a breakthrough.”
While enlightenment does not directly lead a cultivator to breakthrough, since Chen Shizhi was cultivating the Dao of Calligraphy and his knowledge of calligraphy had greatly improved, his cultivation would likely progress much more easily.
Of course, no one knew exactly how long it would take.
A month could be considered soon, half a year could also be viewed as quick – anyway, everyone loves to hear nice words.
Amid the congratulations, Song Xianbi directly ran to the desk, waved his hand, dried the ink of the writing that Cao Zhen had just penned, then picked up the paper and directly handed it to Chen Shizhi with the instruction, “Shizhi, quickly keep the words written by the Sect Leader well and take a good look at them once back.
Don’t let the wind blow away the paper.”
These were the words the Sect Leader wrote at their Immortal Pen Peak, meant for the disciples of their peak.
As a Sect Leader helping to collect them, could there be a problem?
Though these words were specifically to guide Chen Shizhi, they were still penned by the Sect Leader.
Those on the Calligraphy Path who saw them would find help in them.
Once Chen Shizhi had finished with them and made a breakthrough, he could certainly ask for those words back to show the other disciples within the peak.
As for those from other peaks, like those of the Wonderful Pen Peak wanting to view the words, that would require a good amount of talking, at the least getting He Miaobi to treat him with good wine and dishes.