"What you say is also right." Qin Liuxi had already sat down on the stone sword, forming seals with both hands on her knees, her eyes fixed on the talismanic scripture on the stone sword, guiding the nearby nature’s spiritual energy into her body, and soon entered a meditative state.

He Ming was a bit surprised by this, growing even more respectful, and quietly descended the mountain, returning to the Grandmaster’s Daoist room. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Taiqing saw him come back and asked: "Where is Master Buqiu?"

"We entered the incense hall yesterday and just finished making the incense now. Master Buqiu’s spirit is not very sufficient, so she sat down to meditate before coming to perform the needling for Grandmaster. I led her to the stone sword there. Master, although Master Buqiu is young, she is extremely gifted in Enlightenment, entering meditation very quickly, and I could feel that the spiritual energy was being drawn towards her." He Ming sighed and praised.

"Your Grandmaster once said that Brother Buqiu is a Xuanmen Taoist seen only once in a thousand years, she learns things extremely fast and is very adept at drawing inferences, also very focused and with a lot of ingenuity, she is born for the Mystic Sect."

"Master Buqiu is only in her twenties, yet she has this level of cultivation, not just strong talent, she also has fortune."

Taiqing laughed: "Talent and fortune are one thing, but she truly can calm her mind; I heard she truly entered the path at five, yet could meditate in the depths of winter and close off for a month without issue. As for medical skills, at the age of five or six, she dared to explore fresh corpses in Yizhuang, feeling out human acupoints, and practicing needling."

He Ming was astonished beyond measure.

Some people’s strength is not given for free, after all.

Thinking further of her ability to form a charm with a little spiritual light, he felt even more inadequate, just this one aspect would allow her to surpass many peers, moreover, she is so versatile.

Taiqing curiously asked: "Before you were indeed very respectful towards Master Buqiu, but not like now, treating her as a Grandmaster, what happened?"

He Ming was silent for a moment, then took out the box of incense from his sleeve, saying: "This is the Soul Calming Incense made by Master Buqiu."

Taiqing took it, and upon opening, a calming and soothing scent wafted out. Unlike usual Soul Calming Incense, it seemed to have added some ingredients and lessened some common ones, mixed with a bit of medicinal aroma.

And this scent carried a faint spiritual energy, invigorating one’s spirit. He looked again at the incense itself, it was a purplish-red, with some patterns on its body, causing Taiqing’s pupils to slightly contract.

This is incense pattern!

Pills have pill patterns, incense too can have incense patterns, these must be refined with related skill incantations and talismanic scripture, once successfully refined, they inevitably present incense patterns, and now the one in his hand had them.

This is just making incense.

Taiqing couldn’t quite describe his feelings, just that, the disciples of others, ah.

"Is it just one?" Taiqing carefully placed the incense back, fearing the aroma might escape.

He Ming shook his head: "This was gifted to me by Master Buqiu."

Taiqing was just about to hand back the box, but upon hearing this, his hand trembled: "Gifted to you?"

He Ming nodded, blinking his eyes, pinching the box, seeing his master’s envious look holding onto the incense box and not letting go, tentatively said: "If you want, Master, you can keep it?"

Respecting one’s mentor and valuing one’s teachings is essential!

Taiqing snorted: "Alright, although I am envious, since it was gifted to you by Master Buqiu, hold onto it. This incense is far superior to the Soul Calming Incense of our temple, keep it at the bottom of your trunk, and avoid using it unless absolutely necessary, to prevent wastage."

Good things, they are meant to be used at critical moments.

He Ming cheerfully agreed, storing the incense box back into his sleeve, saying: "Master Buqiu made twenty sticks, each with incense patterns, that’s why I think she’s formidable. Previously, I’ve seen her form a charm with just a little spiritual light, now seeing her create incense with patterns, if she were to refine alchemy, wouldn’t it be equally effortless?"

Taiqing sighed: "I heard that when her master passed, she had just refined a Foundation Establishment Pill, unfortunately, Master Chi Yuan didn’t wait for this pill and passed away, it was said, she spent great effort collecting materials for that Foundation Establishment Pill."

He Ming remained silent, saying: "She must have been very heartbroken when Master Chi Yuan passed."

"We see how your Grandmaster is now, with his spirit and internal organs damaged, how greatly saddened he is, and she must have been even more pained for her master, a relationship like father and teacher, even more so since Master Chi Yuan did not pass away from attaining the Dao, but from failing in fighting." Taiqing spoke, also glancing towards Qinglan Temple Master, if Qin Liuxi hadn’t come, would his fate be similar to Master Chi Yuan’s?

"Don’t worry, I won’t let your master meet the same fate as my old man, that old demon won’t succeed." Qin Liuxi appeared at the doorway at some unknown time, walked in and said: "Bring everything, set up the Spirit Array, let’s start the needling."