Starting My Cultivation With Time Management-Chapter 785 - 22 Mysterious Talisman

Chapter 785: Chapter 22 Mysterious Talisman

Shi Liuli remained silent without a word.

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“To speak of taking something out of someone’s pocket as if it were a grand and righteous act, my husband truly is a talent…”

Of course, she wasn’t any moral crusader herself, thinking that since the hexagram indicated danger, the other party was most likely from the Demon Cult’s Six Paths—should there be a way to weaken the opponent and strengthen themselves, even if it was despicable, they might as well use it.

However… employing such vile tactics was one thing. To actually use them while finding a seemingly righteous justification was quite another.

While Shi Liuli was lost in her thoughts, Luo Yan already felt that this plan was exceedingly feasible, and hastily began discussing it with the Mortal World Painting:

“We shall take it, but we can’t do so too early. What if they realize it?”

“How about waiting until they are ahead of us, have swept away all the treasures, and put everything into their storage bag, then you take it all… By the way, how much can you transfer in one breath now?”

“I don’t know,” Mortal World Painting hesitated, “I haven’t tried it.”

“We can give it a try!” Luo Yan immediately said, “Let’s first move everything from his storage bag here, then we can count the number and weight of the items before moving them back to avoid his detection…”

“Cough, cough, cough.” Shi Liuli suddenly started coughing.

“What’s wrong, Liuli?” Luo Yan immediately asked with concern.

“I think this is not very nice?” said Shi Liuli.

“Surely you’re not one of those moral paragons, are you?” Luo Yan exclaimed, shocked.

“Oh, that’s not what I mean,” Shi Liuli explained, “It’s fine to weaken the Demonic Path, but taking advantage of that to fill our own pockets with shady methods, I think we better not do that. After all, a gentleman should know what to do and what not to do. Once we do certain things, we’ll have crossed a line, and we might end up becoming something we never wanted to be.”

Luo Yan’s mouth hung open in surprise, only to hear the Artifact Spirit of the Kunlun Mirror say disdainfully in the Sea of Consciousness:

“Liuli is not wrong, but some people simply lack the thing called a bottom line to begin with, Liuli is talking to a wall.”

“Broken Mirror, shut your mouth!” First scolding it, Luo Yan then righteously said to Shi Liuli:

“You’re right, Liuli. Let’s do this then, we won’t keep anything for ourselves but will hand it over to the Sect, how about that?”

“That’s better,” Shi Liuli said with a smile.

Seeing her husband so agreeable, she felt somewhat heartened for a moment, but also a bit embarrassed about her own meddling.

“Now that it’s to be handed over to the Sect.” Luo Yan continued, “If there’s anything good in it, requesting to use it should still be okay, right?”

Shi Liuli almost choked.

Hand it over to the Sect and then request to use it? How could you even bring yourself to say that, husband!

However, after giving it some thought, she found something odd.

To say “No, you can’t ask the Sect for them” would seem rather overbearing—I hand over treasures to the Sect, but I can’t apply to use them myself? That’s obviously unreasonable.

But if they could be used, then Luo Yan could hand over everything to the Sect and then, under the identity of Master Jingyun of the Heavenly Craft Workshop, borrow it all back from the Sect—how could Penglai Yuqing View possibly refuse? He could borrow them for as long as he wanted!

If everything was taken back, what difference would there be from not handing them over in the first place? It would only be a nominal belonging to Yuqing View.

Upon realizing this, Shi Liuli turned her gaze back to the Mortal World Painting, only to hear the incomprehending Artifact Spirit say:

“So that’s it! As long as we do this, we don’t have to worry about crossing the line, right?”

Shi Liuli closed her eyes: Great, the Artifact Spirit is going to be spoiled by my husband.

No, this won’t do!

She suddenly rolled up the Mortal World Painting and said:

“We can talk about this when we are in a safe place. The urgent matter at hand is to keep up with the other party and ascertain the whereabouts of the Shennong Cauldron.”

“That’s true.” This reminded Luo Yan. Compared to the treasures of some immortals, the Shennong Cauldron was obviously of much higher value.

“The Shennong Cauldron?” asked the Mortal World Painting, “What’s that?”

Shi Liuli then described the appearance of the cauldron.

“Oh, that’s not a cauldron, it’s a pot,” corrected the Mortal World Chart, “Grandpa often uses it to cook things to eat.”

Luo Yan: …

Shi Liuli: …

Upon careful thought, cauldrons were indeed used as cooking utensils before being used as formation devices.

But using the Shennong Cauldron to cook… why did that sound so strange?

“The pot you’re talking about, is it inscribed with dense text inside?” Luo Yan suddenly asked.

“Not just inside.” The Mortal World Chart replied, “The outside too.”

“The Shennong Cauldron is inscribed with text inside and out?” Shi Liuli immediately asked.

“I suppose so,” Luo Yan said vaguely.

Here we go again! Shi Liuli was getting annoyed.

Back when she first entered the sect, she thought this little junior brother was the honest and simple type.

Now, having worked together until today, she had long realized that beneath Luo Yan’s seemingly simple squinty eyes lay a heart full of cunning and tricks.

Of course, as the head of the Heavenly Craft Workshop, it was better to be cunning than to be of pure character, but being treated as a fool every time frustrated Shi Liuli a great deal.

She fell silent for a moment, then asked:

“Husband, are you sure about this?”

Instead of asking directly “Where did you learn this from?”, she asked “Are you sure about this?” This was Shi Liuli’s way of showing restraint—the former comes off as somewhat accusatory, likely to put her husband on guard.

However, Luo Yan didn’t fall for it either and just chuckled, saying,

“Not really, just play it by ear.”

Shi Liuli: ……

She really wanted to bite him to death.

The two continued along the passageway, and the deeper they went, the stronger the suction they felt, even subtly affecting their balance.

Clearly, they were now under threat from the distance, but according to Luo Yan’s scanning and Shi Liuli’s divination, the other party continued to move forward—probably because the Dragon Clan cultivators were physically strong and could bear greater risks.

After a short walk, Shi Liuli suddenly stopped:

“They’ve stopped.”

“Is that so?” Luo Yan feigned ignorance, although he had already scanned and confirmed that the Dragon Clan cultivators had broken through space and entered the next one ahead.

“Yes.” Shi Liuli performed another divination and confirmed, “They are no longer here, it seems they have gone to another Dwelling Cave Heaven.”

“Let’s go take a look first,” said Luo Yan.

After roughly a quarter of an hour’s walk, they finally arrived at the spot where the Dragon Clan cultivators had disappeared.

The place was still a corridor extending straight down, and the gravitational pull on them was already very clear, practically dragging them forward.

Luo Yan held onto the rocky wall with one hand and grabbed Shi Liuli’s arm with the other. Fortunately, the rock was rough and jagged, with sharp protrusions of metal ore everywhere, allowing Luo Yan to secure himself easily.

“This is where they disappeared,” said Shi Liuli. “Husband, where would it be best to use your Divine Shuttle?”

“Right.” Luo Yan activated his scan and began to look around.

Hmm?

Before he could spot fluctuations in the spatial ripples, he suddenly detected at the depths of the earth, near the location of the geo-magnetic mother lode, an object shining with golden light.

It appeared to be a Talisman Script.