"Find it yourself, I'm so old that my strength has long since worn out." The old man shook his head and lit up another cigarette as he finished speaking.
"Who believes that." Chen Ge said with some disdain.
"Finding something is impossible, but if you're interested, I can teach you how to make the true qi in your body resonate with the natural energy around you." The old man shook his head.
"Really?" As soon as he heard this, Chen Ge's eyes immediately burst into light, but a moment later he shook his head and refused, "Forget it, I'd better find my stuff properly."
"Oh? Could it be that you're not interested in this anymore?" The old man obviously did not expect Chen Ge to say that.
"Very interested." Chen Ge shook his head again.
"Pay a visit to a teacher, I can teach you." The old man threw away his cigarette and said in a serious manner.
"If it were any other time, I would have agreed straight away, but right now I still have a lot of things to settle, and controlling natural energy is definitely not something that can be learned overnight, I don't have that much time to waste here."
Chen Ge took a deep breath and said with some regret, "Moreover, senior you have told me before that my current cultivation level is very low and I have not fully comprehended the Nine Turning Yuan Shen, so even if I wanted to learn it, I am afraid that I would only learn it in a rudimentary way."
"I can't imagine that you kid is still quite self-aware." The old man nodded his head with some satisfaction.
"Senior, when I'm done with these matters, I will definitely come back to study with you, and it will be fine to pay homage to you then." Chen Ge said as he continued to pick up the dusty books on the bookshelf and rummage through them.
"Can you tell me, what other troublesome matters do you have to solve?" The old man crossed his legs and posed as if he was listening to a story.
"A friend has strangely disappeared in your South Vietnamese territory, and I have to get her out of there before I can do so." Thinking that the old man even knew about his Nine Turning Yuan Shen and Eight Opening Divine Mirror, there was nothing to hide.
Besides, this kind of thing must seem like a very small matter to him.
"Alright, tell me where she is and what she looks like, and I can bring her back within half a day." Sure enough, the old man didn't take this seriously.
"Strange disappearance, if I knew where she was, I would have solved it already." Chen Ge shook his head somewhat helplessly.
"Disappeared, huh."
"How do you think you kid keeps running into such bizarre things?"
The old man raised his flowery white eyebrows and laughed hoarsely.
"If I had known, I might not have encountered all this trouble." Chen Ge casually took a book off his hands and flipped through it a few times in a smooth manner, but when the words were barely out of his mouth, his eyes suddenly dilated a little.
On the page he was flipping through, there were five big words clearly written on it, the record of the Hai Dong tribe.
Although it was written in that ancient clan's symbolic handwriting, Chen Ge could still vaguely make it out, after all, he had seen many similar styles of writing back in the secret room of the Futaba clan.
"Found it?" Seeing this surprising reaction from Chen Ge, the old man rolled out of bed and asked as he rushed forward with one quick step.
"This should be the book." Chen Ge's hands shook a little in excitement.
Taking a few strong breaths of air, Chen Ge carefully flipped through it, afraid that with the slightest force, this ancient book, which had been preserved for thousands of years, would simply become paper slag due to the corrosion of age.
But Chen Ge didn't recognize what was written on it at all, but he could tell from some rough drawings that it should depict rituals related to the same as what he had seen on the Sea Heart Map by chance that time.
"Elder, can you read these words?" Chen Ge carefully brought the book to the old man and asked with some eagerness.
"I can't read it, I can only understand the painting, like it's asking for rain." The old man fixed his eyes on it, then shook his head and said.
"This should be a sacrifice." Chen Ge explained.
"Who cares if it's a sacrifice or a request for rain, the problem is that you've got this book now and you can't read the words on it, it's the same as not having it, no different." The old man couldn't help but laugh, after a whole day of work, it was so hard to find, but this was the result.
"I can't read it, there are those who can." Chen Ge laughed out loud along with him.
"Who?" The old man inquired curiously.
"A friend of mine, when I found the descendants of the Hai Dong tribe some time ago, I saw some books passed down in a secret room, and he was then able to read them." The first thing that came to Chen Ge's mind was the ghost calculator.
"That's not bad, it's a helper of sorts." The old man nodded his head and said.
"Senior, I'll go back first, I'll come back to visit you later if I have time!" Chen Ge wrapped the ancient book up in his jacket and then held it to death, and after arching his hand to the old man, he turned his head and walked outside.
"Hey, just leaving like that?" Seeing Chen Ge running outside before he could finish his sentence, the old man Ming Ran was a little caught off guard.
"Come visit again sometime!" Chen Ge said in an excited tone.
"Where are those clothes you dried?" The old man continued to ask.
"Let's leave them here for now and replace them on the next time we come back." Chen Ge's voice was getting lower and lower, and before he could finish the sentence, his voice had already disappeared.
"This kid, what's the rush." Seeing Chen Ge's back disappearing from in front of him, the old man couldn't help but shake his head and laugh as he looked at the shelves of books that had been turned over in a bit of a mess and went up to sort them out one by one.
Over the years of guarding the Dharma Trails, he had read almost every book here, and the voice of the Hai Dong tribe did not seem to him to be any pressure at all.
The reason why he didn't tell Chen Ge the truth was because he had been here for too long and wanted Chen Ge to stay with him for two more days, but he didn't expect that Chen Ge would have helpers who could read the Hai Dong texts, and even had the luck to be able to find Hai Dong literature from thousands of books in one day.
"It says that the next time I have time, it might be ten years later, and by that time, the old man may not even be alive." Packing up the bookshelf, the old man went back to sitting on his bed.
After sensing that Chen Ge had gone far away, he stretched out his dry hand and waved it, and the entrance and exit of the cave was covered by a huge piece of shale, while he slowly closed his eyes and entered a state of cultivation.
Outside the cave, it was still raining, but it was considerably less than before.
Chen Ge carefully protected his jacket, fearing that the ancient book might be temporarily damaged by the rain. Running all the way back to the car, Chen Ge ignored his soaked body and the mud on his feet and shoes, and opened his jacket at the first opportunity, and was relieved to see that the ancient book was not wet.
"Phew, at last." Chen Ge leaned on the driver's seat and let out a long breath of foul air, his voice relaxed.
After easing off for a while, Chen Ge drove out of the forest and headed back towards the Guo family, on the way, he sent a message to the ghost calculator, asking the latter to bring Elder Zhou and Fei Shuo along to the Guo family, there was something important to deal with.