Lord of Puro

Chapter 457: Eighth Level Skills
Li Banfeng sat in his study reading a book for the entire morning.

Yanshazhai does have quite a few good books, but most of them are poetry collections, essay anthologies, novels, and miscellaneous talks.

These books are not what Li Banfeng wants. Li Banfeng wants to figure out one thing: why the Demonic Land is Pro Province. If he wants to find clues, he has to read history books.

Li Banfeng spent a lot of money and searched through all kinds of books, but the only things related to history were some celebrity biographies and travel notes.

Biographies are mainly composed of anecdotes, and Li Banfeng can't see the main timeline or the historical background.

The travel notes were quite useful. At least they allowed Li Banfeng to see the famous mountains and rivers as well as the local customs and practices of many places.

Purozhou has never had a complete history, so it is reasonable that no history books can be found in Yanshazhai.

But what is unreasonable is Li Banfeng’s physical condition.

From a self-perception perspective, Li Banfeng felt that he had been promoted. Both his physical fitness and speed had improved significantly compared to before.

But he had no desire to leave.

From the time he entered the realm to now, every time after a promotion, Li Banfeng had the urge to run hundreds of miles. Restricted by his home-based cultivation, as long as he was not at home, in the early stages of his promotion, he was basically on the road running until his cultivation level stabilized and he could settle down.

This time, he was stable immediately. He sat in his study during the day and lay down in his residence at night. He did not feel any discomfort in his body, and his cultivation seemed to be improving step by step.

Could it be that the home cultivation completely suppressed the travel cultivation?

Perhaps before rushing to the clouds, the two sects gradually merged into one?
Go ask Hong Ying?
Hong Ying is a pure travel practitioner and has only opened one course, so she should not understand this.

Ask the lady directly?
My wife is already very clear about the opening of the two doors, but it is always a bit awkward to say it face to face.

How about I wait until I'm behind her and tell her?

After finishing reading the two travel books, Li Banfeng put the books back on the shelf and was about to have lunch. As soon as he went out, he saw Ma Wu running towards him in a hurry.

He stared at Li Banfeng, looked him up and down several times, and asked, "Seventh Brother, what happened?"

Li Banfeng was startled: "I still want to ask you, what are you so flustered about?"

"Lu Chunying and the others have gone back. Xiao Yeci seems to have suffered a lot. Her eyes are swollen from crying. I asked them what happened, but they said they didn't understand. That's why I came to find you."

Li Banfeng smiled and said, "It's all over. Let's have a meal first."

When they arrived at the restaurant, they ate and chatted. Li Banfeng only said that the local god of Moxiang store was a little abnormal, and he was worried that something might happen to Lu Chunying and the others, so he sent them back. He didn't say much about other things.

Ma Wu said, "I knew this place was not peaceful. Old Seven, pack up your things and follow me."

Li Banfeng laughed and said, "Do you hate Moxiang Store so much?"

"If I wasn't worried about you getting into trouble, I would never want to come to this place in my life."

After lunch, Ma Wu went to the study and sat for a while. Influenced by the order of the land, Ma Wu also picked up the book and flipped through two pages.

Li Banfeng said: "I remember that you are a person who likes to read books."

Ma Wu really likes to read. He has read all the books in the Ma family library. Three parts of his good business skills are due to talent, two parts are due to training, and the remaining half are the methods and lessons learned from books.

"Reading is a good thing. I hate the Moxiang store because it is not a good place to practice."

Li Banfeng thought for a moment and said, "There are many romantic places in Moxiang Store. You didn't find the right place, did you?"

Ma Wu smiled and said, "Seventh Brother, you underestimate me. I can't say anything else, but how could I find the wrong way to this kind of place?
But I really don't want to go to this romantic place. You have to drink tea, wine, and recite poems.

Let's get to the point. I was on top and she said she couldn't bear the oppression. I was on the bottom and she said she couldn't bear the fatigue. I was at the back and she said she was disloyal. I just did it perfunctorily and still had to endure her complaints and tears.

If you say anything wrong during this period, you will be in trouble until the end. I am not ignorant of romance, but I really can't stand this kind of pretentiousness."

Li Banfeng smiled and suddenly saw Xiao Chuanzi beside him.

He came here with Ma Wu and was also reading a book. He was reading "Tian Xiang Ci Hua", a relatively classical novel.

Li Banfeng has read this novel. The writing is very good, but the plot is very vulgar.

The book has three volumes in total. Ma Wu once said that reading one volume is equivalent to half a month of practice. If one can finish all three volumes in one go and still be able to hold on, one can gain nearly half a year of practice.

Li Banfeng never lasted more than three rolls. If he couldn't even finish one roll, he would have to ask his wife to wash his pants.

This is not the point. The point is that classical novels test reading skills. Can Xiaochuanzi understand this book?
When Chuanzi entered Taoism, he originally wanted to practice literature, but he chose to practice engineering because he was illiterate.

Later, Ma Wu found a private tutor for him and Genzi. After studying for a month or so, he could barely recognize a few words. Then he followed Li Banfeng and Ma Wu to travel around.

In Li Banfeng's impression, when Chuanzi was running a newspaper in Heishipo, he couldn't even recognize the three words "Night Jasmine" and had some difficulty reading blueprints. But now he can read this kind of novels so fluently?
There is a problem here.

There may be an order in the territory of Heishipo that Li Banfeng does not understand yet.

This order is crucial. If Heishipo also has rules that allow people to quickly master cultural knowledge, perhaps a second source of knowledge and culture can be found in Prozhou. Even if something happens to Moxiangdian, the culture of Prozhou will not be interrupted.

Li Banfeng sat next to Chuanzi and asked, "Brother, can you read this book?"

Chuanzi scratched his head and said, "It's a little bit difficult, but it's okay. This person in the book is really ruthless. He started from scratch and built this family business, and also married so many beautiful wives. I admire him from the bottom of my heart."

Chuanzi was not pretending, his description of the plot was correct.

"Brother, who did you learn to read from?"

Chuanzi thought for a moment and said, "That's a lot. The teacher in Lanyang Village taught me, but it was only a few days. I learned to read properly in Heishipo. I always read newspapers and magazines, and with the guidance of my co-workers, I learned it slowly."

The guidance between co-workers is obviously not systematic education.

The key lies in newspapers and magazines.

There may be other reasons why the book and newspaper industry in Heishipo is so developed. Perhaps there is some kind of power hidden in the newspapers and periodicals in Heishipo.

Li Banfeng went back to Suishenju. He had bought a lot of newspapers in Heishipo and kept them all in the cabinet in Room 6.

I rummaged through the cabinet for a long time and found quite a few newspapers from other places, but I couldn't find any newspapers or magazines from Heishipo.

Not only were the newspapers and magazines gone, but so were the several short plays Bai Qiu Sheng had filmed. It was thanks to these short plays that Chuanzi's projector became a big hit.

Where did all the things go?

How could something be lost in the portable room?
Did I remember it wrongly and forgot where I put it?

Now that there are more rooms, this is also possible.

Li Banfeng was searching room by room when he suddenly heard the man in gloves whisper, "Boss, is there something missing?"

"how do you know?"

Gloves lowered his voice even more: "There's something wrong with the projector. It may be related to him. Don't rush to teach him a lesson. Let me keep an eye on him for a few more days. With our old man here, nothing serious should happen."

Li Banfeng could understand that the projector had problems after suffering such a great blow.

But what was going on? Why was he hiding something?
Suishenju must know the truth, and I guess my wife is also paying attention to it. I'll ask her when I find a chance.

The key is to find something good as soon as possible to compensate for the projector.

……

After staying in the Moxiang shop for two days, Li Banfeng confirmed that the local god had no more abnormal behavior, so he decided to go back to Qiqiu City first.

He was a travel practitioner and shouldn't stay in one place for too long, although he still had no desire to travel. Ma Wu was still a little reluctant to leave, he couldn't bear to leave the books in Yanshazhai, nor the female clerk in the inn.

"After I leave, will you think about me every day?"

The clerk said with tears in his eyes: "If thinking of you only brings pain, do you want me to live in pain every day?"

Ma Wu said: "I think of you every day. No matter how much pain I feel, I can't live without you in my heart!"

The clerk hugged Ma Wu and said, "I would rather you forget me now than let you get hurt because of me again."

Li Banfeng said to the clerk: "How about this, you resign and follow us to Qiqiu City."

The clerk shook his head and said, "I can't leave the Moxiang store. This is my destined destination, but I don't want to leave you!"

Ma Wu hugged the clerk tightly and said, "Then I will never leave you again!"

The clerk cried, "Just hold me like this, no one can separate us!"

"I have a solution!" Li Banfeng took out a millipede and put it on Ma Wu.

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The female clerk screamed, pushed Ma Wu away and ran away.

Ma Wu was stunned for a while and asked, "Where did this bug come from?"

"Lu Yuanxin gave it to her. He said this bug is very useful to her."

……

Qi Qiu City was right next to him, only one stop away by train. When he arrived in the city, Ma Wu returned to his usual state and concentrated on running his business.

Xiao Yeci's condition has not recovered yet, and he is still thinking about Moxiang Shop.

Lu Chunying couldn't stand her nagging and just said that Li Qi didn't let her go: "This is Qi Ge's order. You don't even listen to Qi Ge's words. Aren't you his lover? Aren't you afraid that he will use family rules?"

"Nonsense, who is his lover? I'm going to talk to him right now. I'm going to the Moxiang store!"

Xiao Yeci found Li Qi, and Li Qi actually agreed.

Xiao Yeci is a hardworking person with good talent. Perhaps this is an opportunity for him to excel in cultivation.

But when she went to the Moxiang shop, she had to be accompanied by guards, so Li Banfeng asked Liang Wucai to go with her.

Neither of them was willing to go, and both had some concerns.

"My heart only belongs to Qiqiu City, but what should I do if I fall in love with the Moxiang Store?"

Li Banfeng nodded slightly and said, "Don't worry, you will definitely fall in love with that place. It's a perfect place for you."

It is not enough to have only Wucai as a guard. Wucai is good at fighting, but he has lived in the new land for many years and is somewhat unfamiliar with the world.

Lu Chunying asked Tan Fucheng to go with her, but Tan Fucheng refused several times. He really didn't want to go to Moxiang shop again. Recalling the experience of wanting to chop off his hands, Tan Fucheng couldn't even raise his head in front of his subordinates.

Li Banfeng went to find Tan Fucheng in person, and Tan Fucheng was at home yelling at his son: "If your father had such good conditions as you, there would be a literary giant in Provincia!
Now I have found a private tutor for you, but you still don't study hard. Are you worthy of me?"

Upon hearing that the Seventh Master was coming, Tan Fucheng hurried out to greet him. Unexpectedly, Li Banfeng heard what he just said through his earrings.

"Brother Tan, young people nowadays are ignorant, so don't bother with him. We didn't have the conditions at the beginning, but now we have them. I think you can still become a literary giant in Pro Province. Pack up your things and prepare to go to the Moxiang Shop!"

Tan Fucheng shook his head repeatedly and said, "Seventh Master, please forgive me. I was just fooling the children. I really can't go to the Moxiang store."

"Is it up to you?" Li Banfeng took out the contract book, "Let's go quickly and take the Hundred Family Names with you."

After running around Qiqiu City for a few laps, Li Banfeng gradually regained his desire to travel.

He wanted to walk, not just around Qiqiu City, he wanted to go out for a walk, and he took this opportunity to go to Heishi Slope.

This time he will definitely be promoted, and Li Banfeng feels like he can't rest for a moment.

Go back and ask Hong Ying what the eighth level of travel cultivation skills are.

Back at Suishenju, Li Banfeng held Hongying's hand and said affectionately: "Yingying, I bought you a gold chain."

Hong Ying snorted coldly: "Vague!"

Li Banfeng stuffed the gold chain into Hong Ying's hand: "Try the weight."

Hong Ying held it in her hand and weighed it twice. It was about half a pound in weight.

She calmly put the gold chain into her arms, then fixed her makeup and said softly, "Qi Lang, why bother spending so much money? If you have anything to say, just tell me."

Sometimes Li Banfeng really couldn’t understand Hong Ying’s personality. She came from a noble family, so why did she value money so much?

"Yingying, what is the eighth level of travel cultivation technique?"

The record player beside him sneered, "Hey, sir, it's already the eighth floor so soon?"

Li Banfeng smiled and said, "I, I came to borrow some techniques from Yingying."

Hong Ying said to the record player, "Xiao Wan, there are some things that everyone knows. There is a layer of window paper between us, so we should break it. Why make things difficult for Qi Lang?"

"Pa!" The record player hit Hong Ying with a stick, "Bitch, I just gave you a chain. As for you being such a bitch, look at your potential!"

Also used to being hit by the record player, Hong Ying rubbed her peach, not angry at all, and took Li Banfeng's arm and said: "Qilang, come and paint with me first."

"Painting?" Li Banfeng was a little flustered. To renovate the fourth floor of his house and hide his beautiful daughter, he needed to paint. As Li Banfeng's painting skills were not very good, this skill had not improved until he had the seed from Zhang Wanlong, and then it came into play.

And now that he has cultivated his eighth level of skills, he has to paint again?

It seems that this technique is not very friendly to Li Banfeng.

Hong Ying did not explain, but spread out the scroll and painted a landscape painting: "Ink painting emphasizes freehand brushwork. This painting was done in a hurry. Qilang will just look at it.

Qilang, look at these mountains first. Do you know which one is the highest among them?"

Li Banfeng replied proudly: "Yes, Feng!"

The sound was so loud that the gloves beside it trembled with fear.

Hong Ying nodded and said, "Qilang is right. The highest mountain is the peak. Qilang, look at this mountain road. It goes straight from the lake to the peak. How is the scenery along the way?"

Hong Ying is an excellent painter. The scenery around this mountain road is half-hidden in thick fog. The rocks, dead trees and weeds are all in different shapes. The lines, sizes and proportions are inconsistent with the real objects. There is the exaggeration and distortion unique to ink painting. But after seeing it, Li Banfeng felt a kind of reality that touched his soul and nerves.

"The scenery is beautiful." Li Banfeng exclaimed.

Hong Ying asked again: "Qilang, has your cultivation improved?"

Li Banfeng carefully sensed the condition of his body, and his desire to leave suddenly decreased a lot.

Hong Ying put down her brush and said, "Congratulations, Qilang, you have already mastered the eighth level of skill, which allows you to travel thousands of mountains with your mind."

PS: Lu Dongliang once said that when one’s travel cultivation reaches a certain level, one is no longer walking on the land. See Chapter 114 for details.

"Tianxiang Cihua" is a classical literary masterpiece written by contemporary Provence literary giant Yumian Sala. The book was completed and put on the shelves in 2026. It is one of Yumian Sala's representative works after he broke through his mental barriers.

(End of this chapter)