Turbid World: Martial Arts Master of the Republic of China Era, I Cultivate Immortality!

"Uncle-Master, you know what? When I hit him, he not only doesn't get angry, but he's actually very happy because then he can complain to the old man."

As Zhao Zheng entered the Taoist temple, he smiled and spoke to Master Tianyi, who had witnessed him beating Zhao Cheng.

Master Tianyi's face showed no doubt or confusion; his age and experience led him to offer his advice with a helpless expression.

"There's really no need for brothers to act like this..."

"Um."

Zhao Zheng nodded to indicate that he understood. Daoist Tianyi did not continue the topic, since it was a matter between Zhao Zheng and Zhao Cheng.

Moreover, he had seen Zhao Cheng's attitude when he was at the entrance of the Taoist temple; it was obvious that he had come to be beaten.

Although this approach is a bit silly!

Master Tianyi took an envelope from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Zheng, saying, "This was sent by someone from Anping Temple when you went out just now."

"Um?"

Zhao Zheng reached out and took the envelope, opened it, and raised an eyebrow at the three land deeds and house deeds inside—the land deeds and house deeds for the Taoist temple of Master Qin and the other two.

Besides the land deed and house deed, the envelope also contained ten silver notes with a face value of one hundred silver dollars. Zhao Zheng looked curiously at Daoist Tianyi and asked, "Uncle-Master, did you severely injure that Abbot Xu?"

"No, why... um?"

Master Tianyi frowned slightly as he looked at the land deed and house deed that Zhao Zheng handed him, along with ten silver notes of one hundred silver dollars each in the envelope. He didn't take them, and said with a furrowed brow, "This Abbot Xu is quite generous..."

For an ordinary family of four whose monthly living expenses are only four silver dollars, this thousand silver dollars is quite a large sum.

"Don't worry, Uncle-Master, I know he wants to cripple me, to ruin my cultivation with fame, and to disrupt my Dao heart with profit..."

Zhao Zheng put the land deeds and house deeds back into the envelope. Upon hearing this, Daoist Tianyi breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak when Zhao Zheng said...

"However, he is underestimating me, Zhao Zheng, a bit too much... I want fame, I want profit, I want cultivation, and I also want the Dao heart."

"You little rascal...you're quite greedy!"

Master Tianyi paused for a moment upon hearing this, but seeing that Zhao Zheng was far more intelligent than he had imagined, he smiled with a relaxed expression and continued.

"You know what he wants to do!"

"By the way, Uncle-Master, do you want a Taoist temple?"

"No thanks, I don't want to. I already told you yesterday, I'm only here to help my older brother tutor you!"

Master Tianyi waved his hand in refusal, clearly indicating his firm intention not to accept the Taoist temple. Knowing that this could not be appeased by enthusiasm, Zhao Zheng did not bring up the matter of sending the temple again.

"Then I'll just sell these three Taoist temples!"

"Would they dare to buy it?"

Master Tianyi frowned slightly, not mentioning that Zhao Zheng's actions seemed a little inappropriate to him, after all, the goods had just been delivered and he was about to sell them.

He knew that all the monks who had opened temples in Anping County followed the lead of Abbot Xu of Anping Temple.

"Uncle-Master, you underestimate yourself!"

"???"

"We're from the Maoshan Sect..."

Zhao Zheng smiled and looked at Daoist Tianyi, who didn't quite understand. He paused and said, "It's time to give them a helping hand in their time of need."

"Providing timely help?"

Master Tianyi paused for a moment, then changed his clothes and followed Zhao Zheng outside the Taoist temple. He silently watched Zhao Zheng and the rickshaw pullers talking.

"Did you understand?"

"I understand, I understand..."

The rickshaw drivers happily accepted the copper coins handed to them by Zhao Zheng and nodded. Zhao Zheng nodded slightly in response.

"Alright, go ahead. Before dark, I want you to spread the word that I'm going to sell these three Taoist temples, Changning Temple."

"Don't worry, Master Zhao, leave this to us!" the middle-aged driver in the lead assured him, patting his chest.

"Um."

Zhao Zheng nodded, watching the rickshaw drivers leave. Master Tianyi frowned and asked, "Will they really come to buy the Taoist temple?"

"Offering help in times of need is far better than adding to someone's existing success!"

Zhao Zheng replied, and Daoist Tianyi frowned slightly for a moment. He understood and looked at Zhao Zheng with a strange expression.

"Are you really eighteen?"

"Eighteen years and one month old!"

"..."

Master Tianyi didn't want to speak, but frowned slightly and said, "Do they really dare to offend Abbot Xu to buy your Taoist temple?"

"If they don't buy it, they'll offend you, Uncle-Master!"

"???"

Good lad,

You're using me as a pawn!

Once he understood, Daoist Tianyi glared at Zhao Zheng, but Zhao Zheng didn't seem to care. He simply said, "Since they're disgusting us, we can't just put up with it. We have to disgust them back too."

"That's... not wrong."

Master Tianyi nodded with a slight frown. Since the other party wanted to flatter them to their detriment, they couldn't just stand by and watch.

"Uncle-Master, come on, I'll take you out to a restaurant!"

Zhao Zheng changed the subject, took out an envelope containing ten silver notes of one hundred dollars, patted it, and pointed to the Songhelou Road not far away.

"There's no need for such extravagance. Just eat something simple at home..." Master Tianyi refused, but Zhao Zheng pretended to agree.

After the two returned to the Taoist temple, Zhao Zheng once again suggested going to Songhelou Restaurant. With Xiang Yu's cooperation, Master Tianyi reluctantly agreed to go to the restaurant.

After urging the worshippers to hurry up, and once Xiang Yu had changed his clothes, the three of them left the Taoist temple. Zhao Zheng locked the gate and hung up a sign saying that they had something to do that afternoon.

Master Tianyi looked at the Taoist temple gate that Zhao Zheng had locked, his eyes filled with admiration, which made Zhao Zheng ask in confusion.

"Uncle-Master, what's wrong?"

"It's alright, hmm, your eyes..."

Master Tianyi was taken aback. He saw strands of patterns resembling golden flames emerging within the black pupils of Zhao Zheng's eyes.

In the blink of an eye, a faint golden layer covered Zhao Zheng's black pupils, a sight that made Xiang Yu exclaim "Holy crap!"

"Sharp eyes!"

Knowing that this wasn't the case, Daoist Tianyi was a little uncertain and asked Zhao Zheng with a confused expression.

"The... the Long-lasting Insightful Mind Technique? You've mastered it?"

"I just mastered it, but unfortunately I'm still a little short. I've only barely achieved mastery in one step, and haven't reached perfection yet!" Zhao Zheng said regretfully.

Perhaps it was because of what he said just now, or perhaps it was because of his actions just now, or perhaps it was because of his innate talent for selflessness, but he mastered the Changming Guanyin mental technique he had practiced last night, even though he hadn't even entered the basics.

"???" x2

No, what do you mean by "barely achieving great success in one step"?

Wait, you've already reached the Great Perfection realm in one cultivation session!

Ignoring Xiang Yu's horrified expression, Daoist Tianyi felt something was amiss as he looked at Zhao Zheng's faintly golden pupils.

"But...this isn't right. The Changming Guanxin Method teaches to use the mind as a lamp to illuminate one's inner self, thereby realizing one's true nature. What you're doing..."

A hint of confusion appeared in Master Tianyi's eyes. Logically speaking, the manifestation of the Changming Guan Mind Method should be a lamp.

There are thousands of kinds of lamps, that's true, but what Zhao Zheng saw in his eyes didn't seem to be a lamp, but rather a great sun.

"That's right, I also use my heart as a lamp to observe my inner self... Oh, the lamp I created is a little bit big!"

Zhao Zheng looked up and pointed to the sun in the sky, while his gaze fell on the panel displaying the myriad aspects of life, a view that only he could see.

[Method of Merit: Great Sun - Everlasting Vision Meditation (Completion)]

Although the name has changed and "Da Ri" has been added, Zhao Zheng doesn't think it's a big problem, as long as it works.

"???" x2

Not to mention that Xiang Yu didn't understand, Daoist Tianyi looked at the sun in the sky with a bewildered expression, then looked at Zhao Zheng's golden pupils, which seemed to contain a great sun. He repeated this over and over again until finally he couldn't help but speak.

"You...use the great sun as your lamp?"

"no……"

"Oh, then..."

Master Tianyi breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could finish speaking, Zhao Zheng interrupted him. He only listened to what Zhao Zheng said.

"To be precise, I used my mind to transform into the great sun, and then used the great sun to illuminate myself, in order to understand my mind and see my true nature... To be honest, at first I thought my idea was wrong, that I couldn't transform into the great sun, but fortunately the result proved that my thinking was correct. The sun... is actually also a lamp, just as I thought..."

"..."

This thing... could it be a lamp?

Daoist Tianyi looked up blankly at the sun in the sky. Looking at the bright sun, he suddenly felt that the sun was indeed a lamp.

Wait, this isn't a problem with the light, is it?

It's probably this kid's fault for messing up the cultivation method!

Master Tianyi quickly regained his senses, grabbed Zhao Zheng's wrist, and began to examine Zhao Zheng's body by circulating his magical power.

After a while, Daoist Tianyi silently withdrew his hand from Zhao Zheng's wrist and looked expressionlessly at Zhao Zheng, who was as strong as a calf and, apart from his leg injury not yet healed, was healthier than him and was looking at him with a puzzled expression.

"Ah Zheng, are you... alright?"

"..."

Do I need to do something?

Zhao Zheng mentally scoffed, then shook his head and said, "I'm fine, I feel great now, except my eyes are a little hot!"

"...Come, tell me your method of cultivating long-lasting insight!"

"good……"