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

The main hall of Zuowang Temple.

"???"

Can one switch between different rank/class?

Can the accompanying methods be temporary?

Master Tianyi stared blankly at Zhao Zheng, whose rank had changed along with the change of talisman. This was no longer a matter of whether it made sense or not.

Rather, this is simply not right.

After thinking about it, Master Tianyi understood!

"A mere demon dares to try and ruin my cultivation..."

Suddenly, Master Tianyi looked at Zhao Zheng with a cold smile. While silently reciting incantations, he formed a hand seal and shouted.

"Break it!"

Master Tianyi joined his left index and middle fingers together to form a sword finger, then used the Supreme Three-Five Cavern True and Deceptive Method to point a dot at his brow.

One breath

Two breaths,

Three breaths...

Xiang Yu blinked and tiptoed quietly towards the outside of the main hall. Zhao Zheng didn't leave; he just stood opposite Daoist Tianyi, looking at him expressionlessly.

Master Tianyi silently lowered the sword finger that was pointing at his brow. He looked at Zhao Zheng, and Zhao Zheng looked at him. Several seconds passed like this.

Master Tianyi's facial capillaries began to dilate rapidly, and the blood flow within the vessels accelerated as he turned his head.

Commonly known as—turning away with a blush on his face!

"Ahem, please step out for a moment. Your martial uncle will ask your grandmaster to assess your current situation..."

Turning around, with his back to Zhao Zheng, Daoist Tianyi waved his hand somewhat awkwardly and spoke without looking back.

"Um!"

Zhao Zheng nodded, unable to suppress the upward curve of his lips, and turned to leave the main hall. Daoist Tianyi gently waved his hand to close the door.

After a while, he frowned, a blank look on his face, and said, "This shouldn't be, it doesn't make sense, it's impossible..."

He had lived for so many years and had seen all sorts of things, but this scene was something he had never even heard of before, let alone seen.

He had never seen a Taoist priest bestow a temporary ordination certificate, one that could be switched, and whose accompanying practices would change accordingly. This shouldn't be the case...

Thinking it over, Master Tianyi came to the basin of holy water on the offering table, made hand seals and chanted incantations, and used the technique of transmitting sound over a thousand miles.

As the water in the basin swirls, a picture forms on the surface, gradually becoming clearer, revealing an old Taoist priest with white hair and a youthful face.

"What is it?"

The old Taoist priest, who was also the master of Master Tianyi, Master Dayan, asked in a low voice. As he spoke, the image on the Dharma basin rose into the air and transformed into a circular water curtain.

"Master... are there temporary talismans?"

Daoist Tianyi asked his master, who was looking at the main hall through the water curtain, and Daoist Dayan glanced at Daoist Tianyi in response.

"Have you been drinking?"

"...No, I've quit!"

"Oh, go to bed early."

"...I've quit."

"Okay, I know. Get some rest."

"..."

Master Tianyi clenched his fists, no longer mentioning the matter of drinking, and went straight to the problem that had arisen with Zhao Zheng's ordination.

As he spoke, the Great Evolution Daoist in the water curtain stopped wandering around the main hall and looked at Daoist Tianyi with a frown, sighing, "Stop drinking, give it up."

"..."

"Huh? You really didn't drink?"

"..."

"Oh, no way, you must have seen wrong."

Daoist Dayan shook his head in denial. He had lived for so many years and had seen everything. He had never heard of temporary talismans or temporary rank.

If such a situation were to occur, he… After a while, the Great Evolution Daoist in the water curtain silently and with a furrowed brow looked at Zhao Zheng, whose aura of the Supreme Three-Five Demon-Slaying Secret Record had disappeared.

The official title displayed behind his head changed from Right Judge of the Ninth-Rank Tian Shu Academy to Right Judge of the Ninth-Rank Fengdu General Records Academy, Zhao Zheng.

To be honest, he just can't understand it!

Also, he had never seen anything like this before!

Daoist Dayan looked at Zhao Zheng with the expression of an old man taking a subway and using a cell phone. The aura emanating from Zhao Zheng was no longer that of the Supreme Three Five Capital Merit Scripture, but rather the aura of the Northern Emperor Sect and the Tianpeng Divine Mantra.

Daoist Dayan remained silent for a moment, then reached out and pulled out a scroll out of thin air. Zhao Zheng couldn't see it clearly, but he could see the words "Heavenly Court" written in small seal script on the scroll.

Daoist Dayan stopped after flipping through the file, then looked at Daoist Tianyi. Daoist Tianyi coughed twice, puzzled.

"His name is Zhao Zheng!"

"???" ×1+1

Ignoring Zhao Zheng's bewildered expression, Daoist Dayan looked at Zhao Zheng with the same question mark on his face. After a while, he asked in surprise.

How are you still alive?

"..."

Should I go down and report for duty?

Zhao Zheng subconsciously complained to himself. Realizing he had said something wrong, Daoist Dayan coughed, looked at Zhao Zheng with a strange expression for two seconds, then flipped through the dossier. Soon his brows furrowed and he said...

"What kind of register did Zhao Zhengshou possess?"

He didn't ask Zhao Zheng directly, but subconsciously asked Master Tianyi. Master Tianyi was stunned again, and looked at Zhao Zheng with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

Zhao Zheng's lips twitched slightly as he inexplicably felt that his teachers were somewhat unreliable. He said expressionlessly, "The Yuan Emperor spoke of the True Text of the Primordial Chaos Ancestral Qi."

He never intended to keep it a secret, because he felt it would be foolish, and besides, sometimes one lie requires more lies to complete and cover it up.

"..." x2

"What's wrong?"

"……fine!"

The one speaking was Daoist Dayan, who was thinking that the Three Mountains Alliance didn't even have this title. Upon hearing the words "Yuan Emperor," Daoist Dayan subconsciously looked at the statues of the Three Pure Ones enshrined in the main hall, then resumed his calm expression and spoke.

"Don't worry, you're perfectly normal!"

"???"

Are you sure this is normal?

Master Tianyi's eyes widened, and then he saw that his master seemed to have seen something... Oh, that's when he started reading the letter he wrote.

Master Tianyi immediately became expressionless. Daoist Dayan was not embarrassed, but he avoided looking at Master Tianyi with a slightly evasive gaze, instead looking at Zhao Zhengdao in surprise.

"You still have the Tai'a sword?"

"Um."

"Summon it so I can see it!"

Daoist Dayan urged, and Zhao Zheng nodded upon hearing this. He made a grasping motion with his left hand, and the bronze-sword-shaped Tai'a Dharma Sword intertwined and coalesced into his hand.

"show me!"

Daoist Dayan spoke again, and Zhao Zheng wanted to ask him what he thought, but then he saw Daoist Dayan's right hand pass through the water curtain and then mysteriously lengthen to grab his Tai'a sword.

Cow breaking!

My master is really awesome!

Zhao Zheng released his grip and looked at his grandmaster, Daoist Dayan, with surprise in his eyes. To be honest, he suddenly felt that his teachers were quite reliable.

Daoist Dayan seemed quite pleased with Zhao Zheng's gaze and expression. He pulled the Tai'a Sword behind the water curtain and stroked his long beard with a smile.

"What your master just used was the Yuan Chen Realm-Stabilizing Sword, one of the twenty-four orthodox techniques of our Maoshan sect, which possesses the ability to traverse space. You should cultivate it diligently, and one day..."

Daoist Dayan remained silent, staring at the Tai'a sword in his hand, which he couldn't even wield. The question arose: how likely was it that even with his current level of cultivation, he couldn't wield the Tai'a sword...?

He glanced at the Tai'a sword in his hand, then at Zhao Zheng, who stood over 1.9 meters tall and looked unlike any ordinary person, and suddenly smiled, saying, "The First Emperor has quite the refined taste!"

"..." x2

One to say one,

This scene feels somewhat familiar!

Master Tianyi thought about what he had done that morning on the back mountain of Renjia Village, and he lowered his head with a strange expression.

Zhao Zheng remained silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "My master calculated it for me, and he said I'm not that person; I just obtained this sword by chance!"

"Oh……"

I do not believe!

There aren't that many coincidences!

Daoist Dayan thought to himself. He looked at Daoist Tianyi, who was trying not to laugh, and returned the Tai'a Sword to Zhao Zheng with a blank expression. Then he cut off the Thousand-Mile Transmission Technique.

Where is the Yuan Chen Boundary-Stabilizing Sword?

Tell me a date before you leave!

Zhao Zheng muttered to himself as he put away the Tai'a Sword and looked at Daoist Tianyi, who was trembling with laughter and looking down at him.

He glanced at the slowly swirling sacred water in the basin, blinked, said "I'm going out now," and then left the main hall.

Snapped--

With a crisp sound, followed by a scream that abruptly stopped, Zhao Zheng turned around with a puzzled look at Daoist Tianyi, who was clutching his head.

"...My hair is a bit messy!"

Master Tianyi twitched his lips as he smoothed his hair. Zhao Zheng nodded and said "Oh," then turned and walked towards the gate of the Taoist temple where Cheng Qingqing's voice came from.

"..."

Master Tianyi, who had quickly closed the door, grimaced and rubbed his head while glaring at the basin. However, as the large hand leaped out of the basin again, his expression immediately turned serious.

"Master, Ah Zheng's talisman..."

"It's normal for the Heavenly Venerable's personal instruction to have supernatural abilities..." The sour voice of the Great Evolution Daoist rang out from the Dharma basin.

"The Celestial Venerable... personally instructed by the Celestial Venerable!"

"The Supreme Emperor... also known as the Primordial Celestial Venerable!"

Daoist Dayan spoke with a hint of strangeness and envy. After saying this, he told him to teach him properly and then completely severed the Thousand-Mile Transmission Technique.

"Zhao Zheng... Tai'a... Heaven's Mandate..."

The Daoist Dayan, sitting cross-legged in a quiet room in Maoshan, murmured to himself, then raised an eyebrow as he looked at the streams of water that shot out from the basin and stretched across the air.

From the water curtains in mid-air, Taoist priests of varying ages, both men and women, emerged and began to speak out with curiosity.

"I heard you have a grand-disciple named Zhao Zheng?"

"Is his position legitimate or just a political one?"

"Is he a member of the Ying clan?"

"Who bestowed the ordination upon him?"

One question after another came from the mouths of these Taoists, to which Daoist Dayan chuckled and replied, "What's it to you?"

"..."

The water curtain vanished almost instantly, leaving behind a few people with rather unpleasant expressions, though some Taoist priests still smiled and continued speaking.

"Just ask him, brother, what's got you so angry!"

"Yes, brother, why get so angry..."

"Calm down..."

"There's nothing we can do, the old Taoist's eldest disciple is dead..."

Daoist Dayan chuckled as he spoke, but the smile vanished in an instant. He then spread his five fingers on his right hand, which was hanging down at his knees, and froze the space.

"This old Taoist priest is in a bad mood... I beg my fellow Taoists to help me... to calm the anger in my heart..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Daoist Dayan disappeared, leaving only the water curtains shattering one after another with the words "Yuan Chen is the foundation".

"I've already said it's none of your business..."

The figure of Daoist Dayan reappeared, still sitting cross-legged. Only the three-foot-long sword behind him shook off the blood on its blade, which turned into a sword pellet after being sheathed and swallowed by him.

…………

Outside the main gate of the Zuowang Temple.

"Isn't it beautiful?"

Cheng Qingqing spun around, showing off that she was no longer wearing a factory-style jacket, but a newly made right-fastening cross-collar blouse and horse-face skirt.

"Hmm, it looks good..."

Zhao Zheng squinted at the new clothes worn by Cheng Qingqing and the others who had come to find him specifically because he hadn't gone to the martial arts school.