HEAVENLY CULTIVATION.
The Arrival of Ruan Mingchuan

Although Lau Luo was still in closed cultivation training for five years, Jing Yiran was still observing things related to Nagong Yi's spirit alone, even though she was still in the same state, and when he got it Jing Yiran would come to Shao Yi Chen to report from his investigation.

As usual, Shao Yi Chen would be inside the hall, a very spacious place filled with ancient chinese ornaments filled with the scent of sandalwood. Although in the daytime the light of the yellow candle flame was still burning in the middle of the hall.

When entering into Jing Yiran could see the silhouette inside and there was the figure of Shao Yi Chen who next to him was also a silhouette of a foreign guest who could not yet see his face so clearly, they were sitting at a wooden table and both were seriously playing weiqi. Jing Yiran did not dare to disturb the two, so she decided to wait outside until they finished her game.

Inside the hall Shao Yi Chen knitted his brows, his face suddenly darkened then ruffled the weiqi pieces on the old and worn-out torreya board in front of them. "Mingchuan, you never let me win once! Don't tell me you used your astrologer's knowledge to play weiqi?"

The person named Mingchuan smiled. "Playing weiqi has nothing to do with divination."

Shao Yi Chen started to rearrange the weiqi pieces, he thought a thousand chances then moved the white pieces after spending quite a long time. After that, he then went back to muttering. "Ruan Mingchuan you've always withdrawn from the mortal world, but.. what was the reason you suddenly came here?"

Shao Yi Chen narrowed his eyes and glanced towards Ruan Mingchuan. "Even when the corpse wave ran rampant due to the demonic techniques two thousand years ago, you were still secluding yourself in Shanmen Temple and did not care about the affairs of the outside world in the slightest. Maybe when the world's destruction happens you'll keep your eyes shut."

"But now I don't think, why did you come out after two thousand years when you had never come into contact with mortal influence before?."

Shao Yi Chen looked at the step of the weiqi pawn that Mingchuan was playing and looked towards the fortune teller before he himself sighed. "You're almost an immortal cultivator, but you've always pressured practically you not to ascend into the sky. Ruan Mingchuan, why don't you go to the immortal realm instead?"

That person named Ruan Mingchuan after being silent for quite a while he finally moved the white weiqi and placed it in the middle of Shao Yi Chen's black weiqi.

"You see my white weiqi pawn?" Ruan Mingchuan asked after a while.

"I saw it." Shao Yi Chen nodded. "I'm not surrounding you."

"You see the whole thing of your weiqi pawn, and you think you can control everything when you become immortal? Yi Chen, like your wiqi game, your defeat is already predestined for Heavenly cultivation." Ruan Mingchuan made a victory with one weiqi pawn and instantly defeated their game.

Shao Yi Chen, "...."

"Although I can see the leaks of heaven through my prophecy? Yi Chen, do you think I will escape the destiny of heaven when I become immortal?"

Shao Yi Chen went dark due to his consecutive weiq game defeats, especially when Ruan Mingchuan said the game defeat was his destiny, he wanted to flip all of his torreya wood in front of his eyes and scramble it into pieces.

But upon hearing Ruan Mingchuan's explanation, he asked. "Eternal Cultivators, would match an Immortal. Mingchuan, and again you are an Immortal-equivalent fortune teller why can't you change it?"

Ruan Mingchuan felt Shao Yi Chen as stubborn as a child holding onto his imagination. "I only saw a small gap, couldn't change it and couldn't change any destiny."

Shao's peak Deity title? Shao Yi Chen the owner of the Yilin peak? He was just a younger brother like Ruan Mingchuan who was full of fantasies like a child who was fantasizing!

Shao Yi Chen asked after circling the conversation between Ruan Mingchuan and with him himself. "Then why did you come out of seclusion after more than two thousand years?"

Ruan Mingchuan wanted to continue, but then he saw a person standing outside the hall, so Ruan Mingchuan then said. "Your disciple wants to report something, let him in first."

The caught Jing Yiran was instantly stunned for a moment, after getting a nod from Shao Yi Chen she then entered into the hall.

He then said with courtesy. "I'm sorry for the student's reluctance to disturb the important time of the two higher-ups and this student wants to report the duties of Shifu regarding Nagong's residence and the case of curious spirits."

Shao Yi Chen cleared his throat, then let Jing Yiran explain as it was not usual for Jing Yiran to report things from small missions to like this. "Is there anything strange in Nagong's previous residence?"

Jing Yiran nodded then revealed the spell paper. "Shifu, this isn't spell paper or spell binding. So then.. Shifu must have known this usefulness with regards to the Zeng-Tai Tigram Formation."

Shao Yi Chen glanced at Ruan Mingchuan and perhaps the exit of Ruan Mingchuan from seclusion This must have something to do with the reappearance of the Zeng-Tai Tigram Formation, and this answers all the questions of why they both came up at almost the same time. Shao Yi Chen only connected the two, after Ruan Mingchuan's resignation for two thousand years and the sudden appearance of a heresy technique manual like Zheng-Tai's Tigram Formation?

Shao Yi Chen observed the spell paper, his expression instantly heavy and complicated. The paper was already filled with all the hateful energy, it could almost activate the corpse wave it only took seven more similar papers.

"Xiao-Yiran tell me everything you know."

Jing Yiran nodded, then recounted the entire situation she and her three younger siblings were in, without telling her about Lau Luo's corpse possession.

When telling about the paper, it was not only seven or eight, but almost all the Nagong family dwellings were attached which numbered in the hundreds. Shao Yi Chen immediately felt horrified. "It only takes eight papers to activate the Zeng-Tai Tigram Formation! What did that fellow want to muster in the hundreds?!"

Jing Yiran felt surprised, she had only heard rumors regarding the Zeng-Tai Tigram Formation, and even then her techniques had already disappeared for the past two thousand years. He only knew that it only took eight papers full of hateful energy to activate the Zeng-Tai Tigram Formation.

"It's possible that he's not just trying to control the waves of corpses, but trying to revive the old dead."

Shao Yi Chen asked. "You mean just for one ghost Nagong Yi, to the point of deploying hundreds of hate papers?"

Jing Yiran felt unsure. "I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Jing Yiran was a very smart person, and it was easy to read the situation. He then analyzed the influence of Zao's second-rate family, after thinking about it all the way, he then said it to Shao Yi Chen.

"The second-rate family obtained the demon path forbidden technique, this became a very serious matter. Already here, this Zao Tian had definitely not run it just by himself." Jing Yiran said seriously to Shao Yi Chen.

"Shifu, the Zao family is a second-rate family. In general, a second-rate family would be impossible to obtain two three hate papers."

"But this is hundreds, even a first-rate family it is impossible to get a single hate paper because this tactic has long since disappeared, moreover, everything related to the Zeng-Tai Tigram Formation was already a forbidden technique. I'm afraid this Zao Tian is supported by a higher family from a first-rate family.."