My Master Knows It All

1303: Chapter 318_3 1303: Chapter 318_3 Bei Yan shrugged nonchalantly and said, “It’s not just musical rhythm and calligraphy that my master excels at; he’s also proficient in the Painting Way, skilled in alchemy, adept at talisman making, an expert in military law…

In short, whether you know it or not, to use my master’s words, he understands a bit of everything.”

“A bit?” Liu Qingshu pointed excitedly at the three large characters and exclaimed, “These characters, with their thin and vigorous strokes, are slender without losing their substance; the brushwork is forceful with a natural sense of meaning, the structure is strikingly beautiful, and the style is refreshingly elegant… Before this, I had never seen a calligraphic script like this, setting it apart from all known fonts we are familiar with; it’s like establishing an entirely new sect.

And these characters, I haven’t seen better even after so many years!

These words have truly reached the pinnacle of the Dao of Calligraphy.

Master Cao… Master Cao says he only understands a little, he’s far too modest.”

Everyone around knew that Cao Zhen had a profound mastery of calligraphy, but they had never expected Liu Qingshu to give such high praise to Cao Zhen.

Among them, many did feel that these three characters were indeed the most beautiful and perfect they had ever seen, but since they were not adepts of calligraphy, their opinions carried no authority.

But it was quite different with Liu Qingshu saying so!

Previously, their fellow disciple Bi Yue had said that Cao Zhen’s performance on the musical instrument was unparalleled, and now, Liu Qingshu also speaks of Cao Zhen’s calligraphy as the highest level he has ever seen!

How could one person possibly have so much energy and also reach such high levels of perfection in everything?

They had never really understood why their fellow disciple Bi Yue had such an attitude towards Cao Zhen.

True, Cao Zhen did reach the limit of the Golden Core Stage with his Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills, and one could barely say he was worthy of their sister disciple.

But there was Cao Zhen, and there was Li Ke, which was a big problem.

And their fellow disciple, she even took the initiative to pursue Cao Zhen, which was even more problematic.

But now, they truly began to understand their sister disciple.

Even if Cao Zhen’s alchemy and talisman making were not exactly as his disciple Bei Yan said, where he understands a bit of everything, Cao Zhen must still be fairly skilled in them, otherwise, his disciple wouldn’t have mentioned them together.

Bei Yan couldn’t be bothered to explain to everyone that his master’s ‘bit of everything’ was different from what these people understood as ‘a little bit’.

Standing aside, Yi Sheng, who seldom ventured out of the Hundred Peaks Sect, pointed to the three large characters on the white jade stone and said, “If you want to thank Master, you can do so when he returns.

Actually, it’s not anything special.

Ever since Master wrote these three characters, many people come to the foot of Four Treasures Peak every day to observe them.

Although few people have sudden insights, over the years, there have been two disciples who achieved sudden enlightenment by contemplating Master’s words.”

“No, I must thank Master Cao,” Liu Qingshu said as he looked up at the characters on the jade stone again, expressing his admiration, “It’s truly a stroke of luck for those disciples within the Hundred Peaks Sect to have the opportunity to contemplate such calligraphy at any time.”

Because of Liu Qingshu’s enlightenment, the crowd lingered for a while at the foot of Four Treasures Peak before they began to ascend the mountain.

Behind the white jade stone gate of Four Treasures Peak was a series of long stairways.

Yu Long looked at the materials used for the stairs and the inscriptions upon them, feeling the formations around, yet his expression was unfazed.

To them, from Dragon Chant Sect, all of this was nothing special.

Four Treasures Peak once was desolate, but later, with the assortment of materials brought back by Xiang Ziyu and their construction efforts, it now looked somewhat respectable.

However, to Yu Long and the others from Dragon Chant Sect, who even if were not in their own Great Teaching usually visited other Great Teachings, Four Treasures Peak seemed quite lacking in comparison.

In their opinion, the only thing worth some attention was the ten mu or so of Spirit Fields, but even so, it was only worth a glance, after all, these were merely Spirit Fields and not Immortal Fields.

As for that pond, it didn’t even have a single Flood Dragon.

In the ponds of Dragon Chant Sect, they raise Dragons!

Of course, now due to the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, those dragons were mostly asleep.

The group followed a man-made river upstream, reaching halfway up the mountain where they finally saw several courtyards and newly-built houses.

The materials of the houses were so-so, and more notably, there were too few of them.

Cao Zhen was the Sect Leader of Hundred Peaks Sect and also the Peak Master of Four Treasures Peak, and with so many masters at Four Treasures Peak, nearly all of the sect’s masters came from there.

Four Treasures Peak should be a powerful mountain with many disciples.

However, to their surprise, they discovered that their imagination did not match the reality.

On their way up, they hadn’t seen any other Four Treasures Peak disciples at all, besides not seeing Four Treasures Peak disciples, they really hadn’t seen any other disciples from Four Treasures Peak, not a single one.

Yu Long looked puzzledly towards a few people from Hundred Peaks Sect and asked, “Where are your other disciples?”

“Other disciples?” Yi Sheng shook his head, “We don’t have any other disciples.”