Chapter 1836 — Notes on the Dao Heard in the Ancestral Court
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This time, Zhu Santong followed Shen Mu into Yujing City and recorded the negotiations.
He was rather puzzled by this. Shen Mu had once spoken of joining hands with Old Man Wuyai against the Ancestral Court's Yujing City, but now it was reversed: joining hands with Yujing City against Old Man Wuyai.
Zhu Santong faithfully recorded the whole course of the negotiations, and was threatened by Granny Zhu to delete his manuscript. Facing his teacher, Zhu Santong naturally assented meekly and pretended to delete it, but secretly kept it, naming the Yujing City negotiations "The Chapter of Deceit.
" Several hundred years later, Jiang Baigui perfected his technique and attained the Dao the day after, and several of the Heavenly Venerables who had entered the Ancestral Court in the previous wave attained the Dao one after another.
So Jiang Baigui and Xu Shenghua returned to Jingping to teach their respective Dao arts.
The Two Xuanwu Emperors also went back, preparing to dissolve the Dao of the Ancient Gods and be reborn. Zhu Santong had not attained the Dao, but shamelessly followed them back anyway.
Jiang Baigui and Xu Shenghua had returned this time to pass on what they had learned and comprehended, and to see whether any new Heavenly Venerables had appeared in these years to bring into the Ancestral Court for training.
Moreover, each had a family and needed to go home to visit.
The Two Xuanwu Emperors also went to visit their son, Crown Prince Youming, and give instructions for after their death. After arriving in Jingping, Zhu Santong parted from them, first visiting old friends such as Dongyang, and before long returned to the home of his father, the Venerable Black Mountain.
The Venerable Black Mountain was naturally overjoyed, calling friends and summoning companions to welcome his son home, a great clamor.
Yet after the clamor, Zhu Santong locked himself in his study and wrote furiously, drafting his manuscript.
The Venerable Black Mountain had intended to take him around visiting friends and relatives, showing off his son and incidentally arranging a match, but Zhu Santong shut himself in after returning and wrote without cease. The Venerable Black Mountain could not help but rage: "Tong'er, how much money can writing that confounded thing earn?
Our family doesn't count on you to make money by writing. Our family has mines!
" Zhu Santong put down his brush and laughed, "Father, however many mines our family has, they are not as splendid as my stories.
" The Venerable Black Mountain snorted in anger, "If I couldn't beat you, I'd certainly set you straight! I sent you to study, and you turned into a bookworm instead!
" With that, he stormed off in a rage. Several tens of days later, "Records of the Dao Heard in the Ancestral Court" was published, recounting Zhu Santong's experiences in the Ancestral Court and the bloody battles he had lived through, causing quite a stir in Jingping.
Emperor Yanfeng also bought several volumes and read them with relish, saying to his ministers, "He is indeed Our son-in-law!
" Emperor Yanfeng's endorsement naturally made the fame of "Records of the Dao Heard in the Ancestral Court" soar. The Jingping Publishing and Propaganda Bureau printed dozens more runs, and for a time it was sold in bookshops throughout Jingping.
The book also recorded the Dao enlightenment on the golden ship, setting down in a few strokes the Dao questions and Dao answers of Shen Mu, Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, and other Enlightened, leaving many Heavenly Venerable-level beings in Jingping awestruck, wishing they could fly at once to the Ancestral Court to hear the lectures. "Father, however many mines our family has, they are nothing beside the fame of this one book of mine. " Zhu Santong said smugly, showing off to the Venerable Black Mountain, "When you die, no one will remember you or your mines.
When I die, everyone will remember me.