Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 809: Time Shifts and Each Seeks

Feng Heshou didn't touch the national fish at all, as it was used to entertain Chen Chuan. He himself just ate the meat and rice in front of him.

While eating, neither of them spoke, adhering to the old principle of not talking while eating.

Chen Chuan actually didn't have this concern, but since he was a guest, he had to respect the host's habits.

After finishing eating this national fish, he felt hot all over and his alienated tissue seemed to be a lot lazier. This feast was indeed good. The combination of different ingredients seemed to increase the nutritional value even more.

He remembered that Mr. Zhuan had told him later during a chat that there was a fighter in the Pure Faction who was particularly good at conditioning food ingredients. Even if the ingredients were originally insufficient in nutrition, he could combine them with some medicines to adjust them to have effects that were greater than they should have been, or even more so.

If you don’t have this method, you can only rely on the nutritional value of the ingredients themselves.

He was quite satisfied with the meal this time, as it was enough to make up for his consumption this time. In fact, they did not fight for much time in total.

Seeing that he had finished eating, Feng Heshou put down his chopsticks and asked the waiter to take the bowls away. He then brought a basin of water and a hand towel for the two of them to wash.

After the two of them finished cleaning up, the waiter poured each of them a glass of scented water.

Chen Chuan then said, "Master Fenghe, are all these ingredients obtained from the rifts?"

Feng Heshou said: "Yes, in our Langtao Pavilion, these are usually prepared by the seniors for the juniors. Once a new sword sect appears, he will inherit the position of the pavilion master, and the previous pavilion master will enter the rift and stay there permanently, fighting with certain beings on the other side of the rift every day.

In fact, if it is only for one or two people, and if they are not looking for special ingredients, it is still relatively sufficient for the entire Langtao Pavilion, and the surplus can be exchanged with other pavilions, or sold to foreign forces and organizations that need it. "

Chen Chuan nodded slightly. He knew that although some ingredients were not of much value to fighters because of the loss of nutrients, they were still very useful to ordinary fighters. Moreover, in the old times, some princes and nobles were very fond of such ingredients and were willing to pay a high price to buy them.

"The ingredients I used for my past training were provided by my teacher, the previous owner of the hall. If my disciple becomes the Sword Sect, I will step down as the owner and go to the depths of the rift to train myself and prepare these for my disciples until the day I make my decision comes."

Chen Chuan understood the meaning here. Fighters have long lifespans and have plenty of time to do this after they retire from worldly affairs. Later generations rely on the help and support of previous generations to move forward.

However, this model is actually not stable. If any generation has a problem, the new owner will need to do it himself. If he himself gets caught up in it, the inheritance may be broken.

In this regard, the new era is completely different. There are armies stationed in the Fusion Land and the World Ring, and regular cleanups are carried out there. There are also many fighters stationed at the front lines. It is unknown how many beings coming from the opposite side and creatures from the Fusion Land are cleared every day.

Moreover, the country can also produce medicines and high-energy nutrients for some supplements and replacements. This efficiency is totally incomparable to that of a fighter's personal hunting.

At this time, two attendants came up, replaced the incense in the burner, and opened the curtains on both sides, revealing the red flower trees planted outside, the bamboo forest below, and the sea in the distance.

Feng Heshou said: "Lang Tao Pavilion has been passed down for 632 years. The earliest person to establish the pavilion overseas can be traced back to Master Hongfa of Donglu 800 years ago. After that, the masters of Donglu came to overseas one after another and spread their branches and leaves. Later, after some elimination, it became a 21-lineage inheritance.

Over the following hundreds of years, the number of people has been decreasing rather than increasing.

More than a hundred years ago, as far as I know, there were still seven families left with the inheritance, but today, there are less than half of them.

In addition to the dangers encountered in the inheritance, the Great Alliance also established the World Ring. Although it blocked the continuous external invasion, it also affected our rifts.

The amount of food we can get has been greatly reduced, and we often need to go deep into very dangerous places to obtain it. The longer travel time means that even if we bring the food back, the nutritional value will be greatly lost, which requires the people who obtain it to go out more frequently.

This is very inconvenient, so the speed at which the inheritance has decreased in the past hundred years is much faster than hundreds of years ago. Our Langtao Pavilion was able to survive thanks to the fact that my teacher was still here ten years ago, but now he has disappeared."

Chen Chuan glanced at him. The so-called missing place might mean that he was trapped in the deep, or he might have gone to follow the path of the first generation museum owner.

"If the remaining three museums, including our Langtao Museum, just follow the old ways, then the best estimate is that they can survive for another 10 to 20 years. If they don't join the country or a certain system, then the final outcome will be extinction."

Feng Heshou looked at Chen Chuan, "So I need to make a choice."

Having said this, he stepped back a little, sat there and bowed to Chen Chuan.

"I would also like to ask Mr. Chen to go back and tell the Dashun government that I am willing to accept the Dashun government's conditions and join Dashun as a subsidiary."

Chen Chuan sat up straight, nodded and said, "I will take back Master Fenghe's words." Fenghe Shou bowed to him again, "Then, please."

After he stood up, he looked at the Xuejun Sword in Chen Chuan's hand, "Mr. Chen, after you became a fighter, your sword should not have been tempered yet."

Chen Chuan did not shy away from saying, “I haven’t had the time to do this yet.”

Feng Heshou said: "We at Langtao Hall have been studying knife skills for generations, and we attach great importance to knives. We also have many techniques and methods to improve the quality of knives.

If Mr. Chen doesn't mind, I can provide you with some materials and special minerals, which may be helpful to you."

Chen Chuan said: "If that's the case, it couldn't be better."

Since the other party took the initiative to propose it, he would not refuse. To put it bluntly, he came here today as a communicator and witness.

Feng Heshou was also worried about the promises made by the Dashun government to him, and with him as a guarantor, they could feel at ease. These were the rewards given to him.

Feng Heshou said: "Langtao has been passed down for more than 600 years, and many methods have been figured out on how to refine the sword. There are two sets of methods, internal and external. The internal method is to use self-alienated organization and spirit to cultivate for a long time, and constantly sharpen it in killing and fighting, without adding any external objects.

This method takes a long time and causes great damage to the knife. Although the knife can repair itself, some damage is difficult to repair. Therefore, the external training method gradually became the mainstream, and the internal training was only used as a supplement on weekdays.

We bring various materials and minerals from the other side of the rift to cultivate the sword, which is the same as a fighter obtaining food and nutrients. Of course, the steps are not that simple and require some special skills and conditions to cultivate.

We don’t have much else in our museum, but we have a lot of this kind of material that has been stored over the generations, and we can provide it to Mr. Chen. In addition, we also have a knife-keeping room that we can lend to Mr. Chen. I hope Mr. Chen will not refuse.”

Chen Chuanshuo said, "Then I'd be disrespectful to refuse. Um, is there a telegraph on the island? I need to send the news here to the rear first."

On the airship coming here, the people from Ocean Development Group had greeted him and said that they would send a warship to follow and wait outside for a day. If things went well and convenient, they would send back the code agreed in advance, and they would naturally know what he meant.

And if no news came back, they would mobilize warships and bombard the entire island with heavy artillery fire.

Feng Heshou said, "There is a telegram." He gave instructions and asked a waiter to take Chen Chuan to the telegraph room.

After Chen Chuan arrived there, he sent the secret message and told the other side that he had some things to do here, so he would be back later and asked them to wait for a while.

The other side called back soon and said they would wait at sea for three days.

After the decision was made, he turned back. Feng Heshou saw that he had handled it, so he took him to the sword-raising room. On the way, he asked, "Mr. Feng He, do you know the situation of An Yao Hall and Feng Lin Hall?"

Feng Heshou said: "Regarding the situation at sea, there is not much communication between Lang Tao Pavilion and the two families. They only expressed a consensus in the past when facing foreign oppression, but there has been almost no communication in the past twenty years.

If Mr. Chen wants to ask what choice these two families will make, then I will give you my personal opinion. Fenglin Pavilion and Linax Federation are deeply connected. Whether they like it or not, their island location does not allow them to turn to Dashun. They made their choice a long time ago.

I can't see through An Yao Pavilion's thoughts. Their leader Xiao Yue Zhai often does things without considering the consequences. He was the most active sword sect in the sea in the past. He has appeared in public many times, which has also made the outside world wary of An Yao Pavilion. His main disciples have repeatedly rejected Ferris Wheel Company's recruitment, but I think he will always have to make a choice in the end."

Chen Chuan nodded. It was difficult to say what was going on in Anyao Hall. It seemed as if they wanted to stick to their old path, maintain their independence, and not depend on anyone. That was probably why they were so persistent in looking for cracks in Danliu Hall.

If they really obtained it, then there would be two cracks. If a fighter could be trained with perfect training methods, then the current predicament seemed to be solved a little, but in fact it did not solve the problem fundamentally, but only delayed the problem a little.

Besides, almost all of An Yaoguan's elite disciples of this generation were killed by him in the last conflict with him, so it is hard to say what choice he will make in the end.

Just as he was thinking about it, Feng Heshou stopped and said, "Mr. Chen, we have arrived at the knife-keeping room." He reached out and slowly pushed the heavy sliding door open, then made a gesture of invitation and said solemnly, "Mr. Chen, please come in."

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(End of this chapter)