Chapter 142: Emergency Contact
Perhaps because he had been busy for too long before, when Lu Bai woke up the next day, the sun was already high in the sky.
Pushing open the side room door, he could see that Master Tao had already set off to the countryside.
He poured a cup of overnight tea water and drank it to perk himself up, then turned to the backyard to fetch water for washing up.
……
Whoosh~
The hundred-plus jin stone table was lifted into the air by Lu Bai, shuttling back and forth in the yard like a mud truck.
He controlled the stone table to spin two more circles in the air before putting it back in place.
After messing around like this for a while, Lu Bai only felt slightly tired, and it didn’t seem to take much effort.
According to Master Bai Fourteen’s words, he didn’t need to rush to handle matters for people; during this time, he should practice more of the methods he had in hand, so as not to be rusty if something really came up.
Lu Bai had no opinion on this; anyway, before the death fighter’s location information was announced, he was quite idle, and practicing in his spare time was no problem. Anyway, regarding those incense burning methods, after opening the crown for him, Master Bai Fourteen and Chang Shengtian had imparted them all to him at once.
In fact, most of the time it wasn’t that the immortals deliberately withheld knowledge; it was purely an aptitude issue. The vast majority of incense masters, even if they learned the incense burning method, couldn’t use it.
Teaching it would be a waste.
And with Lu Bai’s exaggerated aptitude, those two immortals were very confident, giving him everything they had without caring whether he could finish learning it.
To put it in words, these so-called incense burning methods were somewhat similar to shaman entering trance techniques.
Especially incense topping as confused duty.
It didn’t require practicing any special techniques, only adhering to a set of rules—rules for communicating with the immortals.
This aspect was very strict; even if the relationship between the immortal and the incense master was very harmonious, the process of communicating with spirits had to be strictly followed.
Lu Bai didn’t like handing over control of his body.
So he mainly focused on familiarizing himself with some incense viewing methods.
Most of them posed no difficulty for him; he learned them as soon as he tried, and what needed practice was only how to effectively use the borrowed immortal magic power.
By the way, in his view, these immortals were more like the jinchuriki in some anime.
The relationship between immortals and incense masters was a hiring one, not master-servant.
Because borrowing magic power was mutual; after the incense master joined the sect, as long as the rules were followed, they could use the magic power on their own without the immortal’s consent.
There were rumors that Grandma Wang San, the top incense master, could borrow immortal magic power and use it even stronger than the immortals themselves.
This meant that if Lu Bai didn’t burn confused incense, he could now ignore those two immortals entirely.
Of course, that was easier said than done.
But since Master Bai Fourteen had such a friendly attitude, Lu Bai naturally wouldn’t offend him needlessly; every day at a fixed time, he still remembered to offer an incense stick to Master Bai Fourteen and Chang Shengtian together.
After staying like this for a few days with nothing happening, over those days he had familiarized himself with these point incense borrowing power methods.
It wasn’t quite second nature, but at least he could guarantee no mistakes when using them.
……
Creak~
Lu Bai came out of Master Tao’s house, and the street was still bustling with activity.
“Lu Xiangtou, the usual?”
A burly man tied with an apron noticed Lu Bai and shouted loudly.
This man ran a restaurant at the intersection; since Lu Bai was too lazy to cook and it was close by, whenever it was mealtime, he simply came here to eat.
After a few times, they naturally became familiar.
“Sure.”