Chapter 267: Broken Soul
The next day, before daybreak, Chen Qing arrived at the edge of Jade Wave Pool carrying his fishing gear.
Morning mist hung like gauze over the deep pool's surface, with silence reigning all around.
He chose a familiar spot, cast his line into the water, and his mind settled into tranquility.
In just over an hour, his fish basket held two Moonlight Silver Shuttle fish whose scales glimmered with moonlit luster, as well as an Ice Crystal Silver Cod.
Chen Qing then packed up his fishing gear and, carrying the heavy fish basket, made his way along a familiar path to a secluded courtyard behind Myriad Techniques Peak.
This was Luo Zhixian's usual meditation residence. It was far less precipitous and lofty than Thunder Listening Cliff, instead possessing a more worldly atmosphere.
A mountain spring flowed through the courtyard, trickling past several blue stones, with bamboo growing alongside. The environment was peaceful and quiet.
Luo Zhixian sat on a stone bench in the courtyard. Before him on the stone table was a set of rough pottery tea implements, though he wasn't drinking tea, merely watching the spring water flow as if his thoughts wandered beyond the heavens.
"Master Uncle." Chen Qing called out respectfully from the courtyard gate.