Chapter 106 - 105 Leaving the City
"Yawn... Brother Tie, beds are made for sleeping on. If you don’t sleep on it, it will get sad."
Just one night with Tie Dan, and Zhen Baiyu was exhausted, feeling like her whole body was falling apart, with her bones aching painfully. Complaining, she brushed off the dirt she had picked up from rolling under the bed all night.
Tie Dan gave her a sideways glance,
"You snore too loudly, the bed was shaking."
Zhen Baiyu was shocked,
"What! No! Impossible! How could I not know I snore!... Is it really that loud?"
Tie Dan couldn’t be bothered to reply, grabbing two handfuls of divination grass, separating bundles with his left hand and then with his right, pinched between his fingers, practicing the arithmetic method taught in the Old Xuan Sect’s teachings.
The so-called calculations of the creation of heaven and earth, the foundation of the array, and the arithmetic is the foundation of the five arts. Whether drawing talismans and setting up arrays, alchemy, or artifact refining, all require basic arithmetic skills. If you don’t even have the basic skills of calculation and planning, many top-notch Daoist skills are destined to be out of your reach in this lifetime.
Therefore, this subject is actually the biggest threshold restricting the number of True Disciples in the Mystic Sect. Immortal Fate can still rely on alliances or the sect to some extent, but arithmetic is a matter of can or cannot, and there’s no reasoning around it.
However, Tie Dan felt alright because he wasn’t fighting alone. Not only did he have reference topics, mistake books, exercise books, practice papers, test papers, and simulation papers from the Old Xuan Sect’s teachings, but he also had Xuantian and Kun giving advice on the side, allowing them to give him special tutoring on the problems he didn’t understand.