Chapter 102: Distant Travels

Ink Brush Realm.

Lv Fang arrived before the ink-colored flower with inexplicable excitement. Recently, because the *Da Zhou Wen Bao* had been gradually popularized in the nineteen provinces, the number of people obtaining scholarly aura had skyrocketed.

Moreover, the book *Smiling Proudly in the Jianghu* had allowed many people to comprehend the cultivation techniques within the book.

Naturally, Lv Fang had also obtained these cultivation techniques. He tried their power, and it was greater than he had imagined.

What *Evil-Warding Sword Art*.

When Lv Fang was first notified by the Realm Spirit, he was startled. Fortunately, after looking, no part of his body was missing; it seemed that self-castration was not needed here.

Besides the *Evil-Warding Sword Art*, others had also read out the *Purple Mist Divine Art* and the *Wild Wind Fast Blade*.

These three cultivation techniques: one is a strange sword art, one is a powerful internal cultivation method, and the other is a blade technique.

If a martial artist comprehends one, they can benefit for a lifetime.

And if a Confucian practitioner comprehends it, they become a true dual cultivator of body and method.

Besides these, what surprised Lv Fang was that the scholarly aura he obtained had also skyrocketed; in just a mere half a month, he had obtained a full thirty-two strands of scholarly aura.

Ink Flower: Clone.

This flower was irrigated and bloomed by scholarly aura. Lv Fang's extraordinary power, Deceiving the Heavens, the master of the Ink Brush Realm, could be applied to the Book Spirit.

Lv Fang thought for a while and decided to take out ten strands of scholarly aura to irrigate this flower. In this way, he could let the Book Spirit Yan Chixia stay at the mansion, while he could change his entire appearance and travel to more distant places.

Ten strands of scholarly aura drilled into the Ink Flower: Clone, and the flower bud bloomed.

As the flower submerged into the center of his brow, his extraordinary power, Deceiving the Heavens, could also be used on the Book Spirit Yan Chixia.

"Thank you, Young Master."

The Book Spirit Yan Chixia also sensed it and bowed in thanks.

Lv Fang asked with a smile: "If I leave you very far away, can you help me write *Smiling Proudly in the Jianghu*?"

The Book Spirit Yan Chixia shook his head and replied: "Young Master, it should not be possible at the moment. If you bloom the Ink Flower: Body Condensation, it would be possible."

Lv Fang frowned, thinking that only one ink flower needed to be irrigated; he didn't expect that another ten strands of scholarly aura would be consumed. To say he didn't feel the pain, how could that be possible.

If he didn't irrigate the Ink Flower: Body Condensation, it would be even more annoying that the Book Spirit couldn't help write *Smiling Proudly in the Jianghu*.

After thinking over and over, Lv Fang finally gritted his teeth and irrigated the Ink Flower: Body Condensation to bloom again. As a light-flickering ink flower submerged into the body of the Book Spirit Yan Chixia.

The somewhat ethereal Book Spirit became solid.

"Thank you, Young Master, for bestowing upon me a body so I can share your worries." The Book Spirit Yan Chixia bowed repeatedly.

In the study.

Two identical Lv Fangs stood facing each other.

"This time I will go on a long journey. I have already told everyone that I will be in seclusion for a long time. You put the written *Smiling Proudly in the Jianghu* in front of the door every seven days; for the rest of the time, you can cultivate on your own."

Lv Fang instructed.

The Book Spirit Yan Chixia bowed: "Young Master, rest assured. I will finish writing *Smiling Proudly in the Jianghu* every day, and I will read the classics of the Three Teachings; perhaps I can comprehend something else."

Lv Fang nodded: "If you encounter any sudden problems, you go directly back to the Ink Brush Realm. I have left a puppet transmission substitute here, so you can come back at any time."

The Book Spirit Yan Chixia nodded in agreement.

Lv Fang thought for a while, and there was nothing else to explain. He left Jingcheng under the cover of night. In a desolate mountain and wild ridge, he shook his body and turned into a scholar in cold clothes.

He no longer used Haoran Zhengqi to rush on his way, just like a normal person, walking and stopping, looking at the scenery and camping, eating wild game and blowing the mountain wind.

He had chatted with boatmen about local customs, and had also heard mountain children boast about what they considered delicacies and grand ambitions...

On this journey, Lv Fang slept with the sky as his quilt and the earth as his bed, living extremely fully and satisfied. Only at this time did he understand what it meant that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles, and traveling ten thousand miles is not as good as reading ten thousand people.

This day, the sky was clear for ten thousand miles.

Lv Fang, dusty and tired, arrived at a small city called "Bei". At this moment, his beard had not been trimmed for a long time, and there were a few holes in his clothes, making him look like a beggar.

"So, looking like a beggar, you can see different gazes from others."

Lv Fang gave a bitter smile and shook his head, not caring at all about the disdain in some people's eyes, and took out a piece of roasted exotic beast meat.

Just then, a big dog ran over, shaking its head and wagging its tail.

Lv Fang smiled and threw half of the roasted meat to the big dog, then ate it with relish.

Don't say, just using personal physical strength to rush on the road, eating is fragrant, and sleeping is also fragrant. He didn't need to worry about anyone's gaze. After eating well, he lay in the sun, basking in the sun, and closed his eyes to rest.

About a quarter of an hour passed.

Someone rudely pushed Lv Fang awake: "Hey! Wake up."

Lv Fang yawned, sleepy-eyed. Just as he saw the five or six servants standing in front of him, he was pushed hard by the middle-aged man in the lead: "A down-and-out scholar?"

Lv Fang kept his face calm, but felt a bit dissatisfied in his heart, but he still nodded and asked: "Is something the matter?"

A servant said to the middle-aged man who looked like a steward: "Yu Guanshi Sun, this person's height and appearance are quite decent, and he is a scholar; he is very suitable."

"Take him back." Yu Guanshi Sun said, wiping his hands with some disgust.

Lv Fang originally wanted to resist, but after thinking about it, he gave up. He suspected that these people had ulterior motives; they might even want to control him and sell him as a slave. He wanted to go and see the thief's den.

In order not to alert the enemy, he deliberately pretended to be terrified and said: "Where are you taking me? I'm not going."

Yu Guanshi Sun ignored him and said: "Consider yourself lucky; from now on, you won't have to worry about not having enough to eat or wear."

With a look from Yu Guanshi Sun, several strong servants carried Lv Fang and threw him into a carriage. To prevent him from jumping out of the carriage and escaping, two servants even watched him in the carriage.

After the carriage had been driving for three quarters of an hour, it finally stopped.

When Lv Fang got off the carriage, he found a high mansion not far in front of him. He was a bit surprised in his heart. It wasn't a thief's den, or was this mansion the thief's den?

It didn't look like it.

Before he could look more, he was carried into the mansion by these Gao family servants.

Yu Guanshi Sun instructed: "First have someone give him a bath, then change him into clean clothes."

Then Lv Fang was locked in a room. Not long after, someone carried in a large wooden barrel and began to pour hot water into it.

"What's the situation?"

Lv Fang had a head full of question marks.

Just then, the door was pushed open, and a maid in her twenties walked in. Judging by her attire, her status in the mansion shouldn't be low.

The maid looked Lv Fang up and down with her bright eyes and nodded frequently: "He is indeed quite handsome. Young master, what should I call you?"

"Fang Lu." Lv Fang used a fake name.

The maid bowed: "Young Master Fang, do you have a family at home?"

Lv Fang shook his head.

The maid smiled: "That's great. Young master, I'll help you take a bath first, then dress you up, and then take you to see my young miss." ===== CHAPTER 103 =====