Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1283 - 383: [To See Through, There Must First Be an Obstacle] (Part 2)

He said that lately he’d just been staying in an apartment owned by a friend, and so on.

As for Gui Geng becoming a little errand boy for the Yang Family, he just imitated that kid’s wooden, timid demeanor—silent, withdrawn, not much of a talker.

And for a lot of things, if he didn’t know, he just said he didn’t know. After all, he was a ten-year-old child who’d suffered a major blow; it was normal for him not to be able to explain many things clearly.

Just like that, after finishing the statement, the "siblings" left the police station and went home.

Over the next few days, the police contacted Lu Sisi two or three more times, and each time it was Chen Yan changing his appearance to deal with it.

Once all the procedures of the case were completed, Chen Yan again disguised himself as Lu Sisi to handle the posthumous affairs of Lu Xiuting and Yang Jiaming.

The funeral, cremation, and burial were all arranged with the help of Chu Keqing. She had connections all across the social spectrum and managed to arrange everything very properly.

He bought two plots in a suburban cemetery and buried the couple separately—considering that in life the two had already been at daggers drawn, Chen Yan didn’t make them share a grave.

After all this was done, Chen Yan, still in the identity of Lu Sisi, went to the school where the Yang kid attended and arranged for him to take a leave of absence.

With that, the matter was basically wrapped up.

The only person in the know was Chu Keqing.

These past few days, during the process of handling the couple’s affairs, Chu Keqing had personally witnessed Chen Yan using a Spell to turn into Lu Sisi, arranging the burial and appearing at the funeral in her identity, and so on...

What Chu Keqing saw left her utterly shocked. On one hand, she was amazed by Chen Yan’s miraculous Spell; on the other, she was secretly alarmed—why wasn’t Lu Sisi coming forward herself? Where had she gone?

It wasn’t until after the funeral, when they returned home.

No guests had been invited to the funeral; it was mainly to complete the legal procedures—death certificate, cremation certificate, burial paperwork, and so forth.

At home, Chen Yan prepared a table of dishes, cooking personally, essentially inviting Chu Keqing to a meal to thank her for the help she’d given over the past few days.

At the table, the two sat face to face, the dining room quiet and deserted.

Having suppressed her doubts for days, Chu Keqing finally couldn’t hold back and asked, "Senior Chen Yan, is Miss Lu... ill? Even for the funeral, she had you change into her appearance to attend, this is..."

"She’s already left this world." Chen Yan said calmly. After speaking, he poured Chu Keqing a glass of liquor, and without paying much attention to the shock on her face, he went on slowly, "I’ll drink this to you as thanks."

After that, he drained his own glass, and only then did Chu Keqing silently pick up hers and down it in one go.

"Miss Lu... really has... passed away?"

"...Mm, you can think of it that way." Chen Yan’s expression was even.

"With—with your methods, you still... couldn’t keep her?" Chu Keqing looked astonished.

She had seen many of Chen Yan’s methods: Spells that bordered on the divine, and all kinds of Elixirs of Life. If it had just been that Lu Sisi fell gravely ill, Chu Keqing believed Chen Yan would have had a way to save her.

But since Chen Yan wasn’t saying more, Chu Keqing didn’t dare ask any further.

Yet seeing his calm expression, with seemingly no sign of grief, Chu Keqing grew all the more suspicious.

"Let’s talk about you." Chen Yan suddenly set down his chopsticks and said slowly, "The Cultivation Technique you practice has an innate flaw. It’s not just that you have no Spells; it’s that when you circulate Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, you can only raise your Cultivation, but you can’t draw Primordial Qi Entering the Body to temper and nourish your flesh. That, in itself, is an innate deficiency.

Normally speaking, for a Cultivator, Primordial Qi nourishing the body can increase the strength of the flesh, not only boosting physical constitution—more importantly, it grants longevity.

Right now you’re already on the verge of the Third Realm. In theory, at this level of Cultivation, with the body strengthened under the nourishment of Primordial Qi, you should at least live more than a hundred and fifty years. For some, living two hundred years wouldn’t be unusual.

But in this world, the Heavenly Dao suppresses Cultivation and Primordial Qi is thin. At the same time, your Cultivation Technique is innately flawed. So you only train your Cultivation and don’t strengthen the body; your original physical strength is just about the same as an ordinary mortal—slightly better, but very limited.

However, I previously gave you a Bone Forging Pill, an Elixir used to temper the flesh. After you used it, it somewhat made up for the flaw of your body not being nourished by Primordial Qi, but it only compensated a little; it didn’t fully make up for it.

The Cultivation Technique, I can help you improve it, but there will always be differences. From the very start of your Cultivation, at the level of your foundation, the lesson of nourishing the flesh was missing. It’s impossible to fully make that up later, as if through remedial lessons."

Pausing for a moment, Chen Yan said, "It’s like a person who has been chronically underfed and malnourished for many years. One day they suddenly have money and can eat their fill. Even if they eat rich, nutritious food every meal from then on, it still won’t do.

Because the damage that many years of malnutrition has done to the body is, in part, irreversible.

For a Cultivator, if your foundation is unstable, it affects your future path of Cultivation. In many cases, the weak points in your foundation determine where your ceiling ends up.

After listening, Chu Keqing’s expression grew bleak.

But Chen Yan continued, "Still, you don’t need to be too discouraged. I’ve already told you: in this world, the Heavenly Dao suppresses Cultivation and Primordial Qi is thin. So Cultivators here can at most cultivate to the Third Realm, and that’s the end. After that, if they want to attempt Tribulation Crossing to become a Celestial Being, it’s absolutely impossible. The Heavenly Dao will send down Heavenly Tribulation, directly striking dead any Cultivator who tries to break through to the Celestial Human Realm.

So in this context, that ’ceiling’ problem is actually no problem at all.