In the middle of spring, a large caravan entered the city. Along with foreign goods and unknown items, they brought a rather big piece of news that excited the entire city.
It seemed that a traveling group of cultivators had been wandering around the world, teaching people, and they were headed towards this city.
It had to be made clear that in order for it to be said that the group was wandering around the world, it meant that they were at least void traversing cultivators, if not higher.
No void traversing cultivator had ever set foot in the city. In fact, as far as everyone knew, not even a soul formation cultivator had entered. Throughout the city's entire history, only a few nascent soul realm cultivators had entered.
The caravan said that the group of wandering cultivators would make three more stops before arriving at the city. They would arrive at the end of the spring.
Zhou Fan heard all of this from the old man. According to him, Lu Wei would also be returning to the city at that time in order to learn from the cultivators.
Time passed, and the end of spring soon came.
Every day and night, people would expectantly wait for news, until finally, a large carriage pulled by a bull entered the city. The carriage was rather ordinary with no gold or jewels adorning it. It was almost entirely wooden.
Nobody in the city even noticed that the bull pulling it was a nascent soul realm creature.
The carriage wandered around and stopped right in front of the city park. 3 ordinary looking people walked out of the carriage and walked towards a tree.
On the way, they passed by a person in the park and asked if he wanted to learn about cultivation.
A few hours later, the entire city learned of the cultivators' arrival. They sat underneath a tree and held lectures every few hours. After the lectures, they would answer any personal questions.
On the third day after their arrival, Lu Wei, the old man, and Zhou Fan left the library early in order to go and see the cultivators.
As they reached the park, they noticed that it was filled to the brim with people. All of the people were completely quiet and had sat down with their legs crossed.
Zhou Fan could tell that the 3 cultivators were buddhists at a glance, despite them having hair. It made sense now that he thought about it. Who else would go around teaching people for free.
Lu Wei, Zhou Fan, and the old man sat down at the edge of the park and listened in. Lu Wei paid the most attention, while the old man and Zhou Fan casually listened. This level of lecture could not help them that much as it was for lower level cultivators.
Although the old man could not see through the 3 cultivators' cultivations, Zhou Fan could. He was surprised. One space shattering realm cultivator, the one who was speaking, and two peak void traversing realm cultivators.
Soon, the current lecture ended. As it finished, the space shattering realm cultivator surveyed the crowd. Upon seeing Lu Wei and the old man, he spoke out.
"It seems we have some honored cultivators with us. Why don't you guys come up here." He said.
The people at the front of the group turned around. Zhou Fan saw 3 soul formation cultivators and 6 nascent soul realm cultivators.
Although nobody else could see through the old man's disguise, the space shattering cultivator could. Surprisingly, the other void traversing cultivators could not.
Lu Wei, the old man, and Zhou Fan walked past the crowd and sat near the front row. The cultivators at the front nodded and focused on asking questions.
Lu Wei, the old man, and Zhou Fan stayed silent.
Before long, the space shattering realm cultivator spoke out loud again.
"Since we have many powerful cultivators here, the next lecture will only help those at or above the nascent soul realm." He said.
Most of the people in the park got up, but around a quarter stayed anyway.
The lecture soon started, and even the old man began to focus on it. Zhou Fan was the only one not paying attention, but since he was seen as a mortal, it was not unexpected.
The lecture finished after 30 minutes, and all of the cultivators seemed to make a gain. This time, Lu Wei asked questions, while the old man stayed silent. He had only come for the sake of Lu Wei.
They stayed for a few more lectures before finally returning to the library. Lu Wei felt as if he had made a great gain, as he understood many things he had not before, and even the old man felt a bit enlightened.
The library remained closed all day and Zhou Fan sat in his room reading. From what he had heard in the lecture, everyone seemed to be over complicating cultivation.
Perhaps they were trying to help them on their path as they lacked talent, but as far as Zhou Fan knew, the only thing necessary was simply to cultivate.
Unfortunately, it seemed that others needed much more aid in the course of cultivation. This caused Zhou Fan to think a bit. He was always considering how to change cultivation, ever since he created the river of cultivation.
The lecture could be considered a way to help people understand the mortal dao, but it was also very different from that. As he had said, it was as if the cultivators were trying to alter their path in order to make it easier and faster.
Perhaps if there was another buddha, he would be able to truly help cultivators while still maintaining the original path.
Unfortunately, Zhou Fan had never seen another person like the buddha. He had even searched all of the living beings in the universe occasionally, but there was never another. Zhou Fan wondered if the buddha had a divine physique or had an innate gift.
Perhaps so, but perhaps not. Zhou Fan would just await the day that he could see through time, and maybe he would find out then.