Just as Fang Chaozhou was staring at the painting on the wall in a daze, Qilin ran in after finishing his meal. Qilin looks like a dog, but has more energy than a dog. It wanted to go out and play right after eating. Fang Chaozhou had to stop looking at the paintings and play with it for a while. Then he gave Qilin a bath and then took a bath himself.

There are still two days until the couples' meeting. He was fine recently, eating and drinking as usual, but now as these days approach, he can't help but get nervous.

By the way, the pills given by Du Yunxi seemed to have no effect. He had been taking them for several days, but he hadn't seen Jiwo come back.

After taking a bath, Fang Chaozhou walked towards the house while drying his hair. He saw Xue Danrong coming with a lantern in the corridor. Xue Danrong seemed to have just finished a bath and was still wet. When he saw Fang Chaozhou, he came over naturally, holding a lantern in one hand and taking the towel from Fang Chaozhou's hand with the other hand to help Fang Chaozhou wipe his hair.

Fang Chaozhou glanced at him and turned his eyes away, "Why did you come back so early today?"

"Everything has been done, and we just need to finalize some details tomorrow." Xue Danrong said calmly.

Fang Chaozhou said "oh" and went into the house with the other person. Qilin, who was sleeping at the door, was startled by the noise. He opened his eyes to look at them and closed them again. By the time Fang Chaozhou had finished wiping his hair, the night had gotten darker. He hadn't seen Xue Danrong before bed for a long time. At this moment, he was lying on his legs, looking through the booklet he had brought for the couples' meeting the day after tomorrow.

Xue Danrong took a wooden comb and helped Fang Chaozhou comb his hair little by little, "Brother, after the ceremony is over, let's leave the sect and go for a walk outside."

"Okay." Fang Chaozhou replied casually and closed the booklet in his hand. There were too many of them and his eyes were dizzy. He decided to read them tomorrow. After closing the book, he turned his eyes slightly and looked at Xue Danrong's face, "Junior brother, can I ask you a question?"

"Um."

"When did you fall in love with me?"

Before dawn on the couples' gathering, Fang Chaozhou was dug out of bed by Xue Danrong, carried into the bathtub, and after taking a bath, he began to put on his formal dress. The last time Fang Chaozhou tried on the dress, he was half asleep and half awake. Now that he was awake, he felt that something was wrong with the dress.

The outer robe of the formal dress is fine, the lining inside seems to be layered, but it is actually only tied with a strap. As long as the strap is pulled off, the lining will be completely loose.

This is so rogue.

"It won't be loosened during the meeting, right?" Fang Chaozhou felt a little uneasy. He touched the belt around his waist and looked at Xue Danrong. Xue Danrong's outfit was different from his. The hem of Xue Danrong's clothes was dyed blue, and the sleeves, lining and hem were all embroidered with light blue boats. In addition, the green jade crown on his head also has a small boat carved on it. Her long hair was tied up with a jade crown, and the mole between her eyebrows was like ink from a cinnabar brush, which further highlighted her fair and beautiful skin.

Fang Chaozhou's outfit was mostly red with white on the sides. The peony flowers on the sleeves and hem were extremely gorgeous. If worn by someone with brighter colors, it would look a bit tacky, but Fang Chaozhou's face was like a spring stream, which blended best with the gorgeous peony.

A little more is too bright, a little less is too bland.

The jade crown on his head was snow-white and engraved with peony patterns.

"No." Xue Danrong touched the belt around Fang Chaozhou's waist, and the spell was cast. "Brother, let's go."

Fang Chaozhou nodded stiffly, but when he reached the door, he accidentally tripped over the threshold and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Xue Danrong helped him up quickly, "Brother, are you okay?"

Fang Chaozhou raised his hand to grab the door, shook his head first, then nodded, "Junior brother, I... I'm a little nervous."

Although he was the one who first proposed the idea of ​​forming a couple, he was now very nervous and even regretted it. He didn't want to make it so grand. He should not have agreed to Xue Danrong's request earlier. He should have kept it low-key from the beginning. Now that the invitations had been sent out, he didn't know how many monks had come to watch the ceremony. Now he couldn't change the date even if he wanted to.

Fang Chaozhou said he was nervous because he hoped Xue Danrong could say something to distract him or comfort him. But the answer he heard was -

"Brother, I'm nervous too."

Fang Chaozhou: “…”

Fang Chaozhou said, "How can you be nervous with me if you are useless? What are you nervous about?"

Xue Danrong pursed his lips and said, "I'm worried about you, Senior Brother."

Fang Chaozhou was speechless for a moment. After a while, he stretched out his empty hand and held Xue Danrong's hand. As expected, Xue Danrong's palms were sweaty.

Xue Danrong did not lie to him, and the other party was also nervous.

It was strange, if he was the only one who was nervous, he would not feel relaxed. But now that he saw Xue Danrong was as nervous as he was, he felt relaxed instead. "It's okay, let's be nervous together. We'll only be nervous today."

"Yeah." Xue Danrong shook Fang Chaozhou's hand again.

The place where the couples' meeting was held was the Broken Star Hall, which was an open-air hall that could accommodate thousands of people. There are nine cloud pillars in the hall that soar into the clouds, with dragon and phoenix patterns inlaid on them.

When Fang Chaozhou and Xue Danrong entered the Shattered Star Hall, many people had already come there. In addition to the disciples of Tianshui Sect, there were also many people from other sects. They watched Fang Chaozhou and Xue Danrong go up the jade steps step by step. Qilin followed beside Fang Chaozhou, looking around constantly, as if shocked.

Hundreds of birds were circling in the sky, led by the peacock.

The originally noisy crowd became quiet because of their appearance.

On the high platform, the one who conducted the ceremony for Fang Chaozhou and Xue Danrong was their master Cheng Hongyi, and the one who served the jade tray was the eldest senior brother. As for Fang Chaozhou's fellow disciples, they stood on both sides of the stairs, holding swords, with smiles on their faces.

Du Yunxi was the happiest one.

Just as he stepped onto the last step, Fang Chaozhou suddenly heard a familiar rooster crowing. He turned his head and looked up and behind him, only to see a large gray-brown bird with white and blue feathers swooping down.

When Fang Chaozhou saw the bird, he couldn't help but raise one of his arms. The bird flew closer and closer, and its size gradually became smaller. Finally, it landed on Fang Chaozhou's arm, and its size was the same as when it left.

"Fang Chaozhou, this pheasant is so scared. I was so afraid of falling to death on the way just now that I didn't dare to open my eyes. But I had to open them, otherwise I would fly off course, and if I flew off course I would miss the time and wouldn't be able to see you and the beautiful lady become a couple." As soon as the brown pheasant landed on Fang Chaozhou's arm, it chirped non-stop. The Qilin standing next to Fang Chaozhou stared at the brown pheasant curiously, tilting its head from side to side.

Cheng Hongyi looked at the sky and coughed lightly, "Chaozhou, it's getting late."

Fang Chaozhou responded, then looked at the brown pheasant and lowered his voice, "Dahei, we will talk later, wait for me."

"Okay." The brown pheasant agreed immediately. It flew down Xia Chaozhou's arm and walked in small steps to the middle of the eldest brother and Cheng Hongyi.

Cheng Hongyi: “…”

Senior Brother: “…”

The brown pheasant looked at Fang Chaozhou, then at Xue Danrong beside him, and puffed out his chest proudly. When Qilin saw that the brown pheasant was standing between Cheng Hongyi and the senior brother, it thought about it and ran to stand between Fang Chaozhou and Xue Danrong. Then it was scared away by Xue Danrong's light eyes and returned to its original place obediently.

On the high platform, Fang and Xue saluted Cheng Hongyi. Cheng Hongyi took out the scroll in his hand, unfolded it, and was about to read it when he was interrupted by a "wait".

"Wait! Fang Chaozhou!"

A slightly hoarse voice, between that of a teenager and a young man, came from the bottom of the hall.

Li Zhu, revealing his true appearance, rushed out from the crowd. He stood in the middle of the hall, looking at the two people above him. He gritted his teeth, but before he could say the next word, he saw Fang Chaozhou turned around. The words he wanted to say were instantly swallowed back when he looked into that face.

"Young Master Li is here too. Please take a seat." Fang Chaozhou said gently, just like the first time they met.

Li Zhu took a step forward and said, "I don't want to sit down, I just want to stand here, Fang Chaozhou..." Can you come with me?

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted. "Master Li, please take a seat first. If you have anything to say, you can wait until the ceremony is over. Today is very important to me, and I don't want to miss such a good time."

Fang Chaozhou thought that someone would come out to stop this couple, but he didn't expect it to be Li Zhu. In his opinion, there should be many admirers of Xue Danrong who would stand up to stop it.

Li Zhu looked straight at Fang Chaozhou above him. After a moment, he lowered his head and returned to his previous position. The demon cultivator who followed him also returned to his seat.

Fang Chaozhou breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Zhu sitting back down. He secretly glanced at Xue Danrong's expression and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the other party looked fine. Then he whispered to Cheng Hongyi, "Master, continue."

Cheng Hongyi fixed his eyes on the scroll and read out the eulogy on it. The first half of this long eulogy introduced the life experiences of Fang Chaozhou and Xue Danrong, the middle part talked about how Fang Chaozhou and Xue Danrong were a perfect match, and the last part prayed to the gods to bless the newlyweds with a happy and harmonious life.

Just the eulogy step took half an hour.

The second step is to exchange the life cards.

The eldest senior brother brought forward the life tablets with two people on them. Since Fang Chaozhou returned to Tianshui Sect, he had a new life tablet made for him.

Fang Chaozhou picked up Xue Danrong's life plate, cut his finger, and smeared the blood from his fingertips on the life plate. There was a sudden commotion from the back, it seemed that many people could no longer sit still.

Once the step of exchanging horoscope cards is completed, the partnership is halfway successful.

Xue Danrong did not look back, but drew out the Broken Water Sword, which flew into the air with the force of thunder, with the tip of the sword pointing towards the loudest place of the noise.

"I invite you all to watch the ceremony because I hope you can witness my and my senior brother's happy day. I want to share my joy and happiness with you." Xue Danrong's voice was not loud, but everyone in the audience heard it. He spoke slowly, and at the same time smeared the blood from his fingertips on Fang Chaozhou's life plate. The blood instantly merged into the life plate, and a red dot appeared above the jade life plate. "If you don't like it, you'd better leave."

The demon cultivator next to Li Zhu heard this and couldn't help but lower his voice and asked, "Young Sect Master, let's go."

Li Zhu sniffed, his eyes red, he stared at Fang Chaozhou above, "I'm not leaving, you can leave by yourselves if you want." He arrived at the foot of Tianshui Sect half a month ago, but he couldn't get in. Today was the first time he succeeded in getting in.

The demon cultivator sighed upon seeing this. A magic array had been set up in this hall, and the cultivation of all who came in would be suppressed. Before entering the hall, the Tianshui Sect explained the matter to them and said that if they minded, they could leave, and the Tianshui Sect would reimburse their expenses along the way.

The Tianshui Sect was on guard from the very beginning against people watching the ceremony causing trouble.

Li Zhu watched the two people exchange life cards, and when it came to the step of opening the sea of ​​consciousness, he finally could not sit still and wanted to rush forward again, but the demon cultivators next to him were well prepared. They immediately froze Li Zhu in place and temporarily blocked Li Zhu's vision as Li Yiye had instructed.

When she heard the word "the ceremony is over", the tears in Li Zhu's eyes finally rolled down.

Hearing the word "Ceremony Completed", Fang Chaozhou finally let out a breath that had been stuck in his throat. He smiled at Xue Danrong who was holding his hand. Suddenly, at this moment, a deafening thunder was heard.

It's thunder from the sky.

Everyone looked up. After Cheng Hongyi saw where the thundercloud was, his expression changed slightly. "Master, he..."

"It's about to ascend!" Fang Chaozhou added.

Xue Danrong also looked in the direction of Huali Mountain and nodded slowly. Then, he looked at Fang Chaozhou, and seeing that the other party was staring at Hua Lishan, his eyes dimmed. He held the other person's hand tighter, because this action finally temporarily pulled Fang Chaozhou's mind away from the thunder above Huali Mountain.

Fang Chaozhou glanced at Xue Danrong, then moved closer, tilted his head slightly, and whispered, "I think the longevity tablet I set up for my master should still be of some use. I worship it every day. Look, now that you are about to ascend to heaven, how about I get one for you?"

Xue Danrong: “…”

He really couldn't look at Fang Chaozhou with ordinary people's thinking, "No need, Senior Brother."

When Fang Chaozhou heard the word "senior brother", he raised his eyebrows and the smile on his face inexplicably became a little evil, "You still call me senior brother? What did I teach you yesterday?" As he spoke, he shook Xue Danrong's life plate. From now on, this life plate would be his.

Xue Danrong's earlobes turned red when he heard this. He looked into Fang Chaozhou's eyes, and his own phoenix eyes blinked as if he was very flustered.

Because of the thunder from Huali Mountain, everyone's attention was on the thunder at this time, and few people noticed their little movements.

Xue Danrong pursed her lips and then released them, finally calling out in a very soft voice, "Husband."

"Yeah!" Fang Chaozhou responded without blushing.

"When did you fall in love with me?"

“…”

"Why don't you speak?"

"It was at that time...I fell in love with my senior brother."