"Okay, okay, okay, senior brother, you win."
Xiao Mingmu put down the chess piece he was holding, pushed away the chess box in front of him, and looked helpless.
Wu Er sat down again, chuckled a few times, and said, "How about that? You couldn't outsmart me, and I outsmarted you instead."
"Senior brother, what you're doing isn't scheming..."
Xiao Mingmu shook his head and said, "You're a scoundrel."
"Hmph, do you think I can outsmart you if I'm not a rogue?"
Wu Er waved his hand, turned his head away, and said, "I remember you were quite innocent when we were little, how come you've changed like this?"
"Isn't it all your fault?"
Xiao Mingmu tapped the chessboard with his hand, squinted his eyes, and seemed to be recalling something.
He said, "Back when we were in that dilapidated temple, you made me run around like a fool. Now, of course I need to be more careful."
Hearing this, Wu Er raised an eyebrow and said, "Oh? Tell me, how did I mess with you?"
Xiao Mingmu held up a few fingers and recalled, "Every time you went out to work, you would say you would bring us junior brothers and sisters something delicious, but you didn't bring anything that time."
I thought they'd talk about something else, but it turned out to be this...
Wu Er chuckled wryly, "Is that all? You think I was just messing with you guys?"
Xiao Mingmu nodded and said, "That's right."
Wu Er immediately retorted, "I was lucky to even come back back then, you were still thinking about food?"
Xiao Mingmu nodded and said, "Of course, food is much more important than you."
"That's much more important! Believe me or not, I'll hit you."
"I know you can't hit me, senior brother, but I still have to say it—hit me then!!!"
......
The two of them talked and argued back and forth for a long time.
We started by talking about things from seven hundred years ago, and continued all the way to the development of the sects to the present day.
The sun outside, moving from east to west, turned orange-red, tinging the white clouds and casting its glow.
The light shone into the side hall, onto the chessboard, and also onto the two people.
"I really miss the old days. You were all so tiny back then, and now you're all so big."
Wu Er propped his head up with his hand, leaned against the chessboard, and looked at the sunset outside.
Xiao Mingmu, no longer lazy, obediently knelt to one side and said, "The way you say that makes it sound like you're so old, Senior Brother."
"Of course I'm old, I'm over seven hundred years old, how could I not be old?"
Wu Er sighed and added, "It's a pity that I'm so old and still don't have a Daoist partner or anything."
Hearing the words "Daoist partner" startled Xiao Mingmu.
Staring wide-eyed, he slammed his hand on the table and asked, "What? Senior Brother, you're looking for a Daoist partner?!"
"Yes, that's right, I should find a Daoist partner too."
"Okay!"
Xiao Mingmu slammed his hand on the chessboard beside him, making a loud "smack" that made Zuo Zhishang's chess pieces bounce around.
"Senior brother, I will inform Tianxia immediately."
After saying that, Xiao Mingmu stood up and took out a communication talisman, writing and drawing on it.
"Wait a minute, it's usually so slow, how come this is so fast?"
Wu Er grasped the talisman in mid-air, causing it to ignite with azure flames.
In the blink of an eye, the talisman turned into a wisp of black ash.
Seeing the talisman burned, Xiao Mingmu said to Wu Er, "Senior brother, why did you burn my communication talisman? Weren't you looking for a Daoist partner?"
"Yeah, I'm just looking for a Daoist partner, why are you announcing it to the whole world?"
Wu Er shook his head, tapped the table a few times, and said, "It's like a mortal emperor choosing concubines. How boring."
Xiao Mingmu muttered under his breath, "Is there any difference between this and the emperor choosing his concubines? Isn't it the same thing—a single word can summon beauties from all over the land?"
"What are you whispering about? We're all cultivators, our ears are perfectly sharp. Just because you're whispering doesn't mean I can't hear you."
After saying that, Wu Er added, "Are you stupid?"
But then I thought again, and I felt that Xiao Mingmu couldn't possibly make such a mistake.
Although my second junior brother seems innocent, he's actually quite cunning. Those words he just said were definitely meant for me to hear...
I'm afraid he's plotting something right now!
Wu Er no longer wanted to play mind games with Xiao Mingmu.
So he asked directly, "Alright, just say what you want to say, stop leading me around with these questions."
Xiao Mingmu knew that his senior brother had already discovered his intentions, so he shrugged.
He said, "Alright, the reason I asked you to play chess and chat this time is not for any other reason than to see if you have still not gotten over what happened two hundred years ago."
Wu Er looked puzzled and asked, "Is that all?"
Xiao Mingmu nodded and said, "It really is that. However, now that it seems that Senior Brother is doing well, I can rest assured."
Wu Er waved his hand and said, "Alright, don't talk about that now. I need to ask you to do something important."
"What important matter is it?"
Xiao Mingmu asked a question.
Wu Er first pointed to himself, then said, "Get me an identity, an outer disciple will do, and arrange some training or something, so I can go out and find a romantic partner."
As for why Wu Er asked Xiao Mingmu to arrange his identity instead of changing his clothes and directly impersonating someone else?
In the past, some people impersonated disciples of the sect and caused trouble, resulting in the sect losing a lot of resources.
So Wu Er implemented a system of real-name registration for his disciples, which was then used in multiple locations.
They even created something called a "cultivator's certificate" to record identities, with layers of verification to ensure accuracy, and the whereabouts of each disciple were recorded.
If no one helps you add files to various places, something will soon be discovered as wrong.
If something goes wrong when we go on training, it will definitely cause some minor trouble. Although it's not much trouble for someone of the sect leader, it would still be pointless.
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