When it comes to seizing the fragments of the Sky-Bulding Stone, Luo Yan's side is probably the easiest.
The reason is simple: the fragments of Kunlun's Heaven-Repairing Stone are in the secret realm of Tianmen Peak, so the Immortal Chisong needs to set up many restrictions to prevent anyone from sneaking into the secret realm.
For example, the fragments of Shushan's Bu Tianshi were directly embedded in the restriction of the Demon Locking Tower. Unless someone had great attainments in formation, it would be impossible to take it out successfully.
In other words, the more difficult it is to retrieve the fragments, the fewer backup plans the immortal may have.
No matter how difficult the former is, at least the cards have been revealed, while the latter is completely unknown. Therefore, Luo Yan would rather conquer the former than deal with the latter.
At the Yuqing Temple in Penglai, the fragments of the Heaven-Repairing Stone were placed in the space layer of the Wanxiang Immortal. If one had not practiced the art of "Sleeve of Qiankun", one would not even be able to find where the space was.
Considering this point of view, the possibility that there is a fairy with a back-up plan in the space mezzanine is not very high.
However, in terms of the diversity of means, the Wanxiang Immortal definitely has more magical powers than the Changmei Immortal who is accustomed to "using force to defeat cleverness".
The Immortal Changmei was able to embed the fragments of the Heaven-Bulding Stone into the restriction of the sword pillar and destroy it, but the Immortal Wanxiang might not do the same. Maybe he had set some treacherous trap!
No matter what, I have to wait until that day to take action - the Wanxiang Immortal has not left Penglai, so it is certainly impossible for me to go there to investigate.
Therefore, recently Luo Yan has been staying in Tiangong Workshop, concentrating on handling many commissions from the outside world, most of which are some customized formation requirements.
The abbot suddenly began to concentrate on his work, which shocked Shi Liuli, Liang Ruohua and Shi Qing. They asked Shi Liuli to come and test Luo Yan's attitude to find out if he was possessed or had a brain seizure.
"Are you okay?" Luo Yan asked in confusion. "As the owner of Tiangong Workshop, isn't it my duty to handle Tiangong Workshop's customer orders?"
You know this is a matter of course... Seeing him speak so righteously, Shi Liuli was speechless for a moment and could only say woodenly:
"Yeah, indeed, it's good."
She left the study quietly and told another divination.
The falling of the coin is a sign of great misfortune.
Shi Liuli fell silent, because the great ominous hexagrams were extremely rare, and most of them appeared in ambiguous forms.
This kind of extremely obvious and unambiguous omen of great harm was the first time that Shi Liuli had seen it after mastering the art of divination for so many years.
Her hands trembled slightly, and she couldn't help but toss the coin again.
The coins flew into the air, and she suddenly realized that something was wrong.
One hexagram cannot be calculated twice, this is an iron rule. If it is calculated twice, it proves that the Taoist's heart has been shaken, and the result of the calculation is no longer accurate.
Sure enough, the coin fell again, and it became a sign of turning danger into fortune.
Turning misfortune into good fortune and following the previous great misfortune was naturally a good thing - but it went against the principle of not counting the same divination twice, which made Shi Liuli completely unable to put her mind at ease.
No matter how you calculate it, it can't be accurate.
Shi Liuli felt a little annoyed and could only return to the sword-making workshop silently, planning to talk to her husband again in the evening.
If Xu Yinglian and An Zhisu were here, they would probably say to Luo Yan directly, "I predicted a very bad omen through divination. Please explain to me what a very bad omen is."
But Shi Liuli was not like that. She thought for a moment and realized that if her husband was hiding something from her, then if she rashly went over to ask him, she would not only fail to get the answer she wanted, but would also alert him and make him more alert.
Well, although the phrase “startling the snake by stirring up trouble” is not quite appropriate and makes the husband seem a little bad, that’s the meaning.
When Luo Yan came back from the study in the evening, he saw a variety of dishes already laid out on the table.
There was a dazzling array of meat and vegetables, as if it was the meal of Empress Dowager Cixi. Luo Yan could not help but tremble all over. He wondered if his wife had noticed something and put a poison in the dishes that could make a person lose all their cultivation, and wanted to lock him up in the basement of Tiangong Workshop?
"Husband, please sit down." Shi Liuli said with a smile.
Luo Yan sat down tremblingly, and saw Shi Liuli holding the chopsticks elegantly in her right hand, gently holding up the sleeve of her right hand with her left hand, and picking up a fairy fruit and putting it in her bowl.
"Husband, try it. How does it taste?"
"My wife." Luo Yan was already feeling guilty, so he didn't dare to taste it. He just forced a smile and said, "We are all fasting monks, why should we be greedy for food? Why don't I keep it for now? Next time when I'm tired from work, I can eat some as a midnight snack..."
"No." Shi Liuli said with a smile, "This is a token of my love. It's really unreasonable for you not to even taste it, right?"
Luo Yan became more and more certain that there was something wrong with the food, and asked quickly:
"Why did my lady suddenly want to cook today?"
"It's like this." Shi Liuli said slowly, "My husband used to be rather... careless, but recently he has suddenly been working hard, which surprised everyone. So after thinking it over, I decided to make some delicious food to reward my husband as an encouragement."
As she spoke, she personally picked up the chopsticks and spoon, took a little bit of each dish, and ate it herself to show that it was not poisonous.
When Luo Yan saw this, he realized that he had misunderstood and felt extremely ashamed.
In order to hide his shame, he pretended that he had no doubt that the dish was poisonous, and just changed the subject with a smile:
"It's nothing, but I suddenly felt that I was too lazy before and left so many things to my wife to take care of. It's really unacceptable."
"It's great that my husband has such an idea." Shi Liuli wiped the corners of her eyes.
She wouldn't be moved to the point of crying... Although he was lying hypocritically, Luo Yan still felt a little guilty when he saw Shi Liuli's expression.
"In that case, there is still a lot of work left in the workshop that day, such as some needs within the sect, as well as courtesy invitations from the headmaster and elders, etc. I will trouble my husband to take over all of them - after all, they are what the workshop owner should do."
Luo Yan was dumbfounded when he heard this, and quickly refused, saying:
"Hey! I just started taking over the affairs of the workshop recently, so I'm still a little unfamiliar with it. Madam, please allow me to get used to it for a while. How about we talk about it next month? Next month for sure!"
"That's fine." Shi Liuli nodded in agreement.
Seeing that Shi Liuli no longer insisted, Luo Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and started to have dinner with Shi Liuli.
Shi Liuli chewed the delicious food and thought to herself:
He is willing to do some things for the community, but he is not willing to take over everything. In other words, he does not really want to work, but has some other purpose... For example, compensation psychology? Want to make up for it?
Let him get used to it for a while first, and then talk about it next month… It’s not just procrastination, but the time point of “next month” is given. In other words, by next month, the compensatory motivation that drives him to do these things will no longer exist?