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Xuanwu shook the rabbit happily and said, "Did you bring it to me specially? Can I eat it?"
Xu Shulou quickly snatched the shaking rabbit and stuffed it back into his arms: "You can't eat this."
Xuanwu fell back to the ground in disappointment: "Then why did you bring it here? Just to show it to me? It's not good-looking, and it's covered with hair."
"..."Xu Shulou touched the rabbit in his arms. Ping'er was frightened today and was called ugly. She felt really wronged.
"Is it your Taoist partner?" Xuanwu suddenly asked.
"What? Of course not."
Xuanwu stamped his hands on the floor. "You touched it and put it in your arms. I thought only Taoist couples could be so intimate."
Hearing it mention this, Xu Shulou suddenly felt guilty and quickly took out the food box to coax it: "Actually, it's not so strict now. Touching doesn't necessarily mean you have to marry. By the way, I brought you some golden and jade fish."
"Really?" Xuanwu's turtle body lay still, but the snake head came over curiously, spit out its tongue, and rolled up a few pieces of fish meat into its mouth. "Not bad, you have a conscience. I won't bother with you about what happened before."
What a generous black tortoise.
Xu Shulou said helplessly: "If I hadn't run fast, you almost drowned me last time. If anyone wants to take responsibility, I should be the one to take responsibility."
Xuanwu snorted: "Have you forgotten how you offended me?"
Xu Shulou changed the subject and brought out another food box: "Let's eat fish."
Xuanwu no longer cared and was busy eating the fish. Xu Shulou took the opportunity to pat the snake's head, and it did not resist.
Seeing that it had no intention of attacking, Bai Roushuang calmed down a little and asked Xu Shulou, "I thought demon cultivators could only speak after they transformed into human form, how come Xuanwu can speak without changing its form?"
Xuanwu rolled his eyes at her and said, "What demon cultivator? I am an ancient divine beast. Who cares about my human form?"
Xu Shulou soothed the angry rabbit with one hand while explaining to his junior sister: "Xuanwu is an ancient mythical beast. It is born with intelligence, can speak human language, and has an infinite lifespan."
Xuanwu's snake body gave her another suggestive look, and Xu Shulou had no choice but to add, "They don't bother to transform into human form."
Bai Roushuang miraculously saw majesty and pride on the snake's face.
It glanced at the rabbit in Xu Shulou's arms and said, "I am not the same as these little things that let people touch them at will."
"Yes, yes, you are so majestic," Bai Roushuang watched her senior sister complimented her perfunctorily, and touched the snake's head while Xuanwu lowered his head to eat fish, and then asked, "You don't like Shen Ji, the left protector of Xuanwu Tower? Why?"
The snake head was busy eating the fish and shook the turtle shell with its tail: "You explain it to her."
The turtle lay still: "She touched you and fed you, what does it have to do with me? You should explain it if you want."
Bai Roushuang was very surprised: "The tortoise body and the snake body of Xuanwu actually have two different spiritual intelligences?"
Xu Shulou shook his head: "It's just one intelligence, and it's playing a double act here."
The snake rolled its eyes at her and said, "I have lived for thousands of years. What's so strange about chatting with myself when I'm bored?"
What it said really sounded a little lonely and desolate. Xu Shulou thought for a moment and said, "Otherwise, you can shrink like last time, and I will secretly take you out for a walk."
"No, I won't. As soon as I become smaller, you, a bold monk, will definitely take the opportunity to touch me and hug me."
It raised its head high, looking down at Xu Shulou below, as if it had seen through her little thoughts.
Xu Shulou laughed: "Don't you want to leave Xuanwu Tower and go out for a look?"
"I've lived for so long, what haven't I seen?" Xuanwu said calmly, "For example, it's been many years since you last came here, but to me, it's just a moment."
"Senior sister," Bai Roushuang asked in a low voice curiously, "Is it really indifferent? Or is it unhappy that you came to see it after so many years?"
Xu Shulou couldn't quite tell: "Maybe he is really indifferent. If he doesn't detach himself from the world, how can he endure endless life?"
Xuanwu finished eating the fish and curled up lazily again: "If you have nothing else to do, leave."
"I will withdraw now," Xu Shulou said in a teasing tone, "but there is one more thing I want to ask you. What kind of person is Gao Zhuo, the current owner of Xuanwu Tower?"
Unexpectedly, Xuanwu shook his snake head: "I don't know, when he was first promoted to the owner of the building, he was still a very enthusiastic young man, but since then he has not come to see me for a long time."
Xu Shulou nodded: "Then I'll go first, I'll come to see you when I have time."
Xuanwu wagged his tail at her, looking as if he didn't care much.
The two left the huge room where Xuanwu was. Bai Roushuang stuck out her tongue and said, "I have never seen a spirit beast with this kind of personality before..."
"Divine beast." A rumbling voice came from the door behind them, correcting her wording.
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After the two of them walked far away, Bai Roushuang dared to ask the next question: "Senior Sister, how come you can't tell the other roads apart, but are so familiar with the room of the divine beast?"
Xu Shulou raised his hand and pointed to the rooftop: "Because when I first came to Xuanwu Building, I came in from there."
"..." Bai Roushuang looked upwards in surprise, but did not see any signs of an entrance. Come to think of it, what kind of sect would build an entrance on the roof?
There was a hint of nostalgia in Xu Shulou's eyes: "I was competing with someone in swordplay that year, and I accidentally broke through the roof and fell down."
"And then?" Bai Roushuang immediately became interested in her senior sister's past which sounded frivolous and wanton.
Xu Shulou smiled and said, "It happened many years ago. At that time, the owner of the building and the left protector were not the two they are now. The owner of the building at that time was a very interesting old man. He did not cause trouble for us, but let us continue the sword duel. Later, when I won, he gave me the most beautiful Epiphyllum in the building. It's a pity that the Epiphyllum never bloomed in my hands."
Bai Roushuang was fascinated: "The Xuanwu Tower back then sounded different from what it sounds like now."
Xu Shulou nodded: "At that time, the old man was already at the end of his strength. I also heard him say that when choosing a successor, virtue should be the first priority and he should be able to benefit the people of Ruzhou. But later, I don't know if there were any changes."
Bai Roushuang thought of the fifth young master she met today and wrinkled her nose: "Maybe the current owner of the building is a good person, but he just neglected to discipline his son?"
"Maybe," Xu Shulou put on his disguise magic weapon again, "It's getting late, let's go back to the room first."
"good."
When the two of them turned around, Gao Ming was already waiting in the room. His expression of grief and indignation and resistance was exactly the same as Ping'er who was tied up on the bed before.
"Take off your pants." He said coldly to Xu Shulou who had just entered the room.
“…”
It was the first time that Xu Shulou had heard such an opening remark in his life and he fell silent for a moment, but Bai Roushuang had already laughed out loud.
"You..." Gao Ming's eyes fell on Bai Roushuang's face, his eyes changed from confusion to shock, "Why is it you?"
Xu Shulou had no choice but to remove his disguise again: "It's me, Fellow Daoist Gao, I'm here to rescue you."
"You really came?" Gao Ming looked her up and down as if she were a warrior, and put his finger on her left wrist. "Have you dug out the poisonous insect? Have your wounds healed? Where is the real Shen Ji?"
Xu Shulou chose to answer the third question: "He is sleeping in your bed."
“…”
"If you don't like him, I can just compensate you with a bed sheet."
"Who told you about the bed sheet?" Gao Ming put his hand on her wrist to check it out, and felt relieved. "It's not bad, the love poison has been removed. I didn't expect you to really hold on. Your will is as strong as I have ever seen in my life. But you are also capable of making trouble. You should leave quickly before anyone finds you."
Xu Shulou took out the rabbit from his arms, held it in his arms, and sat down in front of him: "Now that you are here, I can take you out today, but he can always invite you back. Since you are suffering from Gao Jie, why don't you just move out of Ruzhou City?"
Gao Ming sighed: "I'm not willing to accept this."
"What are you unwilling to do?"
"Young lady, since you are willing to take the risk to save me, I will not hide it from you. Remember before I cured the poison, I said I hoped you could help me kill someone?" Gao Ming sighed, "That person is the current owner of Xuanwu Tower."
Xu Shulou noticed that he neither called him father nor called him by his name, but used the nickname "Master of Xuanwu Tower".
"How do you know I can kill him?"
"Seeing that you were still calm despite being infected with the love poison, I knew you were no ordinary person," Gao Ming shook his head, "Besides, I was desperate and tried any possible means to cure my illness."
"Why kill him?"
"Because he killed my mother," Gao Ming's expression turned cold. "He said my mother had put a love poison on him, and then he killed her with his own hands."
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"I was still young at that time, and I had the impression that they were always very loving and rarely even quarreled... I believed him at first, but later I found my mother's collection of books and began to study poison, only to find that he was not suffering from the symptoms of love poison at all."
“…”
"My mother was born in Miaojiang, and she had indeed studied Gu poison, so many people believed him and no one was willing to investigate further. I said I had doubts, and they all said I was still young at the time, how could I remember anything?" Gao Ming shook his head. "When he found out that I was studying Gu poison, he scolded me and burned all the books my mother left behind. Fortunately, I hid some of them in advance."
"You want me to help you kill your father?"
Gao Ming shook his head: "I suspect he is not my father at all."
"Disguise?" Xu Shulou touched his face.
"No, there is no disguise spell or magic weapon that can last that long."
"Possessed someone else? Cut off your father's face and made a human skin mask?" Xu Shulou began to speculate, "Or some monster peeled off his human skin and put it on its body?"
"...Actually, actually, I just want to say that my father has a twin brother who has been lost for many years. Could it be that he replaced my father?" Gao Ming looked at her in astonishment. "I don't think it's as dark as the girl thinks."
"Sorry," Xu Shulou shrugged, "But your guess is a bit exaggerated. Do you have any evidence?"
"No, but when my father took me out when I was young, he would carefully use his spiritual power to protect me from the wind and rain, not letting a drop of rain fall on me." Gao Ming looked down at his legs in a trance, "But now he is willing to do this to me..."
Bai Roushuang sympathized: "Doctor Gao, I understand how you feel. You can't bear to believe that your relatives would really do such a thing. My mother also..." She paused before continuing, "But the possibility of your guess is really low."
"Miss, you are being polite. Someone once told me I was crazy after hearing my guess," Gao Ming smiled bitterly. "But after my mother passed away, the positions and powers in Xuanwu Tower changed frequently over the years. Even his friends who had a good relationship with him were transferred to guard the spirit veins. They all said that it was because of my mother's stimulation and the effect of the love Gu that caused his temperament to change, but I don't believe it."
Bai Roushuang poured him a cup of tea and said, "Doctor Gao, if your father really has become a different person, wouldn't other people be able to tell?"
"My mother probably saw it, so she went from being a wife to a deceased wife." Gao Ming said sarcastically.
“…”
Xu Shulou stood up and said, "I understand, Fellow Daoist Gao, do you want to stay here today or should I send you out?"
Gao Ming was a little disappointed, but he was used to it since no one believed him. He nodded and said, "I want to go out."
After thinking for a while, he added, "The girl is right. I should consider leaving Ruzhou City. At least, don't let the owner of Xuanwu Tower use me as an excuse to commit another murder in the Hehuan Sect."
Bai Roushuang witnessed him telling all this with a glimmer of hope, and then gave up in disappointment. She felt bad too, so she patted his shoulder gently and said, "I'll push you out."
Fortunately, Gao Ming knew the way, so they were able to avoid places where the Fifth Young Master might appear and successfully arrived at the entrance of Xuanwu Tower.
Xu Shulou pointed at Gao Ming in the wheelchair with a proud look on his face and said, "Fifth Master asked me to throw him out at night."
The guards were probably used to this drama, and they nodded and said, "Yes."
Xu Shulou stuffed another bunny into Bai Roushuang's arms and imitated the left protector Chen Ji's voice and said loudly: "Push him away quickly. If the owner finds out, you will be in trouble!"
Senior sister is not leaving? Bai Roushuang was shocked and wanted to ask, but she didn't dare to speak in front of the guards.
Xu Shulou sent her a message: "Don't worry, if I haven't met you by the morning of tomorrow, you should leave Ruzhou City and take shelter."
Bai Roushuang held her breath, and her senior sister pushed her away. She was probably going to take risks again.
They had no choice but to send Ping'er back to Zuishenglou first, and then went all the way back to the courtyard. She waited anxiously for dawn at the hour of Mao, but Xu Shulou was very reliable this time and appeared in front of them when it was still dark.
Bai Roushuang hurried over and said, "Senior Sister, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but I stole something." Xu Shulou said embarrassedly.
Bai Roushuang was shocked: "You didn't really steal the sect guardian beast?"
Xu Shulou said righteously, "How could I do such a thing?"
Bai Roushuang breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay. What did you steal?"
Xu Shulou opened the gate and dragged a humanoid figure in leisurely: "I stole their owner out."
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