Eat when you should, drink when you should
Wuchen Island, Mingyue Peak.
In the dark room, Immortal Chang Yu, dressed in white and with a cold look, looked up at his eldest disciple and asked, "Didn't you bring me a roast chicken this time?"
Xu Shulou did not answer: "Master, I have something to ask you."
Chang Yu poured her a cup of tea and said, "Go ahead."
"I had a dream, and you said something to me in the dream, so I came to you to solve my doubts."
"..." Immortal Master Chang Yu said nothing, raised his hand and made a spell.
Xu Shulou stared at his fingertips: "...I hope you are not trying to figure out if I am a lunatic."
Chang Yu smiled faintly, like ice and snow melting: "How can I describe my beloved disciple like this? Tell me, what questions do you have?"
"Master," Xu Shulou stroked the teacup in his hand, "Do you trust the results you calculated?"
"Well, I don't really believe it," Chang Yu said, "It's just a habit. If I get a good result, I'm happy. If I get a bad result, I just ignore it. No matter what the future holds, I still have to do what I should do now."
"Why don't you believe it?"
"In fact, I did believe it before," Chang Yu recalled, "The reason why I accepted you as my apprentice was because I calculated that you and I had a master-apprentice relationship."
"And then?"
Immortal Chang Yu looked far away. "Later, every step you took repeatedly exceeded my expectations, especially when you completely let go of your hatred. Every time I look at you, I think that living according to the results calculated and becoming an immortal step by step is indeed the easiest way, but what's the fun of living like this? People don't live for the end, they should enjoy the process."
“…”
"Following nature is the way, and entering the mortal world is also the way," Immortal Chang Yu picked up the teacup gracefully, "Compared to the way of heaven, human nature is the most unpredictable thing. What can change the results of my calculations is always human power, not destiny. If I calculate that I will become an immortal in the future, can I become an immortal just by eating, drinking and having fun all day long and ignoring my cultivation? At the crossroads of life, a difference in one thought may create a completely different life. Why should we be superstitious about the results of calculations?"
“…” Master is very profound today.
"So," Chang Yu Xianzun concluded, "eat when you should, drink when you should, practice when you should, and rest when you should. Why think about so many things?"
Xu Shulou nodded, agreeing deeply, and raised his hand to give his master a roast chicken: "You didn't expect this, did you?"
Chang Yu was smiling happily, but he was still saying, "You stupid disciple, how could your master waste his divine powers on such a trivial matter as roasting a chicken?"
The rich tea aroma soon mixed with the aroma of roast chicken.
"Sheng Wuyou..." Xu Shulou asked again, "Master, before proposing marriage to Second Junior Brother, I saw you calculating that day. What did you calculate?"
"I calculated Sheng Wuyou's death," Chang Yu put down the roast chicken and said seriously, "She will eventually die as a mortal."
Xu Shulou sighed inwardly.
"If it were me in the past, I would probably break them up cleanly and stop Song Ping from seeing her again, but..." Immortal Chang Yu made a particularly fairy-like gesture, "Nothing in the world can be concluded until the coffin is closed. Who can tell which choice is right and which is wrong until the last moment? Even if they will eventually reach the ending I calculated, whether the process is exciting or not is always decided by themselves."
"Master is very insightful."
The insightful master looked up at her with appreciation: "The roast chicken this time is good, even the chicken breast is not dry or tough. Where did you buy it from?"
"There's a new shop in Ruzhou called Xue's Roast Chicken. Their wine is pretty good too."
"So where's the wine? Did you drink it all on the way?"
“…”
Xu Shulou covered his face. In the dream, it seemed that Chang Yu's attitude influenced the disciple, but in reality, the master said that she influenced him.
Who changed whom? It's hard to say.
When leaving the quiet room, Xu Shulou did not resolve any doubts, but the confusion in her heart was inexplicably dissipated. She couldn't help but sigh that her master really had the temperament of a charlatan. If he set up a stall in the human world, he would definitely be able to snatch all the business from the fortune-tellers.
Bai Roushuang was waiting for her outside, squatting on the ground watching the ants moving.
Xu Shulou squatted beside her, looked at her for a while, and said worriedly: "It looks like it's going to rain. Can they finish moving before it rains?"
"It should be possible," Bai Roushuang replied, "From my childhood to adulthood, I have never seen a stupid ant that can't finish moving its house."
The two of them squatted here until it started to rain, and watched the ants finish their transportation at the last moment, and they couldn't help but cheer for them.
Bai Roushuang then remembered to ask: "What did the master say to you?"
Xu Shulou briefly concluded: "Man can conquer nature, and the roast chicken is good."
Bai Roushuang was confused.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, pouring down from the sky like a waterfall, accompanied by lightning and thunder, adding a new scenery to Mingyue Peak.
Xu Shulou was inspired and practiced a set of sword techniques in the rain.
Bai Roushuang sat under the eaves, holding her chin with her hand and looking at the figure in the rain and fog. The long sword was as fast as lightning and danced like wind and thunder. The sword energy raised a curtain of water from time to time, which was very beautiful.
This light sword technique made Xu Shulou dance with a momentum of fighting for his life against the sky.
In the pouring rain, she vented the depression brought about by her dream.
———
At night, Xu Shulou sat under the flickering light, stroking the chain ring on his hand.
It emits an icy blue light under the lamp, brilliant and mysterious.
When she was escorting the nephew of her fifth junior fellow apprentice Jiang Yan to take up his post in the territory, the Xumi Ring that could travel through the three thousand worlds and the bracelet that seemed to allow her soul to travel to the dream world merged into this chain of rings. However, she did not have time to study its effects carefully at that time.
Xu Shulou lowered his eyes and thought. The matter of the Demon Realm had come to an end for the time being. All major sects in the cultivation world had already declared to all cultivators in the world that the rumor that the demons were going to attack was just a misunderstanding. Everyone was asked to cultivate with peace of mind and not to believe in rumors.
The matter was temporarily settled, and Xu Shulou had nothing else to do for the time being. After coming out of the Demon Realm, he enjoyed some delicious food in the human world. He was very satisfied now, and it was time to study the chain ring carefully.
Out of caution, she wrote a note on the table, then carefully input a stream of spiritual power into the chain ring and activated it.
As the ice-blue light flashed, Xu Shulou felt dizzy. She thought she would soon appear in another world, but she didn't expect that this time was different from every time she used the Sumeru Ring.
Xu Shulou appeared in a dark corridor, which was narrow, quiet and gloomy. The walls on both sides of the corridor were inlaid with carved wooden doors. The hibiscus flowers were carved very delicately, but the wooden doors were a little worn and the paint was peeling.
The corridor was very cold, and even with her skills, she could still feel the biting chill.
A ghostly woman floated past her. She was slightly startled and looked closely, only to find that the woman had a face exactly like hers.
Xu Shulou called out to her, but the woman turned a deaf ear to him and continued walking forward with an expressionless face, gradually disappearing into the darkness at the end of the corridor.
What the hell is this place?
She followed the direction where the woman disappeared and groped her way along the corridor for a while, but she didn't know whether she had unknowingly turned back or the corridor had no end at all. What appeared in front of her was always a dark corridor and carved wooden doors on both sides.
Xu Shulou raised her hand and left a mark on one of the doors, then began to observe it carefully, but apart from the degree of dilapidation, she could not tell any difference between these wooden doors.
Who cares? Xu Shulou raised her hand to push the door that had the mark on it. With a creak, the door was easily opened by her. A bright white light appeared before her eyes, and Xu Shulou was swept in and fell into the white light.
After the dazzling white light faded away, Xu Shulou found himself standing in a room. The room was not shabby, but it was not very good either. Judging from its structure, it looked more like the ear room in a wealthy family's home where maids lived.
She was a little excited. After all, the first few worlds she visited with the Sumeru Ring only had monkeys and jellyfish. She had been thinking that this time when she used the chain ring, it would be a surprise if she could go to a world full of furry creatures. She didn't expect that there were actually human traces here.
Xu Shulou strode to the door, pushed it open, and planned to explore the outside world.
But she was blocked by someone just as she reached the door. The maid looked at her happy expression and said with disdain: "Girl, what are you doing? Hurry up and change your clothes. If you delay the auspicious time, no one will wait for you."
Xu Shulou stared at the person in front of him. Hmm, just a nose and two eyes, no different from her world.
"Go quickly! Don't waste my time." While she was thinking, the nanny rudely invited her back to the room. Xu Shulou then noticed that there was a red wedding dress on the bed. She walked over and touched it. She felt that the material was very ordinary, the style was also average, and even the embroidery was not very delicate. It seemed that the person who was about to wear this wedding dress did not spend any thought on it.
"Change clothes?" Xu Shulou touched his face. "Everyone in this world is face-blind? She mistook me for someone else?"
The nanny didn't leave either, she just stood aside and stared at her with a fierce look. Xu Shulou didn't understand what was going on, and seeing her attitude, he didn't bother to say anything more. He simply put on the wedding dress and simply tied a belt: "Change."
The nanny nodded and said, "Follow me, old slave."
Xu Shulou happily followed the nanny out of the room. Outside the room was a courtyard. She frowned slightly, feeling that the courtyard gave her a sense of familiarity, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it.
This courtyard was quite remote, and she followed the nanny through many twists and turns, and it took a long time before she reached her destination.
"etc……"
Xu Shulou looked at the decorated wedding hall in front of him: "This, this is..."
Mammy looked back at her impatiently: "Isn't this the opportunity you worked so hard to get? Why are you wasting time?"
Xu Shulou stood there stiffly for a moment, and she finally understood where that familiar feeling came from. Isn't this Lingxiaomen?
Lingxiaomen, Xitang, and her Xu Shulou...
She swept her eyes across the guest seats. There was obvious disgust and contempt in those people's eyes, but she didn't care about that and quickly picked out a few iconic, chopped-off faces from the crowd.
Dream wedding?
Xu Shulou immediately had a bad thought: "If it's Lu Beichen who walks in from the door later, I'll hack him to death on the spot."
She lowered her voice in the second half of the sentence, and the maid only heard the first half clearly. She immediately taunted him, "Who else could it be if not Patriarch Lu? You put so much effort into marrying him, who are you pretending to be crazy and stupid for now?"
Xu Shulou had only one reaction: "Where's my sword?"
She was thinking, is this the wedding in her dream? Now that she is here, where is the original Xu Shulou?
She mobilized her spiritual power and found that it was flowing smoothly. She couldn't help but ponder, why did she come here? If she entered the dream world, why at this time? If it could be earlier...
Sitting at the table next to them were Chen Zhuang and her sixth junior apprentice brother Ji Ci. The latter saw her passing by and rolled his eyes at her with undisguised contempt.
Xu Shulou slapped him on the back of his head with ease: "Who are you staring at, little bastard?"
“……” Ji Ci looked up at her blankly. He was so shocked that he forgot to speak for a moment.
Xu Shulou breathed a sigh of relief. Who cares what the reason is? He should make the best of it.
She looked around arrogantly despite the contempt of others and said, "There are so many people here. Eat and drink well, and I will show you how to kill Lu Beichen alone to liven up the atmosphere."
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