Changle
Xu Shulou took out the face-changing magic weapon seized in the Yuankong Secret Realm from the Qiankun Bracelet: "It looks like it will come in handy again."
This thing has been used quite frequently since it was robbed.
The robbery was worth it.
Luo Hongtang looked at it curiously, and played with it in his hand for a while: "This magic weapon is very rare, it must be very precious, where did Miss Xu get it?"
"So this thing is very valuable?" Xu Shulou recalled briefly, "No wonder the woman looked so lonely when I kidnapped her."
"..." Luo Hongtang felt that she seemed to vaguely understand why Xu Shulou offended people everywhere. She smiled and said, "By the way, I have something to give you. It can be regarded as a thank you gift and a parting gift."
Before leaving, Luo Hongtang led the group from Wuchen Island into a cave, walked through a winding path, and gradually entered the mountain.
The view in front of them suddenly opened up. Everyone raised their lanterns and looked around the mine. They took a deep breath and said, "The Hehuan Sect actually owns a spiritual mine."
Xu Shulou sighed softly. No wonder in the storybook, Xuanwu Tower was determined to attack the Hehuan Sect. In addition to the technique of collecting and replenishing energy, this spiritual mine was also coveted by everyone in the world of cultivation.
Xuanwu Tower must have gotten the news of this spiritual mine from somewhere.
Luo Hongtang handed over the tools: "Please help yourself."
Xu Shulou did not refuse, he raised his pickaxe and gently knocked off a piece of spiritual iron ore, which could be used directly by monks to absorb spiritual energy, or made into attacking magic weapons. This fist-sized piece could be exchanged for a lot of spiritual stones.
The others also took a small piece each and then stopped, not wanting to eat more.
Luo Hongtang looked at them with a smile: "The disciples taught by Wuchen Island are indeed indifferent in nature."
Xu Shulou smiled and said, "Master, you are too kind."
When the group was leaving, Luo Hongtang led a group of women to see them off.
Xu Shulou hesitated for a moment, then pulled Luo Hongtang aside and asked directly, "Is the Sect Master's life coming to an end?"
Luo Hongtang said calmly: "There are still a few years left. Have you figured it out?"
"But is there any other solution?"
"I've tried everything I should have tried," Luo Hongtang sighed, "There are some sinister methods, but I just can't convince myself to do that. Living like that, what's the difference between that and being a demon?"
“…”
"I've lived long enough," Luo Hongtang seemed to have accepted this fact, "I just can't let go of Afu and the Hehuan Sect."
She should be worried.
Xu Shulou thought of the endings of the Hehuan Sect and Luo Fusheng in the storybook and sighed slightly.
"Sister," Song Ping said goodbye to her, "We are leaving first. You and Junior Sister must be careful and safe. Regardless of whether you succeed in removing the poison or not, write us a letter."
"Okay, you too, take care of yourselves," Xu Shulou nodded, turned to look at Luo Hongtang, clasped his fists and said, "Sect Master, goodbye."
Luo Hongtang nodded and watched their figures gradually disappear in the air.
———
Xuanwu Tower is located in Ruzhou City. Different from most sects that choose to build their sect headquarters in secluded places, Xuanwu Tower did the opposite and built its sect in the center of the bustling Ruzhou City.
Almost all the people around them are their tenants, or they rent shops from them to do business for a living. Even if they set up a street stall in the city, they have to pay them part of the protection fee.
Xu Shulou and Bai Roushuang were standing at the foot of the city, looking up at the towering city walls in front of them. Xu Shulou had changed his appearance, but Bai Roushuang still looked the same. The people in Xuanwu Tower did not recognize her, so she did not need to hide her appearance.
The two men swaggered into the city.
There was a notice board at the foot of the city gate. Bai Roushuang saw a few large characters at a glance: "The following people are not allowed to enter Ruzhou City? What is this?"
Xu Shulou knew what it was without even looking at it. He touched his face and said, "The people in Xuanwu Tower are quite vindictive."
"Is this you?" Bai Roushuang asked in surprise. Seeing someone looking over, she immediately lowered her voice and pointed at one of the pictures above, "Could this be you, Senior Sister?"
Xu Shulou admitted: "Don't doubt it, it was indeed me."
Bai Roushuang immediately spat in disdain, "This portrait is nowhere near as beautiful as Senior Sister herself."
Xu Shulou took a closer look and was quite relieved: "I am at the back. It seems that the person that the people in Xuanwu Tower hate the most is far from me."
Bai Roushuang couldn't help but complain: "Are you satisfied with this?"
Xu Shulou said seriously: "As a person, you must learn to be content with what you have."
"Okay, let's keep a low profile." Bai Roushuang looked around nervously. It was clearly her first time here, but she acted like a wanted criminal. What was even more infuriating was that the real wanted criminal Xu Shulou didn't take it seriously at all and continued to strut around the city.
Although Gao Ming was the son of the building owner, there was nothing difficult about seeing him. The two of them stopped a random person on the street and explained their purpose, and a local citizen pointed out a small courtyard to them.
The courtyard was not shabby, but compared to the luxury of the Xuanwu Building, it was much smaller and simpler.
Xu Shulou knocked on the gate, and a handsome man came to answer the door. He was in a wheelchair. Bai Roushuang looked around, but did not see the girl Le Ling that Luo Hongtang mentioned.
The man in the wheelchair was naturally Gao Ming. When he saw the two, his attitude was not very warm, but at least he did not turn them away. When he heard that they needed someone to help them get rid of the love poison and asked about the Miaojiang sect, he spoke calmly.
"I don't know how to find that sect."
Bai Roushuang was stunned and felt lost.
“But you don’t need to know that.” The man continued.
Bai Roushuang was confused.
"Because I can cure the poison."
Bai Roushuang was overjoyed.
“But success is not guaranteed.”
Who taught him to talk in such a panting way? Bai Roushuang's hands itched, and she felt that if he wasn't already in a wheelchair, she would have beaten him to a cripple with her own hands.
"You must first bring the poisoned person to me so I can take a look." The man made a request.
Xu Shulou's eyes moved slightly: "I am the one who was poisoned."
"The love poison is in you?"
"yes."
The man finally showed some emotion that had nothing to do with indifference: "Stretch out your left hand."
Xu Shulou did as she was told. The man raised his hand and placed it on her left wrist. He closed his eyes and felt it for a moment: "It is true."
He looked at Xu Shulou with a strange look: "I don't understand, the love poison should have taken effect long ago, how are you still standing here?"
Bai Roushuang suddenly became nervous: "What do you mean?"
"Nothing." Xu Shulou lowered her arm, and her wrist, as white as frost and snow, was covered by layers of brocade. She always loved beauty, and even if she was in love, she would dress herself up well. The folding fan on her waist also changed into a jade bamboo fan to match the brocade.
The man looked at her and said nothing more. He just raised his hand and pointed to the peach tree in the yard: "I have a few jars of elixir wine buried under it. You can dig them out and take them away."
Bai Roushuang asked happily, "Can this wine cure the poison?"
"How can there be such a magical wine?" The man looked at her and said, "It's just a temporary suppression. It will take time for me to make a prescription to cure the poison. If you drink this wine, it can suppress the poisonous insect from swimming towards your heart."
Upon hearing that drinking alcohol could be used to suppress the poison, Xu Shulou immediately developed a liking for the man in front of him.
The two thanked him and made an appointment with Gao Ming that if there was any progress in removing the poison, they would send someone to the Jiaoyue Inn in the city to inform them.
Xu Shulou went to the inn and asked for two rooms. He then looked at his junior sister and said, "This is your first time here. I'll take you around Ruzhou City first."
Bai Roushuang readily agreed.
The most eye-catching thing in the center of the city is a pavilion covering a very large area. The building has carved beams and painted buildings and towers into the clouds. Bai Roushuang noticed this building as soon as the two entered the city.
Standing at its feet at this moment, it seems even taller and more beautiful.
"This must be the Xuanwu Tower?" Bai Roushuang said with a smile, "Sister, do you still want to go in and touch the spirit beast?"
"No, since it has no interest in me, I'll give up," Xu Shulou said dejectedly, "A forced melon is not sweet. Since it has no interest in me, how can I force it?"
Bai Roushuang glanced sideways, "Isn't it just that the spirit beast doesn't allow you to touch it? Look at what you said, it's like you met a heartless man."
She looked up again and carefully examined the magic array patterns painted on the pavilion. "However, it can be seen that the owner of this pavilion really doesn't like his son Gao Ming. Xuanwu Pavilion is so wealthy, but as the eldest son, he has to live alone in an ordinary courtyard."
Xu Shulou suggested another possibility: "Maybe Gao Ming really doesn't like this father and doesn't want to live with him."
The two of them strolled along the street. It was the first time that Bai Roushuang saw a city where mortals and cultivators lived together, and she found everything new.
There was a cloth shop near the street, which was dedicated to providing clothing to cultivators. Bai Roushuang curiously went in and took a look around. She immediately saw a colorful gauze dress and pulled her sister's sleeves: "Isn't this the colorful feather dress produced by the Hehuan Sect?"
"That's right," Xu Shulou nodded, "This kind of gauze dress has always sold very well."
"Why would the owner of Xuanwu Tower allow the Hehuan Sect's things to be sold here?"
"Because the store owner has to give Xuanwulou a portion of the profit for every item sold, some people will occasionally become less grudgeful when it comes to making money."
Bai Roushuang stepped forward to ask the price and smacked her lips in astonishment, "It's so expensive, and Sect Master Luo actually gave it to us like this."
Xu Shulou smiled and said, "The clothes here are different from those in the mortal world. They all have some functions to some extent. Pick a few and I'll give them to you."
Bai Roushuang shook her head: "Senior Sister, you are still under the spell of love poison, how can I be here happily choosing clothes?"
"Silly child," Xu Shulou tapped his sister's forehead, "You can be frowning for one day, or happy for another. Do I have to accompany you to be sad just because I'm infected with the love poison?"
“…”
Xu Shulou laughed: "I'm not even looking sad, go pick out a skirt, I'm not always so generous."
Bai Roushuang pulled her over: "Then let's pick together."
Xu Shulou nodded indulgently: "Okay."
Bai Roushuang chose a moon-white floor-length skirt with anti-virus effect. It looked ordinary, but when she walked, the skirt would spread out like water, adding three points of femininity. She also matched it with a water-colored corset, which matched her usual style.
Xu Shulou changed into a plum blossom dress, which was slightly more elegant than the layered brocade dress she wore today, with plum blossoms embroidered on the hem and cuffs. She didn't care much about the effect of the dress, just picked something that looked good. She asked the shopkeeper and found out that this dress could enhance defense.
The two changed into new clothes and left the cloth shop happily.
When passing by a building with the words "Zuishenglou" engraved on the plaque, Bai Roushuang smelled the soft fragrance coming out of it, and saw the charming woman standing at the door with a pair of ears on her head. She suddenly had a bad premonition: "What is this?"
"This is the Chu House, a brothel in the world of cultivation."
"There are brothels in the world of cultivation?" Bai Roushuang was stunned, revealing a look of disgust, "This kind of thing can't be gotten rid of anywhere."
"Yes, but it is slightly different from the mortal world. In addition to selling sex, there are also demon cultivators who provide sexual nourishment for people to take."
Bai Roushuang frowned: "Isn't it said that only the Hehuan Sect knows how to use the Qigong method?"
"The brothel has its own skills, but it can only nourish demon cultivators, not human cultivators."
Bai Roushuang asked again: "Did those demon cultivators volunteer?"
"Most of them are. Their cultivation is difficult, but they are better than human cultivators in one respect," Xu Shulou said. "Once they can cultivate into a human form, they will have a lifespan of a thousand years. Some demon cultivators will risk overdrawing their vitality to allow others to take their energy in exchange for some resources for cultivation."
Bai Roushuang sighed, and grasped another point from her senior sister's words: "...most of them?"
"Some cultivators will privately raise demon cultivators for their own use. These people want to take their essence, but they are afraid of losing face if others find out, so they won't let the demon cultivators live. These demon cultivators are naturally not willing or not, and some will be directly taken to death." Xu Shulou explained, "I have encountered a few who were unwilling a few years ago."
"And then?"
"Later," Xu Shulou raised his eyebrows and smiled, "This is why I offended the Third Miss and the Fifth Young Master of Xuanwu Tower."
"Wait..." Bai Roushuang felt as if she had heard something extraordinary. "Miss Third? Are you saying that there are male demon cultivators who provide essence for women?"
Xu Shulou nodded: "I have said before, in the world of cultivation, there is no distinction between men and women, and everything is based on strength."
"Strength is everything..." Bai Roushuang was lost in thought, "I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."
"It's good and bad, it all depends on how you use this strength," Xu Shulou stood at the entrance of Zuisheng Building, pointed at the plaque with his folding fan, turned around and asked his junior sister, "Do you want to go in and take a look?"
Bai Roushuang looked embarrassed, she was indeed curious, but since she had the experience of surviving in a brothel in the mortal world, how could she go and take essence from those demon cultivators as if nothing had happened?
For a moment, she felt that she and these demon cultivators were more of the same kind.
Xu Shulou explained: "Don't worry, I won't take you to collect essence, I'll just take a look."
Bai Roushuang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As soon as they entered the door, a gorgeous female demon cultivator came up to greet them: "Are you two here for a night or to stay overnight?"
Bai Roushuang was very alert: "Is this some kind of jargon?"
Xu Shulou explained: "Dancing in a hotel means finding someone to drink with, and staying in a hotel means to collect essence."
The female demon cultivator smiled coquettishly: "It seems that this girl is a frequent visitor."
Bai Roushuang's strange eyes immediately fell on the senior sister.
Xu Shulou smiled helplessly and handed two spirit stones to the female demon cultivator: "Let me take a look at it casually first."
The female demon cultivator raised her thin eyebrows and said, "Okay, if you like anyone, there is an empty room upstairs."
Xu Shulou took Bai Roushuang into the yard, where a white long-tailed rabbit was lying on the ground basking in the sun and absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon.
Xu Shulou picked it up and held it in his arms.
The monster was a little nervous and resisted at first, but after she touched it twice, it seemed to feel comfortable, and its fluffy tail wrapped around her wrist, motioning her to continue.
The gorgeous female demon cultivator who was in some unknown form followed and said, "I'll let Ping'er transform back into human form and have a drink with you, young lady?"
Xu Shulou scratched the rabbit behind its ears: "So your name is Ping'er."
He shook his head at the female demon cultivator and said, "No need, this is good enough."
Bai Roushuang realized that her senior sister came in just to touch these furry things.
Xu Shulou had already touched the long-tailed rabbit all over, first its ears and tail, then its fur.
The gorgeous female demon cultivator leaned against the door and watched them with interest. After a while, she spoke: "Young lady, you know that touching a demon's entire body like this means that it wants you to stay with it forever."
"How could that be?" Xu Shulou laughed, thinking it was a joke.
"It's true," the demon girl said with a smile, "If you don't believe me, you can ask some demon cultivators about it."
Xu Shulou's men froze: "How is that possible? Why didn't anyone warn me before?"
The long-tailed rabbit was originally feeling comfortable being touched, but when it saw Xu Shulou suddenly stop, it glanced at the female demon cultivator with dissatisfaction, thinking she was meddling in other people's business, and then swept its furry tail across Xu Shulou's hand, trying to seduce her to continue touching it.
Bai Roushuang immediately became angry and said, "You have touched the little fox like this before!"
“…”
Seeing that Xu Shulou had fallen into deep thought, Bai Roushuang felt something was wrong and quickly asked, "How many monsters have you touched like this?"
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