Fate
The dim corridor was quiet and cold, just as it was when she had just left.
Bai Roushuang had disappeared. Xu Shulou frowned and ran a long way in the uncovered corridor, calling "Bai Roushuang" and "Xu Shulou" from time to time, but no one responded to her.
She paused to think, then left a note in the corridor, telling her junior sister to wait here and not to wander around. Then she prepared to try to push open the wooden doors around her and look for Bai Roushuang inside.
After thinking about it, fearing that the note was too inconspicuous, he took out a huge night-shining pearl from the Qiankun bracelet and pressed it on the note. Then he tried one by one to find which door he could push open.
The first door she opened was a moonlit night. On the Mingyue Peak, a pair of mandarin ducks were hiding beside the rocks, talking to each other under the moon and flowers.
Xu Shulou turned around the rocks and saw clearly that the little mandarin ducks were Lu Beichen and Bai Roushuang. When he saw her coming, the former immediately put down his hand that was holding the latter's cheek and cleared his throat: "Junior Sister Bai, there is sand in your eyes. Are you feeling better now?"
“……”What a poor excuse.
Xu Shulou walked forward, and Lu Beichen nervously stood in front of Bai Roushuang. It seemed that their relationship was not yet clear in front of her and was still in the stage of concealment.
Xu Shulou angrily pushed Lu Beichen away, picked up Bai Roushuang and shook her.
The latter's eyes immediately filled with tears: "Senior sister, what are you doing?"
"Let her go!"
Bai Roushuang looked at Lu Beichen tenderly: "Brother Lu, Senior Sister must have misunderstood something. Please don't get into a conflict with her for me..."
Tsk, not my junior sister.
Xu Shulou threw her away: "Sorry for disturbing you, please continue."
She slapped her wrist, activated the chain ring, and soon returned to the corridor. She looked at the seemingly endless number of wooden doors and sighed. If she continued like this, it would take a long time to find the answer.
Behind the second door she pushed open was an arena. Xu Shulou fell from the white light and landed on the high platform.
There was another Lu Beichen on the platform, and when he saw her appear, his face was full of surprise.
The crowd below the stage who were about to cheer also paused.
On the other hand, a man dressed as an elder laughed and said, "It seems that someone else wants to challenge our Lu Kui Shou!"
“……”What’s going on?
Xu Shulou looked up and saw four large and flamboyantly written characters "Qingyun Tianjiao" on the curtain beside her.
Qingyun Prodigy List?
In reality, there is such a list, which is used to rank the cultivators under 300 years old. At that time, Xu Shulou was in seclusion and did not participate. Later, when he was in Xuancang Academy, he accidentally heard that Lu Beichen had become the top of the Tianjiao List and earned the reputation of "the leader".
Unexpectedly, the competition she missed in real life happened here.
The elder said to her, "Challenger, please state your name."
Xu Shulou shook his head: "I'm not..."
“Those who come to power must participate.”
There was a lot of discussion in the audience, all about which ungrateful guy wanted to challenge the leader Lu Beichen, but backed out after taking the stage.
Xu Shulou was not very interested in this competition. She was in a hurry to find her junior sister. Fortunately, it would not take much effort to deal with Lu Beichen. She nodded, and without even using a weapon, she raised her hand and made a sword gesture. A sharp spiritual energy rolled out, and she knocked Lu Beichen off the platform like flowing water. Then she stopped and clasped her fists to the elder, and introduced her name as he said: "I am Xu Shulou from Wuchen Island."
She was used to hearing this name, and she was too lazy to find out whether she had been expelled from the sect in the timeline here.
There was silence in the audience. In the blink of an eye, the competition was over? What happened?
This competition is not at all entertaining and is too unfriendly to us spectators.
They were originally waiting for Lu Beichen to say gracefully, "Junior sister Xu, please come in, I'll give you three moves" - this guy was indeed very warm and gentle to every young female cultivator who came on stage. Some people thought he was pretending, but some people just fell for it, and some even blushed on the spot on the stage. Yesterday, a girl came on stage just to hear him say softly, "How are you, girl." Everyone was guessing what the rules were for the new female cultivator who came on stage today, but they didn't expect that Lu Beichen was lying half-dead on the stage in the blink of an eye.
No one was so ignorant as to question whether Lu Beichen was not ready yet. The fact that Xu Shulou could beat him like this with just a burst of spiritual power was telling in itself.
The elder reacted and cleared his throat awkwardly: "It seems that the leader of this year's Qingyun Tianjiao Ranking is Fellow Daoist Xu Shulou."
Xu Shulou stood on the high platform with her hands behind her back, raising her eyebrows and smiling with high spirits, which was exactly in line with people's fantasy of a master. So the originally bewildered spectators below the stage also began to applaud her sparsely.
Xu Shulou opened his arms to welcome the applause, and the people in the audience applauded even more enthusiastically.
From the corner of her eye she saw Bai Roushuang throwing herself on Lu Beichen with tears in her eyes and calling for help, and she knew that this was not her junior sister.
Xu Shulou activated the chain ring and left this point in time.
Just like that, she groped her way through more than a dozen doors in the dark corridor, finding Bai Roushuang to test each one. However, these were not the junior sisters she was familiar with. Xu Shulou was afraid that Bai Roushuang was bullied, and gradually became anxious.
She leaned her sword on the ground, frowned, and thought of a faster way. While she was thinking hard, she saw a door creak open not far from her, and a burst of white light emanated from it, but this light was no longer dazzling, and it looked a little warm, just like the warm light in the mortal world's strange stories that tempted passers-by into the devil's cave. Xu Shulou stared at it vigilantly for a moment, not understanding its intention.
"Stop looking and go in quickly." It was the voice of the ghost.
"It's you?" Xu Shulou laughed, "Thank you for helping me."
"Look at how impatient you are." A somewhat sarcastic voice disappeared into the air.
"..." Xu Shulou touched her nose. She was actually mocked by herself in another world.
If her junior sister hadn't been waiting inside the door, she really wanted to catch up and correct him. Wasn't the word "impatient" not very appropriate to describe her?
———
Xu Shulou entered the open carved wooden door, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw a courtyard full of pear blossoms. The petals were still dotted with morning dew, which was sparkling and crystal, the purest color in the world.
Isn’t this the backyard in the dream that Lu Beichen used to accommodate his three wives and four concubines?
Xu Shulou looked around and saw that the courtyard was exactly the same as what he saw in his dream. Occasionally, a servant boy passed by and was stopped by her, his eyes full of contempt and impatience.
Her heart sank slightly. Actually, she... couldn't change anything?
After sending the servant away, there was another sound of footsteps not far away. Xu Shulou stood behind a tree and heard someone flatteringly reminding him, "Madam, please slow down."
Then a familiar voice sounded: "Can you all stop following me? I'm a monk with hands, feet, and a sword. Can I fall to death in my own backyard?!"
"lady……"
"And the pearls you put in my hair are really inconvenient. Please help me take them off."
"But the Sect Master likes this outfit. He personally praised the elegant pearls for being the best match for your charm..."
The familiar voice became more and more angry: "Why should I care what he likes? If he likes cow dung, should I have to taste it too?!"
“…”
Xu Shulou laughed, came out from behind the pear tree, and looked at the woman surrounded by the servants: "Junior sister?"
The group of servants and maids saw who was coming and raised their heads, looking at her arrogantly.
Bai Roushuang didn't say anything either, her eyes were full of caution.
Xu Shulou smiled at her.
Bai Roushuang's mind moved, and she immediately discerned something from the familiar expression of the person in front of her.
"Wuwuwu..." After recognizing her, Bai Roushuang rushed towards her crying, "Senior Sister, is it really you? This place is too scary, I want to go home!"
The group of maids and servants behind him had their jaws broken.
"It's me. Are you okay?" Xu Shulou caught his junior sister and asked quickly.
"Don't mention it, this seems like another world," Bai Roushuang sobbed, "The weird relationships between the characters here make my already small brain go crazy!"
Xu Shulou touched his junior sister's shiny and beautiful head with heartache. He wondered if it was due to overuse recently, but her long black hair seemed to be getting thinner.
"Wow, there was another senior sister here a few days ago, and she didn't recognize me as her junior sister," Bai Roushuang looked very aggrieved, "Every time I went to see her, she looked at me with a fake smile, as if she wanted to kill me."
“……”Don’t panic, she really wants to kill you.
"And Senior Brother Lu is also very strange. He married many women," Bai Roushuang sniffed. "I said he was a playboy, but he made a lot of excuses and even tried to impress me with the bond between him and those women."
“…”
"I tried to talk to him, but he was just full of white moonlight and his heart was full of cinnabar moles!" Bai Roushuang shook her head, "Our Senior Brother Lu is not so shameless."
“It’s quite shameless.”
"He was mean to me," Bai Roushuang sobbed, "He wanted to take me to attend Fan Yang's funeral, but I said I wouldn't go. The old villain Fan Yang died a wonderful death, so why should I go to see him off? As a result, Senior Brother Lu got mad at me."
It was at this time, "...He dares to get angry with you? I'll deal with him later."
"Okay!" Bai Roushuang pouted, "And Miss Yue'er and Miss Xiaoya are both very strange. They seem to dislike me very much. I prepared food and invited them to come, but they all found excuses and refused to come."
"...I'll eat with you."
"Oh, right," Bai Roushuang pestered her senior sister and complained about all her grievances before she remembered to ask, "Where exactly is this place? Is this where you came to with the chain ring?"
"Yes, I've been here before," Xu Shulou hugged his junior sister, "This should be another world. How long have you been here?"
Bai Roushuang shook her head. "It's hard to say. I think it's been about ten days. At first I didn't dare to move, so I just waited in that dark corridor. But after waiting for half an hour, there was no movement, so I just pushed open a door."
"...I followed you in right after you disappeared, but I didn't see you," Xu Shulou pondered, "It seems that the speed of time here is very strange."
Bai Roushuang rubbed her and acted coquettishly: "I knew that Senior Sister would definitely come to find me."
"You came here after you opened the door?"
"Not really. Behind the first door is not quite the same as here," Bai Roushuang thought for a moment, "It's not that complicated there."
Xu Shulou thought of something: "You don't have the chain ring, how did you leave from the first door and get here?"
"I don't know either. It was a rainy day in the first door. It was raining heavily." Bai Roushuang scratched her head. "I saw you. Hmm, it didn't seem to be you. It was probably you in this world. Anyway, she was stunned. It seemed that she didn't recognize me. She didn't even look at me."
"rain?"
"Well," Bai Roushuang looked at the dew on the branches and recalled the rain curtain that day, "You, no, I mean, that person didn't hold an umbrella. I thought she seemed to be crying, but her face was covered with rain, I couldn't tell clearly, so in the end I held an umbrella and sent her off... Hmm? Senior sister? Your expression is weird, did I say something wrong?"
"..." Xu Shulou was looking at his junior sister under a pear tree, his eyes filled with a complex expression. Just then, dewdrops fell on her cheek, just like a falling teardrop.
The various causes and conditions that happen in the world are truly mysterious and unpredictable.
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