Jade soft flower tender
The two of them had no tacit understanding in rowing, and it took them some effort to sail the boat to the other side of the Endless Sea. An old man wearing a straw hat was fishing and sitting on the shore. Seeing that the boat was struggling to sail, he enthusiastically threw a rope over and pulled Bai Roushuang.
After landing, Bai Roushuang hurriedly thanked the old man: "Thank you very much, old man. We are here to look for Mr. Dan. Do you know where he is?"
"What do you want him for?"
Bai Roushuang took out a small Xu Shulou from her arms: "This is..."
"Is this the spirit pet you raise?" The old man rubbed his eyes, "It's quite cute."
"..." Bai Roushuang looked down and quickly reached out to pull off the rabbit hat on her senior sister's head. "It's not a spirit pet. This is my senior sister. She was harmed by a bad guy and became like this. We came here to ask Mr. Dan for a way to restore her."
The old man came closer and observed Xu Shulou carefully: "This is new. Finally, I have seen some interesting symptoms."
"..." Bai Roushuang asked tentatively, "Old man?"
"I am the Mr. Dan you call me," the old man said, taking off his straw hat.
After seeing his face clearly, Bai Roushuang realized that he was not an old man. He looked only about thirty years old, but his demeanor was so old that he could easily be mistaken for an old man. As a famous monk, he looked very ordinary. At least with Bai Roushuang's eyesight, she could not tell the difference between him and the fishermen she had seen before crossing the lake.
"What's going on?" Mr. Dan raised his hand to stop Bai Roushuang from blurting out the polite words and went straight to the point.
Xu Shulou said, "It's a cultivator named Chen Zhuang, I..."
"Wow, it can talk?" Mr. Dan asked curiously.
"..."Xu Shulou stared at him expressionlessly.
Mr. Dan said cheerfully, “You continue.”
Xu Shulou wanted to briefly describe the appearance and function of the magic weapon in Chen Zhuang's hand, but Mr. Dan found it more and more interesting as he listened: "You start from the beginning."
Xu Shulou had no choice but to tell the story of what happened in the Colosseum from beginning to end. At Mr. Dan's request, he also told the story of how he sneaked into the Colosseum to save Errong. He had almost finished telling the story of Song Ping and Sheng Wuyou's marriage, and was about to trace the clues back to Feng Jiuyou and Qi Wutong. The other party still listened attentively and couldn't help but look up at him: "Do you want to hear all the stories of my life?"
"Don't mind. When people get old, they like to listen to stories. Come with me," Mr. Dan laughed and sighed, "The Chen Zhuang you mentioned is a genius, but it's a pity that he went astray."
Bai Roushuang held her senior sister in her arms, followed behind him, and flattered him in time: "Even though both are geniuses in the world, Mr. Dan, you are more capable than him, but your temper is much better than his."
"Yes, I never harm mortals," Mr. Dan nodded, "I always use monks to test medicine."
Bai Roushuang paused.
"What are you thinking about?" Mr. Dan didn't turn around, but it was as if he had eyes on his back. "For those who come to me for treatment, I will ask them to try my medicine."
"..." Bai Roushuang clenched her fists and made up her mind, "As long as you can save my sister, I am willing to do anything and try any medicine!"
"You don't have to be so reckless," Mr. Dan replied, "My elixir is not dangerous."
Bai Roushuang was embarrassed.
Xu Shulou patted her on the shoulder and said, "At least I am touched by your senior sister."
“…”
The two followed Mr. Dan all the way to his residence. This place did not look like the residence of an hermit. It was filled with messy papers, manuscripts, bottles and jars. Of course, in Mr. Dan's words, this was order in chaos.
He rescued three stools from the pile of papers, asked the two to sit down, and took out a not-so-delicate porcelain bottle: "I have to check on your condition first, eat this."
Xu Shulou did as he was told. As soon as the pill went down his throat, his whole face turned blue. Bai Roushuang was startled for a moment, but when she saw Mr. Dan nodded and calmly wrote something down on a piece of paper, she suppressed her panic a little.
He stood up again and used a ladle to scoop some strange juice for Xu Shulou: "Drink this."
Xu Shulou drank it as he was told, and his black hair suddenly turned green, a very bright emerald green. Bai Roushuang covered her face.
"Well, try this one." Mr. Dan tore off another sticky lump from a huge pill and stuffed it into Xu Shulou's pocket.
This time, her eyes suddenly turned red, a bright red color that was particularly dazzling against the emerald green hair and dark blue face.
Bai Roushuang glanced at her colorful senior sister, and looked away unable to bear to look. Seeing Mr. Dan writing down the word "fire attribute" on a piece of paper, she couldn't help but ask, "Sir, can my senior sister's body recover?"
Mr. Dan put away his paper and pen: "It's not a big problem."
These four words, written so casually, finally made Bai Roushuang see some of the grace of a hermit. She was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly, then asked, "What about this color?"
"Don't worry, it will be fine in three to five hours."
"What's wrong with me?" Xu Shulou touched his hair and looked at his junior sister who was avoiding his sight.
"To put it nicely, red and green are like floating emeralds, and green and blue are like azure sea and blue sky," Bai Roushuang said with difficulty, "but your red, blue and green together are just dazzling."
"..." It would fade in about three to five hours, but Xu Shulou didn't care much about it. At most he would just not look at the bronze mirror for excitement during these hours.
Bai Roushuang also mustered up the courage to ask Mr. Dan what medicine he needed to try. Speaking of this, his face became more serious: "It's my new idea, but I've hit a bottleneck recently and need other people's opinions."
"What's your opinion?" Bai Roushuang asked cautiously, "I know nothing about alchemy."
"That's not what I'm asking. Making medicine is not difficult for me," Mr. Dan waved his hand. "I just don't know whether this medicine will benefit the world or bring disaster to the world."
Xu Shulou became cautious: "What medicine are you talking about, sir?"
"It's a pill that can change a person's personality."
What? Bai Roushuang and Xu Shulou looked at each other, both of them were quite surprised. Even this kind of elixir could be made?
Mr. Dan continued, "From the mortal world to the cultivation world, there are often parents who are dissatisfied with their children's temperament, or couples complaining that their partner's temperament is incompatible with theirs, or even people wanting to become better, more resolute or more gentle... I have seen this many times, so I came up with this idea."
"If a temperament can be changed by a pill," Xu Shulou asked softly, "can it still be considered a temperament?"
Mr. Dan shook his head. "It's just my temperament. I don't know if I should interfere with it."
Xu Shulou suddenly smiled and said, "People around me take a pill and their personality changes. If you think about it carefully, it's actually a very scary thing."
Bai Roushuang listened to her senior sister's words, thought about it, and felt horrified: "Is it still me who was forcibly changed by a pill? Is it like someone else's soul has taken up residence in my body?"
Mr. Dan was silent for a moment. He took out a crystal bottle the size of a vase, which was filled with pills of various colors. "I have observed hundreds of human temperaments and made these pills. The effects are not complete. They are only semi-finished products. The efficacy can only last for twelve hours. They are just right for testing medicine."
Bai Roushuang approached with some trepidation, but Xu Shulou stopped her: "Let me do it."
"Senior Sister!"
Xu Shulou smiled at his junior sister. Bai Roushuang was too familiar with her, and she knew from her expression that this matter was not negotiable.
Mr. Dan didn't care who would test the medicine. Seeing that the two of them had made a decision, he asked Xu Shulou, "What kind of temperament do you want to change to?"
"It's all right," Xu Shulou thought for a moment, "Let's have one that tastes better."
"This one is good, soft and tender," Mr. Dan carefully picked out a milky white one for her, "honey and milk flavor."
"What kind of temperament is this?"
Mr. Dan took out his notebook and took a look: "Weak and cowardly."
Bai Roushuang was puzzled: "Who would want to change to this kind of personality?"
Mr. Dan said calmly, "I just couldn't stop myself for a moment, and I acted out all the personalities I observed, without considering whether others would like it or not."
The two of them were silent after hearing this. In order to get the correct result, Mr. Dan asked again: "Your usual temperament is not like being weak and cowardly, right?"
Bai Roushuang almost choked on her own saliva when she heard this.
Xu Shulou swallowed the pill and closed his eyes to feel it: "It tastes really good, but it seems that the temperament has not changed much."
Mr. Dan carefully observed her expression, but Xu Shulou was too small at the moment, and he couldn't see anything through the layer of blue. He could only stand up and said, "I'll try to make you a prescription to restore your body size. Come back in a few hours, it's up to you."
Although he said that they could do as they pleased, he actually left the two of them in this room full of manuscripts and pills and walked away on his own.
Bai Roushuang was dumbfounded: "This room is filled with priceless treasures. He really trusts us."
Having said that, the two of them left the room and went to the shore to enjoy the scenery.
Bai Roushuang picked up the fishing rod that Mr. Dan had thrown here, and tried to fish while sitting on the shore. The colorful Xu Shulou sat on her shoulder and enjoyed the breeze.
Bai Roushuang fished for more than two hours but caught nothing. During this time, Xu Shulou had fallen asleep and woke up. He volunteered to climb onto the fishing rod and walked to the hanging rod head: "I'll help you see if there are any fish in the water."
As soon as she stuck her colorful head out, a big fish was attracted by her, jumped out of the water and came towards her to bite her. Bai Roushuang was frightened, fearing that her sister would be swallowed by the fish, so she hurriedly rescued her.
"It seems that this weakness and cowardice has no effect."
Xu Shulou lay flat on his junior sister's lap: "No matter how cowardly you are, you won't be afraid of fish, right?"
Bai Roushuang resisted the urge to poke her belly and turned her gaze toward the water: "That's a fish many times bigger than you."
"Yeah, there are a lot of fish in the water," Xu Shulou stretched, "It turns out that your fishing skills are not good enough."
"..." Bai Roushuang tried to change the subject, "I think your color is getting lighter."
Xu Shulou looked at her resentfully: "Can you really tell? I feel like you've been avoiding my face."
Bai Roushuang answered with difficulty: "It is a bit... dazzling."
Xu Shulou lowered his head, jumped off her lap, floated to the sand on the side, built a small sand room for himself, and crawled into it.
"... Senior Sister?" Bai Roushuang was worried. Could it be that the weak and cowardly pill had taken effect? Was she hurting her senior sister's fragile mind?
As he was hesitating, Mr. Dan, who had disappeared for nearly three hours, strode over and asked, "What happened? Where's the person?"
Bai Roushuang pointed at the small sand house, but he didn't expect her to just flip it upside down and pull Xu Shulou out: "Did the Jade Softening and Flower Softening work?"
“I don’t know.”
"Let me ask you a question," Mr. Dan asked tentatively, "Daoyou, I can't make the elixir to restore your body, what should I do?"
Xu Shulou faced the lake, feeling the lakeside breeze, her long green hair fluttering in the wind. She waved the small wooden sword at her waist and said with a cold and arrogant look on her face: "Oh, my fate is determined by myself, not by God!"
"ah?"
"In this life, as long as I have a sword in my hand, I have never surrendered to anyone or anything!" Xu Shulou was surrounded by a cold aura, and his tone was arrogant and unruly, "Even if I can't recover, how many people in the world can defeat me?"
Mr. Dan looked at Bai Roushuang: "Is she always like this?"
Bai Roushuang shook her head frantically.
So what is the effect?
Mr. Dan buried his head and flipped through his notes: "Did I get it wrong?"
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