Xuancang Academy
Peng Wanxi also suggested giving Xu Shulou a massage to relax his muscles and promote blood circulation.
Although Xu Shulou was not sure what the symptoms were that required both nourishing the body and relaxing the muscles and activating the blood circulation, he gladly accepted the other party's kindness. He also took this opportunity to put away the strange thing in the giant bowl.
Being pressed down on the bed twice, Xu Shulou's hair stood on end: "Fellow Daoist Peng, have I offended you in any way recently?"
"Why do you say that, Brother Xu?" Peng Wanxi was surprised.
Xu Shulou stared at her, and seeing that she didn't look fake, he could only ask, "Have you tried to press it on other people before?"
Peng Wanxi nodded: "I often give Xi Cheng massages, he likes it very much."
Xu Shulou looked over in surprise, only to see Xi Cheng waving at him with a wry smile at an angle that Peng Wanxi couldn't see.
"..." It turned out to be the romantic interest between the young couple. Xu Shulou was speechless and lay dejectedly on the bed, with Yue'er giving him Mengpo soup in front of him and Wanxi grabbing his hands behind him. He was torn for a moment.
Fortunately, at this time, her lovely junior sister came back.
"What are you doing?" Bai Roushuang grabbed the grimacing, battered senior sister and said, "I've only been away for a short while, and you're already torturing my senior sister?"
Xu Shulou rested his head delicately on his junior sister's shoulder and hummed in cooperation.
Bai Roushuang leaned over and smelled the blue and green stuff in the bowl, and almost choked: "What is this?!"
"A drink from the demon world to nourish the body."
"Senior sister, have you drunk?"
Xu Shulou nodded with tears in his eyes.
Bai Roushuang quickly took out a small box of candied fruit from her storage ring and stuffed it into her hands.
Xu Shulou was relieved: "You are so considerate."
Bai Roushuang smiled and said, "I just went to find some herbs..."
Xu Shulou held a salted plum in his mouth and shook his head quickly after hearing this: "No need to worry about me, my injury has healed."
"Didn't you say that you need to practice for a few days to recover?" Everyone asked in surprise, "I haven't seen you meditate or practice in the past few days."
"Who says you have to meditate to practice?" Xu Shulou asked back, "Wouldn't it be just as effective if you just lie on the bed and breathe in and out?"
“……”Everyone didn’t really want to talk to her for a moment.
Now that he was well again, he no longer had the privilege of traveling while lying down. Xu Shulou watched his junior sister put away the bed and could only fly on his own with grievance.
Bai Roushuang noticed the guys following behind her and felt a little annoyed: "The people from Fenxiang Valley have been following us, but they haven't taken any action. I really don't know what they are planning."
"I exposed my weakness on purpose before," Xu Shulou said, "I was unstable and vomited blood, but I didn't expect them to not dare to attack. They were really patient."
"So what should we do?"
"I don't want to bother with them, let's just get rid of them." Xu Shulou held her junior sister and Yue'er in her left hand and Peng Wanxi in her right hand. Peng Wanxi then held Xi Cheng. She exerted force and the five of them flew out with their family.
Xu Shulou's speed was so fast that ordinary cultivators could not catch up with him. In just half an incense stick of time, the people behind him were left far behind.
When passing by a city, everyone was planning to take a short break, but they heard Yue'er say, "Wait, I smell a demonic aura here."
This is a mortal city, and all the people coming and going are mortals. If there are demons with malicious intentions appearing, it will be a disaster for the people in the city. Upon hearing this, several people immediately became alert.
"Can you find any trace?"
Yue Er seemed to hesitate for a moment before nodding and saying, "Okay."
Several people followed her, sometimes rolling on the road, sometimes crawling unnecessarily, and finally sneaked into a small courtyard in the city.
Yue'er sniffed the fishy smell and said, "This is a very vicious demon that can suck the essence of mortals and cultivators. Be careful!"
Everyone took out their weapons and squatted in a row under the window.
Bai Roushuang complained to her senior sister: "I don't know why, but our adventures don't always seem to be very upright."
"..."Xu Shulou was unable to answer for a moment and could only look up at the sky in silence.
Several people looked in through the window and were slightly startled. The high-level demon in the room was lying on a plump woman. A long thin tube protruded from his lips, inserted into the woman's abdomen, and he was greedily sucking something.
It was smoking so intently that it didn't even notice someone peeping outside the window.
This scene looked really horrible. Several people were anxious to save the woman: "Should we do it?"
Xu Shulou stopped them with a strange look on his face: "Take another look."
Out of trust in Xu Shulou, they temporarily restrained themselves and leaned forward to take a closer look. After a while, they discovered something: "Did this woman volunteer?"
After a while, the demon had finished sucking, pulled the long mouthparts out of the woman's abdomen, and wiped its mouth with a handkerchief. After retracting the mouthparts, its appearance looked no different from that of an ordinary person.
The woman also climbed up from the bed, not even taking the time to straighten her skirt. She just couldn't wait to walk towards the bronze mirror in the room, looking left and right, then lowered her head and pinched her abdomen, her face full of joy: "I've actually lost weight! The fat on my abdomen is gone!"
The demon nodded: "Of course, I'm open for business, so I'm fair to everyone."
The woman was a little dissatisfied: "When Daner introduced me here, she said you could make me as thin as she is."
The demon shook his head: "Then you have to come more often. If I take too much at once, your body won't be able to bear it."
The woman frowned: "But I'm going to get married in a few days, can't you solve it for me today?"
"No, it won't work. Something bad will happen," the demon insisted. "You have to wait at least a month before you come to see me next time."
"Okay, okay," the woman took out some silver and handed it to the demon, "Your work is pretty good. Next time I'll bring my brother with me. He's so fat at such a young age that he can't even walk. My parents are worried about him."
"No problem, take care." The demon politely saw the man out.
The people who were listening outside the window could not help but fall silent. It seemed that this demon used his special talents to start a business in the mortal world to help people lose weight. He could fill his stomach and make some money at the same time. He was indeed a business genius.
Moreover, they are very considerate of the health of their customers and only consume a small portion of fat each time. Their philosophy of operating with integrity is quite commendable.
The group of people silently put away their weapons and looked at Yue'er in unison: "Is this the very vicious demon you mentioned? You demons..."
Yue Er stammered, "This is a special case. We demons are very mysterious and scary. We all have green faces and fangs. We can stop children from crying at night if we come out..."
"Yes, yes, it must be terrifying." Everyone nodded in agreement.
"...Forget it, I won't say any more." Yue Er waved her hands in frustration, giving up struggling. "There are dancing bears in the demon world, which are very interesting. If we have the chance to meet again, I will give you one."
“…”
Since it was such an honest business, several people felt that there was no need to interfere, so they took the opportunity when the demon was seeing off the customers and slipped away from its backyard.
Yue'er gave the promised thorny phoenix flower to a few people and said goodbye to them. Her journey to the human world caused the beloved male protagonist of the story to lose a part of his body. In a sense, it can be said that her journey was very fulfilling.
They found a restaurant and set up a banquet for her. Xu Shulou said goodbye to her and put her huge bowl of blue-green drink into his Qiankun bracelet as a souvenir. Yue'er gave Xu Shulou a hug and said, "Thank you. I will remember you."
Xu Shulou smiled and watched her go away.
Yue'er was on her way alone, thinking about Li Muci, with a complicated feeling in her heart. She loved listening to love stories since she was a child, and always thought that she would love someone regardless of the consequences in the future, and give everything for him without regrets, but... she turned around abruptly:
“Who is it?!”
The people following behind her were slightly startled, thinking that they were discovered by her. They were hesitating whether to show up, but they found that this guy would turn back and shout "Who are you" every time he walked a distance.
It turned out to be a trick. Everyone laughed in their hearts. They were worried about Yue'er's safety and planned to escort her secretly for a while, but seeing that she was so vigilant, they decided that it was not necessary.
———
Xu Shulou handed the thorny phoenix flower to Xi Cheng and his wife, intending to say goodbye: "If I have the chance in the future, I will visit you two in the City That Never Sleeps."
The two insisted that after the thorny phoenix flowers were exchanged for spirit stones, they would send Xu Shulou and Bai Roushuang's share to Wuchen Island. They could not refuse, so they did not refuse anymore.
The four of them said goodbye at this point. The children of the cultivation world did not show any reluctance to leave, but only clasped their fists and wished that they would meet again in the future.
Xu Shulou took his junior sister back to Wuchen Island, and then went straight back to his residence in Mingyue Peak.
A letter was placed neatly on her desk. Xu Shulou opened it and found that it was a letter of withdrawal of engagement from Lu Beichen.
She was not surprised by this. She had killed his master, so morally and logically, there was no possibility that the engagement could continue.
Besides, she had offended several elders of Lingxiao Sect. During this period of time, these people might have been urging Lu Beichen to send the letter of withdrawal of engagement.
Xu Shulou thought about it and was about to write a reply out of politeness. However, after thinking for a long time, he could not find anything to write, so he just wrote the word "OK" and put it in an envelope and sent it off.
This engagement, which neither party had intended to fulfill, ended without any surprises and uneventfully, without even the parties involved having any extra emotional fluctuations.
At this point, the two female disciples from Mingyue Peak on Wuchen Island no longer had anything to do with Lu Beichen.
Xu Shulou stretched lazily without much concern and went to find his junior sister for food.
Bai Roushuang prepared a few of her senior sister's favorite dishes, calling it a welcoming banquet, in an attempt to get her to focus and stop thinking about the little goblin outside.
———
On the night that Xu Shulou received Lu Beichen's letter of withdrawal of engagement, he suddenly continued to have the dream that he hadn't had for a long time.
She dreamed that she was watching the quarrel between Lu Beichen and Wei Xuandao.
At the beginning of the dream, Wei Xuandao sneered: "You have grown so powerful now that you don't even listen to Master's words?"
Lu Beichen seemed to be somewhat dissatisfied with his master: "I just don't understand why you resort to these methods? If you practice diligently like my parents, wouldn't you also be able to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven?"
"Your parents?" Wei Xuan said in a mocking tone, "Why do you think your parents can ascend?"
“Why?” Lu Beichen said conceitedly, “Ling Xiao Sect became famous because of my parents’ ascension, and I will inherit their legacy and become the next ascended cultivator to bring glory to Ling Xiao Sect!”
Wei Xuandao laughed: "With your parents' vengeful nature, Lu Beichen, Lu Beichen, do you really think they can ascend successfully?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Of course they succeeded in ascending, as witnessed by the elders of the sect..."
“Yes, they both ascended successfully on the same day, when Lingxiao Sect needed an outstanding achievement the most,” Wei Xuandao sneered, “How could such a coincidence happen in this world? You never suspected... Who is it?!”
Wei Xuandao heard a suspicious noise and rushed out suddenly. The next moment, he had killed a little Taoist boy with his palm.
In the dream, Xu Shulou held his breath desperately and clenched the magic weapon in his hand to hide his tracks.
The dream ended here. Xu Shulou woke up with a start. After coming to his senses, he sighed softly.
———
After returning to Wuchen Island, Xu Shulou resumed her leisurely life. She would meditate for a while every morning, then teach her fellow disciples how to practice sword skills. Then she would take a walk on Mingyue Peak, drift in the wind for a while, and then go to the top of the peak to find the nameless painting and chat for a while.
Perhaps God couldn't stand her being too leisurely. One day, when she was enjoying the steamed beef with rice flour made by her junior sister, she received a message inviting her to visit the newly built Xuan Cang Academy in the world of cultivation.
She had heard of this academy a long time ago. The major sects in the cultivation world had been arguing about the establishment of the academy for a long time. Some of them agreed, while others opposed. Those who agreed were easy to understand. They just wanted to build an academy, take the strengths of various sects, and increase the possibility of cultivators ascending. As for those who opposed, it was also easy to understand - the major sects all had their own secrets and did not want to teach their skills to others for no reason.
In short, the supporters and opponents fought each other for many years before the Xuancang Academy was finally completed. Led by the Qingcheng Sect, the largest sect in the cultivation world, the other major sects also had a share, and it was said that the Lingxiao Sect was also involved.
It seems that they are still arguing about how the academy will be run in the future. It is currently in the stage of just being completed and inviting monks from all walks of life to visit.
Not only Xu Shulou, her master also received the invitation, but as always, Immortal Master Chang Yu had no intention of leaving the mountain, and only asked his eldest disciple to take his younger brothers and sisters on the trip.
Xu Shulou did not refuse. If this academy could be run properly, it would be a great contribution to the world of cultivation. It was only natural for her to go there and show her support.
Before leaving, Immortal Master Chang Yu also reminded that if any little bastard wanted to take advantage of the situation to join Xuancang Academy, they could do as they pleased without asking his opinion.
If this academy can be successfully run, all major sects will definitely send disciples to live in it. This certainly cannot be regarded as betraying the sect and joining another sect, but it is just a way to communicate with each other and enrich what they have learned. It is a good opportunity for both themselves and the sect to learn from the strengths of each school.
Other people on Wuchen Island also received the post, but the other teams were led by their commanders, so Xu Shulou did not go with them.
This time, all the disciples of Mingyue Peak went out without missing a single one. The seven of them flew together on their swords to Xuancang Academy on the top of Mount Taihua. The seven of them walked side by side, and when they didn't speak, they had the extraordinary aura of disciples from famous and upright sects.
When they flew to the top of Mount Taihua, they could see from afar that quite a few people had already gathered there. As soon as they landed, a servant came forward to greet them. Xu Shulou handed over the invitation, and the servant smiled and said, "So you are the distinguished guest from Wuchen Island. Please come in."
The group looked up at the mountain gate. This building was built on the top of Mount Taihua and on a steep cliff. There was mist lingering on the mountainside. On the plaque at the highest point of the mountain gate, four vigorous characters "Xuan Cang College" were outlined like iron painting and silver hooks.
After entering the mountain gate, I saw green walls and golden tiles, tall and majestic pavilions. The halls were far apart and there were no hanging ladders in between. If a cultivator who had not yet learned to fly a sword was present, it would be difficult for him to move forward here.
Xu Shulou inevitably asked, "May I ask how can I get a place in Xuancang College?"
The servant boy smiled and said, "We, the Qingcheng Sect, are the leader, so there are naturally quotas for disciples in our sect. As for other sects, if you want disciples to join the sect, you must first find a master."
"I see," Xu Shulou smiled, "That's fair."
The servant boy asked her, "Does Brother Xu intend to stay here and give a lecture?"
"Me?" Xu Shulou was slightly startled. "I thought you invited me here to be your disciple."
The servant smiled and shook his head: "The post you hold is indigo, which means you are qualified to give lectures."
"I don't deserve it. I still have a lot to learn."
"Fellow Daoist Xu, you are too modest." The servant boy said politely and led the group to continue their tour.
The Tingcang Pavilion in front of us is a dormitory prepared for all the disciples. There are single rooms, double, quadruple, six-person rooms and even dormitory rooms.
The servant explained, "This is an idea that was discussed by several major sects. After entering, there will be a small test every three months. The rooms will be allocated according to the ranking. The best performers can choose single rooms, and the rest can choose the same."
The disciples of Mingyue Peak, who were used to being left alone, couldn't help but sigh: "It's quite cruel."
Feng Yi touched his chin and said, "Can I spend spirit stones to buy a better room?"
The servant shook his head: "No."
After visiting the sleeping hall, we flew along the cliff for a while to see the school.
Bai Roushuang couldn't help but ask: "Doesn't Xuancang Academy accept disciples who haven't established their foundation yet and can't fly a sword?"
"Of course we will recruit them," the servant boy explained to her. "When such people enter the sect, they will be issued a voucher to use for riding the spirit boat. However, this voucher is only valid for half a year. It is best for the disciples to learn how to fly the sword during this half year, otherwise it will be very troublesome."
“…”
Several portraits have been hung in the hallway of the academy. The servant boy explained to the group, "We have invited some famous monks of the time. Some teach sword skills, some teach mind cultivation, and some teach Confucianism and Taoism. The masters in charge of music cultivation and medicine cultivation are also ready. After the academy is officially open, they will come out to give lectures to everyone."
As sword practitioners, they were taken to the sword testing field for a visit. This sword testing field is located in the belly of the mountain, covers a vast area and is divided into several areas. Various spiritual spells are deployed inside as protective measures. When practicing sword here, one can fight with all his strength without having to worry about accidentally killing the opponent.
After a tour, the group had to admit that the teaching method of Xuan Cang Academy was much more formal than that of Mingyue Peak, which was basically free-range.
"Qingcheng Sect will discuss the follow-up matters with your masters," the servant said. "If you are interested in studying here, please come back here in a month to take the assessment."
"Is there still a need for assessment?"
"Don't worry, I'm just testing your level to confirm which master you want to follow," the servant said. "The academy has just opened, so we won't screen out too many students."
What this means is that once the college is fully operational in the future, it will start carefully selecting students.
The people from Mingyue Peak were used to being free and casual, and they were very reluctant to be restricted here. However, the disciples from other sects they met along the way were all very excited. Bai Roushuang asked around and found out that many major sects usually had strict requirements for their disciples.
"How is it? Are you interested?" Xu Shulou asked his fellow junior brothers and sisters.
Song Ping was somewhat tempted: "It would be a good thing to listen to the lectures of a knowledgeable master, consolidate my knowledge of kendo, and communicate and exchange ideas with other students from time to time."
"That's right," Jiang Yan sighed, "I just don't know if we can adapt to the rules here?"
Such a good opportunity, yet they hesitated.
Xu Shulou smiled and said, "There is still about a month left, take your time to think about it."
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