At 8 p.m., the moonlight enveloped the entire city of Hangzhou. A gentle evening breeze blew by, and a few drunken scholars walked along the streets, chanting poems as they made their way to the West Lake.
Under the bright moonlight, several dark figures appeared silently in front of Xu Xian's house. They glanced at Xu Xian and his wife quietly, then quickly looked away and waited for another group of people.
Before long, three people flew in from a distance, landing silently beside them.
"Lady Bai will be going out to gather herbs in a moment," Lin Feng said directly. "You have five minutes."
"Um!"
Xu Jing, who was dressed in a black robe, responded and took out a white jade bottle that emitted a refreshing fragrance.
During the day, Moriyama Oriko changed into ordinary clothes, but the short skirt and thigh-high silhouette clashed completely with the style of this world. The last one, Katsura Sakura, clutched the Sword of Oath and Victory tightly, her fingers clenched, her expression extremely tense.
Soon, Lady White Snake carried a pile of herbs to the back of the house. Xu Xian, who was inspecting the newly picked herbs in the room, yawned deeply and picked up a water cup from the table.
In that instant, Xu Xian froze in place. The white jade bottle had appeared beside him at some point and poured a few drops of liquid into the water cup.
Once Xu Xian recovered, he drank the water in the cup in one gulp, let out a long yawn, and slumped onto the table.
Soon, a misty aura emanated from Xu Xian, making the light in the entire room blur.
Bai Niangzi, who had returned from behind the house, did not notice anything amiss. As usual, she put down the herbs she had prepared and went into the room.
Until her bright eyes became unfocused, Lady White Snake walked very slowly to Xu Xian's side, sat down on a chair, and, like Xu Xian, leaned on the table.
"alright."
"Let's begin."
Xu Jing wove a strange mental grid with her hands, then extracted threads from it and handed them to everyone present.
Lin Feng took it with one hand, and the moment he connected with his mental energy, he was immediately pulled into a hazy mental world.
In the spiritual world, it was already daytime. Xu Xian was still sitting at the table writing prescriptions, while Bai Niangzi was outside tidying up her clothes. The two seemed unaware of each other, focused on their own tasks, without exchanging a single word.
"They can't see us."
Xu Jing appeared beside Lin Feng, followed by the mental projections of others, all looking at the two people in the courtyard.
"First accelerate for ten years."
Ten years passed peacefully. Xu Xian's child grew up, Li Gongfu found a new wife, and Xiao Qing stopped causing trouble and accepted a slow-paced life in the human world without using magic.
"What are your thoughts?" Xu Jing led everyone into the sky, looking at the increasingly wealthy Xu family, and then looked at them.
"And you guys?" Si Zang looked around and finally looked at Xu Jing.
At this moment, Lin Feng spoke up: "Xu Xian, with his miraculous healing skills, accidentally saved a young lady from a prominent family while gathering herbs. The young lady wanted to repay him with her body, but unexpectedly, she contracted an incurable disease six months later. Compared to Bai Suzhen, who had never suffered from any illness in the past ten years, the difference between the two made Xu Xian realize the fragility of mortals."
"Unexpectedly, a month later, the uncle of the young lady from a prominent family came to visit. The uncle was a Taoist priest who had once been in love with a demon, but in the end, seeing that the demon's appearance had not aged at all over the decades, he gave up the relationship."
"Alright!" Xu Jing waved her hand, and the scene below immediately began to change. Unbeknownst to them, the Taoist priest and Xu Xian had finished their conversation and turned to leave Hangzhou.
Walking alone on the street, Xu Xian couldn't help but sigh: "If those immortals were still here, perhaps they could help me..."
Before the deep voice could finish, Lin Feng interrupted from the side, "The mission has arrived. Give him a choice: become a demon or go into the mountains to cultivate Taoism."
"Um?"
Xu Jing and the others couldn't help but think of many things. If Xu Xian cultivated immortality to accompany Bai Niangzi, then their mission would be impossible to complete.
"Don't worry, he can't abandon his worldly affairs; he's just completing his mission." Lin Feng smiled, temporarily dispelling the three's doubts.
"Hmm..." Xu Jing hesitated for a moment, but quickly created a Baoqing Fangzhu using an illusion, giving Xu Xian two choices, and surprisingly didn't ask any more questions.
Faced with two choices, Xu Xian unsurprisingly hesitated.
Becoming a demon would solve all his troubles, but as a minor demon, he couldn't retract his demon form, so he couldn't live such a peaceful life. At the same time, he would have to face people like Fahai who might appear in the future.
He chose to cultivate Taoism, but he wasn't sure if he truly had the talent for it... He would also stay away from the world for ten or a hundred years.
"Let's accelerate for ten years and see the results."
Lin Feng spoke dismissively, and Xu Jing immediately began to take control.
Things below began to change rapidly. Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and Xu Xian had aged considerably. He made no choice; he had to think not only of Bai Niangzi, but also of his children and family.
Meanwhile, his children had grown up, and Li Gongfu's children would often come to visit him and run the pharmacy with Xu Xian.
Ten years later, Bai Suzhen had changed and looked somewhat weathered, but Xu Xian knew perfectly well that she was simply growing old with him.
"Is there anything else you want?" Xu Jing asked.
"Arrange some battles, let Xu Xian ask us for help," Lin Feng said, and Xu Jing immediately arranged for some demons and monks to join the fray.
The scene sped up continuously, and battles kept breaking out. Xu Xian pleaded with them seven or eight times, and they agreed seven or eight times.
When Xu Xian was ninety years old, his frail body could no longer move. He could only look at Bai Niangzi, whose legs were still healthy, and his great-grandson beside him, and sigh in his heart.
Perhaps becoming a demon would be better, but it would only make things difficult for my wife.
Xu Xian's thoughts were released by the illusion. As he trembled and picked up the cup beside him, he vaguely saw a younger version of himself and the scene of Bai Niangzi being suppressed under Leifeng Pagoda without the help of those immortals.
"You want to implant ideas in him?"
Lin Feng asked from the side, "Implanting ideas into a mortal is too simple. As long as he feels that he is a nuisance, the real reason for Bai Niangzi's troubles, and makes him understand that this is only part of repaying a debt of gratitude, not love, other thoughts will naturally arise."
Add to that the effects of this illusion, and who wouldn't be swayed?
Xu Jing replied, "Yes, we can't break them up normally, so we can only use this method to forcibly rehearse a possibility."
"An interesting method..." Lin Feng looked at it with interest. He had never thought of it this way before. Of course, this was considered mild. If he were to directly plant a mental imprint on Xu Xian, that would also work, but the ending wouldn't be so pleasant.
"Okay, everything will be fine once he wakes up."
Xu Jing breathed a sigh of relief, but in that instant of relaxation, her gaze turned into a sharp glint, silently piercing Lin Feng's brow.
"clang!"
A loud bang occurred, and Lin Feng's heart felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer, beginning to tremble and dissipate involuntarily.
Si Zang and Tang Hong were suddenly pulled away, and an illusion enveloped their will, imprisoning them in an area devoid of any extraordinary power.
Yu trembled all over, enveloped by some kind of black object, and sank into the earth, disappearing from their sight.
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