"Those are draconian terms! Who would want to marry into those two big families?" another person scoffed. "It's said they choose three to five fiancés at a time. Not only do they have to have high spiritual roots, but if their cultivation stagnates, they'll be rejected."
"That's not a loss. In the end, only one will be chosen anyway. Even if we don't form a Taoist partner, we can still get some spirit stones. Not to mention that the chosen one will get a generous reward. It is said that there are also beast souls among them that can strengthen the spirit."
"Indeed, the later you get, the harder it is to improve your spirit."
A divine beast soul? Could it be the White Tiger or Azure Dragon soul? If so, she desperately needed it.
"But it is said that the disciple of Zixu Palace, the one with the single fire spiritual root, Lin Yao Zhenjun, has basically been decided." After the group finished gossiping, they started talking about other topics.
Lin Yao, that seemed to be Si Xu's Taoist name, right? She had thought that Si Xu was interested in Luo Hanchu... but she had been wrong.
Li Yirou planned to ask her and see if she could become an outer disciple so that she could stay in Zixu and not fall asleep all the time.
She said goodbye to her uncle, left the Hundred Ghosts Secret Realm, and went directly to Zixu Palace.
There is no city in Zixu. The entire area belongs to the Zixu Palace. All the people living here are outer disciples or menial disciples of the Zixu Palace. Most of the people in the periphery are planting spiritual plants or raising spiritual beasts.
It was not easy for Zixu to sneak in, so Li Yiru sent a message to Si Xu to invite him.
[Sister Si Xu, can I see you? I'll be waiting at the entrance to Zixu. —Lin Chunfang] She signed her name as Senior Sister of Yijian Sect, and she believed Si Xu could guess it.
Sure enough, she appeared in a hurry and saw a woman greeting her. Her face was unfamiliar, but her smile was very familiar.
"Is that you, Yirou?" She said excitedly. Li Yirou nodded slightly. "I'm sorry, things are a bit tricky and I couldn't tell you."
"I'm glad you're okay." Si Xu invited her in and took her directly to his cave.
The climate in Zixu is like a steamer, hot and stuffy, but Li Yiru has already formed a pill, so she doesn't feel anything.
"Yirou..." Si Xu agreed readily and asked her to be his Taoist child. But after a moment's hesitation, he asked about her secret for the first time, "Your cultivation level is not as high as ours, why are you wearing a mask and we can't see it?"
"How did you do it? If it's a technique, can you share it with Brother Luo? You know, he's been wandering around for years. If he can hide his true identity, he can also find a sect..."
Li Yirou shook her head. "Sorry, this can't be spread." She looked at Si Xu expectantly and cautiously, feeling very puzzled. "You care so much about Brother Luo, why did you make an engagement with the Situ family?"
Si Xu sighed, and when he saw that she said it couldn't be shared, he stopped pestering her. Brother Luo also said that it was his fate.
"He has no interest in me, so I treat him as my elder brother.
As for Situ Chuan, he simply said he couldn't resist his family and asked me to do him a favor. He also promised me a lot of good things, including the soul of the Chongming bird. He said he only has you in his heart!
At this point, Si Xu's eyes lit up again, as if he had already accepted that Luo Hanchu had no interest in her, and he didn't care when it was mentioned. "Yiro, Ayan and Situ Chuan, who do you like more?"
Li Yirou was slightly surprised. Was Situ Chuan deliberately showing his affection to lure her out?
But she was very direct, "I don't like Situ Chuan. I thought the soul of the divine beast would be a white tiger or a blue dragon. I want to see if I can exchange it with you..."
"There are many divine beasts, but the four spiritual beasts are more precious. I don't know about the Azure Dragon, but as for the White Tiger beast soul, it seems to be in the Situ family, but it is said that it has been absorbed." Si Xu told her the news he knew.
"The souls of the four divine beasts are inherently violent. How can they be easily fused together unless the souls actively choose to do so?"
"I'm not really sure about that." Si Xu saw Li Yirou lose her composure for once, but she quickly calmed down.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Si Xu began to lose his focus.
Ji Shiyan has been dead for many years, Yirou should start over.
She once hoped that Yirou would miss Ayan for a while longer, but she didn't expect that she would miss him for so long.
Could it be that even leaving Wuji Palace was because of Ayan? I imagined Li Yirou couldn't stand Situ Chuan's entanglement and traveled all over the world for love. Si Xu was deeply shocked. This is love!
Is it because she gave up Luo Hanchu so easily and seemed not affectionate enough that she failed to impress him?
But then Li Yiruo said something lightly, which immediately drew all her attention back.
"The fused beast soul can also be separated, right?" The female cultivator opposite looked as delicate as an orchid, but the words she uttered were like those of a Shura.
Si Xu quickly dissuaded him, "It's extremely difficult to separate a fused beast soul. If the beast soul is damaged and explodes accidentally, even the fused person will die. Furthermore, the person performing the separation will likely be damaged and die as well."
Seeing Si Xu's expression as if he had seen an evil cultivator, Li Yirou did not explain.
"Be a good person to the end, Sister Si Xu..." Li Yiru asked her to ask Situ Chuan out.
"Don't mess around. Anyone who's allowed to approach or even fuse with a beast soul must be an important member of the Situ family. Don't look at him like an ordinary cultivator in your sect. If I ask him out, he'll be accompanied by one or two high-level cultivators for protection. It's impossible for you to force a soul search!"
"What about going to Wuji City?" Li Yirou wanted to give it a try. "Sister Si Xu, please accompany me!"
While sitting in Cheng Yuxuan's private room, Si Xu felt confused. Why did she listen to whatever Li Yiru said?
She wouldn't really want to search Situ Chuan's soul, would it? It would be best if she just asked. If Situ Chuan really got into trouble, I'm afraid the sect would have a hard time protecting her.
[Tell him to come find me.] Li Yirou was in the inner room of the private room. She didn't notice that Situ Chuan was accompanied by anyone for protection, so she sent a message to Si Xu.
"What's the matter?" Si Xu looked at Situ Chuan's gloomy face and tone. Is Yirou particularly attracted to this kind of icy male cultivator? He always has a sour face to show to everyone. She dislikes this kind of person the most.
Ayan knew her when they were children, so he was nice to her, otherwise she would have hated her just as much.
Si Xu pointed to the house opposite and said, "A friend is waiting for you inside. I was asked to do this." No matter what happens, she hopes these two people will not blame her.
Situ Chuan looked up, his heart beating violently in his chest. Could it be her?
He pushed open the door, and the person under the light and shadow looked at him quietly, like a silently blooming flower. In his mind, the scene at this moment overlapped with the day they separated, making his heart slightly warm.
"You..." He said one word and couldn't continue, but she remained so calm, "Long time no see, Situ Chuan."
She no longer called him senior brother, which made him alert. To her, they were probably all enemies, and he was no longer her fellow disciple.
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