Chapter 626: Those who are good at swimming will drown, and the same principle applies to spiritual practice
Lady Late Autumn was brewing fragrant tea at Wuhuan Peak, the former residence of Gong Mengbi and Jin Chan. The steam was rising, and the air was quiet and wild.
Sitting opposite her was a young man with confused thoughts and a disordered look.
The man recognized Lady Wanqiu and said in a somewhat foolish tone, "Wanqiu, I've been thinking about you day and night. Did you come into my dreams?"
Lady Wanqiu laughed and said, "It's clearly you who came into my dream, how can you say I came into yours?"
"I entered your dream?" The man looked confused and tried hard to recall, but he still couldn't remember.
A look of pain appeared on his face, and Lady Wanqiu stood up, hugged his head, and gently patted his back. She said, "If you can't remember, don't think about it for now. Your soul has left your body and is not stable yet. Drink this cup of tea and have a good sleep. You will remember it tomorrow."
Lady Wanqiu always soothes the prince's heart in this way.
The Crown Prince had been a hostage in the imperial capital since childhood, and was extremely cautious and treading on thin ice. Later, when he returned to Gusu, the King of Wu felt more guilty than loving him. His two younger brothers were not close to him, and instead, they had many secret disputes with him.
He had no way to vent or relieve his depression.
His mother would only tell him to obey the King of Wu in everything, not to make the King of Wu angry, and not to disobey his father.
He used to be the one who was abandoned, and now he is the one who has to meet expectations.
Until he met Lady Wanqiu, a flower of eloquence, and became her close friend.
In life, it is difficult to find a true friend, let alone such a beauty as Lady Wanqiu. The prince was attracted to her because of this. Although he knew that Lady Wanqiu was mysterious, he still showed tolerance and convenience to her, allowing her to live a smooth life in Gusu.
The prince calmed down with the comfort of Lady Wanqiu, drank the cup of tea, and fell asleep on the table.
Madam Wanqiu sat opposite him, looked at the scars on the prince's body, and sighed softly.
Practicing the Purple Immortal Method is meant to make others infatuated and even willing to sacrifice their lives. The Purple Immortal Method allows one to indulge in the sea of lust, leveraging the destiny of others to cultivate. However, if the practitioner themselves falls into the sea of lust, they will often become lost, losing their balance and ultimately harming themselves.
But in this world, lust is easy to find, but true love is hard to find.
Lady Wanqiu had been guarding her heart for many years, but she still couldn't resist the prince's true love.
Although Lady Late Autumn was revered as a great figure by the literati of Suzhou, she was still a courtesan, a dancer in a brothel, with countless greedy eyes watching her, trying to get close to her. It was the Crown Prince who protected her. Even though being intimate with such a lowly woman from a brothel was detrimental to his reputation, he still did it.
"Your Highness, where will our fate go?" Lady Wanqiu covered him with a piece of clothing made of smoke to protect his soul from the pain of the mountain wind, but she herself was very depressed.
Even though the prince has a sincere heart, he is tied to too many worldly matters and is almost inevitably caught up in the conflicts of the chaotic world, unable to escape.
Can sincerity overcome all difficulties? I'm afraid not. Some things are beyond his control. Lady Wanqiu is moved, but her feelings cannot help her save the prince from suffering.
When he wakes up, Lady Wanqiu will try it for the first time.
Gong Mengbi was well aware of Lady Wanqiu's struggle; he had foreseen it when he first met her.
Those who are good at swimming will drown, and those who are good at riding will fall, each of them will bring disaster upon themselves because of their own hobbies. The same principle applies to spiritual practice.
The Purple Immortal's method requires one to enter the world with a heart of detachment. Lady Wanqiu drowned herself in it, and the tribulation of love had already begun.
Unfortunately, Gong Mengbi had no way to resolve her emotional woes. He could neither persuade the prince to follow Lady Wanqiu into seclusion in the mountains, nor could he persuade Lady Wanqiu to sit idly by and watch the prince fall into trouble.
Whether they can finally overcome the emotional tribulation successfully depends on the two lovers themselves to figure it out.
He didn't have time to care about it now, as he was meeting the Lord of Yue Mansion.
It is not easy to take away the soul of the prince. First, he needs to rely on the authority of the Yue Mansion, second, he needs to rely on the close connection between him and Lady Wanqiu, and third, the chaos caused by the Five Gods caused him to fall into the water and frighten the soul.
The Crown Prince's status was special, and he had great destiny, so the soul-snatching method was reported to the Lord of the Mansion. After the Lord of the Mansion approved it, the Yue Mansion used its authority to cooperate with Gong Mengbi to snatch the Crown Prince's soul away in advance to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Holy Mother Jizhituo.
After the mission was accomplished, Gong Mengbi was summoned by the Lord of the Mansion before dawn and entered the palace of Yue Mansion with a smell of dew on his body.
The Lord of the Palace sat high up in the sky, his divine form majestic and imposing, like a mountain. Below him, a purple-robed immortal twirled his beard and nodded, his immortal form carefree and free, like the wind and thunder.
The strange visions of mountains, wind and thunder appeared and disappeared quickly. Gong Mengbi took a look at them, and the next moment, everything was calm again, as if all the previous visions were illusions.
"Mingfu is here." The Lord of the Mansion laughed and pointed at Gong Mengbi and said, "Court Envoy, this is the Fox Commander under the Empress's command whom I mentioned to you."
Then he looked at Gong Mengbi and said, "Haven't you met Director Zhang of the Exorcism Institute yet?"
Gong Mengbi smiled and saluted, saying, "Gong Mengbi, the Fox Master of the Heavenly Fox Court, greets the Lord of the Mansion and Envoy Zhang."
Zhang Yuanshi carefully examined Gong Mengbi, revealing a look of surprise. He said, "His immortal body is like the bright moon, his immortal soul is like a blue dragon, and he was born a fox, yet he possesses righteous virtue. How wonderful!"
This wasn't the right occasion for Gong Mengbi to speak, so he could only smile respectfully and say, "Your Excellency, I am so kind."
Zhang Yuanshi said to the Lord of the Mansion, "Lord of the Mansion is truly blessed to have found such a talented person. Sooner or later, he will become a fellow traveler."
The Lord of the Mansion sighed and said, "It's a pity that I acted too late. Now the little fox is under the command of the Goddess. The Goddess is reluctant to let him go."
Envoy Zhang laughed heartily and said, "If I were a goddess, I wouldn't be willing to give it up. She has waited too long, and staying here is a burden to her."
The Lord of the Mansion said, "That's right, but whether it will succeed or not depends on fate."
The two of them did not say it explicitly, nor did they avoid Gong Mengbi. They piqued his interest but had no intention of solving his doubts.
The Lord of the Mansion asked him to take a seat and said, "You have done some great things in the past few days. Why don't you tell me about them?"
Gong Mengbi reported everything one by one without hiding anything.
After hearing this, Zhang Yuanshi narrowed his eyes slightly and calculated the seals, saying, "The auspicious time is approaching, it is just around the corner."
The Lord of the Mansion said, "Court Envoy, you represent the will of the Heavenly King. You should be the one to plan and coordinate this matter, so that you can convince the people."
Envoy Zhang sighed and said, "The Lord always pushes these difficult things onto me."
But he smiled unkindly and said, "But since the Heavenly King is in charge of this world, it is only appropriate for me to handle these matters. If there is any dissatisfaction, the Heavenly King will always take the responsibility."
The Lord of the Mansion also laughed and said, "Then my Yue Mansion will obey the orders of the Court Envoy."
He said with an indifferent expression, "I've almost wiped out all the termites in the underworld. I've endured this long enough to avoid alerting the enemy."
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