Chapter 187: Treating People and Dogs Equally

"Tell me, what are the immortals in the stories of the mortal world like?"

It was a dark and windy night. Several well-dressed young men were walking on a deserted path outside the city, chatting casually.

Yuan Ye didn't know why Junior Master asked this. After thinking for a while, he replied, "Junior Master, if you put away your banditry, don't laugh, don't wear narrow sleeves, and it's best to wear flowing robes. That's about it."

Lin Du thought about it and felt that it was a little difficult, but not much.

She looked at Yuan Ye standing beside her and said, "Then you should clean yourself up and dress yourself up."

Yuan Ye: ...

"Is it possible? I don't have your face and eyes that look at people and dogs equally."

Lin Du sneered.

Yuan Ye took a step back and said, "Ah, change clothes, change clothes, find an abandoned temple to change clothes."

He knew that Junior Uncle could not pretend to be an immortal. Instead, he looked like a living King Yan who was about to put ghosts into a frying pan.

Wei Zhi pulled down his hat and smiled, and Lin Du attacked without distinction, "The hat can't cover the upturned corners of your mouth, so stop pretending."

The Buddhist monk raised his head and laughed at her openly.

Lin Du twitched the corners of his mouth, wishing he could show his teeth to show his intimidation.

Wei Zhi pointed to a place while smiling, "There is a dilapidated Taoist temple over there, let's go."

When Lin Du arrived at the place, he was stunned, "This Taoist temple..."

The Taoist temple is very large, with many courtyards at the back. Although it has only been abandoned for a few years, you can still vaguely see signs of its former prosperity. The paint on the walls is still bright, but the inside is full of cobwebs and a thick layer of dust.

It was clearly summer, but the Taoist temple was completely deserted and extremely cold and gloomy.

Yuan Ye and Jin Xuan were both Taoists, so they couldn't help feeling sad when they saw each other.

Lin Du immediately knew why. The imperial teacher had been purged, and with a new emperor, new ministers. It was not uncommon for the Taoist temple to be abandoned.

She mumbled a cleaning formula, "Let's go, let's take a rest first."

When he said rest, Yuan Ye simply changed out of the clothes that made him look like a prince, and put on a wide-sleeved Taoist robe that was similar to his master's.

Ni Jinxuan has not grown much in these years, and has a pleasing face, like the golden boy and jade girl beside the Bodhisattva in traditional cognition.

Lin Du did not force it. He changed out of his usual training clothes, grabbed a dust whisk from his fifth senior brother, and threw it over his left arm. "Does it look good?"

It looked so good that Yuan Ye took a glance at it and thought it was the fifth uncle in the sect who always avoided cooking, except that he lacked a beard.

Wei Zhi watched for a while and even followed their pretense, "How about I change into a cassock?"

Lin Du glanced at him and didn't feel comfortable saying that he was not part of her plan.

But Wei Zhi understood and reminded him, "I heard that General Xie is a Buddhist monk who is sent to practice Buddhism."

Lin Du: It’s General Xie who has no taste!

But soon Lin Du suddenly turned his head and looked at Yuan Ye thoughtfully, "Why is the Buddhist temple cultivating land and stationing troops there? Otherwise, why would they suddenly lead troops to surround it a year later?"

Yuan Ye was stunned for a moment, with a strange look in his eyes, "But that's... the upright Xie Yu, how could he..."

"I am not the same person today as I was yesterday, let alone my old friends." Lin Du reminded, "Don't dwell on yesterday."

Ni Jinxuan showed some kindness to Yuan Ye and gave him a piece of Lin Du's special candy.

"Don't look so sad!"

Yuan Ye lowered his head and saw the orange candy wrapped in the oil paper in the palm of his hand. It was dipped in powdered sugar and was neither soft nor hard. It was just cut into irregular squares with a kitchen knife. It was much rougher than the ones in the palace. However, he still stuffed the candy into his mouth. After a while, he frowned and the candy stuck to his teeth.

How come Junior Master is such a picky person, but he never picked this candy? He has been eating it since his first year in the sect until now.

Lin Du didn't care at all. He turned around and discussed with Wei Zhi, "Xie Yu may not respect the Buddha. It won't help if you go. You can follow us. Yuan Ye is my nephew. You can ask for what you want, but I want to ensure that he has no hindrance in his practice in the future."

Wei Zhi agreed with a smile, "Okay."

Lin Du then turned around and walked up to Yuan Ye, saying, "This time when we return to the palace, the main theme is the descent of an immortal, which is very high-class. You have already eaten the candy, why are you still frowning? Let's go, I calculated, Chenshi is good enough."

Yuan Ye's face was grim. He had just licked the candy stuck on his teeth with a look of deep resentment when he was slapped hard by his junior uncle. He bit his tongue and could not hold back his tears.

It was rare for Ni Jinxuan not to side with Lin Du, "Master Junior, he's crying! How about you let him cry alone first before leaving?"

Yuan Ye: ...It’s okay if you don’t show me this kind of consideration.

Lin Du lowered his eyes and laughed, "Fly quickly while it's dark."

The sun gradually rose. In March, the whole capital city should have been covered with mist and gray haze, but today when I came out after morning court, the sun actually came out.

The sun broke through the clouds, and a group of cranes flew across the sky above the palace. As soon as the officials in the morning court heard the news that they would adjourn, a young eunuch rolled and crawled to the side of the senior eunuch and said tremblingly, "The Imperial Temple, something happened in the Imperial Temple!"

"The temple suddenly glowed with golden light and auspicious clouds covered the roof. All the flowers bloomed and there were cranes circling around! They were real cranes!"

The young man standing at the front had excellent hearing. He raised his face slightly when he heard the words. Half of his face was tattooed, and his deep black eyes revealed some thoughts.

The emperor was mature and prudent. After the court session was over, he said with a cold face, "Go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple."

Lin Du in the sky was eating melon seeds. Melon seeds made her very hot, but her senior brother didn't allow her to eat them because they were bad for her health, so she could only eat them secretly outside.

The four people hid in the clouds. Lin Du cracked melon seeds in one hand while looking at the square, solemn and dignified imperial palace. It was different from the Forbidden City in his memory, but it was beautiful with its colorfully painted red walls, tall eaves and rafters, and curved corridors.

Wei Zhi glanced at the handful of melon seeds she was holding, which had almost turned into melon seed shells. Just as he was about to take out another handful, he quickly grabbed a handful and said, "Don't eat it."

Lin Du's eyes widened, with a look of "Why do you care about me?" written all over them.

"Your internal organs are deficient and underdeveloped. The spiritual food of the Supreme Sect is made from the purest spiritual things in the spiritual world, but you bought these melon seeds outside. Be careful not to get sick if you eat too much."

Lin Du expressed his disbelief, "How could I be so fragile!"

Wei Zhi said nothing, staring at her intently, with a few big words written on his face, "You are."

The biggest reason why Lin Du didn't bring Xia Tianwu was that he didn't want to be stared at by death. But now, there's a stinky Buddhist cultivator by his side who claims to be his elder but is actually of the same generation!

How tragic it is.

Lin Du kowtowed a few more times, and suddenly he saw a pair of bright yellow ceremonial staffs coming from a distance. He had no choice but to suppress the rebelliousness he had just built up, and crushed a handful of melon seed shells into powder, which fell down all over the place.

The little eunuch who was kneeling down below was covered in dust and was unaware of what was happening.

Lin Du stood up, waved his unfamiliar wide sleeves, took out a dust whisk and swept all three people, then pretended to perform a spell to disperse the auspicious clouds, put on a look that treated people and dogs equally, and with the dust whisk in hand, he looked down at the Imperial Temple and the emperor on earth.

She suddenly felt like ordering a song.

"There has never been a savior, and we don't need gods or emperors."

"To create human happiness, it all depends on ourselves."