Chapter 32 Grilled Fish and Epiphany
Gu Liyue put away [Wu Hua] and saw that Nie Hengzhou had already packed up and was holding her clothes. She reached out and took them, "Master Nie, congratulations on your successful advancement. Are you now in the Golden Core stage?"
Her ears turned red when she thought of seeing him almost naked in the morning.
It’s true, Nie Hengzhou has a really good figure, streamlined. He doesn’t have the big muscles of those big men in the apocalypse, but his body is well-proportioned and full of strength, which gives people a strong visual impact!
Nie Hengzhou smiled, and the small red mole at the corner of his eye seemed to stretch out, making his face look even more enchanting. He said, "Yes! Thank you, Liyue, for protecting me."
"Actually, I don't really understand either. I was just a little flustered. I hope I didn't make things worse for you." Gu Liyue knew that most people would need a little time to consolidate their cultivation after they had just advanced. "Master Nie, do you need to find a place to consolidate your cultivation?"
"You've done very well." Nie Hengzhou seemed to have thought of something and said, "Liyue, you and I are friends now, right? You shouldn't call me 'Master Nie' all the time. It's a little distant and troublesome."
Gu Liyue remembered how Xiao Furou addressed him and blurted out, "Then what else should I call you? Senior Brother?"
"It doesn't seem appropriate to call me senior brother. Why don't you call me by my name, just like I call you," Nie Hengzhou replied after thinking for a moment.
"Well, Hengzhou, why don't you consolidate your cultivation after your recent advancement?"
"Actually, I've been stuck in the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment for a long time. The spiritual energy in my body is also sufficient, and it was enough for me from last night to early morning."
"Why did you advance so quickly last night? Did you think of something?"
From their previous interactions, Nie Hengzhou knew that Gu Liyue seemed to have no knowledge of some aspects, so he was willing to tell her more when she asked.
"Yes, I had an epiphany from the grilled fish you gave me."
"Ah? Grilled fish?" Gu Liyue found it unbelievable. Does that mean that his enlightenment was due to his grilled fish? But she couldn't connect grilled fish with enlightenment!
The fish I grilled myself actually has this function, it’s so magical!
Yes, this is the world of cultivating immortals, and it is real fantasy!
Nie Hengzhou recalled what he was thinking at that time.
He ate grilled fish, and his taste buds experienced new flavors, which gave him some insights.
It made him feel that the world was so big and there were so many strange things that he didn't know about.
He should step out of the circle he knows so that he can perceive more unknowns and go further on the path of cultivation.
Seeing her face full of disbelief, Nie Hengzhou said, "To be precise, it's the taste. It's a taste I've never tasted before. It reminds me that there are still many things in this world that I don't know. It makes me more determined to move forward."
Alas, sometimes enlightenment is something you can only feel but not express in words. If you express it, it won’t feel the same anymore.”
Gu Liyue thought about it and understood that enlightenment is something that one has to gain on his own; other people's enlightenment may not be suitable for him.
She looked at Nie Hengzhou carefully and found that his aura seemed to be much stronger, giving people a different feeling.
Seeing her staring at him intently, Nie Hengzhou's face flushed with two blushes. He remembered that she must have seen his miserable appearance last night, which was why she put clothes on him.
I don’t know whether she is satisfied with her figure or not.
When he thought of this, he ordered himself to stop letting his imagination run wild.
He looked at Gu Liyue, who seemed to understand what he wanted to say, and said, "So, Liyue, you helped me a lot in advancing this time."
Gu Liyue waved her hand and said, "Actually, I didn't expect to give you spicy food. I prepared that for myself."
Nie Hengzhou remembered that he had eaten her food twice when they met in the forest, and couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed: "Is there anything you want? I can give it to you. Thank you for helping me advance."
Gu Liyue thought about it and it seemed that she didn't have anything special she wanted at the moment. She wanted to enter Qingxuan College, but she thought that she could do it with her own strength and didn't need anyone's help.
“I don’t think there’s anything I want,” she said.
Nie Hengzhou looked at her and said, "Okay, when you know what you want, tell me!"
Gu Liyue nodded.
Nie Hengzhou looked at her and said, "Liyue, what is your current level of cultivation?" In fact, he had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but he just didn't have the chance.
Gu Liyue said: "It should be the fifth level of foundation building."
Upon hearing this answer, he couldn't help but sigh: Gu Liyue is simply a monster, her talent must be against the sky!
"You're growing up so fast! You couldn't even practice a month ago!"
“Maybe I started late.”
I have never heard of a starting party increasing the speed of promotion, but this is something that makes people think deeply. When I was refining Qi at the age of ten and building the foundation at the age of twelve, I was praised by my master and was considered to be against the will of heaven by the world. Now I have entered the Golden Core stage at the age of eighteen.
Only I know how much effort I have put into my cultivation. Then look at Gu Liyue, who has reached the fifth level of foundation building in just a month, and she seems to be doing it with ease.
"...You should come and apply to Qingxuan College!"
She thought of the immortal cultivation stories she'd read before the apocalypse, where someone reaching the Golden Core stage was called "Master Uncle," and reaching the Nascent Soul stage earned them a mountaintop and was promoted to elder. She'd once found this kind of advancement in seniority based on cultivation quite amusing.
As soon as she thought of it, she couldn't help but want to ask for clarification, so she nodded and said, "Hengzhou, if you were promoted to the Golden Core Stage in the academy, would the people who used to call you Senior Brother have to call you Uncle Master instead?"
"Right. That's what fellow disciples with different masters should call him. If we are from the same sect, we should still call him by the original title." Nie Hengzhou thought about it. Doesn't that mean that if Gu Liyue enters the academy in the future, I will call myself uncle-master. Why would that feel so bad?
But he thought that with her monstrous cultivation speed, she should be promoted soon, and he must let Gu Liyue worship his master as her master, and she would only be his junior sister in the future.
"Oh, so that's how it is. I thought if my former junior fellow apprentice called me uncle, wouldn't that mean I'm of the same generation as my master? And if I advance to a higher realm than my master, wouldn't that reverse the master-disciple relationship?"
Nie Hengzhou said, "Actually, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, each advancement is not easy, so I haven't heard of any disciple whose cultivation level can surpass Master's. Furthermore, cultivators generally only accept disciples after they reach the Nascent Soul stage."
"Oh, I see. But there are always exceptions."
Nie Hengzhou thought about the exceptions Gu Liyue mentioned, which should be theoretically valid! He never expected that he would actually encounter such an exception later. Of course, that's a story for later.
Gu Liyue continued, "There are probably only a few dozen Jindan cultivators in Donglin Country. Hengzhou, do you think that since you caused such a big scene last night, many people will come to the Fantasy Forest to check it out this morning?"
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