Chapter 293 Starting Over (1)
Ji Rong, clutching the Hundred Skills Seal, caught up with him. She pounded on the door of Qing Pingzi's cave and cried out, "Senior brother, senior brother, why did you come back? Don't you want this treasure anymore?"
Inside the gleaming golden gate of the cave, Qingpingzi lay on the ground, staring straight at the top of the cave, a tear sliding down his cheek.
He opened his mouth and made a sound like cutting dry grass, saying, "Junior sister, my path is wrong, I'm finished. You should leave. I need to calm down and think things through."
Ji Rong said anxiously from outside, "Senior brother, you are mistaken. Your seal is only slightly cracked, not that your Dao has collapsed. We can prove this Dao again. It's not like we haven't proven it before."
Upon hearing this, Qingpingzi remained silent. He turned over and lay motionless on the ground.
He thought of the privileged position Qingpingzi enjoyed in the Jade Void Palace when he was young.
In his youth, he was entrusted by his master, Ling Xiaozi, to inherit her will and take charge of the Jade Void Palace.
Now, in his old age, he has realized that the path he has always followed is blocked. Qingpingzi is deeply grieved, feeling as if tens of thousands of knives are churning inside his body, turning him into dust.
Ji Rong knocked for a while, but couldn't hear any noise from inside. She had no choice but to put the Hundred Skills Seal under her wings.
Ji Rong looked at the empty space under her wings, her eyes darting around, and suddenly another idea came to her.
Ji Rong flapped her wings and quickly ran back to the Blood Pill Workshop. She asked Shan Wu for his large but empty storage ring, then looted all the spiritual fruits and materials in the Blood Pill Workshop before heading towards Qing Pingzi's cave.
She placed a plate of spiritual fruits outside Qingpingzi's cave and called out again, "Senior brother, I've prepared some spiritual fruits for you. Hurry up and take them in to eat."
Then, she squatted outside Qingpingzi's cave, motionless, her aura becoming ordinary, like a mortal being.
A day and a night passed, but there was no sound from the cave entrance.
Ji Rong rushed forward again, waving her two wings and claws, banging them loudly, and howling: "Senior brother, you must not do something rash! There are thousands of paths, if one doesn't work, we'll take another one."
You never rested on your journey to help me become emperor, and now you've gone into bed without eating or drinking. I hope you don't just pass away silently.
If you pass away, I will be the youngest among all my senior brothers and sisters. As someone who came later in life, how could I possibly compete with them?
Senior brother, do you know how poor I am now? My uncle, the Poor Demon Emperor, at least had a large storage ring. Now that I've become an emperor, all I have left is a body full of fur. I've even lost the three swords that Master gave me.
Senior brother, our master appeared to me in a dream, telling me to eat well in Jade Void Palace. If you die, and I'm so poor, how will I afford to eat?
"Brother, at least come out and share some of the treasure with me before you lie down!"
As Ji Rong wailed, she thought to herself that she was so poor that she didn't even have a small storage ring anymore, and she was filled with genuine sorrow, so she cried out loudly.
Qingpingzi had already lost all hope, but Ji Rong's repeated shouts and arrogant words outside the cave gradually stirred up an itch in his heart.
He slammed the cave door open with a "bang," and both tails moved simultaneously. One tail slapped Ji Rong on the head, while the other swept up the plate of spirit fruit on the ground. Then he closed the door again.
Ji Rong took a hit, but she was secretly delighted.
The next day, she came again. She put down a plate of spiritual fruit, knocked on the door, and shouted, "Senior brother, I did not mean to bother you today."
"I'm really too poor right now, junior sister. I want to clean your lotus platform, but I don't even have a single piece of spirit linen cloth. Please give me something to clean it so I can clean your lotus platform!"
"Squeak!" The cave door opened a crack, and then three pieces of spirit linen cloth and a broom made of spirit bamboo branches were thrown out.
Ji Rong swiftly pressed down on the closing gap and said, "Senior brother, you forgot to take your spiritual fruit today. If you take it, I'll let go."
Qingpingzi sighed helplessly inside and said, "Junior sister, we great cultivators who have reached the Heavenly Realm can go without food and drink for ten years without any problem."
But he eventually managed to drag the plate of spirit fruit into it with his tail.
Ji Rong retracted her claws and called out towards the door, "Senior brother, all you'll get by not eating or drinking is a body of skin that's getting drier and drier."
Take a good look at this sweet fruit inside; you might just come up with a new idea.
"I don't care, you absolutely must come out after I clean the lotus platform. If you don't come out, I'll smash down the door to this cave!"
Silence fell again inside.
Ji Rong didn't expect Qing Pingzi to respond. After saying that, she conveniently picked up the three pieces of spirit linen and the broom and headed towards the lotus platform.
On the lotus platform, bird droppings were piled up, old droppings crusted over, and new droppings stinking. Ji Rong cleaned them up while gagging, wondering how Qing Pingzi, who usually ate only dew and was very clean, could stay there.
She thought to herself, half sighing and half feeling proud, "I remember when I was suddenly picked up by a flock of birds and taken into the sky, my senior brother was so anxious that he forgot to turn on the protective shield and followed me."
It has to be said, Ji Rong really guessed right.
But Qingpingzi didn't forget to activate the protective shield; he simply couldn't. Once he activated it, his speed would be reduced by the oncoming wind, making it impossible for him to keep up with the flock of birds soaring on the wind.
And so Qingpingzi, braving the torrential rain of excrement, rode his lotus platform and followed Ji Rong all the way there.
Ji Rong spent two days cleaning the lotus platform.
As soon as it was swept clean, Ji Rong rushed to Qing Pingzi's cave and shouted, "Senior brother! Come out quickly, the lotus platform is cleaned!"
After knocking for a while, Qingpingzi slowly walked out from inside. He looked around the lotus platform, pointed to the lotus core with disgust, and said, "What a strong bird odor!"
After saying this, Qingpingzi went straight to his golden cave dwelling and closed the door again.
"You difficult old Taoist priest! Wait till you come out, and I'll plunder all the treasures you've accumulated!" Ji Rong cursed inwardly.
She immediately flapped her wings and began plucking flowers all over the Jade Void Mountains.
Thus, the cultivators of Yuxu Palace once again saw Qing Jizi, who was of extremely high seniority, picking flowers everywhere and traveling between the peaks of Yuxu.
After plucking most of the flowers from the Jade Void Mountain Range, Ji Rong finally covered the lotus platform with all sorts of colorful flowers she had picked.
Ji Rong once again opened the gate of Qingpingzi's cave and called out, "Senior brother, come out quickly! Now your lotus platform is filled with fragrance. There is no place in the entire Jade Void Mountain Range that smells better than your lotus platform!"
Under the sunlight, the gate to Qingpingzi's cave finally opened.
He looked at Ji Rong and said helplessly, "Junior sister, I'm not going to die yet, why can't you let me have some peace and quiet!"
Ji Rong pointed to the lotus platform that she had wiped clean and made it look brand new, and said seriously, "Senior brother, you can go to that quiet place. It's high up there and you can see far. Since you can't figure it out, you should climb up and look into the distance."
Sitting idly in the cramped cave, what good ideas can one come up with besides being attached to appearances and getting lost in delusion? All one can do is feel sad and resentful in silence.
"Senior brother, Master's path may not align with your current one. Since cracks have appeared, we can continue cultivating."
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