latelenovela Chapter 235 That's fine too.
Chapter 235 That's fine too.
At Maoshan Taoist Temple, Yuanbao lay lazily on the roof ridge, basking in the sun. The old Taoist priest casually found a seat under a tree inside the temple, stroking his newly grown beard with great satisfaction. With proper care, he might just regain his former glory.
Before he knew it, the girl in white was standing behind him.
"I taught those overstepping guys a lesson."
"Oh dear, that's just a stroke of luck for Zhong Ming's disciple. Let's just say it's a token gesture, don't scare them all away." The old Taoist squinted at the sky. With such fine weather, he decided not to go out and fight Ye Lanjiang.
Miss Bai didn't care at all. "It doesn't matter. Whether we accept this opportunity or not, it's all the same. There's not much good fortune, but a lot of trouble. Let them sleep for a few more years, so that Little Bell won't be chased around by people."
"Hey, why don't you go out and protect him yourself? I can't go too far, so it doesn't matter to you." The old Taoist said casually, but his eyes kept stealing glances at Miss Bai.
"You've actually started thinking about it. If you make a move, it's not just a matter of whether it will cause trouble or not; it'll be a matter of sleeping for thousands of years... Oh, I see."
A sword light arrived in an instant, and with the old Taoist priest letting out a heart-wrenching scream, most of his newly grown beard was cut off.
"My goodness! This is practically my disciple's hard-earned wealth! Can't you just cut it all down like that?" The old Taoist's heart was bleeding. He muttered to himself, "So what if he's unhappy that someone else signed a soul contract with Zhong Ming's disciple first? Could you even sign it yourself? Wouldn't you drain my poor disciple dry in an instant?"
Standing beside the old Taoist priest, the young woman was considerably taller than him as he sat. She glanced at him sideways and said coldly, "Do you think I'm trying to win unreasonably again?"
The old Taoist priest slowly sank down, the soil beneath him feeling soft and loose, his body pressing out a gentle curve.
After sinking a few degrees, he finally spoke, "Concern leads to confusion, concern leads to confusion."
To his surprise, Miss Bai was not angry. Instead, she reached out and adjusted her skirt before sitting down as well.
Yuanbao suddenly sprang up from the roof ridge, arching his body. The big orange cat's fur stood on end, its eyes fixed on this unbelievable scene.
The old Taoist priest got goosebumps all over his body and dared not move.
"How far can he go with the techniques you taught him?"
"Don't you know this best?"
“He will never reach the heights of my master in his entire life.” The white-haired girl raised her head slightly, her long black hair cascading over her shoulders; from this angle, she was extremely beautiful.
“Unless,” the old Taoist priest knew her too well, and knew the next sentence would definitely be “unless,” so he spoke for her in advance.
"Unless you reverse your cultivation method and follow the demonic path of weapon cultivation."
The old Taoist priest chuckled. This was much more interesting than raising a daughter; the betrayal was too early.
Zhong Ming's whetstone technique allows one to use magical artifacts for cultivation and improve their quality, but it consumes the power of the whetstone. If you reverse the cultivation method, wouldn't that be directly plundering the power of the magical artifact?
"That kid hasn't even reached the Foundation Establishment stage yet, and you're already thinking about the Nascent Soul stage? Don't you think that even if you reverse the situation and it doesn't work, wouldn't that kid have already turned all eight extraordinary meridians and twelve regular meridians into magical artifacts?" After the old Taoist finished speaking, he suddenly burrowed into the ground. Seeing that Miss Bai didn't react, he popped up a little bit again. Only his two eyeballs and half of his forehead could be seen on the ground.
"Perhaps. For me, he grew up the moment I closed my eyes."
"Yes, yes, in the blink of an eye, he'll transform into a towering, heroic, and dashing man... who will come up to you, take your hand, and say, 'Come on, let's go chop someone up.'"
Miss Bai clearly understood that the old Taoist priest was mocking her, but she was not angry. She simply said, "That's fine too." Then she got up and slowly left.
"Hey, hey, where are you going?"
"sleep."
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Zhong Ming was filled with anxiety on the transport ship. He was torn between taking the storage bag and not taking it. If he took it, and the mission briefing added a charge of accepting bribes, half of his future would be ruined.
Xuan Jing didn't stand on ceremony. He let go of the wheelchair and picked up the storage bag and black card.
"Hey, it wouldn't be good to actually take this."
“It would be better not to take it,” Xuan Jing said leisurely, stretching out his leg to hook Chen Dahai, who was starting to “slip away.” He added quietly, “As the saying goes, it’s not that I’m afraid of what you ask for, it’s that I’m afraid of you having no other desires.”
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Are you stupid? If you don't take it, what will that fat guy think? He'll definitely think you have a bigger appetite and look down on these things. You're asking too much of him to trust the morality of someone he doesn't know. Someone that naive can't be in charge of the auction house."
Zhong Ming nodded silently. "Then let's see what's available."
The items inside weren't particularly valuable, but the quantity was astonishing.
Many cultivators bid at the auction, and when they get really excited, they'll pawn their belongings to raise money and increase the price. So the appraisers in the back of the auction house are very busy, and the back is piled up like a general store.
Zhong Ming suspected that the other party was using this place as a dumping ground. All kinds of pills were available, from level one spirit-restoring pills that could restore a little spiritual energy to berserk pills that could temporarily make one ignore pain. There was also a large stack of talismans of varying quality.
"Hey, what's this? Oh, right, it's something someone bought at an auction and gave to me as a gift."
Zhong Ming took out the item, a set of treasures consisting of twenty-eight dominoes, engraved with various mythical beasts. They were quite old and not very clear.
"Ah, someone bought it for you? Could it be a girl...? Never mind, impossible." Xuan Jing immediately dismissed the idea, stared at the dominoes for a while, and after finding nothing, took out a stack of talismans from his storage bag and started playing with them.
Yue Kaishan naturally couldn't understand it either, but he basically calculated the total value of these things.
"I think these are worth about three hundred low-grade spirit stones."
Oh no, this is higher than the salary their in-laws give to their guest retainers. Could it be that they're trying to poach Brother Cuihong's men? No, I have to go back and talk to my family about it, and ask them to increase the salary a bit more.
Zhong Ming had no idea what Yue Kaishan was thinking. After putting away the dominoes, he sat quietly.
I have a feeling that someone's gaze is malicious.
His eyes were half-closed as he quietly observed his surroundings. There were many people on the transport ship, but only about a dozen could see his position.
His gaze swept over the strangely dressed people, finally settling on an ordinary-looking person.
The other person's defining characteristic is that they have no distinguishing features whatsoever; they're so ordinary that you could easily blend into a crowd and not notice them at all.
However, among a large group of strangely dressed monks, he seemed... somewhat out of place.