Jiu Hui stood up, walked to the center of the hall, and knelt on the ground and bowed: "Disciple Jiu Hui, I pay my respects to Master Yu Jing."
At the moment Jiu Hui bowed, the wind blew open the doors and windows of the hall, the moonlight entered the room, and petals flew everywhere. Everyone was stunned when they saw this scene.
"Hurry up, hurry up." Yu Jing walked to Jiu Hui with a smile on her face, helped her up with her own hands, and stopped Zhi You who was about to bow to her with her other hand, preventing him from bending down: "The relationship between master and disciple comes from daily interactions, not these useless formalities. In Wangshu Pavilion, everything is based on fate and freedom. We will have a long time to get along as master and disciple, and you will understand slowly."
"Thank you, Master." Zhiyou struggled silently, but Yujing's arms were as solid as a rock, so he had no choice but to bow.
"With a disciple like this, what else can I ask for?" Yu Jing smiled with relief: "Come, come, sit down and eat. You are still young, don't go hungry."
Puppets carried food into the hall. The puppets were made very delicately. If their hands holding the trays were not made of wood, Jiu Hui would almost think they were real people.
"These puppets were made by your uncle Xi. If you are interested, ask her to teach you in the future." Yu Jing was in a good mood and poured herself a glass of wine. "Although I am your master, other uncles also have the responsibility to teach the younger generation. The five of us have our own strengths and teach different things. What you can learn from us and what you will be better at in the future are all personal karma. The same goes for your other brothers and sisters. When you have cultivated to the great perfection of the golden elixir, it will not be too late to specialize in the things you are good at."
"You don't have to be an expert in everything, but you should at least know the basics." Elder Mo was afraid that Jiu Hui and Zhi You would misunderstand the intention of the headmaster, so he relied on the long time he had spent with them to explain a few words: "As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles. Learning more things will always be useful."
"The purpose of our sect is..."
"I don't ask for the highest level of cultivation, but I ask for living the longest!" Luoyan and Changhe answered in unison.
Jiu Hui nodded vigorously: "I understand, disciple, as long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood!"
"You are a teachable kid." The more Yu Jing looked at Jiu Hui, the more satisfied she felt. She drank the wine in her cup happily: "Fame and fortune are good things, but if you lose your life, what is the use of fame and fortune?"
After three rounds of drinks, the elders became very talkative, and with Jiu Hui being particularly supportive, the entire inner hall became lively and cheerful.
"Uncle Chang, could you tell me more about the ill-fated relationship between master and disciple that you mentioned before?" Jiu Hui couldn't drink, but she was drinking with a smile on her face.
"Since you want to hear it, I'll tell you a story that happened in the last hundred years." Elder Chang put down his chopsticks. "The Yin Ji of Jiu Tian Sect is extremely talented and brilliant. He reached the Spiritualization Stage before he was two hundred years old, becoming the youngest elder of Jiu Tian Sect. Several decades ago, he brought a little girl back to the sect and accepted her as his disciple. Jiu Tian Sect is one of the ten major sects in the cultivation world, so it naturally has many rules and regulations. The little girl's personality is quite... lively and active, so she violated many sect regulations."
At this point, Elder Chang shook his head and said, "With the protection of Yin Ji, who has a high level of cultivation and status, the little girl naturally did not suffer any punishment. As the saying goes, it is not the lack of wealth that is worrying, but the inequality of wealth. I think what Yin Ji did was very unfair. The little girl saw that she was special in every way, and she also saw that Master was beautiful, so how could she not be envious of him."
"I understand." Jiu Hui put the empty cup of Luyin on the table: "This kind of behavior is called seduction."
Elder Chang was stunned at first, then he laughed out loud: "You can say that. Anyway, later on, the master and the disciple chased each other, I retreated and you advanced. Once, the master and the disciple had a conflict, and it was known to the world. Even the peach trees in our Wangshu Pavilion were dug up by Yin Ji."
"They are having a conflict, why did they dig up our trees?" Although she had only joined Wangshu Pavilion for less than an hour, Jiu Hui no longer considered herself an outsider: "Did he give her money?"
Hearing the word "we", the elders smiled with relief.
Zhiyou looked at the empty cup next to Jiuhui, hesitated for a moment, then picked up the pot and poured her another cup of dew drink.
"We are all fellow Taoists, and talking about money will hurt our relationship." Elder Chang smiled, "But Yin Ji insisted on giving us two magic weapons, so we couldn't refuse."
"Later, Master Yin Ji and the girl almost got married, but who knew that the girl was actually a spy sent by the Demon Cult, and she stabbed Yin Ji during the wedding ceremony."
"Wow!" Jiu Hui widened her eyes. It was so exciting!
"It turned out that Yin Ji killed her brother, and she came to seek revenge on him. However, as time went by, it was inevitable that she would become attached to him, so even though she stabbed Yin Ji, she didn't hurt his vital parts."
"What was the reaction of the Silver Elder at that time? Elder Chang, were you at the wedding? Tell me about it in detail. I love to hear it!"
"Not only was I there, your master was there too." Elder Chang summoned two puppets, "Come, I'll let the puppets demonstrate the scene to you."
The fake Yin Ji said in a dull and emotionless voice: "In these twenty years, have you never been moved by me?"
The fake girl screamed dully and harshly: "Yin Ji, you killed my brother, how can I be moved by you?"
Fake Yin Ji: "Your brother feeds on human blood and has killed countless people. He deserves to die."
Fake girl: "Okay, okay, you care about the world and uphold justice. From now on, you and I will never see each other again! I want to see if you can protect everyone in this world!"
Jiu Hui lost most of her interest in the story when the puppet performed without any emotion: "With so many people present, you let the girl from the Demon Cult go?"
They didn't inform the world before they fell in love, so why are they blaming the world after their falling out
Does everyone in the world deserve to be the victim of their love
There is no cure for brain disease!
"Yin Ji would rather have his chest bleed than let him leave alive, so it's not good for us guests to jump out and act as villains." Elder Chang sighed and said honestly, "The main reason is that we can't beat him."
"Anyway, after this incident, the way other people in the cultivation world look at those cold-blooded masters and pretty disciples won't be so innocent anymore."
"My looks are not inferior to Yin Ji, and you are two points prettier than that girl from the Demon Sect." Elder Chang took a sip of wine and said, "Now you understand why I can't accept you as my disciple?"
"But Zhiyou is a man, does he have such concerns?" Jiuhui saw that the cup was full of wine and guessed that it was Zhiyou who poured it for her, so she smiled at him gratefully.
"Who said I don't have any concerns?" Elder Chang said slowly, "With his appearance, when I take him out in the future, will people look at me or him?"
Jiu Hui: “…”
She looked at Zhiyou's appearance, then looked at Elder Chang, and found that Zhiyou was indeed more handsome than Elder Chang.
I didn't expect that Uncle Chang had such a heavy burden on his personal image. After the meal, Wangshu Pavilion gradually returned to peace.
Thousands of miles away, the Zhenxing Tower was brightly lit, and the leaders of the ten major sects arrived here one after another.
Jiu Tian Sect's leader Bu Ting and his chief disciple Nan Luan walked into the building. Seeing that everyone else was already there, he said, "Bu is late. Please forgive me, fellow Taoists."
The others were polite, but Qinglan Sect's leader Qiu Hua remained silent and didn't even look at him.
"The catastrophe is coming." The four Zhenxing elders flew out, and Elder Bai bowed to everyone: "What good ideas do you have?"
When the clan leaders saw that the four elders looked haggard and their cultivation had declined, they immediately became confused: "Four elders, how could this happen?"
"Speculating on destiny will naturally come at a price." Elder Hei said sarcastically, "You sect leaders don't have to act like this."
“Excuse me, four elders, is there any hope for survival from this catastrophe?” Jiutian Sect’s leader Bu Ting bowed deeply to the four elders.
"Master Bu, do you want to refine ten more tripods?" Qiu Hua raised his eyelids slightly, as if looking at the most disgusting thing in the world: "Or do you want to refine another miraculous medicine to suppress the world's epidemic?"
"Master Qiu, the world is facing great events, I hope you can put aside your personal grudges." Nan Lu bowed and said: "Please..."
Before he could finish his words, Qiu Hua slapped him to the ground, "When elders are talking, it is not the place for the younger generation to interrupt. Your useless master can't teach you, so I will teach you for him."
The eyelids of the other sect leaders twitched, and they looked away tacitly. No one wanted to say anything more, as they were afraid that they would be the next to be slapped in the face.
Fortunately, a stream of light flew in and broke the awkwardness. The light circled around the room and finally fell into Buting's hands and turned into a jade slip.
"Hmm? How come the jade slip that was sent to Jiutian Sect several hours ago has only reached you now?" Elder Lu recognized that this jade slip was the one he had sent out.
After going around in a big circle, I didn’t find Buting and ended up going back to Zhenxing Tower
"Now that everyone is here, let's talk about the evil dog that appeared on the day the catastrophe began." The leader of the Yuzhen Sect coughed dryly and said, "Where should we go to find this evil dog?"
"It's too late." Elder Bai's eyes were full of fatigue and pain: "Destiny has already begun, and the evil dog has naturally appeared. The road ahead is full of thorns, so please... take care."
The mechanism of the Zhenxing Tower began to work, and the roof opened wide. Everyone could see the starry sky when they looked up.
The stars are in chaos and there is no future.
"The stars are so beautiful tonight." Jiu Hui was sitting on the flower tree. She saw Zhiyou coming out of the house in the next yard and waved to him: "Zhiyou, do you want to come over and watch the stars with me?"
Wangshu Pavilion had ample housing, so she and Zhiyou each had a courtyard. Since they had the same master, their courtyards were adjacent.
Zhiyou looked up at the sky where the stars were in a mess, and walked silently to the bamboo fence that separated the two courtyards. Beautiful flowers were climbing on the fence, and the two looked at each other across the flower wall.
"Look." Jiu Hui pointed to a star in the north: "That star is spinning around. Does it look like it's dancing?"
Zhiyou tiptoed and flew to sit on the tree trunk: "That star is called Tiansha."
"What about that one?" Jiu Hui pointed at another star that flickered on and off: "I once ate a kind of fish that had a bead on its head that flickered on and off like this."
“That’s Tianxi.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the star completely dimmed.
"You know so much." Jiu Hui brushed off the petals on her knees: "But why is it not flashing anymore?"
"The Tianxi Star has fallen." Looking at the place where the Tianxi Star dimmed and disappeared, Zhiyou pointed to another equally shining star and said, "The Tanlang Star will also fall."
The star Tan Lang disappeared and a new star appeared next to it.
"Earthly Evil." Zhiyou said the name of the star expressionlessly.
"It's great here. Not only can you enjoy the moon, but you can also watch the stars." Jiuhui took out some fruit from her ring and handed it to Zhiyou: "I've never seen such beautiful stars. I'll watch again tomorrow. Do you want to come too?"
Zhiyou hesitated for a moment and took the fruit: "Yes."
He had never seen such a mess of stars.
"But there's a little space next to the Sky Evil Star. There should be a star dancing with it." Jiu Hui ate the fruit and said, "It would be more beautiful if two stars danced."
"No… "
Zhiyou wanted to tell her that it was impossible, because once the evil spirit appeared, disaster would come.
But before he could say anything, a small star appeared next to the Tiansha Star.
The author has something to say:
Everyone: That's the stars! That's destiny!
Little Leek: I don’t care, I just want to watch the stars dance.