Chapter 96 (1/2)

Chapter 96: I Can Learn This Stuff with One Look

It was winter. The lifeless highland was flat as a board with no place to hide. There was only some lonely greenness among the patches of withered weeds. In the distance, a drove of wild goats stormed through the land, rousing the sand and dust into the air.

Soon after, some people appeared.

“Bodhisattva, it’s been a while,” greeted a virtuous-looking, old monk with a solemn face. He wore a kasaya and fiddled with a string of rosary beads.

Bodhisattva Spirit King only smiled slightly, but he did not say anything else.

“You have descended before the others and set up your own association. It was a little puzzling…” The old monk frowned as he continued to fidget with his rosary beads.

The other man still kept his silence.

The old man ran out of things to say.

“Ha ha ha, I didn’t know you two had arrived, looks like I’m late,” said a grey-haired old man in black Taoist robe as he appeared.

The Taoist priest appeared a little strange, not for the white fly-whisk 1 he was carrying, but for the man he was carrying.

“Let me go, old man…” the young man hollered.

“Silence. You can either call me Master or Temple Master in public. How many times did I tell you, you were sent to me through express delivery…” the Taoist priest reprimanded the young man.

“Yes, old man,” as soon as he finished, the Taoist priest let go of him as he fell to the ground with a loud thud.

“Ho ho, please do not look at me with those weird gazes of yours. I am a votary priest, how would I have a wife and children of my own? This child was raised by me from a young age, it could be said that he sees me as a father, so he does not filter his words…” explained the priest smilingly to the other two.

The old monk heard him and nodded with a smile, but did not say anything else.

It piqued the younger man’s interest, however. He looked at the young man on the floor, who looked average and just a year or two shy of twenty years old. He glanced over to the Taoist priest and said, “Master Ma, I heard you were already thirty-eight years old when you became a priest. Looks like this child does have some kind of connection to Master Ma. Let me give you something as a meeting gift. It’s just something small, let the boy have it for protection.”

As he finished his sentence, a crystalline bead flew out of the man’s palm.

Master Ma took the bead and rubbed it a little, he even raised it against the sun to check it out.

After examining it, Master Ma’s face brightened, “It’s true what people say about Bodhisattva being generous. Since Bodhisattva is willing to part with something so precious, you must have been taken by the boy. What if I gift the boy to you as a disciple…”

The youth on the ground moaned, “Old man, you’ve only been bribed with a single Sarira pearl 2 , and here you are selling your son out.”

The old Taoist priest waved his fly-whisk slightly, “You do not like going to school, and you ran back to me before you even finished high school. You only like to hide inside the temple and play your video games. I cannot discipline you, so I will give you away to other people to do so. No one else was as soft-hearted as I am…”

The younger man was going to speak up, but his face tightened suddenly as he reminded his two comrades, “They’re here…”

The old priest got serious. He hoisted the youth up, put the Sarira pearl in the youth’s hands, and said, ” Ping Er 3 , the reason I brought you out was to look at the world, so don’t act tough, hide well.”

As soon as he finished, he pushed the youth aside, swinging him into the air where he disappeared.

At this point, the swarm was starting to be visible. They covered the sun, casting a big blanket of shadow onto the ground. A number of jets followed them from behind as if to keep watch.

“Terrifying. If they were let into places dense with population, the death count would be horrible,” the monk said, his brows tightly knit.

The Bodhisattva said, “It’s a shame. I have yet to set up my Spirit Summoning Banner, lacking the Three Great Spirit Kings as the Banner Master, or else these insects would never have been able to gain so much traction in the human realm.”

The old Taoist priest laughed heartily. In his hands, an iridescent artifact appeared. He said, “This artifact I’d refined for a few years is finally completed, I’d been looking for something to try it on ever since. Today shall be the day the Mount Indigo Monastery earns its fame and flourish.”

As the three were chit-chatting, the swarm had approached the area. Beneath the area, a silhouette was racing his way toward them.

The three of them simultaneously saw the man.

“Brother Dragon is here as expected,” Bodhisattva smiled.

The monk’s brows unraveled, saying, “Since the true dragon is here, with the four of us combined, it should not be difficult to get through this battle.”

The Taoist priest stared into the distance and sighed, “Another one here to snatch my business away from me.”

Within seconds, Vigilante A had arrived before the three. By this time, the swarm of Giant Yellowjackets had stopped advancing, but slowly, they started to descend.

In the System Space.

Fang Ning could not persuade the System, so he stayed in the System Cyber Cafe, reading novels to quell his boredom.

At this point, the System had ended its control of Fang Ning’s body.

The System ordered, “Go out and get these three away, don’t let them steal my experience points.”