187 Your Generation Is Truly Blessed (1/2)

The five hundred kilometer radius area around Grand Cloud Mountain range could be said big or small, depending on the perspective. The topography of the mountain was continuous and complex. Especially since the change in the spiritual energy along the Feng Shui lines was quick and violent, surging in their intersections within the mountain, which caused the mountain environment to become even more unpredictable. Flying over from the sky, perhaps Grand Cloud Mountain didn’t seem vast. However, walking on the ground, in ten days to half a month, one could only go to a corner of the mountain.

Wang Lu has been exploring the Grand Cloud Mountain on foot for a whole week, yet he hasn’t travelled even the periphery of several peaks. On one hand, as the owner, Beast Master School has become even more alert; the number of patrolling disciples of the Beast Master School was more than usual, which brought a lot of hindrance to Wang Lu’s plan. On the other hand, the stupid dog that he assigned to be their guide also landed into trouble. Often it would go around in a circle back to the original place, which caused Wang Lu to waste a full half a day, only for the stupid dog to whimper and innocently said it was lost.

Walking through the Grand Cloud Mountain, Wang Lu used Quan Zouhua’s quasi-immortal beast’s resonance power to find the young immortal beast moon spirit ahead of the Beast Master School. Unfortunately, after a whole week, he discovered that this stupid dog was utterly useless.

Of course, the stupid dog has its own explanation for this.

”Resonance or something should be useful. In the night where there are a few stars and the moon is bright, I can feel its trace on this mountain. I can even lock its general position. However, the opposite party clearly doesn’t want to see us, thus

it deliberately goes into hiding… From the start, the resonance induction is already weak, plus it deliberately camouflages to disguise itself. So I’m also at a loss here.”

For the stupid dog’s intelligence level to be able to organize out such coherent words, one could see how crazily anxious it was. Therefore, though helpless, Wang Lu could only fish out the bone marinated in soy sauce from his mustard seed bag to throw it at the stupid dog so that it could happily gnaw it.

After a whole week of trekking through the mountain, this was the result. Wang Lu could not help but knit his brows while inwardly figuring out how to continue the next step.

Meanwhile, the other two people felt no pressure at all. The naive Liu Li greedily enjoyed the mountain scenery. In any case, along the way, Wang Lu would always entertain her with delicious food and drink. She was worry-free and especially carefree in having fun along the way. Obviously, the Immortal Beast and Beast Master School weren’t even in her thoughts at all.

His other companion seemed intriguing. During these several days, senior Xiao Qi and Liu Li happily spent their time talking to each other. Her religious name was Greedy Master Dog Meat (Greedy is homonym with Zen in Chinese). Obviously, she was a connoisseur in culinary delicacy. With Liu Li whose foody characteristics needed not be mentioned, they perfectly matched talking to each other so much that they wished they could swear an oath to be sworn sisters. When the two talked about food, even the Spirit Sword’s best student couldn’t butt in to give his opinion—though he had read more books, the good food that he personally tasted was actually not that many. Thus, he spent more time listening to the other two professionals’ conversation.

However, Xiao Qi’s activity was also limited to this. Besides eating and drinking, she never discussed any other matters. When not talking about food with Liu Li, she just silently followed Wang Lu from behind. Even when the dog Quan Zouhua led them walking in a circle, she appeared nonplussed.

Therefore, Wang Lu asked her, ”Seventh Madame, aren’t you in a hurry?”

”Hurry for what?” Xiao Qi asked back, ”I have no interest in that immortal beast anyway.”

Wang Lu asked, ”Don’t you have an absolutely irreconcilable enmity with Beast Master School?”

Xiao Qi spat out, ”You’re the one with irreconcilable enmity! Originally, I did see them as not pleasing to my eyes, but these past few days, my interest in them continue to wane. If we can destroy this division, that’s great, but if not, that’s also okay. I’m not like you Master and disciple, what I do might not necessarily have to have a result. The most important thing in life is being happy… or do you want to taste my bowl of noodles [1]?”

Wang Lu said ill-humoredly, ”Even if you give me your bowl of noodles, I will not be happy… Alas, without subordinates, everything had to be done by myself!”

Xiao Qi found it funny. ”Who forced you to do things? You and Beast Master School don’t really have any irreconcilable enmity. Even after the scene on that level area and the certain Elder who broke the law and committed crimes by attempting to rob you. Those are something that you can let go, so why are you so persistent?”

Wang Lu actually answered this question seriously, ”Since I had decided to do it, I have to do everything in my power to complete it. A professional adventurer does not have a habit of giving up halfway.”

”Oh, that explains it.” Xiao Qi simply accepted what Wang Lu said at face value, and then nodded. ”You two are indeed a pair of Master and disciple, your way of doing things is exactly the same as her. But this is strange, your Master was helpless, she had no other choice but to handle her affair by staking it all, which now has become her habit. However, your aptitude and opportunity all far surpassed that of your Master, so why do you have to stake it all?”

The two people casually talked to each other. However, upon hearing the last sentence from Xiao Qi, Wang Lu’s interest was immediately piqued.

”My Master was helpless? I would like to hear the detail please.”

Xiao Qi was taken aback. ”You’re her disciple, didn’t she tell you about it?” Then she immediately calmed down. ”Indeed. With her temper, she would definitely not say those things to you.”

Wang Lu hurriedly replied, ”Therefore to open up her dark history, I have to depend on you, Seventh Madame.”

Seeing the sparkling eyes of Wang Lu, Xiao Qi was moved; she couldn’t help but find it funny. ”Usually you’re not that interested in your Master, but when it comes to her dark history, you immediately assumed an enthusiastic face… Actually, it’s not that big of a deal. I don’t even know much about the details. After all, she and I are just fair-weather friends. It’s just that we have been acquaintances for quite long, so I know quite a lot about her. In fact, since you have been cultivating by her side for so many years, you should’ve already discerned it.”

Some of the hidden meaning within her words have already been grasped by Wang Lu, so he nodded to acknowledge it.

”Actually, you can already see the problem from your Immortal Cultivation Method. Take a look at Liu Li here. Her Immortal Cultivation is the ancient heritage of Brilliant Sword Heart, which pays particular attention to the oneness of heaven and humanity [2]. Thereupon, whether walking, sitting, or lying, her whole person seems to be one with her surrounding. See how she walks, every step that she takes has a very different distance, yet none of them not adjusted to the environment. The surrounding spiritual energy blows across her body from the front and pass through her back; the flow is totally unaffected. However, when she really wants to move, the surrounding spiritual energy kilometers away from her would move at her heart’s desire… Of course, this is still far from the highest realm of Brilliant Sword Heart, where the practitioner is basically the embodiment of nature. As for you, when you walk, the distance between every step you take is exactly the same. Except when meditating to circulate the surrounding spiritual energy, your whole person is like a closed sealing, with not one bit of surrounding spiritual energy penetrate you. And the magical power within your body would also unlikely to flow out… What do you think that means?”

Though Xiao Qi has yet to clearly speak out the answer, being clued this far, how could he still not understand?