451 I, Disciple of Ten Thousand Arts Sect, Have Great Ambition and Strong Ability (1/2)
The cultivators who set foot on the immortal path usually have a good patience.
Because the path of immortality has given the cultivators a long life, they were able to do things more calmly than ordinary mortals. Many cultivators liked to do closed-door training in a narrow and dark space, not going out for decades, enough to make even the most diligent otaku among ordinary mortals to feel ashamed of one's inferiority.
And the lead disciples of the Five Uniques of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, although they became famous rather quick, any one of them had patience that was far above ordinary cultivators. However… this time, after only waiting for one day, they already felt impatient.
Patience and wasting time were two different concepts. As a cultivator, they could spend several decades to perfect their method, but wasting time unnecessarily, even for a quarter of an hour, was already too much.
”Is that idiot Zhan Ziye going to come or not?”
At the round table, Zhou Mumu quite impatiently slapped the table, and the Jindan Stage maid behind her very deftly took the refreshments tray in front of her and put on another batch of fresh fruits and vegetables.
”What an arrogant guy. He actually let us wait for him for a day, without even sending a letter!”
While saying that, Zhou Mumu unceremoniously took a bite of the bright red fruit. The clear juice flowed down the girl's wrist, but before it stained her sleeve, it was evaporated by her magical power.
As the lead disciple of Kunlun Sect, such a brash way of eating was clearly not in line with the etiquette and norms. However, a full day's of waiting had consumed all of Zhou Mumu's patience. Only her appetite could suppress the anger that was brewing in her heart.
After eating the fruit, Zhou Mumu still could not suppress her anger. ”Even Wang Lu, who is already famous, was punctual, yet he, a mere Zhan Ziye, dares to come late!”
Being dragged into this by Zhou Mumu, Wang Lu instead laughed. ”So, I am already famous, eh? Hahaha!”
”Cough!” Zhou Mumu choked on the spot.
At this time, Xiang Liang, who had always been silent the whole time, suddenly said, ”What we are going to do is a very high-risk operation, and during which, a disorganized team-mate will be a great destabilizing factor. I suggest we remove Zhan Ziye from the team.”
Xiang Liang's proposal was rather surprising, but it was easy to see through his furrowed brows that for a cultivator who bragged himself as a soldier, the most loathed thing to him was the lack of disciplined behavior. As a member of a five-person team, Zhan Ziye was actually late for a day without any reason, which was simply unbearable!
These words immediately brought joy to Zhou Mumu. ”Well said, I concur! When I think about it, it's really disgusting to be on the same team with that idiot!”
Wang Lu kindly reminded her, ”The feeling of disgust may also be because you eat too much.”
Zhou Mumu glared at him and then picked up a fruit to eat before turning her head to Qiong Hua and said, ”We have been waiting for Zhan Ziye even though he is without any reason to be late for a full day and night, which is the best that we can do to accommodate him. So, should we expel him?”
Before Qiong Hua opened her mouth to reply to her, Wang Lu preemptively said, ”It's not necessary that he doesn't have any reason. There's still a possibility for a reason.”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Mumu couldn't help but frown. As far as she knew, the relationship between Zhan Ziye and Wang Lu was not always good, so how could he talk on behalf of Zhan Ziye this time?
Then, she heard Wang Lu said, ”Perhaps on his way here, Senior Brother Ziye met an unfortunate death, so him not coming is reasonable.”
”...”
”Of course, considering his identity as the lead disciple of the one of the Five Uniques, if he really dies, we should receive the related news, yet the immortal cultivation world is still calm. So, it's also possible that he fire deviated when training and was now caught in an unable to leave but difficult to die situation. And although his sect has exerted all of their resources to save him, they only managed to barely keep his life. If this is the case, how could he spend the effort to think about our five-person meeting?”
”...” Zhou Mumu was silent for a long time. She even forgot to eat the fruit in her hand as she stared at Wang Lu. In the end, she sighed with emotion. ”Sure enough, it's still the Wang Lu that I know!”
With that, she put down the fruit. ”Then what should we do in your opinion?”
Wang Lu said, ”There is a saying in the Western Continent: when the mountain does not come, I will go to the mountain. Since Senior Brother Zhan Ziye is in a state of emergency, or even death, shouldn't we as his teammates give a wreath or something?”
As he said that, Wang Lu fished out a ready-made wreath from his mustard seed bag with two lines of words on it. The first line read: A life without a wife, and the second line read: Sweet gay life in the afterlife.
Zhou Mumu took one look at it and said, ”... You even prepared a wreath for him? What kind of mess do you have in your mustard seed bag?”
Wang Lu raised his eyebrows and said, ”Actually, I also prepared one for you, Senior Sister…”
”Don't show it to me!”
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In any case, under Wang Lu's proposal, the four of them decided to go to Ten Thousand Arts Sect to find out.
It was really incredible if Zhan Ziye indeed met an unfortunate death. However, he was also not someone who would come late without any reason. Even if he was far from having any organizational sense of discipline, punctuality was the basic etiquette in life. As a lead disciple, he couldn't possibly have this thing.
Or did he really meet some kind of trouble?
Even if among the five lead disciples Zhan Ziye's personal relationship was the poorest, since he was now a teammate, he ought to pay attention to this.
Just before leaving, however, Wang Lu actually put forward an embarrassing request to Qiong Hua.
”After this, I don't know if I ever want to get back here, so why don't you give this thing as a parting gift for me.” With that, Wang Lu reached out his hand for Yu Mengjun.