"?" The girls of the Flower Moon Building didn’t receive a response and started whispering among themselves.
’Could it be... she’s a fool?’
’Hard to say, walking in the rain without an umbrella and not speaking... not necessarily a fool, but it’s hard to say if she’s hysterical.’
"Ahem." The Hua Shang woman coughed to quiet everyone and then gently pushed the Daoist nun in front of her: "Daoist, Daoist?"
"..." Li Zhibai’s attention remained focused on the sky above Beisang City.
At that mont, Li Zhibai’s black pupils trembled slightly, as if she was witnessing sothing extrely shocking.
’It’s actually true... the Sect Leader... she actually gave up the Dao Rhy...’
The matter briefly ntioned in the letter, upon seeing it with her own eyes, brought an imnse shock to Li Zhibai’s heart. She was the person closest to Shi Qingjun, the one who admired her the most, and the one who truly understood what the Dao Rhy was and what it ant to Shi Qingjun.
Therefore, Li Zhibai couldn’t understand why the Sect Leader would do such a thing. She had to know... giving up the Dao Rhy was equivalent to giving up the Heavenly Dao...
As soone in the Qiankun Realm, how could she progress further after losing the Dao?
Her heart trembled.
Not long ago, when Li Zhibai received Zhu Pingniang’s letter, she didn’t pay much attention, assuming Zhu Pingniang was writing sothing trivial as usual. Yet she cherished the girl and opened the letter to read it.
Upon reading it, Zhu Pingniang claid... the Sect Leader appeared in Beisang City and even removed the array map that was collecting Dao Rhy.
Li Zhibai’s first reaction was that Zhu Pingniang was lying to her.
After all, the Sect Leader wasn’t soone you could et just because you wanted to. Without Shi Qingjun’s summons, even Li Zhibai couldn’t visit Shi Qingjun’s residence without permission.
So to verify the truth of this information, Li Zhibai had no choice but to personally visit Beisang City.
She also realized that it was inappropriate that she had never visited Zhu Pingniang even once.
But soon, Li Zhibai realized that despite Zhu Pingniang being unreliable, she would never do anything involving the Sect Leader for frivolous matters.
Thus, she imdiately went down the mountain without hesitation.
Upon arriving in Beisang City, Li Zhibai encountered several unexpected events in succession.
First, there was the torrential rain identical to that above Chaoyun Sect, which couldn’t be blocked with a spiritual barrier, leaving her thoroughly drenched.
But that didn’t matter.
Because since arriving in Beisang City, Li Zhibai confird that the array map in the sky had undergone significant changes, just as Zhu Pingniang had said. The usual flickering Dao Rhy had completely disappeared, with only various spiritual powers circulating within.
What on earth was the Sect Leader planning?
What new discovery did she make that warranted abandoning the Dao Rhy?
Thus, Li Zhibai attached her Divine Sense to the array map, focused on understanding its changes, trying to glean so answers from the map Shi Qingjun altered.
As for herself, she approached where Zhu Pingniang’s aura was located.
Deciphering the array map was secondary; the main thing was to question Zhu Pingniang.
She had been in close contact with the Sect Leader and probably knew sothing, and the core changes in the array couldn’t be seen entirely through Divine Sense alone; she needed Zhu Pingniang’s copper mirror controlling the array hub to analyze it.
So Li Zhibai ca.
Only she knew... her urgency in leaving the mountain wasn’t entirely due to the Dao Rhy issue, since despite its baffling nature, she could simply wait to ask Shi Qingjun about it the next ti they t. There was no need to rush.
The reason she couldn’t wait was due to a few sentences in Zhu Pingniang’s letter.
’The Sect Leader has changed significantly, these changes... are too strange for to explain in a letter to you...’
Such cryptic words utterly gripped Li Zhibai.
Indeed, the Sect Leader had... changed compared to before.
Li Zhibai had noticed this too.
But in her understanding, she simply thought the Sect Leader was refining her heart, and the changes could be attributed to the ergence of soone as extraordinary as Xu Chang’an. It couldn’t be called strange.
Thus, Li Zhibai vaguely sensed that Zhu Pingniang’s notion of "strange" was probably different from her own understanding.
The fact that even Zhu Pingniang used such words indicated how astonishing the Sect Leader’s change was in her eyes.
This left Li Zhibai feeling restless.
If anyone in the world could unsettle her like this, it would be none other than the Sect Leader. Urgently desiring to know what exactly happened, she hastened down the mountain to Zhu Pingniang.
As for Xu Chang’an and Yun Qian, whom she had recomnded to visit Zhu Pingniang for the Yin Yang Harmony Technique and who were now also in Beisang City, for the mont, they slipped her mind.
And at this mont, Zhu Pingniang... no, Zhu Tongjun’s aura was right before her.
Shifting all her focus away from the array map, Li Zhibai looked at the girls surrounding her.
"Daoist, you’ve finally co back to your senses." The Hua Shang woman looked at Li Zhibai worriedly: "Are you okay? Should we call a doctor to check on you?"
It took four or five pushes to wake her up, wouldn’t want her catching a cold and developing a fever.
"I’m fine." Li Zhibai shook her head.
These... are Tongjun’s ’daughters’?
She wasn’t good at interacting with people, and as a forr Miss, she had only a superficial understanding of brothels. Now suddenly facing such a scene, she found herself a bit unsure of what to do.
If they were just ordinary girls, Li Zhibai would bypass them.
However, these girls blocking her path each bore Zhu Pingniang’s protective mark, showing Zhu Pingniang’s deep care for them. Undoubtedly, these were Zhu Pingniang’s "daughters."
If they were Tongjun’s "daughters," then naturally they were her "daughters."
Suppressing her eagerness to see Zhu Pingniang, Li Zhibai pondered what had happened to cause them to surround her like this...
Then she heard the woman in front of her ask.
"Daoist, who invited you to perform the rite?"
"Rite?" Li Zhibai was baffled upon hearing this.
She rely spent many days in a Daoist temple and beca accustod to wearing a Daoist robe, but she wasn’t a true Kun Dao, so she shook her head: "No rite to perform."
"Eh? Then... you didn’t co for Ah Qing either?"
Li Zhibai shook her head.
She didn’t even know who Ah Qing was.
However, while speaking, Li Zhibai also carefully observed Tongjun’s daughters... though they were brothel girls, their eyes were indeed very pure, and she liked them very much.
Thus, Li Zhibai’s tone unconsciously softened.
She shook her head and gently said: "I don’t know what misunderstanding there might be... but I’m here to find Zhu Pingniang. You should recognize that na."
Li Zhibai said, taking out a wooden plaque.
"Looking for Pingniang?" The girls crowded around to take a look.
"This plaque has the word ’Zhu’ on it? Is it Pingniang’s?"
"I don’t recognize it."
"I don’t recognize it."
Hearing this, Li Zhibai returned the plaque to her possession with a hint of helplessness.
Zhu Tongjun had indeed changed everything thoroughly, even going as far as to change the identity token that had been used for so many years along with the change of na.
"However, this Daoist nun seems sincere, she might really be here to find Pingniang..."
"I think it’s possible, the badge doesn’t look fake."
For a mont, the girls exchanged glances.
Zhu Pingniang herself found a Daoist nun... for what reason?
Probably sothing to do with Ah Qing. Like, knowing a sister was afraid of a half-demon, she invited a Daoist nun to calm the atmosphere or sothing...
But the girls felt helpless.
Was it necessary to specially invite a Daoist nun just to comfort timid girls?
Isn’t Young Master Xu on the boat?
With the young master around...
Who would still fear half-demons?
As for whether Li Zhibai could be from the Immortal Sect or sothing... at that mont, none of the girls thought so. After all, they had t Wen Li, and only soone with such divine grace could be a Fairy.
Li Zhibai...
Which Immortal would allow themselves to get soaked in the rain like this?
Still wearing a tattered Daoist robe, crossing the river on a boat...
Never mind, it didn’t matter anymore.
——
Li Zhibai was unaware that her habitual lifestyle of avoiding the use of Immortal Sect thods caused her to be mistaken as an ordinary Daoist.
"Daoist, please follow ." The Hua Shang woman suddenly took Li Zhibai’s hand, looking at her sowhat astonished expression.
"Where to?" Li Zhibai looked at Tongjun’s daughter in front of her.
"To change your clothes first." The Hua Shang woman shook her head, pointing at Li Zhibai’s soaked Daoist robe, "You can’t et sister looking like this."
"..."
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