"It’s quite the nap; just a bit hot."
Yun Ziliang lay on the bed, using his sleeve to fan himself.
...
A gust of wind, an invisible person, Zhou Xuan and Li Changxun, managed to ascend to the "thirty-third floor" without anyone noticing,
However, the situation left them both very disappointed. Having reached the highest floor, they found nothing new to look at,
The Buddhist hall was just the sa as ever, the side chambers unchanged, and as for the legendary pinnacle said to produce relics, there was nothing but a puddle of mud.
"Just this sludge and people from the Heavenly Do want it? Are people from our Heavenly Do so clueless about the world?"
Li Changxun, annoyed, left with the wind.
Zhou Xuan also returned dejected,
A gust of wind, an invisible person, returned without any gain.
Yet after they left the thirty-third floor, from the previously empty Buddhist hall at the top, voices erged,
And the Buddhist hall was not unoccupied——
——A monk dressed in a Daoist robe, holding a fan in hand, gently fanned the air,
Beside him, several young monks served him fresh fruits and vegetables.
A middle-aged scholar with a head like a fish stood not far from the Daoist-robed monk, a person Zhou Xuan recognized; it was none other than Bitter Ghost Master, Lu Xingzhou.
"Master Yu, the esteed ones have left."
Lu Xingzhou gazed outside the Buddhist hall.
The monk in the Daoist robe was the "Master Yu" that Lu Xingzhou referred to.
Master Yu, with his mouth open, had a grape swiftly offered by a little monk. He chewed with juice dripping, saying, "Lu Xingzhou, I told you long ago, they won’t find ."
"What does it matter if the most sought-after figure in Mingjiang Prefecture or that invincible figure who swept through the Taoist schools three hundred years ago, Mr. Yun, cos? The Heavenly Vault God Level, he’s had plenty of my elixirs too."
Lu Xingzhou paced a bit and said, "Master Yu, the esteed one ca to Yellow Field Prefecture with few requests, rely wanting to know how Master Lu Xue revived his family back then,
I advise you to simply hand over that thod to him."
"And if I don’t hand it over?"
Master Yu glanced sideways at Lu Xingzhou.
"You know well what disgraceful things are hidden in Mahayana Temple, better quickly quell the esteed one’s curiosity, let him leave Mahayana Temple sooner, and no one will expose your dirt."
"But if you insist on crossing him, I’m afraid all your secrets might get out."
Master Yu, not heeding Lu Xingzhou’s advice, said, "Lao Lu, you’ve been the Bitter Ghost Master for so many years, yet your courage only grows smaller. I’m a ’Spirit’, he’s human. If I don’t want to et him, he’ll never see in his lifeti. Why would I fear him?"
"Furthermore, within Master Lu Xue’s thod to save his family lies my filthy business, and I can’t be at ease letting him know about it."
Master Yu said.
Lu Xingzhou’s face darkened, as he walked closer to Master Yu, speaking earnestly: "That esteed person, they yield to gentleness but not force — if you hand over Master Lu Xue’s thod to , and I give it to him, explaining repeatedly not to divulge what’s in that thod, he will surely keep the promise and stay quiet."
"No, won’t give."
Master Yu said, "Little Zhou Xuan, I don’t fear him, it’s only because you’re persuading that I don’t retaliate against him. Normally, if he ca ssing around my temple, I’d take this Refining God Tower and refine him in it,
He’s a descendant of the Nu God, having walked through five Tangkou; surely I could refine so good elixirs out of him."
"Fish Monk, you’re truly stubborn and foolish."
Lu Xingzhou waved his sleeve as he left, and after a few steps, turned back and said, "I have a feeling you’ll die at Zhou Xuan’s hands."
"Inside the Refining God Tower, I am invincible in this human world."
Master Yu very proudly stated.
"Bi Fang also thought his Dream of the Celestial Venerable was invincible in this human world, but your end may not be better than Bi Fang’s."
"If I am not invincible, wouldn’t you still be here? Lu Xingzhou, if I fall, you won’t have a good outco... hehe... The Tangkou in Yellow Field Prefecture, I’ve set them all up."
You can try, see if I’ll lend a hand." Lu Xingzhou said with a hint of nace as he shook his folding fan.
...
"What a waste of effort, there’s nothing upstairs but a pile of mud."
Li Changxun grumbled.
Zhou Xuan, with his hands behind his head, said, "It wasn’t entirely a waste, at least it confird one thing."
"What thing?"
"The bizarre entities in this temple know of our abilities, they knew they couldn’t stop us from searching the tower, so they covered up the disgraceful things ahead of ti."
Zhou Xuan said.
Yun Ziliang asked, "Can he hide so thoroughly right under our noses?"
"The techniques of the world’s experts are countless, to evade our eyes is not impossible."
Zhou Xuan said, "However, though he hides, I have my own way to surely see the truth."
"What’s your way?"
"A contract with Heaven."
Zhou Xuan said, "This mountain has a mountain spirit, this Buddha tower has a Tower Spirit. My sixth-level technique as a Colorful Play Master is to resonate through spiritual power and sense the existence of those ’Spirits’,
If I find the Tower Spirit, no secrets in this thirty-three-story Demon Tower can stay hidden."
Yun Ziliang asked, "What if the Tower Spirit doesn’t tell you the truth?"
"Exactly, it’s not your pet, not cooperating is normal." Li Changxun chid in.
"Then I’ll trick the Tower Spirit." Zhou Xuan said with great conviction.
Yun Ziliang, Li Changxun: "..."
The two of them, it seed, heard a tale as if from the mystical lands of the East...
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