Free Web Novel"Shame? Why would you think that?" Lu Yibei asked in surprise, looking at Fu Xinyi with a strange expression. "No, it's not shameful?" Fu Xinyi frowned, hesitating. "But, I always feel..."
"Senior (female), it's small," Lu Yibei said earnestly. Seeing Fu Xinyi's gaze lower, he quickly added the second half of the sentence, "Uh, I mean your perspective is small."
"Think about it, why did you mobilize everyone to wear pink rabbit ears together? Wasn't it just to help those fellow disciples who were unfortunately eroded?"
Hearing this, Fu Xinyi hesitated slightly, then nodded.
"Then why do you want to help them? Isn't it because they grew rabbit ears, were treated as followers of Pink Fluffy Rabbit, and faced prejudice?" Lu Yibei continued.
"If you think wearing pink rabbit ears is a shameful thing, then in a sense, aren't you also prejudiced against them?"
"Anyway, in my opinion, this matter is not only not shameful, but actually very cool!"
Even if there was a tiny bit of shame, it didn't matter. Anyway, the one who was ashamed was you, not me, Lu Yibei added silently in his heart.
After hearing Lu Yibei's words, Fu Xinyi narrowed her eyes thoughtfully, and her mindset gradually changed.
In silence, her expression first showed shock, then a long period of deep thought with furrowed brows. Finally, her eyes lit up, her pink fists clenched, resolute as if going into battle.
Junior Lu's words make a lot of sense! If even I think pink rabbit ears are shameful, how can I help those fellow disciples? Fu Xinyi thought.
There are actually people in this world whose expressions can change so richly in a short time? That's great, I'm envious! Lu Yibei thought----
Behind Da Chunyang Palace, in front of Lan Yue Cave.
Zhang Huainan and a slightly overweight middle-aged woman with some wrinkles on her face sat cross-legged on cushions on either side of a stone table, talking about something.
"Old friend, try this True Martial Mist Peak tea. From planting to picking, drying, and frying, that brat Xuanjizi did it all himself." "You know, right? That brat has never been serious about studying Spiritual Energy, but he has quite some skill in miscellaneous things like music, tea ceremony, and calligraphy."
Zhang Huainan said this while pouring a cup of tea for the middle-aged woman sitting opposite him. The tea soup was clear and bright, a faint golden yellow shimmering within the emerald green, releasing a refreshing and unusual fragrance.
Nameless Book picked up the teacup and took a sip. She first showed an expression of enjoyment, then her face suddenly changed. From her mouth, she spat out a tiny black particle. Holding it in her hand, she examined it for a moment, then handed it to Zhang Huainan and asked, "Excuse me, what is this?"
Zhang Huainan leaned in to examine it, his mouth twitching as he replied, "It seems to be Night Bright Sand that accidentally got mixed in? It's fine, not poisonous." 1Night Bright Sand, this product is the dried feces of bats, also known as Sky Rat Droppings.
In an instant, the unusual fragrance turned into an unpleasant smell.
Nameless Book's face turned pale. She took a deep breath, adjusted her composure, then threw away the tiny black particle. After wiping her hands on Zhang Huainan, she calmly said, "Let's skip the tea. Shall we talk about the main business first?"
Zhang Huainan casually poured out the entire pot of tea, nodded, and said, "Alright." It was as if what had just happened had never occurred.
Nameless Book looked at Zhang Huainan, frowned, and remained silent for a few seconds. She took out a wooden bracelet inlaid with glaze from her handbag, placed it on the table, pushed it towards him, and said indifferently, "This is something left by that person from Pashupatinath Temple. I believe with your ability, you should be able to...
...discern what happened at that time."
Looking at the bracelet on the table, Zhang Huainan sighed silently, followed by a long period of silence.
After learning about the seven areas where the Code F Monster could cause disaster, the place he was originally most confident about was Pashupatinath Temple.
After all, the priests, big and small, throughout the temple had always focused on cultivating their minds and living simple lives. Moreover, his old friend was stationed there. Even when facing the Code F Monster, the temple should have had the advantage.
However, he still underestimated the horror of human darkness erupting intensely in a short period.
It was precisely because those priests in the temple normally practiced self-restraint and abstinence, suppressing their desires for "things" to an extremely low level, that when they were tempted and eroded, the desires for "things" they erupted with were much stronger than ordinary people!
It was like a can of cola that had been violently shaken and was full of gas inside. If there was no external influence, it might eventually return to normal, but if an external force opened it at that moment, both the liquid and gas would violently vent.
Thus, when the Code F Monster entered a semi-awakened state and was on the verge of losing control, the first place to fall was Pashupatinath Temple. It even became a breeding ground for the offspring of the Code F Monster to descend, nearly causing a great disaster.
In fact, when that twisted and bizarre pale giant beast finally transformed into countless Pink Fluffy Rabbits, surging towards the temple surroundings like a tidal wave, and the crisis was temporarily resolved, Aptya's reinforcements arrived at the temple. When they cleared the scene, they found that in the entire temple, fewer than five people had not been eroded—
Zhang Huainan held the bracelet in his hand, slowly closed his eyes, and silently circulated the Spirit Mark. Then, a series of tragic scenes flashed through his mind.
Under the night sky, the thin Old man stood at the pinnacle of Pashupatinath Temple, looking at the scene below that resembled a pale hell, and sighed heavily.
Countless pale figures flew in from all directions. He suddenly raised his hand, wreathed in golden light, and was about to unleash a palm strike as vast and mighty as the ocean.
However.
Just then, his gaze swept across those distorted yet incredibly familiar faces. As far as his eyes could see, they were all people he had spent time with day and night.
Thus, the heavy sigh sounded again. The Old man slowly lowered his palm, turned around, and for the last time, forcefully struck the temple's giant bell.
"Dong—Dong—!"
The deep bell sound echoed, mixed with low murmurs.
"Mahoraga, this is the Python God, also called Earth Dragon, a legless, belly-crawling god, which is the temple god of the world. All the wine and meat received from people enter the python's belly. Those who break precepts, are evil and flattering, have much anger and little charity, are greedy for wine and meat, are lax in precepts and fall into being ghosts and gods, will have many insects enter their bodies and eat them."
A huge azure phantom, resembling a python and a dragon, with a reddish fleshy tumor on its head, accompanied by dense water vapor, rose from the highest point of Pashupatinath Temple. It boiled up and down in mid-air, circled exactly seven times, then swooped down towards the earth. On the earth, it connected head and tail, drawing the final confinement.
That Old man named Yadu, in the end, couldn't bear to kill his descendants. He could only exhaust his Spiritual Energy to confine that pale giant beast, whose body was gradually growing larger and whose Spiritual Energy fluctuations were gradually intensifying, within a radius of over ten li around Pashupatinath Temple.
In a sense, that Aptya squad sacrificed themselves in vain. Even if they hadn't gone to Pashupatinath Temple, that pale giant beast wouldn't have been able to leave the temple's vicinity and spread the disaster further—
Seeing that Zhang Huainan, after opening his eyes, was still tightly gripping the bracelet, as if silently mourning and bidding farewell to his old friend, and remained speechless for a long time, Nameless Book said softly, "The deceased is gone, please restrain your grief."
As the second oldest Guardian within the Night Watch, Zhang Huainan actually didn't have many friends left in the world. Therefore, every remaining friend was especially precious, and Yadu was one of them.
Similarly, Zhang Huainan was also one of Yadu's few remaining friends. Therefore, after the review process, this insignificant relic of his was handed over to Nameless Book to be delivered to Zhang Huainan.
Nameless Book felt that Zhang Huainan must be very sad about this matter. Although she didn't quite understand this kind of emotion, based on the data she had collected and recorded, it should be like this.
Zhang Huainan looked at Nameless Book and smiled wryly, "Haha, you're making fun of me. But I'm not that fragile. Speaking of which, I even admire that guy Yadu for daring to make such a decision."
A Psychic like him, who had lived for over a hundred years, had experienced countless partings and was long accustomed to them. Similar matters could hardly stir ripples in his heart anymore.
"However..." After a brief silence, Zhang Huainan changed the subject and joked, "If it were me, I would absolutely not sacrifice myself to seal that urban legend. If my Da Chunyang Palace disciples were corrupted, I would definitely send them to heaven one by one, cleaning up the sect!"
Probably, Zhang Huainan added in his heart, feeling a bit guilty.
He might never know that he originally had a fate similar to his old friend.
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After a pause, he looked at Nameless Book and casually asked, "Speaking of which, how are things over at Yumen Pass? You and young friend Lord Huaiyuan have been there for some time now, right? You seemed to have lost contact for a while recently?"
"Thank you for your concern. The crisis caused by the Miracle Order has been resolved. Currently, the operatives are attempting to repair the damaged solidified Spells," Nameless Book said calmly, but slightly furrowed her brow halfway through her sentence.
"However, during the repair process, we discovered some abnormal Spiritual Energy fluctuations. The source is currently unknown. Since the Spiritual Energy fluctuations did not affect the repair progress, we have temporarily set it aside and have not investigated further."
"I think there might be something even more terrifying hidden within Yumen Pass. What that Old man told us back then wasn't the whole truth," Zhang Huainan shook his head and sighed. "Isn't that normal? That's the biggest secret of the Yumen Sand Sea lineage. How could they tell the Night Watch everything?"
"Didn't my Da Chunyang Palace also not tell the Night Watch all its secrets?"
"But still, be careful! If there's any place where this old bone of mine can be of use, just say the word." Old bone? Nameless Book looked at Zhang Huainan with a strange expression.
A hint of awkwardness appeared on Zhang Huainan's face, and he pouted, "Haven't I gotten used to interacting with those juniors? Don't mind it."
That's right, although Nameless Book is not the strongest Guardian of the Night Watch, she is indeed the oldest Guardian of the Night Watch.
In a sense, she is much older than Zhang Huainan.
Nameless Book rolled her eyes at Zhang Huainan and said plainly, "I won't trouble you. You should focus on finding a way to help those who have been eroded get rid of the rabbit ears on their heads!"
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"Of course, of course..." Zhang Huainan responded somewhat perfunctorily twice, then changed the subject and asked, "Speaking of the Miracle Order just now, I remembered that those guys took advantage of the chaos and stole an item left behind by a previous Holy Child from within Da Chunyang Palace."
He also had a headache about those Pink Fluffy Rabbit ears. That stuff was like a new type of black night disease, impossible to remove with modern medical methods. freewebnovёl.ƈom
He had been in seclusion researching for several days, but still hadn't found a widely applicable treatment method.
"It should be the remains of the Miracle Order's First Generation Holy Child," Nameless Book said. "Recently, an operative found out that the previous disturbance caused by the Miracle Order was due to those remains."
After a pause, she added, "However, there seem to be some issues within the Miracle Order recently." Zhang Huainan looked puzzled, "Some issues?"
"Headquarters just received a piece of intelligence yesterday. The Miracle Order seems to have split into two factions internally, and there have been no less than ten small-scale conflicts since a week ago," Nameless Book explained.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Huainan nodded thoughtfully. "They're fighting among themselves. That saves us quite a bit of trouble." "Mm." Nameless Book nodded, agreeing with him.
Recently, besides their regular duties, the Night Watch in various places have been swamped with handling the aftermath of the code f urban legend.
Although Shizhou City is the area most severely eroded by the code f urban legend within Z Country, small numbers of code f urban legend believers have appeared all over the country.
Since that night, those lively and jumping rabbits have spread everywhere like a plague, causing a large number of urban legend sighting incidents.
Although those rabbits did not cause any substantial harm, the impact of the sighting incidents, the residual minor Spiritual Energy fluctuations, and the Psychic with Pink Fluffy Rabbit ears growing on their heads still require a lot of manpower to handle.
At a time like this, only someone with too much free time would go investigate the reason for the Miracle Order's internal conflict!
There is a consensus among Psychic, which is, never try to speculate on the behavioral logic of the Miracle Order.
That group of lunatics even had a precedent where they split into three factions and fought fiercely over whether it counted as a miracle when buttered toast landed butter-side down.
"Speaking of which, we've been chatting for so long, should I make something for you to drink?"
Nameless Book eyed Zhang Huainan sideways. "Thank you, but there's no need. My taste is usually light." "Tea bags! Instant tea bags!" Zhang Huainan emphasized awkwardly.
Half an hour later.
"Martial Uncle, Martial Uncle, are you there?"
Zhang Huainan had just seen off Nameless Book and returned to Lan Yue Cave when Master Bixuzi's voice came from outside the cave.
"Come in!" Zhang Huainan called softly, and then saw Master Bixuzi walk in hurriedly from outside the cave. He stopped in front of the door and bowed respectfully.
Zhang Huainan looked at Master Bixuzi and said in a deep voice, "What are you shouting about? How many times have I told you, as a senior, you must be steady!"
"Martial Uncle's teaching is correct," Master Bixuzi bowed again. Zhang Huainan waved his hand and asked, "Speak, what is it?"
Master Bixuzi cupped his hands and said, "Martial Uncle, it's about that Lu Yibei." "What happened to her?" Zhang Huainan asked with an unperturbed expression.
In fact, as a descendant of Qingji, no matter what Lu Yibei did, he wouldn't find it strange. If she really caused a big sensation, he would naturally be aware.
Not being aware means the problem isn't too serious yet.
"She..." Master Bixuzi opened his mouth, showing a contorted expression as if he had been choked by the juice from a can of fresh fish. "I've recently received reports about her from over thirty disciples. The disciples really can't stand it anymore. They wrote a joint letter asking me to ask her to leave the mountain."
"Considering her relationship with Martial Uncle, I specifically came to ask for instructions."
Master Bixuzi had long seen that Zhang Huainan and Lu Yibei had an unusual relationship. Otherwise, Zhang Huainan wouldn't act abnormally every time Lu Yibei was mentioned.
Zhang Huainan's mouth twitched, and he lowered his voice to ask, "What has she been doing?"
Upon hearing this, Master Bixuzi immediately began listing Lu Yibei's offenses non-stop. "These past few days, in order not to be woken up by the morning bell, that kid has been playing the suona outside the door of the disciple responsible for ringing the bell almost every morning."
"I don't know where she found out the shift schedule of the bell-ringing disciples, but in short, the morning bell hasn't rung on time for the past week. Many disciples have slept until noon, and the attendance rate for morning lessons is less than fifty percent. Junior Sister Jiang He is almost so angry that her Spirit Marks are going out of control."
Six days ago, she killed the brocade chicken that Zhang Lianfeng, a disciple under Senior Brother Xuanjizi, had raised for over ten years, and stewed a pot of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. The pot she used was the purple pottery Alchemy cauldron stolen from Chi Li Hall.
"On the night four days ago, she snuck into the Qingnang Grass Hut medicinal garden and dug up several herbs such as ginseng and Angelica sinensis that Wang Meng, a disciple under me, had carefully cultivated. After being discovered by the patrolling disciples, she even used some kind of illusionary Spell, causing them to fall into a state of confusion. Up until now, those two disciples still..."
Seeing Master Bixuzi suddenly stop, looking like he wanted to speak but hesitated, Zhang Huainan pressed, "Still what?" "Those two disciples still believe they are magical girls," Master Bixuzi said.
Zhang Huainan, "..."
Magical girls? That's actually not too bad? At least it's still within the scope of humans.
Given that kid's strange methods, it's already good that she didn't make them think they were red electric dragons.
Before I came, those two disciples were still arguing about wanting to move to Qiaoyuan Villa. It's really..." Master Bixuzi stopped halfway through his sentence, and his remaining words turned into a heavy sigh.
"Move to Qiaoyuan Villa?" Zhang Huainan realized something was wrong. "Male disciples?" "Yes, didn't I tell you?" Master Bixuzi said blankly.
Zhang Huainan pondered for two seconds, then asked with a complicated expression, "Has that kid not done a single proper thing these past few days?" "No!" After speaking, Master Bixuzi recalled seriously for a moment, then said with even more certainty, "Mm, absolutely not! Bullying men and women all day, disrupting the discipline of Da Chunyang Palace, truly committing all sorts of evil ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) deeds, where would there be any proper things?"
Zhang Huainan, "..."
Good heavens, she's carrying on the family's "fine tradition."
