Chapter 28: Creatures Called Masters
Xingnong heard the entire conversation between the two people behind her but didn’t pay it any mind.
She turned left and right within the peach grove.
Sometimes Ren Zishan would see the marks they’d made on the trees earlier and couldn’t help but remind her, “Hey, Miss, we’ve already been here!”
Xingnong only gave an “Oh” and continued walking forward as if she hadn’t heard.
Ren Zishan was about to explode with anger!
Why wouldn’t this person listen to reason?!
Ren Zilin pulled her along, “Let’s go!”
Ren Zishan followed, fuming, and grumbled, “We’re going in circles again, I’m exhausted! If we pass by here again, I’m not moving! Big Brother, you can follow her yourself!”
Ren Zilin soothed her, “Alright, if we go around one more time, we won’t follow her anymore.”
Ignoring them, Xingnong continued turning left and right within the peach grove and then she was out.
“Exhausted! I’m not walking anymore!” Ren Zishan behind her was still complaining.
After taking one step out following Xingnong, Ren Zilin looked at the forest before him in disbelief, “No need to walk anymore, we’re out.”
He pulled Ren Zishan, who was behind him, out in one swift motion.
Ren Zishan: “. . .”
She couldn’t help but rub her eyes.
They were out?
They were actually out!
It was that simple?
Outside the peach grove, two people were standing.
One was an elderly man in white, with an otherworldly air of a Daoist immortal.
The other was cold and aloof, like a jade tree sculpted from ice.
Xingnong immediately recognized Chu Tiankuo—the owner of the golden bead.
Perfect, she could return the bead to him right now. Otherwise, she feared she wouldn’t be able to control her curiosity and would end up arranging all the gene fragments inside.
She didn’t understand how this bead always ended up in her pocket so inexplicably.
Xingnong walked towards Chu Tiankuo.
“Brother Tiankuo!” Ren Zishan, seeing Chu Tiankuo, ran towards him excitedly and almost bumped into Xingnong. Xingnong nimbly dodged her.
Chu Tiankuo noticed Xingnong’s evasive maneuver and his gaze lingered on her for a second.
“Old Master Tang.” Ren Zilin bowed respectfully to the elderly man in white.
Only after hearing Ren Zilin’s voice did Ren Zishan realize her blunder and quickly stood up straight, bowing respectfully, “Old Master Tang.”
Old Master Tang had no time for them and didn’t even spare them a glance. He strode towards Xingnong.
Ren Zishan, however, took a step forward and excitedly blocked Old Master Tang’s path, “Old Master Tang, we got out of the formation within half an hour! Can Big Brother and I become your disciples now?”
Old Master Tang waved his hand dismissively, “That doesn’t count.”
Ren Zishan was dumbfounded, “Why doesn’t it count? Didn’t we get out within the time limit?”
Old Master Tang gave her a disdainful look and said impatiently, “Did you get out on your own? Move aside, don’t block my way!”
With that, he bypassed her and walked up to Xingnong, his eyes shining, “Little girl, how did you get out of the formation just now?”
“I walked out with my feet.”
“. . .”
Old Master Tang waved his hand, “That’s not what I meant. I meant, how did you see through my formation?”
“I saw it with my eyes.”
“. . .”
“Haha.” He couldn’t hold it in any longer! Ren Zilin burst out laughing.
Old Master Tang choked on his words, but he couldn’t get angry at his future disciple! So he glared at him fiercely.
Ren Zilin, startled, immediately turned around, covering his mouth tightly, his shoulders shaking with laughter.
Ren Zishan rolled her eyes: Was this village girl stupid? She didn’t even know how to answer properly?
Old Master Tang rephrased his question, “Have you studied formations before? Is that how you figured out the trick to my formation after just one walk around?”
“No.”
Old Master Tang: “Impossible! You must have studied before!”
“No.”
Old Master Tang: “I don’t believe you. Swear it!”
“Believe it or not, it’s up to you.” Xingnong said nonchalantly.
“Fine! I believe you. But you have to tell me how you found the way out after just one walk around.”
“I walked randomly.”
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Old Master Tang glanced at Xingnong; this little rascal was being guarded!
Walk randomly? He’d have lived in vain for decades if he believed that.
But she said it herself, she walked randomly. If she walked randomly, it meant she had no master!
Having no master meant she wasn’t anyone else’s disciple. Not being anyone else’s disciple, she could be his disciple!
Old Master Tang said with a serious face, “Walking randomly means relying on intuition. To be able to walk out of the formation I set up by relying on intuition, this is simply being born for formations. Not bad, quite like how I was as a child, much better than that brat Kuo!”
Xingnong wanted to bypass him and return the golden bead.
Old Master Tang took a step forward, blocking her path, and stood up straight, his hands clasped behind his back, “Become my disciple!”
He had finally found someone who could inherit his lifelong legacy.
That brat Kuo wouldn’t do!
He had great things to achieve.
Xingnong: “……”
Become his disciple?
Ren Zilin: “. . .”
Becoming a disciple was this easy?
Why was it so difficult for him?
Bowing left and right, bowing forward and backward, …… nothing worked.
Three visits, four visits, seven or eight visits to the thatched cottage, still nothing?
Ren Zishan: “. . .”
Old Master Tang was actually taking this village girl as his disciple but wouldn’t take her?
A creature called master meant trouble. Xingnong refused without a second thought, “I won’t…”
Old Master Tang waved his hand, “No need to kneel and bow, it’s settled. From now on, you are my disciple. The moment you stepped out of this peach grove, you became my disciple.”
Xingnong: “. . .”
As expected, throughout history, creatures called masters had always been eccentric and domineering!
Ren Zilin: “. . .”
Ren Zishan: “. . .”
They begged Old Master Tang to take them as disciples, but he was forcing this girl to be his disciple?
Xingnong frowned slightly, “Old Master, I don’t have time to learn. This young master and young lady seem to want to be your disciples.”
Ren Zilin nodded.
Ren Zishan nodded, then shook her head vigorously.
No, since when did she stoop to needing a village girl to recommend her?
She could make Old Master Tang take her as a disciple with her own abilities!
Ren Zishan glared at Xingnong, “Mind your own business! I have the ability to make Old Master Tang take me as his disciple!”
Old Master Tang waved his hand, “These two won’t do, they’re too stupid!”
Ren Zishan: “. . .”
“Thank you for your kindness, Old Master, but…”
“No need for thanks!” Old Master Tang interrupted Xingnong again, not giving her a chance to refuse. He pointed to Chu Tiankuo, who had been standing silently at the side, “Precious disciple, this is your senior brother.”
Before the words “I don’t have time” could leave her mouth, Xingnong followed his hand and looked over.
This was her senior brother?
Xingnong cupped her fist, “Senior Brother.”
Acknowledging him as her senior brother meant they were connected now, right?
Then, regarding her knowledge of the golden bead’s secret and the fact that the bead kept finding its way to her, he wouldn’t easily kill her to silence her in the future.
Although she wasn’t afraid, this person was powerful. It was best to avoid trouble when possible.
Old Master Tang: “. . .”
Ren Zilin: “. . .”
Ren Zishan: “. . .”
Chu Tiankuo: “. . .”
Old Master Tang was the first to recover. For the first time, he felt that his beloved disciple’s face wasn’t just a curse, it actually had some use!
He pushed Chu Tiankuo forward, “Beloved disciple, this is your dear, precious junior sister. From now on, you two must love each other as brother and sister and help each other, understand?”
Old Master Tang poked him in the back with his small wooden comb, Hurry up and call her Junior Sister!
Chu Tiankuo didn’t speak, he merely glanced at Xingnong. His face remained as cold as ice, making it impossible to guess his thoughts.
Ren Zishan secretly let out a sigh of relief, she knew it, Brother Tiankuo wouldn’t acknowledge this wild girl as his junior sister!
Not everyone could be Brother Tiankuo’s junior sister.
Good morning~
