Chapter 548: Joy Bodhisattva’s Invitation

Chapter 548: Joy Bodhisattva’s Invitation

Chen Wuxin left as quickly as he came. After that, Ye Qing spent the next few days cultivating, cultivating, and even more cultivating.

Ye Qing’s cultivation plan for himself was very simple. During the morning, he would refine the Profound Yellow Qi and cultivate the “Chaos Demon Ape Body Tempering Sutra” to temper his body. The sooner he completed the final step of the martial art and ascended his body to the Grandmaster stage, the better.

At night, he would use Nanke to hone his control over his new strength and body. At the same time, he also cultivated the “Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Sutra” to manifest his Yin God and enter the Spirit Master stage as soon as possible.

Besides cultivation, Ye Qing would occasionally take a stroll around or outside the city, but not to relax or catch some rest. In fact, he wasn’t going to rest until he mastered the “Chaos Demon Ape Body Tempering Sutra”.

The reason he went out was to seek out the items Nanke desired in exchange for its services. Thanks to the Annon Sutra, it was generally simple to satisfy Black Lord and White Lord’s demands. In fact, a good number of items could be bought directly from the Tower of Cornucopia’s shops. Sure, most of them were extremely expensive, but as the man who robbed the Chaos Heaven Brigand’s treasury, money was the one thing he didn’t lack. Anything that money could solve was not a problem.

However, not all of the items they requested could be purchased. In fact, some requests did not involve items at all. That was why Ye Qing occasionally left the city to hunt certain Strangers or unusual items.

Speaking of requests that did not involve items, sometimes, the two snakes would make some extremely unusual requests. For example, they would ask him to stay a night at a haunted house, stand under a tree during a thunderstorm for the entire day, run naked around the entire city one time, peep on Widow Wang, his neighbor while she bathed, tell Old Chen that his son’s surname was really Wang[1], dip honey in piss and taste it, so on and so on.

He did not know what the fuck was wrong with Black Lord and White Lord, but as a bashful man there were certain requests he would never accept. For example, he never accepted the request to streak around the city, dip honey in piss and the like. However, there were some requests that his heart said no, but his cultivation said yes such as peeping on Widow Wang while she bathed. What was shame before the allure of power? Nay!

It definitely wasn’t because he wanted to peep on her himself. Nuh uh.

Honestly, if it wasn’t for Nanke’s demands, he would have stayed inside the Temple of Divination twenty-four seven. Thankfully, Black Lord and White Lord never gave him a task he couldn’t complete, so overall everything was going as planned.

Calendars do not exist in a mountain.

Time flows like an unending stream.

Before late autumn was over, Bei You greeted its first big snow.

The snow looked like goose feathers as they rode the icy wind and leisurely floated down the dark sky. It gave the brownish yellow soil of Northern Xinjiang a silvery make-up and lessened its usual ruggedness and roguishness.

The pedestrians’ attire had changed overnight as well. Almost everyone was wearing a thick sheepskin coat and hugging themselves tightly to keep warm. The white outfit made them look like a natural part of the wind and snow.

It was like the spring wind had changed the landscape overnight and filled it with flowers.

In Northern Xinjiang, snow was as common as the rain of Tian Yong. It was perfectly normal and nothing to be surprised about. In fact, Yi Pin claimed that this year’s snow was actually a lot later than normal. Previously, a days-long snow would appear as soon as September or October, but this year it didn’t snow until November.

This was Bei You’s first snow of the year and Ye Qing’s first snow since he arrived at Bei You. Yi Pin believed that it was worth commemorating and decided to set up a stove in the courtyard. They just sat there admiring the snow while drinking white and cooking lamb meat. It was a relaxing, peaceful moment especially for Ye Qing since he had been cultivating almost non-stop until that point.

Their wine bottles were half-full when a series of knocks came from the entrance.

“Hmm?” Ye Qing set down his cup with a slight frown on his face. “It looks like we have honored guests today. Please greet them, Longxiang.”

“Goodbye.” Worriless clasped her hands together in prayer, nodded, and took her leave just like that.

After Worriless was gone, Yi Pin looked at the invitation letter and clicked his tongue in amazement. “I can’t believe Joy Bodhisattva sent a protector just to invite you to her Trueman feast. She seems to value you a lot for some reason!”

“She invited you as well, didn’t she?” Ye Qing countered.

“Don’t be stupid. It’s obvious that you’re the one she really wants to invite. I’m just the extra,” Yi Pin said with a tinge of jealousy.

Ye Qing glanced at him with astonishment. “Sometimes, your self-awareness really surprises me, brother.”

Yi Pin: “...” Why do I feel like you’re taking a jab at me?

“Anyway, are we going or not?”

“Joy Bodhisattva went so far as to send a protector to give me my invitation letter. Do you think I really have the option to say no?” Ye Qing sighed.

To be honest, he really didn’t want to attend the Trueman feast. Why would he go when he could be cultivating within the safety of his own walls? Besides, he had a feeling that he was going to get embroiled in some sort of trouble again if he went.

Unfortunately, Joy Bodhisattva had sent a protector to invite him almost as if she had anticipated his response. If he did not show up, there was a good chance he would earn her ire and land himself in even more trouble. All in all, he did not have a choice.

“What about you, brother?”

“I’m not going.” Yi Pin shook his head without hesitation.

“You’re not? But why?” Ye Qing was caught off guard by his reply. If you didn’t want to go, then why did you say yes just now?

“One, every big shot in Bei You would be attending Joy Bodhisattva’s Trueman feast. I have no intention of showing my face to these people and embarrassing myself.”

“Two, I promised a client that I would be checking out their fengshui exactly five days later, so I can’t actually attend the feast.”

Yi Pin then fixed at Ye Qing with a wordless stare and said slowly, “And finally, I have this feeling that being near you in a setting like that is like setting a powder keg next to an inferno. Sorry, but I have no intentions of getting caught up in your troubles. Good luck.”

Ye Qing: “...”

You wound me, brother!

1. Meaning that Old Wang cucked him. ☜