Chapter 123: Answering questions from book friends related to the

Answering questions from book friends related to the "Red Sleeve Academy" plot.

Why is there the Red Sleeve Academy plot? Why did Xiao Yu stay in the Red Sleeve Academy?

Before answering this question, let's look at the environment Xiao Yu is in.

There are Land Gods in the villages, Mountain Gods in the mountains, River Gods in the rivers, City Gods in the cities, and also Kitchen Gods, Well Gods, Toilet Gods, Door Gods, etc.

There are Earth Immortals on the ground, the Underworld underground, and the Jade Emperor and the Heavenly Court gods in the sky.

On the surface, this world with a Journey to the West background is very "primitive"—compared to modern society.

But in reality, it is far more strictly structured than modern society.

In modern society, at least regarding your birth and death, no one can manage you (actually, they can indirectly interfere).

Modern society doesn't have cameras everywhere; if you have a little power and influence, it's not difficult to make a camera just happen to break.

In this book's world, "People are doing, Heaven is watching" is no longer an adjective.

It is a fact.

The whole world, no matter where you are, is a huge cage woven by saints and gods and Buddhas. No matter what you did in the past, what you are doing now, or what you will do in the future, someone knows.

In the counterfeit silver case, a mere local Guan Chenghuang directly and frequently interferes in mortal affairs.

The Guan Chenghuang took out the Book of Life and Death and directly changed a person's destiny, which at least shows that that person's destiny had already been written in the Book of Life and Death.

Now, Feng Nipo, the "daughter of the Dao Guan Laozu, mother of the Buddha, sister of the Queen Mother," has appeared.

Even a small-town witch like her knows that Xiao Yu was hiding in the water whispering to Hong Qu.

If this doesn't explain anything, wait until Xiao Yu triggers the Great Destroyer on Feng Nipo, and wait until the Four Duty Merit Officers and the Heavenly Court Talisman Envoy appear, and everyone will know how terrifying the "cameras" of the mythological world are.

Anyone with a little fame is always under the three-dimensional surveillance of ghosts, gods, and immortals.

Ghosts monitor the past, gods monitor the present, and immortals divine the future.

To give another example, many readers see the Great Qin plot and can immediately guess that Xiao Yu will participate in the later Qin Han chaos and become the veritable "Invincible Lu Fengxian" on the battlefield.

Then haven't you thought about it: I, the author, and you readers all know the plot, so why don't the gods know?

We can reason based on "common sense," but gods can calculate!

I have seen Journey to the West fan fiction—I won't comment on the author or the book, just talk about a relatively common plot: the protagonist uses foresight, follows Wukong to go through the plot, takes various advantages, worships Bodhi as a teacher, enters the Peach Banquet to pick peaches... Then in the setting, it is the conventional "conspiracy theory" (actually not a conspiracy theory)—the big shots have already calculated everything and are playing a big game.

Then the question arises: the saints, Golden Immortals, Jade Emperor, and Buddha are so awesome, calculating five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future, so why didn't they calculate the protagonist's origin, behavior, and planning?

So, can we create a setting where the protagonist has a golden finger and can completely avoid the calculations of gods and Buddhas, or completely interfere with the divination?

Wouldn't that be even more conspicuous?

You becoming the only special existence in the world is like announcing loudly: I have a problem.

So what about Xiao Yu?

There are many details in the previous text; I don't know if everyone noticed.

The Daoist acolyte Qingsong has already tested Xiao Yu and said that she has innate wisdom, no previous life, and her soul is newly born and has not experienced reincarnation.

Maybe everyone thinks Qingsong is a water-goods... but I have to tell everyone that everything he said is correct.

An extra note: Qingsong is not a small fry; his previous life was a True Immortal in the Heavenly Wang Gong, similar to Old Pig and Wu Jing, who made a mistake and was demoted to the mortal world.

Now he is a Daoist acolyte in the Taiyi Dao Zheng-Yang Wang Gong, but many ancestors of Taiyi Dao were his Daoist acolytes!

Back to the topic, actually, in the chapter about the Kunpeng Demon Master, there was also a hint. The Demon Master used the time artifact Kunlun Mirror.

Theoretically speaking, Xiao Yu is his direct bloodline, his daughter. Xiao Yu is a modern person and also a standard Primordial native. The "Heavenly Dao" knows her origin clearly, so there is no rejection.

So does Xiao Yu have a destiny, and can her destiny be calculated?

Yes.

As the plot unfolds, a new supporting character, "Dog Meat Daoist," will appear. He learned the divination technique that Wukong looked down upon, a side-door method that cannot achieve immortality.

When the time comes, everyone will see how he calculates Xiao Yu's destiny—ten out of ten.

Actually, the already appeared "Divine Physician Min" can also calculate the future related to diseases.

In such a world, the past is recorded by ghosts and gods, the present is monitored by gods, the future is understood by immortals and Buddhas, every word and action is under the gaze of others, and the future is calculated, plotted, and fine-tuned by "self-righteous big shots." Does it make a difference where you live?

Even if Xiao Yu moved into the palace to be a queen now, she would still be a bird in a cage, a chess piece on a chessboard, an ant unable to resist destiny.

The realm of "ghosts and gods cannot invade" is not an Immortal Martial realm, but a state where underworld ghosts and gods and heavenly immortals no longer dare to approach or monitor her at will, and she can powerfully resist this monitoring.

Since there is no difference between the palace and the Red Sleeve Academy, why did Xiao Yu go to the Red Sleeve Academy instead of the palace?

Because it's easy to level up in the Red Sleeve Academy!

For a queen to worship a foster father, it is very troublesome to make it reasonable and not arouse suspicion.

I emphasize again, this is a saint world that is "three-dimensionally imprisoned" by ghosts and gods recording the past, gods monitoring the present, and big shots calculating the future.

The world is a toy in the palm of a saint.

And Xiao Yu wants to cause trouble in such a world—everyone can think from another angle: now an ordinary person holds a knife to rebel against society, and still wants to succeed, how high is the difficulty?

In the Red Sleeve Academy, no matter who Xiao Yu targets, she can immediately trigger the Great Destroyer, and no one suspects.

Now Xiao Yu only knows Jin Lian, and Jin Lian is a third-rate famous prostitute.

Above Jin Lian, there are clearly Tianmen's Shao Yao Hong, and the Five Absolute Sword Maidens.

I'll spoil a little: what Jin Lian comes into contact with are aristocratic young masters (national husband), Human Immortal descendants; Shao Yao is the ancestor of a sect, the head of an aristocratic family (the husband's father), where Human Immortals are everywhere, and young masters from Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal families can also be seen; the Five Absolute Sword Maidens are heads of state, and can even see the world's top combat power, the Golden Immortal.

Don't look at the Qinghe Commandery Prince as too low; Xiao Yu and the Red Sleeve Academy are just the most marginal corner in the Qinghe Commandery Prince's circle.

The book clearly wrote that the Qinghe Commandery Prince was unwilling to be the King of Shu and let his brother be the King of Shu. Why was he unwilling to be the King? He must have something better than a King, for example, being an immortal!

Since the Qinghe Commandery Prince is so awesome, why can the Western Sha Empire that Xiao Yu raised at will destroy Shu? Isn't this contradictory?

Because when you develop and show great potential, "angel investors" will immediately come to your door to invest in your country and absorb the human destiny of your country to cultivate!

There is an immortal cultivation setting: the most garbage miscellaneous servant in the immortal cultivation world, who is old and can't make it in the immortal cultivation world, returns to the mortal world and can easily become the master of a country, or enjoy the offerings of a country.

This book is not such a setting.

If it were this kind of immortal cultivation setting, Journey to the West couldn't unfold. The big shots first secretly distribute the benefits, then casually arrange for a god or Buddha to descend to the mortal world, put a knife and a bundle of scriptures on the table, and let Li Shimin choose: choose to be killed by the knife, or spread Buddhism in the Great Tang? Wouldn't that be clean and neat, and the big shots would save time and worry? What's the need for the troublesome monkey?

Journey to the West is not this kind of setting.

Look at Zhu Bajie; he secretly saved silver, and it took a long time to save a few taels of silver.

And demon kings at the True Immortal realm still use silver to buy things, and they still think a few taels of silver are expensive.

When Tang Seng took the scriptures, Ananda and Kasyapa even collected "personnel gifts"!

Even the Buddha himself told Wukong and the others very proudly: One year, he recited scriptures for a certain squire and collected three dou and three sheng of golden rice grains.

In the background of Journey to the West, money and power are also very important forces.

It's not that money and power themselves are important.

We all know that strength is the only hard currency.

Journey to the West actually also follows the "strength is supreme" setting.

The reason why money and power are important is that the saints with the strongest strength have formulated a set of world rules that require money and power to maintain balance.

Still using modern society as an example, is money important?

Do we need money itself?

Officials have great power, dominating the destiny of a city or a country. Is it because they are more noble and wise than ordinary people?

If society collapses, for example, in the end times, money is too dirty even to wipe your ass. In the end-times novel, the protagonist's encounter with officials is not as good as flight attendants or female internet celebrities.

It is the ruling class that needs the financial system and the bureaucratic system to maintain rule.

The ruling class of the Primordial world is the saints, the "Old Heaven"!

Saints need human destiny and want the Three Realms to be stable and not chaotic.

In a more stable environment, the rule-makers at the top of the food chain can plunder resources more efficiently and with lower risk.

This is why saints and gods and Buddhas attach great importance to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

The Great Tribulation cannot be avoided.

You gods and Buddhas create various killing tribulations every day, and the five poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance are all complete, so catastrophe qi must accumulate, and the killing tribulation must come.

Gods and Buddhas can control the world, but they cannot reverse cause and effect.

The Great Tribulation brings great turmoil, and turmoil will become a ladder for some "villains" to break away from their own destiny and class.

And Xiao Yu undoubtedly has the potential and motivation to disturb the destiny of Heaven in the Great Tribulation—readers all know that the gods and Buddhas who can calculate also have some awareness, so they monitor her even more strictly... sigh, doesn't this form a logical closed loop?

For the counterfeit silver case updated after going on the shelves, and Xiao Yu's daily life in the Red Sleeve Academy, I try my best to write them interestingly.

The purpose of writing them is to unfold the scroll and show the world view and Xiao Yu's situation bit by bit.

In the counterfeit silver case, there are government offices, Red Sleeve Academy (poor people in society), Busigui (scum in society), pawnshops (business), the public (ordinary people), Guan Guan Chenghuang (ghosts and gods)... In early web novels, there is a classic opening: XX Continent, fighting qi is supreme, those who practice fighting qi can move mountains and seas, capture the sun and moon, fighting qi is divided into ten realms, and each realm has ten small realms...

Actually, this daily description of Tianmen Town is essentially the same as this, introducing the world view.

I have explained before that if the content conforms to everyone's common sense, I try not to waste ink to explain; if it is slightly different from common sense, I will point it out directly or indirectly through the story.

I think the world view of being strictly monitored by ghosts, gods, immortals, and Buddhas, without a single dead angle, and where the protagonist is difficult to take advantage of, is slightly different from common sense (settings in other immortal cultivation web novels).

For example, in the counterfeit silver case, the relationship between the government, ghosts and gods, and the various schools of thought is explained relatively clearly (I feel), and the three are in a dynamic balance, and no one can definitely overwhelm anyone.

Zhu Yitao can hit the Busigui scoundrel with a board, and the scoundrel also dares to fight him for his life.

Guan Guan Chenghuang hits the scoundrel with a board, and that night the scoundrel runs to the Guan Chenghuang Temple to splash dog blood—here I explain, in the world of "qi," dog blood and filthy things can indeed disgust ghosts and gods.

If Xiao Yu causes trouble according to the style of other novel protagonists, it is easy to hang up.

The unfolding of the world view provides logical rationality for some of her behaviors.

Now she lives happily in the Red Sleeve Academy on the surface, chatting with neighbors in the street every day, as if exploring outward bit by bit on an undeveloped dark map.

I saw a reader say that he would rather see Xiao Yu practicing martial arts silently in the Red Sleeve Academy alone than see her chatting with the aunts in Soy Sauce Lane, feeling that this is very low and very aggrieved.

I admit that if it is placed in a world view where killing is decisive and strength is supreme, such as Mortal Cultivation, there is no great need to write this kind of plot.

But the illusory world constructed by this book is not decisive in killing.

Improving the realm and becoming an immortal cannot even be equated with combat power.

Just like a PhD student from Qinghua or Peking University can still be beaten by a delivery boy with a junior high school diploma, as long as the delivery boy exercises diligently, while the PhD student only focuses on his major and doesn't focus on exercising (the way of killing).

In this book, saints control the world, and saints have formulated a set of world operation rules that rely on morality and character to improve the realm and obtain blessings and immortal fate.

Xiao Yu is not disguising herself, deliberately looking for aunts to inquire about news.

This is her personality, lively and cheerful, optimistic and upward, easy to adapt to various environments, and integrate into them, finding a way of life that makes her happy.

People are doing, Heaven is watching.

If the reader were "Dog Meat Daoist" and "Divine Physician Min" (these two "experts" behind are helping Xiao Yu selflessly), would they be willing to communicate with a girl who is enthusiastic, warm, unconstrained, proud but polite, or would they be more willing to help a girl who is gloomy all day, doesn't go out, and only practices hard?

For the latter, they might pity her encounter, but for the former, they will develop a sense of closeness, and even I like it.

To put it bluntly, all the small plots recently are for the setting, and the setting is to make the later plot look more reasonable.

Not to mention far away, Sending Dou Gengyan gave his family's Haoran Righteous Qi to Xiao Yu for nothing.

If Xiao Yu were not a lively, enthusiastic, confident, wise, pure, and non-hypocritical personality, is Sending Dou Gengyan brain-damaged?

I am an introverted and silent person in reality.

I know very well the difference in attitude of outsiders when facing me and enthusiastic and cheerful people.

For introverted people like me, maintaining the most basic politeness is enough; for enthusiastic, cheerful, confident, and polite people, everyone really likes them, even I like them.

In the decisive Mortal Cultivation world, in order to compete for opportunities, one will pay more attention to immediate interests and ignore morality, etiquette, character, and style.

In this world with Journey to the West as the background, planting a good cause, even if it is the smallest good, will definitely bear good fruit inadvertently.

I'll spoil a little more.

Before long, Xiao Yu will kill wildly, killing until the streets are flowing with blood.

If she were a "gloomy protagonist" who only practices martial arts and is not good at socializing, others would definitely think she is a demon.

But because everyone understands her through her daily life, after she kills, they can understand her and take the initiative to defend her.

Also, Widow Huang has a husband in the Luye Guard, and a posthumous child named "Er Gouzi," right?

Lu Bu has Gao Shun and Eight Generals, and the loyalty of the Eight Generals to him... is worth questioning.

Yu Fengxian participates in the Qin Han chaos, so she can't be alone, right?

She also has her own Gao Shun and "Eight Generals" (not necessarily eight), eight adopted sons, each loyal and unwavering.

Er Gouzi is one of them.

When the plot of Er Gouzi's absolute loyalty to Xiao Yu, not wavering in the face of any benefits, is written in the future, everyone will only think it is a matter of course, and will not feel that the author is talking nonsense, because there are settings and foreshadowing. He and his mother understand Xiao Yu's character and trust Xiao Yu.

Even if the Tianmen Town plot ends, and Xiao Yu returns to Tianmen Town in the future, with one call, thousands of families will compete to join her, just like the Jiangdong children to Xiang Yu, everyone will not be surprised, and will feel it is a matter of course.

Everything has a cause and an effect, and the fruit of the future comes from the cause of today.

In every sense, whether it is personal strength or subordinates and power, Tianmen Town is Xiao Yu's blessed land.

Don't think that because Tianmen Town is far from the Central Plains, it is a low-level small place that can be discarded at will and has no value.

Tianmen Town is indeed far from the Central Plains, but it is close to Wuzhuang Temple!

Wuzhuang Temple has an Guan Laozu of Earth Immortals, who claims to be of the same generation as the Three Pure Ones.

Even if there is some moisture, squeezing out the moisture is still a top-level big shot.

Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu is the rudder master of the Tianmen Society. Everyone already knows this, but where does the "Immortal Fate" that every Tianmen Society leader has once come from?

Aunt Liu's "Primordial Boundless," which even Xiao Yu coveted upon seeing it, was a top-tier internal martial art taught to her by Lei Zhen, but who did that Lei Zhen learn it from?

Tianmen Town is not an ordinary small town.

The Red Sleeve Academy is not an ordinary brothel; it is both the Teaching Division of the Shu Kingdom government and a Jiang Hu sect.

Not to mention anything else, look at the attitude of "Downhill Tiger" Busigui when facing Xiao Yu, directly calling her "Sister," and even a little trembling.

This is not the attitude toward a "famous prostitute," but the attitude toward a big shot in the same sect—Xiao Yu beat up Lan Ruomei of Busigui.

I read "Twin Dragons of the Great Tang" and also agree with the saying that Cihang Cishang Jingzhai is a "Cihang Brothel."

That group of fake nuns is a group of **

The Red Sleeve Academy in this book is just Cihang Cishang Jingzhai with the "Hongfu Hongfu Xianzi" coat removed.

In terms of setting, I wrote it as a sect similar to Cihang Cishang Jingzhai.

Now Jin Lian's level is low, only responsible for making money.

At Shao Yao's level, making money is secondary; Li Manman of the Five Absolute Sword Maidens is even more "high-end," almost the "World Walker" of Cihang Cishang Jingzhai.

Look at Young Master Hu admiring her. Young Master Hu is the son of the Chief Judge, and Young Master Hu's own identity is also not simple.

In Journey to the West, maybe he has the qualifications to take a golden cudgel when Wukong makes trouble in the underworld—I don't want to write Xiao Yu climbing to Li Manman's level step by step. She doesn't need to be a famous prostitute to socialize. As long as she comes into contact with that circle, sees them, calls out, activates the Great Destroyer, and that's it.

If it weren't for the identity of the Red Sleeve Academy, she wouldn't be able to come into contact with such a high circle in the short term. Even if she did, the immortals can all calculate, and they are very shrewd and care very much about cause and effect. Finding that the "foster fathers" she worshiped were many, but all ended up badly, can they not suspect? Can they accept her "foster father" call?

With the setting that planting a good cause will inevitably bear good fruit, let's look at Xiao Yu giving the divine position to Duan Yuhan.

For Xiao Yu, her thoughts are clear, and she feels it's worth it.

Before, she had been considering how to settle Duan Yuhan's bones and let them get rid of the state of lonely ghosts and wild spirits early, end the cause and effect, and enter the battle of reincarnation.

For me, for the story plot of this book, it is planting another good cause, which will soon bear good fruit...

I won't spoil it anymore. I just want to say that the protagonist of this book is a girl, but she will not be obsessed with the talented men and beautiful women in the brothel, love and hatred. The Red Sleeve Academy is a platform for crazily triggering the Great Destroyer.

Of course, no matter how I explain it, I can't avoid another reader's question: I can not care about Xiao Yu going to the Red Sleeve Academy, but the recent plot looks unpleasant.

If I explain the intention of the recent daily plot, and it is still unpleasant, it means that intense plot conflict is more in line with the appetite of this type of reader.

I will try my best to improve... Actually, the unfolding of the Tianmen Town world view is almost over, and a big plot conflict is coming soon, a small conflict directly with the Heavenly Court and the Haotian God.

Sigh, let's just say this much. I am not sure if the following plot conflict can satisfy everyone. When the time comes, if you have suggestions, you can mention them in the comment area, or you can find me on QQ.

The core of this book, "Great Destroyer," determines that Xiao Yu will take the initiative to lower her status and secretly earn benefits, losing some face for the sake of substance.

If the golden finger is designed as "Raising a Good Son," obtaining skills from adopted sons, the effect will be reversed. The protagonist is wanton and ostentatious, showing off everywhere to gain fame, attracting young talents to take the initiative to join her as an "adopted son."

Uh, since we are talking about this, just mention it casually: Xiao Yu is actually very capable of showing off and is very ostentatious. She has many foster fathers, and quite a few adopted sons.

Being her foster father is very unlucky; being her adopted son, almost everyone can change their destiny against the sky. ===== CHAPTER 124 =====