[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers":3,"chapter-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-147":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mountains and Rivers of the Imperial Granary",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231563,4184,"Chapter 147: Grudges Can Be Repaid, But What About Feelings?","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-147",147,"\u003Cp>Analyzing the machine-like thinking, it goes like this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trigger condition exists = can kiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No trigger condition = cannot kiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou clutched his chest and fell back into the wheelchair: \"The little demoness drugged me before she left...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli: \"?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little White Mao felt a mix of anger and amusement, even wanting to draw her sword and chop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she really made a gesture of swinging the sword to scare him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, just as the sword was swung, Lu Xingzhou made a lightning-fast move and grabbed her wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli was taken aback. Although her sword was just a gesture, with her level, ordinary fifth or sixth-grade cultivators might not even see the sword momentum, let alone grab it accurately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the day they parted, Lu Xingzhou was only sixth-grade lower stage. How long had it been? He was already fifth-grade... And his eyesight was precise, his moves were swift. This potential was definitely stronger than that Qi Tuizhi who bought the ranking...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The machine was deeply analyzing Lu Xingzhou’s strength, but a great force surged from her wrist, pulling her over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli didn't expect that even his strength had become so great. Caught off guard, she was pulled onto his lap and held. She pushed his chest in anger and anxiety: \"What are you doing...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, she subconsciously pushed twice more. The feel of this chest was also different! It was much sturdier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had happened to him during these days?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou said: \"I’m defending myself; someone wants to chop me with a sword.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let go of me~\" Dugu Qingli struggled: \"I said we aren't in a relationship where we can be like this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou remembered the one, two, three, four of Little White Mao before they parted last time, which really made people laugh and lose all desire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I missed you, Qingli.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli’s struggling movements paused, but she quickly added force to break free again, standing coldly in front of him: \"I can't see who you miss anywhere. You are with the demoness of the Joy Sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou didn't speak, just looked at her with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little White Mao’s expression was cold, and to outsiders, it might look like looking at an iceberg, but in his eyes, it felt particularly cute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli couldn't stand his look of seeing a \"beautiful flower\" and turned her head away to avoid eye contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it was even cuter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since you once captured her, why let her go? And you want her to promise not to target me. Am I afraid of her?\" Dugu Qingli turned her head away: \"You can ask her to cancel this request, let her come to me, or I will go to her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou couldn't help but laugh out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli turned back and glared: \"What’s so funny!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Initially letting Chuyun go was because I wanted to get involved with the Pei family at that time, and her identity had something to work with. But since I let her go, I am not afraid of any future trouble myself, but I don't want to cause you trouble because I let her go.\" Lu Xingzhou said softly: \"You say I miss you, but you can't see it anywhere?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli choked: \"I’m not afraid either!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't laugh.\" Dugu Qingli tried hard to make a cold-as-frost expression: \"Others look at me with vigilance; why do you always laugh when you see me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, okay, no laughing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You wanted to get involved with the Pei family initially, what about now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now I feel that the Pei family is nothing to get involved with. They are a great family, and their thoughts are different... We can have a private friendship, but they are not partners for equal cooperation. Or rather, it’s not the time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So you have a private friendship with Pei Chuyun, how did you make it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What I mean is Pei Yu...\" Lu Xingzhou held her hand: \"Alright, let’s not keep mentioning others. Do you have nothing else to say to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. Oh, I have.\" Dugu Qingli looked down at his hand: \"Let go of me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou sighed and let go of her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him sitting in the wheelchair like a pitiful little dog, dejected, Dugu Qingli suddenly wanted to laugh a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, she understood why he always looked at her and smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are just friends; we can't move our hands and feet casually.\" Dugu Qingli tried hard to make herself look serious: \"Last time was just an accident, and it was all explained clearly. You can't pretend to forget.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou said: \"If I don't want to be friends, what are the conditions?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s very simple, just break off the friendship. It just so happens I have this intention too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why do you want to break off the friendship with me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are full of the smell of the Joy Sect demoness; it’s disgusting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then it comes back to the beginning. Shouldn't the Saintess of the Tianyao Holy Land occupy my time more, so the Joy Sect demoness has no chance?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli stood there expressionlessly, her CPU a bit burnt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few seconds of silence, she suddenly became angry: \"It’s all your fault! I can't break through to the third grade because of you and Shen Tang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was stunned for a moment. If Dugu Qingli’s cultivation required forgetting these things, then it was his fault, but what did it have to do with Shen Tang?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn't know that Shen Tang’s three soul-searching questions before Dugu Qingli left last time were far more piercing than the intimacy between the two. If Dugu Qingli occasionally thought of Lu Xingzhou during these days, it was always accompanied by Shen Tang’s three soul-searching questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to break off the friendship with you.\" The girl said seriously. After thinking about it, she cut a little bit of her hem: \"Cutting the robe to break the friendship, is it like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou reminded: \"That’s not a robe, and it’s dirty and broken. Why are you embarrassed to cut it and throw it to me? Better to cut hair.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli did not understand for a moment why, if one were to cut a robe to sever a relationship, it shouldn't just be thrown on the ground; why did it have to be given to him, only to be called dirty and tattered? But then she thought, she was currently wearing his hair on her middle finger, which could be considered him cutting his hair, so if she cut a bit for him, would that complete the breakup ritual?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she really cut a small lock of hair and handed it over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou opened a sachet and stored the white hair with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli’s eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did she remember that giving hair in a sachet was a token of love, and carrying a loved one’s hair represented always being together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl trembled with anger: \"Lu Xingzhou! You are shameless! Give me back the hair!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not returning it. It’s not easy to have something to use for missing you.\" Lu Xingzhou kindly reminded: \"The one on your hand is not good hair; why not throw it away? Shall I cut another lock for you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won't throw it away; I’ll use it to curse you in the future.\" Dugu Qingli turned and left angrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she stayed any longer, the cultivation of these two months would collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She originally thought she had completely cooled down, only occasionally thinking of it... My heart only has the sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this interaction of less than an incense stick of time, all kinds of messy emotions like shame and anger popped up. The sword practice was wasted. If she continued to stay, she was afraid her cultivation would regress!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli didn't dare to stay any longer and went straight to the National Preceptor’s Observatory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan stood quietly on the star-gazing platform, watching her disciple’s figure straight and walking slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli looked up, and a strange perception that she hadn't had before arose in her heart: Master is beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, seeing Master only felt majestic and solemn; she had never thought about whether she was good-looking or not. But now, for some reason, the first reaction was that she was beautiful, more beautiful than anyone she had ever seen. That Joy Sect demoness wasn't as good as one hair of Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To outsiders, Dugu Qingli’s walking posture was still like a sword and ice, but Ye Tinglan frowned slightly: \"Your heart is not settled.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli took a deep breath, and the distracting thoughts were quickly expelled from her mind: \"Master once said that my protection of Shen Tang was also an experience of entering the world and seeing more of the world’s affairs. But the world’s affairs are complicated, interfering with the human heart, which is not as peaceful as the past. Is this good?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Entering the world’s affairs can disturb the heart. What have you entered?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli thought for a while: \"Grudges?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could even lie...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this lie was told well, which was in line with Ye Tinglan’s judgment of her disciple’s behavior just now: \"Do you have an old grudge with the Pei family girl?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes. She ambushed me in the Jianghu.\" Dugu Qingli took the opportunity to ask: \"If my cultivation is to forget the world’s affairs, like the moon reflecting on the cold river, then should grudges also be forgotten and not be lingered on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan said: \"Advising people to forget grudges is indeed a saying of some schools, but our sect does not advocate it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then what should be done?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Repay kindness with kindness, repay grudges with grudges, act happily, and keep your thoughts clear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"......Master, are you sure you are talking about my cultivation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am talking about immortal cultivation... If you cannot be free and act according to your heart, how can you be an immortal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli was silent for a moment: \"But Master has many worries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So it is difficult for me to be an immortal.\" Ye Tinglan smiled: \"But you have more hope than me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli thought deeply and then gave up thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your cultivation itself is cold-hearted and cold-feeling, so naturally, you don't have as many worldly burdens as others, which is a kind of freedom.\" Ye Tinglan said: \"But being cold-hearted and cold-feeling cannot mean being ignorant, not understanding the world’s affairs, and not knowing the human heart. That is a stone, not an immortal family, so you need to experience it. Letting you protect Shen Tang allows you to see the warmth and coldness of human feelings, see brothers killing each other, see disciples rebelling... One month of seeing is better than ten years. After a big dream, you will know that the world’s affairs are just like that, and then you can come out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan said: \"As for experiencing the worldly world, naturally, kindness and grudges will be stained... Repay the kindness, report the grudges, and from then on, you will be relaxed and free from shackles, which is also cultivation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli thought for a while: \"Kindness, resentment, feelings, grudges. Grudges can be repaid, but what about feelings?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Feelings? How can someone like you move feelings...\" Ye Tinglan shook her head: \"Even if you do, it is slow and cold. After a year or a half of closed-door cultivation, you will forget it cleanly. It is like the bright moon reflecting on the river; it seems there is a moon on the river, but in reality, nothing is left.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli thought: \"Does Master mean... no need to resist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no need to resist in the first place. Follow the nature, that is the Dao.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most typical difference between the Tianyao Holy Land and the Huo family or even Gu Zhanting is that they are really cultivating immortals, and their thinking perspectives are not the same at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan cannot get rid of her responsibilities, so she lingers in the worldly world, but Qingli can transcend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had great expectations for her disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Dugu Qingli thinking, the previously slightly restless mood had calmed down, and even a breath of Dao realm breakthrough was dissipating. Ye Tinglan was very satisfied with her disciple’s understanding and beckoned kindly: \"Why are you standing so far away? Come up and let Master see. It’s been a while, how much have you grown?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli walked onto the star-gazing platform, and Ye Tinglan smiled and held her disciple’s hand to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as she touched it, her face was slightly stunned: \"Why is there hair wrapped around your finger... Strange, what kind of hair is this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2149,"2026-06-18T01:46:09.112Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4dac34c416721cb6c1cfd856957a8419fe496546c0e70cd782f09640aa230b38","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-148","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-146",325,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmountains-and-rivers-of-the-imperial-granary-cover.jpg"]