Chapter 97

The year-end had just passed, and the Alchemy Academy's assessment time was not that early.

Lu Xingzhou's trip to the capital was not as hurried as when he came to Menggui City; he leisurely enjoyed the scenery along the way, entering every city he encountered.

If it weren't for this Huo Lu matter, he should have still been in Shen Tang's fragrant and soft bed at this time, and wouldn't have left until at least next month...

Since he was already out, he naturally wouldn't run back. Lu Xingzhou, A-Nuo, and Pei Chuyun were three people who rarely traveled; usually, when they went out, there was a mission, and they were in a hurry. It was a rare experience to relax their minds purely for sightseeing, which was quite a difficult experience.

"I was wrong..." Standing in front of a large waterfall, watching the majestic and spectacular sight of the flying stream falling three thousand feet, Lu Xingzhou sighed and stomped his feet: "Menggui City was said to have many attractions, but I was fooled by a fool into watching a temple, and didn't see anything else, and left the next day... I could have totally not been in such a hurry to leave..."

Pei Chuyun looked at the waterfall with a surprised expression and couldn't be bothered to ignore him: "Did I make you leave? Don't talk about other things; even if you watched the temple, you only watched one hall, and even staying overnight to watch the moonlight at the mountain temple was full of calculations; it's all your own problem."

"If I weren't full of calculations, I would have died long ago, and maybe died at your hands."

"Then keep calculating slowly; calculate a little less, and if you die at my hands again, don't blame me."

Lu Xingzhou didn't take this bait: "It is said that Huo Lu bought a top courtesan; I didn't even go to see what she looked like. If I find her to sing a song, does that count as cheating on Huo Lu?"

"You can still go see the top courtesan now; no one is stopping you."

Lu Xingzhou just stared at her profile.

Pei Chuyun glanced sideways.

Lu Xingzhou smiled: "Besides being able to cheat on Huo Lu, the top courtesan is definitely not as good-looking as the Hehuan Saintess; I would be a fool to go see her."

"What's the use?" Pei Chuyun sneered: "No matter how good-looking, some people, besides making a move, don't dare to do anything. Trash."

"I clearly moved my mouth."

Pei Chuyun: "Pfft."

Lu Xingzhou felt a bit embarrassed; now that he hadn't sealed her cultivation, he really didn't dare to move his mouth again.

Not to mention moving his mouth, actually, without sealing her cultivation, he didn't even dare to make a move... Back then, when she hunted the wheelchair man twice, he had to rely on the wheelchair's protective shield from beginning to end, otherwise, the charm technique would have invaded his body, and he would have been as miserable as that little white-haired one that day.

Although Pei Chuyun shouldn't take the initiative to attack him now, if he courted death and was messed with by her, he couldn't blame anyone; just because she didn't take the initiative to attack you didn't mean you could touch her casually.

Feeling that Lu Xingzhou was a little stifled, how could Pei Chuyun not know what the man was thinking? Her mood inexplicably improved a lot, and she deliberately puffed out her chest at him: "Hey, does it look good?"

Lu Xingzhou took out that child's bellyband: "It looks good."

Pei Chuyun's face turned black.

A-Nuo quietly moved three feet to the side, so as not to be remembered as the culprit and get beaten for nothing.

Lu Xingzhou put away the bellyband without changing his expression: "Um, how about we discuss an academic problem?"

"What problem?"

"Dual cultivation technique."

Pei Chuyun smiled but didn't smile: "Really want to solve the problem from the technique level? Don't dream."

"I didn't intend to solve your Hehuan Sect's problem; can I solve my own problem? I have a wife; is it strange to study dual cultivation?"

Pei Chuyun's smile disappeared, and she didn't know why herself. After a long while, she sneered: "What kind of wife do you have? Do you have the orders of your parents? Do you have the words of a matchmaker? Did you bow in marriage? Did you hold a banquet before she became your wife? Illicit cohabitation without a matchmaker; what is the difference between you and our Hehuan demon cultivators?"

Facing a long string of questions, Lu Xingzhou only used five words to answer: "I am also a demon cultivator."

Pei Chuyun: "...We don't study dual cultivation, only harvesting and nourishing."

"Why must we harvest and nourish? Although dual cultivation is slower in effect, it belongs to the Great Dao and has no sequelae. Harvesting and nourishing looks fast in the short term, but in fact, there are many improprieties that are well-known; even the infant ghosts have abandoned it."

Pei Chuyun was silent for a moment, and slowly said: "If it's harvesting and nourishing, you only need to seize the pill in the furnace's body and it's done... If it's dual cultivation, you need to pass your own internal energy over, and then have the other party return it, and so on, constantly exchanging back and forth."

"Yes, so what?"

"What if he doesn't return it?"

Lu Xingzhou was stunned for a moment, and for a time he was speechless.

Pei Chuyun said coldly: "We never hope for this; we only pursue things we can control. So you asked the wrong person to discuss dual cultivation techniques with me; I don't know how."

This is not a technique problem; this is a trust problem.

Therefore, dual cultivation has always been something that only lovers do; once betrayal is encountered, it will collapse.

Seeing Lu Xingzhou's silent expression, Pei Chuyun suddenly smiled again: "Actually, to deal with the Hehuan Sect, you don't necessarily need to study techniques; there is a simpler and cruder way."

Lu Xingzhou said: "Cultivation crushing?"

"Yes. But how much crushing is needed to suppress it? Oh my, it's so hard to guess." Pei Chuyun stretched and said with a grin: "In short, some Grade 6 crippled person shouldn't count on it."

Lu Xingzhou said with a straight face: "I said I didn't intend to solve your Hehuan Sect's problem."

"Pfft." Pei Chuyun's eyes rolled, and she leaned over: "Judge, you are different from others after all; if you want to relive last night's dream, I can give you a chance."

Lu Xingzhou moved away a step without changing his expression: "If I really want to relive the old dream, I'll just design to catch you again; it's not that difficult."

Pei Chuyun gritted her teeth.

Of course, she was still trying to poach him; she wouldn't use more intense means now, and she didn't know if pure female seduction would work. Lu Xingzhou's concentration was very strong; even after last night, he could actually fall asleep holding her, which made Pei Chuyun lack confidence.

However, the little demoness knew what men wanted: "Even if you catch me again, you still won't dare to do what you want to do... but if I am willing, then it's possible..."

Lu Xingzhou smiled but didn't smile: "How willing?"

"You join my sect and become one of us; then the women in the sect will let you have fun, and no one will be the least bit coy, let alone blindly harvest and nourish; I guarantee it will be like being in a fairyland."

"Really? Then kiss me first and let me see your strength."

Pei Chuyun: "?"

"Look, you won't even do this; no matter how much you brag, isn't it still an empty-handed white wolf? Do you think I'm a fool?"

Pei Chuyun said angrily: "Then you didn't give anything and asked for a kiss first; aren't you an empty-handed white wolf?"

Lu Xingzhou was happy: "Then what do you want?"

Pei Chuyun didn't want anything. In fact, even if she was "poaching," she said "join my sect" verbally, but internally she had no intention of poaching a strategist for the Hehuan Sect; she wanted a strategist who belonged to her.

That is, she only wanted Lu Xingzhou as a person.

How to say this? Even if she said it, Lu Xingzhou wouldn't pay attention.

Pei Chuyun's eyes rolled, and she saw the waterfall on the side, and said with a grin: "This waterfall is majestic, with fine rain brushing against the face, full of poetic sentiment. If Young Master Lu can write a poem that satisfies me, I will take the initiative to kiss you."

Lu Xingzhou was silent for a moment: "Forget it."

Pei Chuyun was stunned; actually, if Lu Xingzhou could perfunctorily write one, she would kiss him, meaning that if you can achieve other conditions, you can get more. Logically, Lu Xingzhou shouldn't be unable to see this little implication; judging from that day's "In the human world there is still no soul to summon," it shouldn't be difficult for him to perfunctorily write a poem; why did he refuse?

But he heard Lu Xingzhou say sincerely: "Some poems are too terrifying; once they are published, all the waterfall poems in the world will be eclipsed, making everyone think of only one sentence when they mention waterfalls... This kind of thing is not too good..."

Pei Chuyun glanced at him angrily: "So you can also brag."

"This is true..." If it were chanting other scenery, Lu Xingzhou could still remember many poems, but once it came to waterfalls, he was finished; his whole mind only had one sentence, and he believed that the vast majority of Huaxia fellow countrymen were like this.

What is the power of the Poet Immortal.

Pei Chuyun rolled her eyes: "Don't talk about eclipsing other poems; as long as you can really write a poem that convinces me, I will let you seal my cultivation tonight and relive the old dream."

"Forget it, no need." Lu Xingzhou took out paper and pen, wrote two lines, and handed them to her: "Keep it for fun."

Pei Chuyun curled her lips and glanced at it casually.

The next moment, her whole person was like being acupointed, and she couldn't move anymore.

Lu Xingzhou turned around and took A-Nuo's hand, leisurely going down the mountain: "Let's go; it will take a long time to enter the city ahead, don't miss dinner."

It wasn't until the master and apprentice were far away that Pei Chuyun suddenly came to her senses, carefully holding the paper and chasing after them with a thumping heart: "Wait for me~"

Until she followed into the city and sat in the inn's courtyard eating, Pei Chuyun still felt a bit dazed.

She felt that she was also finished; in the future, when mentioning waterfalls, she was afraid that only this sentence would remain in her heart...

"What's wrong?" Lu Xingzhou tapped his chopsticks: "Why do you keep stealing glances at me while eating?"

"Ah?" Pei Chuyun lowered her head to eat.

She wasn't looking at Lu Xingzhou; she was completely dazed.

Lu Xingzhou educated A-Nuo angrily: "See? When you grow up, you can do anything, but you can't be a literary girl; it's too dull."

A-Nuo wanted to laugh.

Actually, Sister Fish is also quite literary sometimes; do you know that the few poems you wrote to Sister Fish, she would sit by the window in the middle of the night holding her chin and reading them endlessly?

What's funny is that these are all demon sect women; on the contrary, the righteous ones, like the little white-haired one or something, if you give her a poem, she probably doesn't know what you are talking about, and might be trying hard to analyze if it contains any sword technique mysteries.

Maybe she could really comprehend a sword technique from "Flying down three thousand feet, suspected to be the Milky Way falling from the nine heavens"...

The meal was finished in Pei Chuyun's sleepwalking performance; Lu Xingzhou couldn't be bothered to ignore her, and went up to the small building by himself, standing by the window watching the moon.

After the meal, there was some light rain, brushing against his face like fine hair, which was very comfortable, and the air became fresher, but the moonlight seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze, hazy and unclear.

Lu Xingzhou felt that if Pei Chuyun were also pushing the window to look at the moon at this time, maybe she would be poetic again.

Actually, Lu Xingzhou himself was also quite literary; even someone who reads things like "Fire dragon, embroidery, algae, and leather" can't be said not to be literary... It's just that for these years, trapped in a wheelchair, restricted in the Yama Hall, his heart was full of hostility and gloom, so even if there were poems, they were melancholic, and he was in no mood to appreciate any poetic sentiment.

He didn't even expect that his poetic sentiment was actually provoked by a Hehuan demoness; it has to be said that it is a miracle.

"Knock knock~" A knock on the door suddenly sounded.

Before Lu Xingzhou could speak, the door was pushed open, and Pei Chuyun walked in with her head hanging down.

Lu Xingzhou turned his head and looked at her strangely: "What's wrong?"

Pei Chuyun stood in front of him, dejected: "I can't think of a better waterfall poem than that one. Seal my acupoints; I am willing to admit defeat."

Lu Xingzhou almost laughed out loud: "I said no need... This kind of thing, I win unfairly."