[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele":3,"chapter-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-66":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Invincible Female Ghost Is A Bit Of A Hopeless Romantic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1706445,2180,"Chapter 66: Teasing You — You Actually Believe It!","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-66",66,"\u003Cp>“Went to Fengtian City for a spin and learned how to brag?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man’s chest heaved violently, and it took him a long moment to catch his breath. That scare a moment ago had nearly snatched his soul away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When did you get back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan grinned, said nothing to argue, and walked over to the old man in a few steps. He reached out and snatched the wine gourd from the old man’s hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He popped the stopper and held it up to his nose to sniff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, his whole face twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What kind of junk is this? Spill it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the words finished, he flipped his wrist and turned the gourd upside down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A murky stream of wine splashed out and soaked into the cracked earth at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man slapped his thigh in anguish, his voice changing pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aiya!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You wastrel!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before his scolding finished, Lu Yuan had already shoved the now-empty wine gourd back into his arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Lu Yuan jingled a few glass bottles in his hand and deliberately shook them between the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wore a look of pure pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know what this wine is?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man’s cloudy eyes locked onto the shaking bottles, and he shook his head in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Maotai.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Never heard of it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan pulled one bottle out and twisted off the cap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A rich, mellow sauce-like aroma exploded into the cold wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shoved the bottle mouth right under the old man’s nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Try it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After just one whiff, the old man’s dim old eyes lit up instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He threw his head back and drank straight from the bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the old man gulp so eagerly, Lu Yuan smiled and, with a casual motion, fished the empty wine gourd from his arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the biting wind, he squatted down, opened bottle after bottle of Maotai, and poured them into the gourd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man drank several big swigs, exhaling a fragrant breath, his eyes shining like a child’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good stuff!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan glanced up at the old man’s radiant face and smiled even wider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hands didn’t stop working as he said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aunt Qiao’er’s White Deer Chamber of Commerce got these from inside the border.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There aren’t many, so I brought them all for you. I left a whole crate outside for you to drink at New Year.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pace yourself. Don’t drink them all before the first month’s over.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man hugged the wine gourd and, watching his disciple pour for him while squatting on the ground, blinked and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why’re you back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about those two?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan didn’t even look up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We finished things in Fengtian City, so of course we returned.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those two went home. It’s almost New Year, let them take some city goods back and visit their parents.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he said this, Lu Yuan looked up at the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’ll be back tomorrow night.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We came back this time to pick up some techniques, and once we take them we have to leave.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This year, I’m afraid we can’t celebrate New Year with you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This trip back, Lu Yuan would leave again right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, when they traveled, they brought a mishmash of items because they didn’t know what they’d encounter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now the goal was clear: clear the Nurturing Malevolence Site, so everything had to be exchanged for the right tools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lu Yuan finished, the gourd in his hand was full.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood up, shoved the weighty gourd into the old man’s hands, and grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then again, who knows.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This year’s Luotian Grand Offering starts in twenty days, from New Year’s Eve through the fifteenth day of the first month.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ll go to the city for the New Year then.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man accepted the warm gourd with a joy-filled face, but he waved off Lu Yuan’s next words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not going to join that fuss.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh, you won’t go to the Luotian Grand Offering?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man shot him a sidelong look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go for what?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t I take you last time? You know the procedure by now, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You go this time. I still need to watch over that ‘living ancestor’ of yours!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When those words came out, Lu Yuan froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man had to look after Gu Qingwan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That thing could be left alone for a day or two, but the Luotian Grand Offering lasts half a month once it starts, and the old man simply couldn’t leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan immediately nodded and turned toward the side hall where Gu Qingwan was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh right, then don’t go.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man: “???”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey! You brat!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, why didn’t I know you had a sect before? And you even have such an impressive Celestial Master senior brother?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the side hall, Lu Yuan walked to the coffin and used his shoulder to pry open a crack in the heavy lid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaning in the corner and sitting on the floor, the old man rolled his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nonsense!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I didn’t have a lineage, would all these skills and talismans come from the wind?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What would I teach you with?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan remained noncommittal. By the flickering candlelight, he peered into the gap in the coffin and his pupils suddenly contracted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evil curse on Gu Qingwan’s forehead had actually faded by more than half!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This…?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan turned back in astonishment to look at the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man merely glanced casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm, once the core ‘eternal’ character of that evil curse is gone, the rest scatters quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s likely what happened.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that, Lu Yuan was more confused than ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean ‘likely’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mentioning this made the old man furious; he bared his teeth and snapped:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What else could it be!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I tried to open the coffin and she wouldn’t let me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The coffin lid didn’t give me even a slit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides guessing, what the hell else could I do?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the old man’s exasperated expression, Lu Yuan couldn’t help but want to laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could speak, the old man suddenly fixed him with a strange look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, what exactly did you do in Fengtian City?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did she come to you for that day?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After she came back, I kept feeling something was off…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Maybe I’m imagining it, but I feel… she has an immortal aura now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Lu Yuan was stupefied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What a joke. She have an immortal aura??”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man shrugged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who says not!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was thinking that her curse’s sudden rapid fading probably has to do with that!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Anyway, what were you doing in Fengtian City?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this Luotian Grand Offering being moved up early your doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan blinked at the coffin beside him with a puzzled look, not eager to answer that, and instead said right away:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, your senior brother, a Celestial Master living here—won’t he notice Qingwan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the old man sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He wouldn’t notice a fart!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With his skills, a Celestial Master my ass!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That old rusty cleaver, his chipped teeth still bite through meat!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When he was young looking like that, I’d have beaten him eight times over!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the old man’s sour tone, Lu Yuan laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve never seen you like this before.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You so value that Celestial Master title?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This year I’ll work hard and earn you one, let you be a Celestial Master too, then you won’t envy others!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Lu Yuan, the old man knew what was going on in his disciple’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Luotian Grand Offering suddenly held early in Fengtian City definitely had something to do with this disciple of his!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Lu Yuan’s words, the old man just sat against the wall, opened the wine gourd and took a swig, his gaze distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You really think the Celestial Master selected every five years truly relies on some ‘save the people with the Dao’ thing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You think that’s something emperors take turns sitting in? This year it’s your house’s turn?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t be foolish. That’s all talk!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is about whose temple is bigger, who has more disciples, who has a louder reputation!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at Shen Jizhou of Wuqing Temple. Ever since he became the temple head, for thirty years now, how many times hasn’t he been Celestial Master?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying this, the old man lowered his head and sighed, his voice full of desolation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Power is addictive…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are only seven Celestial Masters. If you are one, then he isn’t.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why should it be you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the old man so dispirited, Lu Yuan fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few seconds later, he grinned, that smile pure and earnest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s try. Man can conquer heaven, right? You taught me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man shot him a look and took another drink, mumbling indistinctly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just teasing you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You actually believe that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan stared at the old man lifting the wine gourd and was quiet for a few seconds, then smiled with utter seriousness:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I believe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My master taught me, he never lies to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t believe?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man’s hand holding the gourd froze midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, slowly, he turned his head and, for the first time, looked at his disciple with such seriousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man withdrew his gaze and looked up into the deep blackness of the beams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I do believe…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My master taught me the same way…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>",1576,"2026-06-06T14:45:54.833Z",1,"novelbin.me","20ed355b8b5b7f39edea5fcaf555e8a88157b7759f9d3983ce66051365cc876d","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-67","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-65",241,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-cover.jpg"]