I Called You to Imitate, Not to Surpass!

There is much fake wine in the Dharma Ending Era.

A little earlier today.

Lingzhou Yue had taken in a good-for-nothing disciple today and was in high spirits, leading her to overindulge in fake wine. Coupled with a lingering erotic dream, she had needed to pee even before dawn broke.

In the Dharma Ending Era, spiritual energy was thin, which caused medicinal herbs to be impure. Cultivators consequently suffered from blocked spiritual meridians, and all sorts of impurities easily accumulated within their bodies.

If these filth were forced out through the spiritual meridians via the skin and respiratory tract, it would not only waste spiritual power in vain, but also easily trigger secondary infections.

Therefore, some low-tier cultivators still retained the excretory methods of mortals. It was green, eco-friendly, and made it easier to blend into the Daoist way of following nature.

Of course, for Lingzhou Yue, who possessed a unique constitution and formidable cultivation level, there was only one reason to pee—

She had drunk too much fake wine!

Dizzily swaying her body, she walked out of her thatched cottage under the canopy of stars and moon.

She had always relied on her formidable strength, sluggish spiritual sense, and lazy demeanor.

Added to the hazy moonlight and ethereal dreamscape, she actually failed to notice the disciple quarters on the other side of the cottage.

It was only when she finished peeing in the weeds at West Cliff and prepared to head back to sleep that she spotted the opposite disciple quarters.

Following a patch of freshly turned mud in front of the disciple quarters, she then spotted Xiao Ran digging a hole.

Judging by the hole-digging, were you also here to take a shit? That was her instinctive thought.

Yet she was an exalted Master, so she needed to mind her status in front of her disciple. Such vulgar words must not be spoken.

Thus, she kept a straight face, feigned aloofness, and stood in the bright moonlight like a pure fairy.

"What are you doing."

The scent of wine, water stains, star-stew...

Xiao Ran could not wrap his head around it no matter how hard he tried. In his past life, little fairies never pooped, releasing only rainbow farts. How could a true fairy in the Cultivation World, who had long since achieved inedium, still need to pee?

This made no sense.

Especially when his eyes beheld that face of his Master—bright as the moon, glistening like a painting, and brimming with heroic vigor—while his nose caught a faint scent of star-stew mixed with wine aroma.

Xiao Ran expressed—

I cannot accept this! Yet iron-clad facts proved that fairies needed to pee as well, especially fairies who loved to drink, whose pee smelled entirely of wine.

This topic touched upon the blind spot in Xiao Ran's knowledge.

He really did not want to delve into this topic with a fairy, especially when this fairy happened to be his Master.

So he stated bluntly, "This disciple built a disciple quarters, set up an indoor toilet inside the house, and discharges domestic sewage out of Sword-Wielding Mountain through embedded bamboo pipes."

This was possible too?

Well, as long as it wasn't a matter of cultivation, anything was worth encouraging.

Lingzhou Yue said:

"You have quite the imagination. Let this Master appreciate your house."

Xiao Ran:

"Please grant your guidance, Master."

Lingzhou Yue arrived in front of the disciple quarters.

Good heavens! It was so huge.

Wait, this house...

Lingzhou Yue's sword-like brows furrowed slightly, feeling that something was amiss.

She then twirled her wine bamboo tube and walked a circle around the outside of the house.

She saw that this disciple quarters featured flying eaves and flowing pillars, carved beams and painted pillars. It was antique yet towering and rugged, with a majestic aura that seemed handcrafted by nature and carved by ghosts and gods, giving one an impact of the Great Dao being simple!

Especially when the bright moonlight draped over the roof of the disciple quarters...

It was too beautiful.

Moreover, looking closely at the foundation-setting position of this house, it was right at the second golden node of the underground spiritual meridian of Sword-Wielding Mountain.

Even more bizarrely, the foundation of this seemingly chaotic Eight Trigrams layout actually had a spiritual energy absorption efficiency higher even than her thatched cottage.

I called you to imitate, not to surpass! Lingzhou Yue watched in a daze.

For a split second, she seemed to peer into the heavenly secrets and comprehended a trace of the beauty of the Heavenly Dao she had never experienced before. She suddenly recalled her dream from just a moment ago...

Impossible.

Where would there be gods in this world.

This was just an ordinary house, with no restrictions, no formations, and not even a shred of spiritual power!

After a long while, Lingzhou Yue asked Xiao Ran.

"Who did you find to build this house?"

Xiao Ran said bluntly, "The Odd-Job Department."

"The Odd-Job Department has such figures?"

"Mm, they are very professional."

"Does this Master look stupid to you?"

You aren't just stupid!

Xiao Ran then added:

"This disciple merely drew a design blueprint without explaining a single word, and they built the house perfectly... That's what you call professional."

The wine bamboo tube that had just reached her lips abruptly halted.

"You drew the design blueprint?"

Half-doubting, Lingzhou Yue maxed out her spiritual sense in an instant, scanning Xiao Ran up and down, inside and out.

She confirmed it was a near-perfect Balanced Five-Elements Endowment, the aptitude of a heavenly cripple.

As far as physique and talent went, this disciple had zero merits from head to toe, save for a few special attributes here and there.

Yet looking at that naive gaze, there wasn't the slightest sign of lying.

It was hard to explain.

She tentatively asked:

"Could your ancestors have been imperial craftsmen of the royal family?"

Xiao Ran didn't know how to explain either.

He couldn't possibly say that he bought the skill using Filial Piety Points harvested from her.

"Consider it so."

Seeing that Xiao Ran didn't explain much, Lingzhou Yue didn't press further. She took a sip of wine and sighed to herself, "To think that the mortal realm also possesses divine talents. Finding you among the crowds might not be a coincidence."

Might not be a coincidence?

Meaning her previous motivation was entirely accidental? She just casually picked up some good-for-nothing in a crowd to take as a direct disciple? Xiao Ran frowned, attempting to figure out his Master's motives.

Lingzhou Yue hurriedly said, "Stop letting your imagination run wild. Take this Master to see inside your house."

Xiao Ran:

"Understood."

He pushed open the wooden door and entered the disciple quarters.

Good heavens! Lingzhou Yue's pretty outer corners of her eyes twitched.

This luxurious space, this furniture arrangement, this large bamboo bed, this bamboo-membrane gauze quilt, this open and airy transparency that actually allowed the moonlight to spill directly into every corner...

And moreover, as a disciple quarters, you actually went ahead and built two stories—one for sleeping, one for cultivation? What was even more detestable was that there was actually an independent indoor toilet, an independent shower room, and a boat-sized wooden bathtub...

Detestable mortal! This is the Cultivation World, what kind of games are you playing! Lingzhou Yue kept a straight face, then suddenly pointed at the starlight abruptly appearing outside the window.

"Eh, why is my thatched cottage on fire!"

Xiao Ran:

"..."

Lingzhou Yue: "Wine, it's fake wine! The fake wine spontaneously combusted!"

Xiao Ran:

"..."

Lingzhou Yue: "Hurry up and help this Master put out the fire!"

Put out your head! Xiao Ran was defeated by this Master.

She clearly looked pure, beautiful, and heroically spirited, yet why did she speak and act like a ruffian and a three-year-old child? But then again, as far as targets for wool-shearing went, a Master who indulged in luxury like this was actually quite perfect.

Looking at it this way, the Master in Xiao Ran's eyes grew a few shades cutier.

"No need to put it out. Master can just live here from now on."

Lingzhou Yue put on airs, waved her hand, and said:

"That would be so embarrassing."

Xiao Ran stated bluntly, "This disciple built this dwelling for Master in the first place."

"Mm?"

Lingzhou Yue was slightly startled.

She carefully scrutinized this disciple she had picked up on a whim; he seemed to be growing more handsome, looking more pleasing to the eye the longer she looked.

Seeing that she had been moved, Xiao Ran increased his efforts in order to shear more wool.

"When this disciple was digging the drainage ditch earlier, I discovered circulating warm groundwater at the top of the mountain. That way, we can chisel a hole in the shower room, use a siphoning bamboo tube to draw hot water up and pipe it into the bathtub, so Master can take a hot bath every day."

"There's even a design like this?"

Lingzhou Yue couldn't imagine this avant-garde design scene.

Until a moment later, when Xiao Ran chiseled a three-foot-deep hole in the southern corner of the bathhouse and inserted a siphoning bamboo tube into it to draw up warm water.

The warm groundwater gurgled through the bamboo tube and flowed into the oversized bathtub, its surface curling with clear mist and drifting with the dried flower and spiritual herbs that came with the bathhouse.

Now, she had a mental picture of it.

Which woman could withstand this kind of stimulation?

Had she not been mindful of the distinction between men and women, she would have already slipped in bare and slick.

"Master, please."

With those words spoken, Xiao Ran withdrew on his own.

Leaving only Lingzhou Yue standing dumbfounded in the bathhouse.

This architectural freak of nature! Did this sovereign strike gold?