Li Er: Bodhi, I Think You're Asking for a Beating

And so, the various schools began spreading their teachings. When Li Er's Daoist Sect had successfully begun its preaching, he was lecturing and preparing to ascend when Hu Xiaoman arrived. She looked at Li Er with a smile and said, "Li Er, look—the dead branch you gave me, I managed to grow it."

Li Er was instantly dumbfounded. What kind of joke is this? She grew it? Say that again? This thing can be grown?

At that thought, Li Er coughed and said, "Ahem, how can dead wood bloom again? Xiaoman, don't joke with me..."

Hu Xiaoman chuckled and took out that piece of dead wood. It had indeed sprouted new buds... Seeing this, Li Er carefully sensed it. I knew something was off. This old Daoist used a Saint's aura to cut off every trace of life in this dead wood, yet it still came back to life. So Zhunti was behind this after all. Bodhi Sarira Light forcibly injected life into this dead branch. Zhunti, you really went to great lengths...

With that thought, Li Er stepped down from the platform where he had been lecturing, hugged Hu Xiaoman, and said, "In that case, we are fated in this life. We should share a bond of love in this lifetime."

Within the Imperial City, Yun Ting was studying how to refine Merchant teachings when a voice suddenly sounded in his sea of consciousness. "Ding! Congratulations, Host. You're about to gain another aunt-by-marriage..."

Yun Ting was speechless upon hearing that. He replied, "System Sis, please stop teasing me. With Uncle's personality, this mortal body of his will 'ascend in feathered form' before long, then die of old age... Wouldn't this lifetime's bond end then?"

"Hehe. A bond of love in one lifetime will not end as long as one