I Am Not a Substandard Student

Chen Luo remained silent, looking at the beautiful woman.

The beautiful woman smiled at the corner of her mouth and said with ease, "Your Lordship and my young master have only recently merged souls. It's not too late to split them, and it won't harm Your Lordship's life."

Chen Luo snorted, "Although I don't understand cultivation, I know the importance of the divine soul. If it doesn't harm my life, can I still live normally as I do now? Don't just say I won't die; being foolish, senile, or crippled is also living."

The beautiful woman immediately said, "I will naturally do my best to protect Your Lordship's divine soul. If there are any accidents, my Money Falling Pavilion will serve Your Lordship for life, and you will lack nothing in wealth and glory!"

Chen Luo rolled his eyes and looked at Granny Jin, who had been silent the whole time. He said, "Grandma Jin, I, Chen Luo, am not an ungrateful person. But if you want me to agree to this condition, you might as well kill me directly."

Granny Jin sighed softly, "It was Ning Bing who misspoke. I, old woman, will apologize on her behalf."

The beautiful woman called Ning Bing wanted to speak again, but after Granny Jin glared at her, she shut her mouth and stood back beside Granny Jin, her eyes filled with even more ferocity.

Chen Luo didn't want to get entangled further and asked, "Grandma Jin, what is this Soul Merging technique? What impact will it have on Brother Frog? Are there any other methods besides Soul Splitting?"

Granny Jin explained, "Soul Merging is a secret technique of the Demon Race, a method for merging the divine souls of demons and humans. After the souls merge, the Human Race's qi and the Demon Race's power will combine to form a more powerful new force for the Human Race to use. As for the Demon Race, the qi of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism can refine their own bloodlines. This is originally a mutually beneficial matter."

"However..." Granny Jin hesitated for a moment before saying, "But when souls merge, if one party dies, the other will inevitably be severely injured. Secondly, if one party has inferior talent, it will also affect the other party's potential development..."

The middle-aged beautiful woman interjected, "My young master has a Star Devouring Toad bloodline that appears once in a thousand years. He was born pure-blooded, comparable to an Ancient Demon. If you were a seed of a Great Scholar, a Dao Child of the Daoist sect, or a Bodhisattva reincarnated from Buddhism, you might barely be worthy of my young master. But..."

The middle-aged beautiful woman didn't continue, but Chen Luo understood. To put it bluntly, he was a below-average student assigned as a deskmate to an excellent student. The excellent student's parents were unhappy, thinking he would drag their child down.

But how could he explain? Tell them he was full of Red Dust Qi and had limitless potential? Show them some colorful Red Dust Qi?

After all, this was their first meeting, and Chen Luo didn't know if Granny Jin was good or evil.

If they didn't believe him, it would be one thing. But if they did, they might dissect him on the spot for research and then report to the court that he had escaped again...

Where would he even go to reason with them?

But, he was really so angry...

The private room was silent. After a long while, Granny Jin coughed dryly, slowly stood up, and said, "Your Lordship need not worry. I, old woman, will write to the Daoist sect and ask if there are any other methods. Your Lordship should rest well and wait for someone from the Town Profound Division to arrive..."

Chen Luo nodded. Granny Jin's address of "Your Lordship" again showed that her previous words were almost in vain. However, Chen Luo understood. After all, in her opinion, he might ruin her grandson's future.

One needs to be strong to achieve anything. Thinking too much is useless. The most important thing is to focus on cultivating himself.

Speaking of which, there are still six meridians and six extraordinary meridians that have not been opened...

"Grandmother, should I personally take action tonight? I guarantee no traces will be left." As they walked out of the path where Chen Luo lived, the beautiful woman called Ning Bing said softly.

Granny Jin looked back at the small building, pondered for a moment, and shook her head.

"Forget it. This little fellow was able to make the old scholar of Wenchang Pavilion personally deduce things. He's not as simple as he appears. Let's not cause trouble for the Daoist sect..."

Ning Bing's face was anxious, "But, Young Master..."

Granny Jin interrupted Ning Bing, "You know the character of that brat. Although his actions are erratic, they are not outrageous. He knows the pros and cons of Soul Merging, yet he still performed it on the Earl of Wan'an. Perhaps there are other hidden reasons..."

"I think the Young Master just got carried away! He's still young, after all."

Granny Jin remained silent, but a figure flashed in her mind.

It was the mother of the Little Frog, the rarest Destiny Toad in the history of the Toad Frog Clan, who fed on Heavenly Dao Destiny and was born with the supernatural power of "Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Disaster." If it weren't for giving birth to that brat, she would have lived for over ten thousand years.

"Seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster?" A thought suddenly flashed through Granny Jin's mind, but she quickly shook her head.

Chen Luo hasn't even awakened his Omniscient Reading talent. How could he be the Destiny's good fortune for a Star Devouring Toad!

"In short, don't act rashly. Write to the Daoist sect first and see if there's a remedy!" Granny Jin said this and left the small courtyard.

The Daoist blessed land, Shouyang Mountain.

Shouyang Mountain's peaks were high and clouds were thick, its great momentum magnificent. Strange flowers and exotic grasses grew everywhere, and spiritual birds and exotic beasts roamed the mountains. The sun shone on the clear forests, with layers of red mist coiling; the wind whispered in the shady valleys, with myriad streams of colorful clouds flying. At the summit, eighty-one peaks floated in the air, surrounding a white jade palace in the center. Anyone who arrived here would exclaim: What a divine land!

At this moment, in the white jade palace, seven figures were seated around, each holding a jade slip for transmitting information and examining the messages within. After a moment, the old man standing at the head spoke first, "This is how the Great Xuan's ghost-suppressing method came about. Do any of my junior brothers and sisters have anything to say?"

A red-faced old Daoist to the left of the old man spoke, "If the Great Xuan can solve the ghosts and monsters themselves, our Daoist sect will be free. I think it's a good thing."

At this time, a beautiful female Daoist opposite him shook her head, "Senior Brother Qingyang, you are mistaken. Suppressing ghosts has always been the foremost task of our Daoist sect. Whether we are willing to do it is one thing, but whether we are the only ones who can do it is another!"

Another short, slovenly old Daoist took a sip of wine and laughed, "Two hundred years, and Junior Sister Qingxuan is still so bossy. This old man likes it."

The dignified middle-aged Daoist next to the slovenly old Daoist kicked him, "You're already a Celestial Master, yet you still talk such nonsense. Be careful, Junior Sister Qingxuan will smash your cave mansion later! Don't come to live with me then."

"In the past hundred years, Senior Sister Qingxuan has smashed six of Senior Brother Qingfeng's cave mansions. I think they enjoy it. Junior Brother Qingyuan, you don't need to mind them," said another slightly plump Daoist sitting below, smiling gently and holding back the middle-aged Daoist.

"Oh? Good for you, Qingfeng. Last time I asked you to lend a cave mansion to my disciple for a trial, you cried poor to me. We've been fellow disciples for five hundred years, and it was all for nothing?" Another Daoist, looking like an old farmer, glared angrily.

"Junior Brother, don't misunderstand. Senior Brother, I genuinely didn't have a cave mansion at the time. Your Senior Sister Qingxuan smashed one and also snatched another to give to her disciple!"

"Qingfeng! You clarify this for me. You voluntarily offered it as an apology to me! Qingyuan, you were there at the time, tell me, wasn't it?"

The Grand Celestial Master Qingwei, standing at the head, helplessly watched his junior and senior brothers and sisters, whose combined age was thousands of years, bickering. He rubbed his forehead. If the outside world knew that the seven Celestial Masters of the Dragon and Tiger lineage of the Daoist sect behaved like this every time they gathered, the dignity of the Daoist sect would plummet.

Forget it. Before his senior sister ascended, she specifically instructed him to take good care of these junior and senior brothers and sisters and to control himself and not get angry.

"Clear the area!" Qingwei shouted, but no one responded.

"Silence!" The Grand Celestial Master raised his voice a little higher, but his junior and senior brothers and sisters were still chatting enthusiastically.

"Quiet!" Qingwei, the Grand Celestial Master, conjured a palm lightning at his feet and stomped it hard on the ground. The entire white jade palace trembled, and the crowd finally quieted down.

Qingwei took a deep breath, controlling his emotions. "This matter..."

Everyone spoke in unison, "Then let's do as the Senior Brother said!"

I can't take it anymore!

Qingwei slammed the Zhou Tian Whisk in his hand onto the ground. "I haven't said a damn thing! Can you guys hold a meeting without being so damn... My thousands of years of lifespan are about to be angered to death by you bunch of damn... You guys..."

The six junior brothers and sisters watched their Senior Brother fly into a rage and obediently sat down, not uttering a word. Each of them took out an Imprint Talisman from their sleeves...

Qingwei: (-_-;)

I really want to resign!

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A note: The asterisks in the text are not censored by the system; I put them there intentionally.

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