"Honored sirs!"
"As the saying goes: My Buddha created scriptures to spread joy, and Guanyin, upon receiving the decree, entered Chang'an. How did Guanyin find Golden Cicada, who had undergone Ten Lifetimes of Reincarnation? And how did Chen Xuanzang become the scripture-seeker who would suffer calamities and tribulations?"
"Smack!"
"To learn what happened next, hear the rest in the next installment!"
As his voice fell, Red Dust Qi streamed from the storyteller's body. With a sharp whoosh, the storyteller on the stage vanished.
"Huh? That's it?"
Inside Morning Awakening Teahouse, a tea guest set down his teacup and looked around at the people preparing to leave, his brows furrowing.
Wasn't he supposed to tell two chapters?
He had only just finished his fifth pot of tea. How could it already be over?
At that moment, the waiter came over to collect the plates. Seeing the tea guest's expression, he smiled. "Customer, is this your first time at Morning Awakening Teahouse?"
"Indeed. I've been running trade routes before this, so I read Marquis Wu's books while on the road. I only left that work a few days ago and wanted to cultivate a little elegance."
"How did it end just after it began?"
"This one was long." The waiter gathered the dishes as he spoke. "The storyteller spoke smoothly, and listening didn't require much thought, so naturally it felt several times faster than reading for yourself."
"Add in the lifted spirits of the surrounding tea guests, and these happy moments always slip away unnoticed."
"When the Awakening Wood strikes and the two lines ending the chapter come out, the chapter is finished!"
The tea guest's brows drew together even more. "How can it be finished?"
"What exactly is going on with the orthodox Buddhist sect?"
"Who was the Peerless Great Demon