Gu Chengming pretended not to hear.
—Every time Elder Xiao Yu started murmuring like this, she made him treat her to a meal.
Hah. Women.
At Luoxue Pass, the night was black as ink.
The wind and snow still howled outside, rattling against the window lattice. Inside, the underfloor heating burned strong, keeping the bitter cold at bay.
After the two returned from the Thousand Thieves Secret Realm, Nuo Tao seemed rather exhilarated.
After all, she had obtained a boon, and one from the Heaven-Connecting Branch at that—the girl was so excited by this enormous meat pie that had fallen from the sky that her cheeks flushed red. She did not even stay for the celebratory feast before hurriedly taking her leave and slipping into the Quiet Chamber next door, saying she wanted to enter secluded cultivation immediately to comprehend it and master the boon as soon as possible.
Gu Chengming was naturally happy to see it.
After seeing Nuo Tao off, he sat alone at the desk and poured himself a cup of tea.
Through the curling steam, his gaze returned to the line of text at the bottom of his vision.
[Special CG/Love Laboratory]
Well, in a certain sense, having the boon turn into a "special CG" was a good thing for Gu Chengming.
If that Thousand Thieves Immortal Lord, who had lived for who knew how many years, had slapped this so-called insight into the "Dao" straight into his head, or handed him an ancient tome full of chicken-scratch symbols, Gu Chengming would probably have inspected it from top to bottom several hundred times. He might even have shelved it for fear of hidden contingencies for body seizure or some kind of mental suggestion.
After all, when meat pies fell from the sky—especially pies