"No. I disguised myself as a woman because I wanted to see whether Lu Dongbin favored men over women, whether he saw people as divided into ranks.
Besides, two men playing husband and wife together—even if it's only in a dream, eugh~~~" Lan Caihe flatly refused, shuddering as he finished speaking.
Seeing Lan Caihe refuse, He Xiangu shot Zhang Guolao a meaningful look. Zhang Guolao merely turned his head slightly, pretending not to see it.
But when she mimed eating, he understood that she was threatening him with food and hurriedly gave her a fawning smile.
A demonic tribulation was soon to descend upon the mortal world, and Taishang Laojun and the immortals of the immortal realm had gathered the fortune of resolving this tribulation upon the Eight Immortals.
They were to rely on them to weather this demonic tribulation, while also guiding the eight of them to immortality.
Yet since they had been born in response to fate, becoming immortals would not be so easy.
Each of the eight had their own flaw, corresponding respectively to the eight words: beauty, eating, gambling, delusion, killing, lust, wealth, and laziness.
These were both their shortcomings and their defining traits. Of them, Zhang Guolao corresponded to the word "eating."
He had originally been a rat from when heaven and earth first opened. Having accumulated virtue through good deeds, he was granted by Heaven to transform into a white bat. After cultivating for a long time, he was reincarnated as a human.
It was only after becoming human that he discovered there were so many delicious things in the world.
Thus, he became exceptionally obsessed with fine food.
Later, he ate a thousand-year-old polygonum multiflorum stewed by a Pangolin demon, ascended to immortality, and took his place among the Eight Immortals.
Yet he