"That will depend on how your master fares at Heaven-Reaching Peak. And on whether your little junior brother is willing to teach you!" Su Ru was also rather curious what sort of cultivation method the modified "Taiji Mystic Purity Dao" would be.
"As long as we want to learn, Little Junior Brother will definitely be willing to teach us! Didn't he even teach us the new cultivation method he created before?" Sixth, seeing that his master's wife had not stopped them, said with happy excitement.
As expected! Throwing trouble to someone else was the best solution, and watching someone else worry over that trouble really was delightful!
Tian Buyi, all smiles, led his two disciples back to Big Bamboo Peak.
"Master! Since we're going to learn the new 'Taiji Mystic Purity Dao,' are we still going down the mountain?" Sixth looked nervously at Tian Buyi.
"Since we've already been delayed so long, a few more days won't matter!" Tian Buyi waved his hand, his gaze still fixed on the new cultivation method in his other hand.
"It seems... it really is more complete than the 'Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.'" After Tian Buyi carefully flipped through it, he muttered to himself in some shock.
"Could it truly be as that little brat said? A cultivation method passed down for a thousand years is actually incomplete!" Tian Buyi's heart had already begun to waver.
"Master! Can we cultivate it?" Sixth asked, somewhat impatient and expectant, when he saw Tian Buyi close the booklet.
Tian Buyi handed the booklet to the eldest disciple closest to him. "Right! Where are Old Seven and your little junior brother?" Seeing that the two little ones, Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji, had vanished again, Tian Buyi was already used to it and no longer found it strange.
"It seems Little Junior Brother had some new delicacy he wanted to eat, so he dragged Seventh Junior Brother off to the back mountain!" When Wu Dayi had gotten up that morning, he had seen Zhang Xiaofan carrying Luo Yunji on his back and running toward the back mountain, while the little fatty kept muttering a long string of ingredient names.
After Tian Buyi heard this, he felt his heart clog up. "All of you, go. Cultivate properly! See if you can make another breakthrough in your cultivation!"
"Your disciples take their leave!" The six of them bowed respectfully and withdrew.
The new cultivation method had originally retained the original method of the "Taiji Mystic Purity Dao"; it had only been modified and filled in on that foundation.
So when everyone cultivated it, they did not encounter anything they could not resolve. It could be said that they very smoothly and slowly became familiar with it.
"Little Senior Brother! Take a rest!" Watching Zhang Xiaofan place several freshly gathered ingredients into the bamboo basket, Luo Yunji saw that the basket had already been stuffed full.
"Mm!" Zhang Xiaofan wiped the sweat from the corner of his forehead and sat down beside Luo Yunji.
"Here!" Luo Yunji handed over a bamboo tube!
"Little Junior Brother! Isn't this..." Zhang Xiaofan looked in surprise at the bamboo tube in his hand. What it held was monkey wine!
A fine brew his little junior brother treasured dearly!
"Yesterday, because of me, you were beaten by Master and punished! I'll let you drink this wine! Can you not be angry with me?" Luo Yunji looked at Zhang Xiaofan somewhat nervously.
Influenced by the one in his sea of consciousness, Luo Yunji's nature should have been indifferent, even heartless. But because he had been doted on and cared for by Su Ru and all his senior brothers since he was small, his temperament had naturally changed, and he gradually came to keep everyone in his heart.
For an indifferent person, once someone or something was placed in their heart, it would remain there until death, unwavering.
What was going on? Zhang Xiaofan was a little dazed and could not make sense of it! Hadn't yesterday's trouble been caused by his Buddhist cultivation method? How had it become Little Junior Brother's fault?
"Junior... Junior Brother! Did you misunderstand? Yesterday, Master got angry and hit me because of that Buddhist cultivation method I gave you!" Zhang Xiaofan explained very honestly.
"Really! Then that means... it wasn't my fault! Then you have even less reason to be angry with me!" Luo Yunji smiled happily, then looked at Zhang Xiaofan with a serious face, waiting for his answer.
"Mm! I'll never be angry with you! I promise." Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly replied.
"Great! Then I don't have to give you all of this!" Luo Yunji snatched the bamboo tube from Zhang Xiaofan's hand, happily pulled out the stopper, and took a small sip! His face was full of joy, like a little fox that had stolen a fat chicken.
Seeing Luo Yunji's happy smile, and with the cultivation method matter resolved as well, Zhang Xiaofan could finally breathe a sigh of relief and no longer had to be on tenterhooks.
"Here!" Luo Yunji took another sip, then handed the bamboo tube to Zhang Xiaofan again.
Zhang Xiaofan accepted it with a smile and took a drink. He wiped away the wine stain at the corner of his mouth with his hand, looked at the golden flecks of light spilling through the bamboo leaves, and contentedly fell backward, lying on the ground covered with bamboo leaves.
"Life like this really is happiness!"
"Squeak!" With a joyful cry, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly felt his hand lighten. The bamboo tube had been snatched away.
"Ah! My wine!" Luo Yunji watched a little gray monkey hug the wine-filled bamboo tube and leap several times between the bamboo stalks before vanishing into the distance. He hurriedly got up and chased after it.
"Little Junior Brother! Slow down! Wait for me!" Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly got up and chased after him.
"Stinking monkey! No one has ever dared steal my things! Just you wait! I'm going to have Little Senior Brother skin you! Ah! Ah! Ah! I'm so mad!" Luo Yunji rarely exercised, and after chasing only a few steps, he was already propping himself on his knees, panting so hard he could barely catch his breath.
"Hah... hah... hah! I'm exhausted... exhausted!"
Zhang Xiaofan turned his head to look at the bamboo basket less than two zhang behind them, then turned back to look at the gasping Luo Yunji, and a drop of sweat quietly slid down from the corner of his forehead!
"Senior Brother! Hurry and chase it! That dead monkey stole our things!" Luo Yunji cried breathlessly, heart aching as he looked toward the place where the monkey had disappeared.
"It's already run out of sight!" Zhang Xiaofan could no longer see any trace of that monkey at all, and he looked apologetically at Luo Yunji.
"I'm... I'm so mad!" Luo Yunji was so angry it looked as if he might burst into tears at any moment.
There was still so much monkey wine in that tube! His heart ached!
"How about... we go find our senior brothers to help?" Zhang Xiaofan suggested.
"No! I'm going to catch it myself! Hmph, I'm going back right now to borrow a treasure from Big Fatty!" Luo Yunji huffed and turned to go back.
But before he had taken more than a few steps, he sat down on the ground with a thump. "Aiya! I'm so tired!"
Black lines covered Zhang Xiaofan's face. Little Junior Brother seemed to have become even lazier. Had he spoiled him too much? This seemed not so good for Little Junior Brother!
"Senior Brother!" Luo Yunji looked at the bamboo basket filled with tasty things not far away, then looked at Zhang Xiaofan. He was very conflicted now! Should he have Senior Brother carry the basket, or carry him? This was such a hard choice!
Just as he was struggling with a bitter face, he saw a yellow figure dart out from within the bamboo grove!
"Ah! Big Yellow!" Luo Yunji happily pounced over.
Smack!
"Awooo!" With a miserable cry, Big Yellow was flattened to the ground.
"Big Yellow! Carry me home!" Luo Yunji clung to Big Yellow's back and shouted. Big Yellow tried several times, but still could not successfully stand up.
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