Better Treading Auspicious Clouds Than Wearing a Halo

"Why not condense Merit Golden Wheel, instead of this useless Merit Auspicious Cloud?"

While Wu Chu was gathering Merit Auspicious Cloud on Purple Jade Mountain, Fox Ancestress Qingqiu Li, who had been staying in Qingqiu for thousands of years, did not see Wu Chu come looking for her, but she herself delivered herself to his door.

When Qingqiu Li saw the Merit Auspicious Cloud gathering Wu Chu, she was very puzzled.

Wu Chu laughed, "How can this Merit Auspicious Cloud be useless? First, it can support our flight; second, it also possesses a certain defensive capability, although its defensive effect is somewhat inferior to the Merit Golden Wheel, but I believe that once everyone sees my Merit Auspicious Cloud, they probably won't want to fight me; furthermore, this Merit Auspicious Cloud can be decomposed and utilized, or it can be condensed back into the Merit Golden Wheel. Compared to having a halo above your head, it's better to ride on this auspicious cloud!"

Do you think the halo above your head looks ugly?

"..."

Faced with the Fox Ancestress's discovery of the key point, Wu Chu vehemently denied it, saying, "How could that be?"

But the Fox Ancestress still didn't quite believe him, because Wu Chu had rejected it too quickly, without even thinking about it.

However, the Fox Ancestress did not dwell on this matter. Instead, she adopted a sorrowful and mournful expression and said, "If I don't come looking for you, will you never come looking for me again?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Chu glanced around. Outside the pavilion, the Little Flower Fairies covered their mouths, shrugged their shoulders, and tried to suppress their laughter as they flew towards the treetops.

These Little Flower Fairies are not Hua Feier and the others; they are all still in seclusion.

Their cultivation levels are still relatively low, only at the Heavenly Immortal Realm, so they cannot sense the fluctuations of the Great Dao that have been stirred up, and therefore cannot enter a meditative state.

Faced with Qingqiu Li's accusations, Wu Chu was speechless for a moment. Then, the Fox Ancestress Ancestor continued to look at him silently with that mournful expression, making Wu Chu's scalp tingle.

"Sis, your acting has improved so quickly!" Wu Chu stroked his chin and nodded in praise. "Speaking of which, you really have a natural talent for this! You've corrected all the shortcomings I mentioned before! Your expression makes me feel so guilty!"

"Since that's the case, aren't you going to offer some comfort?"

"..."

Just as Wu Chu was thinking about how to comfort her, a ripple came from the Mountain Protection Array formation, and the aura of Miss Houtu appeared in Purple Jade Mountain.

The Fox Ancestress sister, who had been looking mournful, instantly reverted to her usual aloof demeanor. Wu Chu was amazed by the speed at which she changed her expression.

"Oh? Sister Qingqiu is here too!" Houtu, who had been brought to the Summit of the Sacred Tree by Wu Chu using the power of the array, greeted Qingqiu Li.

Then, glancing at the golden cloud floating above the treetop, entirely formed from the Merit Power, he asked, "Why did you change it to condensing this thing?"

She had previously told Wu Chu to go back to seclusion and cultivate.

Wu Chu shook his head helplessly and said, "I haven't been able to enter a meditative state. I asked my master, and he said that in this situation, I can only keep adapting and gradually ignore the influence. I thought, since I can't enter a meditative state for the time being, I'll just condense a Merit Auspicious Cloud first."

The young woman couldn't help but ask curiously, "Then why not condense Merit Golden Wheel?"

Indeed, there are more immortals and deities who can condense the Merit Golden Wheel than those who can condense the Auspicious Cloud of Merit Auspicious Cloud, and the Merit Golden Wheel is indeed more wondrous than the Merit Auspicious Cloud.

"A Chu thinks the halo above her head looks ugly; it's much prettier to ride on auspicious clouds!"

Qingqiu Li immediately retorted with a sharp retort, instantly forming a united front with the young lady.

"..."

Wu Chu was speechless as he looked at Qingqiu Li, who was already scolding him, "What's the use of being pretty? Practicality is what really matters! You're wasting your Merit, you know?"

Seeing the young lady scolding Wu Chu like that, Qingqiu Li was stunned. She felt that the relationship between Wu Chu and the young lady had entered a level she had never imagined.

Even with her current relationship with Wu Chu, she wouldn't criticize Wu Chu like her older sister did, because she felt she didn't have the right to.

"Sister, don't listen to Sister Qingqiu's nonsense. I don't care about anything about beauty or not. I just feel that the Merit Auspicious Cloud requires less Merit. With the Merit Power I have now, I can't condense a complete Merit Golden Wheel."

He explained it to her again before she stopped her urge to continue berating him.

Then Wu Chu instructed the Little Flower Fairies to serve them fruits, candied fruits, and spirit wine.

The young lady glanced at Wu Chu, rolled her eyes, and said, "So Little Moon Spirit and Little Cai Niang have both gone into seclusion! I knew I shouldn't have come."

Qingqiu Li nodded in agreement, "If I'd known, I wouldn't have come!"

It's as if they came here just to stutter.

Wu Chu coughed lightly, rolled up his sleeves, and said, "They're in seclusion, but I'm still here! Wait, watch me show you the culinary skills of the legendary Culinary Ancestor!"

"You?" The young woman glanced at him from head to toe, then looked at Qingqiu Li. "Does Sister believe he has this ability?"

"I don't believe it! Does my sister believe it?"

"I don't believe it either!"

"..." Wu Chu curled his lip, stood up and said, "The Cooking Dao all originated from me. How dare you underestimate me like this? Just you wait..."

With that, he rolled up his sleeves and headed towards the kitchen.

The two women exchanged a glance, laughed, and then began to whisper to each other in the pavilion.

Wu Chu breathed a sigh of relief, humming a little tune as he started frying eggs in the kitchen. "It's just cooking a couple of simple dishes! It's not like anyone can't do that."

As it turned out, the slap in the face came swiftly, like a tornado.

When Wu Chu brought the dishes he had cooked to the pavilion, the two women took a bite and immediately started spitting out the food. Then they looked at Wu Chu and asked, "Are you sure you didn't do that on purpose?"

Is it really that bad?

Wu Chu picked up a mouthful, then swallowed it silently with tears in his eyes.

To be honest, it's not that bad, but it depends on what you compare it to. Compared to Little Moon Spirit, or even Little Cai Niang, it's worlds apart.

Think about it, for hundreds of thousands of years, he has only used his mouth and never used his hands. How could his cooking skills possibly have improved?

"Fine, I'll just have to bear with it!" Wu Chu could only say this, then looked at the Little Flower Fairies in the tree canopy, thinking: Should I pull out a few of them and train them? If Little Cai Niang and Little Moon Spirit go into seclusion at the same time in the future, we won't be short of cooks, right?

For a long time afterward, even as Wu Chu continued to gather Merit Auspicious Cloud, they did not leave Purple Jade Mountain. It turned out they hadn't come looking for food.

Occasionally, they would travel together to the Houtu Tribe.

And so it went, until one day, hundreds of years later, when Purple Jade Mountain welcomed two long-lost old acquaintances: Wu Chu's elder brother Fuxi and elder sister Nuwa.

To Wu Chu's utter surprise, Nuwa's first words were tinged with disappointment. "Oh dear! So Little Moon Spirit is in seclusion!"