"What did our lives in this world mean? I often found myself wondering about that."
At Purple Jade Mountain, atop the Summit of the Sacred Tree, Wu Chu stood with his hands behind his back and gazed into the distance. Beside him stood Miss Houtu and Sister Fox Ancestress, whom he had forcibly dragged out of their secluded cultivation to comprehend the Dao.
Both women rolled their beautiful eyes at him, unwilling to pay him any heed.
Interrupting someone's cultivation was truly detestable.
"Couldn't you do something besides cultivating?" Wu Chu shook his head. "Then I thought about it..."
"Was having Little Moon Spirit and Xiao Yu with you still not enough?" Miss Houtu bent her elbow and jabbed the chest of the man beside her, making his chest thump as he clutched it and smiled bitterly. She said resentfully, "I'd only just begun to gain some insight into the Dao of life and death! Then you came to disturb me. So what if you've severed your third corpse?"
In the pavilion not far away, Little Moon Spirit and Little Fox were leisurely drinking tea. The radiant glow on their faces made it clear that their lives had been very harmonious lately.
Sister Fox Ancestress's voice came from over there. "My sister is absolutely right! Your sister here was also close to severing her third corpse, yet this fellow came to interrupt me. Did you think you were the only one capable of severing the self-attachment corpse?"
The two women exchanged a glance and saw three words in each other's eyes—clean him up!
Thus, each grabbed one of the man's arms and dragged him, just as he was working up his emotions and preparing to put on an act, back into the bedroom. Then they shut the door...
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