Before meeting Li Hudie, Zhuang Zhou would have found a situation like this deeply depressing. Now, however, he could take it in stride.
With someone like Li Hudie, it would have been a miracle if anyone wanted to talk to her.
For a country woman to have made such a mess of her household, even in this paradise secluded from the world, was a miracle of another kind.
There was, admittedly, only one explanation: they were Butterfly Zhuang Zhou's nemeses, or perhaps they were Butterfly Spirits.
"Awakening, awakening-when will it happen?"
That was what Xu Tong wanted.
He watched quietly, as though watching a giant salamander that might die at any moment grow little by little. It left Butterfly Zhuang Zhou not daring to be careless in the slightest.
The residents of Butterfly Valley had actually gathered to discuss cultivation, intending to study it together.
This was Xu Tong's specialty. He could not help wanting to step forward, but he feared that Butterfly Zhuang Zhou might then fail to awaken.
"Ah, I understand now! Butterfly Zhuang Zhou is searching for a way to transcend reincarnation. Through countless cycles of reincarnation, he keeps trying to return to the moment when he first comprehended the Dao!"
Just as he was about to step out, Xu Tong briefly sensed Butterfly Zhuang Zhou's Primordial Spirit and suddenly understood. So that was what was going on.
If that was the case, Butterfly Zhuang Zhou was quite clever.
He wanted to pin down the variable.
In that case, Xu Tong had even more reason not to enter the gathering directly, lest he disturb them.
A variable-a terrifying variable.
He had to guard it with such painstaking care. It truly was frightening.
One careless move, and the chickens would fly away and the eggs would break, leaving