Nothing but Jianghu Tricks

"My poor child, you've suffered so much! Look at your shoes, your feet must be freezing..."

Having come to Hibiscus City, I must see Rong Li.

Compared to her fierce image wielding a butcher's knife in previous years, Rong Li now has a more kind and gentle look, her facial features appear much softer, and she has become noticeably thinner.

Suddenly embraced and sobbing by Rong Li, Zhang Xuezhou was somewhat at a loss.

But then he thought about the backward communication methods in this world and came back to his senses.

Even if they are separated by several mountains, for many people it is a lifetime of separation, and they can only repeatedly recall their previous time together in their memories.

Rong Li was able to chase after Zhang Zhong, who was married to Lady Yourong a butcher's knife in hand. Her feelings of fear, terror, and helplessness were mixed with the pain of parting from Zhang Xuezhou.

This mix of emotions left Rong Li agonizingly in pain.

This isn't reality. In reality, you can read books, watch TV, travel, and have all sorts of entertainment to distract yourself.

But Rong Li did not.

Zhang Xuezhou suddenly understood why Rong Li, who always valued the tradition of pig slaughtering, allowed Rong Tianding to become a Daoist priest.

It is precisely because of this almost barren spiritual world that closer kinship, teacher-student, and marital ties have formed in this world.

In the real world, let alone Zhang Xuezhou 'Zhang Xuezhou close relationship with his mother's sisters, even his maternal grandparents' relationship with him wasn't particularly close.

The more abundant entertainment and more developed material living conditions in the real world make the blood ties between generations much weaker than in this world. If there are two or three generations between them, they are already strangers. Even couples experience various separations and reunions.

For example, in real life, it's perfectly normal for Wang Weihan and Wang Li, this father and son, not to see each other for several years.

For example, if Zhang Zhong and Lady Yourong from this world were to disappear in the real world, no one would spend days or even years, risking their lives, to investigate. At most, they would simply buy a house in a safer place.

These differences also require Zhang Xuezhou to constantly examine and sort out his own connections in this world.

He cannot use the same methods he uses in the real world to deal with kinship ties in this world.

For example, Rong Li, Rong Tianding, Zhang Cigong, and others.

Such kinship and village ties are extremely unreliable in reality, but in this world, they are enough to make people entrust their lives to each other.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Zhang Xuezhou undoubtedly believes that the social development of the real world is more advanced, but in the process of continuous development, reality has also left behind too much.

He constantly compared the differences and searched for his rightful place in the world.

"Turns out I'm not just drifting duckweed here after all!"

Years of wandering had made Zhang Xuezhou almost accustomed to developing freely and unrestrained, which was no different from the Yin-Yang School's concepts. Zhang Xuezhou's temperament was extremely free and unrestrained.

He could flee to the Han Dynasty or to the Xiong State to survive. If he wanted to live in the Greater Yuezhi Kingdom, it wouldn't have much of an impact on Zhang Xuezhou.

But the added bond of family ties undoubtedly brought Zhang Xuezhou's heart back to its place.

Besides ensuring his own well-being, Zhang Xuezhou clearly also wanted to ensure the well-being of his family and friends within his means.

Just as Rong Li once wanted Zhang Xuezhou to inherit the pig slaughtering stall, Zhang Xuezhou would undoubtedly not hesitate to give any suitable way for his relative to advance his career.

He can't lead Rong Li and the others right now, but he can undoubtedly be Rong Tianding's guide.

As long as he follows him, Rong Tianding will not lack low-grade pills.

This allowed Zhang Xuezhou to remain calm and composed when Rong Li inquired, recounting some of his rather bizarre experiences over the years.

"You're just talking nonsense. Now that you're back, let's live a good life together. Your aunt has no worries about food or clothing, and your uncle would love to have another child. If you want to study, study; if you want to paint, paint; if you want to butcher a pig, butcher a pig. Your aunt can do it all!" (Note: According to kinship Rong Li is Zhang Xuezhou's aunt, but I no longer have the permission to edit previously published chapters, so I can only continue writing with this title.)

To Zhang Xuezhou's dismay, Rong Li found it hard to believe him when he poured his heart out about his experiences over the years, thinking he was talking nonsense.

In Rong Li's worldview, there has never been anything beyond the realm of things.

Just as some barbaric natives find it difficult to understand how a communicator can instantly transmit information across thousands or tens of thousands of miles, Rong Li also finds it difficult to understand the people Zhang Xuezhou comes into contact with.

The Golden Toad Dharma King, the secret treasure of the grotto heaven, the Venerable One, the Sacred Land —these are far beyond Rong Li Information can comprehend.

Zhang Xuezhou had no choice but to give up.

"Cousin, what you said is even clearer than what Old Mu said. Are there really such powerful people in our world? Are there really so many magical Technique Method and treasures?"

Rong Li found it hard to believe, while Rong Tianding was filled with excitement, feeling that Zhang Xuezhou had come into contact with a vast and expansive world.

That was the world that Daoist Mu had always longed for, but which he had to kowtow to repeatedly until he was battered and bruised, and in the end, he had no choice but to withdraw.

Zhang Xuezhou was much luckier than the Daoist Mu; he also crossed the single-plank Zhang Xuezhou and even ran wildly along the way.

"Look at my treasure!"

Zhang Xuezhou pondered for a few seconds, then took out two feathers.

One of them is a Dharma feather of the Peacock King, obtained through an exchange between Buddhist disciples. It can cleanse the body of dust and also has the function of preventing earth magic.

The other feather is that of the Golden Crow Great Emperor, which has the ability to start a fire.

He took the magic feather and swept it around himself, then swept it around Rong Tianding as well.

The mud clinging to Zhang Xuezhou's shoes fell off in a flash, while dust from Rong Tianding robe swished down.

"What an amazing feather duster!" Rong Tianding exclaimed in surprise.

When Zhang Xuezhou exclaimed, "The Golden Crow Great Emperor is my good friend," flames nearly half a meter high erupted from the black feathers.

"This treasure is amazing! It can actually burn like firewood!"

The abilities of Zhang Xuezhou's two feathers are neither magical nor unmagnificent.

It's not amazing that these things can be done in other ways, but what's amazing is that no one can do it with a feather.

Rong Tianding felt his knowledge had greatly increased, and even Rong Li was extremely surprised.

"The Technique Method you've learned over the years are quite impressive," Rong Li praised. "Even if you don't slaughter pigs anymore, you can still make a living with these tricks!"

"That's right!"

Zhang Xuezhou nodded, muttering to himself. When he reached out and squeezed, the dust and mud that he and Rong Tianding had swept away had been caught in his palm and hardened into a stone.

Zhang Xuezhou threw the stone outside.

However, Rong Li quickly dismissed his displayed Technique Method as mere street tricks.

The ability to conceal and retrieve items from a bag is also a specialty of martial arts practitioners.

Zhang Xuezhou ultimately gave up on changing Rong Li's mind.

"I need to go to Fuping County right now to find someone and see if I can ask him to help me locate my parents!"

Zhang Xuezhou had been hitchhiking his way through the journey, and logically, he should have parted ways with Fuping County.

But Zhang Xuezhou thought about Zhang Cigong from the same village, Dong Zhongshu who might be able to help, and the matter of Ren Yisheng's soul leaving his body and being unable to return to it, which made him decide to rush back.

"Fuping County is quite far; I heard it's hundreds of miles away," Rong Tianding said.

"Not far!"

Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand.

As long as he has enough Demon Power, it won't take him long to fly from Hibiscus City to Fuping County.

"Then I'll go with you," Rong Tianding said excitedly.

I'll be back in a few days!

Zhang Xuezhou considered the prospect of traversing the icy and snowy landscape to reach Fuping County, and then considered the ease with which he could fly back and forth. Ultimately, he decided that Rong Tianding didn't need to join in this commotion.

But Rong Tianding- ting was clearly very excited.

Moreover, Zhang Xuezhou remembered that Dong Zhongshu had learned a very important Southern Ming Fire Technique from the Corpse-like School. If Rong Tianding could persistently pester Dong Zhongshu to learn it, it would be considered as having a cheat code at a low cultivation level.