A life of clearness

Chapter 203 Taoist Li Tao
To be more precise, it represents the attitude of the Master of the Ji Ming Sword.

Rong Qing exhaled slowly. She felt that she had a strong backer behind her. However, this backer was not the biggest one at the moment. Otherwise, why would she express her attitude so tactfully?

"So, all I have to do tomorrow is sit there and do nothing?"

Chu Yuan responded softly.

"He will remember the favor and will naturally include my uncle in it."

Being remembered by such a big shot and owed a favor to him would bring immeasurable benefits to Rong Qing's future.

Rong Qing obviously understood this. She couldn't possibly refuse.

"I understand." Rong Qing nodded, knowing that all she had to do tomorrow was to follow Chu Yuan and listen to the lectures of many powerful seniors.

……

At the other end of Quexueting, far away from the guesthouse, there were few people.

Qiu Sang exchanged greetings with several fellow disciples who were coming towards him.

The few words he said were nothing more than about how his studies were going recently and so on.

"Junior brother, we won't say much. Master is waiting for you." One of the male cultivators who was also wearing a jade-colored robe smiled deeply.

"Thank you for the reminder, senior brother." Qiu Sang has always been well-behaved, and his etiquette was impeccable.

He watched his senior brother and several fellow junior brothers leave, then he looked away and continued walking forward in the bridge corridor.

Qiu Sang knew that those fellow disciples had just returned from their master. From the smug look on their faces, he knew... they had found several predestined people, and their master was generous and rewarded them.

He called him just to show off. Qiu Sang closed his eyes slightly. But they didn't know that this was exactly what showed that the master didn't care about them at all.

Reward? Humph. Just a little something to send off. This is not the attitude towards a beloved disciple, but the perfunctory attitude towards a subordinate.

Qiu Sang thought so as he passed through dozens of teleportation arrays before arriving at Taoist Li Tao's resting place.

Compared with the exquisiteness of Quexueting, the style of this resting place is quite different.

Messy and dirty.

In front of the dilapidated thatched hut, a big black cow was tied to a tree.

"Tong'er," Qiu Sang gently called out to the boy who was dozing on the back of the black bull, "Wake up."

The boy opened the straw hat covering his face with sleepy eyes, and when he saw who was coming, he was surprised, "Brother Qiu Sang. I haven't seen you for a long time!"

"Here I am." Qiu Sang said with a smile, taking out a storage bag from his sleeve and handing it to Tongzi, "Here, Baibian Candy. I happened to be in the Yamabuki Realm, and I remembered that Tonger was thinking about it last time, so I bought a bag for him."

The boy let out a cry and took the storage bag with great joy.

Since it was a storage bag, there must be a lot of candies in it. Only Brother Qiu Sang cared about him, even if he muttered a word about the candy, he would remember it and bring it to him specially.

The boy quickly took one out of the storage bag. The round surface of this candy is covered with colorful sugar coating, and the taste is sweet but not greasy. The most interesting thing is its effect.

If you eat one, you can transform into a beast or bird from the Yamabuki world. As for which kind, it is hard to say. Therefore, the children in the cultivation world like this thing the most.

Qiu Sang rubbed the boy's head and then walked into the thatched hut.

Inside the thatched cottage, Taoist Li Tao was waiting for him.

It is not accurate to say that he was waiting, because Taoist Li Tao was doing his own thing and just took time out to talk to these disciples.

Qiu Sang didn't dare to say much. He bowed respectfully and then knelt quietly aside.

With the eyesight of a high-level cultivator, even the peripheral vision during the salute was enough for him to see clearly what his master was doing.

"Master is actually making annotations... Tomorrow is the first day of the Longevity Banquet, it's extremely important." Qiu Sang was secretly surprised, "Not to mention the Lord of Longevity, even the Supreme One may come. Under such pressure, he can still calmly make annotations for the book. He is worthy of being Master."

Taoist Li Tao put down his pen temporarily after he finished the last stroke.

"Qiusang." he called.

"Yes." Qiu Sang gathered all his energy and listened carefully to his master's next words.

"Tell me in detail about the person you have brought with you."

However, he never mentioned the situation of the disciples who had come before him. It was obvious that Taoist Li Tao was not completely ignorant of the situation among these disciples.

Asking the disciples to find and guide the destined people should be a test from the master. Qiu Sang thought so. After all, every part of the Quexue Court is under the control of the master, and the master is the most aware of the arrival of the destined people.

Qiu Sang paused for a moment to organize his words before speaking.

"This time, I have similar ideas to my fellow disciples. I think the characteristics of the person with whom I have a predestined relationship in the future are: first, his cultivation is not very high, and he has not even reached the level of declining calamity; second, his appearance is different from that of cultivators from other walks of life. After all, it is not uncommon for things to change in the distant future; third, his karma is much stronger than that of ordinary people. Since he was able to come from the future with the stone tablet left by Master, I am afraid that the karma on him is simply impossible to calculate with my limited abilities."

Taoist Li Tao did not speak. Qiu Sang had no choice but to continue.

"In fact, there are quite a few monks who meet the above three conditions."

Those who can enter the Quexue Court during this period either have an invitation or... pass through the Wanfa Stele Forest.

According to Master's idea, the Forest of Steles of All Dharmas will last for trillions of years. In such a long time, it is within their expectation that more people will enter through the Forest of Steles of All Dharmas.

But, I didn’t expect there would be so many!
Nearly a hundred people!
Are these people the predestined ones that Master wants to find? Or is one of them the real predestined one?

Qiu Sang's fellow apprentices didn't care about that, they had already rushed to lead everyone. Anyway, one of them had to be caught, right...

Only Qiu Sang was left with nothing.

In fact, Qiu Sang had always been very subtle and stayed outside the circle of his fellow apprentices. They also vaguely sensed that their master valued Qiu Sang more. And Qiu Sang, in his heart, had always been jealous of the noble births of his fellow apprentices.

Therefore, he could only work harder and must not make any mistakes that would disappoint his master.

"There are ninety-six people who fit our guess. I think you brothers have already reported these predestined people to Master in detail." Qiu Sang said slowly, "But I think that the predestined person that Master is really looking for is not among those ninety-six people."

"Oh?" Taoist Li Tao finally showed some interest. "Go on."

"Because I thought of a possibility."

"That destined person may not need our guidance at all. She has already been guided since she entered the Snow Tempering Court."

"In this case, the destined person may not be alone. Other than that, they all meet the three characteristics mentioned above."

He thought that it was one thing for the master to test his disciples, and another thing to find the destined person. Obviously, finding the destined person was the most important thing, so why would he let the disciples do it all? So he boldly guessed that the destined person would probably be guarded by someone as soon as he appeared beside Quexueting.

Qiu Sang's brilliant guess turned out to be a success.

(End of this chapter)