The disciple of Yue Lao

Chapter 52: Adding reinforcement to the marriage line?
"If you agree to go back to heaven with me now, I can help you find out who your destined person is." Xia Yu was worried that Luo Qingyun would not agree, so he continued, "Of course, if you want to wait until Laojun comes to pick you up in person, that's fine too. But by then, even if you find your destined one, you'll still have to say goodbye. But if you're not discovered by Laojun this time, you'll have many chances to sneak out in the future."

Xia Yu also had no idea how Qingniu had escaped to the lower world right under the noses of Erlang Shen and Xiaotian Dog. The most important thing right now was to convince Qingniu.

"Are you willing to help me?" Luo Qingyun's eyes were full of distrust towards Xia Yu.

When Xia Yu saw that Luo Qingyun was moved, he quickly assured her, "Xiaoxian always keeps his word. If I promise to help you, I will definitely not break my promise."

Despite Xia Yu's assurances, Luo Qingyun still had many doubts: "Can you, a mere immortal disciple, see that Yue Lao's marriage is not good?"

"Of course." Xia Yu said without hesitation: "My master has ninety-nine disciples, and I am the only one who stayed in the [Marriage Palace]. Isn't that enough?"

Xiaojiu stood beside Luo Qingyun, always wanting to interrupt and stop him from returning to heaven, but she never had a suitable reason.

"Brother Qingyun..." Xiaojiu's eyes were full of reluctance and concern, but Luo Qingyun did not appreciate it.

Huang Shu looked up at the heaven that he could not reach, and suddenly looked at Luo Qingyun with expectation, and asked: "Brother...if you go back to heaven, can you take me with you? From the time I was born until now, I have never seen what heaven looks like!"

"Why are you everywhere? You haven't seen it, but how many people have reincarnated thousands of times and still haven't seen it! Do you think that Heaven is a place you can go to whenever you want?" Xiao Jiu was in a bad mood to begin with, and took the opportunity to scold Huang Shu fiercely: "I'm afraid that even if you reach the South Heaven Gate, you will be bitten to death by the Roaring Sky Dog."

"You are the one who was bitten to death. Dogs love to chase foxes the most!" Huang Shu was not to be outdone and immediately retorted.

After a few words, Huang Shu and Xiao Jiu started arguing again. Xia Yu didn't have the time to sit here and listen to them quarreling.

"Have you thought about it?" Xia Yu asked Luo Qingyun.

Luo Qingyun was not a fool. After weighing the pros and cons, he immediately agreed to Xia Yu's proposal.

"When will you come back after this departure?" Xiaojiu asked.

Luo Qingyun calculated the time and said, "If we use mortal time to calculate, it will probably be a few months later."

"So long..." Xiaojiu felt very lost.

"Xiao Jiu, Huang Shu, you guys go back!" Luo Qingyun looked at them worriedly and warned them, "Even if I'm not here, you have to control yourselves and not use magic at will."

"Don't worry, big brother. We got it." Huang Shu said happily.

Xia Yu and Luo Qingyun flew up into the sky together. Xiao Jiu realized it belatedly and said to Luo Qingyun's back: "Brother Qingyun, I'll wait for you to come back."

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【South Tianmen】

Since Qingniu went down to the mortal world without permission and did not have a "pass token", Xia Yu thought of a solution.

When they arrived in front of Erlang Shen and Xiaotian Dog, Xia Yu was responsible for attracting their attention, while Qingniu looked for an opportunity to slip back.

After all, the Green Ox is the mount of Taishang Laojun, and its cultivation and magical powers are even more powerful than Erlang Shen.

As long as Erlang Shen doesn't open his "Heavenly Eye", it will be a piece of cake for Qingniu to sneak in and out.

Erlang Shen looked at Xia Yu impartially, stretched out his hand, and said, "Token."

Xia Yu had deliberately hung the token on his waist before, and now he pretended that he couldn't find it. "Ah! Where did I put the token? But didn't Erlang Shen personally let me down to the mortal world just now? I'm going to come back quickly, so I can go back without the token, right?"

"Showing off one's sword in front of Guan Gong", I wonder if this is what the sentence means.

Erlang Shen saw at a glance that Xia Yu had hidden the token behind his waist. When he stretched out his hand, the token flew into his hand.

After checking that everything was correct, Erlang Shen returned the token to Xia Yu, turned around and left without looking back.

Seeing that there was no one around, Xiaotian Dog transformed into a human form and said to Xia Yu with a smile, "Although I am very grateful that you gave me a roast duck leg before, you are really bullying my master by doing this!"

Uh...bullying?

Just because of her?

Bullying Erlang Shen?
Although it was a bit embarrassing, Xia Yu felt that it was worth it when he thought that Qingniu had already gone back.

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【Marriage Palace】

Xia Yu rushed back in a hurry, fearing that her master would come back and find her missing.

The green spirit boy pretending to be Xia Yu was standing under the marriage tree. When she saw Xia Yu finally came back, she immediately changed back to her own appearance.

"Is it back?" asked Green Spirit Boy anxiously.

"They should be in the Tushita Palace by now." Xia Yu said as he walked towards the marriage tree, only to find that there were many more red lines on several of the destined couples - many thick and hard iron wires.

"Sister Lu..." Xia Yu reached out and touched the thick iron wire, looking at Lu Lingtong blankly: "What is going on?"

Green Spirit Boy looked at the places where the iron wires were tied, and explained with a smile: "After you left, the red strings of those destined couples suddenly broke. I looked towards the mortal world and saw that they had broken up. Later, they made a wish to Yue Lao, hoping to replace their marriage strings with iron wires and steel bars..."

Without any external force, the marriage line of mortals is broken, which means that they are not destined to be together!

"So, you really replaced all of them with iron wire and steel bars?" Xia Yu looked at Green Spirit Boy helplessly, not knowing how to comfort himself for a moment.

"Yes!" Green Spirit Boy said with a satisfied look on his face, "Look, now they won't break, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the iron wire and steel bars tied to the marriage tree suddenly broke...

"Crack, click, click..."

All of them were broken, not a single one was left.

"No way..." Green Spirit Boy thought he was dazzled.

Xia Yu glanced down at the mortal world and saw that those couples who were destined to be together ended up breaking up.

"It's not destiny, you can't force it." Xia Yu sighed as he took away the broken wires and steel bars on the marriage tree.

"Grandpa Laojun will be back soon, Xia Yu, thank you for helping me find the blue ox. I'm going back first, if you need my help in the future, just let me know."

After Green Spirit Boy finished speaking, he rushed back to [Tushita Palace] without stopping.

"Okay." Xia Yu replied.

There is a big pond under the marriage tree, which is called "marriage pond".

There was no water in the pool, but it was filled with small things that looked like "key chains" in the mortal world, except that they had portraits of various small animals on them.

Each keychain has two small animal portraits on it, and a red string connects their fate.

The marriage tree determines the marriages of gods, demons, humans, ghosts, and monsters, while the pond controls the marriages of all the livestock within the three realms that have not yet developed their "intelligence".

Generally, animals that have not yet developed their "spiritual intelligence" but have spiritual awareness will find their marriage on the branches at the bottom of the marriage tree.

The so-called "awakening of spiritual intelligence" means being able to speak human language, transform into human form, and having one's own name.

Animals that can understand human speech do not count as "awakening their intelligence." (Huang Huang's intelligence is just beginning to develop, but it has not yet fully developed.)
Generally speaking, Yue Lao will match people up according to their destined fate recorded in the "marriage book".

(End of this chapter)