Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Pei Mingyan opened his eyes and found that the situation was not good.

It is obvious that this is a toilet with a thatched roof and mud walls. The floor is not dirty or messy, but it is not much better either. After all, it is a toilet, so there will always be some smell.

Pei·Disabled Person·Ming Yan thought to himself: This must be the villain.
No sympathy at all!!

"you're awake."
The one who came with Qingfeng was a white-haired woman dressed in black, dignified and beautiful. "I am Tanggu, the cook of Yongshan Academy. I met you when Xiaokong and I were about to go out. It's also a coincidence. The academy just happened to be short of someone recently. If you are willing, you can stay."

Pei Mingyan stood up from the weed pile and picked off the weeds on his body. "Thank you for saving my life, Tanggu. I——"

"Humph." Tang Gu chuckled, and her eyes looking at him were full of deep meaning, "Meeting is fate, don't you think?"

Pei Mingyan lowered his eyes, as if his secrets had been exposed, and stammered frankly: "I did plan to fall off the cliff. My name is Pei Mingyan, and I am a branch of the Mei family in Yongshan. The people of the Mei family are beautiful, and I..."
He choked up and reached out to touch his hairy black mole. "I was born ugly and was often excluded..."

Tang Gu's expression remained unchanged, she just looked at him quietly.

Pei Mingyan looked at Tang Gu with a look of "I have something to hide" and said, "This incident started because of the eldest son of the Mei family, Mei Shanxue. He failed to ascend to heaven and fell into a coma. The main family asked each branch to arrange a marriage for the eldest son."

Tang Gu closed her eyes and turned her back to him. "Although the academy is not a temple, the academy owner is kind-hearted. Since you have nowhere else to go, you might as well stay here. I just said that the academy is short of someone recently. If you don't mind my humble appearance, I will leave the job of cleaning the toilet to you in the future."

The implication is - stop making up stories, I'm not interested and don't want to listen. If you'd know what's best for you, just stay here and clean the toilets.

Pei Mingyan lowered his head, looking bewildered, as if he had not understood Tanggu's hint at all, and continued to say without a long eye: "The order of the head family has been issued, how dare the children of the Mei family disobey? Each branch must have nine men marrying wives, not including concubines. Yongshan people don't really believe in the fate of the Mei family. There are only nine men of marriageable age in the branches and me, so I have to obey."

Tang Gu seemed to be oblivious to his words, "There are many ordinary people in the academy, and many of them are unable to move around easily, so they need you to come to their homes to collect the night fragrance."

Pei Mingyan's lips twitched, but he still insisted on playing his role, "Although I have no complaints..."

Tang Gu nodded, "That's good, the accommodation is right there, you can rest for two days, and we'll start the day after tomorrow."

"...But the girl is beautiful, and I don't want to let her down, so I went up the mountain and pretended to fall off the cliff." Pei Mingyan seemed to have finally finished speaking, and hurriedly replied, "As long as I have a place to shelter from the rain and wind, how dare I refuse? I will start tomorrow."

"Oh, you are quite flexible." Tang Gu laughed sarcastically and said in a serious tone, "The academy doesn't care about origins, and doesn't distinguish good from bad pasts. Once you enter the academy, you will be a member of the academy for the rest of your life. If you betray, the academy will grind you to dust."

Pei Mingyan: "..." Damn, so cruel! A college? ? If the college is so cruel, would anyone dare to come to school?
He lowered his head, his lips trembling, and continued to play the role of a mediocre, timid, ugly and cowardly person, "I..."

Tang Gu glanced at him and said, "Please think about it carefully. I will send someone to confirm it in two days."

Pei Mingyan stopped talking and bowed respectfully, "Thank you for your understanding, and thank you for saving my life."

Tang Gu paused as she was leaving. "I don't believe you. I even dislike you a little. Someone else saved you. You don't need to thank me."

The people had gone away, and Pei Mingyan looked around the temporary residence. Although it was a toilet, it was a luxurious toilet, with a living room and a room outside, and it also had its own garden and several vegetable plots.
When he woke up, there was still a smell coming in. When Tang Gu came over, she probably felt the smell was too pungent, so she activated the formation. All the bad smells and strange odors disappeared without a trace in an instant, comparable to a level 10 air purification system.
Now this place is a very suitable place for salted fish to live. Except for sweeping toilets and pouring night incense.

It is impossible to sweep the toilet. It is impossible to sweep the toilet in this life. I have to find a way to change my job.

Moreover, he was quite curious about something.
The world view in the book is not that cruel. Good and bad are judged by one's standpoint. In other words, there is no such thing as a demonic cult in this world. The reason why Yongshan Academy is considered the villain is because they have a grudge against the heroine, not that they are absolutely bad people.

Yongshan Academy is one of the fourteen sects in the Three Mountains and Fourteen Sects, and it is also a well-known sect. The reason why he dared to roll down from the mountain into the valley was that he knew that even if he couldn't get in, he would not be destroyed as soon as they met.
So, why did Yongshan Academy set such cruel rules? What is the secret behind it?
Pei Mingyan sighed, suppressed his curiosity, and walked around to familiarize himself with the environment.

As soon as he came back from a walk, someone came to see him.

Pei Mingyan knew the man who came. He was the villain who picked him up.

This guy has a round face, looks simple and honest, and his eyes are round and dull. His clothes are very interesting, like he is wearing layers of fishing nets, which makes him look uninhibited and unrestrained. With his simple round face, he looks cute and uncoordinated.

"Are you the new guy who sells night-time incense?" the younger brother said.

The book doesn't describe this little brother much, only saying that he is a simple-minded, straightforward minion.

Pei Mingyan blinked and said dully, "Ah? Yes, yes, Aunt Tang asked me to do this job."

"You look like this, so you're only suitable for cleaning toilets." The younger brother stared at his face for three seconds and then looked away. "Although cleaning toilets is not a good job, it's not good to be a liar. You should turn over a new leaf in the future, work hard, and stop cheating people."

"Ah? The Mei family's fortune teller is not a liar... I didn't lie before." Pei Mingyan suppressed his laughter and answered him, "Although I am ugly, I am a good person."

"There's nothing good about a liar..." the younger brother muttered, "Anyway, you're so ugly, I came here to tell you that I don't want you to collect night fragrance for me."

Pei Mingyan: “…………”Okay, the workload is reduced by one.
"Actually...actually I don't really want to be a night incense collector." Pei Mingyan looked tangled, "Are you guys the only ones who collect night incense and no one else is doing this?"

The younger brother opened his eyes wide and said angrily, "You are still picky!"

Pei Mingyan was determined to tease this little brother, "I am doing this for the good of the academy. Think about it, if I don't pour you the night incense, wouldn't that be lazy, right? And I left you out of the night incense collection, everyone must think I'm deliberately bullying you, of course you are doing this for my own good, so you will explain. Well, if you explain, everyone will dislike my ugliness and won't let me work at their homes. Then I will be useless in the academy, isn't that bad for the academy?"

The younger brother agreed with her, "What you said makes sense."

"So, I must go and collect the night fragrance for you." Pei Mingyan concluded seriously.

"No!" The younger brother frowned and ran out, saying, "I don't want to see your face! Just wait! I'll talk to Tang Gu and find you another job!" In the afternoon, Pei Mingyan received his "new appointment notice" - kitchen handyman.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a chef, nor am I someone who picks or washes vegetables, nor am I someone who washes dishes and serves food.

It's a woodcutter.

Pei Mingyan secretly laughed at this job. The people in the academy were really cautious about their treatment of people. Anyway, it was impossible for him to touch the dishes.

However, chopping wood is a piece of cake for a practitioner, and he likes this logistical work.
Well, let’s give this little brother named Xiaokong a credit, and their “grudges and hatreds” will be wiped out.

In view of his satisfaction with the new job and to prevent any new changes from occurring, he reported to the kitchen early the next morning.
However, after getting up, he found something a little strange.
There was a stamp on his fair and lean arm, a fresh one that couldn't be wiped off.

Hey. Isn't that what the book says?
What happened to the villain's low IQ? He's already been branded as soon as he arrived. Is this like getting on a one-way bus and there's no way he can get off?
To be honest, he wasn't that worried. First, he didn't want to do anything to the people in the academy. Second, there were so many people who had their marks stamped, so adding one more person wouldn't be a big problem.

It’s just that—he, a person whose cultivation was so high that he was forced to ascend, was stamped without even realizing it?
He looked back at the wooden bed he had made last night.
Well, a hard bed is good for your health. Is that true?
Or... the villain already has a cultivator who has the ability to ascend but is suppressing his cultivation and not ascending.

Pei Mingyan realized that he was thinking about something important again, so he patted his head and said, "Wake up, you are just a passerby chopping wood."

After clearing his mind, he went up the mountain, admired the architecture of Yongshan, and learned some things that were not written in the book, such as the Yongshan Academy, which was not a real academy, but it was also an academy.

An academy is an educational institution, but Yongshan Academy does not recruit students. However, it has a large number of books, which are more extensive than those of the Mei family where Pei Mingyan is located.

As a sect, Yongshan Academy is also strange. It does not recruit disciples to enrich and grow like other sects. Recruiting people depends entirely on fate, and this fate is whether there is any blind person falling down from the mountain again.

In short, everything seems a little weird, yet not that weird.

But none of these things could catch up with what happened later, which puzzled him.
This story started yesterday afternoon. No one told him that he had changed his job to chop wood. A note flew in to inform him.
Naturally, no one arranged new accommodation for him, so he could only spend the night in the hut.

He has to go to work today, so of course he needs to find out where the workplace is.
The problem is that there is no guide and no map.
At this time, the mouth is the best map.

He started asking as soon as he went out, asking as he walked, from the foot of the mountain to the top, and finally found where the kitchen was.
The puzzling thing lies in asking for directions.
While asking for directions, he asked at least seven or eight people, if not a dozen. However, when they saw him for the first time, they all couldn't hide their disgust and frowned as if they had been trained.

Pei Mingyan was puzzled and could only conclude that the face he pinched for himself was really too ugly. It just so happened that Yongshan Academy was a gathering place for people who were obsessed with looks, so everyone hated him instinctively.

After reaching the top of the mountain, he didn't even see the kitchen threshold. As soon as he stepped into the "Zhulixing" which covered an area comparable to that of a palace, he was led left and right and finally came to a small courtyard by a lake.

"Tang Gu said that you will live here from now on. Look, this piece of land by the lake is yours, you can raise chickens and ducks or do whatever you want. You are not allowed to go to the front yard. Also, the kitchen helpers will come here to get chopped firewood at yin hour, so you should prepare it in advance. That's about it, don't ask why, just remember it." The speaker wore a scholar's hat, his eyes looked up at the sky, and his tone was very impatient, as if saying one more word to him would be more suffering.

The other party's dislike for him could almost fill the air. Pei Mingyan didn't understand why, but he wasn't angry. He thanked him happily, "Thank you, senior. I understand. Please bring me here."

"Hmph." The other party snorted coldly and walked away with his hands behind his back.

After seeing everyone leave, Pei Mingyan looked back at his own nest and to be frank, it was pretty good.
Rows of half-cut bamboos formed a fence, and many flowers, plants and vines grew on the fence, making it look vibrant.
There is a corridor as soon as you enter the door. There are flower stands on both sides of the corridor, with wisteria entwined on them. The purple is tinged with blue, giving a quiet and elegant feeling, which looks very comfortable.

Outside the courtyard, the lake was shimmering, and when the breeze blew, it brought a hint of floral fragrance from some garden.

Putting aside all other things, for a firewood worker to have such treatment, he would definitely beg for permission to go to the flower farm!
Pei Mingyan accepted this result well and used magic to chop the firewood needed for the week early on.

then……
then……
Then he realized that there was nothing else he could do.
He kind of missed his phone.

Pei Mingyan began to reflect. In the past, when he lived in Juwu, he always had endless things to do and endless books to read. The people waiting for him to tell fortunes lined up from halfway up the mountain to Qingxi Town, but he never felt bored.
But now, there is no piano, no chess, and no books? There are many books in the academy, but unfortunately he is not familiar with the academy yet, and people will not lend him books easily.
Painting? Forget it. It’s better to sleep comfortably.

He glanced at the bamboo forest behind the courtyard, then stood up, removed the fence, and marked out a piece of the bamboo forest under his jurisdiction to use as his backyard.
Seeing that it was still early, he found some bamboo and made himself a simple bamboo flute.

And the time was just past noon.

Suddenly, the whole Zhulixing was rang with thick and deep bell sounds, as if conveying some message.
Pei Mingyan was still wondering if something had happened when he saw a table suddenly appear in the room. Then, a meal, three dishes, a soup and a boiled soft-boiled egg appeared on the table.

Pei Mingyan: "..." The treatment is really good, and the food is delivered to the table. It's even better than takeout!
After he finished his meal, he took the soft-boiled egg and tasted it.
This dessert is very ordinary.

Only a little bit of the egg flavor is retained, and the taste is not very good. It is more of the sweetness of brown sugar, but the sweetness cannot suppress the fishy smell of the egg.
It doesn’t look pleasing to the eye either, because it was cooked for too long and the egg whites were stained with the color of brown sugar.
The taste is even worse. Over-boiling caused the egg whites to become foamy, and it has an indescribable loose feeling when eaten. If this were a takeaway dessert shop, it would probably have no repeat customers and a 100% negative review rate.
He took just one sip of the soup and put it down.

Something even more miraculous happened. As soon as he put the dishes and chopsticks back on the table, the table and the leftovers on it disappeared just as they had appeared.
Pei Mingyan: “…” He really used the magic to the extreme. Collecting the bowls and serving the dishes, washing the dishes and picking the vegetables were probably the same, which were really trivial matters.

Unfortunately, while others saved time for cultivation, not only could he not cultivate, he also had to find ways to lose some of his cultivation to prevent him from ascending again before his time was up.

The rain of sweet rain that descended after each failed ascension was the cultivation that he had released on his own. If some of the cultivation was not released, he would fall into a cycle of “ascension - failure - cultivation overflowed and he had to fly again - failure again - cultivation overflowed and he continued to fly - failure” because his cultivation was too high. He would not stop ascending until he had ascended too many times and the wasted cultivation exceeded his growth rate.

So, he really had nothing to do.
So he took a nap, set up a fishing rod by the lake, sat on a rock by the lake and played "Little White Cabbage" on his newly made flute to express his sadness and pain.
Maybe God heard his request.

The next morning, he was asked to leave. The reason for his departure was so heartbreaking that anyone who heard about it would cry.

This was because he didn't eat a single bite of the soft-boiled eggs for dinner yesterday.

(End of this chapter)