Great Love for All Heavens Begins with Huang Yaoshi

Chapter 176 To use things without being used by things, to think without thinking about thoughts.

"The outcome is already decided. Considering your injured face, you'll serve as a cook for ten days," the young Taoist in green robes said with a smile.

"You still say you've never practiced martial arts or swordsmanship?" Li Hanyi asked coldly.

Zhuang Bu Ran said casually:
"It is said that to master swordsmanship, one must challenge swordsmen, hone one's skills in dire circumstances, and receive instruction from masters. However, these are the paths of mediocre people. Someone like me can take the world and nature as my teacher, understand the way of heaven, and thus master the martial arts of all schools."

"Since you are well-versed in the Dao of Heaven and possess the combat power of the Free and Unfettered Heaven Realm, why don't you become the youngest purple-robed Celestial Master in the history of Wangcheng Mountain, just like Zhao Yuzhen?"

"I have no reputation in the martial world, yet I have attracted someone like you to come to Wangcheng Mountain to ask for a sword. If I had a more famous name, I'm afraid there would be no peace and quiet to speak of."

The young Taoist priest in the green robe raised his hand to indicate the location of the kitchen in the courtyard, and said:
"It's almost time for dinner, and it's time for you to show off your skills again."

Less than half an hour later.

Inside the courtyard pavilion, the young Taoist priest in a green robe looked at the five or six dark-colored dishes on the table, and couldn't help but glance at Li Hanyi, whose expression remained unchanged.

“Your mother, Li Xinyue, is a successor of the Sword Heart Tomb, your father, Lei Mengsha, is a successor of the Lei Family Fortress, and your master is Li Changsheng, who loves fine wine and delicacies.”

"But the dishes you made make me suspect that you went to the Tang Clan to learn their skills."

He paused slightly, then sighed:
"Since you can't beat me, you're trying to poison me!"

Upon hearing this, Li Hanyi's pent-up frustration inexplicably dissipated by more than half, and she said:
“When I was young, my parents would never let me cook. After I left home to become an apprentice, I devoted myself to practicing swordsmanship.”

"So, you mean that not burning down my kitchen is enough to show that my cooking skills are superb?"

As soon as the young Taoist priest in the green robe finished speaking, Li Hanyi was about to suppress the smile on her face when she suddenly frowned, which aggravated the swelling on her forehead.

"Why don't you leave Wangcheng Mountain quickly, I am a humble Taoist priest?"

Before Zhuang Buran could finish speaking, Li Hanyi interrupted him:

“I mean ten days. I’m not one to go back on my word.”

"Alright, then show me your skill of holding chopsticks with your feet." The young Taoist in the green robe smiled.

Li Hanyi said calmly, "I'm not hungry."

"Very well, you can hop and fetch a meal now," the young Taoist in the green robe said, settling for second best.

Li Hanyi seemed to have anticipated this, and curled her lip slightly:
"Fine, I'll jump."

After saying that, he leaped more than ten feet and arrived outside the courtyard. After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he leaped back into the courtyard and placed the food box he was carrying on the table in the pavilion.

"No wonder you took so long. You only came back after you'd eaten and drunk your fill, didn't you?" the young Taoist priest in the green robe said leisurely.

"You haven't even wiped your mouth clean."

Li Hanyi was stunned for a moment, then turned around abruptly, silently pulled out half of the sword and examined it. Only then did she belatedly realize that she had been tricked again.

"Zhao Huanzhen, it's fortunate that you've stayed in Wangcheng Mountain all year round, otherwise you would have long since incurred the wrath of the masses and ended up in a situation where everyone wants to kill you."

"With such a fierce temperament, he should be surnamed Lei, not Li."

"you"

"What do you mean, 'you'? As the cook, why don't you hurry up and take all the dishes you made off the table and throw them away?"

The young Taoist priest in green robes, not forgetting to add a line at the end of the world:
"Remember, you can't take a step, you can only jump."

Li Hanyi's eyes narrowed slightly, and she leaped up, her expression icy, as she served the dishes.

Ten days later.

"What kind of erotic lyrics and music is this?"

But then Li Hanyi saw the little figures formed from the clouds dancing to a tune.

"Let's learn to meow together, meow meow meow meow."

"Let me act cute in front of you, oh meow meow meow meow."

"Sometimes I'm as lazy as a cat, but when I'm in a bad mood, I'm all bared my teeth and claws."

"You are always so gentle, you can melt my heart. I want to be your little kitten."

Li Hanyi could no longer tolerate it and killed the cloud-mist figure with a single sword strike.

The young Taoist priest in the green robe nodded in agreement:
"This little tune is indeed too difficult for you. You are not a courtesan, so how can you express the tenderness and affection you should have?"

"Zhao Huanzhen, don't forget your identity as a monk." Li Hanyi sneered.
“Do you know that my father is punished by being forced to kneel for days and nights because he likes to go to places like this? His body is covered in sores.”

"The successor of the Heart Sword truly lives up to his name; he is indeed skilled at taming his husband." The young Taoist in the green robe clapped his hands and smiled.
"I also have a little tune that resonates with the spirit of young swordsmen in the martial world. It tells the story of how seven swordsmen, when they unite, can protect their country and their homes." With a wave of his sleeve, the clouds in the sky fell and transformed into seven small figures holding swords. As they danced with their swords, music began and songs emerged.

"How you live is just one lifetime, or just one hundred years."

"Live life to the fullest, and live life to the fullest."

"Men have courage and travel the world with swords; women have swords in their hearts and tenderness fills the hills."

The music stopped, the sound ceased.

The young Taoist priest in green robes chuckled:

"It's quite amusing to hear a girl like you, with a heart of swords but no tenderness, sing this little tune."

Li Hanyi snorted coldly:
"Zhao Huanzhen, if you're really bored, why don't you follow your senior brother Wang Yixing's example and travel the world?"

Zhuang Buyan raised his eyebrows slightly:
"Although you have a cold and indifferent nature, you must also have a gentle and delicate side, otherwise how could you have created a sword technique like 'Moonlit Evening and Flowery Morning' that is both beautiful and useless?"

He spoke with a warm smile:
"Why don't you sing the first song?"

"dream!"

After a moment of contemplation, Li Hanyi began to softly sing the second song.

"Barely, but thankfully you have a good voice." The young Taoist priest in the green robe raised his hand and said.

"Miss Lei, you can leave now."

"You stinking Taoist priest, I'll say it again, I take my mother's surname." As Li Hanyi turned to leave, she paused, turning back to say:
"From what I've observed, you clearly have a playful nature. Why don't you go down the mountain and travel the world like your senior brother?"

"I am unfortunate that my junior brothers are all obsessed with love. They were originally carefree immortals, but they insisted on falling into the mortal world."

"One of them dared to directly ask a woman he fell in love with at first sight whether she was married, and the other was willing to risk his life for love."

The young Taoist priest in the green robe looked every bit like the senior disciple of Wangcheng Mountain.

"I have no choice but to take on some of the hardship and stay on the mountain to look after them."

"If I can break the sword technique that defeated you a year from now, you will come down the mountain with me, how about it?"

"Just you?"

The young Taoist priest in the green robe glanced at him sideways.

"We'll see!"

Li Hanyi leaped up and disappeared.

A moment later, Lü Suzhen stepped into the courtyard.

"Master, are you satisfied now?"

The young Taoist priest in the green robe said casually.

“For Yu Zhen, the immeasurable tribulations are ultimately no match for the peach blossom tribulations,” Lü Suzhen nodded.

"Master, aren't you afraid that I'll also fall into a love triangle?" Zhuang Buran asked with a smile.

“Make good use of external things without being enslaved by them, give rise to thoughts without being attached to them. This is called using things without being used by them, and having thoughts without being attached to them.”

A smile appeared on Lü Suzhen's face:
"If even such a clear and enlightened mind falls into the calamity of love, I'm afraid there is no one in the Xuanmen who can overcome this calamity."

The young Taoist priest in the green robe nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly:
"Master is absolutely right. I am the kind of man that every woman in the world longs for but cannot have!"

Upon hearing this, Lü Suzhen laughed and scolded:

"How shameless! No wonder everyone in the group always refers to you as Senior Brother, and when you're out and about, you even call yourself the second disciple of the old Taoist."

“This disciple is too outstanding, which makes Junior Brother Wang feel inferior and give up his position as the senior brother.”

The young Taoist priest in the green robe looked at Lü Suzhen:
"From now on, you will not need to spend your energy trying to break Yuzhen's so-called destiny. With the talisman that can see everything outside the mountain and the peach blossom calamity already gone, there is probably no time for you to face the calamity."

He changed the subject:
"Actually, if you ask me, there's nothing wrong with Yu Zhen facing this calamity. It's just that he died, so he can truly return to heaven and live a carefree life."

Before the young Taoist in the green robe could finish speaking, the old Taoist in front of him suddenly disappeared, as if afraid that he would lose his temper and punish someone.

But since he couldn't hit the target even if he tried, he simply decided to avoid seeing it altogether.

The young man in the green robe simply lay down again under the old peach tree.

(End of this chapter)