Chapter 61 I can't sleep if I don't watch "The Immortal of Great Love"Zhou Zizai had just finished today's training when he felt as if his hands and feet did not belong to him anymore. It was as if he was filled with lead and was falling straight down. His muscles were sore and painful.
But he couldn't rest yet, and had to go to the sect's pharmacy to take a painful medicinal bath so that his body could recover quickly, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to get out of bed tomorrow.
There was no way. He was already sixteen years old this year. Although he practiced very hard, his cultivation was only at the second level of the Broken Ordinary Realm. If he didn't work harder, he might not be able to enter the Transformation Realm in this lifetime.
As soon as he entered the pharmacy, a strange smell mixed with various medicinal herbs overwhelmed him. Zhou Zizai pinched his nose and took off his clothes.
There were more than a dozen large wooden barrels, about two feet wide and ten feet high, in the pharmacy, and quite a few disciples were already bathing in them.
"Here!"
A call came from the wooden barrel on the far right. Zhou Zizai turned his head and saw that it was Zhou Datou, who was the same age as him. The two were from the same village and joined the sect as outer disciples.
Zhou Zizai endured the pain, climbed onto the wooden barrel, and jumped into it.
The high-temperature potion instantly burned his body red. He took a deep breath and tried not to groan.
Zhou Datou's face was as red as a monkey's buttocks. He was fidgeting in the wooden barrel. He poked Zhou Zizai and said:
"You came so late, and you gave yourself extra practice today? How long do you plan to soak for?"
Zhou Zizai said:
"At least half an hour!"
Zhou Datou took a breath of cold air:
"You are such a ruthless person. I am no longer able to bear this, brother. I wish you a speedy enlightenment."
Zhou Zizai glared at him:
"Big Head, you've been a little too lax lately. Don't forget why we came here in the first place."
Zhou Datou groaned and leaned against the edge of the barrel, looking exhausted:
"Hey, Zizai, why are you working so hard? Anyway, I just wanted my parents to live a more comfortable life in the first place. Now the money I get every month is enough for them to spend."
"Our ordinary people's qualifications are here. You work much harder than me, so aren't you one level higher than me?"
"Look at those geniuses who came with us in the beginning. They are almost reaching the state of perfection now!"
"I've let it go. I'll save up some money for a few more years. If the sect fails the assessment and lets me go home, I'll do something else, like be a bodyguard or something."
Zhou Zizai smiled and said:
"With your mediocre skills, if you become a bodyguard, you will be chopped down in just two strikes!"
Zhou Datou scooped up some water and splashed it on Zhou Zizai:
"Get lost! You're the one who got chopped off! You're cursing me!"
The two teenagers started playing around in the barrel, temporarily putting their worries aside, until the elder in the pharmacy scolded them and they quieted down.
Zhou Datou took another ball of cloth from the side of the wooden barrel and handed it to Zhou Zizai.
"Here, today's Teahouse Daily. I know you don't have time to buy it. I asked someone to bring it down from the mountain."
"Remember to burn it after reading it. I heard that some elders in our sect don't like The Legend of the Great Love Immortal. Be careful that you will be punished if you are found out."
Zhou Zizai was overjoyed and quickly opened the cloth and began to read in the steaming hot air.
After a while, he finished reading it, and said excitedly:
"There is always a way out. As long as I want to go, the way is right under my feet! This is a very good saying!"
Zhou Datou said curiously:
"I remember you were a very decent guy. How could you like a devil like Fang Yuan?"
Zhou Zizai shook his head:
"I don't like him, but I do admire him a little, especially the part about the inheritance of the three kings. It was so exciting to watch!" His expression darkened again.
"But stories are just stories after all. We don't have spring and autumn cicadas, nor do we have five hundred years of memory. We have to rely on ourselves for everything."
Zhou Datou snorted:
"You know that, but it's useless to rely on yourself. Isn't the Gu Yue generation an example? If you don't steal or rob, you will never get ahead in your life! And I don't want to join the devil's way, and I don't want to work hard, so I just give up."
"But who can say what the world is like now? If I'm really pushed to the limit, I'll just turn to the devil!"
Zhou Zizai said quickly:
"What nonsense are you talking about! We are a righteous sect!"
Zhou Datou also realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly shut up.
But at this moment, a cold voice came from under the barrel:
"Get down here, both of you!"
The two were shocked to find that a law enforcement disciple from the sect had appeared in the pharmacy at some point.
Zhou Datou was quick to signal Zhou Zizai to throw the Teahouse Daily in his hand into the water.
But the law enforcement disciple had already heard what they said. He leaped up and stood beside the wooden barrel. His right hand, like an iron clamp, clamped Zhou Zizai's arm and lifted him up.
The law enforcement disciple snatched the half-soaked Teahouse Daily and sneered:
"You want to destroy it in front of me? How dare you!"
Zhou Datou said in panic:
"Master, Senior Brother, what are you doing?"
The law enforcement disciple glanced at him and smiled grimly:
"The sect master has ordered a thorough investigation of all the disciples in the sect who have read the Teahouse Daily. The errand disciple who brought the book to you today has exposed all of you."
"Hurry up and put on your clothes and follow me to the sect hall to be punished! Hehe, you are really bold. Not only do you read this kind of magic book, but you also say such words!"
Although the two were in scalding hot water, they felt their blood run cold when they heard this.
Zhou Zizai put on his clothes in a daze and was escorted to the sect's main hall by law enforcement disciples. Along the way, he was like a puppet as if he had lost his soul.
Zhou Datou kept begging on the road and even took out money to bribe the law enforcement disciple, but he was slapped in the face by the other party and his face was swollen.
When the two arrived at the sect's main hall, they found that many disciples had already kneeled there, and the sect master and two elders were standing in front of the hall.
Zhou Datou looked at the people around him, his face instantly lost color, and he muttered to himself:
"I clearly saw some inner disciples going to get the newspapers, so why are there only outer disciples kneeling here... Killing the chicken to scare the monkeys, it's over, it's really over this time!"
"I can't leave the sect yet. I haven't saved enough money yet. What will happen to my parents? Why is this happening? Why did this happen..."
Liu Fan, the leader of Huayu Sect, glanced at the disciples kneeling below and asked:
"Have all the people been arrested?"
The law enforcement disciple said:
"It's all here. The two outer disciples were taking a medicinal bath at the time, so they delayed us for some time. When I caught them, they were still talking about this magic book and even threatened to join the magic path!"
Liu Fan's eyes widened angrily:
"How courageous! It seems that what Mr. Wanshi said is right. This kind of magic book is indeed something that can deceive people!"
"Humph, drag these two out, break their limbs, and destroy their cultivation!"
(End of this chapter)
