She finished speaking and sat down on the stool, feeling disgruntled. “Immortal Lady, I’m hungry. I haven’t eaten since last night, and I woke up so early this morning. Now I feel weak all over, I might faint from hunger.”
Bai Lixin blinked, “Since you called me ‘Immortal Lady,’ I’ll perform a little spell for you.”
The thin maid looked at him weakly, “What spell?”
The next moment, she saw the Immortal Lady snatch something peculiar from mid-air.
The thin maid’s eyes widen in shock, “Immortal Lady, you really know magic?! What is this?”
Bai Lixin: “In our place, we call it sandwich bread. I don’t have hot food, so you’ll have to make do with this. There’s water on the coffee table.”
With that, he opened the plastic packaging and waved it toward the thin maid.
The thin maid walked over, looking shocked. She had never seen such a thing, let alone transparent plastic wrapping. Bai Lixin simply asked her to take out the bread while he put the packaging back into his backpack.
After all, this was an ancient fantasy world. It was somewhat inappropriate for things from another time and space to appear here.
The thin maid cautiously took a bite and her eyes shone in amazement. “God, is this something from heaven? It tastes like a pastry on the outside, but why is it so soft inside?”
Bai Lixin chuckled, “This is just the most ordinary thing in some places, far from being considered a delicacy. At best, it’s a convenience food. You find it delicious probably because you’ve never had it before, and it’s a bit surprising. If you ask me, the food here is exquisite and tasty. All the food is handmade with great care. That’s the essence of our ancestors. Where I come from, you can’t even find such food.”
The thin maid was extremely hungry. She would find anything remotely edible delicious at this point. She quickly devoured the bread and drank a large glass of water, then sighed in relief. “I’m full now, it feels good.”
Bai Lixin glanced at the satisfied maid.
According to what she said earlier, one needed to show loyalty to the eldest concubine in order to establish themselves here.
He actually wanted to meet this concubine and see what she looked like.
The two of them waited idly in the room. Just as the sun was about to set, Bai Lixin heard a commotion from a distance.
It seemed like a lot of people had arrived outside.
“What’s happening outside?” Bai Lixin asked the thin maid.
The thin maid walked to the window, pushed it open, and looked outside. “It seems like guests have arrived. It looks like they’ve come to congratulate the County Magistrate.”
Bai Lixin: “Do I need to go out for such an occasion?”
The thin maid shook her head vigorously, “Normally, the new bride should enter the door early to perform the formal ceremony and then enter the bridal chamber. After that, the groom will host a wedding banquet and invite the guests.”
“But this family is very strange. When we arrived in the morning, the County Magistrate wasn’t here, and there was no formal ceremony. However, this situation occurs at times and the formal ceremony is made up before the evening banquet. It depends on what the County Magistrate means. Judging from the Aunt’s demeanor and the County Magistrate’s attitude, it doesn’t look good.”
After saying that, the thin maid sighed.
“Without the formal ceremony, without the blessings of Heaven and Earth and the ancestral hall, it’s not considered a legitimate marriage. Without the formal ceremony, one can never be truly considered married.”
The noise outside grew louder. Bai Lixin pricked up his ears and quickly distinguished voices from the crowd.
“County Magistrate Lin, congratulations. This is a small gift, just a token of our respect.”
“Many thanks, Master Wang. You’ve gone to great trouble. Please come in, please come in!”
“County Magistrate Lin, congratulations on marrying such a beautiful bride.”
“Haha, Boss Zhou, you’re too kind. Please, please.”
County Magistrate Lin?
It seemed that County Magistrate Lin had returned long ago.
Ah, here comes the problem.
Did he return early, or did he never leave in the morning?
If that’s the case, was it an intentional cold shoulder?
Bai Lixin: “…”
This County Magistrate Lin was utterly blind.
Just as he was complaining, the noisy voices around him suddenly quieted down.
Then he heard the loud cry of a servant boy, “Elder of Qingcheng Sect, one elixir.”
*This is announcing his arrival and the gift he brought.Magistrate Lin’s originally haughty voice instantly became flattering, “Immortal Master, you’ve graced us with your presence. The Lin residence is truly honored. Please, please, Immortal Master, take your seat!”
“No need to trouble yourself ,” a cold, clear voice entered Bai Lixin’s ears, a voice he was extremely familiar with. “I’ve come today just to offer my congratulations.”
County Magistrate Lin: “It’s no trouble at all, how could there be any trouble? Please, come in, come in!”
This was Dijia’s voice. Magistrate Lin had addressed as “Immortal Master”, could it be that the man with the white hair and the face of his lover had come?
The Immortal Master said, “Why don’t I see the new bride?”
County Magistrate Lin hesitated a bit, then asked tentatively, “Does the Immortal Master wish to see her? Could it be…”
Immortal Master: “I cast a few divinations and sensed a slight connection with your madam. So, I’ve come today to take a look.”
County Magistrate Lin: “Ah, I see. In that case, let me bring the new bride out right now. I haven’t unveiled her yet. If the Immortal Master likes…”
The Immortal Master’s tone instantly turned cold, “County Magistrate Lin, you’ve misunderstood. I am a cultivator, and I’ve always abstained from worldly desires. When I mentioned a slight connection with the new bride, it was merely a possible entanglement foreseen through divination.”
County Magistrate Lin knew he was wrong and quickly apologized with great respect, “Please, Immortal Master, forgive me. Please forgive me! I will go bring her out now!”
Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes: “…”
He had Dijia’s face, and wanted to see him again.
The situation was quite problematic.
There was a knock on the door outside.
Bai Lixin was slightly surprised.
County Magistrate Lin had just said he would invite him over, and now someone was already at the door?
Wasn’t this too fast?
As he wondered, the thin maid, who had been sitting idly, suddenly stood up and rushed over. Without a word, she helped Bai Lixin put on the red veil.
Once his vision was covered, he heard the thin maid’s hurried footsteps, “Here they come, here they come.”
He only heard the creaking of the door, followed by the astonished voice of the thin maid, “Why is it you? How could you…”
Who had come?
When the thin maid said “why is it you”, it meant she recognized the person.
Bai Lixin’s tensed up instantly. Just as he was about to lift the veil, he suddenly heard the distinctive metallic clinking of a staff.
The hand that was in the process of raising, abruptly stopped. Bai Lixin’s body straightened imperceptibly, and he even felt a hint of anticipation.
‘Hmph, this monk who said one thing and meant another.
He said he didn’t care, but he still came for his wedding, didn’t he?’
Bai Lixin suddenly felt excited.
‘Was he coming to snatch the bride?!
A monk coming to snatch a bride?!
Damn, just thinking about it was thrilling.’
The metallic clashing vibrated, getting closer and closer to him.
As the person approached, Bai Lixin faintly smelled the fragrance of lotus blossoms at the tip of his nose.
He lowered his head and saw a pair of black monk shoes stopping in front of him.
A white monk robe, simple shoes, and a heavy staff.
Bai Lixin swallowed nervously.
In the next second, he saw a slender hand reaching out to him.
Bai Lixin held his breath. Just as the words “yes” were about to burst from his mouth, that hand reached into his veil and held out a small golden pill the size of a green bean.
Soon, he heard the compassionate voice of the monk, “The demon hunters outside have come for you. Your body is full of demonic energy, and you can’t even retract your fox tail. Those demon hunters will kill you. Eat this pill, it can conceal the demonic energy on your body and retract your tail.”
Bai Lixin was stunned for a moment, then saw the monk tilting his hand and placing the pill on the bed beside him.
After placing the pill down, the feet under the veil turned away. It seemed the monk was preparing to leave.
“Wait!” Seeing the figure about to leave, Bai Lixin lifted the veil without hesitation. “You came to find me just to deliver this pill? Don’t you have anything else to say to me?”
‘Aren’t you trying to snatch the bride?
I’ve hinted enough about it. Don’t you understand?’
“This is my bridal chamber. You’re a monk, you barged into my bridal chamber just to deliver a pill?”
‘Let’s be honest, aren’t you usually so capable?!’
The monk turned to meet his gaze with eyes as calm as the vast sky, “Amitabha, since you put it that way, I do have something to remind you, benefactor.”
Bai Lixin pinched the pill and swallowed it without hesitation. It tasted like osmanthus.
The monk was stunned by when he saw Bai Lixin swallow the pill without hesitation, “Humans and demons have different paths. As a demon cultivator, joining forces with humans is destined to lead to no good. Emotional entanglements are the most damaging. Benefactor, please think twice and don’t ruin your cultivation path.”
Bai Lixin’s eyes went wide.
He glanced at the door out of the corner of his eye and saw the thin maid standing still, as if someone had pressed the pause button. “What’s wrong with her?”
Monk: “It’s better if fewer people know that you’re a demon. I’ve temporarily sealed her senses. They’ll be released once I leave.”
Bai Lixin looked at the cold and compassionate face of the monk opposite him, chuckled and sat up from the bed, “Are you here just to tell me about the different paths between monsters and humans?
He pressed forward step by step, and soon came to the monk. “Are you afraid that I will hurt humans? You’re so concerned about humans, what about me? I don’t have any powers after turning into a human, maybe I’m the one getting bullied. Why don’t you care about me?”
The monk remained silent for two seconds, lowering his gaze. “All beings are equal. I won’t favor anyone. Everything has its predetermined fate.”
Bai Lixin looked directly at the monk. “You won’t favor anyone, everything has its predetermined fate. Then why are you here? I’m a fox demon insisting on becoming human and getting married. Now demon hunters have come to capture me. That’s also my fate. I deserve it. Now you’re giving me a pill, clearly you don’t want to see me get caught. Saying you won’t favor anyone? You’re obviously helping me, favoring me. Tell me, are you unwilling to see me die?”
The monk twirled the prayer beads in his hands swiftly. “May the Buddha be merciful. I merely can’t bear to see your hundred years of cultivation go to waste.”
Bai Lixin continued to press, “Many have had their hundreds of years of cultivation ruined in an instant. Forget about hundreds of years, have you helped those whose thousand or ten thousand years of cultivation were ruined?”
The monk hesitated for a moment, then twirled the prayer beads even faster. “Amitabha, every word I said was true. Someone is about to arrive. Benefactor, take care of yourself. I take my leave.”
“Trying to escape again?” Bai Lixin attempted to grab him, but his hand, which had held onto a solid arm a moment ago, now felt emptiness.
The sleeve in his hand was gone, replaced by a few petals.
The petals floated aimlessly in the room, some falling to the ground, some landing on his head.
Shortly after the monk disappeared, the thin maid returned to normal.
She scratched her head in confusion. “Strange, why did I open the door? My memory is getting worse.”
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In the live broadcast room
[Tsk tsk tsk, the monk is no good. This karma of lust and desire, there are too many shackles. If it were any of the previous big bosses, not using the bridal chamber would have been disrespectful to the fox demon.]
[Could it be that the monk can’t perform?]
[Haha, the monk is no good. God Xin probably feels more furious than we do.]
[Poor God Xin. He runs, he chases, but he can’t fly.]
[Look at the way the monk dodged his gaze, I’m silently watching you act all high and mighty, silently chanting Amitabha. I just want to see when you’ll start saying “it’s so fragrant”.]
[The monk looked flustered when leaving, I thought monks were supposed to be calm and composed?]
[That depends on whom they’re composed towards.]
[God Xin, hang in there, I want to eat meat!]
[Is there a possibility that God Xin now wants to eat monk meat more than we do?]
[Laughing to death, monk meat.]
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The maid was about to close the door when she saw a man in red clothes walking towards here. She took a closer look and immediately panicked, “Immortal Lady, it’s County Magistrate Lin, he’s coming this way!”
She finished speaking and sat down on the stool, feeling disgruntled. “Immortal Lady, I’m hungry. I haven’t eaten since last night, and I woke up so early this morning. Now I feel weak all over, I might faint from hunger.”
Bai Lixin blinked, “Since you called me ‘Immortal Lady,’ I’ll perform a little spell for you.”
The thin maid looked at him weakly, “What spell?”
The next moment, she saw the Immortal Lady snatch something peculiar from mid-air.
The thin maid’s eyes widen in shock, “Immortal Lady, you really know magic?! What is this?”
Bai Lixin: “In our place, we call it sandwich bread. I don’t have hot food, so you’ll have to make do with this. There’s water on the coffee table.”
With that, he opened the plastic packaging and waved it toward the thin maid.
The thin maid walked over, looking shocked. She had never seen such a thing, let alone transparent plastic wrapping. Bai Lixin simply asked her to take out the bread while he put the packaging back into his backpack.
After all, this was an ancient fantasy world. It was somewhat inappropriate for things from another time and space to appear here.
The thin maid cautiously took a bite and her eyes shone in amazement. “God, is this something from heaven? It tastes like a pastry on the outside, but why is it so soft inside?”
Bai Lixin chuckled, “This is just the most ordinary thing in some places, far from being considered a delicacy. At best, it’s a convenience food. You find it delicious probably because you’ve never had it before, and it’s a bit surprising. If you ask me, the food here is exquisite and tasty. All the food is handmade with great care. That’s the essence of our ancestors. Where I come from, you can’t even find such food.”
The thin maid was extremely hungry. She would find anything remotely edible delicious at this point. She quickly devoured the bread and drank a large glass of water, then sighed in relief. “I’m full now, it feels good.”
Bai Lixin glanced at the satisfied maid.
According to what she said earlier, one needed to show loyalty to the eldest concubine in order to establish themselves here.
He actually wanted to meet this concubine and see what she looked like.
The two of them waited idly in the room. Just as the sun was about to set, Bai Lixin heard a commotion from a distance.
It seemed like a lot of people had arrived outside.
“What’s happening outside?” Bai Lixin asked the thin maid.
The thin maid walked to the window, pushed it open, and looked outside. “It seems like guests have arrived. It looks like they’ve come to congratulate the County Magistrate.”
Bai Lixin: “Do I need to go out for such an occasion?”
The thin maid shook her head vigorously, “Normally, the new bride should enter the door early to perform the formal ceremony and then enter the bridal chamber. After that, the groom will host a wedding banquet and invite the guests.”
“But this family is very strange. When we arrived in the morning, the County Magistrate wasn’t here, and there was no formal ceremony. However, this situation occurs at times and the formal ceremony is made up before the evening banquet. It depends on what the County Magistrate means. Judging from the Aunt’s demeanor and the County Magistrate’s attitude, it doesn’t look good.”
After saying that, the thin maid sighed.
“Without the formal ceremony, without the blessings of Heaven and Earth and the ancestral hall, it’s not considered a legitimate marriage. Without the formal ceremony, one can never be truly considered married.”
The noise outside grew louder. Bai Lixin pricked up his ears and quickly distinguished voices from the crowd.
“County Magistrate Lin, congratulations. This is a small gift, just a token of our respect.”
“Many thanks, Master Wang. You’ve gone to great trouble. Please come in, please come in!”
“County Magistrate Lin, congratulations on marrying such a beautiful bride.”
“Haha, Boss Zhou, you’re too kind. Please, please.”
County Magistrate Lin?
It seemed that County Magistrate Lin had returned long ago.
Ah, here comes the problem.
Did he return early, or did he never leave in the morning?
If that’s the case, was it an intentional cold shoulder?
Bai Lixin: “…”
This County Magistrate Lin was utterly blind.
Just as he was complaining, the noisy voices around him suddenly quieted down.
Then he heard the loud cry of a servant boy, “Elder of Qingcheng Sect, one elixir.”
*This is announcing his arrival and the gift he brought.Magistrate Lin’s originally haughty voice instantly became flattering, “Immortal Master, you’ve graced us with your presence. The Lin residence is truly honored. Please, please, Immortal Master, take your seat!”
“No need to trouble yourself ,” a cold, clear voice entered Bai Lixin’s ears, a voice he was extremely familiar with. “I’ve come today just to offer my congratulations.”
County Magistrate Lin: “It’s no trouble at all, how could there be any trouble? Please, come in, come in!”
This was Dijia’s voice. Magistrate Lin had addressed as “Immortal Master”, could it be that the man with the white hair and the face of his lover had come?
The Immortal Master said, “Why don’t I see the new bride?”
County Magistrate Lin hesitated a bit, then asked tentatively, “Does the Immortal Master wish to see her? Could it be…”
Immortal Master: “I cast a few divinations and sensed a slight connection with your madam. So, I’ve come today to take a look.”
County Magistrate Lin: “Ah, I see. In that case, let me bring the new bride out right now. I haven’t unveiled her yet. If the Immortal Master likes…”
The Immortal Master’s tone instantly turned cold, “County Magistrate Lin, you’ve misunderstood. I am a cultivator, and I’ve always abstained from worldly desires. When I mentioned a slight connection with the new bride, it was merely a possible entanglement foreseen through divination.”
County Magistrate Lin knew he was wrong and quickly apologized with great respect, “Please, Immortal Master, forgive me. Please forgive me! I will go bring her out now!”
Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes: “…”
He had Dijia’s face, and wanted to see him again.
The situation was quite problematic.
There was a knock on the door outside.
Bai Lixin was slightly surprised.
County Magistrate Lin had just said he would invite him over, and now someone was already at the door?
Wasn’t this too fast?
As he wondered, the thin maid, who had been sitting idly, suddenly stood up and rushed over. Without a word, she helped Bai Lixin put on the red veil.
Once his vision was covered, he heard the thin maid’s hurried footsteps, “Here they come, here they come.”
He only heard the creaking of the door, followed by the astonished voice of the thin maid, “Why is it you? How could you…”
Who had come?
When the thin maid said “why is it you”, it meant she recognized the person.
Bai Lixin’s tensed up instantly. Just as he was about to lift the veil, he suddenly heard the distinctive metallic clinking of a staff.
The hand that was in the process of raising, abruptly stopped. Bai Lixin’s body straightened imperceptibly, and he even felt a hint of anticipation.
‘Hmph, this monk who said one thing and meant another.
He said he didn’t care, but he still came for his wedding, didn’t he?’
Bai Lixin suddenly felt excited.
‘Was he coming to snatch the bride?!
A monk coming to snatch a bride?!
Damn, just thinking about it was thrilling.’
The metallic clashing vibrated, getting closer and closer to him.
As the person approached, Bai Lixin faintly smelled the fragrance of lotus blossoms at the tip of his nose.
He lowered his head and saw a pair of black monk shoes stopping in front of him.
A white monk robe, simple shoes, and a heavy staff.
Bai Lixin swallowed nervously.
In the next second, he saw a slender hand reaching out to him.
Bai Lixin held his breath. Just as the words “yes” were about to burst from his mouth, that hand reached into his veil and held out a small golden pill the size of a green bean.
Soon, he heard the compassionate voice of the monk, “The demon hunters outside have come for you. Your body is full of demonic energy, and you can’t even retract your fox tail. Those demon hunters will kill you. Eat this pill, it can conceal the demonic energy on your body and retract your tail.”
Bai Lixin was stunned for a moment, then saw the monk tilting his hand and placing the pill on the bed beside him.
After placing the pill down, the feet under the veil turned away. It seemed the monk was preparing to leave.
“Wait!” Seeing the figure about to leave, Bai Lixin lifted the veil without hesitation. “You came to find me just to deliver this pill? Don’t you have anything else to say to me?”
‘Aren’t you trying to snatch the bride?
I’ve hinted enough about it. Don’t you understand?’
“This is my bridal chamber. You’re a monk, you barged into my bridal chamber just to deliver a pill?”
‘Let’s be honest, aren’t you usually so capable?!’
The monk turned to meet his gaze with eyes as calm as the vast sky, “Amitabha, since you put it that way, I do have something to remind you, benefactor.”
Bai Lixin pinched the pill and swallowed it without hesitation. It tasted like osmanthus.
The monk was stunned by when he saw Bai Lixin swallow the pill without hesitation, “Humans and demons have different paths. As a demon cultivator, joining forces with humans is destined to lead to no good. Emotional entanglements are the most damaging. Benefactor, please think twice and don’t ruin your cultivation path.”
Bai Lixin’s eyes went wide.
He glanced at the door out of the corner of his eye and saw the thin maid standing still, as if someone had pressed the pause button. “What’s wrong with her?”
Monk: “It’s better if fewer people know that you’re a demon. I’ve temporarily sealed her senses. They’ll be released once I leave.”
Bai Lixin looked at the cold and compassionate face of the monk opposite him, chuckled and sat up from the bed, “Are you here just to tell me about the different paths between monsters and humans?
He pressed forward step by step, and soon came to the monk. “Are you afraid that I will hurt humans? You’re so concerned about humans, what about me? I don’t have any powers after turning into a human, maybe I’m the one getting bullied. Why don’t you care about me?”
The monk remained silent for two seconds, lowering his gaze. “All beings are equal. I won’t favor anyone. Everything has its predetermined fate.”
Bai Lixin looked directly at the monk. “You won’t favor anyone, everything has its predetermined fate. Then why are you here? I’m a fox demon insisting on becoming human and getting married. Now demon hunters have come to capture me. That’s also my fate. I deserve it. Now you’re giving me a pill, clearly you don’t want to see me get caught. Saying you won’t favor anyone? You’re obviously helping me, favoring me. Tell me, are you unwilling to see me die?”
The monk twirled the prayer beads in his hands swiftly. “May the Buddha be merciful. I merely can’t bear to see your hundred years of cultivation go to waste.”
Bai Lixin continued to press, “Many have had their hundreds of years of cultivation ruined in an instant. Forget about hundreds of years, have you helped those whose thousand or ten thousand years of cultivation were ruined?”
The monk hesitated for a moment, then twirled the prayer beads even faster. “Amitabha, every word I said was true. Someone is about to arrive. Benefactor, take care of yourself. I take my leave.”
“Trying to escape again?” Bai Lixin attempted to grab him, but his hand, which had held onto a solid arm a moment ago, now felt emptiness.
The sleeve in his hand was gone, replaced by a few petals.
The petals floated aimlessly in the room, some falling to the ground, some landing on his head.
Shortly after the monk disappeared, the thin maid returned to normal.
She scratched her head in confusion. “Strange, why did I open the door? My memory is getting worse.”
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In the live broadcast room
[Tsk tsk tsk, the monk is no good. This karma of lust and desire, there are too many shackles. If it were any of the previous big bosses, not using the bridal chamber would have been disrespectful to the fox demon.]
[Could it be that the monk can’t perform?]
[Haha, the monk is no good. God Xin probably feels more furious than we do.]
[Poor God Xin. He runs, he chases, but he can’t fly.]
[Look at the way the monk dodged his gaze, I’m silently watching you act all high and mighty, silently chanting Amitabha. I just want to see when you’ll start saying “it’s so fragrant”.]
[The monk looked flustered when leaving, I thought monks were supposed to be calm and composed?]
[That depends on whom they’re composed towards.]
[God Xin, hang in there, I want to eat meat!]
[Is there a possibility that God Xin now wants to eat monk meat more than we do?]
[Laughing to death, monk meat.]
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The maid was about to close the door when she saw a man in red clothes walking towards here. She took a closer look and immediately panicked, “Immortal Lady, it’s County Magistrate Lin, he’s coming this way!”
