And as the old monk's sudden actions took place, the little monks also stopped chanting and stood there quietly.

Xu Chang'an glanced at Miss Yun, who was still sound asleep beside him.

He had been worried that he might run into trouble with the visitor, but it turned out that the newcomer was a friend of Senior Zhu...

Xu Chang'an moved Yun Qian to the side and stood up to respectfully greet the old monk ascending the mountain.

"Chang'an greets the Master."

The old monk, contrary to Xu Chang'an's expectations, returned the greeting without any airs. He still had his eyes closed, as if a gust of wind could topple him... but he still spoke: "A grain of rice from the benefactor is greater than Mount Sumeru."

Xu Chang'an blinked.

So he was being taken for... a pilgrim.

After all, the last time he went for a fortune-telling, he had also offered incense money.

But the fact that he could catch the eye of a senior filled him with some level of astonishment.

Xu Chang'an felt the atmosphere was a bit awkward... or at least he thought so. After all, he believed it might not be a glorious thing for the old monk to become the emotional dumping ground for the ladies?

However, the old monk seemed quite... surprised to encounter Xu Chang'an?

His tightly closed eyes opened a slit, revealing a fleeting flash of golden light.

He had once given Xu Chang'an a fortune out of respect for Fairy Tongjun.

He was supposed to be an ordinary person, but now, on second look, he found him shining brilliantly.

A time to act when the opportunity arises, like a pearl emerging from the soil.

Xu Chang'an was, in fact, this pearl.

The old monk bowed in the direction of Chaoyun Main Peak and recited a Buddhist chant.

Chaoyun Sect indeed lives up to its name, just as the Qiankun Realm does... Around that individual, even destiny is so capricious.

The old monk gently rotated the Buddha beads in his hand and said to Xu Chang'an: "Benefactor Xu, Buddha is originally in the heart, as mind manifests, consciousness transforms."

"Master... This young one is foolish." Xu Chang'an scratched his head.

He felt a bit uneasy, as it felt strange for a senior visiting the mountain to suddenly speak to him mid-way.

"Benefactor Xu is connected to our Buddha by destiny." After saying this, the old monk stopped paying attention to the bewildered Xu Chang'an and gradually moved away.

Xu Chang'an: "..."

He watched the direction the old monk was leaving and snapped back to his senses after a while.

What does it mean to be connected to Buddha by destiny?

He certainly didn't have any intention of becoming a monk.

Xu Chang'an shivered, thinking it would be best to keep his distance from the Buddhist Sect. He had just been out of his mind, managing to converse calmly with such an existence?

"Miss, wake up." Xu Chang'an shook Miss Yun awake.

"Hmm...?" Yun Qian murmured, slowly opening her eyes.

"There you go again, sleeping wherever you like." Xu Chang'an tidied Yun Qian's hair and, seeing her gradually return to her senses, couldn't help but sigh: "Miss, I now understand... what it feels like to suddenly realize that the people around you are amazing."

Someone who usually seemed unremarkable turned out to be a great power in the cultivation realm.

"Realize the people around you are amazing..." Yun Qian tilted her head and softly asked: "Are you talking about me? Did you discover it about me?"

"Yes, yes, Miss is also amazing." Xu Chang'an affectionately put his arm around Yun Qian's waist.

"So you weren't talking about me." Yun Qian understood.

"It was a Buddhist senior; there's a temple in Beisang City... If there's time, I'll take Miss to see it." Xu Chang'an explained.

"Buddha?" Yun Qian looked at him: "Are you talking about God? The books say that God resides in the heavens."

"The Buddha should be a type of God, but I don't really understand." Xu Chang'an said with a peculiar expression: "The senior said I was connected to Buddha by destiny."

"Eh? You're going to become a monk?" Yun Qian blinked and raised a hand to touch Xu Chang'an's hair, seemingly wanting to remember its feel before seriously saying: "A shaved head... I'm not fond of that."

"Who's going to become a monk?" Xu Chang'an, besides feeling helpless towards Miss Yun, could only feel more helpless. After scolding her lightly, he led her down the mountain.

However, as Yun Qian descended the steps, she looked back once.

God...

A nod.

Indeed, there are Gods in this world, and the girl behind must know this very well.

Because of Xu Chang'an, Yun Qian had begun to try to comprehend in her dreams what "guilt" meant. She felt perhaps she needed something like that, too.

——

Gu Qiancheng, who was pursuing Yun Qian and Xu Chang'an, encountered something very strange.

For instance, she and Liu Qingluo were now being entangled by an old monk.

That old monk had none of the composure a monk should have; he stared at Liu Qingluo with wide golden eyes as if he had seen some rarest treasure in the world. In his eyes, besides curiosity, there were even flashes of astonishment.

"Where do you come from, you impertinent monk, staring endlessly at Sister Liu." Gu Qiancheng pointed at the old monk, dissatisfied.

However, before she could act, Liu Qingluo stopped her, gracefully moving forward to the old monk and bowing slightly.

"Qingluo greets Great Master." Liu Qingluo blushed, appearing somewhat afraid to look the old monk in the eyes.

"Good, good, good..." The old monk, facing Liu Qingluo, didn't regain his composure for a while, nowhere near as composed as when he met Xu Chang'an.

"Sister Liu, do you know him?" Gu Qiancheng asked.

"...I-I know him." Liu Qingluo nodded, looking a bit uneasy.

More than just knowing.

She was a frequent visitor to the temple, going almost every few days... practically more familiar with the old monk than anyone.

Just didn't expect that such a person would be of the Immortal Sect.

It seems not surprising, given that Ms. Zhu is also from the Immortal Sect.

Liu Qingluo was quite anxious.

If the Great Master was someone from the Immortal Sect, all those almost the most courageous and most shameful words she muttered quietly in prayer... were they all heard by the Great Master?

At this moment, seeing Liu Qingluo's unease, the old monk gradually regained his composure.

He had never seen a fate like that of Liu Qingluo's, who was, at one time, the most ordinary love-struck girl, and upon seeing her again... had already become like a deity.

When the old monk first met Liu Qingluo, he seemed to glimpse a soaring blaze, witnessed a true God descending from the heavens with a Buddha Seal in hand; even the innate saints from the Confucian Sect or the innate Daoists from the Dao Sect couldn't compare to this momentary confrontation with the divine.

Compared to Xu Chang'an's pearl emerging from the soil, Miss Liu, before him, seemed like a true God.

Invaluably precious.

Liu Qingluo was precious beyond words.

Beyond words, beyond speech.

With the recognition of the Hehuan Bell, Gu Qiancheng in her presence seemed dim as a firefly before the Great Sun.

This is Chaoyun Sect, guarded by that Fairy, and everything is within her calculations, so even though the old monk saw the extraordinarily frightening talent in Liu Qingluo, he still could not take any superfluous actions.

After a brief farewell with Liu Qingluo, the old monk watched as Gu Qiancheng held Liu Qingluo's hand, asking something with a strange expression.

"So Great Master is also from the Immortal Sect... Truly impressive, is that heavenly glow his? It's my first time seeing..."

"Glow, what are you talking about? I didn't see anything, just an old monk, didn't find him all that impressive."

"Ah, Gu, you can't see... can you?"

——

As the girls left, the old monk took a deep breath after a while, his gaze penetrating space to fall upon the "pearl," the young man from earlier.

He understood why that young man, who should have been utterly ordinary, had changed his destiny to become a rising new star.

Because... there was a God blessing him.

The old monk had seen countless times how, after a busy day, the Wine Lady would come to the temple to pray for the safety of her beloved before the wooden Buddha statue.

With the protection of a God, would it matter if Xu Chang'an altered a few points of his destiny?

In this world of intense competition, with an Immortal Talent and a fate described as invaluable... this Miss Liu is certainly one destined to face tribulations.

And her presence here, does it signify that the one from Chaoyun Sect has also realized this?

As for the originally poetic sentiments of the girl, the old monk did not take it to heart.

Have you heard the story of someone attaining the Dao?

The one she loves is destined not to be an ordinary person.

——

White jade steps, below is the vast Cloud Sea.

"Sister, you... go by yourself." Liu Qingluo looked at the distant figures of Xu Chang'an and Yun Qian and stopped in her tracks.

The one hailed as a God by others, Miss Liu, hesitated as she was about to meet her God.

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