Chapter 4 Having Settled Down

After passing Oxheart City, they entered the wide official road that led straight to Upper Capital City.

It seemed that because the best opportunity to kill Hu Ma in that battle formation had been missed due to a loophole.

Or perhaps it was because Zhou Family's leader, the Da Tang official Tie Jun who acted as a stand-in, and the Li Family's Soul-Reaping Impermanence had appeared one after another in this crisis, making the reincarnated ones aware of the lurking dangers and more cautious. Therefore, no one was seen again trying to assassinate him.

Hu Ma was also relieved and took advantage of this rare tranquility to silently ponder his own abilities on the road.

Yuanyang Body, Nine Incense Pillars.

Even among the Ten Clans, those with nine incense pillars of Dao cultivation were rare. The only one known was the Meng Family's Old Master, but his nine pillars of Dao cultivation were different from Hu Ma's. He had cultivated them using the fierce power of his ancestors, while Hu Ma had relied on changing his fate.

According to Old Suanpan, this method of seizing fate also had a way to transcend it.

However, how to transcend?

When truly encountering someone who had crossed the Bridge, who could subdue whom in a fight between their respective abilities?

As a Shousui, Hu Ma was indeed curious and looking forward to it, but he was not in a hurry to try it now. Instead, after quietly pondering for a while, he invited Miss Zhou Si to his carriage on the road.

He earnestly asked her, according to the Shousui orthodox methods of the Zhou Family, when a person's Dao cultivation reached its peak, how should they cultivate their abilities?

He was already certain that the Great Might Master Uncle's method left by Old Junmei did not only reach the Entering the Mansion stage.

There must be a path behind it, but for some reason, it had been completely erased.

In that case, it was only natural to ask the Zhou Family about their methods.

Master Ping was only good at "techniques," while the truly profound methods belonging to the Shousui sect were only in the hands of the Zhou Family's direct line.

"Ah, asking me?"

Miss Zhou Si was called into Hu Ma's carriage, her face flushed, her head lowered, completely different from her lively appearance in Fairy Miaoshan's carriage.

She was nervously and expectantly waiting to hear what Hu Ma would say, but she was stunned to find that he wanted to learn her family's methods. She blinked her eyes: the Zhou Family did not mind passing on their methods to their own family members, but now it was going to happen...

...Wasn't it a little early?

"Miss Zhou Si, don't worry, I'm not only learning your Zhou Family's methods."

Hu Ma looked at her and said frankly, "The methods of cultivation should be mutually verified and exchanged. We can pass them on to each other."

Miss Zhou Si suddenly opened her eyes wide: "You...you mean..."

"That's right."

Hu Ma nodded and said, "I am indeed interested in the Zhou Family's orthodox methods, but I am also willing to discuss the Great Might Master Uncle's method with Miss Zhou Si."

These words were spoken openly and honestly.

In fact, when Zhou Family's leader came to him earlier to ask for the Great Might Master Uncle's method, it was too sudden. He asked for it right away, and he didn't understand his purpose. Also, the reincarnated ones were eagerly seeking this method from him. Naturally, Hu Ma couldn't agree right away.

But now that he understood Old Junmei's intention, this concern was gone.

The Zhou Family did not actually know that he was the only inheritor of the Great Might Master Uncle's method, and it was not due to the restrictions of inheritance.

In fact, the Great Might Master Uncle had always made his methods public, in line with the idea of spreading the Bovine-less Eating Method throughout the world.

Others couldn't learn it simply because they couldn't master it...

If it could be used to exchange for the Zhou Family's methods, it would be an extremely worthwhile deal...

But Miss Zhou Si was dumbfounded when she heard this. She couldn't control herself and looked up at Hu Ma's face, her eyes full of joy, even a little moist.

Clearly, the methods in this world were the most precious things. Clearly, he was the only inheritor of the Great Might Master Uncle's method. Before, her father wanted to ask him for it, but the two parted on bad terms, making her father angry...

But now he was willing to hand over the Great Might Master Uncle's method, did that mean...

...His feelings?

"Are you willing to trade?"

Hu Ma felt that Miss Zhou Si's mood seemed a little complicated and her reaction was a little strange, so he asked worriedly.

Miss Zhou Si slowly lowered her head, her face flushed, and said softly, "Now that things have come to this, of course I'll listen to you!"

It wasn't that she wasn't reserved, but the betrothal gift was too precious.

Besides, since he was willing to pass on the method, did that also mean that in the future, she could persuade him to jump from the Walking Corpse Gate to the Shousui Gate?

"Actually, the Zhou Family's methods, although outsiders think they are powerful, are nothing special..."

She opened her mouth softly, with the utmost ladylike demeanor: "My father once said that the Shousui Gate is just a hard work."

"Climbing the steps to understand life and death, entering the Mansion to see one's true heart, and even crossing the Bridge, only learns the Immovable Heaven and Earth Seal..."

"..."

Hu Ma also had a kind of unexpected surprise and listened carefully.

Miss Zhou Si was indeed worthy of being a direct descendant of the eldest branch, knowledgeable and well-informed. Not only did she speak about the Entering the Mansion level, but also the differences between the Zhou Family's methods and the Great Might Master Uncle's cultivation.

Even though she was not yet at the Crossing the Bridge stage, she was also very familiar with the abilities after Crossing the Bridge.

He immediately restrained his mind and asked about them one by one, comparing them with the Great Might Heavenly Duke General Seal to practice.

And watching a person whose abilities were obviously much greater than her own, listening to her speech as earnestly as a primary school apprentice.

With pure eyes and a respectful attitude.

It could only be said that Miss Zhou Si's heart was...soft beyond repair. And Hu Ma listened carefully to these things, as if opening up a new idea. Gradually, looking at the Great Might Master Uncle's method from the perspective of the Zhou Family's sect, its unique features, as well as his earlier vague guesses, gradually became clear.

...

...

At the same time, because of the appearance of the Impermanence Li Family, the mysterious figures around the battlefield were startled away, and a grand assassination thus collapsed. Most of the figures from Ming Prefecture did not appear, and their attitude was unclear.

However, the woman holding the white cat in her arms did not hide at all. After leaving the battlefield with the others, she calmly came to a safe residence.

Seeing her, the many figures in the courtyard slowly stood up, their eyes cold and condensed: "Miss White Wine, you seem to owe us an explanation."

"Explanation?"

The woman holding the white cat in her arms looked slightly cold and asked, "What explanation do you want?"

"After all, it was you who deliberately mystified things and abandoned me and Red Grape, pretending to be mysterious and doing something great. It was you who suddenly appeared and made me watch him. It was you who suddenly wanted to take back the so-called Immortal Fate from him."

"I have also lived in this world for more than twenty years, how come I don't know when the reincarnated ones have become playing spy games?"

"Are human lives worthless, to be killed at will?"

"..."

"This is not the time to be angry and willful!"

Someone's voice was slightly deep and said, "He was brought into this circle by you. The crisis he brought, as well as the hidden dangers he represents, have already been explained to you very clearly."

"We have invited a few of you from Ming Prefecture over, which is already giving you respect. Originally, we could have settled this matter without alarming the entire reincarnated group, but now, no one can stop it."

"Now there is no way to prevent him from returning to Upper Capital City, and the reincarnated ones' trouble is coming."

"You have always been the most careful, and at that time you were too young and your skills were not yet complete, so we didn't bring you along..."

"But now..."

"..."

"I am indeed very careful, but I have also spared no effort to go deep into Old Yin Mountain for you."

Miss White Wine said lightly, "Now I also can't stand you casually deciding his life or death."

"In my eyes, he is no different from you."

"..."

Hearing these words, the person who spoke earlier was already a little angry, but the person next to him interrupted him and sighed softly, "Things have come to this, there is no point in saying more."

"We originally intended to settle this matter quietly, but now it seems that we will inevitably have to let go and fight a big battle. Then, this matter should not only be known to us. We have arranged for people to send out information from all sides."

"As for you, I understand your thoughts, and now there are two choices you can make."

"One is to go back to Old Yin Mountain. If she is willing to see you, then you will naturally understand the cause and effect."

"The other is to go to Upper Capital City."

"You should know how dangerous Upper Capital City is now, but it is indeed a good opportunity for you to understand the truth and know what to do."

"What do you choose?"

"..."

Miss White Wine fell silent, and after a long time, the cat in her arms seemed to feel that the surroundings were too dull and slowly stretched its body.

She also sneered and said lightly, "I am most familiar with Upper Capital City, so naturally I should go to Upper Capital City!"

"Very good!"

The person who spoke sighed softly and said, "After this failure, we, we have no way out."

That night, all kinds of information were transmitted to countless people through their Natal Spirit Temples.

Out of some safety considerations, all information transmission was between two people, not public.

However, many people who received the news were greatly shocked and did not know how many waves it stirred up.

And two days later, someone located in Gun Prefecture, outside an extremely secret mountain forest, rushed to this place and transmitted a message into the forest: "Mr. Monkey Wine, you did not respond between the Natal Spirit Temples, so I had to come to visit."

"We all know that you are concentrating on cultivating some kind of secret method, but now that person's identity has been exposed, and the secret cleanup of him has also failed. We have no choice but to ask you to come out of the mountain..."

He transmitted the message three times, but there was still no response. Just as he couldn't help but want to step into the forest, his face suddenly changed drastically.

He took a wrong step and retreated more than ten zhang, looking up at the forest.

The mountain forest surged, the aura attacked people, and the strong wind blew the forest swaying. There was only one voice, impatiently transmitted from inside: "Are you so blind that you can't see such an obvious thing?"

"Get out!"

(End of this chapter)