After Lin Xian’s setback, I was trying to help Su Su break through the barrier again.

With no one causing trouble in Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall), Lao Liu (Old Liu) came up with an idea: he pulled Chen Shuyu into opening a matchmaking agency.

Other matchmaking agencies make money; ours spends it.

Lao Liu and the others held wine parties, salons, and even a team-building event.

The Liangjie Tang girls who were dragged in to fill the numbers received so many gifts that they were poking them away with shovels.

As for the others, alas, it’s a long story!

Su Su, this scatterbrained matchmaker, had been at it for half a month, and more than thirty people had already decided to remain single for life.

What chaos! What a mess!

I have to run, the farther the better.

Anyway, my injuries are almost healed, so let Lao Liu and the others handle the affairs at home!

My priority is to escape!

After Ye Yang drove the car a distance, I felt something was wrong: “Stop the car, there’s someone else in the car.”

I jumped out of the car, opened the trunk, and saw Wang Xiaohuan sitting inside with a pout.

I almost fainted from shock: “Are you crazy! Are you a cat? How can you squeeze into the trunk? Luckily, I saw you. If the traffic police had seen you, they would have thought I was transporting a female corpse!”

“Get out!” I got Wang Xiaohuan into the car: “How did you get into the trunk?”

Wang Xiaohuan’s pout could have tethered a donkey: “I’m going with you on your mission! I don’t want to see that idiot Jiang Junci!”

I just said, “Isn’t Xiao Chi pretty good?”

Wang Xiaohuan broke down: “Good my foot! Did you hear what he said? He made such a mess of a perfectly good Nile River!”

This happened more than half a month ago, and she still remembers it?

Is Wang Xiaohuan so vindictive?

Wang Tu Fu (Butcher Wang) spread his hands at me, meaning: your mess, you deal with it.

I pursed my lips and grunted heavily: “Jiang Junci that kid is really a jerk, that guy should be dragged out and beaten to death.”

“Don’t worry, when we come back from the mission, we’ll use the coffin gate token to send him to the Nile River. We won’t let him come back until the river floods and turns into a vast swamp.”

Wang Xiaohuan blinked and said, “Why do I think Jiang Junci’s expression when he spoke was so similar to yours?”

“Delusion, delusion!” I coughed a few times and said, “Well! Men tend to pick up each other’s habits when they’re together for a long time. Look, don’t Ye Yang and I have a little bit of each other?”

“That’s called being close to vermilion makes you red, and being close to ink makes you black. Understand?”

Ye Yang said meaningfully, “Keep Jiang Junci away from the stupid dog! Or he’ll become stupid too.”

I was so annoyed by Ye Yang that I rolled my eyes, but there was nothing I could do about it.

Actually, I also know that Ye Yang and the others want me to relax.

This trip to the Confucian School is different from the past.

I also considered it carefully before accepting Lao Liu’s suggestion.

The martial world is not a place where you can be fearless just because you have support; things in the martial world can never be solved by force alone.

During the Iron Tile Temple trip a few days ago, I felt a deep sense of powerlessness when facing my inner demons.

If it hadn’t been for Ye Yang, the outcome of that battle would have been uncertain.

Ye Yang also told me later: if you had defeated your inner demons with your own strength, your state of mind would have improved, enough for you to advance to the Earthly Fiend Realm.

Your inner demons are gone, but your knots are still there.

If you can’t untie this knot, you’ll be stuck in the Mortal Shedding Realm for the rest of your life.

I also know that cultivation after the Mortal Shedding Realm focuses more on cultivating one’s state of mind.

And I also know clearly that I’m just a mortal. I know a little about Buddhist principles, Daoist magic, and Confucian classics.

However, knowing doesn’t mean enlightenment, let alone being able to do it.

Wang Tu Fu seemed to see through my thoughts: “People! Are actually living in entanglement.”

“Heaven won’t favor one person to the extent that everything goes smoothly for them.”

“It’s normal for things in this world not to go as people wish!”

“If you can’t attain the Dao, become an immortal, comprehend Zen, or understand the profound. Then just be a mortal!”

“There’s nothing wrong with being a mortal!”

“Who says mortals can’t become grandmasters?”

I said softly, “Mortal, grandmaster?”

“The Way of the Mortal?”

Lin Zhao also said, “I once heard a high monk say: what he recited all his life was not Amitabha, but eating and sleeping.”

“He said: The biggest things in the world are nothing more than eating and sleeping.”

“Do you think he attained the Dao? I think he not only attained the Dao, but also obtained it. His state of mind is much higher than others.”

Ye Yang said, “The Way of the Mortal is the smallest way in the world, but it is also the greatest way.”

“Small to officialdom, business, the way of the workplace, large to the way of the emperor, are actually the Way of the Mortal.”

“In the eyes of cultivators, those are all worldly distractions and desires.”

“Actually, if you think about it carefully, have the people who have come out of the Way of the Mortal not improved their state of mind?”

“No!”

“When a person’s vision is different, and their status is different, their state of mind is also different.”

“The Way of the Mortal is chaotic and even dirty, but it is also extremely domineering. There will always be more people assimilated by the Way of the Mortal than those who break free from it.”

“Since you can’t break free, why not be a mortal?”

My state of mind seemed to explode at that moment, and true qi surged out of my body.