Chapter 23 Again

Mingmei stepped into the Butian Sect once more, gazing at the familiar decorations as if she had been here before.

"This is the…" Before the words "orphan and widow" could escape his lips, Xie Zhen was met with Ming Yihe's and Mingmei's alarming gazes, and he immediately shut his mouth. After thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but ask, "May I ask what brings the Real Person here today?"

Ming Yihe and Mingmei sat down, but Mingmei hadn't even warmed her seat for a minute when she heard her father suddenly call her name. She subconsciously looked up, only to lose consciousness as darkness enveloped her.

Mingmei: !!!

Her dad is poisonous!

Was there something she couldn't hear?

[Guigui!]

[Don't worry, Host!]

Before losing consciousness, Mingmei immediately called out to Guigui, asking her to pay attention to what happened next.

…

"Meimei is ultimately not suited for this world. I will take her away from here…"

"Since her emotions are so faint, it's enough for her to remember us. As for the others… they are merely passersby in her life."

Mingmei didn't know if she was dreaming, but she seemed to have returned to her youth, accidentally overhearing her parents' conversation.

That day, she didn't know why, but she was dressed beautifully, and a strange joy welled up within her, the source unknown. However, when she heard those words, her heart felt heavy.

"Meimei."

"Who?"

She turned her head, and in the sunlight, a tall, upright man in a lake-green Confucian robe stood not far away, his face obscured. A gust of wind blew, and a sky full of peach blossoms instantly blurred her vision…

Mingmei: !!

"Awake?"

When Mingmei suddenly opened her eyes, she felt a dampness at the corners of her eyes. She raised her eyes to look at Ming Yihe standing not far away, and sat up, only to realize that she was lying on a soft couch.

It seemed to be something her father carried in his Qiankun bag (universe bag).

Oh, no. She remembered that she had been "lured" to sleep by her father.

[Guigui, what happened while I was asleep?]

Mingmei remembered that before she lost consciousness, she had asked Guigui to keep an eye on what happened.

[He made your bed, let you sleep, and then your daddy went out to chat with someone.] In other words, Guigui didn't hear anything.

Mingmei: "Mm…"

While Mingmei felt a little regret that Guigui hadn't heard anything, she nodded in agreement with Ming Yihe's words.

"Daddy, what are we doing here today?" Mingmei asked Ming Yihe, feigning curiosity, and then said, "Wouldn't it be rude of me? To suddenly fall asleep?"

"It's alright. We're here… for a few days."

"Ah?" Mingmei looked at her father, not understanding his intentions. What was going on?

[Guigui, have we changed maps?]

Guigui: […Maybe?]

The system and the host were thus confusedly arranged to stay in the Butian Sect. The next day, Mei Shi brought Mei Jiu over as well, followed by Senior Brother Qi Tianqing.

Seeing their elder move his whole family to another sect, even if it was said to be just a short stay, it didn't feel that way to outsiders, did it?

Ming Yihe appeased this junior disciple who was one generation younger than him, and who knew what the two of them talked about, but it took Qi Tianqing quite a while to leave.

Before leaving, he made a point of greeting Xie Zhen, but Xie Zhen didn't seem too happy about the greeting.

"The outside world is too turbulent, and I was planning to close the mountain! I'm not happy that these people suddenly came here."

After seeing Qi Tianqing off, Xie Zhen returned to the main hall and, looking at Mu Chen reading a book, couldn't help but mention what had just happened.

"Has Master calculated what has happened recently?" When Mu Chen heard Xie Zhen say he was going to close the mountain, he put down the book in his hand and couldn't help but ask.

"Someone is shielding the secrets of heaven, and what I calculate… isn't very accurate. But if we want to avoid this calamity, we should be able to resolve it by closing the mountain for fourteen, or fifteen years for safety."

As soon as Xie Zhen finished saying fifteen years, Mu Chen's hand holding the book paused slightly, and even his voice slowed down as he said, "That long?"

"A dozen years is just a snap of the fingers to us. The books in the Sutra Pavilion will be almost finished by then."

As he said that, Xie Zhen suddenly put his hands behind his back, and his eyes looking at Mu Chen revealed an indescribable look. Mu Chen looked at him, his mouth wanting to say something, but the memories of the past couldn't help but overlap with the present.

"Master, how many books are there in the Sutra Pavilion?"

Mu Chen lowered his eyes and chuckled softly.

Fifteen years to read them all, two years to read them all, every time his master wanted him to avoid certain things, he would ask him to read books.

"Master is always like this, saying he can't calculate it, but in fact, he has already seen it," Xie Chen said with a rare trace of melancholy in his sea of consciousness. "It's a pity, even if he sees it, we won't stop, don't you think?"

"Don't lump me in with you," Mu Chen denied Xie Chen's words after Xie Zhen left. "Since you knew you would be discovered, why did you use this method?"

Mu Chen walked towards the Sutra Pavilion and whispered to him, "So you so easily agreed to switch control of my body for five years after losing the bet. You knew that this day would come sooner or later."

"You could have refused," Xie Chen was eager for this grown-up version of himself to rebel a little. He had already tasted the price of not rebelling, but this big guy in front of him didn't seem to know it and still wanted him to turn back?

Where was there a way back for him?

…

Su He had been feeling annoyed recently.

His master, that is, Xie Zhen, the Sect Leader, seemed to have reached menopause, and his mood wasn't good all day long.

Ever since he was caught by his master peeking at gossip a few months ago, he seemed to be picked on every time he appeared in front of him!

Recently, he was being picked on again.

He was told to deliver food to that junior brother who had made a mistake for some unknown reason.

It was the first time Su He had seen someone confined to the Sutra Pavilion for reflection. He brought elixirs, spirit stones, and some food to the Sutra Pavilion, and when he saw this junior brother sitting on a futon with a circle of ancient books floating in front of him, Su He couldn't help but sigh once again at how good this junior brother's temperament was.

He could still read books in this situation?

"Senior Brother." Mu Chen looked at this student whom he had once met in school. When Xie Chen was using his body at the time, he recognized that this fellow disciple was a player.

"Junior Brother, what's the matter?"

For some reason, being glanced at by this NPC, Su He felt as if his body had been seen through, and he panicked a little.

"I want to ask Senior Brother to do something."

"Sure!"

"It won't be for nothing, I just need you to deliver a message."

Due to the Sect Leader's orders, the disciples of their Butian Sect hadn't been going down the mountain as frequently as the disciples of other sects recently. Although they hadn't closed the mountain, their lives in the sect were no different from being in seclusion.

Therefore, when there was something new, Su He immediately perked up.

"We're all brothers, what's the point of rewards?"

Su He laughed twice, the light of gossip shining in his eyes was almost blinding!

Seeing that the other party didn't hesitate at all, and was about to agree without even asking what it was, Mu Chen suddenly fell silent.

Why did this person's face remind him of Lu Xiaojiao?