Chapter 160 Wandering Monks

Da Hu Zi's lecture finally came to an end. The surrounding circle of old women and young wives immediately entered a serious and earnest discussion, with one of the elder sisters even holding a small notebook and asking, "Master, I was late for your lecture on the cycle of all things yesterday. Could you possibly..."

Da Hu Zi had already seen Hao Ren standing outside the circle, and quickly waved his hand: "We'll talk about it tomorrow, tomorrow. This thing is about fate. Just listen to whatever part you catch – landlord, you're here?"

At least sixty percent of the old women and young wives knew Hao Ren: in this small place in the southern suburbs, neighbors had been living here for decades, so who didn't know whom? Immediately, some people came forward to greet him familiarly. Grandma Zhao, who was well-acquainted with Hao Ren, even grabbed his hand and said, "Hao boy, you haven't shown your face for ten days or so, have you? Going out again?"

Old ladies of advanced age just liked to focus on these trivial matters.

Hao Ren chuckled dryly: "Work, work... the job I found last year requires frequent business trips."

"Well, it's good to have a stable job," the old lady nodded with an air of importance, but quickly became more serious, "But you're never home these days... don't forget you're still renting out rooms, can you take care of it all?"

Hao Ren tried to think of a way to deal with her hastily, then quickly excused himself and left, coming to Da Hu Zi: "What are you doing, giving lectures?"

"I didn't expect it either," Da Hu Zi spread his hands innocently, "I've been trying not to attract attention, as you reminded me. But a few days ago, I met an old lady on the street who was weak and had a bad stomach, so I treated her, and then I told her about health maintenance..."

"And then one spreads to ten, and ten spread to a hundred, and you became a health guru in the southern suburbs, right?" Hao Ren slapped his forehead, "In this day and age, people break their heads trying to become famous, but no one pays attention. How does someone who doesn't want to be famous become a social celebrity just by helping an old lady on the street?"

Da Hu Zi shrugged, speechless, because he didn't know what "fame" meant at all. Hao Ren rolled his eyes at his reaction and said, "Find a way to stop these lectures in the future – do you know that your ascetic lifestyle can easily starve ordinary people to death?"

Da Hu Zi chuckled: "I know, I know. And I also want to stop: to be honest, dealing with these people is much more difficult than studying ancient scrolls. These days, at least twenty or thirty ladies have been trying to drag me to their homes to lecture, and I'm really annoyed by it. Just refusing them has taken up most of my energy. But I feel like it would be irresponsible to suddenly leave these people, so I've been putting it off until today..."

Hao Ren looked at this newly minted friend of women strangely, grabbed the other party's arm, and hurried him home: "Let's go, let's go, leave quickly. If you keep doing this, maybe some indignant old man will report you as a cult."

When the two of them were almost at the door, Hao Ren slowed down, turned his head, and lowered his voice: "We found a stable passage to the Dream Realm. Becky has already gone back. Are you and the other three masters planning to go back too?"

Da Hu Zi stopped in his tracks, then quickly caught up: "A stable passage? Did you find it when you went to deal with the 'evil spirit' this time?"

Hao Ren nodded. Da Hu Zi thought for a moment, then shook his head slightly: "We do have a plan to return to report our duties, but we won't be going back anytime soon. We have each found something we want to do in this world. We should travel here, learn as much as possible about this strange world, which will be of great help to our cultivation, and will also help us understand the greatness of the Goddess's creation more deeply."

When Hao Ren heard Da Hu Zi say these mystical things, he felt a headache, but he knew that devout believers were mostly like this, so he could only try to get used to it. He casually asked about the movements of the other three: "What are the other three masters doing now?"

Da Hu Zi narrowed his eyes slightly, as if confirming the situation of the others through some mysterious spiritual connection. After a moment, he opened his eyes: "One is in Africa, having conquered the lions and wild elephants, and is currently busy mediating a dispute between two local tribes... he is the new chief of one of the tribes. One is in Antarctica, and she is chiseling ice, looking for the original land, and a group of seals are listening to her commands. The last one is in India, and she seems to have found many like-minded people, and perhaps she can spread the Gospel of the Goddess there."

Hao Ren: "..."

After being stunned for a long time, Hao Ren realized that the three wandering monks who had run off to travel the world were even more capable of causing trouble than he had imagined. He looked at Da Hu Zi with an almost horrified expression: "What are you guys planning to do?!"

Da Hu Zi's expression was calm: "Traveling the world, of course."

Hao Ren's expression was collapsing: "Traveling the world requires running to Africa to be a chief, running to Antarctica to chisel ice, running to India... damn, compared to this, the one who ran to India is actually the most normal?!"

"Of course, traveling the world requires experiencing all the hardships and dangers of this world," Da Hu Zi didn't understand why Hao Ren was so surprised, "How can you call it experiencing trials without challenging the limits of survival?"

Hao Ren was speechless, and after holding it back for a long time, he came up with a practical question: "Wait, wait... how did they run so far?! You don't have passports! Even if you're smuggling, you can't find anyone, right?"

Da Hu Zi nodded: "They swam there."

Hao Ren: "..."

So, in the dictionary of the wandering monks, the "travel" in "traveling" meant that!

"I feel like I can't stop you from conquering this world," Hao Ren waved his hand weakly, suddenly feeling that going to another world to bomb the "eldest son" was simpler than dealing with these wandering monks whose thinking was different from ordinary people, "As long as they don't cause any trouble... I don't care."

Da Hu Zi nodded happily: "We're in control."

To be honest, if it had been two months ago, Hao Ren would have been very willing to believe Da Hu Zi's promise, but now he sincerely doubted how credible the "in control" he was talking about really was. To be able to swim directly to Africa in such a short period of time, unify the grasslands, and be crowned the chief of the tribe, what script had this style of wandering monk ever appeared in! Hao Ren now really wanted to see that wandering monk big brother whose fighting strength (in all senses of the word) was strong, but he was afraid of being shocked by the other party's aura from Africa, blessed by the chief, so in the end, he could only laugh dryly twice and go home with Da Hu Zi.

"Also, I got the 'Source Blood'," Hao Ren suddenly remembered something, "I want to study whether I can contact the Goddess through them. Do you have any suggestions?"

"I know you don't believe in the Goddess of Creation, so just maintain respect," Da Hu Zi's expression was calm, he was very open-minded now, "But to be honest, I don't think you will succeed: establishing contact with the Goddess requires extremely devout faith. Even a monk who has received many years of training, establishing contact through a complete tattoo ritual will have a certain failure rate, and it is almost impossible for a heretic who has never studied the scriptures to gain the Source Blood's approval."

Hao Ren didn't speak, he felt that Da Hu Zi probably wouldn't agree with his planned research method on the Source Blood, so he simply didn't mention the topic.

Just as the two of them were walking to the door of the house, a loud "boom" suddenly came from behind the house.

Hao Ren was startled by the loud noise, and before he could enter the house, he ran directly to the back of the house to see what was going on. As a result, the scene in front of him left him not knowing what to say:

The smoke had just dissipated on the open space behind the house, and a large pile of messy mechanical gadgets was scattered all over the ground, all of which were old cylinders, bearings, gears, and springs. This was obviously the explosion site of some kind of mechanical device. And a little girl wearing a black Gothic dress was sitting in the center of the explosion pit, the little girl's whole body was blackened, and she was holding half a pipe in her hand in a daze. Hearing someone approaching, the little girl turned her head nimbly, revealing a row of small white teeth on the lower half of her black face: "So exciting!"

Hao Ren supported the wall next to him to prevent himself from falling down: "Elizabeth... can't you do something that a demon princess should do, like conquering the world, bullying men and dominating women, or signing slave contracts with a couple of unlucky guys?"

The little demon princess thought for a while, opened her mouth and spat out a puff of black smoke: "My dad said I have to finish elementary school before I can go conquer the world."

Hao Ren: "..."

He felt that fighting the eldest son in another world was indeed much easier than dealing with these oddballs at home!