Wandering Gods of Day and Night

Zhu Fuyao was stirred by Zhou Xuan’s words, her heart involuntarily trembling a bit, and she asked, "You’re saying we have ghosts in the Jade Capital. In the Jade Capital, there are Immortals, there’s the Heavenly Fire Clan, but there just so happens to be no Ghostly from the human world."

Zhou Xuan, hearing this, realized Zhu Fuyao had misunderstood him, and immediately found it funny. He stretched out a hand and flicked Zhu Fuyao’s forehead with a sharp knock.

"Thwack!"

The forehead flick rang out crisply loud, with a hint of sweet, snappy sound to it.

Not far away, the Eternal Life Sect Leader was scared silly, and couldn’t help exclaiming, "The Master is still the fierce one—facing Miss Zhu, he actually dares make such a frivolous move."

Never mind that Zhu Fuyao’s current identity had already been vaguely guessed by Zhou Xuan as an upper-echelon figure from the Jade Capital,

even if Zhu Fuyao were "merely" an ordinary Jade Capital Apostle, she would still represent the majesty of Bai Yujing. Even the Palace Master of the Heavenly Dome would have to treat her with proper courtesy and must not act rashly.

Yet Zhou Xuan just went straight in with a forehead flick...

The Eternal Life Sect Leader watched Zhou Xuan’s calm composure and naturally felt envy rising in his heart, muttering, "The Master’s bearing really is transcendent. If one day I can become such a person, this life will not have been in vain."

As he sighed, Li Changxun happened to hear him. Li Shanzu only sneered at the side, "Tch, I’ve sighed that sigh countless times already. It’s useless—you are you, Mr. is Mr., you’ll never become him."

"Alas." The Eternal Life Sect Leader had always been confident, but on the path of chasing after Zhou Xuan’s bearing, all he could do was sigh.

Li Changxun pointed at Zhu Fuyao and said, "See Mr.’s handiwork? If you knocked on that Apostle’s skull, she’d kill you. But when Mr. makes a move, she’s still laughing..."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader looked over, and at a glance, he couldn’t help conceding—Zhu Fuyao showed no sign of blame at all, just scratching her head and giggling foolishly.

"Master, don’t just go around laying hands on people. If I said something wrong, you can point it out to me."

Zhu Fuyao also knew she’d misspoken, but she would never blame Zhou Xuan.

From their chat just now, she already had ample reason to believe that this newly promoted intern Doctor in front of her—graceful, with a bit of mischievous badness—was a rather wise figure.

She’d always held quite a bit of respect for such people.

Zhou Xuan said, "When I say ’ghosts,’ I don’t mean Ghostly, but rather certain people with sinister intentions. Miss Zhu, have you heard of the Buddha Country?"

"Though the Jade Capital keeps to itself and doesn’t care much about the outside world, the name ’Buddha Country’ is still far too famous to ignore."

Zhu Fuyao replied.

Zhou Xuan nodded and said, "Exactly. In your Bai Yujing, there are agents of the Buddha Country."

"This... how does Mr. know?" Zhu Fuyao was all the more curious upon hearing that there were Buddha Country people infiltrating Bai Yujing.

Zhou Xuan spread his hands and said, "Suppose you insist on seizing the Elixir, while I insist on not handing it over—wouldn’t you then resort to force?"

"I did have that in mind."

Zhu Fuyao answered quite honestly.

Zhou Xuan went on, "Exactly. As soon as you make a move, I’ll strike back. That’s just how I, Zhou Xuan, am.

If I strike back, the odds of you surviving are slim to none.

If I kill Miss Zhu of the Jade Capital, do you think Bai Yujing would let me off?"

"This..." Zhu Fuyao began to understand and said, "The ’ghosts’ in the Jade Capital are trying to kill with a borrowed knife."

"Now you’re finally showing a bit of cleverness." Zhou Xuan said, "Yes, killing with a borrowed knife. There’s nothing particularly special about this batch of elixirs of mine. I don’t think it’s some Elixir Bai Yujing absolutely has to obtain.

The Jade Capital’s ghosts have only one goal—to borrow your knife to get rid of me.

If I destroy you, then Bai Yujing becomes that ghost’s new knife, and they’ll keep coming to behead me."

Zhou Xuan folded his arms over his chest and looked up at the massive jade sphere that was on the verge of descending, then said, "In Bai Yujing, I’ve no particular enemies. My elixirs enjoy a pretty good reputation in the Jade Capital.

So why would the Jade Capital want to behead me over an elixir? I thought and thought, and only came up with one answer:

There are Buddha Country people in the Jade Capital, and those Buddha Country people can’t wait for me to die."

There was actually another very important factor in Zhou Xuan’s speculation that he didn’t mention—he had previously learned from the Witch God that the elixir calamities of the Heavenly Dome and the Jade Capital were orchestrated by the Buddha Country people.

But an affair of that magnitude—if he brought it up now, whether Zhu Fuyao believed it was one thing; if that information reached the Buddha Country people in the Jade Capital, it would only alert the enemy.

Therefore, Zhou Xuan held that line back, saying nothing about it, and only revealed that there were Buddha Country agents in the Jade Capital.

"Hiss... when you put it like that...it does all line up."

After listening to Zhou Xuan’s cool-headed analysis, Zhu Fuyao said, "Today, Mr. Ding received a prophecy saying that within this batch of elixirs of yours, there would be an elixir useful to the Flower God. The Holy Order Sequencers of the Jade Capital heard it, gathered together, and held a secret meeting.

Then they jointly decided to look within the Jade Capital for an Apostle with very high Taoist cultivation to Lin Fan down here and seize the elixirs.

However, before I Lin Fan, Mr. Ding came to me again and said he kept feeling that prophecy was strange, and told me that after descending to the human world, I mustn’t be too harsh on you, and that I should still listen to what ought to be heard."

Zhou Xuan nodded. No wonder this young lady had been Lin Fan for so long; although her attitude about seizing the elixirs had been quite resolute at first, her overall behavior had remained within bounds—hardly deserving words like "feral" or "unbridled arrogance."

"Your Mr. Ding in the Jade Capital is a smart man."

Zhou Xuan said, "This little life of yours was saved by that gentleman."

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