Chapter 541: Chapter 541: Ancestral Master, Can You Take a Beating? (First Update)
Shi Xueqing looked at the man in disbelief.
“You… you’re the Ancestor Master?”
Huyue nodded, “You could say that, by the way, do you have any money on you?”
Shi Xueqing nodded blankly, “Um… I still have a little over a hundred yuan.”
“That’s enough!”
“Enough for what?”
“Enough to eat!”
“You… aren’t you an immortal?”
“Nonsense, immortals don’t need to eat?”
“But there are so many corpses…” Shi Xueqing said, looking at the courtyard full of dead bodies and struggling to speak.
With a flick of Huyue’s hand, a streak of white flame flew past, and all the corpses turned to flying ash and disappeared.
“Tsk tsk, the Karmic Fire that Xue An gave me is really good. It’s truly an essential medicine for home travel, killing people, destroying bodies, and erasing traces!” Huyue praised a few times.
“Alright, follow the Ancestor Master down the mountain!”
There was a small town shop at the foot of Mount Fanjing.
Shi Xueqing often came here to buy daily necessities.
Because it’s adjacent to a tourist area, the small town shop gradually prospered.
Huyue walked down the main street, constantly exclaiming, “A thousand years have gone by, and the once desolate little village has become so prosperous? Yo, this chick isn’t bad at all!”
Huyue stared at a young lady wearing hot pants that revealed long legs, his eyes shining brightly.
Shi Xueqing followed behind, black lines appearing on her forehead.
Is this really my Ancestor Master?
Why does he seem like a disrespectful old hooligan?
“Who would have thought that in just a millennium, the world would change this much? Pretty girls exposing their shoulders and legs, it’s a decline in social morals that makes one delighted!”
Huyue looked up to the sky and sighed a few times, causing the pedestrians around to think he was a lunatic, and they all kept their distance.
Huyue had now transformed into the appearance of an ordinary man in the world; otherwise, if he were travelling in his original form, he would probably cause a sensation.
“Ancestor Master… What do you plan on eating?”
“I remember the last time I descended, the abbot of Lingying Palace made me abalone, lobster, and king crab, which tasted not bad. I’ll just casually eat some of these this time,” Huyue said indifferently.
Shi Xueqing was silent for a moment, then said softly, “Ancestor Master, can you take a beating?”
“Hmm? What do you mean?”
“If you can take a beating, let’s go eat! If we can’t pay, as a girl, I probably won’t get hit, but you might suffer some flesh wounds!”
“Cough cough, suddenly I feel that the seafood I had before was just okay, and it was even hard to swallow! Better to eat something easy to digest!” Huyue coughed a few times and said.
This was a beef noodle restaurant in the small town. Because of its good taste and low price, Shi Xueqing often came to eat when she came down the mountain to buy things, and she knew the owner well.
At the moment, Shi Xueqing stared blankly at Huyue, who was slurping down the beef noodles, feeling like her brain couldn’t quite keep up.
“Ah, that’s delicious! Hey boss, another bowl please!” Huyue placed the empty bowl to the side.
And on the table, there was already a large stack of empty bowls.
This also attracted many surprised glances.
The owner brought over a bowl of beef noodles and after putting it on the table, she winked at Shi Xueqing.
“What? Is he your boyfriend?”
Shi Xueqing shook her head hurriedly, “No, he’s not!”
“The young man seems alright though, he may eat a lot, but if he can eat, he can work!” The owner said cheerfully and then turned and left.
Shi Xueqing’s face turned embarrassingly hot.
But Huyue just chuckled, his mouth full of noodles, and said vaguely, “Don’t listen to her nonsense, I am your Ancestor Master after all.”
Shi Xueqing nodded, just as she was about to speak, she was left speechless by what Huyue said next.
“Besides, I don’t fancy you anyway!”
“….”
“Ancestral Master, you have suddenly descended into this world, what brings you here?” Shi Xueqing asked cautiously after a long hesitation.
She really hadn’t expected that the fox immortal worshiped by generations at Lingying Palace would actually be a man, and that he’d suddenly appear out of nowhere.
She had even hoped that the Ancestral Master would manifest himself when she was praying.
But when he actually did…
Shi Xueqing found herself hesitating again.
Huyue picked up his bowl and drank all the noodle soup, then wiped his mouth, transforming back into a picture of gentle elegance.
“You think I wanted to come? But the human world is the foundation of the Myriad Realms, and with a great change approaching, I had no choice but to come!”
“A great change?” Shi Xueqing said uncertainly.
“Oh, explaining it to you would be pointless! Pay the bill!” Huyue finished speaking, stood up, and sauntered away with his hands behind his back.
In the end, Huyue ate eighteen bowls of beef noodles, and even though the lady boss rounded down, it still bankrupted Shi Xueqing.
Watching Huyue walk ahead wobbling his head and greedily eyeing young women, Shi Xueqing muttered to herself.
Could he be a swindler?
“What are you thinking? I am the great Fox Immortal, a personage of great importance across the Multiverse Realms! How could I be a swindler? Come, pay the bill; I want to eat a popsicle!”
Huyue’s voice echoed directly in Shi Xueqing’s mind. He then took a popsicle from the roadside and walked away with ease.
Shi Xueqing reluctantly went to pay, “How much?”
“Ten yuan!”
“Why is it so expensive?” Shi Xueqing exclaimed in surprise.
“Miss, your boyfriend took the most expensive one! And he already ate one just a moment ago!” The boss lady was somewhat unhappy.
In the end, Shi Xueqing searched through all her pockets to scrape together ten yuan.
After paying the popsicle seller, Shi Xueqing wore a bitter face, realizing she was now penniless.
Actually, Shi Xueqing’s situation wasn’t always so dire.
But after the conference at the Hidden Immortal Sect, Shi Xueqing stayed at the Yu Family for a while before returning to Lingying Palace.
Because of Xue An’s earth-shattering performance at the Immortal Gate conference, Shi Xueqing had an epiphany, abandoning her competitive spirit, and since the successor to the Night Devil Palace, whom she didn’t get along with, had died, Shi Xueqing spent her days quietly cultivating in Lingying Palace.
But somehow, the more she cultivated, the more her cultivation level regressed.
Not willing to descend the mountain, Shi Xueqing ultimately found herself in such a wretched state.
When she returned to Lingying Palace, Shi Xueqing found that Huyue was already lying on her bed in her room, snoring loudly in sleep.
With no better option, she took a nap at the entrance of the great hall.
Just as she was dozing off, her phone suddenly rang, startling Shi Xueqing awake.
Glancing at the caller ID, she saw it was a call from Yu Ran.
Back in Lingnan, she and Yu Ran had gotten along quite well.
“Hello, Ran’er, is something the matter?”
“Sister Xue Qing, my brother is getting engaged! His engagement banquet is in a couple of days, you should come over!” Yu Ran said cheerfully.
Yu Ming is getting engaged?
Shi Xueqing was slightly startled, then smiled and said, “Congratulations, congratulations. I wonder which fortunate girl it is?”
“It’s Yuan Yunxin from the Yuan Family of the Northwest!”
“Yuan Yunxin? The unrivaled talent? That’s a match made in heaven! Congratulations!”
“Sister Xue Qing, hurry on over. Lingnan has been really lively these days, and I miss you a lot!” Yu Ran said.
Shi Xueqing hesitated.
Right then, Huyue, who should have been sound asleep, somehow appeared behind Shi Xueqing, “An engagement banquet? Free food is free food! Quickly agree!”