My brother is so cunning

Chapter 954: Losing Followers Without Realizing It

The Queen Mother of the West attached greater importance to this welcoming banquet than to any previous Peach Banquet.

Before the banquet, the goddess summoned all the fairy maidens in charge of the Jade Pool Wonderland and gave them a lecture, declaring: "Whoever makes me unhappy for a moment, I will make them unhappy for eternity!"

Zhang Xiangu was almost certain that although she had stopped the two unruly maids in time and punished them severely on the spot, she herself would eventually have to accept the punishment, ranging from a pay cut and demotion to dismissal and imprisonment.

This was already a relatively light punishment among the punishments given to the fairies of Yaochi for their mistakes, but Zhang Xiangu was unwilling to accept it. She had worked diligently for a thousand years, from a lowly maid to a nun, and had put in countless hardships. However, because of these two lowly maids, she had run into the Queen Mother's trap, and all her past achievements had vanished. The position she had finally climbed to was about to fall back to the bottom.

The rules of Yaochi are strict. If she discovers two fairies criticizing a distinguished guest and does not stop or punish them, it is very likely that other fairies who want to rise in rank will secretly report it to her.

After all, there are only so many official positions in the Heavenly Court. If nothing happens to those above, those below will have to endure hundreds or thousands of years of service without any chance of promotion.

The correct approach would have been to suppress one's anger and settle scores later, once the banquet was over.

But this time was different. The Queen Mother of the West had given a strict order that there could be no mistakes. Zhang Xiangu couldn't suppress her anger and immediately attacked the two lowly maids who had ruined her future.

After knocking the two men away and calming down a bit, Zhang Xiangu realized that she had made a mistake and disrupted the order of welcoming the distinguished guests. She was even more embarrassed and angry, and her anger was hard to suppress.

Killing them wouldn't be enough to vent my anger!
Since she was going to be punished along with them anyway, Zhang Xiangu carried her golden needles and walked step by step toward the two fairies, determined to give them the most severe lesson, and to make an example of them to scare these increasingly unruly food-serving fairies.

Even if the Empress blames me in the future, I can excuse myself by saying that I discovered the hidden danger on the spot and took the most decisive action, which shocked the other fairies and ensured that there were no problems after the banquet.

Just as Zhang Xiannu approached the two trembling fairies with murderous intent, her golden needles raised high, a hexagonal spatial gate suddenly opened in the central courtyard of Yaochi Wonderland, and a burly male immortal with three long wisps of beard walked out of the gate with his hands behind his back.

The male immortal opened the portal not far from the two fairies. He had only walked a few steps when he almost stepped on one of them.

The male immortal seemed to be very unfocused. He was physically present, but his soul had wandered off somewhere else. It was clear that he was multitasking, with his main consciousness projected onto a summoned clone, while his true self was in a state of being a human-machine interface.

She almost stepped on someone before she came to her senses and met Zhang Xiangu's gaze, who was holding up the golden needles. Both of them saw deep confusion in each other's eyes.

"Excuse me, I think I've come to the wrong place."

The male immortal scratched his head, glanced at the two fairies curled up on the ground, then looked at the golden needle in Zhang Xiangu's hand, and tentatively asked, "Is this some kind of execution ground for female immortals in Yaochi?"

Zhang Xiangu blinked, then was immediately horrified. She hurriedly put away the golden needles and said in a trembling voice, "I...I am so sorry for the graciousness of the Creation Celestial Venerable! Such a shameful thing should not have caught the eye of the Celestial Venerable."

This was exactly what she feared. Zhang Xiangu's heart sank. She never expected that the Creator Heavenly Venerable would teleport here. To make matters worse, he appeared just as she was punishing the fairy maid. If she had startled the Heavenly Venerable, the Queen Mother of the West would definitely not have let her off the hook.

Fortunately, Venerable Wen merely glanced at the two fairy maidens awaiting their fate on the ground before walking past them, completely disregarding them and strolling leisurely towards the Queen Mother's Palace in the Jade Pool Immortal Palace, the venue for the banquet. Zhang Xiangu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to herself that after all, the other party was a Venerable Heavenly Venerable; a great figure naturally possesses the magnanimity of a great figure. How could he possibly care about the lives of two errant fairy maidens?

The sage is not benevolent, and regards the common people as dogs.

Here, "not showing kindness" means not deliberately bestowing kindness, without subjective favoritism or emotional interference.

Wen Rui himself wasn't quite sure how much humanity he still retained, but he clearly didn't have the bad habit of some hot-blooded young male protagonists in cultivation novels jumping out to meddle in every little thing.

Seeing is not always believing. Although I had just regained my senses and saw the fairy pricking the fairy, which seemed like a very bad case of workplace bullying, it may indeed be a very bad case of workplace bullying.

But what does this have to do with Wen Rui?

What if this was a ruse orchestrated by the Queen Mother of the West to evoke Wen Rui's pity and cause him to intervene, thus creating karma between him and the two fairies? Then, she could use her beauty to her advantage and hand the fairies over to Wen Rui. Their true identities, however, might be undercover agents and spies.

If the plan succeeds, she can place herself next to Wen Rui to monitor his every move, and even climb into his bed, using her beauty as bait and worldly desires as a lock to slowly control him.

Or perhaps these two fairies, though seemingly harmless, have actually committed countless heinous and immoral acts, and thus deserve their punishment. Reckless interference would only backfire, resulting in more bad karma than good.

As for the fact that these two fairies are indeed beautiful and otherworldly, the idea that "beauty is justice" is just an old trick that Wen Rui used to deceive the masses. He himself has long been desensitized to and immune to it.

Suddenly, the Creator appeared before the two fairies, transcending space. A glimmer of hope appeared in Fairy Yue Li's despairing eyes as she looked expectantly at this figure she had only ever admired in the open course videos on her tablet.

In order to spread the faith of the Creator God and earn the incense offerings and prayers of believers, Wen Rui has recorded a lot of public lecture videos. In today's society, he would definitely be considered a celebrity professor.

His courses cover everything from elementary school to postdoctoral studies, as well as reports on cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements. His teaching level is far superior to that of other teachers and scholars who record videos.

Although Fairy Yue Li only studied high school courses, she was deeply attracted by this knowledgeable, witty and humorous tutor during her long-term studies, and her ideal male image overlapped with Wen Rui.

However, her idol, not only did not come to rescue her from her suffering on auspicious clouds, he didn't even glance at her and coldly walked away.

The little fan's sincere feelings were shattered instantly, and the poor fairy fell into deep despair.

Although Wen Rui had studied some Buddhist teachings, he was not proficient in them. Naturally, he did not possess advanced skills such as telepathy, and had no idea that his number of fans had quietly decreased by one.

(End of this chapter)