From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 627 Jade Pool Immortal Castle
Although the moonlight event was spectacular, its impact seemed to be limited to Jianruo City and its surrounding areas; in more distant places, everything remained as usual.

In a magnificent Taoist temple outside the city, a fat Taoist priest with a face full of scars, who was meditating, suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp and uncertain as he looked towards the dense forest.

"What a brilliant move of external reflection! Just which family's dragon seed Dao child is that guy, and why does he have to settle in this tiny place like Dali?"

He was increasingly wary and surprised by Li Yang's background, but after hesitating for a moment, the fat Taoist did not fly over to investigate. After sensing for a while, he closed his eyes and sat down to meditate again.

Meanwhile, in the far west, some distance from the Great Li Dynasty, under the cover of night, a celestial palace, seemingly constructed from a blend of black ice and white jade, stood atop a sea of ​​clouds. Within it, a cold, aloof female Taoist with a vermilion dot on her eyebrow slowly opened her eyes.

The white pillars of the fairy castle are carved with flying fairy reliefs, and the eaves of the palace are like wings. A thin mist that never dissipates always shrouds the fairy castle, which is as white as ice crystals, like silk. Sometimes it gathers into the ethereal shadows of cranes that fly over the eaves, making it seem cold and otherworldly.

In the center of the Immortal Fortress stands a towering lotus platform, entirely white, where the Fortress Master is currently giving a sermon, and a group of Yaochi disciples are sitting cross-legged listening to the teachings.

"Qiushui, you're daydreaming again."

On the lotus platform, the female Taoist priest who was giving a sermon frowned and looked in the direction of the female disciple who had opened her eyes.

"Please punish me, Master."

Without offering any explanation, the young woman, adorned with cinnabar and tassel patterns on her eyebrows, clasped her hands together and kowtowed in the distance.

Behind her were hundreds of female cultivators dressed in cyan robes. Hearing the noise, they all woke up from their meditation and looked at the young woman in front of them with some surprise.

"Senior Sister Qiushui has always been the one among us who is most compatible with the Immortal Fortress's cultivation method. Her Dao heart is as clear and transparent as ice. Why is it that lately she always breaks through the stillness inexplicably when meditating?"

"Senior Sister seems to have been acting strangely ever since she woke up; otherwise, she wouldn't have been punished and sent back to the Immortal Fortress for speaking up for that foreign cultivator at the teleportation platform..."

"Be careful what you say. Senior Sister Qiushui has exceptional talent; she just lost her composure for a moment."

Behind them, female cultivators whispered, their voices very low, which gradually spread among the female disciples.

"quiet!"

The sound waves rippled through the clouds, and the castle lord, seated on the lotus platform, frowned slightly, causing the entire immortal castle to fall into silence.

After scanning the surroundings, the lord's gaze finally settled on the young woman, a hint of pity appearing on his face.

"Qiu Shui, you have successfully comprehended the secret techniques of my Immortal Fortress, achieving a thousand-year dream. You are the most promising disciple of the entire Immortal Fortress to inherit my lineage. However, your cultivation has progressed too rapidly, causing instability in your mind. You must be cautious and vigilant!"

"Disciple, please remember this."

The Celestial Venerable's sermon was like an ice lotus bursting open, refreshing and soothing people's hearts. Luo Qiushui knelt on the ground with her hands clasped together, responding with a cool and clear voice.

Having said that, the aloof woman slowly raised her head, a hint of confusion showing on her fair and delicate features. Her clothes fluttered as if moving in the wind, like a lotus flower swaying in a clear pond.

"Please enlighten me, Immortal Venerable. Ever since I awoke from the dream of a thousand autumns, I have been constantly surrounded by chaotic images before my eyes, which seem familiar yet are as strange as smoke. They always flash before my eyes when I am in meditation, as if... as if I have personally experienced them?"

The woman frowned slightly and asked softly.

"Life is but a fleeting dream within a dream, and worldly affairs are like the wind in the wind. Legend has it that my former Lord of Yaochi also dreamt for a thousand years, just like you. When he woke up, he was still in a dream. But once he broke through the illusion, he immediately attained the status of an Earth Immortal. You need not be alarmed. This is actually an opportunity for you."

The immortal on the lotus platform smiled faintly and nodded slightly to Luo Qiushui.

"But Master, were the people and events in my dream really just a dream?"

Luo Qiushui remained expressionless, kowtowed, and asked again. The Lord of Yaochi Fortress shook his head: "That's natural. In the past, there were also great beings with this question, but they spent countless years searching the entire Realm of Ultimate Truth and still couldn't find the place in your dream. Those are just your imagination."

Seeing that the fortress lord spoke with such certainty, Luo Qiushui stopped asking questions, resumed sitting cross-legged, and continued to listen to the immortal's teachings.

However, her cool eyes still seemed to be glancing, intentionally or unintentionally, towards a direction shrouded in mist outside the Immortal Castle, her brows slightly furrowed.
"If it's all an illusion, why do I still sense the presence of someone I know from the past..."

She couldn't think clearly, and her eyes became increasingly confused.
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Half an hour later, the city gates of Jianruo City slowly opened in the darkness, and a group of solemn-looking soldiers led a girl into the city quietly under the cover of night.

"Come in with me."

After shooing away the heavily injured Han Jieming, Bai Yingluo stood in a secluded courtyard in the north of the city under the cover of night and coldly spoke to the girl behind her.

"okay……"

Erniu nodded timidly, then looked up and surveyed the ordinary little courtyard in front of her.

Under the moonlight, the entire courtyard was bathed in a cold light, and with Erniu's eyesight, she naturally couldn't see the scene inside.

"Squeak!"

The rustic wooden door slowly opened, and in the very center of the courtyard, under the moonlight, stood a young Taoist priest sitting cross-legged on a futon. With each breath he took, the moonlight in the courtyard seemed to materialize and disappear into his mouth and nose, making his whole body appear as if he were draped in holy light.

Bai Yingluo was about to explain, but she quickly noticed that there was only a cup of tea on the stone table in the courtyard. She tactfully walked out of the courtyard and closed the wooden door.

For a moment, only the young Taoist priest and Erniu remained in the quiet and secluded garden.

With the obsession she had been searching for for months finally within reach, Erniu felt as if something was blocking her throat, causing her to be unable to make a sound. She stood at the door, tears streaming down her face.

After almost a quarter of an hour, the sobbing in the courtyard finally subsided a little, and the Taoist priest who was sitting cross-legged on the futon slowly opened his eyes.

"Come sit down, let's talk about this later, there's no rush."

The Taoist priest smiled warmly and nodded to Erniu, who was still standing.

Erniu then moved her feet and walked to the table. At the Taoist's prompting, she timidly picked up the teacup on the table and drank it all in one gulp.

Strangely enough, the tea in the cup seemed to have no substance. As soon as it entered her mouth, before she even swallowed it, it turned into a warm current that flowed through her body. Erniu felt that the fatigue and pain she had been feeling for months had vanished in an instant. Her wounds scabbed over, and even her vision at night became much clearer.

Setting down the teacup, Erniu noticed five dark finger marks on its pristine white surface. She timidly tried to wipe them off, but her clothes were dirtier than her fingers, leaving her standing there helplessly with the teacup in her hand.

"It's alright, just put it on the table."

Seeing Erniu's embarrassment, Li Yang smiled slightly and flicked his finger, causing the jade cup in Erniu's hand to fall back onto the table.

Only then did Erniu finally feel relieved. Her thoughts stirred, and she couldn't stop her tears from flowing again. She wiped them away vigorously.

"God, I've finally, finally found you..."

"Please, gods, save Lanling Village! Save the village chief and Wang Yue!!"

(End of this chapter)