Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 600 Worthy of Him
Li Zhikang, now 73 years old, is from Liuyuan Village, Taibai County, Chencang Prefecture, Longyou Province. He accidentally entered a secret realm in the Qinling Mountains and since then embarked on the path of spiritual practice.

This old farmer from Longyou was very low-key in his previous life, so low-key that the only highlight of his life was when his identity was first revealed and he was interviewed by reporters and media because of his cultivation of immortality in old age. Then he behaved in front of the camera like an old man who was full of energy but not very smart, and just kept smiling when facing the reporters.

If Yan Yu had no memory of his past life, he would most likely be fooled by his acting skills.

Li Zhikang was called out by the head of scientific research before he could finish his physical examination.

He walked out quickly, and before he entered the waiting room, he heard Yan Yu and Ye Jun chatting inside.

Ye Jun: "So this old man is hiding his true abilities?"

Yan Yu: "It's like Doraemon, he looks adorable and harmless, but you never know what he can pull out of that four-dimensional pocket on his belly."

Ye Jun: "That's really impressive."

Li Zhikang's heart skipped a beat, and he walked into the room with his head held high. He saw all the contestants looking at him.

It was no longer the mocking look of "You are so old and still participating in the competition", but a kind of "You are just pretending to be a pig" and a vigilant look with a burning fighting spirit as if being fooled.

"Are you hungry?" Li Zhikang asked with a silly smile.

Ye Jun looked at him suspiciously, thinking that no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a healthy old man from the countryside who hadn't seen much of the world. Did Yan Yu really not find the wrong person?
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Yan Yu turn his head and say:
"See? He deliberately spoke with a dialect accent, and that smile, and he's an old man, so you'd think he was just a farmer who got lucky and knew nothing."

"I really can't tell." Ye Jun smiled bitterly.

"I can only say that you can't judge a book by its cover. Don't subconsciously look down on people just because they are old and come from the countryside." Yan Yu said earnestly.

Li Zhikang felt cold sweat coming out of his back, but he still pretended to be confused and asked in confusion:
"What do you mean? I don't understand."

"We would like to ask you to help find someone." Yan Yu said.

"Looking for someone? You can't be hungry. You have to find a constable!" Li Zhikang waved his hands repeatedly and quickly turned around and slipped away. He only heard Yan Yu's voice transmission:
"Old Li, you don't want the higher-ups to know that you have an old lover, do you?"

Li Zhikang was stunned when he heard this, and then he walked away without looking back.

He had never been married or had children in his life, but when he was in his seventies, he met an old widow in the next village. They had been attracted to each other for several years and had originally planned to move there to spend the rest of their lives together. However, he accidentally entered a secret realm in the Qinling Mountains and began to practice. After returning to the village, he reflected deeply and directly severed all ties with the old widow.

The reason is simple: he really likes her, so he is afraid that after he practices Taoism, she will become his weakness and vulnerability, and that they will end up hurting each other.

An unmarried, childless old bachelor is the most difficult person to mess with in this world. But once you have a weak spot, people will inevitably use it to take advantage of you - Old Li has a very clear understanding of this matter.

Watching the other party leave quickly, Ye Jun said in a voice transmission:
"He's ignoring you."

"I'm wrong." Yan Yu replied, "I don't dare to agree here. Let's go out first."

The two men left the research institute and had just walked a short distance when they saw Li Zhikang standing at the entrance of the alley opposite. He smiled and waved at them, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"Who are you looking for?"

Ye Jun looked at him in surprise, because the old man's face had completely lost its original naivety and stupidity, and it was almost as if "I won't pretend anymore" was written directly on his forehead.

"I sell pills." Yan Yu took Ye Jun into the alley and answered.

"Is he the one who sells elixirs among ordinary cultivators?" Li Zhikang obviously knew this person and nodded. "This person is very cautious. He uses puppets when trading with others. If he sees that the situation is not good, he will cut off contact."

"That's why we need your magical powers." Yan Yu said lightly.

My magical power... Li Zhikang was silent for a while, and finally he couldn't help but not ask the other party "how do you know your magical power", and just said:

"To divine the true master's location, I must at least see his puppet. The more information I gather, the more accurate the divination will be. And that assumes he doesn't have the ability to interfere with the secrets of heaven."

"Leave the puppet to us." Yan Yu tilted his head to signal, and Ye Jun immediately sent a message to inform the two sisters to start the action.

The task of getting the opposite puppet out was all left to the two sisters. The reason for this was naturally that they changed their minds and decided to pay the appraisal fee and re-appraise the previous bottle of pills.

The other party was obviously coveting the Yuanling Qi-boosting Pill and quickly agreed and provided a meeting place.

Yan Yu and Ye Jun took Li Zhikang and quickly rushed to the meeting place. Only to hear Ye Jun's voice:

"Are you sure this gentleman really has the ability to find someone? Once he realizes he's been tricked and escapes, it will be nearly impossible to lure him out again."

"Of course." Yan Yu replied, "Didn't you see that the old man himself didn't say no."

"I'm afraid he's lost count." Ye Jun said, "I'm afraid of meeting that kind of boastful old man who starts out all right but ends up scratching his head and being confused once he gets into battle."

"Well, but I know this guy, he's the best at pretending. He only dares to say three-tenths of something he's absolutely sure of, for fear that you'll come to him again when you encounter problems next time."

"So how do you know?" Ye Jun asked curiously.

"I have a pair of sharp eyes." Yan Yu said.

This answer was the same as no answer... Ye Jun was too lazy to bother with him, so he simply asked Li Zhikang directly:

"Master, you are sure, right?"

"No." Li Zhikang replied, "Anyway, I'll do my best to get it done for you. I can't guarantee whether it's good or not."

It's exactly the same as what Yan Yu said. Ye Jun muttered to himself and asked again:
"Sir, could you please tell me what the method is?"

"The divination method using yarrow." Li Zhikang replied.

Ye Jun: ………………

I've never heard of this. What kind of grass is this?

However, the matter was of great importance. If this herbal divination method didn't work and the pill seller ran away, it would be extremely difficult to find him later. Therefore, Ye Jun continued to ask for caution:
"Do you mind testing it first?"

"You say." Li Zhikang said lightly.

"How about you test my marriage fate?" Ye Jun said.

"Be more specific," Li Zhikang said. "For example, if you find a blind date and ask me if it's possible, I can tell you. Marriage is such a broad concept, how can you tell it?" "Fortune-telling is like ordering food at a restaurant. You give me a menu, and I can tell you which one you like. But you don't have a menu, so how can I tell you one out of thin air? What if you like a hundred or so dishes?"

"A hundred or so dish names aren't too many," Ye Jun complained. "Eight Treasures Tofu with Shrimp, Shredded Tripe with Garlic, Pot-Crusted Pork Tenderloin with Mushu Pork, and Lion's Head with Fish in a Fish Net—isn't that just something you can just name? If you really can't do that, just name as many as you can. I don't ask you to list them all."

You really have no sense, Yan Yu is right next to me! What should I say?
Should I just say, "I want you to calculate whether my marriage will fall on Yan Yu"? Wouldn't I be embarrassed if he heard it? If you knew how to transmit sound, I could still tell you through sound, but I can't say this to his face.

Seeing that she refused to speak directly and insisted on calculating her marriage, Li Zhikang looked at Yan Yu beside him and cursed himself for being old and useless and not being able to see such an obvious thing. So he took out a handful of mugwort, picked it in his hand, and muttered to himself.

Ye Jun looked at his mysterious movements and couldn't help but get nervous for a moment, secretly grabbing Yan Yu's arm.

Yan Yu was also puzzled, but the two sisters said that they had not arrived at the meeting place yet and there was still time, so he wanted to see what result the fortune teller could predict for Ye Jun.

"Well, it's a bit strange." Li Zhikang pulled his beard and thought to himself that he had never seen such a strange hexagram.

After struggling for a long time, he finally said truthfully:
"Although it can be successful, it's not a good match. That's strange. Maybe it's because I'm not good enough in my studies."

Ye Jun only heard the first half of the sentence and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It would be great if it could be accomplished! Don't waste your time and energy and end up becoming his confidante, or even being asked by his future wife to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. That would be a loss of both affection and face.

As for the following "not a good match", she subconsciously ignored it.

A perfect couple? What constitutes a perfect couple, and who has the final say?

Some beautiful girls marry short, fat men, and everyone says they're not the right match, but they like it. So what if they're not the right match? I don't even know whether I like him or not.
Yan Yu frowned and thought, "God damn, they are not a perfect match. You must be calculating the marriage between me and Ye Jun, right? Why am I not a perfect match?"

Hmm, wait, if the ideal partner is defined as "you are the only one," then I certainly don't meet that standard. After all, my original intention was simply that it was a shame that Ye Jun retired from the Dragon Soaring Team in her previous life, feeling discouraged and choosing to switch to civilian work. I wanted to give her a chance to shine again.

But from her perspective, she doesn't know that I feel sorry for her because I saw her miserable state in her previous life. She must think that I am taking the initiative to care about her because I have a good impression of her, so she has some feelings for me. Can she blame me for that?
I value talent, not pity flowers. So if Old Li is calculating her career, then it must be "a new world after a dark period", but since he is calculating her marriage, then it may be a bit...

Whatever! There aren't that many perfect couples in the world. Just make your choice and don't regret it later.

Li Zhikang secretly glanced at Yan Yu's expression and had already prepared a set of excuses to explain why they were "not a good match" just now, but when he saw that he had no expression, he became puzzled again for a moment.

As the saying goes, a biting dog doesn't bark. If I lose my temper right then and there, I'm still being honest. But I'm afraid of this kind of silence. I might be waiting to stab me in the back! I don't dare to take the knife from Dinghai Shenjiang.

He quickly took out the yarrow again, cast a divination, looked at it for a moment, and said with a smile:
"That's it, I understand."

"What's wrong?" Ye Jun asked.

"I wonder why they're not a perfect match?" Li Zhikang said firmly, "Because they're not a perfect match! Girl, the man you're considering for marriage has become a 'flying dragon in the sky.' If you want this to happen, you'll have to force your way to heaven. Otherwise, even if it works out, the other party will just give in. How can you be considered a perfect match?"

Ye Jun was shocked when he heard this: What? I'm not worthy of him?
If you think about it carefully, he's the Dinghai Divine General, the number one cultivator in Lu Country, with a promising future, and surrounded by beautiful women. And me? I'm just a small vice-captain of the Longxiong Team.

If I had Captain Liu's family background, talent and strength, I might be worthy of him, but I was born in an ordinary family in Tianjin, my talent for cultivation is average, and my strength is too weak. It is only because of the defensive effect of the Xuanguang Ruler that I can rank among the top... If I were Yan Yu's mother, I would definitely not agree with this girl being with my son!
She was thinking wildly, and the more she thought, the more depressed and discouraged she became. She thought that if she forced him to marry her with my conditions, he would just have to give in, and we would not be a good match.

Yan Yu, on the other hand, was impressed by Li Zhikang. "Good fellow, you even knew Ye Jun wasn't good enough for me. You old man, you really have some skills!"

Of course, although he was telling the truth, he didn't consider whether the girl liked to hear it or not, so he smiled and comforted Ye Jun and said:

"Thirty years on the west side of the river, thirty years on the east side of the river. Who can despise the young and poor? Even a flying dragon is not born in the sky."

"Yeah." Ye Jun thought to himself, you are already flying in the sky, so you naturally think that climbing to the sky is the easiest thing, but what about me?

She began to struggle in her heart, because Li Zhikang said that it would work out in the end, but it would be Yan Yu compromising himself, which made Ye Jun feel half happy and half worried.

If it were any other woman, as long as I could successfully climb up the social ladder, I wouldn't care if he gave in or not! Even if we ended up getting divorced, at least I'd have been a wealthy wife... But Ye Jun wasn't like that. She even subconsciously considered Yan Yu more, thinking that if no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't be worthy of him, I might as well just let him go.

I can't force him to compromise himself just for my marriage, right? He doesn't owe me anything, and he's actually helped me a lot.

Yan Yu didn't know that she had begun to consider giving up, so he just asked Li Zhikang:
"There shouldn't be a limit to the number of times you can tell fortunes every day."

"Yes." Li Zhikang said, "No more than three times a day. If you exceed three, it will not be allowed."

"Then you've already read two fortunes!" Yan Yu hurriedly stopped him, "Stop reading. The last fortune of the day must be saved for me for the real business!"

"You don't know, this last divination is the most accurate!" Li Zhikang quickly explained, "The accuracy of the first two divinations is about 50% to 60%, but this third divination is 90% accurate!"

Ye Jun: ???
Ah, what? It turns out the accuracy rate is only 50% to 60%. I was so serious about it!

She quickly put aside the inner struggle and just thought of it as a game on some fortune-telling website. She smiled and said to Yan Yu:
"The divination says that I will marry a man of higher status in the future. I don't know whether I should hope it comes true or not."

"Why should we hope that it is inaccurate?" Yan Yu wondered.

"Because I don't want him to feel wronged." Ye Jun replied.

"Then you should work harder to become a woman worthy of him, instead of dwelling on whether or not to end this relationship." Yan Yu said casually, "Even if you take a step back, marriage is a matter between two people, and it's not something you can decide on your own."

"Indeed." Ye Jun's mood brightened and he said with a smile, "It depends on what that man means and what he thinks."

"When you meet him, have a good chat with him," Yan Yu suggested. "Don't shut yourself up and think about whether you're worthy of him or not. That will only drive you crazy and get you nowhere."

"It's a bit weird to just talk to him directly." Ye Jun sighed, "Why don't we get to know him better first? Then we can still be friends even if it doesn't work out."

"Your confession failed, and you still want to continue the relationship?" Yan Yu showed a surprised expression, "You don't want to keep pestering me, do you?"

"Isn't it okay to have a confidante?"

"Knowing three is worth three."

"Being a mistress is definitely not an option." Ye Jun pondered for a moment, "If he really finds a partner, I'm going to fight with that woman."

"Ah, a fight?"

"Right." Ye Jun suddenly sneered, "Since I'm not worthy of him, then naturally I have to see what kind of ability the woman who can be worthy of him has!"

Yan Yu nodded in understanding, and a picture suddenly popped up in his mind.

Ye Jun covered himself with the Xuanguang ruler, shouting, "Stop fighting, stop fighting!" Then, outside the shield, there were things like the unity of man and sword, the water of the Milky Way, the Five Thunders Law, and the red lotus fire... The mountains and rivers were broken in the battle, and the great way was wiped out. Everyone wanted to prove that he was the only woman worthy of him!
Wow! That's awesome! If I could actually see something like that, it would be worth the price of admission, even if it meant getting burned!

(End of this chapter)