Beauty helps me achieve immortality

Chapter 100 Suddenly like a dream

Chapter 102: Like a Dream

Outside the window, the stars are shining and the moon is bright.

The spirit boat itself has the ability to control the wind, and the two of them standing in front of the window did not feel the wind.

Zhao Qing gently squeezed his aunt's slender hand, and his heart was moved for a moment.

Me and my aunt.

It's quiet at night.

A lonely man and a widow.

Watch the moon together.

I won!

"Zhao Qing." The woman spoke softly.

"The stars are beautiful tonight."

Zhao Qing raised his head slightly, and saw seventeen stars twinkling brightly in the night sky.

"It's good."

Zhou Xiaoyi breathed lightly, her breath fragrant like orchid.

"I've thought about it carefully today and decided..."

"Sharing some secrets with you."

secret?

Hidden garden?

Zhao Qing turned around and looked at him.

My aunt's beautiful eyes were filled with teasing. After staring at him for a moment, she spoke out, "I once said that there is a road that leads to heaven, and I have found some clues."

Zhao Qing collected his thoughts and stopped joking.

Nodding slightly: "I remember."

Zhou Xiaoyi narrated softly.

"In the early years of the Zhou family, an elder once entered Lanqingji and brought out some secrets, which were recorded in the family tree."

Zhao Qing nodded and listened carefully to the cold voice beside his ear.

My aunt took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling.

He whispered, "There are eighteen paths to cultivation."

Eighteen articles?

Zhao Qing glanced sideways at the woman beside him.

She opened her red lips slightly and said, "One is the mortal road that we walk on, the Chu State, the sect, the independent cultivators, the royal family..."

"This whole world is in the mortal world. The path you and I take is the path of the mortal world."

A gleam of light flashed in the woman's eyes.

"And the remaining seventeen avenues are...there."

Zhao Qing was stunned.

where?

The next moment, he felt cold all over, his hair stood on end, and he could no longer speak.

The remaining seventeen avenues...

As far as the eye can see, seventeen bright stars are shining brightly under the bright moon.

It is like seventeen bright eyes, watching all the stories in this world.

The cold voice of a woman came to his ears, like a spell, bringing back all the memories he had hidden for forty years.

"Baiyujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor."

"The immortal touches my top and bears longevity."

"Zhao Qing?"

"Zhao Qing..."

"Zhao Qing!"

The voices in his ears gradually faded, and Zhao Qing seemed to be back in college.

In October, the coastal cities are no longer that hot, but the sand in the air is always annoying.

He sat in the small cafe downstairs from his dormitory, wearing headphones, completing the tasks assigned by the poetry club.

In college, he chose Chinese language and literature as his major, and was dragged into two clubs without knowing why.

Poetry Society, Literature and Art Society.

It was summer when I enrolled, and there were many seniors in these two clubs, and they were wearing very little...

As for the street dance club, he wanted to join, but because he was too lazy and felt a bit socially dead, he gave up the idea.

……

Holding the marker pen purchased online, someone wrote lines of poetry on the traditional Chinese style poster.

It was a club activity about Li Bai.

The White Jade Palace in Heaven, Twelve Towers and Five Cities - Li Bai, Tang Dynasty

It is so vivid that it seems to be right in front of you.

For a moment, an idea flashed through his mind.

The artistic friend of the unreliable buddy wrote another poem on the poster.

Spring breeze opens the purple palace, heavenly music descends from the pearl tower - Li Bai, Tang Dynasty

Just one letter difference...

In an instant, the past rises and falls.

The past twenty years seemed like a dream.

Did Li Bai also travel through time?

Or... I have never traveled through time!

He couldn't help but ask himself.

"Zhao Qing."

I heard my aunt's soft voice.

Zhao Qing suddenly came back to his senses.

Zhou Xiaoyi looked surprised and stared at him silently: "You should have understood."

What the hell do I understand?

I'm numb now!

The woman continued, "These so-called twelve floors and five cities are these seventeen stars."

"Every star corresponds to an ultimate path of cultivation."

Zhao Qing looked thoughtful as he tried hard to digest the information.

After a long moment, he slowly nodded and asked softly, "So, you've become a guest at the Bloody Robe Tower, and often go to the Heavenly Fragrance Tower to listen to music?"

There was helplessness on my aunt's brow.

"I have contacted the owner of the Bloody Clothes Building many times, but there has been no response, and Miss Xiu knows nothing about it either."

"I once thought... perhaps the Chu State didn't have those roads."

"But think about it, how could the twelfth floor be a commercial building?"

Zhao Qing whispered, "You mean to say that the Purple Pearl Tower is one of the Twelve Towers, representing the pinnacle of alchemy?"

The woman nodded slightly and pulled him to sit on the edge of the couch.

"It must be so."

"Perhaps, after we arrive at the trial ground, we can look for the Blood Robe Building or the Heavenly Fragrance Building. That way, we can be sure..."

Zhao Qing was puzzled: "Why not just ask the Sect Leader?"

Zhou Xiaoyi frowned slightly and looked at him in confusion.

It seems to be saying...how can you be so stupid?

She said softly: "Knowing more information is meaningless to you now."

"Because we have already embarked on a road that leads directly to Zizhu Tower."

"Besides, if the Sect Leader was willing to tell you, he would have said it directly from the beginning."

"There must be some secret in this."

"I went to see the Queen Mother today. I guess she knows something. Maybe everyone knows... but no one has ever mentioned it."

Zhao Qing nodded slowly.

He remembered another thing.

He whispered, "Do you think the names Lanqingji...Chaoxianji sound like market towns?"

Zhou Xiaoyi's beautiful eyes flickered as she softly said, "I understand what you mean. Perhaps it is part of the Five Cities, but you and I are only at the Qi Refining level... These have little to do with us."

She said softly, "You have already embarked on this path. If you have any ideas in the future, you can discuss them with me. I am also...looking for it."

Zhao Qing nodded slowly.

"Give me a glass of ice water."

The woman's beautiful eyes turned cold. She took out the water cup, mobilized her spiritual roots, and handed the ice water over.

"Give me two oranges. I want to think for a while. See you tomorrow."

……

Zhao Qing did not go to look for his wife and Qinghuan.

Instead, he went straight back to his room.

Standing alone in front of the window, gazing at the bright moon in the sky.

It seems... just like what I remember.

He had something he didn't tell Zhou Xiaoyi.

Tianxiang Tower, perhaps it really is one of the twelve towers...

Because he remembered a poem also written by Li Bai.

The pavilions and towers are filled with the air of the sea, and the grass and trees are all filled with the fragrance of nature. - Li Bai, Tang Dynasty

What is the path of cultivation corresponding to Tianxiang Tower?

His eyes flickered, as if when he was looking at the stars, the stars were also looking at him.

If each of these seventeen roads corresponds to a poem by Li Bai...

He suddenly felt that the past twenty years in his previous life seemed unreal.

Perhaps, I will never be able to fully understand the secrets until I die.

The way home...any chance?

He took a sip of ice water and suppressed all these thoughts.

Right now, the most important thing is to improve your strength and prepare for the trial in Zizhu Tower.

There's no use thinking about these things.

He put down the cup of water and peeled a tangerine.

Juicy and sweet.

Every look and every movement of my aunt tonight appeared in my mind.