A Tale of Encounters with Immortals: A Peach Blossom Temple in the Martial World

The renovation of the Taoist temple went very smoothly.

The open space in front of the Taoist temple was filled with peach blossoms, and peach blossoms were also planted in the temple's courtyard.

Three years have passed, and the peach trees are now in full bloom.

The Peach Blossom Pavilion has been renovated to look almost exactly the same as the original Peach Blossom Pavilion on Peach Blossom Mountain.

This made Shu Baimei feel very comfortable.

But after spending a long time alone in Peach Blossom Temple, I felt a sense of loneliness spreading through me.

Without the bickering Hu Yunying and Guo Lanying, without the pretentious senior brother, without the affectedly profound Qing Xuzi, and without the sword and the dead eunuch's affected manner, everything seemed to be just a lonely shadow.

But it's fine now, sitting idly on the mountaintop, gazing up at the dark night sky.

The sky was dotted with stars.

"I wonder if I'll ever be able to go back to my original world!"

Shu Baimei sighed.

"Maybe it will, maybe it won't. How will we know if we don't try?"

Suddenly a voice came from beside her.

Shu Baimei turned her head in surprise. The voice was so familiar that she saw the figure as soon as she turned her head. Even in the dim moonlight, the figure was still clear.

This is a sculpture that has been etched in my heart many times and polished countless times.

"master--"

He called out "Master" again after three years.

Zhang Zhengdao sat down next to her and reached out to hold her hand.

"Back then, you tried to kill me, but I killed you instead. You became the only ghost in that world, but you stayed at Peach Blossom Temple and didn't want to leave. Then Hu Yunying and Guo Lanying came to Peach Blossom Temple..."

Shu Baimei continued, "Then we argued every day, and I even liked to dig up my own corpse... Then a lot of people came... Master, do you think we can go back?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "Sure, but I need to find Lu Xiaohua."

"Ah? The mistress!"

Shu Baimei's voice trembled; she was still somewhat intimidated by Lu Xiaohua, the mistress who was a few years younger than her.

Zhang Zhengdao nodded: "Yes, only by finding her can we find the Chaos Tree. With the Chaos Tree, we can connect the various worlds that are connected to us."

"But...but Lu...where is the mistress? How do we find her?"

Shu Baimei's body was forged from a chaotic lotus seed, allowing her to transform into many clones and enter various worlds within the chaos. However, she had never heard of Lu Xiaohua.

"I know!"

Zhang Zhengdao smiled; he had his reasons for saying that.

During those three years of wandering the world, the upgraded jade ruyi once again exhibited some unusual behavior. These unusual behaviors seemed to be establishing a connection with something.

Shu Baimei looked at Zhang Zhengdao with surprise and delight.

The master is the master; he can handle anything.

"My lord, if we find the mistress and the tree, will we return to our original world or remain in this one?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "I don't know either, we'll see when the time comes."

Shu Baimei slept soundly that night.

When she woke up in the morning, she felt a man next to her as soon as she opened her eyes. She turned her head and saw that she recognized the man, which put her at ease.

Back when she was at Peach Blossom Temple, nothing happened between her and the Taoist priest.

But after arriving in this world, while living together in the house at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, something happened between her and the master. Then she went out to wander again, not tasting meat for three years. Today she finally tasted it again, but the feeling was both familiar and strange. And she was also somewhat overjoyed.

Zhang Zhengdao was practicing his swordplay in the courtyard.

Shu Baimei made breakfast for Zhang Zhengdao.

Zhang Zhengdao sheathed his sword with a sense of satisfaction, then sat in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, picked up the porridge cooked by Shu Baimei, took a sip, and noticed it had a slightly burnt taste.

My skills still aren't good enough!

He then took two more sips and asked, "Is this all there is, just porridge?"

Shu Baimei nodded quickly: "I only know how to cook porridge."

Zhang Zhengdao had a headache: "What do you usually eat?"

Shu Baimei: "I don't usually eat anything. In the morning, I absorb the Primordial Purple Qi at the mountain peak, and then I don't need to eat anything."

Zhang Zhengdao slapped his forehead: "You stopped eating anything after absorbing the Primordial Purple Qi?"

Shu Baimei nodded somewhat shyly: "Yes, I think it's great. I don't even have to go to the outhouse anymore! I think that's the biggest advantage of cultivating immortality."

So this is what women believe is the benefit of cultivating immortality.

No need to go to the outhouse to poop.

really……

Women's brains are different from men's brains.

Zhang Zhengdao said, "If we don't even care about our appetites, what's the point of cultivating immortality? It's like an ordinary person suddenly becoming rich, but then becoming abstinent. Do you think that's normal?"

Shu Baimei nodded: "Getting rich quick and abstinence are unrelated. So this is normal."

You can't reason with this woman's brain.

If you cultivate to the point of having no desires or wants, what's it like to be an immortal?

If you suddenly become rich overnight on Earth, you'll definitely satisfy all the desires you had before. But if you cultivate immortality to the point of having no desires, you've essentially become a stone.

"From now on, three meals a day!"

Shu Baimei: "Two more meals a day are enough."

Zhang Zhengdao: ...

Anyway, life went on like this, and Shu Baimei also learned to cook. At first, her cooking wasn't very good, but later it gradually became quite delicious.

After being reprimanded by Zhang Zhengdao, he stopped spouting nonsense about eating twice a day and started making sure his three meals a day were arranged clearly, sometimes even including some barbecue.

Wild game from the mountains is fleeing Peach Blossom Mountain.

If they don't escape, the entire ecosystem will be destroyed.

"Master, where...where is the mistress?"

For so many days in a row, Zhang Zhengdao remained completely still, and Shu Baimei grew anxious and finally asked him.

Zhang Zhengdao said, "Wait a little longer."

He did have a sense of presence, but he couldn't pinpoint his exact location. It seemed very vague; he was definitely in this world, but he didn't know exactly where in it.

Spring has come again, and the peach blossoms at Taohua Temple are in bloom.

Not only are the peach blossoms in the temple blooming, but the scattered peach blossoms on the mountain are also in bloom. Many people come up the mountain specifically to see the peach blossoms in the Taoist temple, so the flow of people is quite large.

It was free at first, but the foot traffic was so huge that Shu Baimei started charging. The price of three copper coins was still very reasonable.

then……

The Taoist temple was now empty except for the two of them.

The peach blossoms at Peach Blossom Temple are in bloom, and so are the peach blossoms along the mountain road, filling the air with fragrance. This makes Zixia, who is riding a donkey, realize how beautiful the world truly is.

As Zixia passed by a house at the foot of the mountain, she saw a little girl of about twelve or thirteen years old with her sleeves rolled up, struggling to draw water from the well next to the house with a rope.

He carried the water bucket with great effort, walking into the house. As he walked, his strength was so weak that the bucket swayed on his thighs, causing some water to splash out.

"Little girl, may I have a drink of water?"

The little girl looked up and saw a beautiful girl, just like one in a painting, standing in front of her, leading a donkey and holding a long sword.

Her dress fluttered in the breeze.

"Okay! Wait a minute, sister!"

The little girl put down the bucket, ran quickly back into the house, and brought out a somewhat old bowl with chipped edges. The bowl was full of water, and she walked carefully.

It was held up in front of Zixia.

"elder sister--"

Zixia took it and drank it all in one gulp; it was very sweet water.

"Thank you, little girl. What's your name?" Zixia asked.

The little girl answered crisply, "Spring flowers."

Zixia laughed. It turned out that girls from the countryside didn't deserve to have names. Having a nickname was already considered good enough; many girls spent their entire lives with just an ordinary name.

"It's a nice name!"

Zixia smiled, then took out a silver ingot from her purse and handed it to the little girl, saying, "I drank your water, so I should give you money. Here, this is what you deserve."

The little girl shook her head, her eyes squinting when she smiled.

“My dad said that you can’t ask for money when you help others.”

She is a very well-mannered girl.

Zixia said, "Alright then, I'll fetch you a bucket of water and carry it inside."

As she spoke, she walked to the well, filled a bucket with water, and helped the little girl carry it into the house. She then poured it into the water vat in the simple house.

Zixia asked again, "You didn't accept my money earlier, saying that you don't need money to help others. But now I'm helping you carry water, and you don't refuse. Isn't that repaying me?"

The little girl smiled and said, "Sister, you don't know this, but my father said that if I don't accept money, but the other person insists on thanking me and doing something within my ability, I can't refuse."

Zixia teased her, "Why?"

The little girl said, "If we don't let her repay the favor, she will feel uneasy. Feeling uneasy is worse than having someone remember this favor. It's not good to help someone and then have them think about it. It's better to let her do something within her ability to repay the favor and then pass through our area without any worries. That's a good relationship."

Zixia suddenly realized!