Cultivation Kill

Shen Zige led the two forward on the rooftop, where the crowd below began to swell again.

"What's the point of joining in the fun like this? You might not even be able to get out of this street in a whole day," Shen Zige said, looking down.

“Maybe they just like to squeeze in,” Zheng Yujie said. “After all, the Grand Yuan Assembly is held only once every five years, and the higher-ups in Xizhou City feel that the interval is too long and they are too lazy to expand the streets.”

The road in front of the roof ends at a street corner, about five meters away from the front house.

"Can you two jump over there?" Shen Zige asked.

The two women shook their heads.

"Then I'll have to offend you." Shen Zige grabbed the two of them by the arms and jumped over.

The three of them leaped from one rooftop to the other like monkeys.

"Click——"

The glazed tile beneath Shen Zige's feet cracked. He spread his spiritual energy, connecting with the surrounding tiles to increase the contact area. By stepping on the tiles connected by his spiritual energy, he wouldn't break them.

“It feels like flying,” Luo Wansheng said.

“You are a celestial master. If you join the Great Yuan Sect, you can become an official even if you stop cultivating and return to secular life.” Zheng Yujie said, “I’m so envious. My family is in business. According to my father, thousands of years ago, one of our ancestors also became a Qi Condensation disciple of the Great Yuan Sect. Because he couldn’t break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, he chose to settle down and start a family.”

"Can't cultivators get married?" Luo Wansheng asked.

“It’s not that they can’t, but that they rarely marry mortals,” Zheng Yujie explained. “They usually find someone of the same cultivation level to become their Daoist partner, believing that marrying a mortal would reduce the chances of their offspring having a destiny to become immortals.”

"Oh." Luo Wansheng's heart tightened upon hearing this.

"Girl, could it be that your sweetheart is some kind of immortal master?" Zheng Yujie glanced at Shen Zige. "I advise you to give up. It won't work out."

“You’ve misunderstood, it’s not me,” Shen Zige explained. “It’s her childhood sweetheart from the village.”

After walking on the roof for half an hour, the three finally left the crowded area, and Shen Zige led the two to jump off the roof.

"Just two more streets ahead is my neighborhood," Zheng Yujie said. "When we get there, I'll make you a cup of tea to thank you."

Shen Zige initially refused, but considering that she would probably never see him again after leaving, and that having a cup of tea wouldn't take much time, she agreed since she could just let Shi Yuan wait.

Xiguang Road.

This area is considered an affluent neighborhood, with rows of magnificent luxury villas lining both sides of the street. Looking through the iron gates, you can see many gardeners weeding in their yards and maids mopping the floor.

"It's strange. With your family background, why did you go to Pinglu County alone?" Shen Zige guessed that Zheng Yujie must be the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and that the people living here must be rich and powerful.

“If I said I was kidnapped, would you believe me?” Zheng Yujie said. “Fortunately, after we arrived in the county town, he guessed that I had been kidnapped and brought guards to rescue me. Later, I stayed at a relative’s house in Pinglu County.”

“No wonder, who in the ordinary would wear such an expensive long dress in the county town?” Shen Zige said. “And she was so naive, dressing like that to rent a carriage? If she hadn’t met us, she might have died on the road.”

“Ah—right, I should hire bodyguards first,” Zheng Yujie said. “But the security company people there don’t seem like good people, I don’t trust them.”

"Then why do you still trust the coachman?"

As the three talked, they arrived at number sixty-one.

Before me stood a villa with a garden, surrounded by a high iron fence with sharpened spikes at the top. The front door was a double iron gate with a heavy brass lock hanging on it.

"Aunt Liu!"

Zheng Yujie saw a woman in a gray dress watering flowers through the fence.

"Miss, you are back!"

The woman put down the showerhead with delight and ran over to open the door with the key strapped to her waist.

"Miss, are these your guests?" The woman looked Shen Zige and Luo Wansheng up and down.

“Yes, Aunt Liu, please prepare two guest rooms on the second floor,” Zheng Yujie said.

“One room is enough,” Shen Zige said. “I don’t need to. I’ll just go in, have a cup of tea, and leave.”

The villa door opened, and two men dressed as servants ran over.

“Miss, you’re back. There’s a man in the living room who claims to be your husband chatting with the butler,” a servant said. “The master was very worried while you were gone.”

"My father is here?" Zheng Yujie asked nervously.

"The master hasn't come. Should we go and inform him?" another servant asked.

"unnecessary."

After Zheng Yujie finished speaking, she led Shen Zige and Luo Wansheng towards the villa.

Aunt Liu closed the door and followed behind with two servants.

Zheng Yujie slowly pushed open the villa door, and what came into view was Butler Hong, dressed in a formal suit, and standing behind him—

"Brother Dazhu!"

Zheng Yujie cried out and rushed over to throw herself into the boy's arms.

Shen Zige pushed the door open completely and saw a strong, square-faced boy dressed in hemp clothing hugging Zheng Yujie. The boy had slightly dark skin and thick calluses on his fingers, obviously from working under the sun often.

Upon seeing this, Luo Wansheng's face turned pale instantly, and she almost collapsed to the ground.

Fortunately, Shen Zige was quick and helped her up.

Hearing the noise, Zheng Yujie turned around and saw the scene. She asked with concern, "Luo Wansheng, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I've been too tired from riding in carriages lately, so I'm a little weak and can't stand steadily." Luo Wansheng tried her best to stand up and not fall.

The square-faced boy's smile vanished when he saw Luo Wansheng.

Zheng Yujie pulled the boy toward the two people at the door and said, "Brother Dazhu, let me introduce you. This is the Immortal Master, I don't know his name yet; the other is my newly adopted sister, Luo Wansheng."

"This is Shi Dazhu, my benefactor who saved me in Pinglu County. He's my boyfriend now," Zheng Yujie introduced to Shen Zige and Luo Wansheng with a smile.

She stood in the middle, seemingly waiting for the two sides to shake hands.

Shen Zige understood; this Shi Dazhu was the childhood sweetheart that Luo Wansheng wanted to find in the state city!

Shi Dazhu forced a smile and stepped forward to shake hands with Shen Zige and Luo Wansheng, but he quickly withdrew his hand when shaking hands with Luo Wansheng.

Shen Zige hadn't expected to encounter something like this. How should these three resolve this? However, he was an outsider, so he would leave after finishing his tea and didn't need to worry about it.

"Did you two fall in love at first sight?" Shen Zige asked.

"Mmm." Zheng Yujie nodded, a shy blush appearing on her cheeks.

"Yes, Yu Jie is my goddess, my first love, and I will marry no one but her in this lifetime!" said Shi Dazhu, the square-faced boy.

Luo Wansheng's face turned even paler, and tears seemed to well up in her eyes.

Shen Zige felt something was wrong. Why did Shi Dazhu seem like the legendary "phoenix man"?

However, since Luo Wansheng's mother had initially wanted to curry favor with Young Master Zhou and rejected his family's marriage proposal, it's understandable that he fell in love with someone else again.

But Shen Zige thought that he was lying when he said his first love was Zheng Yujie. However, what did it have to do with him? Why should he analyze it so much? The reason he was staying here was that he hadn't had his tea yet and couldn't say goodbye.

"Wansheng, are you feeling unwell?" Zheng Yujie said. "Aunt Liu, please help Wansheng to the guest room to rest. Put some fruit and hot water in the room."

“Yes, Miss.” Aunt Liu stepped forward to help Luo Wansheng.

“By the way, Wan Sheng, you said you came here to find your childhood sweetheart. My father has many men. Tell me his age and name, and I'll send someone to inquire for you,” Zheng Yujie said.

“I think… he probably already has a family here, so I won’t ask,” Luo Wansheng said. “I know the approximate address, I’ll just go over and take a look at him from afar.”

Shen Zige thought to herself that Luo Wansheng's words were contradictory and had logical flaws, which meant that her mind was in turmoil.

However, Zheng Yujie was overjoyed to see her lover. Love makes people foolish, and she actually believed Luo Wansheng's words. So she said, "Then you can stay here for now. When you want to go back, just let me know and I'll see you off."

Shi Dazhu stood awkwardly to the side, seemingly unable to find anything to say.