Seeking the Tao in the Mortal World

When they arrived at Li Fire City, the city gates were strictly checking the citizens in and out. When they saw Li Qinglin returned, the city guards all bowed on one knee. Everyone looked extremely serious.

Li Fire City, which was supposed to be bustling, was now in an emergency state. There were white flags everywhere and troops were checking passers-by everywhere. The pedestrians passed by in a hurry, not daring to speak loudly.

The death of a prince in a kingdom was really a serious political event, enough to make the whole capital panic.

Qin Yi suddenly felt that it was fortunate that Li Qinglin was not in the capital when the assassination happened, and the princess could testify that they were still in the valley. Otherwise, he would be the number one suspect, but that was not a problem now.

No one would be so careless to go into the mountain after assassinating his brother, then he didn’t even ask about it. What if he failed the assassination? Wouldn’t he lose the chance to erase the evidence? No one would be so stupid, not to mention a meticulous person like Li Qinglin. So Li Qinglin was not suspected at the moment, and he would be the crown prince logically.

The first thing the Li Family’s brother and sister did when they entered the city was not to settle Qin Yi, but to go straight to the palace. Li Qinglin just gave Qin Yi a badge and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, Brother Qin. We must enter the palace immediately. Brother Qin can come to my house with my badge. You will definitely be treated as my honored guest. Please forgive my negligence.”

Qin Yi was very considerate. He took the badge and said with a smile, “You should. Just go and deal with your own matters.”

Seeing the Li Family’s brother and sister heading towards the palace with solemn expressions, Qin Yi sighed and went shopping with the badge in his hand.

Although Qin Yi understood their situation very well, he didn’t want to go straight to his house with the badge because it was awkward. He should wait until Li Qinglin returned. Right now, he could stroll around to have a full view of the capital, and he could also take a look at the Longevity Temple built by the State Preceptor.

Longevity Temple was easy to find. He just asked any passerby, and they would show the way with awe and longing. In fact, Longevity Temple was not far from the palace, just at the fork where Qin Yi and the Li Family’s brother and sister separated. To the left was the palace and to the right was the taoist temple. Looking up, he could see the high platform on the top of the taoist temple, surrounded by smoke.

That was the Immortal Ascension Platform. It was originally built on a relatively high hill. It had 9 floors. It was the tallest building in Li Fire City.

Taller than the palace buildings.

To Qin Yi’s surprise, the State Preceptor had a good reputation among the people.

“State Preceptor, he is really an immortal. Last month, my wife was possessed by evil spirits, and she was cured with talisman water from Longevity Temple…”

“Longevity Temple is the most accurate place to ask divination. That time I went to look for divination before doing business outside. The taoist of the Longevity Temple asked me to go after 3 days. Do you know what happened? Well, on the third day, my wife tumbled the candlestick, almost burning my house. Luckily, I was home to put out the fire. If he isn’t immortal, who is?”

“It is said that last month when the barbarians of the West Savage Kingdom invaded, the State Preceptor performed a spell on the stage, making them vomit for several days. General Xie won the war because of that.”

Qin Yi shook his head and walked slowly. Forget about anything else, even the credit for fighting against the enemy kingdom was attributed to this kind of thing, the military must be infuriated. No wonder Li Qinglin, who was coordinating the deployment of troops, hated the State Preceptor so much.

Standing in front of Longevity Temple, Qin Yi looked up. The stone steps in front of the hall alone were 99 floors. There were crowds of people on the stone steps, bowing their heads devoutly. The solemn atmosphere caused by the death of the crown prince seemed to have no effect on this place at all.

The soldiers and horses patrolling the city under martial law inspections would not come here. Some occasionally passed by, but they would just pray with devotion before leaving.

“In this kingdom, people seem to blindly believe in the immortal.” Qin Yi said in a low voice, “I understand more and more why Li Qinglin wants to deal with the State Preceptor.”

Liu Su said, “Longevity does exist, but Li Qinglin is biased due to his limited knowledge.”

Qin Yi let out a “en“. According to his inherent view of Chinese history, the State Preceptor was undoubtedly a liar, and what Li Qinglin had done was undoubtedly out of righteousness; But because this world really had a way of longevity, he simply became the opposition. This was not as simple as right and wrong. Of course, for Qin Yi, no matter from his inherent view of history or his personal preference, he stood by Li Qinglin.

Just about to climb the steps to see the main hall, Qin Yi suddenly slowed down before walking a few floors.

A taoist nun slowly walked out of the taoist temple, walking toward Qin Yi’s direction.

Qin Yi swore that he had never seen such a beautiful taoist nun, not even in anime and game CG!

She stood quietly in the middle of the stone steps. Her exquisite face was unparalleled; her expression was peaceful and quiet; her beautiful eyes were as clear as water. She was clearly standing in a place where people came and went, but Qin Yi felt that everything around her was far away. Only she was detached from this world.

In fact, except for Qin Yi, almost everyone was not looking at her as if she wasn’t there at all.

What she was wearing was not the pure blue taoist robe of ordinary disciples as seen on TV, but her robe was embroidered with eight diagrams. The white color of the robe alternated with the sky blue pattern of the eight diagrams. Her taoist robe was fluttering in the wind. She was wearing plain white lined pants that were connected with taoist shoes. This set of clothes should belong to the mid and high rank of the taoists, but with her flawless body and temperament, it suddenly became like a fashion show. Her hair was neatly tied in a taoist nun bun. The taoist scarf was hanging loosely, and her sleeves were like flowing clouds, which added a sense of aloofness.

She was holding a long sword upside down, not a whisk. In this holy and aloof temperament, there was a hint of heroism.

Qin Yi suddenly felt that words like “fairy nun” should be used to describe such a person.

Liu Su’s cold voice pierced into his soul, “Why? Seeing the unparalleled beauty, you forget about the corpse insect, right?”

Qin Yi’s heart trembled. He stopped staring at her and quickened his pace.

Taoist nun stood directly in front of him as if she had something to say to him.

Qin Yi looked left and right, then he looked directly at the taoist nun who was looking directly at him, making sure that she was really looking for him.

This taoist nun obviously looks like she is free from the mortal world, and I don’t know her at all, why did she suddenly look for me? Qin Yi’s mind was on full alert. Thinking of the corpse insect beastkin coming out of the human skin, he still felt annoyed. He simply took one step to the side and walked past her.

Taoist nun raised her hand to stop lightly, “Mister, please wait.”

This chick really hooks on me? Don’t tell me you aren’t onto something, I won’t believe in you! Qin Yi’s hair was terrified. He took half a step back subconsciously, stretched out his palm and stopped her, and said solemnly, “Fairy, please respect yourself.”

Liu Su sighed leisurely and counted silently in her mind: 1.

That taoist nun frowned. Maybe she never thought that someone would say such a sentence to her. She frowned and went straight to the point, “The iron handle exposed on mister’s backpack is mister’s weapon?”

Qin Yi’s words, which were already considered humiliating, were nothing like a breeze to her. She still said whatever she wanted to say, which showed her well manner.

But what she said made Qin Yi’s heart tighten even more, and his vigilance increased tenfold.

If you want to cheat me, it’s fine, but you actually asked about my Stick Stick? Don’t tell me you feel that there is a soul in the mace. No matter how bad Liu Su is, I will never let someone dispel it. I have to deceive her…

Taoist nun really didn’t understand what was going on with Qin Yi’s weird sense of vigilance, so she could only continue, “I can see that there is beastkin blood on this thing. It can be seen that the mister just used this thing to get rid of beastkin not long ago. It seems to be… a spider?”

Qin Yi finally let out a sigh of relief. His forehead broke into a cold sweat.

It’s fine that she didn’t sense Liu Su.

But this taoist nun really has some skills. She can even tell the spider beastkin that I killed 2 days ago. Unlike Liu Su, who is a bullshit king, it couldn’t even feel the beastkin aura of the corpse insect beastkin standing in front.

Qin Yi was relieved. He finally answered, “I did see a spider beastkin eating people, so I get rid of it with my friends.”

Taoist nun nodded, but her voice was still cold, “Since mister does eliminate the beastkin, why did you mingle with Prince Qinglin?”

“Huh?” Qin Yi frowned, “What do you mean? I eliminated the spider beastkin with Li Qinglin and his sister, okay?”

The taoist nun looked into Qin Yi’s eyes seriously as if to see if he was lying. 𝗯𝐞𝗱𝐧𝐨𝘃𝐞𝐥.𝗼𝗿𝐠

Qin Yi suddenly felt uncomfortable with this look.

Even though she is asking normally, but this look and this questioning tone make me feel like… how should I put this…

It’s wrong to say it’s indifference or arrogance. It’s either cold or calm. But this kind of tranquility is not as comfortable as a clear spring, but like the Milky Way in the night sky. Although it is beautiful, it is very high and far away. One can only look up.

Maybe it’s the same as when I saw ants? I won’t have any thoughts about the ants. At most, when I see the ants carrying something, I will praise ‘Yo, so hardworking’, then I move on.

Maybe when I have a wicked sense of humor, I will trample it to death.

That’s pretty much it. By the way, this feeling is actually a bit familiar. It’s very similar to someone…

Liu Su?

Most of Liu Su’s evil nature stems from this distance. It said that there is nothing to be true about the rules and regulations in the mortal world. It is not the evil nature, but the feeling of looking down on all beings from a different dimension.

The so-called well manner is nothing but distance.

Qin Yi simply asked, “Is fairy a disciple of the State Preceptor?”

If she was under the State Preceptor, it would be normal to have a prejudice against Li Qinglin. The people of the Longevity Temple probably wouldn’t have a good opinion of Li Qinglin.

Taoist nun shook her head, “I’m Ming He, just a wandering taoist who lives here. I’m not a member of Dong Hua’s sect. You don’t need to call me a fairy anymore, just call me taoist.”

The Ming River is visible but cannot be approached. Qin Yi immediately thought of such lines in his mind.

It was simply made for her.

TL: It comes from a poem, Minghe Pian, write by Tang poet, Song Zhiwen.