Chapter 45: Spring Festival

Because they promised to make Spring Festival couplets for Yan Qianqian, Bai Yuming didn’t procrastinate, and made one for each cultivation bases.

But this time, Bai Yuming doesn’t need to write the couplets by hand, he just need to stamp his rabbit paws and it’s done.

When he gave the couplets to Mo Shulin, Bai Yuming couldn’t help but to emphasize the dangers surrounding Duanmu Jinyan, reminding him to watch out for Duanmu Jinyan’s usual hang out locations and stay away as far as he can.

Mo Shulin knew that Duanmu Jinyan was a bit nefarious.

But in his previous life, he had encountered and escaped Duanmu Iinyan many times, he’s already used to meeting this person unlike Bai Yuming.

Bai Yuming glanced at Mo Shulin who didn’t take his reminder seriously, said, “Don’t be so indifferent about this. Promise me you’ll pay attention to him!”

“Un. I will pay attention, please be rest assured master.” Mo Shulin nodded.

“Your voice tone doesn’t seem like you’ll pay attention to him.” Bai Yuming felt that he shouldn’t hide another thing about Duanmu Jinyan after he saw Mo Shulin’s nonchalant apperance.

Bai Yuming lowered his voice, emphasized: “Duanmu Jinyan has an ancestral lineage that gave him the ability to confuse others when he executed an unusual set of techniques, making people to subconsciously listen to his words. A person with unstable willpower could only get sucked dry when they encountered him.”

This is Duanmu Jinyan’s hidden plug-in, this ability didn’t got exposed until he became an immortal.

Although Mo Shulin has lived twice, he’s surprised once he heard Duanmu Jinyan got this kind of ability.

After thinking about it carefully, he thought about many things related to Duanmu Jinyan.

Duanmu Jinyan’s voice only takes effect when this unusual technique got used. But no one knows when Duanmu Jinyan will uses it and who’ll he target this ability to. People couldn’t predict him by his natural way of speaking, mixing both truth and lies together. They wouldn’t even know which part of his sentence would confuse them.

And Duanmu Jinyan also has Yan Yaozi’s guidance behind him, allowing him to be able to speak and does things more thorough than ordinary people.

Therefore, many unreasonable situations could be completed as long as it’s Duanmu Jinyan who does it. Even if it didn’t got achieved directly, Duanmu Jinyan could bend and stretch it to the way he wanted.

In the past, Mo Shulin thought Duanmu Jinyan used some kind of pill to achieve his success, turns out it wasn’t only ordinary pills but hidden ability that he doesn’t know.

Mo Shulin finally listened and nodded, “Rest assured, master. I won’t approach him.”

Mo Shulin felt that he has strong willpower and wouldn’t be easily perturbed by Duanmu Jinyan.

But he has a secret regarding his rebirth and too much contact with the demon cultivator Bai Yuming, whether it was for his master or himself, he can’t help but become more vigilant towards Duanmu Jinyan.

“That’s good.” Bai Yuming could see Mo Shulin’s seriousness this time.

“Don’t be bold at everything. It’s a reckless behavior to show off for a while. Just try to survive until the end.” Bai Yuming emphasized, “The one who lives longer is the real winner.”

Mo Shulin: “…”

Master is saying something that doesn’t fit his identity again.

Mo Shulin wanted to ask, isn’t master already in Mahayana period?

But he didn’t dare to ask aloud, he was afraid that Bai Yuming, who was already exasperated, would have an excuse not to run with him every morning.

Facts have proved that Bai Yuming thinks a little too much.

When Mo Shulin handed over the order, he never seen Yan Qianqian, let alone Duanmu Jinyan, so he gave the things to Gong Shuo and left.

Gong Shuo was also worried that he would offend Mo Shulin, who could make his life harder in front of Bai Yuming, became very well-behaved.

The whole process went very smoothly, there was no waves or excitement at all.

The only unsatisfactory thing is about material problem.

Mo Shulin once asked Gong Shuo to help him find two batches of materials. One batch of materials was used to make artifacts for selected disciples in the secret realm, and the other batch of materials helped to improve the quality of the house.

But because there were more disciples who went home this year, even taking a lot of senior masters away. As a result, they couldn’t receive a few materials of the two batches, naturally they couldn’t find a way to use it.

Material is something that can’t be found easily, Mo Shulin can only put things aside, and Bai Yuming can also take the opportunity to rest and have a good year.

In Bai Yuming’s original words: “We all have so much money anyway, we don’t have to worry about earning more.”

Mo Shulin admitted that he did saw Bai Yuming succeeded in gathering the spiritual energy with beast seals, instead of running around to sell artifacts at average price, it’s better to sell spiritual papers that doesn’t cost any money.

The materials to create artifacts are hard to find, there’s no guarantee that it could be sold for a few spirit stones. Mo Shulin has already planned to abandon this business line.

It’s just that he has already asked Gong Shuo to find the materials, so he’ll first see how much he can collect.

Even if these materials can’t be sold, it’s also possible to use it to make household utensils. The new house will obviously lacks at everything.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is here.

But it’s impossible for them to keep the year old.

On Yuexue Peak, one was being lazy and the other was at the critical age of getting taller.

One rabbit and one person naturally ignored the custom of keeping the year old and slept very comfortably.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, fat rabbit woke up early, not for anything else, but to accompany Mo Shulin for a run.

He wanted go back and sleep for a while, but didn’t expect Ye Qingling was waiting outside the door.

Nothing has changed inside, but the cave entrance has been improved.

One morning Mo Shulin found the cave entrance got buried under the snow. Mo Shulin could only fix and reinforce the cave entrance using stones, if there’s another avalanche in the future, it won’t block the hole.

After repairing the entrance, there will be spaces to post Spring Festival couplets.

But because Bai Yuming felt his calligraphy was too ugly, he decided to use his rabbit paw print and press it on the paper. The cave became a veritable rabbit hole with Spring Festival rabbit paw prints and two rabbit stone carvings.

Ye Qingling was obviously interested about the Spring Festival couplets, constantly comparing and measuring, curious about how Bai Yuming’s rabbit feet were longer than his rabbit paws.

When he noticed the owner of this cave had returned, Ye Qingling withdraws his curiosity and bowed to the fat rabbit who’s floating in the air, “Elder Bai, Happy Chinese New Year.”

The two saluted each other.

For the first time, Ye Qingling felt his heart got overwhelmed with cuteness when he saw a fat rabbit clasping his fists together.

But no matter how cute it is, Ye Qingling didn’t dare to be rash. This rabbit is one of the top 20 in Liangji sect.

After a simple New Year’s greetings and gifts, Ye Qingling started to talk about business.

“It’s like this, I heard Elder Bai has developed a new method that can instill spiritual energy on paper. I wonder if Elder Bai is interested in taking orders from our mission hall?” What Ye Qingling said was already clear, he wanted to ask for those spiritual energy papers.

“What task?” The fat rabbit sat on the table, holding a half of the walnut shortbread.

Ye Qingling and Mo Shulin were both sitting on chairs, eating the New Year gifts brought by Ye Qingling together in a friendly scene.

“Instill spiritual energy on clothes.” Ye Qingling knew that Bai Yuming didn’t understand, adding, “There’ll be thirty-five disciples to enter the secret realm, but the secret realm wouldn’t allow high-level cultivators to enter, so the sect wanted to give more protection.”

Mo Shulin frowned.

He knew that Liangji sect wouldn’t let go of such good things.

However, there’s a dedicated person responsible for negotiating in this sect, but now it’s Ye Qingling who was chosen to ask, which represents Liamgji sect’s attitude to Bai Yuming is considered to be respectful, also considering Bai Yuming’s communicative scope.

It’s impossible for the head to come out in person.

Even if Bai Yuming is qualified for this task, the thirty-five Jindan stage disciples aren’t.

If others knew Liangji sect’s secret realm that got provided by a junior needed Bai Yuming to personally instill defensive spell, they would really laugh out loud thinking Liangji sect doesn’t have their own secret realm so that’s why they paid so much attention towards this secret realm for the juniors.

There’s also no tradition about New Year greetings in the sect. After all, some elders are very close with their families and went home for the New Years, including Shangguan Zhuqing.

If the elders stayed at the sect for the New Years, the disciples are also not allowed to leave.

Therefore, there’s no such tradition as New Year’s greetings in Liangji sect.

Especially the head, who should avoid appearing to the public during the Spring Festival, so as not to make others contemplate about it’s meaning.

Ye Qingling came to ask Bai Yuming was the highest courtesy Liangji sect could give, while other aspects could only be supplemented by spirit stone.

Hearing that it was going to be stamped on the clothes, the fat rabbit can’t think about the answer for a while, turned to look at Mo Shulin with a complicated expression.

“Master hasn’t tried to instill spiritual energy on clothes yet.” Mo Shulin didn’t say yes nor did he say no.

Ye Qingling understood the meaning in Mo Shulin’s words, said: “It’s alright, then Elder Bai could try it first. If it doesn’t work, then Elder Bai can use paper again.”

Spiritual energy that got infused on cloths can directly affect Liangji sect’s clothing, while paper couplets can only be pasted on artifacts. Even if it got sewn on the clothes, they still need to pay attention to some aspects since the carrier is a paper.

There’s still a huge gap between these two effects.

“Un.” The fat rabbit nodded, biting his teeth on the biscuit, he began to feel at ease once he snapped the biscuit into two pieces.

Ye Qingling placed down a few pieces of cloth to let the fat rabbit practice.

“It doesn’t need to have high cultivation bases, only needed to be Out of the body period and Yuan Ying period.” Ye Qingling felt that his words were a little vague, so he explained more, “The main purpose is to prevent infighting.”

Can’t inform anything else, Ye Qingling said a few words and left.

Sending away Ye Qingling, Bai Yuming fell into a ponder.

Hearing what Ye Qingling said just now, Bai Yuming immediately thought of Yan Qianqian and the little green tea sister who had already been granted a place in the secret realm.

He has to say that Liangji sect’s worry is very reasonable.

Liangji is a martial art sect with more than 200,000 disciples. The number at the outer sect is always the largest, and there are as many as 130,000 disciples below Jindan period.

One hundred thirty thousand to grab 21 places, the intensity of this battle can be imagined.

In addition to the protagonist Duanmu Jinyan who lost the game, the scumbag also lost the game without a doubt.

Faced with the secret realm huge benefits, the scumbag who lost the battle began to shift his focus on the remaining three places in Yan Qianqian’s hands, explained his behavior in every possible way, even smeared the green tea younger sister, begging Yan Qianqian’s forgiveness.

Yan Qianqian was indifferent to the coercion and temptation of so many elders, naturally wouldn’t be moved by this scumbag’s sincere affection.

Yan Qianqian didn’t leave these spots to listen this man’s nonsense.

She knew that her reputation must’ve been vilified by the little green tea sister, and it became inconvenient to explain many things. Yan Qianqian deliberately used these three spots benefits to raise the scumbag’s expectations, letting him speak affectionately to her, and made the green tea sister’s matter public.

The few teammates who helped the green tea sister enter the secret realm together began to have doubts about the little green tea sister’s character.

Teammates who can be tied together with interest can naturally also be broken down with interest.

But now everything hasn’t started, and many disciples haven’t begun to compete yet. Liangji sect already predict these things. It can be seen there’s a reason why the sect chose to ask him on this day.

But what does these earthly grievances have to do with him?

The fat rabbit didn’t worry about practicing his beast seals when he received the fabric, so he gave himself a seven-day holiday.

Mo Shulin was still worried about the fat rabbit at first, but later discovered that his master doesn’t care. The fat rabbit will return to his previous way of eating when he wants to eat and sleeping when he wants to sleep. Sometimes would also read scripts from night until morning.

The most intuitive action Bai Yuming has is running in the morning. The fat rabbit is willing to jump and hop at first, then when he can’t even fast walk anymore, he simply rolls forward using his ball shaped body.

On the morning of the seventh day, the fat rabbit didn’t control his rolling direction, rushed down to the mountain.

It took Mo Shulin a lot of effort to search the fat rabbit in the vast mountains only to found the fat rabbit has fallen asleep.

Bai Yuming has Mahayana cultivation base and could still got unscathed after he fell, but the place where the fat rabbit has rolled into became a mess.

However, because of this Mo Shulin also found a tree spirit crystal from the mess, which is a good material for building a house. There’s also an ordinary wild boar whose IQ was too low and got killed by a fat rabbit, they finally food for dinner. He didn’t know whether to call the fat rabbit silly or stupid.

But on the seventh night, Mo Shulin didn’t allow the fat rabbit to stay up all night again, and by the way, asked him to go out to watch the fun tomorrow.

“What’s so interesting? Isn’t it always lively until the fifteenth of the first lunar month?” Bai Yuming isn’t interested. The main reason is that he hasn’t been addicted to reading scripts for too long, and after suddenly able reading it again, he became more indulged than before.

“There are a lot of games, and there’s prizes for winning.” Mo Shulin said.

“What prizes?” The fat rabbit lying on the grass nest turned a page, his rabbit feet swayed with face full of carelessness.

Now that he had spirit stones, there’s nothing in the world that could arouse his interest.

“Talking script.”

The fat rabbit’s eyes lit up immediately, he closed the script in his hand, “Let’s go to sleep!”