Chapter 1135 - 622: Appearance Can Be Changed During Reincarnation (Double-Length)

"What serious things can those two accomplish?" Zhu Pingniang didn’t believe it.

"That’s more reliable than you gentlemen drinking alone with Ms. Li," Miss Lu scoffed, staring at Zhu Pingniang’s eyes. "I reckon... it’s you who wants to go drinking, isn’t it?"

She thought Zhu Pingniang had discovered Ah Qing to be extremely beautiful, and her hands itched, falling into the habit of liking to train women.

"...So what, I just want to go drinking." Zhu Pingniang clenched her fist. Certainly, she wants someone to inherit the Hehuan Sect’s legacy, but she has already chosen Yun Qian, as only Yun Qian has that convincing strength, and Ah Qing is still far behind.

Zhu Pingniang pouted, "That pesky girl Ah Qing, I’ve been doing so much for her, expending so much effort, even lost quite a bit of hair while bathing... Now that her performance ended perfectly, I just want to attend her celebration banquet... Is that not allowed?"

Saying this, Zhu Pingniang looked discontentedly at Wen Li and Yun Qian: "Ah Li, Ms. Yun, don’t you think it’s wrong for me to want to attend a celebration banquet after running around tirelessly?"

Wen Li: "..."

Wen Li said nothing. What did it have to do with her? She was just interested in Ah Qing’s swordsmanship.

Yun Qian drank ginger grass and brown sugar tea, her tongue slightly stung, wanting to speak... but words wouldn’t come out.

"Ms. Zhu, it’s better if you don’t go to Ah Qing’s banquet," Miss Lu said.

"Why?" Zhu Pingniang pouted, witnessing her accomplishments is surely delightful.

"You crippled Huang’Er’s leg, forgot? Once there, they’ll surely indulge in verbal attacks on you," Miss Lu thought, certain there’d be shameless wicked women taking advantage of Zhu Pingniang.

"..." Zhu Pingniang, upon hearing this, felt it might be true, then she blinked, "Then, you come with me."

She didn’t have much authority in the Flower Moon Building.

But Miss Lu did.

"Ms. Zhu, if I go, that celebration banquet won’t happen; everyone will jump ship scared out of their wits," Miss Lu turned away, having sung the black face for years, she had become a complete atmosphere destroyer.

Plus, these Flower Moon Building girls were extremely slack, who wasn’t carrying a mistake or two?

Seeing her was like their legs would buckle.

"Then can I not go?" Zhu Pingniang was quite helpless, "Ah Qing is the second... half-demon whose fate I changed, she holds some secrets, perhaps... a hundred years later, she’ll be legendary."

By then, it’d be her boasting of having ’picked up’ two half-demons in the Cultivation Realm, quite face-gaining.

"Second one?" Miss Lu was surprised, "You previously encountered a half-demon?"

Qinling couldn’t be a half-demon, could he?

"... Hmm, this part doesn’t concern you," Zhu Pingniang smiled at the silent Wen Li, then rubbed her hands, "It’s like criminals always wanting to return to the crime scene; I want to see Ah Qing now, it’s reasonable... Ah Qing endured for years, and now can openly live as a half-demon; she might be moved, with mixed feelings wanting to cry."

Saying this, Zhu Pingniang patted her flat chest, "As her mother, of course now I must hug and comfort her, even if it means getting her cry-drenched collar, it’s what I should do."

"You?" Miss Lu clicked her tongue, "Don’t hurt Ah Qing."

"... I see you’re itching for a spanking."

"Alright, no more jokes with you," Miss Lu shook her head, her eyes grew serious, "Ms. Zhu, if you attend Ah Qing’s banquet... despite Ah Qing’s dazzling the other girls, your presence will take the spotlight, not hers, so... to ensure Ah Qing can better blend into Flower Moon Building, tonight, you mustn’t steal her thunder."

"...Ah." Zhu Pingniang was taken aback, then speechless, "Alright, I understand."

If it’s for her daughter’s good, she had nothing more to say.

She loved her daughter most.

"Also..." Miss Lu glanced towards the stage, where Ah Qing was already taken backstage, unseen now. She squinted, "I don’t consider her an ignorant girl, so just sit calmly, wait for her to come toast you."

"Eh?" Zhu Pingniang startled again, immediately sitting upright, "You’re saying, that girl Ah Qing will come to toast me?"

"Naturally," Miss Lu crossed her arms, "If that first toast isn’t for you? Could they carry on the banquet?"

Miss Lu knew the Flower Moon Building girls too well; even if Ah Qing hadn’t thought about it, Zhu Pingniang’s admirers would definitely remind her to pay respects to Zhu Pingniang first.

Further...

A half-demon’s keen thoughts, Miss Lu also admired Ah Qing’s temperament... she’d never forget.

However, Miss Lu suddenly glanced at Yun Qian, whispered to Zhu Pingniang, "Ms. Zhu, do you want Ms. Yun and Fairy Wen to step aside later?"

Despite being a dancer, and half-demon, letting her too close to Yun Qian and Wen Li might be inappropriate.

Actually being close to Yun Qian posed no problem; they’ve interacted previously, but Wen Li... her character was still somewhat unclear.

"Ah Li, do you want to meet Ah Qing?" Zhu Pingniang giggled, "Or are you prejudiced against half-demons?"

"I’d like to meet her," Wen Li nodded without hesitation.

Wen Li ignored the latter joke altogether.

It was her second time in life paying such attention to a girl - the first was Yun Qian.

Such swordplay...

She even anticipated sharing new insights with Ah Qing... ascending Qiankun, already perfected sword dao... Wen Li’s inner turmoil known only to herself.

Thus Wen Li had no objections.

Yun Qian had even fewer.

Ah Qing...

In Yun Qian’s mind, she belonged to her faction.

—

Outside, a dark sky churned, rain enveloping Beisang City brought an air of tranquility here too.

Upon learning Ah Qing was dragged into the barrier by Sect Leader for a talk, Li Zhibai knew Xu Chang’an wouldn’t settle... thus developing some unease over Xu Chang’an’s potential status as immortal reincarnation.

So, whether "teacher-student" or "mentorship" or "mother-daughter"...

Li Zhibai truly wanted to connect with Xu Chang’an, earnestly discuss reincarnation topic.

"..."

Li Zhibai, her name itself, denoted Knowing White and Guarding Black, embodiment of Heavenly Dao, so when the banquet raised reincarnation topics, she felt a connection, Underworld discussions further stirred an innate sense of reincarnation’s importance.

"Chang’an, you dislike reincarnation concepts." she inquired.

"Yes, dislike notions of reincarnation, afterlife, even somewhat loathe," Xu Chang’an spread his hands, "Mentioning reincarnation always feels like passing undone tasks to the next life..."

Thus he disliked and refused to believe in them.

"Sir..." Xu Chang’an smiled, "Frankly, if anyone should believe in reincarnation, it should be me."

After all, his existence was reincarnation’s product.

Xu Chang’an clearly remembered his previous life, merely an ordinary person in a time of lasting peace.

While unaware of his own birth details into this world—opened eyes at teenage—but this experience proved not transmigration, rather rebirth, reincarnation.

His being the best evidence of reincarnation’s reality.

Otherwise, how could every person who died remain dead, yet only he could reincarnate?

Listening to Xu Chang’an, Li Zhibai froze, frowned at the chuckling youth, "Chang’an, what do you mean... the person most entitled to believe in reincarnation is you?"

Li Zhibai hearing this initially thought Xu Chang’an was enlightened or aware of his potential ’great power’ reincarnation.

Yet swiftly, Li Zhibai discarded this possibility.

Xu Chang’an’s undisturbed demeanor evidenced him still as a blank canvas covered in ink, unchanged.