Chapter 40: Three People Traveling, Five People Also Traveling (Part 2)

  Xiang Qing Niu knew that Fang Jie was definitely not a good citizen the moment he laid eyes on him. Although Fang Jie had his eyes closed, leaning against the carriage and resting, Xiang Qing Niu was certain that this guy must have also noticed himself long ago. The reason was simple: because he himself had noticed the young man before noticing the meat in the hand of the car driver.

  He didn't know why, but he felt that young man was no ordinary person.

  As for why he was so sure, even he himself didn't know. So from the very beginning, he had to hesitate about whether or not to stop that horse carriage. If that young man really was a hidden talent, would he end up losing money on this deal? He absolutely wouldn't do business at a loss.

  But in the end he compromised.

  Because he thought the meat in the carter's hand really looked delicious.

  He discovered the horse-drawn carriage when it was about 100 meters away, he thought Fang Jie was a bit of a handful when the carriage was only 20 meters away from him, and when he steeled himself to intercept the carriage, the distance was still 10 meters.

  Then he made a decision.

  After careful consideration and precise calculation, he felt that his idea was feasible.

  So, when the carriage was about three meters away from him, he closed his eyes and let out a soft "ah" as he fell to the ground, lying horizontally on the official road. If the carriage didn't stop, its wheels would definitely roll over him. But he had calculated that with a distance of three meters, the driver would certainly react, but the carriage would inevitably not be able to stop in time.

  The wheels might crush him, but they will definitely not roll over him.

  Judging from the rough weight of this horse-drawn carriage, it is estimated that it will not be too seriously damaged.

  Of course, he calculated all this just to make the carriage hit him. If he didn't drill under the wheels, how could he blame them? Moreover, if his legs weren't really injured and unable to walk, how could he rely on them for a long time? It's worth being run over by the wheel for the sake of taking a ride and getting a free meal.

  It was just this short moment, but Xiang Qing Niu's mind had already thought of so many things.

  It's not just talent, but also experience.

  At first, when he walked out of Qingyueshan, he didn't even have a single copper coin on him. It took him six years to complete his exploration of almost the entire Great Sui, initially relying on this innate talent, and later relying on more and more experience.

  Chu Chenzi knew that when he spent six years traveling around the Great Yu, his heart felt that this little Shifu was truly a person with great perseverance. And Qingyue Mountain Xiao Zhenren knew about it afterwards, remained silent for a while and couldn't help but shake his head: "Six years to travel all over the Great Yu, I'm afraid even I can't do it. Little Shidi is a naturally talented and rare genius, also frightening."

  The Great Sui is very big.

  An ordinary person may not be able to thoroughly explore the Great Wall even in a hundred years.

  Xiang Qing Niu had always thought of himself as a natural-born genius, only slightly inferior to his second senior brother.

  Xiang Qing Niu's calculation was not off by a single error, when he fell down the wheel was only about 10 centimeters away from him. He closed his eyes, then exerted force with his left leg, trying to hold up the wheel. Although this carriage was somewhat old and worn out, its frame was quite large, it should weigh no less than a thousand catties, and when running the crushing force of the wheels must be very great, but as long as he protected himself well, it shouldn't hurt his tendons or bones.

  Close one's eyes

  Transport capacity

  Three seconds later, Xiang Qing Niu opened his eyes with some confusion, first looking at his own legs and then at the wheels of the car.

  The wheel was still ten centimeters away from him and hadn't moved at all.

  At this moment, the young man in black book robe jumped down from the carriage and squatted beside Xiang Qing Niu, looking at his chubby face seriously and said: "This Taoist priest, what a skilled movement."

  Xiang Qing's heart tightened, and a bad premonition arose. He put on a very pitiful expression, even to the point where sweat began to appear on his forehead.

  "This young master, I don't know what you mean... I was walking just now and suddenly my body went soft, couldn't support myself and fell down. Didn't scare you, did it? Alas... these days of traveling long distances must have been too exhausting, looking at how thin I am you can tell that I haven't eaten for many days, right?"

  The young man chuckled and said, "It's not that I'm scared, it's just that looking at you feels a bit familiar."

  Xiang Qing asked in surprise: "Why?"

  The young man didn't answer him, but instead smiled at the rickshaw driver and said, "Running into a fellow practitioner, do you consider it fate?"

  The driver nodded and said: "From Nan Yan Dali to Fan Gu, you've done this kind of thing too. But looking at it...this guy seems quite skilled too."

  Xiang Qing's face turned red as he crawled out from under the car, dusting himself off. He turned his head and walked away. Only now did he understand why he had felt a sense of vigilance when he saw that young man. Damn... really bad luck, ran into a fellow practitioner.

  "Hey!"

  Xiang Qing Niu walked out four or five steps before hearing the young man shout behind him. He turned his head and glared at the young man, saying: "Consider yourself lucky, I admit defeat today, isn't that enough? Let's part ways here and now, and we'll meet again someday!"

  "Really hungry?"

  The young man asked with a smile.

  Xiang Qing was taken aback for a moment, then proudly puffed out her chest, which made all the young girls jealous, and said: "I'm not hungry!"

  "Oh..."

  "That's just my own stomach growling? I just ate my fill......"

  ……

  ……

  "This young master, I see that your heavenly court is full and round, one look and it's clear you're not an ordinary person. Do you want me to read your palm? A person's fate is determined at birth, but if one can catch a glimpse of the heavenly mechanism beforehand, they can prepare early for encounters with people and events, and will surely be invincible. I, a poor Daoist, practiced in Qingyue Mountain's One Qi Observatory when I was young, although I didn't become enlightened, I can still see through the past and future thirty years."

  Xiang Qing Niu stuffed the last piece of meat into his mouth, chewing while saying: "Thanks for the hospitality, I won't charge you for this divination."

  Fang Jie couldn't help but laugh, looking at the serious face of the fat man in front of him, and shook his head: "I'm a person who doesn't believe in fate."

  Xiang Qing Niu swallowed the meat and felt much more comfortable. He heard Fang Jie say that he didn't believe in fate, and couldn't help but feel a competitive spirit rise up.

  "Believe it or not, it's all destined by heaven. Don't believe me? Stretch out your hand and I'll show you. If I'm wrong about anything, just kick me off the carriage with one foot."

  "Is it really that amazing?"

  Fang Jie smiled and stretched out his hand, saying: "If you can really see something, I'll have to reevaluate my opinion of cultivators."

  Xiang Qing Niu let out a grunt and pulled over Fang Jie's hand to take a look.

  His line of sight stayed on Fang Jie's palm for a few seconds, and then Xiang Qing Niu suddenly let out an "ah" of surprise. He flung Fang Jie's hand away, his face full of terror. The look in his eyes towards Fang Jie was filled with uncontrollable fear. This little fat Daoist was actually scared to the point of being pale-faced, and after letting out a cry, he shifted his body as if wanting to jump off the carriage to escape.

  Just then, a slender and delicate hand stretched out from the car and grasped his ankle, causing Xiang Qing Niu to be so frightened that he didn't even try to dodge.

  "Don't kill me, don't kill me! You go your demonic way, I'll go my human way. The well water doesn't offend the river water! Today is just my bad luck to run into you. Spare my life and I'll pretend I didn't see you!"

  He closed his eyes and shouted loudly, in this moment, the clothes on his body were already soaked with sweat.

  I don't know what terrible thing he saw from Fang Jie's palm, but judging from his expression and actions, it doesn't seem like he's pretending.

  Xiang Qing Niu was so scared that he didn't dare to open his eyes, and with both hands clasped together, he kept kowtowing and begging: "This good fellow... uh, not this, but a fellow practitioner of the Shura path, no matter what, we are all cultivators, although we don't belong to the same world, but since we've met, it's fate, right? I ate your meat earlier, can I repay you with money instead? The master of the Musan Daoist temple is my junior fellow apprentice, and in the small courtyard behind the temple, I have at least a few thousand taels of silver stored away. Can I give them all to you? Please don't catch me, just pretend you didn't see me, okay? I'm begging you, although I've been deceitful and cheated people for 19 years, I haven't committed any great evil deeds..."

  "It wasn't me who caught you."

  Fang Jie was also astonished and shocked.

  He looked at Xiang Qing Niu and said: "Can't you turn your head around? What do I look like, a hungry ghost from the Asura realm?"

  "No way! No way!"

  Qing Niu struggled and said, "The hungry ghosts in the Hungry Ghost Way only eat human souls and incense, how can there be hungry ghosts in the Asura Way?"

  He opened a slit and took a look, seeing that the one holding his ankle was a very beautiful hand, he couldn't help but exclaim again: "Ah! How can there be a woman in your car!"

  Fang Jie's mind was also confused for a moment, and he couldn't figure out what the fat Taoist priest meant. He couldn't help but turn his head to ask Mu Xiaoyao in the car: "What cultivation?"

  In the car, Mu Xiao Yao fell silent for a moment before responding uncertainly: "There's no cultivation... but you also know that if my cultivation reaches a certain level, I won't be able to feel it. In Fan Gucheng..."

  She didn't finish speaking, but Fang Jie understood.

  In Fang Gu Cheng, there was a female boss of a dog meat shop and an old cripple from Hong Xiu Zhao. Mu Xiao Yao didn't sense their strength at all, which was definitely a blow to his confidence.

  "Could he be one of those extremely skilled masters?"

  Fang Jie couldn't help but curl his lip in disdain.

  "Of course I am!"

  Xiang Qing Niu heard him doubting his cultivation and immediately retorted: "Where do you see that I'm not a master? I'll tell you to let me go quickly, otherwise, with just one finger, I can annihilate all of you!"

  After saying this sentence, Fang Jie became even more disbelieving.

  ……

  ……

  "Will you let me go?"

  Xiang Qing Niu took a stealthy glance at the woman in red, sitting not far away, and was so frightened that he immediately withdrew his gaze. It's unknown why he was so afraid of women, seemingly even more fearful than when he saw Fang Jie's palm reading.

  "Let you go is also okay."

  Fang Jie looked at Xiang Qing Niu and said seriously: "Tell me, what did you see from my palm?"

  "Don't scare me, okay?"

  Xiang Qing Niu said with a hint of grievance: "I'll just pretend I didn't see anything, and whatever you do in the mortal world has nothing to do with me. Let's just pretend we never met each other, okay?"

  "You don't say it, I naturally won't let you go."

  "Are you really unaware of your own fate, or are you just teasing me?"

  Fang Jie thought for a moment before responding, "I just want to know what you actually saw. If you're wrong... then no matter what, you won't be able to get off the horse carriage today. But if you're right, I'll let you go."

  "Really?"

  Xiang Qing Niu asked tentatively.

  "Nature will not deceive you."

  "Alright... you can't back out now."

  "Speak!"

  "Ancestor Dao said that between heaven and earth, there are six paths. The first is the Heavenly Path, which governs the divine spirits of the world... The second is the Asura Path, which is specifically opposed to the Heavenly Path, evil demons who delight in killing and covetousness as their nature. You... from your palm lines... you should have been a dead person... and what's more, one that emerged from the Asura Path."

  "How did you determine?"

  Furrowed brow inquiry.

  "The Ancestor of Tao said...... is a book left by the Ancestor of Tao with the essence of the Great Tao, which carefully explains the six paths."

  "The Six Paths, isn't that a Buddhist term?"

  "That's Buddhism being shameless, it was clearly said by the founder of Taoism."

  "Hmm... never mind that, how did you determine I'm on the Asura Path?"

  "Ordinary people have four clear lines on their palms, and most people have at most three intersecting lines. But if there are four lines that intersect at one point, and on that point there is a red mole... then that's the devil of the Shura path. Anyway... anyway, that's what the founder of Taoism recorded."

  "So you're sure?"

  Fang Jie asked seriously.

  "I..."

  Xiang Qing Niu hesitated for a moment, and with a bitter smile, asked Fang Jie in an imploring tone: "Then you tell me, should I be certain... or uncertain?"