High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 60 - 59: Peanuts Exchanged for the Jade Seal
"Man-made disaster..."
Lin Er You chewed on these two words and shook his feather fan: "Yanwei, you’re overthinking it."
He walked to the railing and gazed at the distant Guan Du Port.
The vast waves of Dongting Lake extended for a thousand miles, endless silent winds and moonlight, ending here, transforming into the bustling pier.
Lin Er You pointed forward with his feather fan.
"Yanwei, look at this Guan Du Port; a thousand years ago, before the Liang Kingdom was founded, even with this fertile land and vast lake, it was still nothing here."
"But because it became a main thoroughfare between the two counties, a must-pass for city sieges, people gathered, leading to these riverside willow bridges, green curtains, homes of hundreds of thousands."
"High buildings rise where the sails pass, humanity bustling with life."
"Yanwei, do you know what all this hustle and bustle means?"
Lin Er You smiled and glanced sideways at Zhou Yanwei.
Zhou Yanwei was silent for a moment, then replied:
"The world hustles for profit, the world bustles for gain."
He looked at the young man in extravagant clothing in front of him and spoke in a deep voice:
"You are a merchant, here for profit."
"Not so," Lin Er You calmly replied. "I am a person, just like everyone in the world."
"Since the world pursues profit like eagles chase rabbits, and the law doesn’t punish the masses, seeking profit cannot be called a man-made disaster."
"It is nothing but human nature."
Zhou Yanwei suddenly sighed, saying: "Brother Lin, you indeed learned nothing good on that Freedom Mountain."
Lin Er You, hearing this, became angry but instead laughed aloud:
"I told you, I was sleeping the whole time."
He said this and then looked troubled: "Caught sleeping means having to face a wall in the peach forest; no matter how beautiful the peach blossoms are, seeing them too much becomes annoying, better to close my eyes and ignore them."
He looked towards Zhou Yanwei and said slowly:
"Don’t you agree, Yanwei?"
"I quite agree with what you said at the table just now, not everyone understands what the Mystic God Daoist Sect risks meddling in others’ affairs actually represents."
His gaze turned cold: "Some things, before meddling, you should think if you are qualified to meddle."
This statement nearly made the implication clear.
Zhou Yanwei was silent for a long while, nodded, and said: "Brother Lin, you are right."
"However, alone, Brother Lin, you may not represent all people."
With that, he flicked his sleeves and left.
Leaving Lin Er You standing alone on the ship’s deck, shaking his head, smiling wryly.
This Zhou Yanwei, seeing a mortal being robbed on the roadside, would still feel the urge to help.
Really too kindhearted.
After a while, a robust young man in black attire suddenly appeared beside Lin Er You, standing with his hands behind his back.
The robust young man asked in a low voice: "Are you sure it’s him?"
Lin Er You nodded, smiled, and said: "Eight to nine chances out of ten."
"Why, does the landlord not trust me?"
"Canglang ranked eleventh, one of the two personally praised as a ’Standing Bookshelf’ by the Master, of course, I trust."
The robust young man shook his head, his gaze sharp: "Docking tomorrow, act immediately, the bounty is yours, the head is mine."
This young man, with a square face and straight nose, not very handsome, yet in Jishao County, almost everyone knows him—
Wind and Rain Pavilion, Di Wu. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
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"Speaking so mysteriously... aren’t you only in the Enlightenment Realm? How can you so easily see the workings of fate..."
Shen Meinan muttered.
Chen Kuang didn’t plan to explain much, simply smiled, and said:
"Then think of it as me talking nonsense."
If things were really as he thought, then his recently stable life would vanish in the blink of an eye.
Sigh, he truly didn’t know whether his kind senior brother wanted to send him soaring in Qingyun or up to the Western Paradise...
Shen Meinan realizing her slip, quickly waved her hands, saying:
"I, I did not mean to belittle your cultivation level, being in the Enlightenment Realm is really quite impressive."
Though he just consoled her, she then turned around and criticized his cultivation, a bit too tactless.
Watching the young girl overwhelmed, her face flushed while she fumbled with words.
Chen Kuang found it secretly amusing, and with a deliberate sigh and melancholy demeanor, he said:
"Alas, limited talent, without a sect or school, even wishing to cultivate has no path."
Shen Meinan, hearing this, suddenly had a flash of brilliance, bit her lip, and cautiously said:
"Um... if you wish to join a major sect for cultivation, actually, I have a way."
Chen Kuang raised an eyebrow: "What way?"
Shen Meinan looked at him and said: "My... my family gave me a core disciple spot in the Mystic God Daoist Sect, it’s just that I was always throwing tantrums and never joined."
Her eyes dimmed, tiptoeing and twisting on the ground:
"You know who my sister is."
"The Mystic God Daoist Sect is actually trying to please her, otherwise, with my talent, how could they invite me."
Chen Kuang asked in confusion: "Is there such a spot? But the Mystic God Daoist Sect invited you, wouldn’t accept a substitution, right?"
Shen Meinan shook her head: "The Mystic God Daoist Sect has its rules, there are itinerant disciples who are specifically responsible for finding suitable seedlings and issuing Guiding Seals."
She took out a small jade seal from her bosom and placed it in Chen Kuang’s hand.
"The Guiding Seal can be transferred. If it’s the original recipient, they can directly join the Mystic God Daoist Sect, but if transferred, it would necessitate an additional evaluation."
"As long as you pass, you can still join the Mystic God Daoist Sect, it’s just you can only be an ordinary disciple, not a core disciple."
Shen Meinan giggled, her eyebrows arching: "I’m sure you can pass the evaluation."
Mystic God Daoist Sect, Fuli Immortal State.
Chen Kuang lowered his head, that jade seal in his hand was a chance many dream of.
Opportunity in Qingyun... is it here?
Chen Kuang asked: "Such an important item, you’re just giving it to me?"
Shen Meinan countered: "It’s not just, I consider you a friend."
Chen Kuang laughed: "Met just once, and we’re friends?"
Shen Meinan quickly glanced at him, stammered: "Well... it doesn’t have to be friends, anyway, it’s of no use to me, just take it."
This girl, truly too easy to understand...
Chen Kuang rubbed the jade seal, suddenly frowned, and curiously asked:
"This Guiding Seal... how is it a bit oily?"
Shen Meinan was stunned, quickly grabbed it to check, embarrassedly explained blushing:
"By accident, it got put with peanuts."
She reached her hand into her pocket and, astonishingly, pulled out a handful of peeled peanuts.
Greasy and white.
The young girl sheepishly said: "I was planning to keep them as a midnight snack, the peanuts on this tower ship are really delicious..."
Chen Kuang recalled, during the earlier conversation, Shen Meinan was almost silent, busy peeling peanuts.
Turns out she stored them all in her pocket.
"Heh."
Chen Kuang couldn’t help but chuckle.
Shen Meinan exclaimed, demanding he not laugh: "They really are delicious!"
In a fit of rage, she handed Chen Kuang a peanut: "Try it and you’ll see."
Chen Kuang closed his fingers, pinching the peanut, and said with a smile:
"Now that I’ve exchanged this peanut for the jade seal, don’t just give it away to anyone."
Shen Meinan was startled, but then she heard Chen Kuang gently say:
"The Mystic God Daoist Sect invited you, Shen Meinan, not Shen Xingzhu’s sister, nor some random passerby."
"Since the Mystic God Daoist Sect has rules, they wouldn’t casually give out the Guiding Seal, you are definitely worthy of being a core disciple."
Shen Meinan pursed her lips: "But my talent is mediocre..."
"My cultivation is worse than yours."
Chen Kuang rhetorically asked: "You believe I can pass the evaluation, why don’t you believe in yourself?"
"Didn’t you say Shen Xingzhu being first in Canglang is not remarkable, maybe in a few years, you could be there too?"
"I was just speaking nonsense..."
"I believe."
Chen Kuang said, word by word: "In a few years, the name Shen Meinan will be at the top of Canglang."
Shen Meinan was stunned.
Chen Kuang added: "It doesn’t matter if you change your mind someday, by then, when I am first, I’ll report under the name ’Shen Meinan’."
Shen Meinan widened her eyes, then suddenly burst into laughter.
She quickly covered her mouth, her two bell-shaped hair ornaments swaying wildly:
"I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing at that... haha... that... really going to report it?"
"Really going to report."
Chen Kuang also laughed.
Reaching for Qingyun, not as good as the smile of a young maiden.
