The Spirit World

Chapter 567 [The Smooth Path to Immortality] My master is not a monster.

"Master, do you want chopped green onions or coriander?"

"Chopped green onions! It must be chopped green onions!"

I slowly rolled up the small slices of pork strips, slowly spread a layer of very fine vegetable oil all over the round surface, sprinkled some fragrant chopped green onions, and placed them on a small fire. The smoke was collected by my sleeves so as not to choke the chef.

The master is afraid of smoke and also a little afraid of wind. Unless she is urgently summoned for a special fairy mountain activity, she usually won't fly around on the clouds, because the wind will blind her eyes and make her cry.

Therefore, if Zhang Sanfeng who can turn stones into gold, Li Sifang who is a living god, and the fairy with a needle want to come and play mahjong with my master for fun, they must come to our mountain.

I heard that Lin Zhen is the Great Immortal Jinluo, who is famous in the fairy world. After becoming an immortal, most of them keep to themselves. To put it bluntly, they keep to themselves. Immortals have long lifespans, and there are many bored people among them. They don't have any greed, anger, or ignorance. They either really go down the mountain with those mortals to subdue demons, or... be like the Great Immortal of our Prajna Prajna Mountain - my master.

Either eat, sleep or play.

The reason why so many people seek immortality and ask for the truth may be because of these things.

I am the master's apprentice, so I am lucky enough that apart from practicing every day, I just eat, drink and have fun. I don't have anything else to worry about.

I think it's because my master always stays at home, never goes out to mess with others, he has a beautiful wife, and he is virtuous and never goes out of the house, which is like the leisure life of an immortal.

But this time she seemed to have offended someone.

I wanted to ask, and now that I have asked, she caused a big scene in that courtroom where I couldn't understand the rules... She must have offended people... I just don't know what she was thinking.

"Master, do you want sweet sauce or spicy sauce?"

I asked her again to take the meat roll off the fire. It was golden and juicy, and the outside was a little salty and crispy. It was very delicious.

"Can I have both?"

[Slurp～]

I heard the sound of her swallowing her saliva... My master is an expert in eating, drinking and having fun... When I start to eat greedy things, I will be very greedy.

"Of course... can it be spicy on the outside and sweet on the inside?"

“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!”

I used long chopsticks to spread the meat rolls again, and put the hot sauce bowl and sweet sauce bowl next to them together. Before the small spoon was put into the bowl, a little head with two whips on it came over, turned around my sadness, glanced at me with willow-shaped eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and heard the master exclaimed with a slurp: "Wow~ Why didn't you do this before? I'm so greedy~"

She leaned against me lazily, as if she had not yet recovered from the grievance she had suffered, and then she was tempted by the delicious food again. She rolled on my back, leaned against the small lounge chair next to me like a ball of fur, and slipped in like a fish.

"I just had a sudden thought. Your disciple must be a bit more capable. He must be able to think clearly and understand things. Right?"

I spread the sweet sauce on it evenly, then lightly spread the hot sauce on it.

The little head was put close to the fire, staring at the rolled-up string of meat slices, which were dipped in chopped green onions and sizzling with soy sauce and oil. The aroma was so tempting that I couldn't help drooling.

But giving good things to the master first is the rule of Prajnaparamita Mountain, and it must be an iron rule.

"Ah~ are you done?"

"Wait a minute? Even if you are an immortal, you still have to eat cooked food~"

I flipped the meat roll and a drop of vegetable oil fell into the fire, making a crackling sound.

"Oh my... look at what you can do~"

She tapped my head with her slender index finger. I chuckled and handed the meat roll with the bamboo skewer to her.

Instead, she lay down, slowly touched her belly, closed her eyes, but paid attention.

“Actually, I’m not hungry.”

She smacked her lips and went to sleep.

"Master, it's ready. Here's something for you to eat~"

I saw her becoming arrogant and putting her hands on the recliner. I was afraid that the oil would get on her, so I used my sleeves to block it, and she turned her head and leaned away.

"You eat it~ I don't want to eat~"

She even snorted deliberately, her long, shiny black hair flashed before my eyes, and then she turned away.

I also turned around with her and jumped next to her. I stood next to her and put the meat roll in front of her. The aroma of meat and the smoke swirled around her nose. How could I resist it? Seeing her wanting to eat but not wanting to eat, the sudden change made me feel uncomfortable.

The chef wants to be happy and never misses the food.

The master is unhappy... and he wants to offset it by not eating delicious food... I think it's unreliable...

"Master doesn't eat it, Goudan eats it."

I wanted to take a bite of the meat roll and put it in my mouth, but I was just testing it and couldn't eat it.

Seeing that the master was forcing himself not to eat, I was also in a state of panic...

"You eat it." The chef looked at the still golden meat roll, swallowed his saliva, closed his eyes again, and pinched his nose clumsily.

"Master~ I really ate it~ It smells so good~"

I tried to tempt her but didn't eat it. Judging from her reaction, it seemed like she was determined not to snatch it from me.

I cook for her, of course. If she doesn’t eat it, then I won’t eat it either.

"What's wrong? Chef..." I put the meat roll on the plate, turned it in front of her, and sat down on the ground obediently: "It was fine just now... What's wrong?"

She opened her big eyes again and looked at me aggrievedly.

He closed his eyes again and said nothing.

"Do you want to invite Zhang San and Li Si to play?"

She shouldn't.

I think.

“Is it not tasty?”

I tilted my head: "Is someone mad at you again? Who is it? Zhang San? Li Si? Or the Needle Immortal? If it's someone else, I'll call the three of them together to beat him up to help you vent your anger..."

I asked one by one.

She was indeed wronged...I feel bad for her too.

My master is always happy and never like this. If he is wronged or sad, it will show on his face. He won't try to hide it. If he has been wronged, it is easy to guess.

For example, if she lost the game of sepak takraw with Zhang San, Li Si, and the needle fairy, she would feel wronged for half a day... For example, if she lost some fairy grass in mahjong, she would feel wronged and make a scene... For example, if she lost the game of raising a spirit beast called fairy bean with Zhang San, Li Si, she would feel wronged and blame me...

Although as far as I can remember, she has never won any competition with them except in the competition of force.

"You can't beat... that brat..." She turned around again, and I flew in front of her and forced her to look at me.

I looked at her with some regret and loneliness, and smoothed her hair with some sadness and said: "Who made you angry? Of course I can't beat someone who is stronger than you... But if we talk about reason, I am definitely not inferior to those old men!"

I patted my chest and abdomen, feeling full of confidence.

"I don't think it's reliable... You'd better not go..."

She actually wanted me to help her reason, but she probably felt that I couldn't win the argument, so she simply skipped this step...

She told me to jump into the fire pit, but I didn't hesitate to do so. I would reason with other people and as long as my master was right, I would vent my anger.

"We are all immortals, why should we suffer bullying? Right? Tell me who bullies you, your master! I will go and reason with them! I won't accept it unless I scold them to death!" I put my hands on my hips, flicked my sleeves, touched my nose, and snorted.

"Lin Zhen, can you beat him? If you think you can, let's go and fight!" The master sat up with a bang, put her hands on her hips and looked at me unhappily. I looked at her, dumbfounded.

"Lin Zhen again?"

The master caused a big fuss in the judgement hall of the fairy world, said a few nice words to the little monsters, and offended Lin Zhen, but he should have offended most of the fairies there.

I also agree with the master's opinion. The master is kind, and the monsters in Prajna Prajna Mountain are mostly kind. They don't eat people and don't do evil. If you speak for the kind little monsters, then you have to stand up straight!
I heard that some immortals who have gone astray in their cultivation may also commit murder and arson. Why didn't anyone say to place all the immortals in one place? If they had to find the monsters, they would have to make a special space and stuff the monsters in there, leaving them to fend for themselves?

That doesn't make sense!

Of course I know there are bad monsters, but I don’t think about it in such an extreme way…

I never think that people are either good or evil. As long as they don't harm others for their own benefit, no one can tell good from evil based on the ethnicity of the person they see. Isn't this naked prejudice and ethnic discrimination...

Anyone who does bad things must be arrested.

There is no such thing as letting him go just because he is an immortal, and there is no such thing as arresting or even confining a monster who has not done anything bad as a demon.

This is simply unreasonable!

My master proposed a reason, but they didn't accept it... How can we talk about fairness...

If we must judge in black and white terms, then from our perspective, they are absolutely black-hearted.

Because they are pretending to be ignorant, they must know that there are good monsters! They must also know how important good monsters are to the monster race. If good monsters are neglected, they must also know that this kind of thing will chill the hearts of good monsters.

It's just that they want to stop catching monsters once and for all... They made a blanket decision and symbolically held a meeting of immortals to judge by the majority, and the majority was them, so how could they come up with a result that satisfied the minority...

I told my master everything.

The master listened to me and nodded: "It seems to be true... They are indeed pretending to be ignorant... But then... Even if you expose their tricks, it will be useless..."

I shook my head.

Indeed, just knowing their incompetent ability to play dumb is not enough... We need countermeasures.

"It would be great if there could be an organization that could suppress the immortal world... or if there could be immortals who were willing to take charge and each person who was recommended had a veto power. Instead of focusing on the interests of the majority, they would work on the realization of everyone's ideas. There would be no absolute leadership, but everyone would be equal."

I ended up confusing myself. Maybe what I meant was to find an organization to restrain those judges, but I didn’t express myself well, and even my logic was flawed. I didn’t get to the point, so I shut up.

“I don’t understand what you are saying… But I really can’t beat Lin Zhen. If I could beat Lin Zhen, those people would definitely listen to me…”

When the master saw that I understood her concerns, he sighed for the first time.

The breath was long and thin... I could smell the fragrant scent from her body, it smelled very nice.

But, I have no way to help Master break the impasse.

This is actually a very difficult thing to do...

I heard from my master that it won't be long before the little monsters in the Prajna Prajna Mountain must be confined to another dimension. If you think about it, you will know that the environment in that dimension is not very good. If the big monsters don't obey, they will be hunted down and killed by the fairy world.

What this means is that... monsters cannot enter the human world openly... They have their own exclusive territory - the territories that the immortal world has allocated for them...

Whether good or bad...

To put it bluntly... If you are a demon, you must get out of here as soon as possible... Whether you can see the sun in the world again, I guess it's hard to say...

Asking them to go to that place is the same as killing them. Even with Lin Zhen as the guardian, it will inevitably cause great turmoil.

Well... no matter how much my master protects her children, she will definitely not speak for those monsters who have really done evil, but she is a little unwilling...

Unwillingly, the monsters who had lived with us for several years, and even those who had known the master since childhood, had to go to that broken place...

She felt distressed...

I can see she's distressed...

Although ethnic discrimination will never disappear, in the Prajnaparamita Mountain, all the little monsters and us do live in peace...

The master told me that she believed that this contradiction must be irreconcilable, but there must be a way to make this contradiction less acute.

That is the teaching of kindness.

Some people say that human nature is evil, and that people resolve their evil through education. I certainly believe in the role of education, but I am not willing to believe in the theory that human nature is evil, because some people are indeed innocent and kind since childhood... and some people are exactly the opposite from birth.

Good and evil are opposites, but they are not completely binary opposites.

The master also agreed with my point of view...

I ate the meat roll silently... The chef didn't eat it after all...

Sweet and spicy taste in my mouth...

I can't think of a better way to deal with it...

I can only watch silently as my master gathers with her monster friends one by one, for the last time...

Then the tears parted...

As a fairy, the master would cry for the departure of the monsters... I am not surprised at all. Because I know that the master is a kind and beautiful woman, and although her monster friends are not as pretty as her, and even all of them are crooked, they are still kind...

The master tolerated them with all his heart...

They are also willing to be nice to their master...even to be extremely nice to him...

It seems that the days when we, the Prajna Prajna Mountain, and the monsters lived together and helped each other are gone today, and will never come back...

I will miss the little mouse who always came to borrow oil to eat...

I will miss the big rabbit with squinting eyes...

I will miss that little fox with a charming face...

I will miss the big turtle that always sleeps in its shell...

I will miss that big eagle that always loved to fly around…

I will miss so many cute little monsters...

They are no different from everyone else, and they are even kinder than me...

They are just monsters...

As a human, a demon, an immortal, or even something else...

My master, dressed in gorgeous clothes, sat on the grass and watched them leave with melancholy...

I sat next to her... watching her say goodbye helplessly, feeling somewhat sad...

At least there are no monsters in this world...