Notes on Longevity

Chapter 134 The Immortal is Taihua, the Taoist Priest is Yun Gong

"You two didn't really offend him, did you?" Wei Shengming noticed that the two looked a little off, so he stood up nervously and looked at them, questioning them.

Seeing Wei Shengming stand up, the two men also stood up nervously, asking, "What's wrong with this Taoist priest?"

“Sigh,” Wei Shengming sighed heavily, “This Taoist priest is no ordinary Taoist priest; he is an immortal.”

"An immortal?" The two stared in disbelief, dumbfounded, and exclaimed in unison, "You mean he's an immortal?"

Even if it isn't, it's close enough!

The main hall of the Wei family was eerily quiet. The bright lights shone on the three people's different expressions, making it seem somewhat frightening.

After a moment of silence, the man with the decorative ornaments cautiously asked, "What if we offend an immortal? What should we do then?"

"You two! I asked you to do something, and you didn't even get it done, instead causing me this huge trouble!" Wei Shengming said, his breath trembling as he pointed at the two men and berated them.

“But Dad, we’ve never met him before, and we don’t know him. You can’t blame us! What we need to do now is try to find him and apologize to him.” The other person explained, thinking of ways to make amends.

"An apology? How could you even think of that! This immortal is detached from worldly affairs, do you think he'll accept it?" Wei Shengming said, exasperated.

I thought for a moment, "He probably doesn't know what you're going there for today."

The man hesitated for a moment before saying, "He only saw us teasing the flower fairy; he probably doesn't know what we're doing."

"That's good." Wei Shengming looked at the decorated man, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Go and invite Immortal Master Yun Gong over."

The man who was adorning the decorations replied, "Yes."

After he left, Wei Shengming walked up to the man and patted him on the shoulder: "Mingqing, you are the younger brother, but you are much more mature than him. Send someone to the Qin family to inquire where this immortal lives. I will personally apologize to him tomorrow."

"Understood, Father. I'll go now." Wei Mingqing bowed respectfully, puzzled. He had wanted to ask why he was going to the Qin family to inquire about Taihua. But thinking of his sister's illness, he had no choice but to do as he was told and turned to leave.

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Wei Shengming has two sons and one daughter.

"Eldest son Wei Jiazhi, second son Wei Mingqing, youngest daughter Wei Wanyao."

“We have met his two sons, but I have never met his daughter since I first came here and learned about her. I later heard that she has been bedridden for many years.”

In the room of Gongchao Pavilion, Taihua told Daoyisheng about some things he knew about the Wei family. Daoyisheng listened attentively.

When Taihua mentioned Wei Shengming's daughter, he frowned and asked in confusion, "Is she bedridden for many years?"

Taihua hummed in agreement and shared his speculation about the Wei family's capture of the flower demon: "So much time has passed. I think the Taoist priests were probably trying to find a way to cure their daughter's illness. As for the flower demon, I guess it was the medicinal ingredient."

"A medicinal ingredient?" Dao Yisheng looked at Taihua in surprise. "Using a flower demon as a medicinal ingredient? What kind of illness is this?"

“The illness itself isn’t important,” Taihua continued, sipping her tea as she explained, “but rather the severity of the illness that would warrant using a flower spirit as a medicinal ingredient or the main ingredient.” “Like you, you are a tree spirit. Life grows and changes with the seasons, and it grows again with the coming spring. Flower spirits are the same. Strong vitality and self-healing abilities are characteristics of your kind. I suspect they want to use the life of a flower spirit to exchange for their daughter’s life.”

As Taihua spoke, Daoyisheng's brows remained furrowed. He stared intently at Taihua, puzzled. "But his daughter is sick. Why would he use another demon's life to exchange for her?"

Taihua chuckled twice, stood up, waved to him, slung his gourd over his shoulder, picked up his sword, and walked out. "You can sleep here. I'll go to the other side. Like I said, think carefully about what will happen to the trees near the Taoist temple and the trees not near the temple. Once you understand, you'll know why."

Dao Yisheng watched Taihua's departing figure with great confusion, wondering to himself, "What does this tree have to do with anything?"
At the same time, perhaps because they were both demons, he was also worried about Green Robe. He wondered whether he should help her.

He wondered, but he didn't know where she lived.

Where should he stay? He seemed to have thought of something.
After leaving Dao Yisheng's room and closing the door, Taihua didn't go to his own room. Instead, he leaned against a pillar, closed his eyes, and looked at Dao Yisheng, who was sitting in a chair deep in thought. Then, as if struck by a thought, Dao Yisheng turned to look at the open window, and finally rose and vanished in a wisp of green smoke.

After Taihua saw him leave, he slowly opened his eyes and smiled, "That guy. Oh well, he's one of us after all."

He stretched and yawned, carrying the gourd on his back, and slowly walked towards his room, muttering to himself, "Something unexpected. Looks like I won't be taking him to see any more weird stuff. This one incident is enough to change him."

He closed the door, put down the gourd, and laid down the sword. He opened the window, his gaze sweeping from inside the city to outside, thinking to himself, "Yu'an is about to descend into chaos again."

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Yun Gong was an old man with a few strands of black hair mixed in with his white hair. He sat calmly in the main seat of the Wei family's main hall.

His two slightly narrowed eyes were very bright, with whites and brown pupils, and a hint of golden light in them.

Although his slightly long face has wrinkles, he doesn't look old and gloomy. Instead, he looks like a newborn child, giving him a sense of rejuvenation.

He looked at Wei Shengming and asked casually, "That kid Taihua is in Yu'an too?"

"Yes, Master, it is said that he also brought a young scholar with him."

Only Wei Shengming and Yun Gong were in the main hall. After Wei Jiazhi invited him over, Wei Shengming told him to go back and rest.

"I was originally going to go to Kunlun with him, but this guy is aloof and went up the mountain alone. When did he start having someone follow him?"

A hint of doubt and confusion was visible between Yun Gong's brows.

Back then, seeing that Taihua was young, he wanted to travel with him. In case they encountered something along the way, he would have someone to look after them. But Taihua flew away on his sword without saying a word, leaving him alone on the road.

Although he encountered many things on his journey and was much slower than Taihua, when he arrived at Kunlun, he found Taihua kneeling at the foot of the mountain. Only after seeing him did Taihua get up and climb the mountain with him.

It was because of this that he received an opportunity after meeting the immortal; in contrast, Taihua only met the immortal once before being driven down the mountain.

Therefore, Yun Gong held Tai Hua in utter contempt.

(End of this chapter)