Lao Tzu is Ji Gong

"Damn you, system! I'm really unlucky this time. You've ripped me off."

"You wait, I'll make you pay next time."

Furious and powerless, Li Xiu could only swear in his heart, but that was all he could do.

It took Li Xiu a long time to calm the flames of anger in his heart before he could begin his cultivation.

To be honest, this "Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is basically not difficult.

Regardless of the era, Li Xiu was able to master it with ease.

It's not that Li Xiu has some extraordinary talent.

Chapter 1310 Blurred Consciousness

The main point is that it's only two pages long, and written in a very straightforward way, so you can remember all the content after just one glance.

The method described in "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is roughly like that.

Laughing hard, because I'm thinking about the things I'm trying to forget.

When you're laughing so hard you're almost out of it and feeling a bit short of breath, just think of something funny.

In this way, when you laugh to the extreme and then look back, it's always because you thought of something particularly happy that made you laugh so uncontrollably.

With this hint, the things you wanted to forget were covered up and forgotten.

The words may be crude, but the principle is sound; to put it bluntly, it means acting like a complete idiot.

Laugh as hard as you can, laugh until you drop, and then forget about it.

Fortunately, Li Xiu did read through all the contents of the "Book of Laughter and Forgetting" carefully.

Li Xiu had initially thought that there might be some hidden meaning in the story that followed.

After flipping directly to the next two pages, Li Xiu discovered that the method required absolutely no skill, and he wondered if he had missed something.

As a result, after reading the previous story, Li Xiu only felt that he had been ripped off way too much this time.

The story was absurd, and the technique was terrible, but it happened to have a slight effect, so it was included in the system.

Something that should have been gathering dust in a corner was exploited and ruthlessly fleeced by the system because of Li Xiu's impatience.

"You despicable system, I curse your whole family in my heart!" Li Xiu said fiercely in his mind.

But then the system suddenly sent out a message: "The system is alone and has no relatives or friends."

This little prank almost caused Li Xiu's mentality to completely collapse.

The system sensed this, and after finishing its act, it ran away, giving Li Xiu no chance to vent his frustration.

Li Xiu forcibly suppressed his anger, repeatedly telling himself, "Li Xiu, you need to calm down. The system is doing this to temper your character. Let's focus on doing the important thing in front of us first!"

After repeating this sentence nearly two or three hundred times, Li Xiu was finally able to calmly begin practicing the "Book of Laughter and Forgetting," allowing himself to start the second stage of his arduous journey.

Learning something is difficult, but forgetting something is no easier than learning it.

Li Xiu thought that he could just laugh it off with the Book of Laughter and Forgetting, but when he started laughing, he found that he didn't forget it naturally after laughing to a certain extent, as the book said.

Although Li Xiu's booming laughter echoed throughout the cave, the cursing in his heart never stopped!

After laughing for a while, Li Xiu stopped and started thinking about what he had done wrong.

After all, this cultivation technique, no matter what, shouldn't be any different from forgetting a person.

In fact, Li Xiu was also caught in a strange cycle at this moment.

Li Xiu subconsciously believed that if that frail scholar wanted to forget that woman, it must be because they were deeply in love, which must be a very difficult thing to do.

Actually, that's not the truth.

After that weak scholar gained some skill, he became arrogant. It was because he was too presumptuous and tried to take the woman from the cultivation family as his concubine that the subsequent events occurred.

The scholar's initial attraction to the woman from the cultivation family wasn't the typical love-at-first-sight scenario.

Chapter 1311 The Author's Lies

Rather, he was simply lusting after her body and her special status.

It was only because the woman from that cultivation family was very kind that the frail scholar was able to survive.

As for making the frail scholar forget her, that's a must.

If that frail scholar still dares to think about her, it would be the greatest desecration to her. No matter how kind the woman is, the other elders of the family would send that frail scholar away with pleasure.

Therefore, given the threat to his life, it wasn't difficult for the frail scholar to forget the woman.

Moreover, nothing happened between the two of them; they didn't even exchange a few words, so it naturally couldn't be compared to cultivation techniques or anything like that.

The complexity of the cultivation method is far, far greater than forgetting a small fragment of memory!

However, there are some differences, even a huge gap, in terms of difficulty.

However, the system would definitely not recommend such a scam to Li Xiu.

This book, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," does have its uses.

If Li Xiu can gather all the details of the cultivation technique into a memory fragment, use this memory fragment to open the valve of laughter, and then use other memory fragments to cover and erase it, he can achieve the goal of forgetting.

Of course, as a qualified system, it should have reminded Li Xiu of the precautions to take when cultivating the "Book of Laughter and Forgetting".

After all, when Li Xiu was practicing the Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart, the system had given him all the precautions and cultivation tips.

This time, because Li Xiu complained about the system repeatedly, the system also threw a tantrum, wanting to deliberately annoy Li Xiu.

The system also had its own plans. "If Li Xiuzhen can't figure this out, it won't be too late to tell him what's going on later."

Poor Li Xiu was still completely unaware of what was going on, going around in circles.

"Something's not right. If there's nothing wrong with the preceding text, then there's definitely something wrong with this technique!"

Li Xiu also came to this conclusion after several failures.

After all, Li Xiu also trusted the system. The things he obtained from the system, apart from being expensive, had never made a mistake, not even once.

So Li Xiu once again opened the long and tedious prequel to "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and began reading the melodramatic love story of the weak scholar.

"Sure enough!"

When Li Xiu reread this melodramatic story, he also discovered the errors in it.

"Two people who truly love each other wouldn't write something so full of holes!"

"This story is completely made up!"

Upon seeing the scholar's terrible writing, Li Xiu slapped his thigh hard.

After all, as someone who's been through it all, and could even be considered a seasoned veteran, how could Li Xiu not understand what the man and woman are thinking when they're truly in love?

"This system is really determined to disgust me!"

After analyzing the problems with the "Book of Laughter and Forgetting," Li Xiu turned his attention to the system.

Li Xiu now realized that the system was simply playing a trick on him.

First, they lure you with something you desperately need at a high price, then trick you out of all your merit points, and finally deliver the final blow by giving you a piece of junk.

Chapter 1312 The Rant System

"What did I, Li Xiu, do wrong with this system? Didn't I always cultivate to the top of the world?"

"So many world's number one players can't satisfy your system!"

"If I successfully inherit the throne this time, I'll make sure you know who the real father is!"

Li Xiu secretly vowed to make the system look at him with new eyes.

Perhaps it shouldn't be called "looking at him with new eyes," but rather "recognizing him as my father."

After thinking for a while about these things unrelated to cultivation, Li Xiu turned his attention back to the "Book of Laughter and Forgetting".

Despite the complaints, since this book is listed in the donation shop, its purpose must be correct.

"If that's the case, I must have misunderstood something."

"Now that we know the story was made up by the author, his method must be correct."

"What if the story is actually very simple, and the author has very little experience?"

Li Xiu seemed to have discovered his blind spot, and his thinking suddenly became clearer.

"If that's really the case, then it makes sense that the frail scholar could forget some things by laughing wildly."

"After all, compared to a trivial little thing, a whole host of happy things take up the vast majority."

While searching for flaws in his own thinking, Li Xiu began to reason from various angles about how to resolve the matter.

"If we were to treat the cultivation technique as a trivial matter, it might be impossible," Li Xiu said slowly after a rational analysis, without becoming arrogant.

"Is there really no way out?" After realizing that his previous assumptions were not working, Li Xiu scratched his head, looking somewhat uncomfortable.

"Since it's not about using big things to erase small things, then what exactly caused the forgetting?" Li Xiu pondered again.

This time, Li Xiu didn't sit cross-legged there either, but instead wandered around in this small cave.

Once people take action, they might be able to change their perspective; Li Xiu thought so too.

"If all else fails, I'll try forgetting some things that are easy to forget." After realizing that his current situation was somewhat difficult, Li Xiu actually came up with this method of learning through practice.