How can one become an immortal with such laziness?

"I'll count to three, calm down, and then I'll let you go. Remember, don't scream, or I'll kill you, understand?"

A gloomy voice came from behind him. The waiter stared with terrified eyes, forcing himself to calm down.

"Very good, that's it, three, two, one..."

"Alright, Hei Yang, stop scaring me and come help me out!"

Hongli couldn't help but complain.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 16 You still want to eat meat?

"Don't worry, don't worry."

Hei Yang waved his hand: "Everything is under control, okay? Trust me, I'm very confident!"

"Not long after you said that last time..."

Hongli said quietly, "We were half-dead from the fall."

"It's a minor issue, nothing serious!"

……

"Da da da……"

Chu Linzi tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table, indicating that he was in a good mood.

Almost a month has passed. According to his calculations, the giant tiger will soon break through to the Qi Refining stage, and then...

Thinking this, Chu Linzi couldn't help but smile, even forgetting the waiter's confusing words from earlier.

"Immortal Master, Immortal Master, over here!"

The shop owner emerged from the back room, carrying a wine jar in his arms. His face was still covered in dust and sweat. He smiled ingratiatingly and said, "This is our prized possession, a genuine century-old vintage. Please enlighten me, sir."

"Um……"

Chu Linzi chuckled and nodded: "I have cultivated the Dao for hundreds of years and have traveled the world. I have also drunk with many fellow Daoists who love fine wine. I have indeed seen quite a lot of good wine."

In my opinion, this wine, which is only a hundred years old, is really nothing special.

But considering that mortals only live for a mere hundred years, the quantity of this wine no longer seems to be limited by its age; it's enough to demonstrate your sincerity, which is quite thoughtful.

"Not at all, I'm glad you don't mind, Immortal Master."

"what……"

Chu Linzi smiled and shook his head. Watching the shop owner eagerly unseal the wine and pour him a drink, he couldn't help but feel a little smug: "I have to say, Five Colors City is a place of outstanding people and pure folks. Even someone like me who cultivates Taoism has been lost in the mortal world for a long time, hahaha."

The only pity was that we didn't get to eat the famous local spirit chicken, but nothing in this world is perfect..."

"The immortal is right!"

"What the immortal says makes sense!"

"We are truly filled with remorse."

"Hehehe, the chicken soup is here!"

"Ok?"

Just as Chu Linzi was about to pick up his wine glass and enjoy the drink while listening to the sycophantic words whispered in his ear, he suddenly heard something rather incongruous...

He turned his head and saw a young couple walking towards him with smiles on their faces. The boy was handsome and the girl was lovely. For a moment, everyone around him was stunned.

It wasn't that people were captivated by the two people's looks; after seeing a beautiful face many times, one eventually becomes immune to it. The reason people were stunned was because these two faces looked so familiar!

"Ha, everyone's here."

Hei Yang glanced around and found that most of the people around him were regulars at the hotel and they knew each other. Seeing them again now, he suddenly felt like he was in another world.

"You... you..."

The shop owner's fingers trembled slightly as he pointed at Hei Yang and Hong Li, stammering and unable to speak.

Chu Linzi frowned and asked, "Who are these two...?"

"Oh, oh, Immortal Master, you are unaware of this."

The shopkeeper wiped the cold sweat from his brow and shifted further out of the woods. "These two are the young master and young lady of the Hei and Hong families, but they should have perished in the mountains a few days ago. Could it be..."

The shop owner didn't say anything more, and all the customers in the shop were looking at Hei Yang and his companion with the eyes of someone looking at monsters. For a moment, the temperature in the whole room seemed to drop a few degrees.

"There's no such thing as 'perhaps'."

Chu Linzi shook his head: "I think you've believed the rumors. In my eyes, these two young people are full of vigor and vitality. There's no way they're going to die."

"Yes, yes."

Hei Yang took over the conversation, lifted the lid of the pot in his arms, and a burst of steam rose up: "We were lucky not to die, and instead found the spirit chicken. We just got back and heard that the immortal was leaving, so we didn't even go home before coming to see the immortal."

Is what you said true?

One of the guests exclaimed, "So, you two are really alive?"

"Nonsense, didn't you hear what the immortal said? He's definitely alive!"

His companion corrected him, saying, "This shows that Young Master Hei and Miss Hong are blessed with good fortune. Moreover, those who survive a great calamity are bound to have good luck in the future!"

"Oh, so that means they meet the requirements for becoming apprentices?"

"Hey, that's not right. Two people, one pot of soup, how can they both become disciples? There can only be one of them, and it depends on the Immortal Master's mood."

"One is already quite good!"

"I never expected it to be them..."

The crowd's expressions were complex, a mixture of envy, disbelief, and regret...

"Oh?"

Chu Linzi raised an eyebrow and sniffed lightly: "This smell, though very mild, is definitely that of chicken..."

Bring it up so I can see it. If there are no lies or deceptions, I will certainly keep my promise to take you on as an apprentice...

If the taste satisfies me, I might as well accept both of them..."

Yes, after taking him on as an apprentice, take him outside the city and feed him to his tiger.

You little rascals, you escaped with your lives, yet you still insist on coming to our doorstep.

Thinking of this, Chu Linzi's brows relaxed, and a smile returned to his face: "Here, bring it over so I can have a taste."

"okay."

Hei Yang approached with a smile, and the aroma of the chicken soup grew even stronger. Emerging from the woods, her mouth watered involuntarily. She felt Hei Yang was moving too slowly and couldn't help but peek inside to check on him…

"Hmm, not bad...this..."

Upon seeing the soup in the pot, Chu Linzi's smile suddenly froze: "This... it's full of chicken feathers!"

"You still want to eat meat, huh?!"

Hong Li was furious, her expression instantly losing control. She suddenly appeared behind the forest, grabbed the other person's head, and slammed it into the pot, making the other person's face come into close contact with the boiling soup, splashing soup everywhere.

"I'll let you eat, I'll let you drink, you... what's your name again? Oh, you big fool Taoist priest, right? Drink up, drink it now!"

“Hongli, you’re mistaken. His name is clearly Old Madman Taoist Priest.”

Hei Yang stopped pretending and shoved the pot into the other person's face: "It's you, it's you, right? Huh, you made me live like a savage for more than twenty days, huh?!"

The two suddenly launched an attack, leaving all the patrons in the tavern stunned, their minds blank and buzzing.

What happened, and what did they see?

The ethereal immortal who was once fawned over by everyone was suddenly thrown into a pot, and instantly all his otherworldly demeanor vanished.

For a moment, everyone present felt as if they were dreaming, although it was hard to imagine such an absurd scene even in a dream.

"Glug glug glug, ooh ooh ooh, cough cough..."

Chu Linzi was also stunned by the sudden feeding. He choked several times before he realized what was happening. He was filled with shock and anger, and for a moment he didn't care about manners anymore. His spiritual energy surged and he broke free from the two of them.

"Bah!"

Emerging from the forest, he spat out a mouthful of chicken feathers and glared menacingly at Hei Yang and Hong Li: "You two have disrespected the Immortal Master and are courting death!"

Having said that, he was about to use his spiritual energy to suppress the two.

Unexpectedly, the two simply looked at him calmly.

Hongli clapped her two little hands gently to the beat, while Heiyang provided the voiceover: "Down, down..."

"Huh? You guys..."

As he emerged from the forest, his expression changed. He suddenly felt weak all over, and the two people in front of him seemed to have double images of each other. His mind became muddled, and suddenly everything went black...

"boom!"

He collapsed to the ground as soon as he emerged from the forest, his spiritual energy dissipating, and to everyone's astonishment, he had vanished from his human form!

"Good heavens, it's a weasel."

Hei Yang raised an eyebrow, grabbed a stool from the side, and started hitting Chu Linzi!