Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

Hua Jiuyue felt as if a string in her mind snapped.

"Wait! That's the hot water button!"

Her limbs were still weak, and just as she stood up, she saw the little paper figures press the switch hard.

Hua Jiuyue pursed her lips tightly, already wondering what her chances of surviving were if she went to find the medical room alone.

To her surprise, the boiling water, billowing white smoke, poured onto Shen Xingzhuo's face, but did not burn her skin.

"How could this happen?"

"Sigh, I told you to use your brain a long time ago. Now look what happened, you can't even compare to the little paper dolls." Shen Xingzhuo's irritating voice rang out.

"You're awake?" Hua Jiuyue stepped forward in surprise and grasped her arms with both hands.

Shen Xingzhuo nodded, looked around, and slowly explained things to Hua Jiuyue as he looked.

"Cleanliness is the standard for everything, just like the reason I gave fireflies and the others boiled water before. Only boiled water can be truly drunk."

"But look," Shen Xingzhuo pointed to a corner of the ceiling, "when I had the little paper figures clean up before, they secretly left an 'S' mark. There's none here, which means we're not in the previous water room space."

"The faucets, the corners of the walls, and these water pipes show no signs of rust, so we must have 'arrived' at a time when this school was just built."

Hua Jiuyue became increasingly confused as she listened. "But how did we get here?"

Shen Xingzhuo thought for a moment, "We were all covered in a lot of slime back then, it must have been the slime that caused this. I just don't know... whether we physically traveled through time or we were seeing an illusion."

Shen Xingzhuo casually took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the water stains off her face.

Her hand suddenly stopped. "I understand."

"Last night in the dorm, when I gave Liuying some boiled water, it was essentially a test. When I touched the cup, I could feel the heat."

"That was genuine boiled water, and Liuying and the others drank it without any expression..."

Hua Jiuyue's eyes lit up. "Could it be that they have no sensation?"

Shen Xingzhu thought for a moment, then nodded.

"But I wasn't burned."

Hua Jiuyue looked at Shen Xingzhuo, whose face had become even whiter after wiping it, and expressed her agreement with great seriousness.

Shen Xingzhuo looked at her helplessly, "I originally thought we had gone back to the past. After all, we saw things from the past."

"But there is one thing: if we were really in the 'present moment' of the past, this water would definitely be boiling hot."

Hua Jiuyue seemed to have been enlightened and began to analyze, "You mean the past isn't the past, and we're now in a space where time overlaps?"

Shen Xingzhu snapped his fingers.

"That's right."

After saying that, Shen Xingzhuo began searching for something on her own body.

"Check your body for anything. I just felt that there was another heart inside me."

"We in the Taoist school often say that the soul desires peace, and the spirit desires tranquility. Without the proper body, it cannot enter the physical form."

As Shen Xingzhuo spoke, he saw Hua Jiuyue's face with an expression that seemed to say, "What kind of heavenly book are you talking about?"

"It means that a soul that does not belong to this body should not enter it. If it is forcibly entered, the body will naturally reject it and will not be able to adapt on its own."

"So I guess that the bodies we are using now are most likely those of the real Shen Xing and Xiao Hua."

At this point, even if Hua Jiuyue was incredibly simple-minded, she would understand Shen Xingzhuo's unspoken message.

"You mean, we can find more clues about this school within ourselves?"