Turbid World: Martial Arts Master of the Republic of China Era, I Cultivate Immortality!

Night, 7 PM

One hundred meters outside the Xiqiao Girls' School.

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Two heads slowly peeked out from behind the tree, looking at the Western Girls' School a hundred meters away. Suddenly, a cold snort rang out.

Thud! Thud! Thud—

Both physics and reasoning are presented.

after awhile.

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At the bottom, Master Zhang looked at the Western Girls' School in front of him with a puzzled expression for a while, then looked up at Zhao Zheng with some uncertainty and whispered something.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, the two...three of us have been guarding it for a quarter of an hour. Are you sure that dressing mirror you broke will be restored?"

"Logically speaking... yes!"

Zhao Zheng answered softly, sensing the two key points behind him and a faint fragrance, without turning his head.

"Miss Chu, men and women should not touch each other!"

Translation: Stay away from him, he's not interested in women!

Besides, he would feel a bit awkward turning around in his current position, and also, he didn't quite understand what this woman surnamed Chu was trying to do!

Well, the posture for turning around is roughly as follows!

Zhao Zheng: )_●)

So he didn't turn around.

After all, he has never been interested in women!

Chu Ruoxi's otherwise pretty face showed displeasure. She hummed softly and stopped pressing down on Zhao Zheng. She frowned slightly and looked at the Xiqiao Girls' School a hundred meters away.

"Are you so sure the mirror will restore itself?"

"Just ask your intuition!"

"..." x2

I think you're overthinking it, fellow Daoist!

Ignoring Chu Ruoxi's thoughts, Master Zhang muttered a complaint in his heart, his eyes flashing with golden light as he looked through the layers of walls at the first floor of the girls' dormitory.

Let alone seeing the mirror restored, because the dressing mirror that Zhao Zheng broke had already been removed, there were no mirrors at all on the first floor of the girls' dormitory.

"Unsolicited kindness is always suspicious; if you hadn't explained yourself earlier, I would have thought you two weren't eating but coming to pick flowers!"

Chu Ruoxi said something sarcastic, her eyes filled with scrutiny of Zhao Zheng standing below her.

Her reason for following them was simple: she discovered that Zhao Zheng and Zhang Daoshi were sneaking off to the Western Girls' School.

So she came along!

She just didn't touch it... Zhao Zheng convinced her!

"I don't need it!"

"???"

No, Fellow Daoist Zhao, what do you mean?

You don't need to pick flowers, so why would I?

Master Zhang was stunned by Zhao Zheng's words and subconsciously looked up at Zhao Zheng, but Zhao Zheng did not look at him.

"???"

Chu Ruoxi was stunned for a moment, and looked carefully at Zhao Zheng's handsome back of the head and profile. To be honest, he really didn't need... Ugh, that's what I was asking!

Chu Ruoxi rolled her eyes, speechless, and asked curiously in a low voice, "I don't think you're the type to fawn over someone who doesn't reciprocate your kindness. Why do you care whether this school is haunted or not?"

During her visit to the girls' school a little over an hour ago, she indirectly learned about Zhao Zheng's personality—that he responds better to gentle persuasion than force.

Based on Principal Lin and Instructor Zhou's attitude towards Zhao Zheng, she felt that given Zhao Zheng's personality, he would definitely not pay any attention to the other party.

"My followers will be staying temporarily in this girls' school dormitory for martial arts training, and also... they've already suffered enough, I don't want anything worse to happen to them!"

Zhao Zheng spoke calmly, which startled Zhang Daoshi, who asked with a puzzled expression, "Pity? Did Fellow Daoist Zhao see something?"

Chu Ruoxi ignored Zhang Daoshi, remained silent for a while, and then asked with a mixture of uncertainty and certainty, "When you say 'pitiful,' you mean bound feet, right...?"

"Um."

Zhao Zheng hummed in agreement. Chu Ruoxi was about to say, "Are you serious?", but she quickly realized that Zhao Zheng had no reason to lie to her. She paused for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

"No wonder people often say you can know a person's face but not their heart!"

"..."

Zhao Zheng glanced back at Chu Ruoxi. He didn't mean anything by it, but he felt that this martial artist Chu's academic qualifications seemed a bit questionable.

Chu Ruoxi realized that her expression might have been a bit inappropriate, and blushed deeply, looking up at the sky with a wandering gaze.

Master Zhang snapped out of his daze, recalling the unsteady girls in the girls' school, and looked at Zhao Zhengdao with admiration: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, you are merciful!"

"really!"

"I am no match for him!"

Master Zhang didn't dwell on Zhao Zheng's way of speaking. Instead, he smiled wryly with a look of shame. Zhao Zheng didn't answer that. Instead, he used his innate wisdom eye to look at the Western Girls' School.

"It seems they are more cautious than we thought; they haven't restored the mirror. Now, proceed with Plan Two..."

"Second Plan?" ×2

Wait, what's the second plan?

Chu Ruoxi and the other person were stunned upon hearing this!

Three minutes later.

Still behind the big tree, Master Zhang and Chu Ruoxi stared blankly at Zhao Zheng, who skillfully climbed over the wall to leave the girls' school, bringing a female teacher with him.

One to say one,

I now think you really are a womanizer!

Chu Ruoxi thought to herself, while Master Zhang looked helplessly at Zhao Zheng carrying out the second plan: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, I think we can tell Principal Lin and the others about this!"

Will they believe it?

Zhao Zheng asked a question in return, and seeing that Zhang Daoshi had shut up with an "ah," he was too lazy to waste words and directly handed the female teacher he was carrying to Chu Ruoxi.

"...I don't know how to interrogate!"

Chu Ruoxi took it and said speechlessly. Zhao Zheng thought for a moment and then slapped the female teacher with the Five Qi Rejuvenation Technique.

"Okay, now you know how!"

"..."

Honestly, you're a womanizer, aren't you!

Chu Ruoxi looked at the female teacher who was squirming and making noises in her arms. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she glared at Zhao Zheng, and then she was about to take the female teacher to another place for interrogation.

Before she could move, Zhao Zheng handed her a note. She took it, glanced at it, nodded, and left with the female teacher.

"Stop, you shouldn't go!"

Zhao Zheng reached out to stop Zhang Daoshi, who wanted to help with the interrogation. Although Zhang Daoshi was puzzled, he did not insist.

He looked at the Western Girls' School, which appeared somewhat eerie in the darkness due to the lamplight, with a puzzled expression.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, is there really a ghost here?"

"I don't know. I couldn't figure out what it was, but I believe resentment doesn't appear out of nowhere!"

Zhao Zheng shook his head and said, "If it was just an accident that Shi Lianlian and the other girl had resentment, then it was no accident that all the female students at the Western Girls' School had resentment."

At least he didn't think it was an accident!

"That's true, but fellow Daoist... this is, after all, the site of an orphanage. Have you considered that it's normal for this place to have resentment, including the fact that the female students are also tainted with resentment?" Master Zhang hesitated for a moment before speaking.

He didn't mean anything by it, he just felt that Zhao Zheng was being a bit too cautious, and he felt that there was nothing dirty here.

Of course, the full-length mirror in the girls' dormitory is an exception, but Zhao Zheng destroyed it after all, so the danger has been eliminated!

"If Fellow Daoist Zhang does not wish to remain here, he is free to leave!"

Zhao Zheng spoke directly, and Master Zhang was taken aback. He quickly shook his head and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhao, that's not what I meant. I just think you... are being a little too cautious!"

"Better safe than sorry!"

"……really!"

Master Zhang nodded, but said nothing more. Just as Zhao Zheng said, it's better to be safe than sorry.

He didn't want a tragedy to happen because of his carelessness. Besides, since he was already here, he might as well take a look.

The two continued to observe the Western Girls' School from behind the tree. A few minutes later, Chu Ruoxi returned alone.

The female teacher was apparently sent back by her.

"I've finished asking. Nothing particularly noteworthy or noteworthy has happened at school recently, and she doesn't know the woman you're talking about..."

When Chu Ruoxi spoke to Zhao Zheng, her eyes held a strange look. She still felt that Zhao Zheng might really be a womanizer.

She didn't think a proper cultivator would practice such a lewd technique that could arouse a woman's lust with a single palm strike.

"No..."

Master Zhang frowned slightly. Zhao Zheng nodded without speaking, only saying, "Then proceed with the third plan..."

"???" x2

To be honest,

Do you have a fourth plan?

"And why didn't you tell us about your plan beforehand?" Chu Ruoxi and the other woman looked at Zhao Zheng speechlessly.

Two minutes later,

Inside Xiqiao Girls' School.

Chu Ruoxi and the other girl watched in silence as Zhao Zheng rapidly smashed the full-length mirrors placed at the entrances of the classroom and dormitory.

One to say one,

That's way too cautious!

After confirming that he had smashed all the dressing mirrors that Instructor Zhou used to enforce school rules such as "women should dress appropriately," Zhao Zheng took out a few silver notes and left them behind. He then quickly came to Chu Ruoxi and the other woman and said...

"Walk!"

After saying that, he quickly climbed over the wall and left, which surprised Chu Ruoxi. She still said the same thing: Zhao Zheng was too skilled.

The three of them managed to leave before the female martial artists in the school could react, and only stopped after running for three or four miles.

Master Zhang, panting heavily, looked back at the commotion at the Western Girls' School, then turned to look at Zhao Zheng and Chu Ruoxi, whose breathing was steady.

Wait, why isn't he breathing heavily?

Master Zhang looked at Zhao Zheng, whose breathing was steady, with some surprise. He could understand Chu Ruoxi's steady breathing, as she was a martial arts practitioner.

But Zhao Zheng is a Taoist priest just like him!

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, your cultivation of life force is truly profound!"

Master Zhang clicked his tongue in amazement, then thought about how Zhao Zheng could easily see the resentment, but he could only see it by looking closely.

Looking at Zhao Zheng's cultivation level, which allowed him to run for miles without even panting, he felt that Zhao Zheng's cultivation was unfathomable.

"Aren't you afraid that Principal Lin will come after you? After all, you just broke his mirror this afternoon!"

Chu Ruoxi glanced at the commotion at the school and said to Zhao Zheng, who was neither blushing nor out of breath. Zhao Zheng then looked away from the school and said...

"I've left the silver notes!"

"???" x2

The two were stunned for a moment. Chu Ruoxi rolled her eyes speechlessly. She wanted to say that you were afraid others wouldn't know that you did it, but she didn't say it. Instead, she asked.

"What do we do next?"

"Let's all go home. I doubt they'll make any moves tonight..." Zhao Zheng said, looking in the direction of the girls' school.

As he spoke, he looked at Master Zhang and Chu Ruoxi with a serious expression and said, "Thank you both for coming to help tonight..."

"Oh, Fellow Daoist Zhao, you're too kind..."

"I wasn't much of a help..."

Master Zhang and his companion shook their heads or waved their hands. The three chatted for a while longer, and Chu Ruoxi asked curiously, "Is the woman named Xiulian you asked me about related to the girls' school?"

Master Zhang didn't show any doubt upon hearing this, after all, he had already heard Zhao Zheng mention the name Xiulian.

"Probably... Well, my cultivation isn't high enough. I only figured out the name 'Xiulian,' nothing else. I don't even know if this Xiulian is a human, a ghost, or a demon..."

Zhao Zheng answered, and Chu Ruoxi nodded and looked at Master Zhang, who smiled wryly under her gaze.

"Miss Chu, please don't look at me like that. Even with Fellow Daoist Zhao's cultivation, he couldn't figure it out, so naturally I can't either..."

Although what Master Zhang said might seem like self-deprecation to others, that was truly how he felt.

"All right……"

I know you're a good-for-nothing!

Chu Ruoxi didn't say anything more. The three chatted briefly and then parted ways. After the three left, the girls' dormitory of Xiqiao Girls' School became quiet for a while.

Or rather, the female dormitories of martial arts schools are separated.

2nd floor, room 201.

Zhuang Weiyu, who was sleeping on the upper bunk, reached out and touched her neck. When she didn't find the longevity lock, her expression changed. She threw off the covers and began to search the bed by the moonlight.

"Hey, are you going to sleep or not...?"

"Yeah, we have to go to martial arts school tomorrow..."

"You're so annoying..."

"I've lost my longevity lock..."

Hearing her three roommates' grumbling and impatient tone, Zhuang Weiyu spoke up somewhat anxiously and embarrassedly.

"Did your longevity lock fall outside when we went out after hearing the noise?" The woman sitting next to Zhuang Weiyu asked, her expression brightening slightly.

"If you really can't manage, go outside and take a look..."

"It might have fallen outside the dormitory..."

When her two roommates spoke up, Zhuang Weiyu, thinking it was possible, nodded, got out of bed, put on her clothes, and left the dormitory room.

As she entered the corridor, she saw that it was still dark even with the lights providing illumination. She swallowed hard and quickly walked towards the stairwell next door.

Although the stairwell stairs weren't old wooden stairs, the clattering sound of her boots, which she had specially worn for the rain, was particularly noticeable late at night, sounding unusually jarring in the quiet dormitory building.

As Zhuang Weiyu walked down the stairs, she kept swallowing her saliva, a feeling of fear welling up inside her. She began to regret why she had chosen to stay here instead of going home.

She looked at the dim light that barely illuminated a few steps, and then at the seemingly bottomless darkness below, a darkness that looked like it would swallow her whole. Her heart began to race.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you're a quasi-martial artist..."

Zhuang Weiyu clenched her fists tightly, ignoring the darkness that seemed to be staring at her. She looked down at the ground, searching for the longevity lock she had lost, and quickly walked towards the first floor.

After a few breaths, Zhuang Weiyu, who had arrived at the lobby on the first floor, did not leave the dormitory building immediately. Instead, she looked curiously at the mirror nailed to the wall next to the door, the full-length mirror.

"Didn't Teacher Zhao break this mirror?"

Zhuang Weiyu looked at the life-sized mirror strangely. It was nailed to the wall, and the frame had the pattern commonly seen on Western-style dressing mirrors, but the top of the mirror looked out of place because of the Chinese white jade piece that was forcibly inlaid.

A mirror, bathed in the dim light of the lobby on the first floor, emitted a cold, pale glow, its surface beginning to appear hazy and gray.

"Could it be... haunted...?"

Zhuang Weiyu's face was slightly pale; she didn't think there would be a second mirror like this in this girls' school.

And she hadn't forgotten that just moments before, a mysterious person had smashed all the full-length mirrors in the school.

Yes, she thinks the mysterious person is Teacher Zhao!

Suddenly realizing that the longevity lock left by her mother wasn't so important, Zhuang Weiyu subconsciously turned around.

But just as she took a step, her eyes became vacant, and she walked stiffly toward the dressing mirror like a puppet on strings.

However, just as she took a step...

A voice suddenly rang out!

"The character 'Kun' signifies the earth's strength and stability!"