Cultivators Are So Weak in This World

Chapter 559: Steadfastness 2

Unknowingly, more than an hour had passed.

Yun got up and prepared to leave.

"Abbott, while you wish for a peaceful life, the winds remain restless. Over at the United Nations, there’s already a bloodline organization named the Immortal Hall. They’re recklessly creating different bloodlines and granting them the Dao Foundation, which has caught the attention of the Spirit Court. When the time comes..."

Zhang Rongfang’s heart tightened. This was what he had always feared.

Once the bloodline is released, it becomes uncontrollable.

"Thank you for the information." He stood up, cupped his hands, and said.

"As long as you are aware, Abbott. When the world is finally at peace, it will be the time for our decisive battle, and neither you nor I can avoid it..." Yun’s voice softened, "I hope that the next time we meet, you will be the same as ever...."

He turned and walked toward the outside of the pavilion.

The wind lifted the white gauze, and suddenly, with a flash, he vanished.

The Celestial Maiden, seeing the person had left, finally came to her senses.

She took something out from her sleeve and handed it over.

"Master Yun, a gift for you."

Zhang Rongfang took it; it was a dark golden brocade box the size of a peach. When he opened it, inside was a pair of luxurious gloves woven with gold and silver threads.

The Celestial Maiden also tapped her toes at this moment, soaring into the air and leaping over the wall.

"On behalf of Zhang, thank Mr. Yun." Zhang Rongfang called out loudly.

"Okay...." The Celestial Maiden’s voice floated back from afar, quickly disappearing.

Standing in place, carefully inspecting the gloves,

Zhang Rongfang had a faint feeling that this item was not simple.

Placing it back into the box, he turned and walked out of the pavilion, recalling the Yun from earlier; this person should be the top master of the entire Reverse Time Society.

Seated closely, the dim light made it impossible to see through the other’s body. At a glance, he looked like an ordinary old man.

Yet, in the end, the other’s body technique was so fast that he couldn’t even catch it.

It was evident that this person’s strength was not ordinary but something he had not truly encountered.

With an attendant leading the way, Zhang Rongfang showed no interest in the ongoing banquet and followed the path he came from, preparing to leave.

He was walking along the gray alley, moving between the houses within the stone fortress.

And inside the high-level venue on one side of the alley, two people leaned by the window, looking down, watching Zhang Rongfang being led outside.

Among these two, one donned a green dress, with peach blossom eyes, and a baby-fat, rosy, and full little face, it was Lu Meisha, who was still attending the banquet.

The other was her friend, Han Lusi, who came along with her.

"Eh? Is that... your man?" Han Lusi asked in surprise.

"Hmm, I don’t know what he’s doing in the backyard?" Lu Meisha nodded, confirming her guess.

"Since he came for you, perhaps.... he’s preparing a gift for you?" Han Lusi hypothesized with a smile. "Look at the brocade box in his hand, those kinds of boxes are generally used to hold very valuable things. I reckon it will be in your hands soon."

"He’s always like this...." Lu Meisha blushed, "He always does unexpected things, catching me off guard."

"Isn’t that a sign that he cares for you?" Han Lusi laughed.

"But I don’t like it this way... if he truly likes me, I want him to stand openly in front of me and say it!" Lu Meisha said seriously, "Instead of hinting this and that."

"Then when he comes up to you later, don’t accept it, give it to me. I love valuable things like that." Han Lusi chuckled softly.

"Go to hell!" Lu Meisha lightly slapped her friend’s shoulder.

"Wait! Why is he getting on the carriage?" Han Lusi suddenly looked out of the window. "Wasn’t he going to give it to you?"

"Maybe he’s hiding in the carriage first, trying to surprise me, just like before?" Lu Meisha hesitated.

She also saw Zhang Rongfang getting into a black carriage.

"That’s possible too. Nowadays, people have so many thoughts you can’t even imagine." Han Lusi sighed.

"Eh? Why is the carriage moving!?" She suddenly felt something was amiss.

The carriage Zhang Rongfang was in was suddenly moving by itself.

This left Lu Meisha a bit stunned as well.

"It seems he plans to give it to me later...." She sighed, "He’s always full of ideas."

"That’s really something not easy...." Han Lusi understood.

"Eh? Why did the carriage stop, and he got off."

The two of them then saw Zhang Rongfang getting off the carriage.

He walked forward a few steps, just meeting a woman in a white dress who had caught up from behind.

They exchanged a few words, and Zhang Rongfang immediately threw the box forward to the woman in white, then said a few final words before turning and walking away.

"Eh? Why did he give the box to someone else?" Han Lusi exclaimed in surprise.

"Perhaps... he intends for someone else to deliver it to me?" Lu Meisha hesitated in response.

Before the two could finish speaking, they saw Zhang Rongfang get back on the carriage, and this time, it didn’t stop, swiftly leaving through the stone fortress gates, disappearing on the vast official road.

"He... seems to have really left...." Han Lusi turned to look at Lu Meisha.

The latter’s face was flushed at this moment, completely unexpected that this would be the outcome.

"Meisha, are you sure.... he came to this banquet specifically for you?" Han Lusi stood by the window, looking at the woman in the white dress who caught the box, seeing her turn around revealing a face more beautiful and pure than both hers and Lu Meisha’s.

"I think..."

"Are you thinking that woman is beautiful, so you think Zhang Rongfang was giving her a gift?" Lu Meisha took a deep breath on the side and said again.

"But I think the box was definitely not for her, otherwise it would not have been thrown, but offered with both hands." She analyzed.

"But I do think it was for her...." Han Lusi had already changed her stance at this point.

"Impossible, that woman is probably just someone delivering the gift for him, no matter how beautiful. She’s likely just an ordinary maid chief nearby. Look at her plain white dress; it seems she can’t afford any silk and satin jewelry pins." Lu Meisha continued, gritting her teeth.

Then, the two of them watched as the woman in the white dress below opened the box and took out a pair of luxurious gloves, gently putting them on. She also turned them over, checking if they fit.

"...This... should be the gift for her, right?" Han Lusi whispered, afraid of upsetting her friend.

"I think... for someone who’s a maid like her... to casually take someone else’s gift like that..."

Swoosh!

Before Lu Meisha could finish her sentence, the woman in the white dress leaped forward and disappeared outside the stone castle in the blink of an eye, her body technique incredibly fast. Far beyond the ordinary dedication they usually saw.

High-level master!!?

The two thought of this term immediately.

Han Lusi looked at her best friend, but what she saw was a face of numbness and daze.

"My condolences... Meisha." She whispered.

Lu Meisha stood there dumbfounded, her delicate face blushing like it was on fire.

"I’m going to find him and ask for clarity!!" Suddenly, she turned around and hurriedly ran out of the banquet hall, rushing outside.

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Inside the Mountain People’s Clinic.

Zhang Rongfang was directing Xiaodong and Xiaoxia in organizing the medicinal herbs. He had just returned from the banquet, having diverted the pair of gloves gifted by Yun to the Celestial Maiden.

Although he appreciated the kindness of the Reversal Society, he didn’t trust them. So he dared not use the things they sent directly.

Moreover, those gloves weren’t ordinary ones but seemed like a pair of supernatural weapons!

Crafted by some unknown means into special supernatural weapons.

Boom.

As he was thinking about these things, someone abruptly barged into the bustling night market street outside.

It was Lu Meisha!

She was still in her banquet attire, not stopping for a moment as she headed straight for the clinic.

Reaching the counter, her chest was heaving violently, eyes staring fixedly at Zhang Rongfang.

"I ask you. Do you still... like me?!" She had kept this question in her heart for who knows how long.

And now... she finally asked it aloud.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Rongfang blinked, his face filled with consternation.

"Like you? We aren’t suitable..." He was still thinking about the Reversal Society, and then this person rushed in and came out with this question.

"You went to the banquet for me, I was indeed very touched, but..." Lu Meisha gritted her teeth and said.

"When did I go to the banquet for you?" Zhang Rongfang was astonished again.

"Wasn’t it? Then why did you go there!?" Lu Meisha was stunned, feeling a loud buzz exploding in her mind.

"I went to meet a friend, who was very good to me before... I didn’t expect to run into you there." Zhang Rongfang replied truthfully.

"...Really... not for me??" Lu Meisha asked again, unwilling to give up.

"....." Zhang Rongfang was at a loss for words. But considering she was the sister-in-law’s sister, he reached out and ruffled her hair.

"Sorry, although you are also pretty, you’re not my type. I’m sorry."

"...." By this time, Lu Meisha had completely turned red all over, her skin like a boiled shrimp.

"Besides, this straightforward way is very novel, but....."

Ah!!!

Suddenly, Lu Meisha turned and ran.

In an instant, she rushed out of the clinic and disappeared into the bustling crowd.

Zhang Rongfang looked at her speechlessly. He thought, lately, this girl had been behaving strangely. Turns out she had this idea in mind.

Unfortunately, in terms of both personality and strength, they were entirely unsuitable.

He immediately put the matter out of his mind, not thinking about it any further.

Time quieted down once more.

Zhang Rongfang gradually began to adapt to the current pace, and on the thirteenth trip to find the Rock God for a bout.

This time, he came up empty.

The Rock God wasn’t there anymore.

The fog of mystery wasn’t even there, and he had no idea where the Rock God had gone.

Only an empty, deserted mountain village was left behind. There was nothing else.

Helpless, Zhang Rongfang had to continue looking for new Residual Gods.

But there were only so many Residual Gods around Wushan, although there were many, there naturally wouldn’t be many in just such a small place.

Finding three had already been a feat rich with historical accumulation.

He was also unwilling to venture too far away.

Thus, he continued his life like that. Every day he researched the Blood Lotus System, understanding the approach of gathering momentum of a Grandmaster. At the same time, he watched his attribute points continuously climb up day by day.

In the blink of an eye, the end of the year was approaching.

Zhang Rongfang’s life was peaceful and serene, without conflict, without unexpected incidents, just the life of an ordinary person.

And amid this tranquility, his attributes were once again accumulating to a new level of over a hundred points.

Soon, a new extraordinary talent would emerge....