[Abandoned. Not worth reading]
When the Grandmaster opened his eyes again, he found himself facing not last century’s merchants and officers, but a bunch of clueless youngsters. His vision promptly went black, and he wished he could hurry through this lifetime. After all, these youngsters couldn’t help him find his master.
But the next day, to keep his family’s reputation from being ruined by these juniors, the Grandmaster returned to his old trade. He tossed copper coins, held yarrow stalks between his teeth, and wore several clattering turtle shells at his waist. Before entering the hospital room, he said coldly to the juniors, “I’ll only tell you what to do. You’ll have to handle the actual treatment yourself. If I step in, it’ll break the rules... Hey, why are you shaking? The person inside has almost no chance of surviving anyway. Just make something up. He’s going to die regardless.”
But when the Grandmaster opened the door, he glanced up and saw the face of the “dying” man half-reclining in bed. He froze on the spot. The copper coin he’d tossed fell to the floor, the weed he’d plucked by the roadside to fool the juniors slipped from the corner of his mouth, and even the turtle shells at his waist stopped rattling as he stood there, stunned.
One of the juniors poked his head out from behind the Grandmaster, confused. “Grandmaster?”
The Grandmaster, who had just been so lofty and had never lifted a finger to do household chores, dropped to his knees before the hospital bed. In front of the twenty-seven-year-old patient, and under the astonished gaze of the patient’s parents, he called out in a trembling voice, “Master...”
*
Who could have known that the Grandmaster was calling out to Bu Ci, once the foremost of the three Heavenly Venerables in the Celestial Realm, a thousand years ago?
The Venerable had promised to celebrate Yun Li’s birthday with him. But on the night of Yun Li’s birthday, Bu Ci’s soul scattered, and his name was erased from the Book of Reincarnation. From then on, he was rejected by the righteous under heaven.
Theme: The divine
