Gu Ling decided to cultivate immortality because she was so hungry. The meager grains and livestock available to ordinary mortals could never fill her stomach.
She heard that once your cultivation reached a certain level, you could abstain from food and no longer feel hungry.
And if you cultivated a little further, reaching the realm of ascension, you could conjure up whatever delicious food you wanted with just a thought!
After joining the Xiaoyao Sect, she ate a week's worth of food for the entire sect in just three days, so the sect leader told her to get lost.
At Kunlun Ruins, she ate dirt for a whole week, until the sect leader finally turned her away too: You can't even fill up on dirt, and you still dream of eating rice?
If the prestigious righteous sects wouldn't take her, what about the unorthodox ones?
Whoever could keep her fed could ask her to kill or burn things, and she'd do it!
At last, Gu Ling joined the most despised, feared, and reviled evil sect in the world: Guyueling!
Guyueling made no secret of being a mausoleum. Even the words above the sect gate read "Tomb of the Immortal Who Hid the Moon." After joining, she discovered there was only one Daoist in the entire sect. He was the sect master, the leader, and the sole representative of all its disciples.
What's more, he was so generous with her. Whenever she said she was hungry, he hauled out a pile of coffins filled with ice and frozen meat.
"Could we use something else to store the food?"
Did everything really have to be a tomb reference?
The Daoist countered: Aren't corpses put in coffins?
"Huh? Corpses?!"
The Daoist nodded with an innocent expression.
*
Ugh
Gu Ling fled Guyueling in the middle of the night and threw up violently by the banks of the Santu River!
*
As Gu Ling's consciousness grew hazy, she gave a bitter smile. She'd been throwing up for ages, but nothing came out, and she felt as though she were about to die.
Maybe dying wouldn't be so bad. At least she wouldn't get hungry, or have to suffer like this anymore, right?
A cool drop landed on her forehead, followed by a second and a third... Wait, who was splashing water on her?
"I'm not quite dead yet. Have you no manners?!"
Gu Ling opened her tear-filled eyes and shouted angrily!
The Daoist in green robes said cheerfully, "Wonderful! Then come back to Guyueling with me!"
What?
Guyueling again?!
Theme: Food is paramount. The most important thing is to eat your fill. You eat me, I eat you.
