Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 421 - 157: Rat Immortal’s Daughter Gets Married! Daoist Priest Fan, Your Sword Looks Familiar! (Please Subscribe for the Mega - )_6
"Ah? So... you weren’t threatened?" Zheng Sanshi asked blankly.
Yun Jiuqing looked bewildered, "What are you talking about?"
"Cough cough! It’s nothing, it’s nothing!" Zheng Sanshi suddenly remembered, why was he fretting over this when he was the one facing a life-threatening situation?
Zheng Sanshi hastily got to the point, "According to the final wedding deadline given by those two Great Rat Immortals, I...I will probably have to marry their daughter after two more days."
"I really have no way out, whether for my own sake or for the sake of my family. I can’t marry it, that would be fatal!"
"There are dozens upon dozens of people in the Zheng Family closely related to me by blood. If you include those with less close relations, there must be several hundred."
"If our family’s fortune is stripped away by the Great Rat Immortals, I don’t know how many years we, the Zheng Family, will be able to withstand."
"Even..."
"We might not even last a year!"
"Or perhaps, half a year before people are gone!"
Hearing this, Xing Fengzi said, "Zheng layman, please calm down somewhat. Perhaps we should sort out the causes and consequences of this matter first. Do you know... why you were targeted by the Rat Immortal?"
Zheng Sanshi appeared totally blank, "I have no idea, I haven’t been involved in anything strange!"
Xing Fengzi speculated, "Has your Zheng Family not offended any powerful cultivator?"
"Not at all! Absolutely not!" Zheng Sanshi swore, "Our Zheng Family is said to be a cultivator family, but it’s such a small one. We would wish to curry favor with more cultivators, how could we possibly offend them?"
"Then what you have encountered is likely one of those Great Rat Immortals who randomly choose son-in-laws." Xing Fengzi said gravely, "Such Great Rat Immortals only care about the man’s character, nurturance, and appearance. Once they find a man who is not yet married with decent character, nurturance, and appearance... they will set their sights on that person."
"Within this, there is no grievance, no hatred, they simply find you pleasing to the eye. Believing that you are a fine son-in-law whom their family approves of, they then sought you out."
"Furthermore..."
Xing Fengzi paused, then continued, "This type of Great Rat Immortal is also the most troublesome, because their motives are too frivolous; no one knows upon whom they will cast their hand, nor when they may switch to another target."
"Once you truly marry their daughter, your entire family will be wiped clean. My master once told me that this kind of thing happens frequently in the Great Zhou Dynasty."
"Especially in the central regions of the Great Zhou."
"Perhaps it’s because the central regions are more spiritually endowend, and these Great Rat Immortals value the men from the central regions of the Great Zhou even more."
Hearing Xing Fengzi’s words, Zheng Sanshi didn’t know if the other party was complimenting him or what.
He said with pain and frustration, "Does that mean people like me, who are quite decent-looking and of a mature age but still unwed, are destined to be targeted by them?"
Xing Fengzi hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Perhaps it’s just your bad luck, layman?"
Zheng Sanshi: "..."
This young Taoist Priest was alright in all respects, except that he tended to inadvertently stab at his heart when he spoke!
At that moment.
Fan Wu opened his mouth to ask, "So... is your wedding day two days from now?"
"Yes... it’s two days from now, at night!" Zheng Sanshi hurriedly replied.
"Tsk," Fan Wu propped his cheek with one hand, his elbow resting on the tabletop.
He said with interest, "Then we’ll wait two days!"
He continued, "During these two days, you should prepare a set of wedding clothes, some dowry gifts, and by the way, switch to a good mood, and wait for your rat bride to show up."
"Ah?" Zheng Sanshi was dumbfounded, "Does that mean I have to... marry a rat?"
"Daoist Priest Fan is right," Xing Fengzi agreed, "Before we can actively find the Great Rat Immortals, you can only wait for their arrival. Especially do not show any sign of abnormality, lest the Great Rat Immortals discover something amiss."
"Once they sense vigilance and flee, the moment we leave, they might come after you again."
Zheng Sanshi nodded his head in terror, like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Alright, alright! I... I’ll prepare the wedding clothes right away, I’ll prepare the dowry gifts! Uh... do I need to return to my family?" Zheng Sanshi scratched his head, "After all, getting married is a big deal, it seems impossible to do it outside, right?"
"Indeed." Xing Fengzi nodded and said, "Perhaps we need to stay at the Zheng family’s home for a few days, troubling Master Zheng." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"No trouble at all! No trouble at all!" Zheng Sanshi replied repeatedly, "Not the slightest trouble!"
What was he joking about, both Taoist Priests were trying to save him!
How could he possibly find it troublesome?
If conditions allowed, he would even be willing to have both Taoist Priests live in his home for life. Even if it meant treating the two Taoist Priests like his own fathers, he would do it!
No way around it...
He was already frightened by the torment.
For several months in a row, every night he had the same almost identical dream, which had greatly damaged his mental state.
...
After a bout of rain had ceased.
Fan Wu and the others, having filled their stomachs at this inn, then trod upon the muddy ground left after the rain, and under the uneasy guidance of Zheng Sanshi, headed straight for the Zheng family’s home.
Zheng Sanshi walked at the forefront, while Yun Jiuqing was leading Old Blue Ox, following close behind.
Fan Wu was in the third position.
Xing Fengzi was at the very end.
Xing Fengzi, who was at the back of the group, kept his eyes fixed on the back of Fan Wu, or more precisely, on the exaggeratedly large sword carried on Fan Wu’s back.
Xing Fengzi did not know if it was just his own illusion, but he always felt that this sword looked... very familiar.
He tried hard to recall his memories.
Suddenly!
Xing Fengzi was stunned.
A youthful look of complete astonishment was written all over his face, and due to the shock, he blurted out an incredulous question, "Daoist Friend Fan, isn’t your Qiulong Temple supposed to venerate the True Martial Great Emperor?"
Fan Wu slowed his pace slightly, half-turned to reply, "Indeed, what about it?"
"You..." Xing Fengzi’s tongue felt dry, his brain a bit scattered, his voice weak, "this sword of yours..."
"Oh! This?"
Fan Wu said, "This was taken from the statue of the True Martial Great Emperor, and speaking of which... Qiulong Temple’s statue of the True Martial Great Emperor, I reckon, is now missing a Demon-slaying Sword!"
Fan Wu added, "It’s true that this was my oversight, when there’s a chance to return to Qiulong Temple one day, I will craft a new Demon-slaying Sword for that statue of the True Martial Great Emperor."
Hmm.
Fan Wu thought this idea was very good; perhaps, once the new Demon-slaying Sword also became as special as this one, wouldn’t he have a spare sword then?
Xing Fengzi was dumbfounded!
"You... you just took the sword off the statue?" Xing Fengzi was agog.
"Yes!" Fan Wu asked, "Is there something wrong with that?"
"This..." Xing Fengzi felt his scalp itch.
Why was it that he had just left his mountain retreat and already the first fellow Daoist he encountered was such a challenge to his own understanding of cultivation.
Indeed, his master was right.
The world outside the Taoist Temples.
It’s strange!
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