Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 1019: Chapter 16 Today I Know I Am Me_2

“Why not find a place to hide first?” the Summoning Sword noticed he was absent-minded and could only remind him again.

“Oh.” Wei Dongliu then took off on his Flying Sword, quickly heading forward.

Saying forward, in reality, he just picked a direction and moved aimlessly.

The Summoning Sword couldn’t bear watching anymore and had to use its wit as a Sword Spirit to persuade him earnestly:

“Sword Master, please think carefully.”

“The agreement Ah Jing made with you earlier required you to collect the Heaven-Mending Stone fragments and mend the heavens, while the reward would be helping you infiltrate major forces and gain their benefits.”

“Now that you’ve advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, your Daoist Foundation is solid, your robust Daoist Magic, Flying Sword, and Magical Treasures go without saying, all rewards are in hand.”

“As for the price you’re supposed to pay, the former has been fully paid, and the last step of mending the heavens has been waived for you… So, we’re not just profiting; we’re hugely profiting; we’re winning big here!”

Wei Dongliu ignored it.

This obvious logic, don’t you think I understand it?

The key is, I want Cultivation Realm, Daoist Magic, Magical Treasures, Flying Sword, and also my junior sister, senior sister, beloved, fox, and Ah Jing… I want them all, don’t you understand?

Gone! All gone!

Wei Dongliu wandered forward in a daze until he suddenly landed, his whole body rippling like waves.

Without Ah Jing replenishing his Illusion Technique, the Mirror Flower Water Moon on him had become ineffective.

He finally reverted to Chen Guanshui once again.

Chen Guanshui looked around, only to see what seemed to be a vast grassland nearby.

The sky was clear like a wash, azure and lucid, presumably at high altitude, but no idea which plateau it was.

Ahead was a nomad’s tent, Chen Guanshui now utterly without a target, wandered leisurely toward the tents.

Near the tents, he saw a large flock of sheep nibbling on dry grass, white like clouds in the sky.

Several shepherd dogs were romping around the flock, continuously herding strays back, while some children rode ponies in the distance, holding branches, commanding the dogs like mighty generals.

Seeing the unfamiliar man approaching, the children hurriedly scattered in fear, returned to the camp on their ponies, then jumped off and rushed inside.

After a short while, an old man lifted the tent flap and came out.

Chen Guanshui looked closely, unexpectedly it was an old acquaintance, Gu Lie.

This bald guy wasn’t supposed to be a monk in the Asura Path? Why is he appearing in a nomad’s tent…

“This benefactor.” Gu Lie seemed not to recognize him at all, but seeing his anxious expression and carrying no weapons, regarded him as a weary traveler, and said with a Buddhist chant, “If the journey is weary, come in and have a cup of butter tea, rest your feet.”

“Thank you, Master.” Chen Guanshui returned the courtesy.

Following Gu Lie into the tent, Chen Guanshui quickly scanned around, seeing it filled with the typical furnishings of nomads, not a single thing related to a cultivator.

This Gu Lie… Did he kill the nomads and seize the tent, or is he playing house games here?

Thinking about the children outside, Chen Guanshui naturally considered the latter.

He might be able to kill the nomads and impersonate them, but why go to the trouble of leaving these children and brainwashing them with Illusion Technique? Totally unnecessary!

Gu Lie took a copper cup, poured steaming butter tea, and pushed it towards Chen Guanshui.

Chen Guanshui hesitated, though he could determine that Gu Lie wasn’t likely to poison him, he instinctively wanted Ah Jing to scan.

Then he remembered, Ah Jing had already left me…

He sighed in his heart, raised the copper cup, and drank it all as if drinking away sorrow…

Seeing him drink so boldly, Gu Lie was also relieved of his last doubt, as cultivators were practically impossible to be so unguarded.

“Where does the guest come from, and where is he going?” Gu Lie casually asked.

If Chen Guanshui had a bit of Buddhist wisdom, he could answer “I come from where I originate and am going to where I head”… But he naturally didn’t have that mood now, so he simply sighed and said:

“I come from Central Earth, but I don’t know where I’m going.”

“Oh.” Gu Lie suddenly had a suspicion.

Now, taking advantage of the absence of the Sect Guardian Immortal of the Orthodox Sect, the Six Paths are besieging the Three Pure Ones’ residence. This man is likely a resident near the Orthodox Sect’s premises, fleeing here to seek asylum because he senses the approaching chaos of war.

Hmm, judging by the position and distance, he’s probably coming from the direction of Kunlun.

Thinking of this, Gu Lie sighed and said:

“If you have nowhere to stay, you can reside here for a while longer, just help me look after the sheep as compensation.”

Chen Guanshui looked at the copper cup, silent and speechless, for a while before speaking:

“Aren’t you afraid I have malicious intentions?”

“Afraid, of course, I’m afraid.” Gu Lie clasped his hands together, smiling, “That’s why, inside or outside this tent, there’s nothing valuable that could incite a guest’s malintent.”

“All the things inside this tent aren’t worth even a gold coin. The sheep outside might be sold for quite a bit, but you’d have to drive them all the way to Guanzhong to sell them… why would a guest seek asylum here if they could do that?”

Chen Guanshui was silent for a long time before suddenly asking:

“What about those children outside?”

“They are all orphans with nowhere to go,” Gu Lie replied.

“Did the Master take them in to accumulate merit?” Chen Guanshui asked again.

As far as he knew, many monks on the Asura Path, because their cultivation techniques were too violent, needed to perform good deeds for civilians regularly to resolve the violence within their hearts with benevolence.

The ordinary people, not knowing the truth, would say these monks came to “accumulate merit.”

However, those monks did “one-off good deeds,” like giving a heavily indebted family money to relieve their troubles or saving travelers attacked by bandits, then leaving amid the others’ overwhelming gratitude to resolve their malice.

Raising orphans was quite the opposite: if you take them in, you must raise them until they’re adults who can fend for themselves… Otherwise, abandoning them means orphans without a livelihood, burdened by the karma and shaking their Daoist Heart.

“Hahaha.” Gu Lie laughed indifferently, “It’s not about accumulating merit, it’s just that every time I see them, I think of my own lonely and helpless past, so I can’t ignore them.”

Chen Guanshui was silent for a long time.

This explanation… either he’s hiding something, lying to cover up, or he’s truly a good man.

Chen Guanshui’s heart stirred slightly, and he nodded, “Then I will impose on you for a few days.”

For now, all I need is to find a place to hide, to evade the first intense wave of searches from my “former sect,” “former girlfriend,” and “former wife,” then I’ll deal with whatever comes next.

Instead of randomly searching for a refuge everywhere, it would be better to temporarily stay with Gu Lie.

Thinking of this, Chen Guanshui had another idea.

He realized that Qiu Changtian, Ling Yunpo, and Luo Yan’s social circles were mostly confined within their sect.

But it was different for Wei Dongliu, who had befriended many friends from the Six Paths, like Wen Yang, Gu Lie, and Long Xiaoqi—perhaps I could find a way to reconnect and seek refuge!

So, Chen Guanshui stayed here, taking it as an experience of pastoral life.

A few days later, probably due to a summons from the Asura Path, Gu Lie finally departed, instructing Chen Guanshui to take care of the children and the sheep.

The children were all orphans, and although Gu Lie trusted Chen Guanshui very much, they remained highly vigilant, always keeping their distance unless absolutely necessary, when they would push the oldest child to speak with Chen Guanshui for a few words.

Chen Guanshui had no ridiculous intention of befriending these kids. He spent his days lying on the grass basking in the sun, chewing grass seeds… After all, this vast grassland outside the desert was sparsely populated, without precise positioning, he wasn’t worried anyone would find this place.

In this way, it was unclear how much time passed, but the worries that once clouded his mind gradually turned into emptiness.

He secluded himself in that grassland pasture, unaware of the outside world’s right and wrong conflict. Due to the lack of Wei Dongliu’s guidance, the Six Paths Alliance soon scattered like birds and beasts.

The crisis of the Orthodox Sect began to resolve, Xu Yinglian returned to the sect, reported to the Sect Leader, and upon leaving the Jade Void Palace, found the same emptiness and despair in her heart.

Without the figure she had always been chasing ahead of her, even cultivating seemed to lose all meaning.

Xu Yinglian faced the midday blazing sun on the Snow Peak, her long eyelashes lowered.

Suddenly, she felt something, as if she received some sort of hint, and cast her gaze in a distant direction.

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