Chapter 19 What If

After a while, a somewhat old-looking drugstore appeared in front of Bu Gong and the others. Xiao Hu pulled Bu Gong and walked quickly forward. “Grandpa, brother Bu Gong is here,” Xiao Hu shouted as soon as they entered the drugstore. The joy in his voice was self-evident.
At this time, Blind Zhang was sitting behind the counter of the drugstore and chatting with another old man. Bu Gong also knew this old man. He was also from the same generation as Blind Zhang in the town. His name was Liu Paopi. It was only because his son ran a pork shop, and he never bargained when selling pork. The price was always fixed.
Therefore, if the older generation in the town wanted to buy pork, they would go directly to the old man in front of them and pester him hard, and he might lower the price a little bit. Like his son, he was notoriously stingy in the town, but he was a very good person. If there was someone in the town who was in urgent need of medical treatment but had no money, he would take the initiative to pay to help.
So although everyone in the town called him Liu Baopi, that was just a name used among the older generation, and he was still a very good person in the town; after Bu Gong stepped into the drugstore, he saw Blind Zhang sitting and chatting with the old man selling pork in front of him, so he slowly walked over.
Coming in front of Blind Zhang, Bu Gong bowed slightly and said, “Hello, Grandpa Zhang”, then came to the old man Liu and bowed and greeted him as well. After all, it was the right thing to do during the Spring Festival. Seeing Bu Gong doing this, the two old men smiled brightly, because Bu Gong was the only child in the town who had learned to read and write since he was young, and he was very polite and filial.
Therefore, many families in the village would bring up Bu Gong when disciplining their children. The most common phrase, almost a catchy phrase among the children in the town, was: “Look at the children of Old Man Bu. They are so promising. They have learned to read and write since they were young, and they are going to take the imperial examinations when they grow up. And look at you. You spend all day playing in the mud or stealing other people’s chickens. Do you have any future?”
Of course, this sentence gradually reached Bu Gong’s ears, but Bu Gong just smiled innocently; “Hehe… Bu Gong boy, you are here, come and sit here,” said Blind Zhang with a smile.
“Hey, Gong boy, why are you here alone? Where is your wife? Why didn’t she come with you?” Just when Bu Gong sat down on the bench in front of the counter, Old Man Liu asked with a smile; as the voice sounded, the atmosphere in the pharmacy seemed to suddenly freeze for a moment.
After hearing this voice, Bu Gong’s body stiffened slightly, and an imperceptible fluctuation appeared in his originally indifferent eyes; “Hehe… She went to visit distant relatives with her parents and is not at home for the time being.” Bu Gong pondered for a moment and smiled faintly.
Because Bu Gong later found out that the people in the town were the ones who followed him to the Yang family’s wedding procession that day. Although the incident that day happened in front of everyone, no one knew what happened that day afterwards. In their impression, Bu Gong had already gotten married.
In this regard, Bu Gong attributed the final reason to the man in blue that day; because immortals always have some unknown mysterious methods; the atmosphere in the pharmacy was also frozen for a moment because of Liu Laohan’s words just now, and then the situation was opened up by Bu Gong’s words.
“Oh? She went to her distant relative’s house? Why would she go to her distant relative’s house during the New Year?” Old man Liu said a little dissatisfied; in fact, Old man Liu still attaches great importance to secular etiquette and family discipline; for example, during the New Year, his descendants must come to pay him New Year’s greetings, and the decisions he made in his daily life, his sons and grandchildren must follow his wishes.
Bu Gong knew Old Man Liu quite well, and knowing that he was asking this, he said softly, “Hehe… She and her parents left a few days ago, so they should be back soon.” Just as Bu Gong finished speaking, Blind Zhang behind the counter suddenly said, “Bu Gong, what are your plans for after the New Year?”
Blind Zhang actually wanted to change the subject of Old Man Liu’s conversation, because he knew that Old Man Liu was a person who would get to the bottom of things; if he brought up something, he would not give up unless you told him the whole story in detail and bit by bit without omission; so, when Blind Zhang asked about Qigong at this time, he also wanted to interrupt Old Man Liu’s conversation.
As for the other thing, he also wanted to ask Bu Gong when he would leave; Bu Gong had told him before that when he reached the third level of body shaping, he would go out and travel to a place where he could improve his strength.
Blind Zhang did not intervene in this matter; after all, on the path of cultivation, other people’s forced interference would bring inconvenience and obstacles to Bu Gong’s cultivation, so it was better to let nature take its course.
Bu Gong also understood what Blind Zhang meant. After thinking for a while, he said, “After the New Year, I should go out for a walk. After all, there is no development if I stay in the town all the time.” Bu Gong said this to Blind Zhang that after the New Year, he would leave Stone Town and go out to explore and practice.
He said this to Old Man Liu again. In Old Man Liu’s opinion, Bu Gong’s words were very good. This kid was very ambitious. Other young men of Bu Gong’s age in the town basically married, had children, chopped wood and hunted, and lived a mediocre life in Shitou Town all their lives. But Bu Gong was thinking about how to get out of Shitou Town. He was indeed a scholar. This kid had a promising future.
If Bu Gong knew what Old Man Liu was thinking at this moment, I wonder what kind of expression would be on his face. Then Bu Gong, Xiao Hu and the two old men started chatting casually.
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At the same time, after passing through countless planes, in the endless star field, there was a planet that looked very huge and boundless; this planet as a whole was a little illusory, and its surface was always covered with a layer of white mysterious airflow, and the space outside the airflow kept disillusioning, collapsing and reorganizing.
All I saw were dark space cracks that were hundreds of feet in size, appearing around it from time to time; even if there were people with extremely high cultivation standing on the edge of it, they would find that in the depths of the endless dark space cracks, gusts of sharp gusts of wind, sand rain, blood clouds, phantom flames, etc. kept appearing and destroying everything.
And those waves of devastating power spread from the cracks in space from time to time; if a cultivator in the Tongyuan realm of the Xianyuan world was at this edge, he would be destroyed in an instant by these waves.
If you enter this planet and stand firmly on it, you will find that endless mysterious energy is penetrating into your body from the soles of your feet, thereby improving your physique and enhancing your cultivation. It turns out that this planet is actually a huge planet composed entirely of mysterious energy.
This method is truly earth-shattering and makes ghosts weep. With a wave of the hand, the world can be changed and the energy can be condensed. Moreover, mysterious energy is used to directly condense an endless energy planet that stands out among the starry sky and the endless void. It is not an exaggeration to call such a method a miracle.
But on this planet, there are floating buildings and mirage-like buildings rising and falling; there are also towering mountains, some peaks piercing the sky, as if to pierce through the sky; some stretch endlessly, giving people a sense of grandeur, on which grow countless towering trees, magical herbs and elixirs.
At this moment, on a vague and slightly misty mountain peak, a woman in flowing white clothes, with hair like floating clouds and a waist like a willow belt, stood quietly. Her three thousand black hair hung down to her delicate hips. Looking at her appearance, her pearls were covered with dew, and her eyebrows were like ink paintings, as if all the stars would be eclipsed by her. There is a saying: “It is like a light cloud covering the moon, and like snowflakes blown by the wind.” It is not an exaggeration to say so.
If Bu Gong were here, he would recognize that this was his childhood sweetheart, Yang Ruoming. However, at this moment, Yang Ruoming seemed to have an invisible aura surrounding her, making her look elusive, as if she was about to disappear with the wind at any time. Her already peerless beauty was set off like the moon surrounded by stars.
She was seen standing quietly, her beautiful eyes gazing calmly at the mist-shrouded mountains ahead, yet it was not difficult to see her extraordinary beauty; “Are you okay?” She could only be heard mumbling inaudibly, but a scene of a little girl and a little boy holding hands and swearing a promise slowly emerged in her mind.
As he was thinking, he inadvertently saw the gorgeous woman who made the world pale in comparison, with a captivating smile on her lips; but after a moment, a trace of sadness appeared in his beautiful eyes like water, a little helpless and a little lost; “This day last year, I remember you were holding my hand…”
Scenes with Bu Gong slowly emerged in her mind, and all the memories of this life’s reincarnation gradually became clearer; these memories also stood out from her countless reincarnations and numerous memory fragments, and gradually became clearer.
But then, she seemed to have thought of something, her eyes dimmed a little, and she sighed helplessly; “But, you are always a mortal”; “If, if one day, we can meet again, I will hold your hand tightly and never let you go” But her words sounded so pale and powerless.
Because she knew that Bu Gong had no chance to take this path at all. Even if Bu Gong took the path of cultivation, it was hard to say whether she could reach her current level and reach the plane of the world where she was. Because those who could reach this step were all powerful people who had experienced countless dangers and all kinds of situations in the world.
But Bu Gong was still just a ‘mortal’. “Ah!” A faint sigh came from her red lips; then the woman’s body slowly disappeared out of thin air, without any ripples around her.
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At this time, only Blind Zhang, Xiao Hu and Bu Gong were left in the medicine shop. The old man Liu who had come to chat earlier seemed to have left. “Bu Gong, are you sure you want to leave Stone Town in five days?” A slightly old voice sounded in the medicine shop.
Hearing Blind Zhang’s question, Bu Gong nodded lightly without hesitation and said, “Well, I’m sure, but I will come back to visit Grandpa Zhang often in the future,” Bu Gong said softly, “What’s so good about an old man like me? When your cultivation level is higher, you can come back to the village for a visit,” Blind Zhang shook his head slightly and said with a wry smile.
“But you are so talented, kid. In just one year, you have reached the third level of body shaping. It’s really… I don’t know what to say about you.” Blind Zhang looked at Bu Gong speechlessly. When Bu Gong told Blind Zhang about Bu Gong’s progress in the past year, Blind Zhang had not reacted yet.
He thought he’d misheard, but after calming down, he confirmed it was true; Bu Gong had truly reached the third level of body shaping in just one year. But Blind Zhang didn’t know about the evil spirit sealed in Bu Gong’s mind by the black thread. If he knew, then it wouldn’t be surprising that Bu Gong had reached the third level of body shaping so quickly.
After all, even Bu Gong could not sense the mysterious energy flowing out of the evil spirit, and it had the effect of changing the essence of the immortal energy in the body. Even if this incredible ability was easily told to others, no one would probably believe it.
In the pharmacy, the atmosphere was slightly silent!
“By the way, Bu Gong, this is your first time going out, and you are not familiar with the social customs and stuff outside. Let me give you a brief introduction first, so that you can be prepared when you encounter something when you go out.” Blind Zhang seemed to remember something and then said.
“Huh? Grandpa Zhang, you know all this too? I remember you haven’t left Stone Town for decades?” Bu Gong was a little surprised when he heard what Blind Zhang said. In his memory, Blind Zhang seemed to have always been in Stone Town and had never left. How could he know all this?
“You kid, after all, I was the young master of the Zhang family in Xianyang City when I was young, how could I not know?” He said like a blind man, feeling both amused and helpless; “Uh, hehe… I forgot about this. Well, okay, Grandpa Zhang, tell me about it.” Bu Gong laughed dryly after hearing this.
“Let me start with the story of Xianyang City,” Blind Zhang said after a brief silence. Bu Gong nodded slightly and said “hmm.” Then Blind Zhang slowly talked about the humanities and geography of the outside world, how people deal with things, how people communicate with each other, and so on.
It was truly a vast and complex world. Although what Blind Zhang said might be insignificant, it also made Bu Gong gradually wary of the outside world, and more out of curiosity. As Blind Zhang explained, Bu Gong understood that there were other cities and regions surrounding Xianyang City, and that besides the Xianyang Sect, there were also other sects and powers…