“This …”

Seeing Bai Xu Weng pour all the fish back into the lake, Xiao Chen was really puzzled. If he stretched out his hand with his ability, he would naturally be able to catch the fish back, but if he did so, it would be out of place in front of this old gentleman.

Bai Xu Weng smiled and said, “There is another fishing rod over there. This old man will lend you two hours.”

Xiao Chen glanced not far away. As expected, there was still a fishing rod over there. He thought that it was still early anyway, so he could catch the fish himself.

He threw the hook down and quietly waited for the fish to take the bait. During that time, he heard Bai Xu Weng sing a fishing song. For some reason, it was drizzling in the drizzle and he suddenly felt as if he had entered the mortal world.

Thinking carefully, during this period of time, especially after he met the old beggar, he went to buy wine every day and asked if anyone would cook those four dishes. Everything he saw during this period, there were beauty and ugliness, there were evil and good. This was probably the Hundred Styles of the Mortal World.

And at this moment, he was fishing here. In all these years, had he ever been so peaceful?

Suddenly, he remembered that when he was a child in Ning Village, did he catch fewer fish in the stream? Every time he came home covered in mud, wouldn’t he be able to even fish this simple thing now?

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen smiled knowingly. At this moment, he was listening to Bai Xu Weng sing a fishing song, and the song was filled with all sorts of forms in the mortal world. At this moment, it was as if he had finally comprehended something.

In the past few years, he had been pursuing supreme cultivation, yet he had actually lost his true self. Wasn’t this state of the mortal world the “true self” that he should have in the past?

According to the Taoists, returning to simplicity and returning to the truth, he had been thinking about how to transform into a spirit these past few days. Transforming into a spirit was not his goal, but a method to step into the realm of experts. Only after transforming into a spirit would he be able to reach the realm of the Cave Ruins or even the Heavens Ruins. Only then would he be able to contend with those experts, be able to contend with Shen Cangming, and find out everything that year, and find the murderer of Tu Ning Village.

However, he had ignored his true self. If he forgot his true self, what if he transformed into a god? It was just a pseudo-divine transformation just like those people who didn’t transform bones and Pili Zidian, and they lost themselves. In order to transform into divine beings, how could they reach the true Legendary Realm in the future?

At this moment, Xiao Chen seemed to have comprehended everything. It was as if he had returned to his original state and entered a mysterious “True Self Realm”. It was not until a long time later that Bai Xuweng’s laughter suddenly sounded in his ears, “Little friend, little friend … it has been two hours since we can put away the pole.”

Xiao Chen suddenly opened his eyes. It was getting late, and the rain had stopped at some unknown time. He had just closed his eyes for a while, but two hours had passed?

Fortunately, it wasn’t a hundred years. At this moment, there was movement in the fishing rod. As soon as he retracted the rod, he immediately caught a fat mandarin fish.

Bai Xu Weng stroked his beard and smiled, “I will also give this water urn to my little friend.” As he spoke, he patted the water urn beside him and sent it over calmly.

Xiao Chen put the fish into the water urn. Seeing that the white-bearded man in front of him was like an old deity swimming all over the world, he respectfully bowed, “Thank you, senior.”

“Haha, little friend, go back.”

Bai Xu Weng stroked his beard and smiled. In the blink of an eye, Xiao Chen saw that the lake was vast and there was no one nearby. He couldn’t help but feel that there was such an expert in this small mortal world. He had underestimated this mortal world.

“Shit …”

Seeing that Mu Yun was slowly approaching, Xiao Chen suddenly regained his senses. He could not delay any longer. If he delayed any longer, he was afraid that the old beggar from the Azure Province would leave.

Thinking of this, he carried the water urn to the outside of the city. Now, he could only unfold the Instant Steps Cosmos. With a single incantation, he instantly escaped a thousand miles away and returned to the outside of Qingzhou City.

Twilight had yet to arrive, and there was still time to go back to the restaurant and ask Chef Xu to prepare all four dishes.

Upon returning to the restaurant, the shopkeeper saw that he had indeed brought the mandarin fish back. He was so shocked that his chin almost fell off. He did not know how he did it at all. It took him a while to react, “Sir, hurry, hurry …”

When he went to the kitchen behind him, Master Xu had already cooked the first two dishes. Seeing that the mandarin fish had been retrieved, he immediately operated his knife. In about half an hour, the “Envious Fish” had been prepared. However, the method of cooking the “Envious Fish” was very different from that of an ordinary mandarin fish.

The shopkeeper nodded and smiled, “Sir, are you satisfied?”

Seeing that twilight was approaching outside, Xiao Chen asked, “Where is the last clear water without fish?”

Master Xu did not say anything. He immediately took out a bowl of clear water fish soup from the pot and sprinkled a few green onions on it. There was nothing else.

“This … this is Shui Qingwu?”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment. Looking at this bowl of clear water fish soup, he thought to himself that a bowl of fish soup was worth two and a half ingots of gold. If only he had it every day.

At this moment, Master Xu slowly raised his head. His eyes were still cloudy. He looked at the white-robed Childe in front of him and asked with a trembling voice, “May I ask who ordered these four dishes, Childe?”

“It’s an old gentleman.”

Xiao Chen replied. Then, he took out ten gold ingots from his sleeve. The shopkeeper’s eyeball was about to fall off. Xiao Chen glanced at him and placed the ten gold ingots on the chopping board. Then, he carried four dishes and a pot of wine and quickly went out.

After leaving the city, Xiao Chen immediately went to the bamboo forest mentioned by the old beggar three days ago. When it was still dark, he saw that the old beggar was actually sleeping on a bamboo. The bamboo was bent, but it was quite flexible and did not break.

“Haha, brat, did you bring all four dishes that the old man ordered?”

“Of course.”

Xiao Chen smiled gently and placed the food box on the bamboo leaf-covered ground. Layer by layer, he opened it, and the fragrance immediately permeated the entire bamboo forest.

“Mm … Fragrant, really fragrant!”

The old beggar sniffed hard and couldn’t help but move his index finger. As he ate, he couldn’t help but praise, “That’s right, that’s right, that’s the taste. I’m jealous of the fish. That’s the taste …”

Xiao Chen watched him eat his fill quietly. He thought to himself that the old beggar in front of him was like the white-bearded man who was fishing by the Taihu Lake in Suzhou. He thought that he was definitely not an ordinary person. In this mortal world, there were actually two experts who were so hidden. Perhaps … there were more than two of them.

However, he was still not sure of the old gentleman’s intentions, so he waited quietly for him to finish the fish.

When it was about dark, the old beggar finished eating the fish, picked his teeth with his fish bones, and gargled his mouth with the bowl of “clear water without fish”.

Xiao Chen watched from the side. He thought to himself that this “Envious Fish” was made from fat mandarin fish. No matter how delicious it was, it would inevitably be greasy in the mouth after eating. As for the “Clear Water without Fish” behind it, it was used to rinse the mouth and moisten the throat. He was considerate.

After a while, Xiao Chen saw that the old beggar had finished eating. He smiled lightly and said, “How is it? Are these four fish still suitable for the old man’s taste?”

“Not bad, not bad …”

The old beggar seemed to be very satisfied. He drank another mouthful of wine and looked at him with a chuckle, “The old man travels through the mortal world. No matter where he goes, he is always pushed and bustled by people. You brat, you treat me to drinks and fish these days. Forget it, the old man doesn’t usually like to owe people, so I’ll teach you a sword technique.”