After learning that the little jiangshi had evolved into unbreakable bones level, the Special Cases Management Bureau sent many experts to check on her condition.
Experts told An Rugu, “Her memory and mental capacity are all stuck at the age of four. She is much smarter than her peers, but only to a limited extent.
“She passed the psychological assessment. Despite being a jiangshi, she doesn’t hate humans and doesn’t crave human flesh. This makes her seem more like a human wearing a jiangshi skin. In short, her danger level is F, and she doesn’t require containment.”
“I understand,” An Rugu said thoughtfully.
The expert added, “It’s good that she doesn’t eat human flesh and blood, but for nutrition, you can also feed her something like duck’s blood and beef tripe in spicy soup, which is made with chicken, duck, or pig blood. When we were researching jiangshi, we fed them this, and they enjoyed it very much.”
An Rugu nodded, “Okay.”
Shang Yue made some duck blood and vermicelli in spicy soup, filling the table with them. The aroma was enticing, and the soup was rich and delicious.
The little jiangshi, however, seemed uninterested and hesitated to pick up her chopsticks, appearing completely uninterested.
An Rugu could only walk to the side, call the expert, and report, “She doesn’t seem to eat poultry blood either.”
The expert was utterly astonished. “She won’t eat this? Then what does she want to eat?”
A jiangshi that didn’t eat human flesh and blood has already exceeded his knowledge.
But she didn’t even eat chicken blood, duck blood, or pig blood anymore; she’s practically an anomaly among jiangshi.
At this moment, the little jiangshi walked up to An Rugu, looked up at her, and said, “I want to eat candy. Strawberry-flavored, pineapples, oranges, apples, anything is fine.”
An Rugu and the expert: “…”
The expert on the other end of the phone, feeling dazed, pulled out his notebook and frantically scribbled, “Wednesday, I encountered a pica among the jiangshi…”
Seeing that even experts who knew a lot about jiangshi didn’t know what to do, An Rugu had Shang Yue buy several boxes of candies wholesale.
The little jiangshi ate strawberry-flavored lollipop, her cheeks puffed out, and the corners of her mouth turned up, looking very happy.
Her childish voice was muffled, “I am human.”
She still perceived herself as human.
What jiangshi are you talking about? Anyway, I’m not one.
Flesh and blood didn’t taste as good as candies, which made her feel a little sweet.
Seeing this, An Rugu didn’t want to argue with the child. As if she had thought of something, she went back to her room and took some things.
‘Slam.’
She placed a thick stack of books on the table in front of the little jiangshi, taller than the little jiangshi herself, almost burying her behind it.
“These are the kindergarten and primary school textbooks I asked from Jingjing1. You can study them first. If you don’t understand anything, you can ask the Weasel and the Fox.”
Since Weasel and Fox were ignorant of worldly affairs, she found many books to teach them common sense about human society so that they could quickly integrate into it.
Su Zhi’s father gave An Rugu almost half of his assets to raise the little jiangshi. A child, after all, must study hard.
However, her special status made it unlikely that she would be able to attend school. If we concealed her identity and let her attend kindergarten, the parents would probably be furious.
So just let her study on her own at the Daoist temple.
Little Jiangshi: “…”
The little jiangshi munched on her lollipop, staring blankly at the mountain of books in front of her.
I’m just a child, why do I need to learn so much?
She immediately took the lollipop out of her mouth and said in a serious tone, “I am not human.”
Therefore, no learning was required.
An Rugu and Shang Yue: “?”
Shang Yue couldn’t help but laugh. Looking at An Rugu, she teased, “She just said that she was human, but now that she doesn’t want to study, she says she’s not human.
“You’ve really found a gem with this one.”
An Rugu: “…”
She looked at the earnest little jiangshi and said seriously, “Your dad told me to take good care of you. Children need to study hard and can’t escape the nine years of compulsory education.”
Little Jiangshi: “…”
She heard her father mentioned and looked away.
An Rugu had told her about her father, and she knew that her parents had continued to support her even after her death. Now that they were in prison, they were still giving money to An Rugu to support her.
But… in the end, it was her father’s gambling that killed her.
She was emotionally distraught, and her small, still-developing brain couldn’t process these conflicting emotions, so she simply ignored them.
However, she agreed with her father’s decision to entrust her to An Rugu.
An Rugu appeared aloof and distant, but as a child, the little jiangshi was very sensitive to emotions.
An Rugu was, in fact, very good to her.
She lowered her head helplessly, surrendering to reality, “Then I’ll study.”
An Rugu nodded, “If you calculate the time, you still have more than 5,000 days until the college entrance examination.”
The little jiangshi’s smile froze on her face: “???”
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Celestial Master’s Mansion in Longhu Mountain.
Sunlight filtered through the leaves, ripples spread across the lake, and a faint fragrance filled the air. Each towering peak was understated yet possessed a captivating beauty.
The Celestial Master’s Mansion was the most famous building in Longhu Mountain. It’s a national A5-level tourist site, covering an area of more than 20,000 square meters, and was the residence of successive Celestial Masters.
The building’s layout was in the shape of a Bagua (Eight Trigrams)2, a unique architectural style of Daoism.
The young disciple, Liang Weiping, carrying tea, walked through the main hall and arrived at the door.
Before he even went inside, he could already hear the clattering of keyboard keys.
Liang Weiping was not surprised at all. He sighed and went inside.
Celestial Master Zhang, who usually exuded an incomparable aura in front of the public, was wearing headphones and sitting in front of his computer.
His hands that drew incantations with flowing strokes now danced across the keyboard.
As he moved, the character on the computer monitor unleashed a powerful attack, killing the monsters in front of him with incredibly cool special effects.
Liang Weiping picked up the teacup and refilled it with tea.
After finishing the dungeon, Celestial Master Zhang took off his headphones and said, “Thank you for your help.”
He took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, then prepared to put on his headphones and continue his battle.
However, at this moment, Liang Weiping spoke up to stop him, saying, “Master, have you heard? There’s been another commotion at Cloud Rise Temple.”
Master Zhang paused, his hand still holding the earphones, and asked, “What happened?”
When his young friend said she was going to livestream the Underworld, he appeared calm on the surface, but inside he was in deep turmoil.
The back waves of Yangtze River push the front waves forward, and the front waves crash on the beach3; this young friend truly surprised him.
He wondered what big trouble this young friend has gotten into this time.
“It is said that the master used the Maoshan Attracting Lightning Technique to summon golden lightning and kill the Green Mountain Ghost King of the Underworld.”
“The Secret Technique of the Maoshan School?”
Celestial Master Zhang opened his eyes wide and gripped the headphones tightly with his right hand. “This small Daoist temple has a truly profound history.”
“That’s right,” Liang Weiping nodded.
“The Underworld right now is really in chaos.”
I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com
T/N: ‘Mao xue wang’— duck’s blood and beef tripe in spicy soup— is a real dish.
Duck’s blood and vermicelli soup. Those chocolate-brown rectangles are the solidified duck’s blood.
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If you recall, the Green Mountain Ghost King from a few chapters back was wary of the Heavenly Five Thunder Orthodox Technique that was a ‘closely guarded secret of the Longhu Mountains’.
Longhu (literally Dragon Tiger) Mountain is considered one of the birthplaces of Daoism and there are many shrines and temples along the mountainside.
It is particularly significant to the nearly 2000-year-old ‘Way of the Celestial Masters‘ School of Daoism. It is the site of the Celestial Masters Mansion, the historical home and administrative seat of over 60 generations of Celestial Masters.
The Celestial Masters were the first group of organized Daoists. Before their foundation over 1900 years ago, Daoism did not exist as an organized religion. The Celestial Masters were the ancestors of subsequent Daoist movements such as the Shangqing and Lingbao movements.
The mountain and surrounding area has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Here’s the main gate of the Celestial Master Mansion.
Here is a temple on the side of the mountain.
FOOTNOTE:
- Jingjing is the granddaughter of the Village Head at the foot of Cloud Rise Mountain. ↩︎
- Bagua (Eight trigrams) is in the shape of a hexagon.
↩︎ - ‘The back waves of the River Yangtze push the front waves forward, the new generation replace the old.‘ It’s an idiom that says the new generation comes and surpasses the previous one. ↩︎
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