CHAPTER: How About Teaching Me Cultivation?
Time slipped away slowly. Mo Yao's days could be described as prosperous. She was a beautiful girl. Wherever she went, she would be sought after by others. She enjoyed receiving everyone’s fascinated stares and could finally, haughtily, ignore everyone. Even so, she still received love letters and made an endless amount of money every day. She even signed a contract with an agency that was planning her debut next year. Her useless father hadn't shown up for a long time, and life was so beautiful that she felt like she was living in a dream.
The only fly in the ointment[1] was that people in the group stopped sending her red packets. No one would respond whenever she offered to exchange food. They even avoided her one by one, making her feel very frustrated. What would she do if the people in the group no longer helped her? Everything she had so far was given by them.
[TL NOTE: fly in the ointment means a minor irritation or another factor that spoils the success or enjoyment of something.]
Although she was anxious, she had no relationship with the people in the group. She could only appease them patiently, in hopes that someone would be pleased and send her a red packet.
The New Year's Eve party arrived as scheduled but Mo Yao still hadn't gotten a chance to make her physique flexible. Furthermore, she hadn’t learned how to dance yet. But, due to her popularity on the internet and at school, she was invited to sing a song. One had to admit that Mo Yao still had a lot of talent. Despite not having a dance to accompany her performance, her singing was still very mesmerizing.
Seeing a beautiful person with a beautiful voice, of course most people would be attracted. Even Tang Rufeng, the campus hunk, sent her flowers. Mo Yao looked at the handsome young man standing in front of her. His eyes were full of bashfulness and admiration. She couldn't help but laugh in her heart. See, everyone was materialistic. They only looked at her outer appearance. She once had a crush on Tang Rufeng for many years. She even studied hard to pass the entrance exam to get admitted to Lincheng No.1 Middle School for him, but he didn't even spare a glance at her! Now, she merely became beautiful, and he was taking the initiative to talk to her! It had to be said, men were all miserable rogues!
Mo Yao threw the flowers into the bin, and said to Tang Rufeng indifferently, "Sorry, I don't like you."
Tang Rufeng turned pale in an instant, and the spectators were shocked. Tang Rufeng got rejected! The campus hunk got rejected by Mo Yao! This was truly breaking news!
No matter how much other students gossiped, they were spreading the story with exaggeration. Even when Tang Rufeng lost his face and became a joke, Mo Yao left right away without caring about the gossip.
At that time, she was thinking about how to please the people in the group in order to get them to send her more red packets! Mo Yao had become beautiful, making others amazed and envious. Her life had changed drastically compared to the past, so who would reject the possibility of such a good life becoming even better? Just the attractive appearance could no longer satisfy her. She wanted to become more powerful, for example, her cultivation level.
【Mo Yao】: The group is very deserted today! Are the great gods busy cultivating? (￣▽￣)~*
【Taoist Master Hua Yin】: Yes, they are all cultivating.
【Mo Yao】: It feels like cultivation is very interesting. If I could also practice cultivation, it would have been great! (*^▽^*)
Hua Yin naturally understood the meaning behind her words and didn't know how to respond. As he was hesitating, Mo Yao sent another message.
【Mo Yao】: Can the Great God Hua Yin teach me about cultivation? (￣▽￣)
Mo Yao was straightforward. Hua Yin also confessed to her frankly, "It’s not that I don’t want to teach you. It’s because you are from a mortal world. I don't know whether there is any spiritual influence or not. Not to mention, teaching you to cultivate true Taoism will inevitably break the balance of the world. This is not allowed by heaven."
Although monks were not as good as celestial beings, they could also move mountains and fill up the seas. They possessed the capability to produce clouds with the sway of a hand and make rain with another. Mortals were nothing to them. The sudden appearance of a cultivator, who was superior to the mortals, in the ordinary world would inevitably break the balance between the realms. This was not allowed by heaven.
This was something that everyone in the cultivation realm knew. In the original story, they didn’t know that Mo Yao was a mortal, so they taught her how to cultivate. They also heard that she had rarefied spiritual energy, so they provided her with pills to maintain her cultivation. But this time, Wen Qing told them from the beginning that Mo Yao was from an ordinary mortal world. So they naturally knew what to do and what not to do.
Because of this, they had hesitated while interacting with Mo Yao. They didn't even want to give her the pills casually. Otherwise, why would they hide as soon as Mo Yao proposed to send out food for them? They thought that the food Mo Yao sent was unpalatable, but they didn't want to bring it up in front of her. They were worried about karma.