Chapter 29: I don't care who his father loves

  Yongyuan City, Dianfeng Tavern.

  The name of this tavern sounds strange, but as soon as customers enter, they will immediately understand. The moment you step into the tavern is like stepping onto a mountain peak, with empty space, cliffs, steep walls, and flying birds and beasts, making people feel like they are there in person. People all know that this is an illusion array, which is also one of the most popular arrays in today's era. Although maintaining the operation of such an array consumes a lot, for the sake of business, the tavern owners have no choice but to spend heavily. After all, in this era, if you don't have an illusion array covering your tavern, you wouldn't dare open it.

  It was not yet noon, and not time for lunch, so there were not many people in the tavern. There were only two or three tables occupied, among which a table near the window had a man and a woman sitting at it. The man looked to be around twenty years old, with a somewhat handsome appearance, but his dark eyes seemed dull and sunken. He was slender and weak, like a scholar, sitting in the chair without any of the vigor that young people should have, just quietly sitting there, like a still pool of water.

  The woman was dressed in a green cheongsam, young and beautiful. She sat opposite him, not saying a word, her bright and beautiful eyes wide open, staring at the young man across from her without blinking. Her gaze was complex, mixed with all sorts of surprise and curiosity.

  "Waiter, bring three catties of beef and seven bowls of old wine!"

  The seemingly quiet young man suddenly shouted, which was quite strange.

  The two of them were Tang Qing and Bi Yi, who had just returned from the Tianyao Array. After the shopkeeper brought up three catties of beef and seven bowls of old wine, Tang Qing didn't say a word, grabbed the beef with his left hand and took a bite directly, chewed it, nodded in satisfaction, and said, "This beef is not bad, color, fragrance, and taste are all complete, with texture and bite! Hmm! Not bad!"

  He picked up a bowl of wine, tilted his head and poured it directly into his stomach, finishing it in one gulp. Tang Qing let out a satisfied "ah" and smacked his lips twice, shaking his head and saying, "This wine is somewhat inferior, but it's passable."

  Tang Qing had been eating vegetarian dishes at the Green Jade Gate for almost half a month, and his stomach was already growling with hunger. Faced with three catties of beef and seven bowls of old wine, he naturally devoured them in one sitting.

  "What's wrong with you? Eat!"

  Tang Qing tore off a piece of beef and handed it over, but Bi Yi took it without opening her mouth. Indeed, she had no appetite for this now, her mind was still reeling from the scene earlier, and the shock in her heart had not dissipated yet.

  "You... how did you come to understand talismans? You said you started practicing talismans at the age of six, is that true?"

  In the end, Bi Yi couldn't help but satisfy her curiosity. She couldn't imagine how a six-year-old with such a weak and small body could possibly withstand the dangerous spiritual power.

  "Why can't I understand?" Tang Qing was having a great time, with beef in his left hand and old wine in his right, chewing on the beef and swallowing it down with the wine. "As for practicing talismans at six years old, I was still young then, just thought it was fun."

  "But you only drew a dozen or so talismans, how could you possibly refine such a terrifying Cloud Rain Talisman." Bi Yi couldn't forget the Cloud Rain Talisman that Tang Jing had flung out at the Tian Yao Array Tower. Good heavens! Was that still a Cloud Rain Talisman? That was practically a Storm Talisman!

  "In the past, when I had nothing to do, I would often practice talismans just for fun. The more I practiced, the more proficient I became - after all, practice makes perfect! " Tang Jing replied nonchalantly, "But now that I'm old, I found it a bit difficult to practice talismans earlier."

  When you have nothing better to do, are you practicing your sword moves for fun? Bi Yi couldn't help but laugh, "Old? How old are you?! You're the one saying you're old!"

  "How big am I?" Tang Jing smiled playfully.

  "You're about as old as I am, at most twenty years old."

  "Hahaha!" Tang Qing burst out laughing, the wine and meat in his mouth hadn't even been swallowed yet, but he was choked so hard that he couldn't care about these things. He laughed wildly, even slapping the table repeatedly, and tears of laughter streamed down his face.

  "Why are you laughing so happily? Did I say something wrong?" Bi Yi's eyebrows furrowed, and she couldn't help but glare at him, unable to understand what was so funny about it. "How old are you?"

  "I... can't remember anymore."

  Tang Jing tilted his head, wiping away the tears of laughter from the corner of his eyes. This question was a bit difficult for him, and he only remembered that he was 25 years old when he crossed the Nine Heavens Tribulation. As for how many years had passed since he embarked on this path as a loose immortal and went through the nine heavenly tribulations, he really didn't know. So, how old he was this year, he truly couldn't recall. Shaking his head, he let out a snort of laughter, "Just consider me 25 years old!"

  What is unclear memory? What does it mean when he was twenty-five years old?

  What's this got to do with that?

  Biqi thought this guy must be fooling himself, but it was someone else's privacy, and she didn't dare to ask. Looking at Tang Qing who was eating crazily, Biqi couldn't help but wrinkle her nose and said, "Alright! I won't tell you these things, but can you be more rational in the future? Let's just forget about Zhang Yuanbai's matter, today Gao Yingcai was indeed very excessive, but you can't hit him on the forehead with a spirit symbol!"

  "What else can I do? Wait for him to come and collect me?" Tang Qing downed another bowl of old wine, tore off a piece of beef, and chewed on it as he said, "Although I'm an honest man, if someone bullies me, even if I'm very honest, I shouldn't just sit back and do nothing, should I?"

  "Even so! But you can't be so impulsive!"

  "Am I impulsive? I don't think so?"

  "You also said there was no impulse, how could you smash the refined spirit symbol on him without any impulse."

  "Can this be called impulsive? Impulsiveness is when one loses their rationality, but I was very clear-headed at the time."

  "You!" Bi Yi felt that she really couldn't communicate with this guy, and let out a deep breath. "That Gao Ying is the hot favorite to win the Jinwu Grand Tournament, and it's very likely he'll become a direct disciple. And his father is also the Array Master of the Tianyao Array Tower. Do you know how serious this matter is? Don't you know to be afraid?"

  Afraid?

  Tang Qing has lived for so long, yet he truly doesn't know what fear is. With his Nine-Tribulations Loose Immortal body, even if he just stands there without fighting back, Kou Heng can't do anything to him. You see, although being a Loose Immortal is very miserable, with the nine heavens not accepting and the nine underworlds not wanting, every time one passes through a heavenly tribulation, their physical strength increases several times over. This is probably the only advantage of being a Loose Immortal. He still vaguely remembers that when he was in his eighth tribulation body, even the immortals from the nine heavens couldn't do anything to him. As for how strong his ninth tribulation Loose Immortal body is, he currently hasn't recovered yet, so he doesn't know.

  "The vastness of heaven and earth, I'm afraid of many things, adding one more doesn't make a difference, subtracting one less doesn't make a difference either, who cares who my dad loves?"

  Tang Qing said this with an especially nonchalant tone, while Bi Yi's eyebrows furrowed in annoyance. This guy's casual attitude was as if he didn't care even if the Holy Emperor of the Sacred Realm himself were standing before him.

  Bi Yi stopped talking, Tang Qing's attitude made her not know what to say either. She had never seen a person who could be so casual and carefree, with a hint of calm arrogance between the lines, and a hint of unruly recklessness in his ease.