A great relationship

When Si Nanyi returned to the classroom, he looked as wilted as a frost-bitten eggplant, with his head hanging.

In the hall, Master Liu Shu was discussing the Dao and teaching the Dharma, but Si Nanyi didn't hear a single word he said.

"In the art of transformation, the most important thing is not the form but the posture."

A student asked: "Master, aren't form and posture the same thing? Why do we need to distinguish them?"

Liu Shu said: "Form and posture complement each other and do not need to be distinguished. Emphasizing "posture" makes the form look more realistic, just like turning into a bird, flapping its wings and soaring on the branches to overlook, rather than a pedestrian, jumping in the mud, scratching its butt and picking its ears, which is neither fish nor fowl."

Everyone in the hall burst into laughter.

"Okay, the disciples have almost learned enough in this class. Qin Tian, ​​announce the results."

Wu Yi nodded, but a student carefully reminded him: "Master, Senior Brother Qin Tian did not attend this class. The one next to you is Senior Brother Wu Yi."

Master Liu Shu glanced at Wu Yi beside him and said, "Well, I forgot about this matter. Qin Tian, ​​change it back!"

Wu Yi bowed his head and said, "Yes, Master."

Qin Tian's low and gentle voice came from Wu Yi's body. Si Nanyi instantly perked up and stared at him in the hall.

Seeing Senior Brother Wu Yi's facial features gradually fading away, revealing Qin Tian's unforgettable handsome face, Si Nanyi's eyes turned bloodshot.

The hall was boiling again in an instant.

"Wow! Brother Qin Tian's transformation technique made me think it was the real Brother Wu Yi."

"They are exactly the same, who can tell the difference?"

"It turned out to be Senior Brother Qin Tian. When it turned out to be Senior Brother Wu Yi teaching me how to make hand seals, I was so scared that I almost vomited my soul."

Qin Tian's gaze penetrated everyone and fixed on Si Nanyi. As he expected, Si Nanyi's face was now so black that it looked unrecognizable!

Qin Tian nodded to everyone and said, "You are too modest."

Seeing that Qin Tian was in a trance, Master Liu Shu called him again: "Qin Tian."

Qin Tian took the bamboo slip, stretched it out and spread it out, reading: "Si Nanyi's transformation was correct this time, so he is given an excellent grade, but he violated the rules of our sect, so his score is cancelled."

"Maybe I've gone too far. He looks so listless."

In the dormitory, Qin Tian tossed and turned. He recalled the red eyes of Si Nanyi during the transformation class in the daytime. It was engraved in his mind like a brand and could not be erased.

Until the moon is at the zenith and the insects stop chirping at four o'clock in the morning.

Qin Tian didn't fall asleep either. He suddenly got up and sat on the bed, looking at and touching the empty bed on the other side. Was Si Nanyi really planning to stay out all night?

As long as it does not violate the sect rules, the Qingshan Sect's precepts also allow disciples a certain degree of freedom, which means never asking about their daily lives.

Therefore, if someone like Si Nanyi did not return home at night but did not cause trouble or do anything wrong during the sect’s curfew, basically no one would notice it.

"Angry?"

How could he not be angry? Qin Tian recalled the dark face he had during the transformation class, when he said nothing and remained silent.

I didn't mean to tease him at first. I saw him clumsily but seriously counting his fingers in class, so I wanted to help him, and unknowingly I got closer to him. Well, he doesn't like people touching him at close range, but the strange thing is that he can be touched when he is in his true form, and even when he is asleep. In normal situations, if you touch him, his whole body becomes stiff as wood, and the tips of his ears become hot and red. He is clearly a straightforward and fearless person, but he has a lot of weird things about him.

Whether it was the trouble he caused or the rascally look he showed when admitting his mistakes afterwards, I found it very funny... so I couldn't help but play a teasing on him.

Qin Tian asked himself: "So, what exactly do you want to do, Qin Tian!"

On the other side, Si Nanyi, who also couldn't sleep, ran to Muxuzi's spiritual herb garden.

The dreamlike spiritual herb garden became extremely quiet at night.

In the thatched cottage of Lingcao Garden, it was as bright as day in Muxu Residence.

Si Nanyi played with the flower and plant elves in Muxuzi's house, and talked to Muxuzi who was busy pruning the potted plants with scissors:

"His transformation technique isn't perfect either."

Muxuzi looked nervously at the flower and grass elf in Si Nanyi's hand, which had just hatched and had not yet formed a routine. It was playfully climbing on Si Nanyi's fingers, and said nonchalantly: "Oh, then tell me about it."

Si Nanyi put the flower fairy back into the pot and said, "From the hand and the smell on his body, I already suspected it was him."

Mushuko adjusted his glass glasses, and smiled with his fox eyes narrowed behind the lenses: "You are right, he has always had this shortcoming in transformation, but he has found ways to make up for these shortcomings."

Si Nanyi asked curiously: "What method?"

"Substitution method."

"Substitution? What kind of substitution?"

Mu Xuzi used the Jiaoling scissors in his hand to break off a branch from a potted plant and placed it upright on the table.

He said: "Using a puppet is to add another layer of transformation to the transformation technique. Not everyone is born with an immortal body like you, and can transform their bodies freely. It just so happens that mortal bodies have limitations in transformation. If you can't transform yourself, then cast a spell on the puppet and let the puppet transform, like this."

As he spoke, Muxuzi raised his hand and cast his magic power towards the branch of the spiritual tree. The branch instantly turned into a potted plant. The amazing thing was that this pot was exactly the same as the one he had just broken off.

While Si Nanyi was amazed, he also admired this "substitution method".

But he still disagreed:

"It is indeed powerful, but this little trick is probably just a cover-up. If you want to conceal the truth, you still need more details."

Muxuzi didn't know where he got the confidence to say this: "Why are you so sure?"

Si Nanyi said with his hands behind his back: "Smell, if it were someone with a keen sense of smell like me, I would probably be discovered immediately."

Muxuzi continued trimming his potted plants with the Jiaoling scissors and said, "You do make sense, but it's even easier to cover up smells. You can attach your personal belongings or hair to the puppet and change it. Even your own mother won't be able to recognize it."

Si Nanyi was half-believing and half-doubting: "Is it true? This is too cunning!"

However, it does seem like something that Qin Tian's nine-tailed fox would do.

Muxuzi stopped holding the scissors and said seriously, "Cunning! After the great war between gods and demons in the northern region, countless people of my tribe died. If this "substitute method" can be used in actual combat against demons, using puppets as substitutes to lurk or scout the enemy, although it has limitations, it is undoubtedly safer. How can it be cunning again?"

Muxuzi's voice was calm, but Sinanyi could hear the anger in it.

He didn't dare to agree, but he deeply felt that Mushuzi was right. At the cost of his life, fighting against the devil, this "substitute method" was really a good strategy.

Mu Xuzi said: "But then again, you said you knew that Brother Wu Yi was Qin Tian's transformation, and you deliberately disgusted him."

Si Nanyi vehemently denied: "I didn't!"

Muxuzi mocked him: "No, he was turned into a woman so openly, who would believe you if you said it wasn't true?"

"believe it or not!"

Si Nanyi said this, "Anyway, I... didn't mean it. I was too proud of myself at the time and I said it out loud. I sincerely apologized to him, but he still deliberately teased me..."

Muxuzi smiled with a dagger hidden in his heart: "So you came here in anger, the shameless culprit who destroyed my spiritual herb garden. Since you always think you are not guilty, why do you run here to hide?"

Si Nanyi said stubbornly: "Who is guilty? I just don't want to meet him again for the time being!"

Muxuzi finally finished trimming the potted plants and put away the Jiaoling scissors. Muxuzi counseled him, "Qin Tian is not a petty person. You said you have admitted your mistakes and accepted the punishment. If you go back and say something nice, this matter will be over."

Si Nanyi turned his head and said, "I don't want it."

"Sinanyi, although it's inappropriate for me to say this, I still want to tell you that Qin Tian is a very good child. He is beautiful and smart. You must cherish him!"

Si Nanyi suddenly got goosebumps and said, "Can you please listen to what disgusting words you are saying first?"

"I heard it clearly and it was true. He is very beautiful and smart."

"It's really beautiful..."

Si Nanyi suddenly remembered his soft, fluffy, silver fur.

"How can you be so clever? It's just a "substitute technique", why do you have to show off so much?"

Muxuzi smiled and said, "You know the Qingshan Sect's library, right?"

Si Nanyi nodded.

"I know. This is the most important place in Qingshan Sect. No one except the headmaster is allowed to enter."

"Aren't you curious? We all come to Qingshan Sect to learn magic, but the book collection pavilion records all the magic secrets of Qingshan Sect, including the magic of ascension, but it is strictly forbidden to borrow from within, and you can't even get close to it."

Si Nanyi nodded, "Why?"

Mu Xuzi said: "Why is that? Because that is the library, which records all the magic secrets of Qingshan Sect. It is the most important place in Qingshan Sect, so of course people are not allowed to approach it easily!"

"So, you just talked a lot of nonsense! You're kidding me!"

Mu Xuzi smiled as he looked at Si Nanyi's angry guinea pig-like expression. He suddenly understood why Qin Tian, ​​who was always a good man, would play tricks on him. The poor guy was even cuter when he got angry.

"Don't be angry, I'll tell you a secret about Qin Tian."

"Since it is a secret, please keep it secret. I don't want to know anything."

"In fact, half of the books in Qingshan Sect's library were adapted and written by Qin Tian."

"You're such a wimp, aren't you?"

Mu Xuzi said very seriously: "It can be said that anyone in Qingshan Sect can be the headmaster, but Qin Tian is the only one who is irreplaceable!"

Si Nanyi said in disbelief: "Tsk! Is it that exaggerated? He is so powerful, why doesn't he ascend directly?"

Muxuzi said: "It is not that easy to ascend to heaven. Fate, tribulation, luck and destiny are all essential. However, it will be soon. After the Mid-Autumn Festival next year, it will be the day of his thunder tribulation. If everything goes well, we will kneel down and worship him and call him a god when we see him in the future."

Upon hearing this, Si Nanyi was stunned for a long time.

Muxuzi put his hand on Si Nanyi's shoulder, led him to the door and said: "So, cherish this rare and short-lived friendship!"

After saying that, while Si Nanyi wasn't able to react, Mu Xuzi took a few steps back, raised his foot and kicked Si Nanyi in the butt, kicking him out of Mu Xu Residence in Lingcao Garden.

He said to Si Nanyi: "You shameless bastard, don't even think about staying here with me, get out!"

Si Nanyi was lying on the grass. Before he could get up, Mu Xuzi quickly closed the door with a bang.

Si Nanyi was left rolling on the grass, pounding the ground and cursing: "Stingy Si Yanjing, you wait for me!"