45. Demolition Expert
The next day.
“I’m so sorry for the unpleasant experience,” a portly man bowed repeatedly to Miss Gong, full of apologies. “My wife invited Immortal Master, but I never expected such a thing to happen.”
“Ah… ahahaha… it’s fine… it’s nothing.”
Gong Yiling could only shake her head with a wry smile.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to take the blame.
She just didn’t know that her peak Core Formation demonic cultivation, amplified by her special meridians, could be so powerful, almost blowing the small hill to smithereens.
It caused an unimaginable landslide.
Now, the bathhouse, having suffered severe damage, was temporarily closed.
The owner was here to apologize.
But this incident had nothing to do with the bathhouse itself.
The culprit, worried about her demonic cultivation being exposed, couldn’t take responsibility.
Listening to the owner’s apologies, she felt a pang of guilt.
“Is there anything I can do to compensate you, Immortal Master? I’ll do anything within my power.”
Please stop.
The more he said, the worse Gong Yiling felt.
“Actually, this Palace Master is also partly responsible,” she said evasively. “If I hadn’t let my disciple cultivate there, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy, perhaps this wouldn’t have happened.”
“No, no, you’re too kind. It was an honor for our humble bathhouse to host your disciple’s cultivation!”
“No, no, I’m serious. It’s my fault.”
“How could it be your fault? It’s my fault.”
“No, no, I actually blew up the hill.”
“Immortal Master is so kind, taking the blame to spare our feelings.”
“It really was me!”
“Really, Immortal Master, there’s no need to be so polite. That hill explodes every now and then. It doesn’t affect our business.”
Was he speaking human language? What kind of hill explodes every now and then? A volcano?
Gong Yiling realized there was no logic in talking to this man.
“Just don’t give me anything. I don’t want it, absolutely not!”
“Alright, alright…”
In the end, the owner didn’t give her anything, but instead, fabricated a ridiculously absurd story.
According to the story, there was a demonic beast on the north mountain that often caused trouble, triggering landslides.
Even the bathhouse’s unique terrain was supposedly created by the beast.
But this beast wouldn’t cause any more trouble.
Why? Because the Immortal Master, visiting the bathhouse, discovered the beast and fought it on the mountain.
Their battle shook the heavens and earth, resulting in half the mountain being blown up and the beast being obliterated.
Afterward, the Immortal Master, deeply regretting her actions, took all the blame, never mentioning that she did it for the greater good.
“Such a kind and compassionate Immortal Master!”
That day, all the storytellers in the city seemed to have been paid to change their usual tales to this one.
Gong Yiling, eating noodles with her two disciples, almost choked to death.
“Young Palace Master, you really killed that demonic beast?”
“Master, was it really you?”
Feeling their gazes, the…
Kind, compassionate, beautiful, virtuous, elegant, approachable, and powerful Gong—the Versailles Cinderella—Yiling…
Nodded reluctantly.
“Let’s just say it was me.”
What else could she say?
There was no other way to respond.
Chun Lian—So Master said she was going to test something to avoid worrying me.
Qiu Shui—So Master even eliminated a dangerous demonic beast for me?
But Miss Gong wasn’t focused on them.
The storyteller continued,
“Now, the area where the mountain was blown up has miraculously formed a crescent-shaped depression, filled with hot spring water. The bathhouse at the foot of the mountain has been renamed ‘Immortal’s Treasure Bath.’ If you wish to experience the Immortal Master’s grace, you can visit.”
“We’re having a grand opening celebration! Half-price tickets, unlimited free drinks and snacks, and even song and dance performances!”
Hearing this, the audience was immediately interested.
They rushed towards the bathhouse, forgetting it was still daytime and that the “Immortal Master” was right there.
Gong Yiling twitched her lips.
This was how people with business acumen could sell used shoe insoles as rare treasures to the wealthy.
Creating hype was so easy.
“Let’s go.”
Gong Yiling left a few copper coins and called out to her two disciples, who were still lost in thought.
She had a lot to prepare before their trip to the secret realm.
“Okay.” “Okay!”
Shortly after they left, a ragged woman with frizzy hair, wearing a tattered cloak, almost threw her bowl of noodles in anger.
But…
Looking at the few coins she had left, she held back.
The reason for her anger was quite peculiar.
From her perspective, she was just a mountain beast.
A mountain beast was a special type of demonic beast that chose a mountain and never left it until death.
They could be of any race, as long as they were attached to the mountain.
But she was slightly different.
Every time her cultivation increased, she would shed her skin, and the discarded skin would become a creature with only basic instincts.
So, she had to fight her own skin every now and then, disturbing the peace of the mountain.
However, after completing the forty-ninth shedding, she would finally become a legendary being.
Yesterday was the scene of her forty-ninth shedding.
Everything was going smoothly, but then a powerful phantom appeared, scaring her witless. After the phantom finally disappeared, she exploded.
Or rather, an inexplicable explosion occurred within a hundred meters of her.
She was caught in the blast, causing her forty-ninth shedding to glitch.
More importantly, her mountain was blown up!
“If I ever find out who that Immortal Master is, I’ll rip their head off and play soccer with it!”
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