The Disciple's Diligence Makes the Master Seem Lazy - Chapter 6

[Chapter 6 The Thief]

“I’ve never heard of it. What is a Thief?”

Daxu has lived for three hundred years, stayed in ten academies, visited hundreds of places, and met countless disciples. This is the first time she has heard the word “Thief”.

Li Xu looked at Daxu and frowned, “Haven’t the ten academies of the Imperial Academy talked about this yet?”

Daxu shook her head, “I’ve never heard of it.”

Li Xu frowned and said seriously, “I don’t know what the Imperial Academy and the Censorate are hiding. Are they afraid of causing chaos? That’s right, if the information about the Thief is made public, it will indeed cause panic.”

Daxu looked at Li Xu.

It was the first time she saw her master so serious.

It showed that the problem was very serious.

Daxu asked cautiously, “Master, I want to know what a Thief is?”

Li Xu was silent for a long time, took a sip of wine, and slowly told the truth of the matter.

“At that time, my master and I lived in the Bad Taoist Temple. Taixu Academy was formerly called the Bad Taoist Temple. The Bad Taoist Temple was very small, like a shabby thatched cottage.”

“Although it was small, it was a safe haven for my master and me.”

“My master was a kind and gentle old man with a white beard, a little hunchbacked, and a lot of words. He naggled every day and always liked to talk to himself. He was very good to me.”

“In this way, my master and I depended on each other in the Taoist temple for almost ten years.”

“One day, he said he would go into the mountains for two or three days and told me to stay at home and watch over the Taoist temple and not run around. But he didn’t come out for ten days. I had a bad feeling, so I searched all over the mountains and finally found him dead on a pile of stones.”

“My master was a fourth-grade master of the Taoist realm. He had successfully survived a heavenly tribulation. His purpose of entering the mountain this time was to survive a second heavenly tribulation.”

“Logically speaking, the second heavenly tribulation would not be too difficult, but my master is gone just like that.”

“Before dying, the bloody master used stones to arrange a special pattern, and pointed at the pattern. At that time, I thought it was just a coincidence and didn’t pay much attention to it. In addition, I was very sad about the death of the master, so I didn’t pay much attention to it.” This is the memory that Li Xu got from the fusion of his previous life.

One year after the master’s death, the previous life was just a cultivator who had not even reached the first-grade realm of Taoism. He was unrestrained every day and wanted to practice Taoism for twelve hours a day, hoping to quickly become an immortal. The result was counterproductive, and he really died suddenly from staying up late to cultivate Taoism.

The previous life died suddenly, and Li Xu, who died suddenly, came to this world and fused memories.

He saw the scene of the master’s death and immediately suspected that the master did not die of the calamity.

He secretly investigated for two months, but in the end it was nothing, because no one knew about this strange pattern, so he gave up and officially began a lazy life in the Taoist temple.

“Master’s memory was gradually sealed away as time went by, until a few years ago, when I encountered a corpse in the deep mountains and forests.”

“I saw the same pattern around the dead body, which was left by the dead body before he died. It was exactly the same as the pattern my master pointed out. At that time, I knew that things were not simple.”

“I connected the things together.”

“I started to investigate. Based on the fragmentary clues I got, I boldly speculated that there was a huge and mysterious organization in Daozhou. I called it ‘Thieves of Dao’.”

“Thieves of Dao are contrary to cultivators. They don’t need to understand the Dao or practice. They directly steal the fruits of the cultivators’ hard work and make them their own.”

“What?”

Da’er’s head buzzed.

“Master, you mean that there is a group of cultivators in Daozhou who don’t need to understand the Dao or practice. They can steal the fruits of others’ hard work for a lifetime.” Da’er

was stunned.

There is such an organization in Daozhou.

If it is announced, it will definitely cause a major earthquake. The cultivators are terrified and afraid that they can’t sleep. They are afraid that one day they will wake up and never wake up again.

“Yes, my master died because his Dao was stolen by the Dao Thief.”

At this point, Li Xu’s eyes were filled with endless murderous intent, and his fists clenched and snapped. He said:

“There is another very serious problem. The Dao Thief has all the power of the person whose Dao was stolen. In other words, this person is still using my master’s Dao and the power that belongs to my master to walk in the world.”

“And I haven’t found this person yet.”

There is too little information about the Dao Thief.

Li Xu often loses all clues halfway through an investigation, but he knows that this organization is definitely not simple and appeared at least two hundred years ago. In

two hundred years, you can imagine how far it has developed.

“In order to prevent more people from being harmed, I quickly told the Imperial Censor and the Imperial Academy’s Priest about this matter.”

The Imperial Censor is the most powerful person in the Imperial Censorate (managing discipline, order, and inspection), and the Priest is the most powerful person in the Imperial Academy (managing education).

“So they retrieved a lot of bizarre death files, put my guess into them, and were able to perfectly solve the problem of disciples’ bizarre deaths.”

“That is to say, many of the mysterious disappearances and deaths of ascetics are related to the Dao Thieves.”

“At least tens of thousands of people.”

Dahu was stunned and shocked:

“If the Dao Thieves are really exposed, I’m afraid there will be chaos in the world, and the ascetics will never have peace.”

Li Xu said: “Sooner or later, the world will be in chaos, and the Imperial Academy and the Censorate will not be able to hide it for long. It seems that I have to write a letter and ask these two people to have a drink with me when I have time.”

The Imperial Censor and the Imperial Academy Priest are too lazy. There has been no progress in the past few years.

He doesn’t care whether the thief is exposed or not. He cares about where the thief is hiding. He just needs to find the location.

These thieves are all thieves.

To be precise, they are criminals, unforgivable criminals. Every thief is carrying an unjust case.

Dahu looked at her master’s gradually red eyes and said, “Master, what does that special pattern look like? I’ll pay attention to it.”

“It looks a bit like a triangle. It feels weird. I can’t explain it clearly. Take the paper and I’ll draw it for you.”

Dahu took out a pen and paper from her storage ring and handed it to her master. By the way, she reached out and touched her master’s head with a smile on her lips.

Li Xu was stunned and looked at her, “Why are you touching me?”

“When I’m sad and unhappy, my mother also touches my head like this. I see you are very unhappy…”

Li Xu said speechlessly, “Go away.”

“Oh.” Dahu turned her head. Where can she go now? She is still on the sword.

“Turn your head around.”

Daxu turned her head and said, “Master, what’s going on?”

Li Xu drew a pattern on the paper and explained as he drew it:

“The pattern is a bit like the word ‘亼’, with a one under the word 人, but it is a closed one, and it is this one that seals the person, so the thief can no longer be considered a person.”

Daxu touched her head and said, “I hope I will never meet a thief in my life.”

“Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with you. You are too weak. The thief will not steal your Tao. They often steal the Tao of the fourth-grade Tao.” It is

not very harmful, but it is very insulting.

Master’s words are very hurtful.

[Drip… drip…]

[System time: 500th year of the Great Dao Era, September 8, 10:00:00, Wednesday, sunny and windy, suitable for funeral]

(End of this chapter)