On the bridge, a cyan-colored storytelling stage was set up. The old storyteller had set up a wooden stool and sat down beside the stage, sipping a cup of throat-soothing tea, adjusting his half-gray beard, and curling up the corners of his mouth into a faint smile.

  Bang!

  The old storyteller closed his fan and began to speak: "Does everyone know why this section is called 'Wind and Clouds Gather in Huadu, Life and Death Depend on Guo Yichu's Song'?"

  His voice was not loud, but rather hoarse, yet strangely, this hoarse voice could be heard tens of miles away, allowing everyone on every ship to hear it clearly.

  "Is the old gentleman going to talk about the big event that will happen in Huadu Holy City?" a female voice sounded.

  On the river surface floated a small boat with a light green awning, and on the boat was brewing a pot of fragrant tea. The woman's voice just now came from this small boat.

  Because of the canopy on the boat, no one knew who was on the small boat, but her voice was beautiful and moving, like the oriole singing, a clear brook flowing over stones.

  The storyteller on the bridge glanced at the small boat, stroked his beard and smiled: "Exactly, what I'm going to talk about next is the big event that will happen in Huadu Holy City!"

  "Master, there's something strange about the woman on that small boat." Xiao Changsheng said with a serious expression as he gazed at the solitary small boat in the middle of the river.

  Kuo Yeh also looked back, nodded and smiled: "Indeed very strange, I didn't even notice when it came here, this small boat just appeared on the river surface out of thin air."

  "So Master, you have this feeling too? I thought it was just me being distracted earlier."

  It's actually able to deceive two of the Lingbang's top masters' spiritual awareness, which is enough to show that this little boat's woman is quite extraordinary.

  "Moreover, you didn't notice that the small boat wasn't submerged in the water, but was slightly floating on the surface. What do you think she came here for?"

  "I don't know, I just came to listen to the storyteller." Xiao Changsheng said with a smile.

  Guo Yao shook his head, thinking to himself: "This storyteller also has a problem. I just wanted to deal with Chu Ge, but he actually mentioned the two of us. Could it be that he can predict the future?"

  Guo Yi knew that some clever people could calculate the heavenly mechanism, and even predict the future. Su E was such a person. Could this storyteller also be someone of that level?

  A young man holding a spiritual sword on the boat on the river surface asked, "Why would Mr. say that life and death are still seen in Guo Yichu's song? However, the final decision of this gathering is not in their hands?"

  "That's right," said Mr. Shu.

  "What kind of gathering is this?" someone asked.

  "This is a bloody and stormy encounter." said the storyteller with a smile.

  Guo Yi felt that this old man was not simple, he might have already known something, so he was very interested in what he was about to say. He took out a spiritual fruit from the storage spirit palace and threw it onto the sky bridge, shouting: "Sir, please begin!"

  Guo Yi intentionally wanted to probe the fortune teller's true nature, so he converted all his spiritual energy into the spirit fruit. This spirit fruit suddenly shot out like a meteor, its breaking wind sound resembling a giant sword swinging.

  "Whoosh!"

  The power on the Lingguo was equivalent to Guo Yi's full-strength blow, and even a high-ranking master of the Spiritual Rankings couldn't easily catch it. However, this storyteller simply waved his sleeve and caught the Lingguo in his hand, extinguishing the mysterious flames on it in an instant.

  The storyteller smiled at Guo Yao and nodded slightly.

  "Master!" Guo Yi shouted wildly in his heart.

  The Storyteller Has Begun!

  "It's said that Chu Ge, a once-in-a-generation genius, was astonishingly talented and beautiful. At the age of nine, he entered the Ninth Palace of the Spiritual Realm; at ten, he joined the Spiritual Rankings; and by sixteen, he became the number one master on the Spiritual Rankings. Now, having held the top spot on the Spiritual Rankings for nearly a hundred years, he is known as the most legendary genius in the history of the Ancient Xuan Domain's cultivation world over the past five thousand years."

  "Let's talk about Guo Yi again. Since he was young, he has been a spoiled young master of his generation, doing nothing for 16 years. If it weren't for the great disaster that befell his family, he would have spent his entire life submerged in the vast ocean of people, living an ordinary life. Even if he were to make a comeback after 16 years, he would still be just a mediocre person. Can you compare him to Chu Ge?" The storyteller put away the fan in his hand and asked.

  "Guo Yanzei can't compare to Chu Ge's eldest son, he isn't even worthy of holding his shoes." A young man from a nearby boat workshop sneered.

  "That little brat deserves to be wiped out, if others don't eliminate him, I will, haha!" Someone else burst into loud laughter.

  "Guo Yi and Chu Ge, one is a colorful cloud in the sky, the other an underground stinky bug, they are two people at the most extreme ends."

  ……

  Everyone in the boat was talking one after another, praising Chu Ge to the sky and saying that Gu Yan was not as good as a stinky bug. The laughter spread across the entire river surface. Only the woman in Ye Xiao's boat remained silent and did not make a sound of mockery.

  "Master, these people have gone too far."

  Kuo Yi pressed down on Xiao Changsheng with one hand and said with a smile: "Let's hear them out."

  "Bang!"

  The storyteller slapped the fan, and the surroundings immediately fell silent. He continued to say: "Everyone is right, this Guo Yao can't be compared with Chu Ge at all, but don't forget his other identity, the Great Saint of Flower Picking!"

  "Guo Yi himself may not be worthy of even giving Chu Ge her shoes, but the women around him are one more formidable than the last. Five out of seven major evil territories have fallen under his spell, and it can be said that now half of the cultivation world's evil forces are in his grasp."

  Kuo Yeh couldn't take it anymore, the old man's nonsense. He slammed his hand on the table and shouted: "Old man, do you know how to count or not? Where did five come from? There are clearly only four!"

  "Oh!" Upon hearing Guo Yao's words, a woman's astonished voice suddenly came from within Ye Xiao Zhou.

  "No, there isn't one either, you old fellow mustn't talk nonsense." Guo Yi said indignantly.

  The storyteller shook his head calmly and smiled: "How did you know that the seven evil princes and Guo Lü Bu were not infected?"

  "I, I have a nodding acquaintance with him, he told me." Guo Yi originally wanted to say that he was indeed Guo Yi, but when he saw the malicious glint in everyone's eyes, the words on the tip of his tongue were swallowed back.

  He was afraid that once he said he was Guo Yi, he would be beaten by this group of people.

  "You were deceived by Guo Yinze." The storyteller took a sip of tea and continued, "I can list for you one by one his illicit affairs with those five evil princes!"

  "Is it that fierce?" Guo Yi looked at the old man with a confident expression, and suddenly felt a bad premonition in his heart.

  A woman's voice came from the small boat, saying: "Please, sir, tell us in detail about that lecherous thief Guo and what kind of romantic affair he had with those five evil princes."

  Her words were like knives, as if every word could kill Guo Yi once!

  Guo Yi's eyes narrowed as he gazed at the small boat, thinking to himself, "Could it be that I've run into an acquaintance again? It can't be her, can it?"

  "Then let's get down to business!" said the Storyteller with a smile. "The first round is 'Dog Bear Saves Beauty, Guo Xiangzi Catches the Saintess'. We have to go back to the Ghostly Mountains' Youjin City from last year... The situation was like this..."

  The storyteller spoke in considerable detail, even going so far as to describe how Guo Yi and Li Xiao Yan met, how he rescued her from the hands of Jian Mie Tian, and a whole series of events. Of course, he didn't mention that Guo Yi was heroic or chivalrous, but rather attributed everything to Guo Yi's deliberate planning and organization.

  The storyteller concluded: "Guo is indeed a scoundrel who has lost face for everyone under heaven. If it were Chu Song, he would never have done such an unseemly thing."

  Kuo Yüeh-yüeh's face changed color as he listened; this old man was recounting it with perfect accuracy, just as if he had seen it all with his own eyes.

  After the first round was over, the boat house was filled with curses: "Guo is really despicable, designing such a shameful trick to capture the pure and holy Fang Xin's heart, it's really shameless."

  "Shameless, bastard, Guo's actions are simply infuriating to both humans and gods. If I had met him, he would have been torn into a million pieces."

  ……

  "The second round is, 'A life of misery, the evil woman is none other than the unmarried wife of a lecherous thief.' The storyteller continued: 'The Tian Xie Peak is the most powerful force in the ancient Xuan domain's cultivation world, and the Evil Woman's Pavilion is the most powerful person under the peak master. Alas! What a pity that such a woman with both beauty and talent is actually the unmarried wife of Guo the lecherous thief. It's truly a case of a jade being sullied by dust, a bright pearl being cast into darkness, a beautiful flower being trampled under cow dung. If she were to be Chu Ge's unmarried wife, it would be a match made in heaven, a perfect pairing!'"

  "I'm going to get you! You're too much, you old rascal!" Guo Yao really wanted to jump up and slap him two big slaps.

  "The third round was 'Shameless to the Extreme, the Witch's Lewdness in the Coffin', this is something that happened a long time ago. At that time, the situation was too complicated and it's hard to explain in just a few words. All I know is that the witch gave birth to a daughter for Guo, named Guo Fengfeng!" The storyteller spat out saliva as he spoke, and pulled out Chu Ge again, letting out a long sigh: "If it were Chu Ge, she definitely wouldn't do something so shameful. Even if the witch stripped naked in front of him, he wouldn't be moved at all, unlike Guo who did such a shameless thing."

  "Don't pull me, I'm going to chop off this big mouth that speaks nonsense." Guo Yao had already jumped onto the table, but was firmly pulled back by Xiao Changsheng.

  "Master, calm down, there are many people here. If you go and kill him, others will think you're the one who's guilty... Guo Yi, it'll be troublesome later." Xiao Changsheng hugged Guo Yi's leg and pulled him back.

  Kuo Yeh took a big gulp of the already cold tea on the table, and only then did he calm down.

  Xiao Changsheng thought for a moment and asked Guo Yao with some doubt, "By the way, Master, how did you escape from the witch's hands that day?"

  "Damn it, you also suspect that I really did something to her at the time?" Guo Yi was infuriated by what the storyteller had said.

  Xiao Changsheng repeatedly denied it and laughed: "How dare I? Besides, it's only been two months since then, and even if I wanted to have a child with my little junior sister, it wouldn't be that fast!"

  "How come I feel like this old guy is intentionally provoking me to go bother Chugu, every paragraph has to mention Chugu? Does he know that I'm here? What's his purpose?" Guo Yi calmed down and suddenly thought of this possibility.

  ……

  Valentine's Day, I wish all lovers are long-lost siblings! Haha!