Chapter 224 - Failure Runs Through Life

"你为什么用拐杖?""这里真的有狗吗?""是半人半兽吗?"三个人从嘴里冒出三个不同的问题.很明显,他们对那只大黄狗有多么的震惊.大黄狗摸了摸它的头,挥了挥爪子,回答说:"别急.让我一一回答.我的脑子跟不上这么多问题.它首先回答了陈夏的问题."我的腿和脚最近有点不稳,所以我做了一根拐杖.应该和你的一样吧?然后它转过头来,看着甄胡和白洁,笑着热情地向他们打招呼."你好,我是一只会说话的狗.你可以叫我大黄.最后,他不必像狗一样吠叫.甄胡松了一口气,点了点头."你好,你好."陈霞皱起眉头,一瘸一拐地向前走."你怎么也一瘸一拐的?"张道明双手背在身后站在一旁,评论道:"我觉得是在模仿你."那不是真的.我的腿真的有问题,"那只大黄狗解释道,举起爪子让他们两个看到.陈霞不知道该怎么办.就算是模仿,他又能做什么呢?打那只大黄狗的腿,让它真的瘸了?变假为真?那是不可能的.他摇摇头,问那只大黄狗:"晚饭准备好了吗?我们有客人.他指了指身后,示意甄胡和白杰是客人."我应该煮什么?""随便你.和你平时有的差不多的东西就好了,"陈夏摆了摆手."他们应该像我一样吃屎吗?"大黄狗愤愤不平地说."该死的,不.让事情变得简单.没必要这么复杂,"甄胡伸手阻止它,他的心狂跳.白洁的脸色因恐惧而变得苍白.他差点毁了自己的名声."那我就做三道菜和一汤,"那只大黄狗说,一瘸一拐地拿着拐杖走向厨房.　　In the distance, many onlookers were watching the more than ten flying shuttles hovering in the sky with trepidation. After being alarmed for a long time, they furrowed their brows and said,　　"Why haven't they started fighting yet?"　　They were still waiting.　　The big yellow dog quickly prepared three dishes and one soup and placed them on the table. It also brought over a few wooden stools.　　These stools were all made by the big yellow dog itself. They were old and in disrepair, creaking and wobbling.　　Zhen Hu and Bai Jie sat up straight, waiting for Chen Xia to speak.　　"Just have a little. We've already achieved fasting from grains long ago. This is just a formality, to taste the flavor," Chen Xia said, and then he picked up his chopsticks.　　Zhang Daoming opened a small pot of wine. When he asked, the others declined, so he started sipping it on his own.　　However, he didn't drink very moderately.　　His face quickly turned rosy. This immortal wine had an intoxicating effect, and even cultivators at the Sea - Overturning Realm might not be immune to it.　　Zhang Daoming started talking more. Pointing at Chen Xia, he smiled at Zhen Hu.　　"Although I'm just a middle - grade spirit - medicine refiner, he is really amazing. He's a unique pill - refining prodigy in the whole world."　　"He can already refine Dao pills now. In a few thousand years, he'll at least be a master of the Dao of pill - refining, capable of refining real Great Pills."　　"I'm not very useful. It's normal for the Starry Sky Elixir Gate to look down on me. That's understandable. But you must pay attention to him. In the future, don't have any conflicts. We can talk things out."　　Zhen Hu nodded quickly. "I already know that."　　Chen Xia propped his head up and asked, "Are you drunk?"　　Zhang Daoming nodded, a sheepish smile appearing on his rosy face. "A little, a little. When a person gets drunk, they can't help but talk more. I'll try to control it. Sorry, sorry."　　"It's okay. Just say what you want," Chen Xia said with a light laugh.　　Then he really started to talk. "My hometown is also in the middle tier of the realm. I should have told you this before. It's the Zhang family in the middle tier of the realm, one of the few human - race sects."　　"I'm the offspring of an ordinary elder in the Zhang family. There's nothing special about me. Maybe I just have a bit of talent for refining spirit medicines."　　"But this talent is not very obvious."　　Having said this, Zhang Daoming laughed first, even forgetting to drink the wine in his hand.　　Zhen Hu, sitting aside, nodded slightly. He knew about the Zhang family. It was a considerable force in the middle tier. Especially in the past hundred years, the head of the Zhang family had broken through to the fourth level of the Heaven - Mending Realm, raising the status of the Zhang family by another level.　　"Life in the Zhang family was pretty good at first. But later, my father was killed by two ancient species at the seventh level of the Sea - Overturning Realm. We couldn't even find his body."　　"I was 537 years old at that time, at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. I swore to avenge my father. So I left the realm and went to the Celestial Sword Sea to cultivate. Later, I turned to the Dao of pill - refining."　　"At 3,300 years old, I could only still swear."　　"Later, I didn't need to swear anymore." Zhang Daoming smiled with a look of age on his face, shaking his head.　　"Those two ancient species at the Sea - Overturning Realm died of old age."　　There seemed to be a glimmer of tears in his turbid eyes, as if they contained his entire life. But in the end, the tears didn't flow out, turning into a helpless smile instead.　　"Throughout my life, failure has been a constant."　　"It's okay," Chen Xia comforted. "You've just been a bit unlucky. Maybe things will be better in your next life."　　What else could he say?　　Tell the truth and say that he just didn't have the ability?　　Chen Xia didn't have such a cruel heart and couldn't say such cruel words.　　Old people tend to view life and death very calmly. They might even look forward to the next life.　　This was indeed a consoling remark.　　Zhang Daoming smiled. "Maybe there's no next life."　　"Why do you say that?" Zhen Hu, sitting beside him, suddenly asked.　　"Because I've never seen it," Zhang Daoming shook his head.　　How could one say that something existed if they had never seen it?　　That's what he thought.　　The wine cup was placed steadily aside. He hadn't drunk any wine since he started talking. In fact, he wasn't really drunk. He was just an old man who wanted to say what was on his mind.　　Chen Xia propped his head up and suddenly furrowed his brows slightly, thinking of a question.　　Would he be as talkative as Zhang Daoming when he got old?　　He thought for a while and felt that he probably wouldn't.　　Because he wouldn't get old.　　Literally.　　Zhang Daoming didn't say much after that. He drank the wine alone, with his head lowered, lost in his thoughts.　　The big yellow dog spaced out every once in a while. It was a bit strange, as if it was half - asleep and half - awake.　　Chen Xia propped his head up and didn't eat much of the dishes. Instead, he started counting on the table.　　Three dishes and one soup, one meat dish and two vegetable dishes, and a meat soup.　　It was no different from usual.　　It just didn't taste like much. It was probably because the salt had been forgotten.　　He glanced at the half - asleep and half - awake big yellow dog, then suddenly gave it a light pat on the head and asked with a smile,　　"Who am I?"　　The big yellow dog woke up, touched its head, and furrowed its brows.　　"You... You are Chen Xia."　　Zhen Hu and Bai Jie watched these goings - on. They felt that the three of them were a bit strange. They had been told to eat, but not given any chopsticks. What was that about?　　In the end, they didn't eat much of the three dishes and one soup. They were all cultivators who had achieved fasting from grains. There wasn't much to eat. Usually, it was just a formality.　　But this formality didn't work out this time.　　Zhen Hu thought it was mainly because they hadn't been given chopsticks.　　Otherwise, he would have polished it all off!　　Bai Jie agreed.