I Ruined the Long Ao Tian Script
Chapter 112

A Day Trip to Another World

Xu Shulou had been enjoying a rather leisurely time on Bright Moon Peak. Her fellow disciples from the other peaks of Dustless Island often came to visit, showering her with endless care and concern, lingering by her bedside like a bouquet of empathetic flowers.

When the Sheng family heard about this, they were heartbroken. Sheng's Mother, who firmly believed in the concept of "you are what you eat," even came to stay at Dustless Island for a while. She prepared an array of dishes for Xu Shulou—pork ribs, lamb ribs, roasted lamb legs, braised beef legs, and the like. According to Sheng Wuyou, when Sheng's Mother personally went to the market to pick out meat, she insisted on selecting only the left foreleg, leaving the butchers utterly baffled.

Xu Shulou touched her own left forearm and chuckled before taking a bite of the beef foreleg.

Amidst the overwhelming care from everyone, a month passed.

Yet Xu Shulou remained perfectly content, spending her days eating and sleeping, with no intention of venturing outside.

Bai Roushuang began to suspect something was amiss—there was no way her senior sister could be this well-behaved.

Then, one day, Xu Shulou returned from another world using a Void Ring and was promptly caught by her junior sister.

Bai Roushuang eyed her senior sister sideways, waving a slip of paper in her hand. "'Gone for a while, will return soon, don’t worry.' Tsk tsk, you even left us a note. How considerate of you."

"..."

"Where did you go?"

Xu Shoulou found her junior sister’s interrogation amusing and showed her the Void Ring on her hand.

Bai Roushuang sighed. "No wonder you’ve been so quiet lately. Turns out you weren’t planning to sneak out of Dustless Island—you were scheming to escape this entire world."

"First time using this ring, and I got caught," Xu Shulou shrugged. "Right now, I feel like sighing even more than you do."

"Senior Sister," Bai Roushuang pleaded, "Maybe we’ve been a bit overprotective lately, but everyone’s really worried about you. If you’re going out, can’t you take me along?"

Xu Shulou relented. "Fine, suit yourself."

Bai Roushuang cheered triumphantly. "Senior Sister, where did you just go?"

"A void of chaos, nothing there," Xu Shulou answered honestly.

Bai Roushuang frowned. "Could it be dangerous?"

"If there were danger, the Qingcheng Sect Leader would’ve warned me," Xu Shulou reasoned. "After all, he gave me this artifact to repay a favor, not to exact revenge."

Bai Roushuang was somewhat convinced. "When do you plan to go next?"

Xu Shulou thought for a moment. "I’ll leave a note."

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"..."

"Let’s go now."

Bai Roushuang nodded and took her senior sister’s hand. Xu Shulou channeled a surge of spiritual energy into the ring, and in the blink of an eye, the two found themselves in an entirely different world.

"This thing really can traverse three thousand worlds," Bai Roushuang marveled, even though she’d heard about it before, seeing it firsthand was still astonishing.

The two surveyed their surroundings. Floating in the sky were translucent... well, Bai Roushuang rubbed her eyes uncertainly. "Senior Sister, is that a giant jellyfish?"

Xu Shulou looked up. The jellyfish resembled a massive transparent umbrella drifting through the air, its countless tentacles shimmering with a faint blue glow, crystal-clear and ethereal, painting a breathtaking scene.

She scanned the sky—no sun, no moon, no stars. The only source of light came from the jellyfish.

"This is certainly something new."

Just as they were about to explore, they found themselves surrounded by a group of smaller jellyfish. The leader extended a tentacle toward them.

"Are these jellyfish demons?" Bai Roushuang tensed. "Senior Sister, what does it mean when they stretch out their tentacles?"

"No idea," Xu Shulou guessed. "An invitation to pet them?"

Bai Roushuang wiped her brow. "...I don’t think so."

But Xu Shulou had already placed her hand on the tentacle. Sensing the message conveyed by the jellyfish, she suddenly understood. "They’re trying to communicate with us."

"Really? What are they saying?"

"They’re asking what we are," Xu Shulou mused before posing a question of her own. "In your world, are there no humans—only jellyfish?"

The jellyfish’s tentacle twitched in her grasp.

"What’s their answer?" Bai Roushuang asked curiously.

"Hmm, they don’t know what humans or jellyfish are."

"..."

"But they’ve very warmly invited us to dine with them."

"Should we... really go?" Bai Roushuang hesitated. "Wouldn’t our diets be... incompatible?"

Xu Shulou’s reply was pragmatic. "We’re already here."

"..."

Soon, the two were ushered into a "dwelling" by a dozen jellyfish. The row of houses had a bizarre yet oddly charming aesthetic, built rather low to the ground. Fortunately, the rooms had no roofs, allowing Xu Shulou and Bai Roushuang to squeeze inside.

There were no oil lamps or candles—only a small jellyfish clinging to the wall, serving as a light source. As Xu Shulou stepped inside, it happened to finish its shift, sliding down the wall to be replaced by another.

The jellyfish were exceedingly hospitable. Once the two guests were seated, two of them adorned themselves with what looked like seaweed aprons. Bai Roushuang assumed they were preparing to cook.

The two jellyfish began gesturing toward their companions, pointing repeatedly.

They all looked identical—no way to distinguish age or gender.

Xu Shulou surmised that this must be a couple introducing their children, so she nodded politely at each little jellyfish.

Only after exchanging messages through tentacle contact did she realize the truth: this was indeed a couple, enthusiastically asking which of their offspring she’d like to eat.

Her earlier nods had been misinterpreted as an intention to devour the entire brood.

"..."

After a moment of stunned silence, Xu Shulou waved her hands frantically, clarifying that she was a guest, not a family annihilator.

"They don’t mind being eaten?! No, no—I mind! I really don’t have a taste for this..."

Bai Roushuang watched the exchange with amusement, then noticed something peculiar—each jellyfish had a slender tentacle stretching skyward for some unknown reason.

Before long, the jellyfish served them a bowl of seaweed, inviting them to dine.

Xu Shulou didn’t dare complain, fearing they might revert to offering their children, and could only praise enthusiastically, "The seaweed is delicious too!"

Bai Roushuang sniffed the pungent, chilled seaweed salad, then glanced at her senior sister’s green-tinged face, barely suppressing a laugh.

After the meal, Xu Shulou communicated further with the jellyfish and reported to her junior sister, "They’ve invited us to stay here."

"They’re certainly hospitable," Bai Roushuang remarked, eyeing the jellyfish that had nearly become dinner. "Perhaps a bit too hospitable."

"But there’s a condition," Xu Shulou relayed as she continued the conversation.

"What condition?" Bai Roushuang asked, intrigued.

"That giant jellyfish in the sky," Xu Shulou pointed upward, "will extend a tentacle into our brains through the back of our necks. But they promised it won’t cause any pain, and we won’t even feel it in daily life."

"Why?" Bai Roushuang asked, puzzled.

"Apparently, all the jellyfish here share thoughts and emotions with each other," Xu Shulou explained to her junior sister. "Now we have to join them too—get implanted with a tentacle, and from then on, every thought we have will be laid bare for everyone to see."

Bai Roushuang’s face stiffened. "Run?"

Xu Shulou snapped her folding fan shut without hesitation. "Run!"

Bai Roushuang lunged across the table toward her senior sister. The jellyfish seemed to sense her intention, their tentacles whipping toward her, but Xu Shulou was quicker—she grabbed the back of Bai Roushuang’s neck and channeled a surge of spiritual energy into her ring. A flash of blue light later, the two reappeared in Xu Shulou’s room at Bright Moon Peak on Dustless Island.

Bai Roushuang had been hauled out of that world like a chick scooped up by its mother. "That was certainly a memorable experience."

The two exchanged a glance and couldn’t help but laugh.

Seeing her senior sister’s smile, Bai Roushuang understood—the hardships of the past year had failed to weigh Xu Shulou down.

Perhaps this was how cultivators ought to be—swift in vengeance, swift in letting go. Their lives were too long to carry every wound, every suffering, every setback in their hearts. They would only be crushed beneath the weight.

Leave the suffering behind; ahead lies only the blue sea and clear sky.

Xu Shulou, unaware of her junior sister’s thoughts, shook her head with a chuckle. "Seaweed really is disgusting, though."

They peeked at the sky and noted that time flowed at the same rate in both worlds—the hour or so they’d spent in the jellyfish realm matched the time that had passed here.

"No wonder the Qingcheng Sect Leader said that thing was practically useless," Xu Shulou mused. "If it could reliably lead to a world rich in spiritual energy and suitable for cultivation—or at least some rare treasures—it wouldn’t have been left forgotten in the vault."

"I still prefer our own world," Bai Roushuang admitted. "But an occasional adventure is quite fun."

"Then let’s go again?"

"Sure! Wait… we’re not going back to the jellyfish world, are we?"

"Three thousand realms, a hundred billion Sumeru worlds. Each time, the destination is random—it’s unlikely we’ll return to the same one." With that, Xu Shulou activated the Sumeru Ring once more.

A flash of light later, the two surveyed their new surroundings. The scenery was breathtaking—rolling hills, clear waters, a crisp blue sky. Every breath carried the sweet fragrance of grass.

They strolled along the water’s edge, savoring the gentle breeze. Everything here was serene… except for the ceaseless, incessant, unending cries of apes from both riverbanks.

Bai Roushuang, irritated by the noise, flew up to the ridge to investigate. She froze at the sight of apes covering the mountainside. "First a jellyfish world, now an ape world. How fitting."

"Perfect. I know this one," Xu Shulou declared confidently. "I’ve studied ape calls. I’ll communicate with them."

"…Are you sure?"

Bai Roushuang leaned against a tree, watching her senior sister’s confident figure stride away.

Moments later, Xu Shulou sprinted past her, pursued by a horde of furious, shrieking apes. The apes roared something unintelligible—and so did Xu Shulou.

In the midst of her frantic escape, she still found time to turn and explain to Bai Roushuang, "I think I accidentally cursed at them!"

"…"

A short while later, the chase reversed—apes now fled in front, Xu Shulou hot on their heels.

Occasionally, both sides would stop, beat their chests, and roar at each other in what almost seemed like a genuine exchange.

Bai Roushuang couldn’t help but applaud, thoroughly impressed by her senior sister’s mastery of ape communication.