The master's intention was clear.
He told them to find the bald man who had bumped into the second senior brother.
As long as they caught him, they could use whatever means necessary to make him lift the curse.
But the problem was, where could they find this man?
Zhang Zicheng had only caught a fleeting glimpse of the man. He hadn't had the chance to take a good look at his face before the man left.
And Xiaotuanzi and the others hadn't even seen him at all.
Without knowing his face, his birth date, or any other personal information, where could they start looking?
"Master, there's nothing to go on. I can't figure it out," Xiaotuanzi scratched her head. She was really stumped by the problem the Qingyun Daoist Temple had thrown at them.
She scratched her head and ears, but couldn't come up with a solution.
"Hey, you don't need to get involved in this. It's time for these brats to get some exercise. If the four of them can't handle a mere curse - master, then they might as well stop following me. That man isn't hard to find. The third one should be able to locate him."
The Qingyun Daoist stroked Niannian's head with a smile. If his little disciple got involved, solving this problem would be as easy as eating and drinking for these senior disciples.
In that case, it wouldn't serve the purpose of training them at all.
Niannian was getting more and more powerful every day. If these senior brothers continued to stand still, they would eventually be left far behind by their little junior sister. They would end up like Xiaotuanzi's family, watching her back, anxious but always unable to help.
These senior disciples had to grow up, and quickly.
The Holy Cult was getting desperate.
Sooner or later, Niannian would have a fierce battle with them. By then, not only would they be unable to help, but they might even be a burden.
The Qingyun Daoist had lived a long life. He had already achieved a certain level of Taoism, and it would be difficult to make further progress.
From then on, everything would depend on fate and opportunity.
Moreover, if he was unlucky one day, he might die. By then, the only ones who could help Niannian would be these senior brothers.
If they didn't grow up quickly, how could they be of any use?
"But, but master..."
Niannian was very conflicted. She really wanted to listen to her master, but she was worried about her four senior brothers.
A curse - master! They sounded really powerful.
Could her senior brothers really solve this problem?
The second senior brother's Taoism wasn't too bad, yet he still got cursed.
"Listen to master. Let us handle this on our own this time. We're your senior brothers, not your junior brothers. There's no way we can always let you, the youngest one, take the lead. Even if you're our senior sister, it's not right. We're supposed to support the Taoist temple together."
Shen Weixun understood what his master meant. He stroked Niannian's soft and sticky cheeks, stopping her from saying what she was about to say.
Since even the third senior brother had said so, Xiaotuanzi seemed to have no reason to object.
The third senior brother was omnipotent. If he said they could handle it on their own, they definitely could!
Niannian nodded vigorously and stuffed the last two buns from the plate into her mouth.
Her cheeks puffed out immediately, and she wriggled her cheeks from side to side like a little hamster.
The Qingyun Daoist grabbed the back of her collar and lifted the little ball up. Niannian didn't find this position strange or uncomfortable at all. She calmly chewed the food in her mouth.
Back at the Taoist temple, her master always did this. She was used to it.
"Alright, your little junior sister and I have finished eating. After you finish your meal, go out and find that curse - master. Don't worry, that man hasn't left. He went to the airport to pick someone up."
After saying that, the Qingyun Daoist carried Niannian back to his room.
He had assigned tasks to the four senior disciples. Now it was time to solve Niannian's problem.
He frowned and said seriously, "Little disciple, have you already figured out where the people you're looking for are?"
"Yes. I'm related to them by blood, so it's easy to find out. Master, do you want to go with me to catch them?"
Niannian nodded. Her eyes sparkled with excitement.
But the Qingyun Daoist suddenly shook his head. He didn't agree at all.
"No, I won't go with you to catch them."
"Oh, that's okay. I can go by myself."
The fact that her master wouldn't help her didn't make Xiaotuanzi feel too disappointed. She didn't even react much.
Do your own things. That was always her master's teaching.
"You can't go either."
Niannian didn't expect that she wasn't allowed to go either. When the Qingyun Daoist said this, Xiaotuanzi's face was almost scrunched up into a question mark.
"Why? I've already determined their location. As long as I go there, I can catch them. Then I can leave the rest to dad. I don't need to worry about it."
It was just about catching two people. It wasn't that difficult. Xiaotuanzi really couldn't understand why her master was stopping her.
"I said no means no. I'll handle this for you. You don't need to do anything. Just tell me the location and that's it."
The Qingyun Daoist didn't give a reason, and he never would.
Actually, when he was meditating last night, he felt an inexplicable sense of unease.
A Taoist's intuition was always very accurate.
Especially at his level of cultivation, any change in his intuition meant that something big was about to happen.
Then he divined for himself and his disciples.
He had no relatives in this life.
His wife had been killed, and he had no children. Now his wife had become a ghost and was staying quietly in the country. The only ones who could get into trouble were his disciples.
The fact that Zhang Zicheng had been cursed was what he had divined last night while meditating.
At first, after divining this, he thought that this was the reason for his uneasiness.
But just to be sure, he divined a few more times. Finally, when he divined about Xiaotuanzi, the divination showed great misfortune!
The subsequent divinations were all the same.
So it definitely wasn't a miscalculation or a misreading on his part.
Everyone knew what Niannian's main purpose for coming here was. Based on his understanding of his little disciple.
She would definitely calculate the location of those two people as soon as she got off the plane.
She would act the next day to catch them.
And this divination of great misfortune pointed to today.
If Niannian went, she would surely be in danger.
Although he didn't know what kind of danger those two people were in, the Qingyun Daoist would never allow Xiaotuanzi to take this risk. He would rather do everything for his disciple.
At worst, he would sacrifice his old life.
Anyway, he had lived long enough!
No one could touch his disciple!