After sending Gu Suihan away, Shen Qingmang couldn't wait to enter the Spiritual Mansion to find Li Shutong. He shook her awake from the bed, and before she could get angry and curse, he held her down while asking curiously, "Tell me quickly, who are the women that many people in the Taichu Sect admire?"
"Are you sick? Such a stupid question? I thought the Fang Yuan Sect was attacking again. You, who else could it be?"
"Besides Qiongju?"
"Si Rong."
"What else?"
"Who else could it be? I didn't even write about it! You've gotten to know more about these characters than I do. I'm a novelist, not the Goddess of Mercy! They're all randomly generated passersby in this world. How can I register them one by one and manage their food, drink, and toilet?"
"Calm down, calm down, Shutong."
"Try to calm down when someone grabs you in the middle of the night!"
"But it's not even midnight outside yet, ten at the most."
"It's midnight here!"
"Okay, okay." Shen Qingmang raised his hands in surrender. "I was wrong, but I'm really curious."
At the same time, she felt a little regretful. After giving part of the authority of the spiritual palace to Li Shutong, she could no longer threaten the other party. She could only coax the little princess to cooperate a little.
"What happened? I was sleeping just now. What happened outside?" Li Shutong sat up from the bed, holding the quilt.
Shen Qingmang roughly recounted to her everything that had just happened. The confused expression on Li Shutong's face caused by just waking up gradually faded, and her eyes became more and more happy. In the end, she simply pounded the bed and laughed.
"You are really something, Shen Qingmang. You really are...hahaha!"
"What's wrong?" Shen Qingmang was confused by her laughter.
"It's nothing. You taught me well." Li Shutong wiped the tears from her eyes. "It's just that you haven't considered... that Gu Suihan might like you?"
"Are you kidding me?" Shen Qingmang said, "Putting aside other things, I don't even meet his requirements, okay?"
"I just said that you are a popular character."
"How could that be? It's obviously Qiongju. And isn't An Yanxiang the only one who likes Qiongju? Senior Brother is just a rumored girlfriend, and Second Brother is even more ridiculous. Only my master would come up with such a weird combination."
"Qiong Ju is you. Her peach blossom debt is also your peach blossom debt. You can't escape it."
"That's impossible. Sui Han has a chick complex towards me at most. It would be more reasonable for him to think of me as his mother."
"Then go ahead and guess. Anyway, I've already told you everything I've set up, and I can't control anything else."
After saying that, Li Shutong lay back down, rolled up the quilt and continued to sleep.
Shen Qingmang left muttering to himself.
It couldn't be Si Rong, could it? Sui Han didn't seem to like his junior sister very much... Could it be that he was just awkward in relationships, hiding the more he liked someone, the deeper he hid it?
She decided to observe carefully.
On the second day, Huaining regrouped and challenged Lin Wei, with whom he had a grudge. Lin Wei, wielding a white jade abacus, fought Huaining on equal terms, and finally narrowly defeated him. Huaining's face became even gloomier, and he was scolded by his master and senior brothers and sisters.
On the third day, he hesitated for a long time when choosing his opponent. Finally, he gritted his teeth and pointed at Ah Niu. Ah Niu looked ready to die, even with tears in the corners of his eyes. After he came on stage, he bowed to Huaining. "Come on, Brother Huaining, I am not afraid of you."
Huaining looked at him with a complicated expression for a while, then raised his sword.
Ah Niu didn't have his own magical weapon, so his most handy weapon was the mop at the back of the classroom. Because he had a simple and honest temper, before Shen Qingmang taught everyone the art of cleaning dust, he was always the one on duty in the classroom.
He looked a bit comical, waving a mop around, but Huaining and the other spectators were all serious, taking the competition seriously. Ah Niu, initially timid, became more and more courageous, even unleashing several beautiful combos that drew applause from the audience. Meanwhile, Huaining's confidence waned, and by the end, he was flustered and lost even more miserably than he had against Lin Wei the day before.
After winning, Ah Niu was a little confused at first and asked everyone in disbelief: "I won? Really?"
A group of his friends gathered in the audience and shouted at him, "That's right! You won! You're awesome!"
Ah Niu's face gradually lit up, and he raised his mop and shouted, "I won! I won! It turns out I can win too!"
Shen Qingmang watched from afar, feeling happy for Aniu but also sorry for Huaining.
He actually lost on purpose. Although his concessions were not obvious, she could still see it.
I don’t know if it’s because the child has lost his fighting spirit or for something else.
But winning is winning, and with three wins under her belt, she can cash in on her bet.
Shen Qingmang walked forward with a smile and said to Qi Xiao, "Brother, I thank you in advance for the thirty-three magical instruments we agreed on."
Qi Xiao said unhappily, "I understand. I'll send it to you when I have collected enough. I won't default on my debt."
After saying that, he grabbed Huaining's ear and scolded him as he went to teach his apprentice a lesson. Shen Qingmang frowned, took a step forward, and then stepped back.
Even though she was the peak master, she had no right to comment on how others disciplined their disciples. She just felt that Huaining was not in a good state. She should not blame him at this time, but comfort him, otherwise something might go wrong.
Her worries soon came true. A few days later, big news came from Wuya Peak. A disciple actually wanted to voluntarily withdraw from the sect, and this person was Huaining.
Good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. Soon the entire Taichu sect heard the news. Some people thought the disciple was ungrateful, while others questioned the master’s improper education.
This time, Shen Qingmang, as the Peak Master, could finally intervene in this matter with justification. The Peak Master position is actually the position of Sect Master, but since other sects in the world of immortal cultivation sometimes have their top leaders called Sect Masters, and the Taichu Sect is divided into four factions, all of which belong to the same sect, calling each sect leader Sect Master would sound somewhat divisive, so they are generally referred to as Peak Masters.
If Huaining wanted to leave the sect, she had to get her consent. Shen Qingmang went to the Linyuan Hall, which she had almost never set foot in, and sat on the peak master's throne, looking down at Huaining who was kneeling on the ground.
"Jian Huaining, you proposed to leave the sect. Do you want to join another sect or just leave the sect?"
It's not uncommon for cultivators to leave a sect and join another, and the Wuya Sect is particularly prone to this. Because Wuya Sect learns a little bit of the techniques from every peak, some people might suddenly develop a strong interest in a particular peak and want to continue studying that peak.
"I, the disciple, would like to withdraw from the sect and stop practicing."
"Nonsense!" Qi Xiao, who was standing nearby, said angrily, "Are you going to give up just because of one failure?"
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