Chapter 53: Master of Meixizhai
Li Xinyi didn't care about the sleepless night and rushed back to Hangzhou Prefecture.
In her opinion, exchanging five hundred taels of gold for a quarter of the secret realm key was a huge bargain.
Not only her, I'm afraid every cultivator in the sect would think so.
In the eyes of most people who practice cultivation, gold and silver are useless to a certain extent, and only things that are beneficial to spiritual practice can be called wealth.
The secret realm is definitely a windfall.
Obtaining this quarter of the secret realm key can even be said to be a greater achievement than destroying a ghost general.
After all, for a sect of the level of the Twelve Immortal Gates, no matter how powerful the ghost is, people will only think it is natural, and it will be difficult to increase its reputation.
The secret realm can bring huge direct benefits to the sect.
Moreover, compared with the weak Li Chu, a behemoth like Chaotianque has a great advantage in finding the other three treasure keys.
Sure enough, when she returned to Chaotianque's residence in Hangzhou Prefecture and reported the situation, she was immediately commended by her superiors.
She has done a very good job in Yuhang Town during this period - Yuhang Town, which was plagued by frequent cases of evil spirits, has been stabilized, and all the credit will be attributed to her.
Although the thing was done by someone else, Miss Li also paid for it.
The five hundred taels of gold were approved easily, but there was still a problem.
The matter in the secret realm was extremely important and it was impossible for Li Xinyi to handle it alone. A true expert had to be sent there to ensure safety.
After all, there is no guarantee that there will be no covetousness in the process of searching for the secret realm. When it comes to interests, no one will give in because of your name Chaotianque. On the contrary, the larger the sect, the more it should be taught a bloody lesson.
However, Chaotianque is different from other immortal sects. Its disciples are distributed in the seventy-two prefectures of Jiuzhou, which is a very terrifying number.
Even among giants at the same level as the Twelve Immortal Sects, few have enough power to be divided like this.
At the same time, because there are dozens of sects in Hangzhou, large and small, it is easy to find help when exorcising evil spirits.
Therefore, there were not many Chaotianque masters assigned to Hangzhou Prefecture.
Many times, they are more accustomed to cooperating with outsiders to exorcise evil spirits.
Li Xinyi would rather ask Li Chu for help many times than hire people from the sect, and a big part of the reason was that there was a shortage of manpower.
Of course, the most important thing is that Li Chu is so useful.
Good quality and low price.
However, exorcising evil spirits in a cooperative way is acceptable, but searching for secret places is obviously not acceptable. Matters involving fundamental interests must be handled by one's own people.
But at this time, all the masters stationed in Hangzhou Prefecture happened to be sent out. After all, there were dozens of small counties like Yuhang County in Hangzhou Prefecture, and the number of strange cases added up was quite large.
There is not a Li Chu in every place.
Just as the boss was thinking about where to transfer manpower, Li Xinyi said, "Maybe I can ask my master to come out."
The boss was overjoyed: "It would be great if the owner of Meixizhai could come out of retirement."
Li Xinyi's master, known as the Master of Meixizhai, was also known as Master Meixi in the martial arts world. She was a famous figure in Chaotianque.
In recent years, her practice has reached a bottleneck, and she has been in seclusion in Meixizhai outside Hangzhou, ignoring trivial matters.
But Li Xinyi was her disciple and often visited her master, so she knew her condition better.
It is true that Master's practice has reached a bottleneck, but it is far from a critical juncture. The so-called retreat is just to relax for a while.
Anyway, in Chaotianque, people who are in seclusion can take long-term paid vacations.
This is the benefit of having the imperial court behind you.
After everything was finalized, she immediately left the city and came to Meixizhai.
Seven miles out of the city, there is a hillside full of plum trees, and a clear stream surrounds the hillside. When the plum blossoms are in full bloom, they will cover the entire mountain stream, hence the name.
Meixizhai is just behind this hillside.
Master Meixi is not a nun, but a nun. Chaotianque is not a Taoist sect, but it does not prohibit its disciples from worshipping Buddhism and Taoism. Master Meixi became a nun on her own and has nothing to do with spiritual practice.
Li Xinyi arrived at Meixizhai and knocked on the door. After a while, a gentle voice rang out: "Xinyi, come in by yourself."
Only then did Li Xinyi respectfully push the door open and walk in.
Passing through the front yard and arriving at the backyard, Master Mei Xi was burning incense and meditating in a clean room. It seemed that she had not moved for a long time, and she was just transmitting her voice.
"Disciple greets Master."
"Hey, you haven't come to my place for a while. How's that? Did you have fun playing with that little Taoist priest from Yuhang Town?" Master Mei Xi opened her eyes and teased.
People who practice cultivation do not age easily. Although she is called a nun, she still looks beautiful and energetic. Compared with girls like Li Xinyi, her eyes have a bit more tranquility that comes from the accumulation of time.
Although she was wearing a loose white gauze water and fire robe, it still couldn't hide her voluptuous and beautiful figure, full of charm.
Li Xinyi stood in front of her, they looked like mother and daughter, and sisters.
"Oh, Master, you are teasing me again." Li Xinyi snorted in dissatisfaction, moved a cushion, and sat opposite Master Meixi: "I came here this time to see you about something important."
"Oh? What's the important matter?" Master Mei Xi asked with a smile in her eyes.
Li Xinyi said, "I would like to ask you to come out of the mountain for a while."
"Um?"
Then, Li Xinyi told everything he had seen and heard in the past few days. After all, the person in front of him was his master, so there was nothing to hide.
Of course, she still had to hide the fact that she was infatuated with Li Chu.
After hearing this, Master Meixi pondered, "The secret realm... This is indeed an important matter. I have never heard of a powerful person appearing near Yuhang Town before. I wonder where the secret realm key ended up here... Well, I have nothing to do anyway, so I'll go with you to take a look."
Li Xinyi was delighted: "Thank you, Master!"
"By the way, I'll also go meet that little Taoist priest that you've been thinking about so much."
“Master, what are you talking about?” Li Xinyi blushed, “I didn’t even mention him.”
"Yeah, if you don't think about him all the time, why would you keep avoiding him on purpose?"
Master Mei Xi stood up and walked outside, with the smile of an experienced person on her face.
Li Xinyi stopped talking.
Master Mei Xi came to the courtyard, flicked her sleeves, and with a whoosh, a branch of a plum tree appeared out of thin air in front of her. Although this branch had no roots or soil, it was hung with seven blooming plum blossoms, which was extremely magical.
The plum branch hung in the air, growing in the wind, stretching a hundred times longer, turning into a giant branch as thick as a roof beam, and the seven plum blossoms on it also grew to the size of millstones.
"Let's go."
Master Mei Xi greeted them, raised her feet, and lightly sat on a plum blossom.
Li Xinyi also followed suit with another plum blossom.
The grown plum blossoms are soft and firm, and there is a fragrance when you sit on them, which is quite comfortable.
Li Xinyi buried her face in it and took a deep breath. "It's been many years since I sat on Master's Seven Wonderful Flower Branches. I still remember that when I was a kid, I loved playing on these plum blossoms the most."
"You should practice hard and when you reach the Divine Integration Realm, I will give you one."
Master Mei Xi smiled gently, waved her sleeves again, and the plum branch slowly rose into the air and disappeared into the dust.
In just a few moments, Meizhi had already arrived above Shilipu.
Seeing that there were many people waiting in Deyun Temple below, Master Meixi landed far away, and the master and disciple walked over on foot to avoid disturbing the people.
Li Xinyi was familiar with the route at this time, and shouted from a distance: "Chaotianque disciples, come and do business!"
Li Chu came out upon hearing the voice.
Li Xinyi said, "This is my master, the owner of Meixizhai. You can also call her Master Meixi."
Li Chu bowed quickly and said, "Greetings, Master."
When Master Meixi saw Li Chu, her eyes lit up: "You are indeed a good-looking person. My disciple mentioned to me before that you were stunningly beautiful, but I thought she was exaggerating."
Li Chu smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Master. I don't deserve it. Please come in first."
He smiled generously because he knew that these two were here to give him money.
Leading the two into the courtyard, Master Meixi said, "Your Taoist temple is quite lively. If we talk about the popularity of incense, it is probably not inferior to many grand temples in Hangzhou."
As she spoke, she looked at the monthly list of incense offerings in the courtyard. At this end of the month, the numbers on it were already very exaggerated. She praised again, "It's a pioneering effort."
Li Chu said: "It was my master's idea."
"It seems that our master is also a wonderful person." Master Mei Xi walked into the Sanqing Hall with a smile.
Li Chu pointed and said, "This is my master, Master Yu...?"
He didn't finish his words because he noticed that the moment Master Mei Xi saw her master, her shoulders shook.
Her beautiful eyes glazed over for a moment.
Her eyes seemed...
Full of stories.
He called out, but got no response, so he didn't dare to say anything else.
Yu Qian'an was still reading the palm of a female pilgrim. He touched her palm over and over for a long time before he said something.
It should be something like "big disaster" or "small disaster", which frightened the female pilgrim so much that she tightly grasped his hand.
After a long while, he finally straightened his back after coaxing the female pilgrim into buying two lucky charms.
When he looked up, he saw Li Chu leading the sad-looking Master Mei Xi standing at the door.
Yu Qian'an was also stunned on the spot.
He blinked, as if he was recalling something in his mind quickly. After a while, he called out softly, "Mei'er?"
This sound seemed to call back the soul of Master Mei Xi.
Her eyes instantly turned red, her lips moved, and she called out tremblingly, "Brother Lei!"
This sound is full of heartbreak.
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(End of this chapter)
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