Chapter 115 Exclusive Release: At the Beginning of the Wei Time, Clouds Rumble...
At the beginning of the Wei hour, at the Yuntao Palace.
This Cloud Wave Hall is the largest place within the Wanshan Sect. It used to be the place where the disciples of the Wanshan Sect gathered for discipline, so it is not a problem for it to accommodate these guests now.
When Li Chenjin, Han Shannan, and Wen Riwan arrived, everyone else in the hall had already taken their seats. Since they were the last to arrive, they naturally attracted a lot of attention.
Fortunately, although they arrived a step late, before the peace talks had even begun, they weren't too far behind.
The people here were mindful of her relationship with Shen Zhengyuan. Although some people looked at her with unfriendly eyes, no one said anything to make things difficult for her.
Li Chenjin glanced around and noticed that the emblem belonging to the Zen cultivation world was now placed next to Shen Zhengyuan's seat. Presumably, this was because her current public identity was Shen Zhengyuan's Daoist partner, so her seat had been changed.
Whether it was Shen Zhengyuan's suggestion or Zeng Shujin's arrangement, Han Shannan's seat was changed and placed next to her.
Just as she was about to remind Han Shannan, she saw him already walking towards that place, which made her raise an eyebrow.
I almost forgot, birds have much better eyesight than humans.
After Li Chen sat down, she looked at Shen Zhengyuan with a slightly ingratiating smile. Shen Zhengyuan glanced at her, then looked away, staring at an empty space and silently drinking his wine, pretending not to see her.
Tsk...
Difficult to coax...
She picked up the wine glass on the table, facing Zeng Shujin, and said, "I am late and have kept the sect leader and fellow Daoists waiting. I am truly sorry. I will now punish myself with a cup to express my apology, and I humbly ask the sect leader and fellow Daoists for their understanding."
Zeng Shujin smiled in her direction, about to speak, when she was suddenly interrupted by a voice: "Since you're late, one cup as punishment isn't enough, isn't it three cups? People from the Zen meditation world become so insincere when they connect with the Dharma cultivation world, hiccup..."
Li Chen looked at the person who was speaking and saw that he was a middle-aged man who looked quite young, around forty years old.
Beside the middle-aged man sat another man, younger than him. When he heard those words, his face instantly changed, and he frantically tugged at the man's sleeve, whispering, "Stop talking! Stop talking! You don't want to live, but I do!"
As he spoke, he noticed that many eyes were focused on them, and he gave a wry smile. He picked up his wine cup, stood up, and said in Li Chenjin's direction, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Chenjin, on behalf of my senior brother, I apologize to you. My senior brother... he... he knew there was a peace meeting today, and he was so happy that he drank a little too much and accidentally got drunk. He was talking nonsense... nonsense..."
Shen Zhengyuan raised his head and said, "Then let's send him to the sea to wake him up."
As soon as he finished speaking, the person in that seat suddenly vanished into thin air. Only those around him could see the few remaining magic array marks on the ground after the person disappeared.
Li Chen looked at Shen Zhengyuan, wanting to say something, but then she thought that he was angry right now. If she said something to him now, wouldn't that be like walking into a knife's edge?
It will be even harder to coax them later, so it's best to keep quiet for now.
She turned to look at Zeng Shujin, who smiled and said after noticing her gaze, "It's alright. This peace talks have only just begun. It's normal for you to be unfamiliar with this place since it's your first time here. If I had to say, it's my fault. I only remembered to set up a disciple to guide you on the first day, but I forgot today. I should apologize to everyone."
As he spoke, he raised his wine glass and addressed the crowd before him, saying, "Today's peace talks were not handled properly by me, and I apologize to all of you fellow Daoists."
The crowd, who had been displaying various expressions, realized upon hearing Zeng Shujin's words that he intended to steer the matter away from further trouble. They quickly raised their glasses and, in unison, said to Zeng Shujin, "Sect Leader Zeng has worked hard these past few days. We toast Sect Leader Zeng!"
After Li Chen drank the wine with everyone else, Zeng Shujin waved for everyone to sit down, and the peace talks officially began at that moment.
Zeng Shuqing clapped his hands, and some disciples of the Wanshan Sect came out from the shadows in the hall and skillfully arranged various dishes and fruits on each table.
Upon seeing those exquisitely presented dishes that were perfect in color, aroma, and taste, Han Shannan instantly felt his mouth water.
Actually, when he was still in the demon realm, he didn't care much about food, but everything changed after he left the demon realm and met Li Chenjin.
Li Chenjin, unless she really didn't want to move, usually enjoyed cooking. However, the food she served was mostly bland, tasteless, hard to swallow, and extremely unpalatable!
But Li Chenjin wouldn't allow him to say it was bad, let alone not to eat it. Even if he said it wasn't very tasty, it wouldn't work. As soon as he said it wasn't very tasty, Li Chenjin would tell him that he was reminiscing about the bitter past and appreciating the sweet present. But clearly, his greatest suffering started from meeting Li Chenjin!
Think back to when he was at home, the people of the demon realm would not "mistreat" him like Li Chenjin did. Whenever he wanted to eat, they would bring him all kinds of exquisitely beautiful delicacies.
Unlike Li Chenjin, who not only ordered him around but also wouldn't put salt in his cooking, sometimes even skipping oil altogether and just boiling the food in plain water before feeding it to him, treating him like a sweet rice ball!
If he refused to eat, Li Chen would either threaten him with the sword manual or say that his disciple was unfilial, unlike other disciples who always put their master first and listened to their master's words.
Not only is he less obedient than other disciples, but now he even dares to disobey his master. If this continues, she will kick this disobedient disciple out, take away the sword manual she gave him, and tell him not to reveal the whereabouts of the Sword God. He is truly hateful!
Han Shannan stared at the dishes on the table for a while, then turned to look at Li Chenjin, who was slowly pouring himself a drink, silently counting Li Chenjin's annoying traits in his mind.
Perhaps it was because his gaze was too intense that Li Chen felt a little uncomfortable. When she turned her head, she saw Han Shannan staring at her with his big, bright eyes, making her feel a little uneasy. "Hey, why aren't you eating your food? Why are you staring at me like that all of a sudden?"
"Li Chenjin," Han Shannan said slowly, his gaze fixed on her, "your cooking is really terrible!"
Li Chenjin: "?"
Li Chen sneered, "Then you shouldn't eat anymore. I'm not going to cater to you picky brat."
After saying that, she turned her head away, drinking her wine while muttering under her breath, "You really don't know how to cherish things. Who knows, when you can't have it anymore, you might even beg me to let you have another bite."
Han Shannan has excellent hearing. No matter how softly Li Chen speaks, he can hear it clearly if he wants to.
So, he quietly leaned closer to Li Chenjin and said, "Li Chenjin, I think the only thing people like about your cooking is sweet fermented rice balls. No, wait, now that sweet fermented rice balls are eating and drinking well with me, they might not even like your cooking anymore."
Li Chen waved his hand dismissively, as if shooing away flies, saying, "Go away!"
After she chased Han Shannan away, she drank two more glasses of wine by herself.
Just as she was seriously considering whether she should create some normal recipes, she suddenly heard Zeng Shujin say, "Thank you all for coming from afar to Wanshan Sect to discuss important world affairs. On behalf of all living beings in this world, I would like to offer you another toast!"
Since Zeng Shujin had said that, it meant that they were about to get down to business. Even though everyone had just toasted Zeng Shujin, they all stood up and toasted him again.
But after Zeng Shujin finished drinking and waved his hand to signal everyone to sit down, no one in the hall took a seat.
They exchanged glances, and one of them stepped forward first, cupped his hands in a gesture of respect towards Zeng Shujin, and said in a deep voice, "Sect Leader Zeng, nowadays, traces of demonic energy that you and Zen Master Mingcun mentioned can be found in various realms. I and several other sect leaders have also seen that demonic statue."
"But if I may be so bold as to say something, confiscating the demon statues and then collectively destroying them is merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause. In fact, many have even engaged in physical altercations with cultivators from our realm."
"Even if those people are bewitched by the demon god statue, they are still living people. The strength of a cultivator is not something an ordinary person can withstand. Perhaps just a light punch would take the life of that mortal. Although according to the ancient rules of the cultivation world, righteous cultivators should not easily harm the lives of mortals, if they do not lift a finger and just let them be beaten and scolded, it will inevitably cause some disciples to become dissatisfied, which will then affect their Dao heart."
"Moreover, many disciples from various sects are unwilling to do such tasks anymore. We, as sect leaders and elders, can't force our disciples to go out and be beaten and scolded, can we? So this matter is really difficult for us to deal with. I wonder if Sect Leader Zeng and Zen Master Mingcun have come up with any new solutions?"
As soon as he finished speaking, another person stood up, cupped his hands in Zeng Shujin's direction, and said, "Sect Leader Zeng, compared to others, the situation in my realm is more serious. The people we encountered in my realm are all still alive, but they clearly have never cultivated, yet they have the cultivation level of Golden Core."
"Among such people, some are just doing their own thing and have nothing to do with others, so we don't need to worry about them for the time being. But some people rely on this extra cultivation to commit arson, murder, robbery, bullying, and all sorts of evil deeds."
"If there were only one or two such people, it would be fine, but there are more and more of them. Now it's not just in our realm, but also in the human realm, which has led the court to believe that it is the work of cultivators, and they have sent troops to demand an explanation several times."
"Even though I explained it repeatedly and managed to convince the people in the court that those people had nothing to do with the cultivation world, this matter should ultimately be under the jurisdiction of the cultivation world. But right now, our world has no solution. We sent a message to the Wanshan Sect before, but we did not receive a reply. It seems that even Sect Leader Zeng could not come up with a proper way to handle this."
"But Sect Leader Zeng, if we let this continue, the imperial court might suspect that the cultivation world has ulterior motives, and the people of the mortal realm will find it difficult to trust the cultivation world anymore. If the imperial court then sends troops to attack us, should we kill them or not?"
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