Chapter 18
Feng Jue closed her eyes tightly. At this moment, she didn't even want to convey anything to 03, because it didn't understand at all!
No! bright! white!
She's the only one who's angry!
Only! She!
How could the dignified Palace Master of Lanyang Palace come to this point?
Feng Jue closed his eyes and remained silent.
After Bai Fenghui finished speaking, he was left aside. The expression on his face changed from full of confidence at the beginning to nervousness. At this moment, he thought a lot and thought to himself, could it be that the Lanyang Palace is so wealthy and powerful that they don’t care about this secret realm?
This is the secret realm of the Golden Elixir after the upgrade!
Siyi, who was standing nearby, looked up at Feng Jue, who was looking sullen, with a subtle gaze. She cleared her throat, acted like the chief steward of Lanyang Palace, and said to Bai Fenghui with a smile, "Since the Chongshan Secret Realm is open, anyone who wants to go can go. Why does Lanyang Palace have to join forces with Baishuimen?"
Bai Fenghui said, "Fellow Daoist Si, you may not know that if you want to enter the Chongshan Secret Realm, you must have a Chongshan Secret Realm Jade Token. The Chongshan Secret Realm was opened once not long ago, and many people have used up their jade tokens. The remaining number is very small, and it will be even harder to find them after the news of the secret realm's upgrade spread. However, my disciples from the Baishui Sect were delayed when the Chongshan Secret Realm opened, and they happened to have thirty jade tokens in their hands!"
Siyi smiled slightly.
What do you mean by delayed? The man who was called the elder just now has white hair and has just established his foundation. I think his talent is mediocre. Such a person can become an elder of Baishui Sect. You can see what kind of disciples are in the sect. I am afraid they don’t want to die in the secret realm and simply don’t go at all.
Such a timid person actually wants to cultivate immortality?
Feng Jue opened his eyes and spoke in a cold voice, "Thirty jade tokens, twenty of which are given as apology to Lanyang Palace. It's impossible to divide the proceeds equally. After entering the secret realm, everyone will rely on their own abilities."
Bai Fenghui licked his lips and tried to bargain, "Then 20%..."
Siyi said, "Master Bai, you have to think carefully. The jade token from the Chongshan Secret Realm is just difficult to obtain, not impossible."
"..." Bai Fenghui smiled awkwardly and murmured, "Yes, but..."
"Twenty-five jade tokens." Feng Jue said, "I will ensure that you don't die in the secret realm."
Bai Fenghui was startled, then his face turned joyous, and he said, "Okay, I feel relieved with what the Palace Master said!"
"If the Palace Master agrees to give me a piece of Leiyin Grass if he finds it in the secret realm, I am willing to give up four more jade tokens! If not..." Bai Fenghui smiled.
What he meant was that if Feng Jue was willing, he would be the only one from Baishui Sect who would enter the secret realm of Chongshan to seek opportunities, and all other jade tokens would be given to Lanyang Palace.
Feng Jue smiled and nodded: "Even if I don't find the Thunder Sound Grass in the secret realm, I will come back.
I will have someone find it and give it to you later."
Having resolved the incident with Lanyang Palace and obtained the guarantee of entering the secret realm with companions and ensuring their safety, Bai Fenghui said goodbye with satisfaction and led his disciples to stay in Lanyang City first, waiting to set off for the Chongshan Secret Realm with everyone from Lanyang Palace ten days later.
He came out of the main peak and was followed by the Baishuimen disciples waiting outside. One of them was Bai Fenghui's disciple, who asked what was going on.
Bai Fenghui sighed and said, "The Lanyang Palace is indeed difficult to deal with. You have seen how magnificent and wealthy the Lanyang Palace is. But Feng Jue demanded all the jade tokens from me right away. If I hadn't fought for it, I wouldn't even be able to get in."∞
His disciple was in mixed emotions. He felt regretful for missing the chance to enter the secret realm of Chongshan, but was also relieved that he didn't have to put himself in danger. He only hoped that Bai Fenghui could bring him some rare treasures from the secret realm that were hard to find outside.
"However, the Palace Master of Lanyang Palace is indeed as cruel and capricious as the outside world says. I only suggested the possibility of dividing the proceeds equally after entering the secret realm, but she exuded murderous intent!" Thinking of this, Bai Fenghui realized that he had lost his composure and stopped explaining in detail. He used this as an excuse to explain why the proceeds could not be divided equally.
The disciples of Baishui Sect were shouting that Lanyang Palace was going too far. They were obviously wealthy and had no shortage of natural treasures, so why couldn't they share some with them? At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind them.
Everyone turned around and saw a pretty woman wearing Lanyang Palace attire. A trace of worry was hidden between her brows as she stood on the steps of the mountain gate. She said coldly, "Lady Siyi asked me to remind Sect Leader Bai not to forget to take the people outside the mountain gate away."
She pointed to the old man lying at the entrance to the mountain.
The disciples of Baishui Sect were shocked. They had seen with their own eyes the palace servants from Lanyang Palace dragging the elder out. At that time, they thought that the elder was beaten to death, but no one came to collect the body. Now they saw that he was still breathing, and they were a little shocked.
"Master, what should we do?" asked Bai Fenghui's disciple.
Bai Fenghui put his hands behind his back and sighed, "Forget it. His spiritual roots are already wasted, and his cultivation is completely gone. He's already like that brat from the Lianshan Sect. Just give him a few taels of silver and consider it a favor to get to know him!"
"Master is so kind-hearted." Bai Fenghui's apprentice shouted.
"Yes, the master has a kind heart."
Everyone praised Bai Fenghui and walked past the old man without even looking down at him.
Of course, no one gave him half a tael of silver. After all, they were cultivators who only used spirit stones. Where did they get the silver?
Xue Mengtao, who was watching coldly, felt angry and thought of Xue Bufan. Xue Bufan, who had no cultivation at all, went from being a favored child to being ignored in an instant.
He took the old man to the city personally and gave him a spirit stone.
Before Xue Mengtao could loosen her fingers, the old man suddenly grabbed her wrist. The old man with a ferocious face shouted, "Save me! I can still practice. Save me!"
"It's you who hurt me! It's you who hurt me!" The old man grabbed Xue Mengtao and shouted loudly. People passing by looked at him in panic. When they saw the clothes Xue Mengtao was wearing, they were stunned and hurriedly pretended not to see them and left in a hurry.
Xue Mengtao was sweating profusely and said anxiously, "Let go!"
"Take the spirit stone and go!"
She wanted to break free, but the old man was relentless and held her wrist very tightly. Even with her late Qi Refining level, she couldn't break free.
A low laugh filled the air, and a burst of spiritual energy struck, piercing the old man's palm. The old man screamed, clutching his palm and falling to the ground, crying out in pain.
Xue Mengtao breathed a sigh of relief and touched her wrist. Aside from the slight pain from the grab, the old man hadn't left a single scratch on her wrist. This was the difference between ordinary people and cultivators. She dropped the spirit stone on the ground and followed Siyi.
"Thank you, Elder Si, for your help." Xue Mengtao said in a low voice.
The beautiful lady in pink clothes walked gracefully without looking back. She said calmly, "You are as useless as I imagined."
He couldn't even get the people from Baishuimen to take away the garbage, which really made Siyi look at him with new eyes.
Xue Mengtao knew she had done something stupid, so she lowered her head and dared not speak.
Siyi asked, "That man was the culprit who caused your young master to fall off the cliff and killed several people from the Lianshan Sect. Could you be so kind as to take him down the mountain and return the spirit stone to him?"
“…”
"Hmm?" Siyi looked back at Xue Mengtao.
Xue Mengtao, as if stabbed by her gaze, immediately said: "Mr. Xue has nothing to do with me anymore. I just..."
She closed her mouth as she spoke, not daring to mention it because she was thinking of Xue Bufan, who had also had his spiritual roots abolished. Siyi's gaze scraped across her face like a knife, forcing her to not dare look up.
"That man has been punished. He used to be a cultivator revered by thousands of people, but now he has become a mortal and only has a few years left to live. He will probably die soon from the torture of this gap." Xue Mengtao said softly.
"Oh? I see." Siyi said with a smile, "You must have felt bad when Xue Bufan was made useless, right?"
Xue Mengtao felt a pang of pain in her heart as she kept mentioning Xue Bufan, but she didn't dare to retort. She simply changed the subject and asked, "What is it that requires Elder Si to come down the mountain in person?"
Siyi looked at Xue Mengtao with a clear gaze, and said with a smile: "Ten days later, the Chongshan Secret Realm will reopen, and the Palace Master will go there in person.
I came down the mountain to buy her some storybooks and some food to help her pass the time."
Xue Mengtao didn't know whether to be puzzled about the reopening of the Chongshan Secret Realm, or surprised that the Palace Master spent his free time reading storybooks and eating street food to relieve his boredom. She looked at Siyi in amazement.
"Look at what I do, you have to go too." Siyi said, "The Palace Master specifically asked to take you with him, saying that you might meet Xue Bufan in the secret realm and let the two of you rekindle your past relationship."
Xue Mengtao's mind was blown by the words "renewing the old relationship". It was buzzing and she muttered, "Master Xue's spiritual roots..."
"By the way, the reopening of the Chongshan Secret Realm is still a secret. If you tell anyone else, I'll cut off your tongue. Without it, you won't be able to rekindle your relationship with Xue Bufan." Siyi said with a smile, "Who knows, maybe Xue Bufan, seeing you being tortured in Lanyang Palace, will be furious and take you away for his beloved."
Xue Mengtao clenched her fingers and said dryly, "... Elder Si, please stop joking."
"joke?"
Siyi asked, "Which sentence?"
Xue Mengtao: "..."
03 fell from Siyi's shoulder to Xue Mengtao's shoulder, and they were silent together. After the range warning popped up, it flew back to Feng Jue with a "whoosh".
Feng Jue, who was lying on the couch on the second floor of the teahouse listening to a book, looked up and felt that the expression of the silver-white ball was a little strange.
It’s still the same pair of dark circles under the eyes, but they feel… a little stiff.
"What did Ting Siyi say?" Feng Jue asked it through voice transmission.
03 A clear and cold voice performed the conversation between Siyi and Xue Mengtao. Because the voice was changed, it was full of emotion, and the understatement in Siyi's tone was fully expressed.
It sounds better than storytelling.
Feng Jue took out a spirit stone and drew a sound transmission talisman, and asked Siyi to buy more storybooks, intending to let 03 read them and read them to her.
"What's the big deal?" Feng Jue multitasked, his hands kept moving, and he told 03 about the past.
"Siyi came to me when she was fifteen. I was three years old then. She was a naive girl, but the longer she stayed with me, the more gentle and reserved she became," Feng Jue said.
03 If you open the human dictionary, you will find that this is not how the word "gentle and reserved" is used.
Feng Jue smiled lightly and crushed the sound transmission talisman. Spiritual light flew out from her palm and fragments of spirit stone fell from between her fingers. The palace maid who was kneeling on the ground applying nail polish to her hurriedly picked up a handkerchief and carefully wiped off the whiteness on her fingertips.
"Why not?" Feng Jue asked, "Human nature is complicated. You've only known me for a few days, and you already understand me?"
03Calm down and float in front of Feng Jue.
"But it doesn't matter." Feng Jue stretched out her free hand, holding 03's body in the air, slowly grasping this nothingness. She smiled softly, her bright red lips parted in a silent smile.
"We'll get more and more familiar with each other."
Feng Jue asked, "You promised to help me no matter what, didn't you?"
03 Without thinking, "Yes."
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Main system, humans are so complicated
I've done so many missions, come into contact with so many hosts, and yet, in the end, I'm still confused.
But thank you for giving me a virtual body when I was born
At least this mission allowed me to survive many times.
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