Chapter 49, Bro, you've got a cheat code for picking up girls, haven't you...?
Looking for me? Li Qingyun was quite puzzled.
He and the clan chief had very few interactions, and their meetings were always unpleasant. Moreover, he guessed that at that time, the clan chief didn't think he would retain any memories.
What could he possibly have to talk about with the clan chief?
By now, he's already being very accommodating by not causing trouble for Qingyun.
The clan leader actually dared to threaten to separate the master and disciple?
Chang Yubai's first reaction was also that something was wrong. He subconsciously gripped Li Qingyun's sleeve tightly, looking very wary.
His eyes were fixed on the clan leader standing opposite him; if the man made the slightest move, his longsword would be drawn in a heartbeat.
Li Hongyi sensed something was wrong with Chang Yubai and wanted to help the clan leader stop him, but he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, and his tension turned into helplessness. He silently withdrew the foot he was about to step out.
Indeed, he saw Li Qingyun with her head down, and he couldn't tell if she was secretly pleased or shy, but it wasn't a negative emotion.
With this little troublemaker smoothing things over, things won't escalate into a major disturbance for now.
Li Qingyun: That's right!
Just hold his hand like that!
Don't let go, hold on as tightly as possible. How can the master and apprentice separate just because someone says "please"?
Then, Li Qingyun prepared to say a few polite words, but when she looked up, her eyes blinked so innocently.
"Do you think I have to go just because you tell me to? Who is the White Emperor, you or my master?"
Li Qingyun spoke very softly, as if she were genuinely asking a question, but her words immediately plunged the entire room into a long silence.
Chang Yubai: "..."
Li Hongyi: "..."
The clan leader: "...?"
"I didn't mean to..." The clan leader was about to explain that he had no intention of giving orders, but Li Qingyun wouldn't give him face.
Before he could finish speaking, Li Qingyun interrupted him directly: "I was having a great time with my master just now. Not only did you disturb our good time, but you also came to see us. It must have been hard for my master. He is clearly the White Emperor, yet he still had to make this trip in person."
"Master understands that it's not easy for you to be the clan leader, so he didn't hold it against you. Now that we're here, you can't even say a few nice words, and you want me and Master to separate. Could it be that you never intended to treat us well in the first place, and that you looked down on us from the bottom of your heart?"
"You're so wicked! What are you really up to!"
The patriarch closed his eyes and breathed, feeling as if he were about to die after listening.
How could there be such unreasonable and self-righteous words in this world? It's even more frustrating than when I discovered Li Lang had disappeared.
Chang Yubai also fell into an eerie silence.
He hadn't seen Xiaoyun like this for a while, and it was impossible for him not to miss her. But for some reason, seeing her made him feel numb all over, as if a thousand needles were piercing his skin, making him afraid to move.
Li Hongyi: Silently retreated.
He had sharp eyes; he knew very well that the battlefield ahead was no longer one he could participate in.
Li Qingyun: "..." Say something.
Why is everyone suddenly mute?
Give me a response!
"Ahem." Finally, Chang Yubai coughed, breaking the silence.
"Your conditions." Chang Yubai decided to skip over the topic that had caused a collective silence earlier.
Li Qingyun snorted, grabbed his arm with both hands, and gently shook it.
Chang Yubai sighed helplessly, "How about we listen to what he has to say first? If his offer isn't good, I'll help you get revenge."
"Alright!" Li Qingyun had nothing more to say.
But the pressure was directly doubled and placed on the clan leader's side.
The patriarch's young and handsome face showed signs of pain; it was clear he was having a headache and was trying to suppress his pain.
After a few breaths, the clan leader slowly spoke: "I don't know if you two are satisfied with these conditions, but the Forest of Ten Thousand Spirits is at a critical juncture of life and death. After this matter is over, I am willing to follow your orders and do my best to meet any request. I will also offer up all of Fellow Daoist Li's original essence... ginseng fruit. However, whether or not to accept it is up to Fellow Daoist Li to think it over carefully after knowing everything."
"Hmm?" Li Qingyun suddenly felt uneasy. Why did all the recent troubles seem to be directed at her? "What, are you trying to use the Wood Spirit Clan to blackmail me?"
Hmm—it seems that even if it's not recently, any troublesome matter is more or less related to me.
What's this all about? Master always says that fame brings trouble, but why hasn't Master Chang ever faced any trouble?
Li Qingyun didn't understand.
Li Qingyun always felt that the person opposite her had ill intentions.
Chang Yubai: "...How many of these Yuan Shen ginseng in total?"
"Nine times nine equals eighty-one," Li Qingyun and the clan leader answered simultaneously.
Chang Yubai: "Oh."
Too few.
He meant that in his previous life, his master hadn't taken enough from him.
In his previous life, when Venerable Qingyun came to collect the original ginseng, not a single one of the original ginseng in the ground had been touched. He followed his master and dug from morning till night, his face covered with sweat and mud, but he only managed to collect forty-nine ginseng.
He had never met the clan chief, nor had he traveled the entire Shaying County. His master had no intention of bringing back all the original ginseng.
In other words, the story behind this book of ginseng may actually influence Li Qingyun's decision.
"Xiaoyun, what do you think?" he asked Li Qingyun for her opinion.
Li Qingyun wasn't stupid. Apart from his first sentence, which was a resentful remark made in a fit of pique, he didn't refute it again. He realized that what the clan leader wanted to tell him was unusual.
But the ginseng is related to his root essence, and it is something he needs for cultivation... Li Qingyun had lost his playful mood and began to think with a frown.
Seeing his expression, Chang Yubai knew that Xiaoyun had already made a choice, but it was too unexpected, and she had not yet been able to completely convince herself to make a decision.
Then let Xiaoyun think about it first.
Chang Yubai started a new topic, pointing the finger at Suoying County and also at the evil cultivators who were eavesdropping behind people's backs.
"Do you recognize this person?" Chang Yubai showed the corpse of the evil cultivator to the clan leader.
The clan chief shook his head.
“The unfamiliar cultivator must have been recruited.”
"Is the Forest of Ten Thousand Spirits so indiscriminate that it even recruits evil cultivators?"
The clan leader also frowned, showing little surprise, as if he had anticipated this matter. However, he also couldn't understand how the heretical cultivator had managed to infiltrate this place.
Why are the purification runes from Ying Sui no longer working?
The clan leader hadn't forgotten that Chang Yubai had pointed out more than one problem, including the sowing discord in the Saoying County.
Thinking of this ambitious county town, the chieftain sighed helplessly: "If the tree god hadn't suffered, how could we have allowed them to run rampant?"
"They don't sound innocent."
"Even if the truth is unclear, how can we spare the manpower to stop it?" The clan chief looked extremely haggard. "The Wood Spirit Clan is already struggling to take care of itself."
Something's not right," Chang Yubai thought to himself.
This was quite different from the events at the Forest of Ten Thousand Spirits in his memory.
In my memory, the incident in the Forest of Ten Thousand Spirits was not as dangerous as it is now. The Great Clan Chief could have easily appeared to stop the battle and casualties, and there was no news that the Tree God had been harmed. If something had really happened to the Tree God, it wouldn't have survived to the day when it could still communicate with Li Tiansheng a hundred years later.
But now the clan leader looked exhausted and miserable, and hearing this, one could only feel that the Forest of Ten Thousand Spirits was not going to last long.
When has the Tree Domain ever experienced such hardship?
The butterfly effect?
But where does the butterfly flap its wings?
Chang Yubai could no longer distinguish exactly what he and Xiaoyun had interfered in.
Lian Wumiao alone took over a sect far too early, and the Central Region's Prodigy Ranking made the cultivators of the Central Region beat their chests in frustration. There were also many secret realms that they interfered with and competed for, and many of them were no longer available for Li Tiansheng to obtain later.
But this does not mean that Chang Yubai can stand by and watch his clan face a life-or-death crisis.
In his mind, the Wood Spirit Clan had never suffered this calamity, so why should they cause so many people to lose their lives for the sake of their own butterfly wings?
So Chang Yubai suggested, "Since you're free anyway, I can make the trip for you."
The patriarch's eyes lit up instantly.
Li Qingyun, who was still deep in thought, was instantly stunned.
"What about me... Brother?" Li Qingyun's surprise was genuine, and she looked pitiful, as if she was about to be abandoned. "Why didn't you mention me? Don't you want me anymore?"
Chang Yubai grabbed Li Qingyun's hand, which was trying to shake him, looked him in the eye, and said sincerely, "You can't act coquettishly when it comes to matters of right and wrong. You have clearly made your decision."
In the end, Li Qingyun could only grit her teeth and say "okay".
"Okay, I'll go with him."
He really wanted to know why the clan leader had summoned him, and he also knew that Chang Yubai was the only one who could go to Saying County to find out.
As for Li Hongyi, seeing that the others had finished discussing their business, he hopped and skipped like a spring to Chang Yubai's side.
"Dude! I'm coming too, I'll go with you!"
Li Hongyi applied to join Chang Yubai's team.
The clan leader directly activated his spiritual power, causing the binding ropes to tighten even more.
"Hey, hey, hey—Lingfeng! Don't rush, I want to help you! Such a big thing happened in your territory, I can't just sit idly by. I can't go with you to accompany Fellow Daoist Li either, you and Fellow Daoist Li are bound to talk about some big secrets, I want to help you, the only way is to start with Brother Chang, right?"
After his sophistry, the clan chief actually began to think, and the ropes binding him began to loosen.
Qu Lingfeng: "...Fine."
Then Qu Lingfeng retrieved the rope and drew a rune to brand Li Hongyi's body: "However, this binding rune cannot be removed for you. I have suppressed your cultivation to the first level of Xuanwu. With Lord Baihuang protecting you, you have the ability to escape back."
Li Hongyi: "..."
Qu Lingfeng glared at him: "Your escape skills are too good, I don't trust them."
In short, it can be summed up in four words: Don't even think about escaping!
Li Qingyun was no longer upset and started to laugh. She didn't let Li Hongyi off the hook either, making a sarcastic laugh: "Tsk tsk tsk, flirting with other women will only bring retribution."
Chang Yubai's focus was rather unusual: "Ling Feng? Your name is Ling Feng? Which Ling Feng?"
Li Hongyi rubbed his wrist, not understanding what was so complicated about it: "Qu Lingfeng, Ling as in spiritual power, Feng as in wind."
Chang Yubai: "...What an uncultured introduction."
"you!"
"What an uncultured introduction!" Li Qingyun repeated sarcastically.
Li Hongyi is completely finished.
Chang Yubai already knew who this clan leader was.
Venerable Lingfeng, one of the three giants with the highest Venerable Martial Realm cultivation a hundred years later, is the last Venerable Martial Realm eighth level cultivator besides Venerable Qingyun and Venerable Piaomiao.
He was also half of Li Tiansheng's mentor, and a very helpful and supportive figure...
Dude, what did you choose as your dating guide?
How come everyone here is such a talented person!
Chang Yubai's gaze toward Li Hongyi was now filled with something strange.
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