After listening, Zhou Quan looked at him helplessly, "You really won't marry her? Can you let go of that girl?"
Zhou nodded, "We're not meant to be. I don't really have any feelings for her. She seems to be indecisive and listens to her family in everything."
"If you're not careful, you might even be able to turn back the two taels of silver her family wants?" Zhou Quan shook his head with a faint smile.
Zhou Zhong shook his head silently, "Brother Quan, you haven't seen how greedy her family is. To be honest, I really don't like them. My parents are kind, and I'm afraid that if I encounter relatives like that, it will upset them in the future."
Zhou Quan nodded. "Alright, then stay here. You don't need to go out to do things anymore. Who knows what kind of employer you'll meet? Just stay here with me. When your sister-in-law comes back, I'll ask her where she needs people and arrange a job for you."
"Okay, will it cause you any trouble?" Zhou Zhong knew that his sister-in-law was the one who made the decisions in their family.
The villagers all say that Zhou Quan's wife is the one who makes the decisions in Zhou Laosan's family. The whole family has to listen to Li Mai's orders. After all, everyone knows that Zhou Quan's family is doing well now because Li Mai is capable and has led his family to a good life.
Some even joked that if Li Mai shouted, the entire Zhou Laosan family would tremble with fear.
Zhou Zhong thought that he didn't know if other people's legs would shake if his sister-in-law yelled, but Quan Ge's legs would definitely shake!
Meanwhile, Li Mai led his apprentices directly out of the town and headed north.
The town of Qingshi is named so because two miles north of the town lies a continuous mountain range called Daqingshan.
There is no soil on the mountain, only bluestone.
After they reached the foot of the mountain, Li Mai looked up at the rocks that were rising rapidly and said to his two apprentices, "Use your ease to climb the mountain, and let me see your lightness skills."
The two looked at each other, gazing at the seemingly endless cliff, and doubted whether they could make it up.
Li Mai said, "It's alright, use all your inner strength to go up there, let me see where your limits are!"
"Yes, Master!" the two replied, and simultaneously kicked off the ground, using their lightness skills to fly upwards.
Li Mai stood below and watched.
When she saw the two people had climbed more than halfway up the mountain, but they fell down because they couldn't find a foothold to step on, she used her spiritual power to fly up, grab one person with each hand, and continue upwards, finally bringing them safely to the top of the mountain.
After the two of them got their feet on solid ground, they still looked down at the edge of the cliff in disbelief.
Some of their legs were still weak. It was so high, and they had tried several times to get up, but they still couldn't. If their master hadn't held them up, they would have fallen. Although they wouldn't have been hurt, they would have definitely been embarrassed.
"Master, your internal strength is so powerful?" Chu Yan looked at Li Mai with starry eyes.
Zhong Hui shook his head. "No, I don't think Master's internal energy is like ours. I feel that Master's internal energy is not necessarily as strong as ours."
Li Mai gave Zhong Hui an approving look and said with a smile, "Your senior brother is indeed your senior brother. What I have is not internal energy, but spiritual energy."
After saying that, she waved her hand, and two pills appeared in her hand. "These are two Spirit Gathering Pills. You two take one each. I want to try again. Originally, I couldn't detect any spiritual roots in you, so I just wanted to treat you as ordinary people."
"But you should at least call me master. I'll be very embarrassed if others find out that my disciple is so useless. Luckily, I remembered that I have this, so I'll let you try it."
"First of all, let me make one thing clear: this medicine is meant to help you gather your spiritual energy. The time it takes is uncertain, and whether it will succeed is also uncertain. It might take several months, several years, or even a lifetime. So, whether you want to take it or not, you two should think it through carefully," Li Mai said softly.
"Master, if this medicine doesn't gather spiritual energy, will it have any effect on us?" Chu Yan asked curiously.
Li Mai shook her head. "There will definitely be an impact. If you encounter a spiritual cultivator, they can sense that you have taken the Spirit Gathering Pill, which may cause you trouble. But as long as a spiritual root grows in your dantian, other spiritual cultivators will not be able to sense spiritual energy from you."
"So, whether you eat or not is up to you two," Li Mai said, looking at the two of them.
The two nodded without hesitation, "Eat!"
Li Mai handed it to the two of them, and they ate it without hesitation.
Two more bowls of water appeared in Li Mai's hands. "Drink them!"
The two of them drank the water again.
Suddenly, they felt a surge of power coursing through their bodies, and the two looked at each other in disbelief.
Li Mai smiled. It seemed that feeding them the spiritual spring water for several months had been quite effective.
"Now, you two sit cross-legged on the ground and follow the incantation I told you to circulate that power throughout your body, and finally remember to guide it into your dantian." Li Mai sat cross-legged opposite the two of them and began to instruct them.
Meanwhile, in the woods below the cliff, several people were squatting in the trees chatting.
"Boss, that Miss Li went up directly from this cliff. At first, two young masters went up, but they almost fell halfway down. Luckily, Miss Li stepped in and pulled them up."
A young man in his twenties, with a blade of grass in his mouth, looked up, curious about what they were doing up there.
"Are you sure you saw it clearly? Are you sure it's Miss Li from the Li family?" the young man asked.
"Yes, boss, it's her. I'd recognize her even if she were ashes. She beat me up."
The young man stroked his chin and said, "You guys wait here for me, I'll see if I can make it up."
As a result, the young man tried to climb up three times but failed, and eventually silently squatted back down on the tree.
"Boss, I already told you, this Miss Li is really amazing," the man said timidly.
"Alright, go back now. Gather all the members of our Heaven and Earth Alliance within three days. Tell them the boss needs to hold a meeting." After saying this, the young man jumped down from the tree and prepared to go back.
"What kind of meeting is it, and what is its purpose?" asked another young man of similar age.
"Disband the Heaven and Earth Alliance, huh? I've found my master, and I'm going to pay my respects to her. If she finds out I'm the leader of the Heaven and Earth Alliance, do you think she'll accept me?" The young man rolled his eyes at them and quickly left.
The group was stunned!
What? The Heaven and Earth Alliance is disbanding? Just because their leader met someone stronger than him and is planning to become his disciple?
What will they do then?
Wait a minute, could it be that the boss heard that this Miss Li is beautiful and is planning to offer himself to her and steal her away from her husband?
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