As soon as Tian Dao left, it started raining again on Wuming Peak.
The bean-sized raindrops seemed to be silently urging them to hurry up.
After Tiandao left, Master Zixiao also followed. In the end, only a few of them walked down the mountain.
"Congratulations, Uncle Master Gao, on becoming Senior Tian Dao's disciple." After leaving Wuming Peak, Sect Leader Bai suddenly said something that made Gao Han a little confused.
Yuan Ran was also a little stunned. Why did the master call Gao Han "Uncle-Master"?
Gao Han said bluntly: "Why does the Sect Master call me Uncle Master and call Master Senior Tian Dao?"
"This involves things that happened many years ago, so Yuan Ran doesn't know either." Sect Leader Bai stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Senior Tian Dao's wife is actually the junior sister of my master and great-grandmaster. Strictly speaking, Yuan Ran should also call her great-grandmaster."
"However, since Yuan Ran's great-grandmaster uncle passed away, Senior Tian Dao has rarely appeared in public. Many disciples of Zixiao Sect don't even know about Senior Tian Dao's existence, let alone Yuan Ran's great-grandmaster uncle."
It was the first time that Yuanran knew about such a thing, so he didn't care. His master kept calling him Yuanran's great uncle.
“Because Senior Tiandao doesn’t like these titles, we won’t tell anyone about them. However, Uncle Gao is a disciple of Zixiao Sect, and now he worships Senior Tiandao as his master. In theory, he is also Yuanran’s great uncle.” Sect Master Bai said with a smile.
"I understand," Gao Han nodded, and then asked, "Can't the uncle ask for things from the nephew?"
Sect Leader Bai’s expression froze.
Yuan Ran chuckled, but was immediately glanced at by Sect Leader Bai and stopped abruptly.
"It's like this." Sect Master Bai explained, "The two uncles have taken their uncle and Senior Tian Dao as their masters, so the nephews should send gifts and congratulate them. However, since Uncle Gao has not yet completed the task he promised Senior Tian Dao, I have not notified the others. I am going to wait until the result is confirmed and then let everyone send gifts together."
"So that's how it is. The sect leader is thoughtful." Gao Han nodded.
"Uncle Master Gao, please don't call me Sect Leader anymore. Just call me Junior Brother Bai like Uncle Master Zhongli does." Anyway, one is calling him that and both are calling him that.
Sect Master Bai has already figured out why his uncle-master wanted Senior Tiandao to accept Gao Han as his disciple. One reason was to strengthen the bond between Senior Tiandao and Zixiao Sect. He didn't guess what other reasons there were, but it was all for the good of Zixiao Sect.
"Forget it, I'd better call you Sect Master." Calling someone who is countless times older than himself as his nephew, people who don't know would think that he is older than Sect Master Bai. And if others heard it, it would probably damage the reputation of the Sect Master of Zixiao Sect.
Sect Leader Bai laughed so hard that his eyes were almost invisible. He really liked this Uncle Gao more and more. He thought that this kind of personality was not bad at all.
My uncle-master’s vision is as good as ever.
"Master, should I call you Uncle Master Gao?" Yuan Ran asked in confusion.
"Can you be the same as Master? Of course I have to shout." Sect Master Bai glanced at him. Can you be the same as Master?
Yuan Ran wanted to cry but had no tears.
"If there are outsiders around, just call me Gao Han." Gao Han didn't know why they cared so much about seniority and titles. Zhongli Tingzhou just had a bad taste, and he didn't care.
Yuan Ran sighed, Gao Han is indeed a good person.
"Junior Brother Bai, isn't it time for you to go and do your business?" Zhongli Tingzhou, who had a bad taste in his mouth, spoke up in time to remind them that there was still a senior uncle here.
The corner of Sect Leader Bai's mouth twitched. He knew that he was urging him to inform others about the gift-giving. Nothing could be perfect. "Then I'll take my leave first. Yuanran, do you want to go with me?"
Yuan Ran nodded, now that everything that needed to be dealt with was done, "I'll go with Master."
After watching the two leave, Gao Han said to Zhongli Tingzhou, "Let's go to Yudan Peak."
Today is the last day of the January period.
The issue of becoming a disciple has been resolved, except for the last thing.
Yudan Peak.
Qian Pang has a habit every day, which is to do the accounting. He calculates how much interest he can get back for the spirit stones he has lent out before, and how much the total amount is when all these interests are added up. The final amount makes him very happy. Just by looking at it, he feels that the world is so beautiful.
"There's so much interest today. I'm really a genius. Others work hard to take on a mission, get bruised and battered, and the spiritual stones they earn from the mission are not enough to heal their wounds. But I can just lie in my room and sleep every day, and a large amount of spiritual stones will automatically go into my pocket."
Qian Pang was fiddling with his abacus while muttering to himself and laughing smugly from time to time.
The fellow students passing by couldn't help but shake their heads.
Every time Qian Pang smiled like this, it meant that he had earned a large sum of spirit stones. Although people were sometimes envious, few people imitated him.
Firstly, no one has his ability and eloquence. Secondly, Qian Pang spends all his time on earning spirit stones every day. He doesn't practice at all throughout the day. His cultivation level is still the same without any improvement. What's the use of earning more spirit stones if he doesn't spend them on the right things.
Qian Pang didn't care about them. He just liked the feeling of making money. He felt so good just watching a large amount of spirit stones scooting into his pocket.
"Oh, right," Fatty Qian suddenly stopped fiddling with the abacus, "It seems that there will be another amount of spirit stones coming in tomorrow. Last time, I lent sixty middle-grade spirit stones to Senior Brother Gao at the Divine Artifact Peak. Starting tomorrow, he will have to pay me twelve low-grade spirit stones every day. I have to start settling the account."
Qian Pang thought happily that it was three and a half medium-grade spirit stones a month. If this senior brother Gao was a potential stock, he could continue to develop.
"Come to think of it, I haven't gone to Divine Artifact Peak to look for this Senior Brother Gao yet. Should I go and see him and find out about his situation? If he dies during a mission, it would be a loss if I can't collect the debt."
Qian Pang's face changed, and he felt more and more that he should go and take a look. He immediately packed up his things and ran out of Yudan Peak. On the way, he met a senior brother who asked him where he was going, and he replied, "Shenqi Peak."
Not long after he left, Gao Han and Zhongli Tingzhou also arrived at Yudan Peak.
"Are you looking for Qian Pang?" The young man who was stopped and questioned looked at them suspiciously.
These two people have such outstanding looks, but it seems like I have never seen or heard of them before.
"I borrowed some spirit stones from Qian Pang last time, and I'm here to return them this time. Isn't he here?" Gao Han said in a gentle voice.
The young man immediately showed an expression of sudden enlightenment. It turned out that he came to repay his debt. This Qian Pang's business scope is really wide, and he can even hook up with such a handsome senior brother.
"I don't know where Qian Pang is. Wait a moment, I'll find someone to ask for you. Which peak are the two senior brothers from?" the young man asked tentatively.
"Well, the main peak." If I said Wuming Peak or Upper Nine Peaks, I would probably be mistaken for a liar. Anyway, Yuan Ran is at the main peak, so I can just ask him to come forward if needed.
"So you're a senior from the main peak. I'm so sorry." The young man's eyes sparkled. He was actually a senior from the main peak. He immediately ran in more actively to help them find Qian Pang. He came out soon and said, "Two seniors, Qian Pang went to the Artifact Peak. You didn't run into him on the way here. What a coincidence."
Gao Han and Zhongli Tingzhou looked at each other. They actually went to the Artifact Peak at this time. Could they be going to the Artifact Peak to find him?
"Thank you. Can we go to his place and wait for him?"
"You want to wait for him? But we don't know when he will be back." The young man asked in surprise.
"It's okay, I think he will be back soon." Gao Han said with a smile.
The young man was even more surprised. Was he very familiar with Qian Pang? How did he know that he would be back soon? Just now when he asked someone, he heard that Qian Pang had just left not long ago. According to how much this kid usually spent time out, he would be out for at least an hour each time.
I'm so angry, how can I not go back, Gao Han thought.
"If you are willing to wait, then wait. Qian Pang's residence is just in front. You can ask anyone and you will know. There is no one in Yudan Peak who doesn't know him." After the young man said this, he hurried away.
But after Qian Pang arrived at the Artifact Peak, he thought it should be easy to find Gao Han. After all, he had such an outstanding appearance and many people should know him. However, when he asked several people, no one had heard of Gao Han.
Qian Pang thought something bad had happened, and quickly looked for his acquaintances at the Artifact Peak.
"Gao Han? He's very handsome?" The acquaintance thought for a moment and shook his head, "You must be mistaken, there is no Gao Han refiner in the Divine Artifact Peak."
Qian Pang was struck by a bolt from the blue, and he was completely stunned.
Seeing his strange reaction, the acquaintance couldn't help but think of a possibility and asked in disbelief, "Are you being cheated?"
Qian Pang recovered from the blow and gritted his teeth, "Good fellow, how dare you trick me, Qian Pang? I will dig deep into the ground to find him!"
The acquaintance laughed out loud, "Qian Pang, Qian Pang, I didn't expect that you would have this day. You are a famous god of wealth in Yudan Peak, but you were cheated out of your spiritual stones. This is big news. How much did the other party cheat you out of?"
"Sixty middle-grade spirit stones." Qian Pang turned around and walked out with a gloomy face. "No, I must find him. If he doesn't pay me three times the spirit stones, I will never let him go!"
"Where are you going to find it?" an acquaintance asked from behind.
"Of course I have a way." Fat Qian didn't even turn his head. Although the Zixiao Sect was large, it was not really impossible to find a single person. Uncle Qian had a wide network of contacts.
Qian Pang returned to Yudan Peak angrily, and a senior brother came towards him.
"Qian Pang, you're back so soon. What's wrong? Why do you look so bad?"
"Nothing." Qian Pang had a sour face, embarrassed to say that he was cheated of spirit stones. Everyone knew that Qian Pang was good at making money, and spirit stones came into his pocket in large quantities every day. If people knew that he was cheated, this dark history would probably follow him for the rest of his life and become a shame that Uncle Qian would never be able to wash away.
Seeing that he was unwilling to talk, the senior brother did not ask any more questions, but just said: "Okay, by the way, not long after you left, two people came to see you. They are waiting at your residence. You should go and see them quickly, so as not to make them wait too long. Ah Hua said they are senior brothers who came down from the main peak."
The brothers from the main peak are all genuine disciples of the direct lineage, and they are incomparable to those from the other eight peaks.
"Main peak?" Qian Pang was stunned.
"What? Don't you know them? I hope you haven't offended them. How about I go with you to take a look?" The senior brother was worried.
Qian Pang did not refuse, he had done business with disciples from the main peak before, these "rich families" had the backing of a big mountain and they also had to save face, their business was actually easier to do than the disciples from other peaks, because they would not default on their debts, but not much could be done.
They either don't lend or borrow a lot at one time. Instead of lending to them, it is better to lend it to other disciples little by little. The debts can be collected quickly and the whole loan will not be burdened on one person.