Chapter 8 008 Shen Zhiwei: What's the most important thing when writing short essays...?
Inside the Cloud Palace, a small round mirror in Young Master Mu's palm reflected a face.
It was Mu Wuxian's face, but not the current Mu Wuxian.
The boy in the mirror was seventeen or eighteen years old. His cold and resolute demeanor shone with a decisive and clear light, but he unconsciously revealed a bit of excessive tension. At that time, the boy did not notice his excessive tension, nor did he notice the tight lines on his lips.
Those taut lips had trembled before.
She trembled from the kiss.
At this moment, the fairy attendant reported that Xie Qingyu had arrived, and Mu Wuxian also transformed the small mirror in his hand.
When Xie Qingyu arrived, Young Master Mu in the hall had already put on a white ghost mask, completely concealing his true appearance.
Even Xie Qingyu couldn't help but want to complain. How impatient was this Young Master Mu today?
It's unclear when it started, but Young Master Mu rarely reveals his true face anymore.
Although today's events were chaotic, Mu Wuxian wasn't embarrassed at all. He said, "There are still some cultivators outside today."
He spoke gently, but his request was anything but polite: "Some of them are disciples of the Nine Peaks Immortal Sect, and we hope Sect Master Xie will cooperate."
In other words, the Nine Peaks Immortal Sect must cooperate.
Xie Qingyu readily agreed, nodding in agreement and showing complete compliance.
Xie Qingyu withdrew.
After he stepped down, Young Master Mu stared at his snow-white fingers.
There was nothing to get excited about. He had long known that evil deeds could be forgotten, and that person was bound to be alive, not to mention that he had already found some traces of the other party's life.
Young Master Mu then reviewed everything that had happened that day.
He personally checked several people, and none of them were the correct person.
For some reason, he thought of the Shen family, the little sect leader at the foot of Mount Sumeru.
The skin beneath her fingers was fair and smooth, and her face was stunningly beautiful. Her expression of shock was genuine, and her true cultivation level and reactions were beyond doubt.
It couldn't be her—
Mu Wuxian closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, he produced a white jade slip.
He wrote the three characters "Shen Zhiwei" in cinnabar, thought for a moment, and then wrote down the names of the people he had personally verified, just in case.
The dark shadows swallowed the jade slip.
Young Master Mu instructed, "Go and investigate all the names that have been added."
Even if it isn't true, checking wouldn't hurt, and it would be foolproof; he didn't want to be careless.
Mu Wuxian wore a white ghost mask, making him look somewhat terrifying.
His sleeves and wrists were like cold jade, and the Desire Sect incantations were a dull silver when not activated, just like Mu Wuxian's icy body.
At this moment, Shen Zhiwei stretched out her finger and gently gathered her hair.
A few strands of her hair were loose, but she gently tucked them behind her ears and lightly pursed her rosy lips.
Nan Yulou was urging her online like crazy, but Shen Zhiwei wasn't in a hurry to go back.
Shen Zhiwei: I have my own rhythm.
Back then, Shen Zhiwei turned enemies into friends and invited the leaders of the other two larger alchemy sects in Kumu Mountain to join the Bixia Sect as honorary elders.
That is, Shi Miaoxue and Nan Yulou.
Now that Shen Zhiwei and Nan Yulou can't get along, they're each using their own tricks to break them up, so the key role falls on the third person, Shi Miaoxue.
Unlike Nan Yulou, Shen Zhiwei quite liked Shi Miaoxue.
Shi Miaoxue is an honest female cultivator. She is down-to-earth, has strong professional skills, and high moral standards.
She has a simple personality and doesn't like complicated things; she is truly a technically skilled person.
Shi Miaoxue followed in her father's footsteps. The elders in her Red Lotus Sect watched her grow up, and her peers were children she grew up playing with.
In addition, Shi Miaoxue has a good reputation.
Therefore, if the partnership breaks up, some former Red Lotus Sect disciples will definitely follow Shi Miaoxue.
Who Shi Miaoxue chooses to side with will affect the flow of a large number of people.
Shen Zhiwei definitely wants to recruit more disciples.
Of course, Shen Zhiwei and Shi Miaoxue usually had a good relationship. She put a lot of effort into winning them over and treated Shi Miaoxue like a sister.
But Nan Yulou is Shi Miaoxue's lover!
Shi Miaoxue had a good relationship with Shen Zhiwei, but she also developed genuine feelings for Nan Yulou.
The young couple is a currently popular pairing of a fallen nobleman and an honest man, and they've even styled themselves quite fashionably.
However, according to Shen Zhiwei, Shi Miaoxue was sincere, but Nan Yulou was much more pragmatic. Nan Yulou was just using emotions to keep Shi Miaoxue.
The truth is so cruel. Shen Zhiwei is an objective observer and is definitely not trying to kick Nan Yulou because of any vested interest.
If she hadn't been trapped in the first level of heaven, Nan Yulou would never have been willing to be Shen Zhiwei's subordinate, nor would she have ever fallen in love with Shi Miaoxue.
Not to mention that while Nan Yulou was having an affair with Shi Miaoxue, he was also having relationships with other women.
There was definitely no genuine affection involved. To put it bluntly, Nan Yulou was practically a gigolo!
Shen Zhiwei thought this to herself, but she kept a straight face and didn't directly say that Nan Yulou was a gold digger.
The sect leader must still maintain a certain level of dignity.
But Shen Zhiwei didn't complain, so Li Yao complained for her: "It's hateful that Elder Nan used his good looks to make Elder Shi's heart flutter. It's hateful that he would sell himself like this."
Then Li Yao's gaze fell on Yin Wujiu, scanning him up and down, and she couldn't help but sigh: "Actually, Senior Brother Yin is also very handsome, even better than Elder Nan. If Senior Brother Yin can win over Elder Shi, the sect leader will have more bargaining chips in his hands today."
Shen Zhiwei also sighed.
A crack appeared on Yin Wujiu's usually gentle face, but it quickly healed.
The flowers in his hair were even more vibrant, his skin was as white as snow, and he said earnestly, "Elder Nan is ruthless. Even if we knew about his schemes, we would never do them."
Shen Zhiwei stopped joking and started analyzing reality: "Two months ago, we received news that he was having an affair with Fairy Jiang from the third heaven. We thought we had the victory in our grasp, but things didn't go as planned."
This information came from Tian Qi, who was working undercover. Upon receiving the news, and with the idea of women helping women, Shen Zhiwei immediately had Yin Wujiu write a letter of denunciation.
The next day, several scratches appeared on Nan Yulou's face.
But in public, the two didn't separate, and Shi Miaoxue actually held back.
Shen Zhiwei: "The day before yesterday, Tian Qi sent another message saying that Elder Nan had another secret meeting with Fairy Jiang and had cheated on Miaoxue again."
Li Yao was particularly enthusiastic: "Then let's write another letter to Elder Shi to let her know that Elder Nan has repeatedly failed to correct his ways."
Shen Zhiwei: "No rush!"
She needs to figure out what Shi Miaoxue is thinking.
Nan Yulou and that Fairy Jiang were definitely not just momentarily infatuated. Shen Zhiwei knew exactly what kind of person he was.
Elder Nan did it on purpose.
That fairy Jiang Cui wasn't particularly beautiful, but she was very capable and had an elder brother who was an elder in the Heavenly Pool Palace. Nan Yulou clearly wanted to use this connection to return to the Upper Realm.
So this isn't something you can just do once or twice.
This will definitely be a long and repeated process.
While Nan Yulou may be a scumbag, you can't say he's lustful. He's good-looking, and his romantic relationships are driven by a strong sense of purpose.
Nan Yulou and Jiang Cui would never break up so easily.
The saying goes that people strive for higher positions, and Elder Nan's reason for keeping Shi Miaoxue hanging on was simply to squeeze out the last bit of benefit from her.
Shen Zhiwei had already figured out all these important implications, so she had Yin Wujiu explain them clearly in the first letter.
But the result was not as expected.
Shen Zhiwei felt there must be something wrong here.
If the issues aren't clarified, rushing to write a second anonymous whistleblower won't earn much credibility.
After thinking about it for a while, Shen Zhiwei actually figured out the trick.
A thought suddenly struck her, and she said to Yin Wujiu, "Senior brother, you wrote the last letter. Write it down for me from memory."
Yin Wujiu was slightly embarrassed, then said okay.
A slight flush rose to his pale cheeks.
Yin Wujiu quickly read through the previous letter of denunciation and handed it to Shen Zhiwei. Li Yao also leaned over to take a look.
"I have recently heard that Elder Shi and the young man from the Nan family have been in close contact and are deeply in love. However, this young man from the Nan family is not a good man. He is secretly having an affair with Cui, a woman from the Jiang family in the Upper Realm, intending to use her family's status to return to the Nine Heavens. This man is greedy and ungrateful, like a jackal, and is extremely cunning and greedy. On the surface, he is dealing with the young woman from the Shi family, but in reality, he is using love as a bondage to exploit her resources and devour her essence, like a gluttonous beast that will not stop until it has eaten its fill."
Shen Zhiwei's heart skipped a beat as soon as she saw it, and she immediately realized the problem.
Shen Zhiwei: "What books does Senior Brother usually read?"
Yin Wujiu replied: "I am currently reviewing the 'Record of Rectifying the Mind from the Five Dusts' and annotating the newly discovered errors in the waterways in the 'Study of the Mountains and Rivers of the Nine Regions'."
Senior Brother Yin has refined tastes; he doesn't even read popular storybooks.
Shen Zhi smiled slightly: "That's the problem, Senior Brother. This letter of denunciation is actually a story. What's most important in storytelling? Emotion!"
The saying goes, "Knowing people and assigning them to good positions." Shen Zhiwei's previous decision to have Yin Wujiu write a letter of denunciation was an example of not knowing people and assigning them to good positions.
Now, Shen Zhiwei's gaze shifted from Yin Wujiu to Li Yao, who was peeking around.
Shen Zhiwei asked Li Yao, "A Yao, what books have you been reading lately?"
Li Yao was taken aback and quickly replied, "I recently read the fourth volume of 'The Empress Becomes an Immortal.' Apart from this book, there don't seem to be any other good books. They are mostly just cliché stories, becoming more and more formulaic."
She is a very ambitious person, very enterprising, and has excellent taste in reading.
She only watches shows featuring strong female leads.
Shen Zhiwei didn't even bother to expose her.
Shen Zhiwei: "Really? Didn't you read the Red Calyx Society's manuscript? Xiao Chan didn't say that."
The Red Calyx Society's doujinshi circulated throughout the four realms, known for their explicit content and erotic themes. Most importantly, they were oriented towards a female audience, catering to the tastes of female cultivators. Although such publications were not suitable for public display, they circulated widely and enthusiastically in private.
Because it spread so widely, it recently displeased the sword immortal of the Rong family, who said that the poison had gone unchecked and might be harming the minor cultivators of the fourth realm. So he banned the Red Calyx Society.
Shen Zhiwei sighed: "Although Rong Jianxian acts too decisively, the Red Calyx Society's doujinshi are indeed too stimulating. For example, the outrageous settings such as sandwich, two penises, and yin and yang in one body."
At the height of her urgency, Shen Zhiwei closed her eyes, her voice barely audible: "Xiao Chan, she's only just turned eleven—"
Li Yao couldn't help but kneel down with a thud, hugging Shen Zhiwei's leg and wailing, "Sect Leader, you're innocent! How could I be so heartless!"
"She only found my hidden notebook. If I had actually shown it to her, would she have reported me to you?"
Shen Zhiwei probably thinks so too, but we still need to talk about it.
Now she helped Li Yao up: "The main reason for the ban on the Red Calyx Society is also due to mismanagement. It's fine for us adults to read and revisit the book. Just know your limits."
"The more you see, the more you accumulate knowledge."
She revealed her true intentions: "I think you should write this letter of denunciation. We're talking about emotions, so be sure to stir things up."
Li Yao quickly answered yes, thinking to herself that she would just write it in the yellow color herself.
She can't write about emotions, and she can't even write about pornography?
This bellyband must be red, and it must be embroidered with mimosa flowers. The battle situation must be urgent, and the feelings must be sincere. Shi Miaoxue must know how green her hat is, so green that she cannot bear it for even a moment.
Shen Zhiwei: "I wonder if reading so much will allow me to accumulate knowledge and then unleash it."
Li Yao: Who do you think you are!
She had previously published two articles with the Red Calyx Society and earned some spirit stones in the process.
Who isn't a big shot?
Because she came from a poor family and loved cultivation, she would also collect some spirit stones to supplement her family's income.
Shen Zhiwei: "The Tianchi Palace will send someone, and they will definitely put on airs. I'll let them wait and see; there's no need to rush back."
Shen Zhiwei was very thoughtful: "When you write the letter again, give Miaoxue time to think about it."
Li Yao agreed.
Shen Zhiwei then produced another scroll: "Give Tian Qi this 'Gengjin Sword Manual' to her, and take two spirit pills from the inner treasury and send them to her to help her cultivate."
Tian Xiyu's undercover work was well done, and the news spread quickly, so Shen Zhiwei didn't make any empty promises.
Nan Yulou loved to make a ruckus.
For example, Nan Yulou would reward Tian Qi with clothes and jewelry, give her a pretty and nice name, and make her look extravagant. She would certainly have some emotional value, but he wouldn't give her much in terms of practical things.
Nan Yulou is doing a lot with a little money.
Her mother was a concubine serving the sect leader of Tianchi Sect, so Nan Yulou can be said to have a family background in scholarship.
He was good at creating ambiguity, for example, he would have Tian Xiyu choose clothes for him, tie his belt, and put a sachet on him.
These are all tasks that involve intimate and personal service.
When subordinates feel treated as one of their own, they are more likely to go out of their way to help their superiors.
But when it comes to serious dating, Nan Yulou is definitely asking for the best price.
Shi Miaoxue has skills and a wealthy family background, Jiang Cui can help him return to the Upper Realm, and Nan Yulou's romantic partners are all carefully selected.
As the saying goes, no one gets up early without a reason, or one won't act until they see a clear benefit. Nan Yulou is very calculating; he would never engage in romantic relationships with a mere maid.
However, when experts clash, each harbors their own schemes. Tian Qi is a skilled actress, quite shrewd, and not an easily fooled young girl.
When Shen Zhiwei took her in, the little girl had no family left, was dressed in tattered clothes, and had lost a shoe.
They've experienced hardship.
Shen Zhiwei also saw that she was determined and had a strong will, so she kept her and carefully cultivated her.
Li Yao accepted the order and hurriedly returned home.
The Bixia Sect and Nan Yulou were already very impatient and eager.
Shen Zhiwei was initially polite, replying to the message, "On my way."
Who would have thought that after that, there was no further contact; no messages were replied to, and the person disappeared without a trace.
Afterwards, he sent disciples to urge them to return, but Li Yao and Yin Wujiu still did not return.
Tian Xiyu stood quietly to the side, eyes downcast and mindful of her own thoughts, while Nan Yulou waited anxiously.
When will Shen Zhiwei return?
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