Chapter 113: Two Sects Communicate, Be Generous
"So... you were originally at Qingyun Peak, but because you wanted to go to the kitchen to find something to eat in the afternoon, you stumbled over to our Danyang Peak?"
Hearing this, Shangguan Yunmeng stared at Lu Chen blankly and said woodenly: "Is the place where I used to live called Qingyun Peak?"
“…Isn’t it?”
“Is that so?”
“…”
Lu Chen patted his forehead speechlessly, then couldn't help but point to a mountain in the distance and said, "You said you were a cultivator from Yuxu Mountain, and all the cultivators from Yuxu Mountain who came here to discuss Taoism are temporarily staying on Qingyun Peak, the main peak of our sect."
"Look, that's our sect's Qingyun Peak, see it?"
“Oh… I see.”
Shangguan Yunmeng nodded obediently, and then suddenly changed the subject: "But I just want to go to the kitchen, why are you pointing me to Qingyun Peak?"
“…”
It was because Shangguan Yunmeng was so good-looking that Lu Chen was able to remain patient and not just walk away.
If someone else had said this, he would have turned around and left! Looking at the not-so-smart Shangguan Yunmeng, Lu Chen said helplessly, "Go out of the back mountain from here, and then walk 200 meters to the foot of the mountain, there is the fire stove room of my Danyang Peak."
Shangguan Yunmeng's eyes lit up instantly, and then she said to Lu Chen seriously, "Thank you, fellow Taoist. You are a good person."
After saying that, Shangguan Yunmeng walked towards the right side of the lake.
Seeing this scene, Lu Chen couldn't hold it anymore.
"Fellow Daoist, the direction you are heading... is the direction deep into the mountain behind my peak."
Hearing this, Shangguan Yunmeng turned around expressionlessly and walked in another direction without blushing or getting nervous.
But the place she went this time was still wrong.
"Fellow Daoist, this time you are heading towards the main hall of our Danyang Peak."
After taking the wrong road twice in a row, Shangguan Yunmeng simply walked up to Lu Chen and said after hesitating for a moment, "Well, I wonder if you could help me show me the way?"
"I don't know which direction you are talking about, because I feel that the roads around me look the same..."
Lu Chen thought for a moment and thought it wouldn't be a big deal, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then come with me."
Hearing this, Shangguan Yunmeng immediately laughed happily, and then followed Lu Chen obediently.
And along the way, the two happened to chat for a while.
Soon, Lu Chen learned about Shangguan Yunmeng's situation.
Shangguan Yunmeng was originally a little princess of the Wei Dynasty in the mortal world. Because her mother was just an ordinary concubine, she was not taken very seriously in the Wei Dynasty.
Not only did her father only see her a few times throughout the year, but there were only two palace maids in the palace where she lived to take care of her daily life.
It is no exaggeration to say that she was a nobody in the Wei Dynasty.
But she didn't feel lonely about it.
Because every time she fell asleep, she would meet a fairy sister in her dream.
Maybe it’s because my mother died early.
As a result, Shangguan Yunmeng regarded the fairy sister in the dream as both a teacher and a mother, and listened to her very much.
She learns whatever the other party asks her to learn.
So she waited in the courtyard during the day for the palace maids to bring her food.
After eating, I practiced the magic skills taught by the fairy sister in the courtyard.
After falling asleep at night, I continued to practice diligently with the Fairy Sister.
She lived like this for ten years, from the age of four to fourteen.
And the reason why she later entered Yuxu Mountain was just a coincidence.
One day, when the Emperor of Wei was entertaining a cultivator from the Qingyun Sect, the cultivator accidentally discovered the sword intent in her and was immediately shocked.
Then he would take her to Qingyun Sect.
The then Emperor of Wei was naturally happy to see this happen.
Shangguan Yunmeng had no objection to this.
Because from childhood to adulthood, except for occasionally leaving her own courtyard during the holidays, she spent most of her time staying in that small courtyard, and it was the same wherever she went.
So she set off for Qingyun Sect with the Qingyun Sect cultivator in a daze.
But the two of them had an accident on the way.
They were passing by a small mountain village near Yuxu Mountain.
It was discovered that there was an orange cat pretending to be a tiger, forcing and bribing the people in the village at the foot of the mountain to offer it a cow and ten ducks every month.
If they can't do that, the orange cat will eat them.
But ordinary people could not see the orange cat's transformation technique, and naturally they could not guess that the orange cat was actually deceiving them.
In this way, the big orange cat deceived the two villagers at the foot of the mountain by disguising itself as a tiger.
This kid really spent two years happily living a life of eating well and sleeping well.
But all this came to an end with the appearance of Shangguan Yunmeng and Yi Hanqing.
That’s right, the person who wanted to escort Shangguan Yunmeng to Qingyun Sect was Yi Hanqing.
Yi Hanqing initially thought that this small transformed mountain king, relying on his seventh-level cultivation in the Foundation Establishment Stage and the third-grade Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Stage, had his own sword intent.
It should be easy to subdue the rebellious demon tiger.
So he took Shangguan Yunmeng and went directly to the mountain to find the mountain monster, ready to eliminate the harm to the people.
After finally finding it, Yi Hanqing realized that he was wrong.
He thought that the evil tiger was actually an intelligent orange cat who had followed the right path.
This orange cat not only has a pure aura, but has also cultivated his own 'Tiger-style Meow Fist' into a fist technique.
In addition, the other party's cultivation is only at the fifth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
However, the physique of the spirit beast was far superior to that of cultivators of the same level, so Yi Hanqing was unable to defeat it in a short period of time.
And because he was worried that Shangguan Yunmeng would be affected by his fight with the orange cat.
Yi Hanqing immediately asked Shangguan Yunmeng to return to the small village at the foot of the mountain first, and he would go to find her after he finished the battle here.
But what Yi Hanqing didn't expect was that Shangguan Yunmeng had a poor sense of direction around her because she had lived in the palace for a long time.
Plus, she was a little confused to begin with, so she didn't know where she was going as she went down the mountain.
Just when Shangguan Yunmeng was at a loss, a Jindan-stage cultivator from Yuxu Mountain who passed by discovered her.
At this time, because Shangguan Yunmeng had just recently comprehended the sword intent, she was unable to conceal her own sword intent well.
So much so that the Jindan stage cultivator from Yuxu Mountain noticed this at once and exclaimed that he had found a treasure.
So in this confused state, Shangguan Yunmeng, who was supposed to go to Qingyun Sect, ended up going to Yuxu Mountain inexplicably.
The most important thing is that the Jindan stage cultivator from Yuxu Mountain was very cunning and deliberately did not tell her that the place they were going to was Yuxu Mountain.
To the extent that for a long time, Shangguan Yunmeng thought that he had actually come to Qingyun Sect and did not find it strange.
As for Yi Hanqing, after a day of hard fighting, he finally defeated the orange cat and subdued the opponent directly.
But considering that the other party had never committed any murder, Yi Hanqing finally decided to bring him and Shangguan Yunmeng back to the sect.
As for the villagers at the foot of the mountain who had been cheated by the little orange cat for two years, Yi Hanqing paid out of his own pocket to compensate for the losses caused by the little orange cat.
But after doing all this, Yi Hanqing was shocked to find that Shangguan Yunmeng did not return to this small mountain village.
So he took the little orange cat with him and started searching all over the mountains.
After searching for a full month, Yi Hanqing finally learned from a hunter that Shangguan Yunmeng seemed to have left with a monk from Yuxu Mountain who was dressed in white clothes.
At this point, Yi Hanqing had no idea that he had been intercepted by Yuxu Mountain.
He immediately took the little orange cat to Yuxu Mountain to seek an explanation.
The result is predictable. Yuxushan gave him a classic triple combo on the spot.
'I'm not, I didn't, I don't know...'
In response to this, Yi Hanqing was still unwilling to give up and wanted to go inside Yuxu Mountain to take a look, but he was easily defeated by the other party.
After all, he was a true disciple of Qingyun Sect, and if he rashly broke into Yuxu Mountain.
No matter what his purpose is, everyone else will think that this is the intention of Qingyun Sect.
Yi Hanqing didn't want his sect to be wrongly accused because of his momentary willfulness.
He had no choice but to give up and return to the sect.
Danyang Peak, in the cafeteria next to the kitchen.
After listening to the twists and turns, Lu Chen couldn't help but say, "So, you were supposed to be a disciple of our Qingyun Sect, but because you got lost and were met by a monk from Yuxu Mountain, you joined Yuxu Mountain without knowing why?"
Shangguan Yunmeng, who was happily eating a chicken drumstick, heard this and replied absentmindedly: "Well... OK, it seems so."
Yes, it’s quite interesting.
Lu Chen could imagine at this moment that when Senior Brother Yi discovered that Shangguan Yunmeng was missing, eight hundred possibilities must have emerged in his mind.
But he never expected that he would be intercepted by Yuxu Mountain.
Just when Lu Chen wanted to ask Shangguan Yunmeng something about Yuxu Mountain, two voices were heard outside the cafeteria in the kitchen.
"Old Jing, if you ask me, the best food in Qingyun Sect comes from the fire kitchen at Danyang Peak. Look at all the fish and meat here."
"It's nothing like the Qingyun Peak where I live. Not only do they eat bland soup every day, but they also call themselves immortals who don't care about worldly matters and should only eat morning dew and breeze."
"Bah! I'm a big tiger. Why should I eat morning dew if I don't eat meat? I've been starving to death for the past half month!"
"Haha, Wumiao, you should talk to my head brother about this. Why are you talking to me?"
"Tell my master? He is the one who forced me to live like this, starving me every day. I told him that my head was squeezed by the door!"
Hearing a familiar voice, Lu Chen immediately looked outside the door.
Soon, he saw his master, the Spirit Fire Taoist Jing Gong.
And a big orange cat half a person's height came in with a huge plate of food.
Although cultivators can practice fasting and feed on the spiritual power of heaven and earth after reaching the foundation-building stage.
But except for a small number of cultivators, most of the cultivators in the foundation-building stage still often eat some earthly delicacies.
"Hi, Xiao Lu, why are you here too?"
As soon as Jing Gong came in, he saw Lu Chen sitting next to Shangguan Yunmeng.
The orange cat demon next to him, Meow King, also noticed Shangguan Yunmeng next to Lu Chen.
It held the rice plate in both hands and tilted its head out.
"Aren't you the girl who was with Yi Hanqing back then? He and I spent a whole month looking for you, and now you're here."
"No, why are you wearing Yuxu Mountain's clothes? Did you join Yuxu Mountain after you disappeared?"
As King Meow spoke, he placed his large rice plate on the table of Lu Chen and Shangguan Yunmeng.
The half-human-tall orange cat stood directly on the long bench and looked at Shangguan Yunmeng curiously.
After hearing what it said, Shangguan Yunmeng's eyes were blank for a moment, and then he seemed to remember something and said in surprise: "It's you, big cat!"
Upon hearing this, King Meow slammed the table angrily.
"What big cat? I am a tiger, a big tiger with droopy eyes and white forehead!"
King Meowth was furious and got really angry.
Jing Gong, who was standing by, heard Shangguan Yunmeng actually say the taboo word of King Meow Meow, and he suppressed his laughter for a while, then said, "Okay, Meow Meow, the little girl can't tell the difference between a big cat and a tiger, and isn't a tiger also a kind of cat?"
Even though he said that, Shangguan Yunmeng seemed to have no idea about the ways of the world and continued to whisper, "But you look exactly like the big cats I saw in the palace."
Wu Miao Wang: (╬￣皿￣) Can we still have a good chat! I am a big cat or a big tiger, don’t I know it myself? Do you need to tell me? If Shangguan Yunmeng continued to talk like this, Wu Miao Wang might get angry on the spot.
Jing Gong hurriedly changed the subject and said, "Xiao Lu, weren't you in seclusion in the cave before? How come you have time to come to the kitchen to eat now, and with Yunmeng girl? Could it be that you two knew each other before?"
Lu Chen shook his head and answered truthfully: "Master, I met Daoist Yunmeng by chance in the back mountain. Since she didn't know where my stove room was, she asked me to help lead the way."
“I see.”
Jing Gong first looked at Lu Chen, who had a calm expression, and then looked at Shangguan Yunmeng, who was happily eating next to him.
Suddenly, an intriguing look appeared.
Lu Chen was very familiar with this look.
Isn't that the look his teachers Chen Fugui and Li Youquan would have when they saw him and Mu Xiaoye appear together? Thinking of this, Lu Chen hurriedly explained: "Master, please don't misunderstand. Fellow Daoist Yunmeng and I really met by chance."
But when Jing Gong heard this, his eyes, which were not big to begin with, narrowed into a line, and he said in the tone of an experienced person: "I understand, you don't need to explain. Your master... is an experienced person."
Have you been there?
Thinking of Jing Gong's pure Yang spiritual root physique, Lu Chen always felt that Jing Gong, as a person who had experienced it, and the people who had experienced it that he understood... might be different.
"Okay, okay, I just happened to meet you. Then you can represent our Danyang Peak to attend the banquet hosted by the main peak for fellow Taoists from Yuxu Mountain tomorrow."
"ah?"
Hearing Jing Gong's casual tone, as if he was conscripting a soldier, Lu Chen couldn't help but ask, "Master, I am just a cultivator in the Qi training stage, and you want me to represent all the brothers and sisters, isn't that bad?"
Before Jing Gong could answer, the Wu Miao Wang next to him said while eating a chicken leg: "What's wrong with it? This banquet is boring and most people don't want to go."
"Why?"
Lu Chen asked curiously.
King Wumiao bit the chicken leg and recalled similar scenes in the past. He said speechlessly: "Why else? Of course, it's because there are seniors from both sides. No one dared to speak nonsense. They all had stern faces, as if they were in prison."
Hearing this, Lu Chen immediately understood.
It seems that this so-called banquet is just like the social gatherings between the two companies in his previous life.
The only ones who can speak freely are the top executives of both companies.
The people below are responsible for gathering the crowd and supporting the scene.
There is nothing to do except eating.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen didn't want to go anymore.
"Master, why don't you just..."
"No need to. We have five guardians in Danyang Peak. Each of us must select two disciples to bring to the banquet tomorrow. You are the second disciple I have met. You are the one."
"So who's the first one?"
"Ji Chang, that guy just happened to come to see me today, so I'll include him in the list as well."
Hearing that Ji Chang was also forcibly dragged here by Jing Gong, Lu Chen instantly felt relieved.
"Actually, I feel like this banquet will be very lively and you guys won't be too bored. After all, I received the news in advance."
"oh?!"
Lu Chen and Jing Gong turned their heads to look at King Meow.
Even Shangguan Yunmeng, who was concentrating on eating, looked curious at this moment.
Wumiao looked at the group and said mysteriously, "Just wait and see tomorrow. Someone will give us a show."
"What show is it? Meow meow, just tell me directly, don't keep me in suspense."
In this regard, Wu Miao glanced at Shangguan Yunmeng who was sitting next to Lu Chen, and after hesitating for a moment, decided not to tell anyone about Yi Hanqing's plan to 'spray the heroes while drunk' tomorrow.
After all, it was worried that Shangguan Yunmeng would tell the true disciples of Yuxu Mountain directly after knowing it.
By then, Yi Hanqing’s words might not be able to work as well.
"Forget it, Old Jing. You'll know tomorrow anyway."
"I won't say more. The only thing I can say is that these two sects should be magnanimous in their communication. You will know tomorrow how magnanimous we, the true disciples, are."
Things have come to this point, Jing Gong naturally won't ask any more questions, because the truth will be known tomorrow anyway.
Several people sat around the table and ate for about half an hour, and even Lu Chen ate a little.
After eating and drinking, Lu Chen finally took on the task of escorting Shangguan Yunmeng back.
Because Wu Miao and Jing Gong, two bad chess players, were planning to play chess together and had no time to send Shangguan Yunmeng away.
And because he and Shangguan Yunmeng were both in the Qi training stage, the two of them could only walk to the main peak of Qingyun.
But just when the two of them reached halfway up the mountain, several monks wearing Yuxu Mountain costumes immediately fell from the sky.
"Junior Sister Yunmeng, why are you here? We have been looking for you for a long time!"
After Li Xueke landed, she ran directly to Shangguan Yunmeng's side. After making sure that she was okay, she turned to Lu Chen and said, "Thank you, fellow Taoist, for escorting Junior Sister Yunmeng back."
Lu Chen nodded and responded politely: "You are too kind, my friend. It's just a simple favor for me."
After a brief greeting, Lu Chen said goodbye to them.
After Lu Chen left, Li Xueke couldn't help but say to Shangguan Yunmeng, "Junior Sister Yunmeng, didn't we agree that after we leave the sect, you would follow me closely and not run around? You must be lost again, right?"
Facing Li Xueke's preaching, Shangguan Yunmeng responded seriously: "Senior sister, you misunderstood. I am not lost. I went to Danyang Peak on purpose to find something to eat."
The corners of Li Xueke's mouth twitched slightly.
No, you ran from Qingyun Peak to Danyang Peak, and you still say you are not lost?
You sword cultivators are just so stubborn and insist on forcing an explanation for this.
Perhaps to save Shangguan Yunmeng's face, Li Xueke did not end up arguing with her too much about this matter.
Instead, they talked about Lu Chen who had just left.
"Who was that fellow Taoist just now? Junior sister, you should not have told him about the situation of our senior brothers and sisters in Yuxu Mountain, right?"
Hearing this, Shangguan Yunmeng looked at Li Xueke with clear eyes and said seriously: "Don't worry, Senior Sister, don't look at me like this, in fact, I am very smart most of the time."
"I didn't go to Danyang Peak just for fun this time. I went there to gather intelligence."
"oh?"
Li Xueke looked at Shangguan Yunmeng with amusement, wanting to hear her witty ideas.
"Then tell me what you have discovered?"
Shangguan Yunmeng's delicate face was full of seriousness, and she said in a serious tone, "I have learned that they are going to get you drunk at the banquet tomorrow so that you won't be able to discuss the Dao properly."
The two sects should be magnanimous in their exchanges.
When Shangguan Yunmeng heard this "generosity", for some reason it became "drinking capacity".
Rounding it off, Shangguan Yunmeng naturally thought that the little trick that King Wumiao and his group of Qingyun disciples were going to do tomorrow was to get these Yuxu Mountain disciples drunk at the cocktail party.
After all, the banquet and the Five Peaks Discussion were only two days apart.
If he really gets drunk, it will indeed affect the discussion.
When Li Xueke and several of Yuxu Mountain's true disciples heard this, they really thought it was possible.
So they quickly started talking to each other and discussing tomorrow's countermeasures.
Seeing the reactions of Senior Sister Li and others, Shangguan Yunmeng immediately raised her chin proudly and secretly gave herself a thumbs up in her heart.
I, Shangguan Yunmeng, have made great contributions!
PS: There is one more update before 12 o’clock.
(End of this chapter)
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