Chapter 7 The Ominous Son
A young man holding a folding fan, wearing gorgeous clothes and with various jade pendants on his waist stood beside Li Yanmo at some point. It was too late to complain in the direction of Qingshan Sect, but his eyes fell on Li Yanmo.
The other party seemed to be an important official of the Dayu Dynasty.
Li Yanmo hesitated for a moment and was about to speak, but the young man clasped his fists first and said, "My fellow Taoist, are you the legendary Red Dust cultivator?"
The combination of fancy attire and frivolous tone makes the words sound sarcastic no matter how polite they are.
"There is no such thing as a mortal monk. He is just trying to make a living."
Seeing Li Yanmo's uncomfortable expression, the young man blinked, looked down at his clothes, and then looked at the expressions of other Luoyang Town residents. Suddenly he realized something and patted his forehead in annoyance. "Brother, you misunderstood me. I have always had this tone since I was a child. I definitely didn't mean to laugh at you. My father...always told me that a cultivator who works for the people is a good cultivator."
As he spoke, the young man put away his folding fan and reached out to help Li Yanmo take a bundle of wood.
The bundle of wood, still covered in dirt, lay directly on top of the luxurious clothes.
"My last name is Nv Chen Fa."
"pseudonym?"
“Now it’s real.”
Li Yanmo re-examined the young man in front of him who called himself Nuchenfa, with a strange look on his face, but seeing Nuchenfa's leisurely look, he did not ask any more questions, "My name is Li Yanmo, and I am not a commoner. I will collect every penny of the money I owe you."
"Brother Li, what are you talking about? As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. If you put in the effort, you should get the due reward. This is the heavenly principle. If anyone uses your cultivation level to make a fuss, it is against the heavenly principle and should be punished."
The female minister shook her head and waved to other residents of Luoyang Town from time to time.
Seeing that the female minister not only had no intention of leaving, but also greeted people everywhere like a social terrorist, Li Yanmo lost his temper and quickly led the female minister to the location to deliver the wood.
The boss, who used to smile happily when he saw the timber, this time was rubbing his hands, shivering, and wiping the sweat from his forehead from time to time. When the female servant asked to know the previous quotation, the boss's knees went weak and he almost fell to the ground.
But the boss was conscientious and did not play any tricks on the quotation, so the female minister did not say much.
Li Yanmo noticed that the boss had been looking at the jade pendant around the waist of the female minister.
However, there were so many jade pendants around the female minister's waist that Li Yanmo didn't know which one the boss was looking at.
Li Yanmo originally thought that his fate with Nuchenfa had ended here, but he didn't expect that Nuchenfa would follow him as a matter of course.
"Brother, do you have anything else to say?"
"Oh, I missed the Qingshan Sect's selection. If my family knew about this, they would definitely give me a beating. I'm just going to delay it as long as possible."
The female minister tapped her forehead in distress, but Li Yanmo always felt that the female minister had been careless about some details.
"Okay—"
Li Yanmo simply squatted down on the side of the road, picked up a piece of grass and put it in his mouth, looking in the direction of Qingshan Sect.
The female minister tilted her head, chuckled, bent down and pulled her trouser legs to her knees, tied her robe around her waist, and squatted down like Li Yanmo, "Brother Li, have you ever thought about participating in the Qingshan Sect's selection?"
"I'm over the age limit," Li Yanmo yawned, "but you, my girl, this is the first time I've heard that being late can mean being late for seven days."
Seeing that her lie was exposed, the female minister laughed out loud.
"Hahaha - to be honest with you, Brother Li, I did it on purpose."
"This Qingshan Sect is indeed somewhat famous in Ganzhou, but that's all. Their great ancestor was stuck at the peak of the Spiritual Transformation Stage and entered into a state of seclusion two hundred years ago. Most of the remaining elders are in the Nascent Soul stage, and only the great elder is in the Spiritual Transformation stage."
"Everyone is worried and anxious."
Li Yanmo raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Is Qingshan Sect really that bad?"
The female minister smiled mysteriously and raised her hand to point at the strange phenomenon in the sky. "Look at that strange phenomenon. Do you feel that Qingshan Sect is full of immortal fate?"
"It looks like that."
"Those are all fake," the female minister shook her head, took out a jade pendant from her bosom and threw it on the ground.
The jade pendant shattered, and various miniature visions emerged from it, which were almost exactly the same as the visions in Qingshan Sect.
"Qingshan Sect purchases phenomena that last for seven days from Dayu Dynasty every year to create an atmosphere. A hundred years ago, Qingshan Sect was able to customize phenomena from Dayu Dynasty, but in the past hundred years, it can only purchase phenomena on the assembly line."
The unexpected truth left Li Yanmo speechless for a moment, but the female minister happened to add a sentence at this time.
"Many people have noticed this, so the people who came to Qingshan Sect this time are all ordinary people without a cultivator background."
“It’s really true.”
That was all Li Yanmo could do to complain.
"The millions of sects in the Dayu Dynasty are no joke," the female minister shook her head again.
It happened that a spaceship with the Chinese characters for "苗" (marginal letters) passed by. On the spaceship, several young heroes were proudly raising their chins. Among them, a girl was the most conspicuous, like the moon held up by the stars.
The female minister pointed and said, "That is the Miao family in Churi City. The head of the family is a friend of the Fifth Elder, so every year they provide excellent seeds to the Qingshan Sect, but their relationship seems to have ended here."
As if she sensed something, the girl, who was the center of attention, looked down and happened to meet Li Yanmo's gaze. The girl snorted lightly, her eyes full of contempt.
"Miao Qianqian, she has good talent, but it's a pity that she was born in Ganzhou. If she performs well, she may have a chance to leave Ganzhou," the female minister noticed the girl's gaze and commented lightly.
"So why did you come to me?"
Li Yanmo moved to the side.
Li Yanmo was very grateful to the female minister for sharing this information with him, but this also made Li Yanmo more suspicious of the female minister's ulterior motives.
"Actually, I'm here to look for someone."
The female minister raised her finger and spoke softly.
"There was a woman who was born into a famous family, but because of some strange problems, she was despised by her clan members and even regarded as a taboo and an ominous sign."
The familiar words made Li Yanmo's eyes jump, and he thought of Jian Xin who sometimes had a numb look in his eyes when sitting on a wooden stake.
"That day, she sneaked out of the house while her tribe members were not paying attention and hid her whereabouts. No matter how hard her tribe members tried, they were unable to find her."
"But as the saying goes, there are unexpected winds... No, there is no wall that is impenetrable," the female minister turned her finger and tapped her ear, "Didn't I just hear some rumors and find an excuse to come here?"
"I heard that Brother Li has a very close relationship with that person."
"I wonder if Brother Li can do me a small favor."
"I'm sorry, I don't know anything."
"This girl's surname is Jiang, and her name is Lily."
“…”
Lily Jiang put down the cigarette pipe and slowly raised her eyes, “Is this the reason why you betrayed me?”
Li Yanmo, who was standing next to the female minister, rolled his eyes and said, "Big sister, next time you flee for fear of crime, can you please not use your real name? The whole Luoyang Town knows you as a doctor who picks his toes. I spent a lot of time making up a fake address, but it's still like an idiot!"
“You can’t attribute it to external factors.”
Lily Jiang waved her hand slowly, her leisurely attitude did not seem like that of a prisoner who was absconding from the crime. The female minister still had a smiling expression on her face, and didn't look like she was there to arrest someone.
Li Yanmo couldn't help but become curious.
"So, what is the weirdness?"
Lily Jiang didn't speak, but the female minister said with a smile.
"Brother Li, don't you already know the answer?"
(End of this chapter)
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