Xie Jingshan took Li Jiuchuan to find Jiang Yuebai, and walked forward with his tail between his legs, not daring to say a word.
Seeing Jiang Yuebai and a dozen foundation-building cultivators sitting in a pavilion beside the lotus pond from afar, Xie Jingshan made a gesture to invite them in and ran away.
Li Jiuchuan smiled and shook his head, then looked towards the center of the crowd. Jiang Yuebai was sitting cross-legged in an improper manner, leaning forward with a frown on his face, arguing with others angrily, with an air of intelligence and agility, and also a bit of domineering.
He spoke eloquently and tapped his palms with his fingers, and he managed to make the person opposite him tongue-tied and unable to speak clearly.
After he finished his argument, he quickly asked a bunch of questions. Immediately, everyone around him put their chins on their hands and tilted their heads, frowning in thought, and the pavilion was completely silent.
Jiang Yuebai raised his eyebrows proudly, with a sly smile on the corners of his lips. He straightened his back, raised his chin, and pretended to pick up the teacup and drink tea.
Li Jiuchuan could read her thoughts from her face, probably thinking...
[You are far from being able to argue with me, hum~]
“Ahem!”
Li Jiuchuan coughed twice while standing in the distance, and the sound went directly into Jiang Yuebai's sea of consciousness.
Hearing the sound, Jiang Yuebai almost knocked over the teacup in his hand. He turned his head suddenly and looked over, his eyes widened.
Li Jiuchuan was about to signal her to come out when Jiang Yuebai jumped up and waved and shouted at him.
"Master, you came at the right time. We have many unanswered questions. Please help us answer them."
As he spoke, Jiang Yuebai frantically rummaged through his sleeves, dropping jade slips while grabbing two handfuls of them in his hands.
Everyone looked over there at once. Li Jiuchuan's breathing stagnated and his sleeves rolled up a gust of wind that blinded everyone.
By the time everyone came to their senses, Jiang Yuebai had disappeared from the pavilion, and Li Jiuchuan was nowhere to be seen either.
In the deserted yard, Jiang Yuebai almost fell down due to his unstable landing.
"You've really become very capable!"
Li Jiuchuan frowned and snorted coldly.
Jiang Yuebai glanced at Li Jiuchuan cautiously, his eyes rolling around, and he quickly recalled everything he had done in the past half month. It seemed that there was nothing bad going on... right...
Is that the one who poisoned her
No, she had asked before. When she was still in the secret realm, there were mad dogs who slandered her, but they were all dealt with by her master and Master Fuyi without any mercy.
Then True Lord Canghuo secretly recorded the humiliating looks of those people and gave away the Photo Jade to everyone she met. This caused no one to dare to say a word against her anymore.
Since the master can do this, it means he is not angry with her, right
Jiang Yuebai scratched his head, looked again, and narrowed his eyes.
"Master, are you trying to scare me on purpose? Recently, I have been practicing and discussing the Dao with others. I have been very honest."
Li Jiuchuan's power was broken, and the cold air on his body disappeared. He raised his hand and poked Jiang Yuebai's forehead with a finger.
"You're already a grown woman, but you're still acting like a little girl. Let me ask you, what are those rumors about?"
Li Jiuchuan briefly told Jiang Yuebai what he had seen and heard on the road. Jiang Yuebai gritted his teeth after listening.
"Xie Jingshan! He must have spread those nonsense. I really didn't mean to show off. It was just a normal discussion between brothers and sisters."
"What's the matter with Fang Yuxing forming the elixir on the spot?" Li Jiuchuan asked.
"He was about to form a pill. When Master Li was demonstrating how to transform a single spiritual root into the second kind of spiritual energy, he was shocked. He...formed a pill right on the spot and let Master Yu take him away."
Jiang Yuebai got angry when he mentioned this, "Then we have to ask Xie Jingshan. He saw He Wangchen dozing off, so he said he would give him a pill to refresh himself, but he ended up giving him a higher-level Spiritual Boosting Pill by mistake. He Wangchen was stuck at the stage from the early to middle stage of foundation building, and he broke through on the spot."
Li Jiuchuan laughed, "What about the Dao Yun adding to the body, changing bones and taking root?"
"This..." Jiang Yuebai scratched his face, "This is true. Several brothers and sisters who were trapped in the secret realm before had some vague understanding of the rules of the Great Dao because they saw the fragments of the rules. When we discussed with each other, they suddenly became enlightened and had the first understanding of the Great Dao."
"I see. However, the rumors outside are still a bit exaggerated."
Jiang Yuebai said angrily, "It must be Xie Jingshan who spread the rumor. He just has too much free time. Master, wait for me to come back and motivate him to compete for the Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivator Ranking. I want to see if he still has the time to make up stories!"
Li Jiuchuan raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is it possible that he is afraid that you will be worried about Lu Nanzhi's matter, so he is deliberately finding things to divert your attention?"
Jiang Yuebai was stunned, as if... that was true. She had been so busy recently that she hadn't thought about Lu Nanzhi at all.
In the past, she always thought that Xie Jingshan was stupid, but after this reunion, she slowly discovered that Xie Jingshan was actually a man of great ideas, but he just habitually pretended to be stupid, and sometimes even she was confused by him.
Perhaps, this is also related to the fact that he has lived in Kongfang City since he was a child. The Xie family is weak, and he is always despised and bullied by the self-righteous young masters of the Fang family.
"By the way, Master, how is Lu... Lu's business going?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
Li Jiuchuan simply said, "The matter is still very complicated. The Lu family's high-level disciples fled early on the day of the incident, leaving only some young Lu family disciples detained by the Fang family. Currently, the Lu family is staying in the Pingjiang domain and has sent people to negotiate with the Fang family and other noble families in an attempt to distance themselves from them."
"Our Tianyan Sect has ancestral teachings and cannot interfere. Guiyuan Sword Sect also does not want to get involved. Only Monk Wuchen, the incarnation of Jin Gangtai, has come forward to mediate. For the time being, the fighting has not started. However, the Pingjiang Region has become chaotic first. The weaker aristocratic sects are fleeing, which may give the evil ways some opportunities to take advantage of."
Just a few simple words made Jiang Yuebai feel a sense of tension as if a storm was about to come.
If they fight, the flames of war will only intensify. If they don't fight, it will be difficult to appease the public anger, and the Lu family cannot afford to compensate the losses of the various families.
"Are we going back to the sect then?"
Li Jiuchuan nodded, "The sect master has ordered all the disciples of Tianyan Sect to return to the sect as soon as possible and not to enter Pingjiang and Baishui regions to avoid being affected by the chaos. It just so happens that the Kong family has fulfilled the bet and has sent the Qingxie Feiqian. You can slowly refine it after returning to the sect."
Li Jiuchuan took out a wooden box and a piece of gold paper and handed them to Jiang Yuebai.
"Great! I thought they were going to default on their debt, but I didn't expect the Kong family to be so open. What's going on?"
Jiang Yuebai held the wooden box and picked up the gold paper.
"Righteous poetry is similar to talismans..." Li Jiuchuan briefly explained to Jiang Yuebai, and then said, "It has been seven or eight years since you left this trip. You have changed a lot and have become quite famous. When you return, you will surely impress the whole sect."
"Also, you should make up for the tasks you have owed to the sect in recent years. The Grand Elder has also found several exercises corresponding to spiritual objects of different attributes for you, waiting for you to return and comprehend and study. In addition..."
"You are now able to preach. When you return to the sect, you can report to the Dharma Hall. It will be a different experience for you to be able to tell others what you have learned. It is time for you, the founding disciple, to take over my position in the Dharma Hall."
"Ah? Can I not go?"
Li Jiuchuan looked at Jiang Yuebai with a bitter face, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but rise.
Justice is the law of nature, and retribution is inevitable. It’s time to let this girl experience the difficulty of teaching and educating people!
(End of this chapter)