The sound of a woman’s sharp voice ca from inside the carriage, "Things have already spiraled out of control!"
Zhang Ke reported, "Immortal Servant, I have news. It seems very likely that Wuyou Mountain and Taiyi are colluding. We just need to take action against Wuyou Mountain..."
The Immortal Servant shouted angrily, "Enough! Do you want to make it known to everyone and attract Da Yan’s hounds?"
"Wuyou Mountain and Wutong Mountain are both righteous sects. Da Yan won’t interfere in their conflict, but if we, the Taiping Sect, get involved and let Da Yan’s hounds catch wind of the spirit Gu, we’ll all die!"
"Look at Wuyou Mountain and Wutong Mountain. They both know Taiyi took the spirit Gu, but have they leaked this information?"
"They are even worse than two gravel-sized sects."
Seeing that his punishnt was going to be severe, Zhang Ke hurriedly said, "Immortal Servant, I will track down Taiyi and surely bring him back!"
The Immortal Servant sneered, "So are you planning to get Wang Li or Ling Jiu killed this ti?"
Zhang Ke bowed in silence, trembling all over.
The Immortal Servant continued, "The people of the Jiguang Sect are not ones you worthless people can handle."
"Ordinary cultivators can be wiped out with a flip of your hand, and you dare to underestimate the Jiguang Sect?"
She announced the final verdict, "Order of the Dao Seed: Wang Li and Ling Jiu, for failing to report knowledge, inadequate responses, and incompetence, are demoted to acting sect leaders."
Wang Li and Ling Jiu let out a sigh of relief, knowing their lives were spared and the punishnt was not too harsh.
The Immortal Servant continued, "Zhang Ke, you are ordered to proceed imdiately to Feiying Dock in the territory of the Nanli Ming King. Prepare for battle; the battlefield there needs more lives."
Zhang Ke’s once upright posture slowly bent, feeling utterly powerless, his eyes filled with despair.
The copper statues carried the Immortal Servant into the dock, while Wang Li and Ling Jiu quickly led people to follow, leaving only Zhang Ke kneeling on the ground, still not rising.
As Wang Li walked, he asked, "Immortal Servant, how are we supposed to deal with those two Jiguang miscreants?"
The Immortal Servant retorted angrily, "Don’t you understand? Even if Nie Fei were a Dao Seed, it wouldn’t make a difference!"
"Capturing soone like Nie Fei requires opportunity!"
"You don’t even understand what it ans to be a lone traveler, a Jiguang miscreant."
"If we can capture one Taiyi to present to the Dao Seed, it would be a great achievent!"
Ling Jiu said, "Please command us, Immortal Servant!"
The Immortal Servant said, "Go to Wo Hu City and arrange a southbound caravan, but ensure that no one realizes it’s your doing."
Ling Jiu asked, perplexed, "Why is that?"
The Immortal Servant coldly replied, "Just follow orders; there’s no need for so many whys!"
...
At dawn, Chen Qing only got up when the sunlight was too bright to ignore. This sleep was truly refreshing.
Long battles and pursuits had left him exhausted, but this sleep finally allowed him to recover.
Having consud too much spiritual dicine earlier, he wasn’t hungry at all. Chen Qing picked up his straw hat, thought it over, and decided to remove the black veil covering his face.
In such a crowd, being the only one with a black veil was too conspicuous and could easily draw attention.
Besides, the farthest he’d gone in Wuyou Mountain was the market at the foot of the mountain, and no one in Wo Hu City knew him.
Wearing a straw hat to cover the upper half of his face should be sufficient.
Donning the straw hat, Chen Qing left and headed toward Lantern Street, where there was a free market. He would first see if there was a thousand-year snake gall available.
If there was, he’d buy one to see how much progress it could bring, and then head to Wanbao Pavilion to make a purchase.
As he walked along, he suddenly realized he had recently picked up so of Red Lotus’s traits, always feeling uneasy with too many Spirit Stones on him.
It was ti to spend so, so he planned to elevate his Snake Gu to Butterfly Transformation to see what special changes it might bring.
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