The sect master knew a lot about this female cultivator, who didnât listen to anything outside the window. Therefore, she didnât dwell on the fact that she did not know Lu Yanzhou and directly stated the reason for their visit â she came on behalf of Lu Yanzhou to ask for his stuff back.
After hearing that Lu Yanzhouâs father gave Liu Ruoxian a lot of things and asked Liu Ruoxian to become Lu Yanzhouâs dao companion but then Liu Ruoxian turn her back on it, this female cultivator was quite disturbed and stammered that she could help Liu Ruoxian pay off the debt.
However, after the sect master said that Liu Ruoxian had in turn framed the original ownerâs father, this female cultivator had no face to face Lu Yanzhou and asked the sect master: âSenior sister, what should we do now?â
The sect master knew her well enough to understand her, so she directly said: âCall Liu Ruoxian back, as well as the registered disciples and servants under you, then ask Liu Ruoxian to return all the things to Lu Yanzhou. In addition, give an estimated price in spirit stones to things that were used, and then apologize to Lu Yanzhou. As for the restâ¦This kind of disciple shouldnât stay, expel her.â
The sect master asked the female cultivator to call all the disciples and servants to help clarify for Lu Yanzhou. As for asking this female cultivator to expel Liu Ruoxian under her tutelageâ¦
After listening to Lu Yanzhou, the sect master immediately sent someone to find out about the situation in the sect. She had already received the information.
There are actually many people spreading rumors that Lu Yanzhouâs father forced Liu Ruoxian to be Lu Yanzhouâs plundering target!
It was Wei Yuzheng who first said this, but for Wei Yuzheng to say this, Liu Ruoxian must have said something first, not to mention that Liu Ruoxian did not clarify it.
Liu Ruoxian regretted being the original ownerâs dao companion, which was nothing in the sect masterâs eyes. Even if they already become dao companions, they can separate if they arenât suitable, not to mention that they arenât dao companions yet.
However, Liu Ruoxian slandered Lu Yanzhouâs father, a recently deceased golden core cultivator, which is just too much!
Especially since this golden core cultivator actually gave Liu Ruoxian a lot of help.
Qingyun Sect does not need inner disciples like Liu Ruoxian!
Hearing the sect masterâs words, Lu Yanzhou glanced at her in surprise â he did not expect that the sect master would directly ask the female cultivator to expel Liu Ruoxian.
In Qingyun Sect, every golden core cultivator has a mountain peak and they will have to accept some disciples. The disciples accepted by the golden core cultivators are all inner disciples of Qingyun Sect, which would be cultivated by Qingyun Sect with priority.
Even if the masters of these disciples didnât teach the disciples or provide the disciples with resources, the inner disciples will still receive some spiritual stones and pills from the sect every month. They can also freely enter and exit the sectâs library.
Even in the location which they cultivate, the qi is extremely abundant.
Once Liu Ruoxian is expelled, all of this will be gone!
âOkay.â The female cultivator immediately agreed, then sent out several messages. After a while, she took out a few bottles of spirit pills and gave it to Lu Yanzhou: âXiao Lu, these are the spirit pills I refined to replenish qi. Well, Iâm giving it to you as a meeting gift.â
After saying that, the female cultivator looked at Lu Yanzhou sheepishly.
This female cultivator doesnât like to talk with others and doesnât care about the world outside. She didnât even know Lu Yanzhou existed. However, Lu Yanzhou knew about her.
Liu Ruoxianâs master specializes in refining spirit pills, and the spirit pills she refines are all good quality!
Even if he couldnât use it, he could still sell it for spirit stones!
âThank you, zhenren.â Lu Yanzhou thanked her and accepted it.
The female cultivator breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this.
Lu Yanzhou: ââ¦â You are a golden core cultivator, you really donât need to be so anxious!
Most cultivators focus on themselves and are not good with words, and this female cultivator is especially so.
She was silent after that. However, the sect master still said a few more words with Lu Yanzhou, asking about Xie Chengzeâs situation.
Lu Yanzhou could tell that the sect master really cared about Xie Chengze.
In this caseâ¦Lu Yanzhou said: âSect master, I cooked for ancestor before, and he liked it very muchâ¦Can you give me some of the chickens and ducks raised in the sect, I want to raise them in the valley.â
The sect master was stunned: âYou can cook?â
âItâs not difficult.â Said Lu Yanzhou.
The female cultivator also said at this moment: âCooking is not difficult, itâs much easier than refining alchemy!â
Alright! The sect master said, âIâll have someone prepare it right now. How many do you want?â
Nascent soul cultivators normally donât need to eat, but they can eat if they want.
Xie Chengze endured pain everyday. Since he wanted to eat something, they naturally wanted to fulfill it.
Whatâs more, the spirit chickens and ducks raised in the sect were for cultivators in the Qi refining stage, so itâs not worth much.
âLetâs have twenty of each. We can also find some fish to keep in the pools in the valley. If there are other livestock, we can also have them,â the more Lu Yanzhou talks, the more he wanted, âThereâs also spirit rice and vegetables seeds, I want some of those as well.â
The sect master was stunned: âYou want so many? Do you know how to raise them?â The sect master went to the valley several times a year, itâs a place with beautiful scenery.
But if there were twenty chickens, twenty ducks, and some other livestockâ¦
At that time, the valley was filled with chirping and quacking. The scene is so beautiful that the sect master dare not think about it.
âI can learn. Sect master, I canât cultivate now. Since I have nothing to do, I just want to find something to do.â Said Lu Yanzhou.
When the sect master heard what Lu Yanzhou said, her heart softened: âI will ask someone to prepare it for you.â
Having said that, the sect master also found an opportunity to send a message to Xie Chengze, asking Xie Chengze if it was okay to raise chickens and ducks in the valley.
Xie Chengze, who was waiting for his next meal but Lu Yanzhou ran away: ââ¦â
Xie Chengze, who was initially entangled, didnât pay attention to Lu Yanzhouâs whereabouts. Then when he started to pay attention, Lu Yanzhou had already left the valley.
He was about to use his divine sense to find Lu Yanzhou when a message from the sect master came.
So, it turned out that Lu Yanzhou was looking for ingredients for him? Xie Chengzeâs mood improved and he looked forward to the next meal more and more.
His divine sense was also released, looking for Lu Yanzhou in Qingyun Sect.
Before Xie Chengzeâs divine sense could find Lu Yanzhou, he first âheardâ Lu Yanzhouâs name.
The person speaking was a group of female cultivators, led by Liu Ruoxian, who almost became Lu Yanzhouâs dao companion.
Xie Chengze didnât realize that he loved Lu Yanzhou before, so he only felt a little uncomfortable after learning that Lu Yanzhou is going to have a dao companion. After that, his divine sense usually went around Liu Ruoxian.
However, at this moment, he stopped.
Liu Ruoxian and her party were rushing to find her master.
Although Liu Ruoxianâs master didnât like to meet people or accept disciples, she was very talented. She was only over two hundred years old when she became a golden core cultivator.
She is now more than four hundred years old. She has accepted five disciples one after another over the past two hundred years. There are also some outer disciples who help manage and clean the mountain where she lives. There are hundreds of people under her tutelage in total.
Liu Ruoxian was the middle one among the five disciples. After getting the news, she hurried over and happened to meet her two junior sisters and some outer disciples, so they went together.
The three martial sisters chatted for a while, and then the lively little junior sister asked: âThird senior sister, I heard that Lu Yanzhou went to stay in the back mountain where the old ancestor lives. Is this true?â
Liu Ruoxianâs expression stiffened: âItâs true.â
The junior sister was a little unhappy: âSenior sister, Lu Yanzhou is so bad, why does sect master even allow him to live in the back mountain!â
Liu Ruoxian was a little embarrassed when she heard this.
She knew why her junior sister thought Lu Yanzhou was bad. It was simply because she believed the rumors outside and thought Lu Yanzhou wanted to plunder her qi.
But thatâs not the truth.
When she was with Wei Yuzheng, she also felt guilty towards Lu Yanzhou, but before she could apologize to Lu Yanzhou, Lu Yanzhou went to trouble Wei Yuzheng.
Then Wei Yuzheng framed Lu Yanzhou and beat him up.
Wei Yuzheng was better than Lu Yanzhou, which made her feel that her choice was not wrong. However, when Wei Yuzheng framed Lu Yanzhou, it made her more and more uneasy.
But Wei Yuzheng comforted her, saying that if she didnât say anything, no one would know that she reneged on her promiseâ¦So, she did not clarify.
Sure enough, no one said anything bad about her because after that Lu Yanzhou went to trouble Wei Yuzheng repeatedly, but he was always defeated by Wei Yuzhengâ¦Everyone also felt that Lu Yanzhou was indeed unworthy of her.
She stopped trying to clarify.
Gradually, she also began to feel that Lu Yanzhouâs father was trying to trick her by asking her to be Lu Yanzhouâs dao companion. After all, Lu Yanzhou was so weak.
However, even though she thought so, she was still reluctant to speak ill of Lu Yanzhou, especially after Lu Yanzhou became a useless person.
Liu Ruoxian and Wei Yuzheng were close, so she vaguely knew that Wei Yuzheng planned to attack Lu Yanzhou in the secret realm.
Lu Yanzhou said that Wei Yuzheng dug up his spirit root, this may not happen. However, for Lu Yanzhou to fall into the illusion, Wei Yuzheng may have done something.
Liu Ruoxian said vaguely: âSect master of course has her own plan.â
âPlease donât be deceived by Lu Yanzhou, ancestor! That Lu Yanzhou is obviously worthless and can only use his face to deceive others.â The younger junior sister grunted in anger.
This little junior sister is in the qi refining stage and is a few years younger than Lu Yanzhou. She used to admire Lu Yanzhou as her senior brother, but then Lu Yanzhouâs cultivation stagnated. After losing his father, he was also suppressed and beaten by Wei Yuzheng. Her little admiration of Lu Yanhou disappeared without a trace, and instead, she was filled with more anger of being decieved.
Liu Ruoxian only hummed and didnât speak. Another martial sister suddenly spoke up: âLittle junior sister, senior brother Lu is not as bad as what people say outside.â
âFourth senior sister, itâs already like this and you still speak for Lu Yanzhou!â The youngest junior sister is very dissatisfied.
The fourth senior sister was usually quiet, so when she saw the younger junior sister acting like this, she lowered her head and stopped talking.
The younger junior sister turned to Liu Ruoxian: âThird senior sister, itâs a good thing you didnât become dao companion with Lu Yanzhou, otherwise he would definitely drag you down with this kind of behavior!â
The servants also spoke one after another, all feeling the same way.
When Liu Ruoxian heard what they said, she slowly relaxed and no longer felt that she was wrong.
While they were talking, everyone had already reached the top of the mountain.
Lu Yanzhou and the sect master were already waiting at the top of the mountain. The female cultivatorâs first two disciples had also arrived, waiting for Liu Ruoxian and the others.
Liu Ruoxian and others were shocked when they saw Lu Yanzhou.
Lu Yanzhou glanced at Liu Ruoxian, then stopped looking â he felt Xie Chengzeâs divine sense.
Xie Chengze is looking at him!
Lu Yanzhou stood up straight with a stoic expression, intending to behave well, intending to draw a clear line between him and Liu Ruoxian.
Liu Ruoxian and others bowed nervously, then heard the sect master ask: âAre everyone here?â
Liu Ruoxianâs senior sister said: âreplying to sect master, masterâs disciples and everyone in the peak has already arrived.â
âAlright,â the sect master nodded, then looked at Liu Ruoxian, âLiu Ruoxian, do you know your crime?â
When the sect master asked the question, she released the pressure of a golden core cultivator towards Liu Ruoxian. Liu Ruoxian couldnât bear it and directly knelt down on the ground.
Before Liu Ruoxian could speak, her junior sister asked anxiously: âSect master, what mistake did third senior sister make?â
The sect master glanced at the little junior sister lightly, then looked at Liu Ruoxian: âLiu Ruoxian, you, a foundation establishment cultivator, wantonly slandered a golden core cultivator. Today Iâll make a decision on behalf of your master and expel you.â
The little junior sister exclaimed: âSect master!â
Liu Ruoxian also looked at her master in shock: âMaster!â
Liu Ruoxianâs master didnât say anything. The sect master released another wave of pressure and pushed Liu Ruoxian and her little junior sister down together: âLiu Ruoxian, you accepted Lu Zhenrenâs gift and agreed to become Lu Yanzhouâs dao companion. When Lu Zhenren passed away, you renegade and immediately framed Lu Zhenrenâ¦Do you know your crime now?â
Liu Ruoxianâs face turned pale, her body trembled.
On the other hand, her junior sister was still very brave: âSect master, Lu Zhenren asked my third senior sister to be Lu Yanzhouâs plundering target, but my third senior sister was unwilling to do so!â
âRidiculous. Lu Yanzhou, a foundation establishment cultivator, is only thirty years old, why would he plunder others?â The sect master became even more angry when she heard this.
âLu Yanzhouâs talent is not goodâ¦â
âLu Yanzhou has a single ice spirit root. He is only one step away from the heavenly spirit root. If his talent is not good, what about you?â The sect master looked at the little junior sister: âRemember that you are a dual spirit root, not to mention that Lu Yanzhou had long since built his foundation at your age.â
The junior sister, who was only in the middle stage of qi refining, turned pale.
The leader added: âThe sect has always focused on cultivating Lu Yanzhou. With his aptitude, as long as he does not perish, he will at least become a golden core cultivator. Why should he take the method of plundering others? If he were to really plunder anyone, he would not find fellow disciples.â Speaking of this, the sect master also felt a little uncomfortable. If she had known that Lu Yanzhou would lose his spirit root in the secret realm, she would definitely not let Lu Yanzhou go to that secret realm.
The little junior sister was stunned.
Liu Ruoxian, however, was already in tears: âSect master, I am guilty.â
The junior sister looked at Liu Ruoxian in disbelief.
The sect master said: âSince you know your guilt, you should take out the gift that Lu Zhenren gave you and return it to Lu Yanzhou.â
Liu Ruoxianâs lips trembled.
Before Liu Ruoxian could say anything, Lu Yanzhou said: âI have the list here.â
Lu Yanzhou took the list and came to Liu Ruoxian: âLiu Ruoxian, this is something my father gave you. Please return it.â
Lu Yanzhou unfolded the two lists generously.
The junior sisters around Liu Ruoxian all saw the contents on the list. The outer disciples behind Liu Ruoxian were all cultivators, so they also saw it very clearly.
After the sect master told them about Lu Yanzhouâs situation, they already felt that the matter of his plundering wasnât real. Now that Lu Yanzhou came out with these two listsâ¦
Everyoneâs expression changes when they look at Liu Ruoxian.
The items on this list are not too valuable for Lu Yanzhou, who has a golden core father who has lived for more than five hundred years and has tried his best to train him, but for the rest of Qingyun Sectâ¦
Anyway, even Liu Ruoxianâs senior sister in the late stage of foundation establishment couldnât help but feel excited when she saw so many good things.
Liu Ruoxian started crying again as everyone stared at her like this.
She is very beautiful. There are so many female cultivators present but she is the most outstanding one. Now that she was crying, she looked even more lovely and pitiful.
However, Lu Yanzhou was unmoved: âLiu Ruoxian, return the things.â
Being stared at by a group of people, Liu Ruoxian had no choice but to open the storage bag and take out the magic weapons and other things.
She has already used many of the things Lu Yanzhouâs father gave her. Therefore, she can only compensate them in equal value. However, her own savings are not enough to compensate for it.
Liu Ruoxian could only borrow from the martial sisters around her.
Although Liu Ruoxian has been expelled, everyone still has some affection for her. Except for the little junior sister who hates Liu Ruoxian now and refuses to borrow spirit stones on the excuse that she has no savings, the other three more or less took out some. She finally came up with enough to compensate Lu Yanzhou.
After Lu Yanzhou took the things, the sect master added: âLiu Ruoxian, apologize to Lu Yanzhou, and you will have nothing to do with each other from now on.â
Liu Ruoxian apologized with tears in her eyes.
After Liu Ruoxian apologized, the sect master took Lu Yanzhou away.
Itâs getting dark, itâs time to go back.
As soon as Lu Yanzhou and the sect master left, Liu Ruoxianâs master also immediately left, leaving only Liu Ruoxian and her martial sisters, and a hundred or so outer disciples.
âI have something to do, so Iâll leave first.â The little junior sister turned around and left. She felt that she had been deceived by Lu Yanzhou before, so she didnât like Lu Yanzhou, so now she naturally doesnât like Liu Ruoxian either.
Seeing this, the others also left one after another. Only the eldest senior sister stayed and said to Liu Ruoxian: âJunior sister Liu, go pack your things and leave now.â
She used to call Liu Ruoxian âthird junior sisterâ, but now she only called her âjunior sister Liuâ.
Liu Ruoxian almost couldnât walk and felt extremely regretful.
If she helped clarify Wei Yuzhengâs nonsense, she wouldnât be expelled from the divisionâ¦
Liu Ruoxian was frightened and didnât know what to do. After thinking about it, she decided to go find Wei Yuzheng.
She didnât know that at this time, Wei Yuzhengâs master was admonishing Wei Yuzheng: âThat Liu Ruoxian betrayed the trust, broke the promise as soon as Old Lu died, and even framed Old Lu. Since you and her dao companion ceremony hasnât been held yet, why donât you simply donât do it, and stay away from her in the future.â
When Wei Yuzheng and Liu Ruoxian were together, he was just an outer disciple, but after he defeated Lu Yanzhou, he became famous and was accepted by a golden core cultivator in Qingyun Sect.
Wei Yuzhengâs talent is actually not very good. He has dual spirit root but his cultivation speed wasnât that slow, so his master still values ââhim quite a bit.
When the sect master came forward on behalf of Lu Yanzhou, she informed the other golden core cultivators about what Liu Ruoxian had done, so Wei Yuzhengâs master also found out about it. After knowing it, he went directly to Wei Yuzheng and warned him, lest Wei Yuzheng be deceived by Liu Ruoxian.
Little did he know that Wei Yuzheng complied obediently on the surface, but was extremely angry in his heart.
He had never taken Lu Yanzhou seriously, so he never expected to be put on the spot by Lu Yanzhou.
Now that Liu Ruoxianâs reputation was bad, he was also implicated. However, he couldnât ignore Liu Ruoxian, otherwise who knew what Liu Ruoxian would do when she went crazy?
His current strength is too low, no accidents must occurâ¦As for the futureâ¦give him some time to regain his strength. Not to mention Lu Yanzhou, even the ancestor of the Qingyun Sect, is only worth replenishing his body.
Thinking of this, Wei Yuzheng felt that his luck was not good. He didnât choose a great body when taking over.
If he had taken Lu Yanzhouâs body, why would he be in such trouble now?
At this time, he may have already begun to make his breakthrough to the golden core stage!
Wei Yuzheng was right, Liu Ruoxianâs reputation was ruined.
The original ownerâs fatherâs vision is very high. Liu Ruoxian was not the most accomplished among the female cultivators of Qingyun Sect and Lu Yanzhouâs contemporaries, but she was the most beautiful among these female cultivators. Many people originally helped her crusade against Lu Yanzhou.
Now thinking back on itâ¦
Although Lu Yanzhou lost to Wei Yuzheng, he was also a genius before. Such a genius does not need to plunder others!
Even if Lu Yanzhouâs cultivation level has not improved for a long time, he is still only thirty years old. When Liu Ruoxian and Wei Yuzheng were thirty years old, they were still in the qi refining stage!
âLu Yanzhou lost to Wei Yuzheng because of his lack of experience. As you all know, he had never left Qingyun Sect before that.â
âLu Yanzhou is not the only one Wei Yuzheng defeated. Werenât there several other famous senior brothers who lost to Wei Yuzheng?â
âItâs not that Lu Yanzhou is weak, itâs just that Wei Yuzheng is too strong.â
âTherefore, there is no need for Lu Yanzhou to plunder anyone.â
âLiu Ruoxian went too far in framing Master Lu like this.â
âI heard that she also took a lot of things from Master Lu.â
âNot to mention taking things from Lu Zhenren, do you guys still remember? In the past, Liu Ruoxian often asked Lu Zhenren for advice on cultivation from time to time.â
âLiu Ruoxian really repays kindness with enmity.â
âNo wonder she was expelled from the division.â
â¦
Lu Yanzhou no longer has his spirit root. The crowd was still watching his fall from grace some time ago, so itâs impossible for the sect master to oppress Liu Ruoxian for his sake.
In that case, Liu Ruoxian was indeed at fault!
With that said, everyone sympathized with Lu Yanzhou more and more. After all, Lu Yanzhou had lost his spirit root and could no longer cultivate.
Although he went to the place where the ancestor lived behind the mountain, he probably worked as a handyman, doing odd jobs for the ancestor and taking care of his old age there.
Heâs so miserable!
Lu Yanzhou didnât know what was happening outside. At this moment, he drove a group of chickens and ducks into Xie Chengzeâs valley.
The quiet valley under the setting sun suddenly became lively.
Xie Chengze withdrew his divine senses and was in deep thought again.
When he realized that Lu Yanzhou went out and didnât go to find food for him, he was a little unhappy. However, later when he learned that Lu Yanzhou had been bullied, he couldnât help but feel sad.
He was also a little depressed â Lu Yanzhou was wronged, and he went to see the sect master instead of him.
Besides, Lu Yanzhou has cultivated demon skill but is still running around, is he not afraid of being discovered?
Well, although Lu Yanzhou cultivated it, he didnât use it on others, so others wouldnât find out.
As for Lu Yanzhouâs previous behaviorâ¦it was him who Lu Yanzhou wanted to take advantage of!
Xie Chengze didnât even know what to say about Lu Yanzhou, heâs too ambitious?
But, despite all this, he actually liked Lu Yanzhou quite a bit.
While he was deep in thought, Xie Chengze suddenly smelled a strong fragrance.
âMaster ancestor, I made roast duck for you, do you want to try it?â Lu Yanzhou came over with a roast duck and asked Xie Chengze with a smile.
Earlier, Xie Chengze had said something about cooking with an alchemy furnaceâ¦He tried it today!
Among the things his father gave Liu Ruoxian was an alchemy furnace. Considering that Liu Ruoxian had a water spirit root, the alchemy furnace was also engraved with a fire element formation!
Lu Yanzhou used this alchemy furnace to roast duck and found it very useful! It was just that the firepower provided by that formation was a bit fierce so his divine sense was required to control it.
He had just used his divine sense to control the roast duck in the alchemy furnace while also cooking two vegetable dishes, so now he brought them over together.
Although it was a bit late, Xie Chengze didnât sleep at night!
With this in mind, Lu Yanzhou even sliced ââroast duck for Xie Chengze on the spot.
Unfortunately, time was tight so he didnât prepare any dipping sauceâ¦But even so, the roast duck still tasted very good.
Xie Chengze ate half of it in one setting.
âMaster ancestor, I want to plant something in the valley, is that okay? And in the pond, can I raise fish?â Lu Yanzhou asked Xie Chengze.
âDo whatever you want.â Xie Chengze agreed.
Lu Yanzhou has changed a lot today. Maybe his thoughts clear up so he no longer plans to practice demon skills, but is ready to live a good life in this valley.
If soâ¦Xie Chengze took out a fruit from his storage bag and handed it to Lu Yanzhou: âEating this fruit can relieve pain. If you are feeling unwell, you should eat it.â
Xie Chengze is in pain all the time, and on some special days, the pain will be excruciating.
This fruit was specially found by the sect master to give him pain relief.
Lu Yanzhou lost his spirit root and sometimes felt severe pain all over his bodyâ¦thus, he was going to give it to Lu Yanzhou.