Chapter 61 - Little Poor Peak (1/2)
The trouble that Ling’e has caused this time will definitely cause her to lose a lot of her luck. She should be able to make up for it after being grounded for twenty years without any further incidents.
In the Pill Chamber, Li Changshou sat on the rocking chair. His eyes narrowed slightly as thoughts ran through his mind.
This matter had nothing to do with him being her senior brother, there was no need for him to do anything about the aftermath.
Only, with Ling’e’s personality…
Perhaps he and Master had pampered her too much. It was time for her to be trained.
The world is dangerous. As a senior brother, he could say this countless times, but it would never come close to having her experience it personally.
As he thought about this, Li Changshou gently tapped the armrest of the rocking chair.
He could hear the rustling of leaves around him.
Feeling a little poetic all of a sudden, he said, “How poor.”
“How about I nurture my Junior Sister’s intelligence, beauty, poetry, and create a ‘coincidence’ for her to run into a wealthy family. I’ll marry her off, give her some gifts and then steal the sect’s dowry?”
Just kidding. Just kidding. He was only angered by little Junior Sister, but it wasn’t as though he’d throw her out.
Now that he had become an immortal and ascended for a period of time, it was time for him to lower his Junior Sister’s access to the information.
In the eyes of others, he was now an outstanding Fourth Stage Void Return disciple.
In Jiu Wu’s eyes, he should be an immortal seedling of level seven or eight Void Return.
In Junior Sister’s eyes, he should be an Essence Immortal Immortal…
That was adequate.
The secret was known only to himself and hence, a secret. If someone else knew about it, it would be called “News”.
After sitting idle for half a day, his immortal senses captured that Ling’e had been copying sutras under the tree. Li Changshou’s anger subsided greatly.
Ling’e told him about the rumors regarding Master…
If it were true, then the incident this time round concerning the three – w.a.n.g, Liu and Liu – would be very similar to what his master had experienced eight or nine hundred years ago. However, the outcome was completely different.
Back then, Master’s lover… had been s.n.a.t.c.hed away by someone.
His master’s love rival had shattered his master’s Dao base and attempted to cripple him. However, the punishment from the sect only required that person to reflect upon himself for a hundred years.
Moreover, the other party had transcended the tribulation to become an immortal in the course of that hundred years.
So far, these were the only things he knew.
This matter had been suppressed because it was inglorious. It had been nearly 900 years since then, and no one had mentioned it again…
There were actually two disciples from the Little Qiong Peak among her Master’s generation. Her Master also had a Senior Sister. Li Changshou and Lan Ling’e should have had an Uncle-Master.
Qi Yuan and his Senior Sister, Li Changshou’s Uncle-Master, were childhood friends.
However, before his Master was ambushed, this Uncle-Master left the sect. He said that he went to look for Grandmaster, but just like Grandmaster, he never returned…
He did not know what had happened.
Come to think of it, was it really okay for a disciple of the Ren School to be so unruly?
Had the Immortal Du Sect been set up?
Could it be that someone had gotten the Moon Elder[1], who was not regarded highly by anyone in the Heavenly Courts, to give their disciples a random bunch of red threads?
The three schools of the Dao Sect a.n.a.lyzed the situation carefully. In fact, each of them had their own shortcomings.
Most of the Immortals of the Chan School were scheming and they made people feel that they were calculative.
Jie School had a mixture of good and bad people; their rules were not strict. It gave people a sense of disharmony.
On the other hand, the Ren School, supposedly free from karma and that had few Dao regulations, started behaving as if they had fallen under a spell. They began a trend of finding themselves a Dao companion, among themselves!
If within the Sect there were things like ‘Yin Yang Sky-Refining Mantra’, ‘Gathering Heart Technique’, ‘Wolf Like Tiger Chant’, and ‘Too Difficult to be Single Curse’, that would have been reasonable.
However, given this atmosphere in the Immortal Du Sect, which had adopted the Inaction Sutra as their core path…
Shouldn’t the normal way of life involve cultivating peacefully on one’s own peak and to avoid all karma, and finding something like managing the sect a very troublesome ch.o.r.e?
“If ever given a chance, we should investigate Ren School’s religious teachings in the Central Deity Continent and see if they share similarities.”
Li Changshou mumbled to himself and took note of this matter.
Of course, he could not care too much about others. It was good enough that he could take care of himself and not stir these troubles.
It was necessary to take a long term view on his Master’s matter. However, now that he had a clue, there was no need for him to rely on blind guesses.
If his master really had such a deadly enemy, he, as a disciple, would have to plan well.
Avoiding karma is not fear of karma;
Li Changshou had been plotting this for many years.
The other party’s cultivation level was about the same as his Master’s a thousand years ago.
He had heard that the person with the best potential in his Master’s generation was Martial Aunt Jiu Jiu…
For now, he would treat his Master’s enemy as a late-stage Perfected Immortal. If he hid his cultivation base, he would be a Heavenly Immortal.
Now, as long as he could obtain powerful poisonous herbs, he could refine some pills that could kill Heavenly Immortals…
In the future, he would prepare hundreds of millions of these pills and poisonous powders for his Master to protect himself. When the time was right, he would let his master deliberately act more lively. If the other party could not help but attack his master again, he would let his master retaliate. That way, he would be able to account to the sect…
The other party could very well have the backing of another peak in the sect. He still had to consider what to do next.
His advantage lay in being in the ‘shadow’. Also, the other party probably looked down on their Little Qiong Peak.
As for the level he wanted to achieve, it was all his Master’s wish.
If Master wanted to take revenge for what happened back then, as the eldest disciple, he would secretly help.
If his Master was unwilling to take revenge, then he would do his small part as a disciple and destroy the other party’s cultivation base.
The other party had already become a Heaven Immortal, while his Master could only be a Turbid Immortal in the future.
After careful a.s.sessment, he realized that his Master had suffered a loss.
After all, he had lost his Uncle-Master…
Li Changshou did not want to avoid this karma and was willing to reveal part of his trump card.
If he did not move, it would be fine; but if he did, he would make it impossible for the opponent to retaliate.
He closed his eyes and continued to ponder.
Gradually, the array formations outside the Pill Chamber were activated.
Little Qiong Peak, which had been silent for more than three years, began to gather Primordial Energy once again…
After Ling’e copied the ‘Steadiness Sutra’ three hundred times, she went to Little Spirit Peak to apologize to Liu Yan’er and asked for forgiveness.
When Ling’e arrived at the Pill Chamber, Li Changshou reprimanded her a few more times. He gave her the second version of the Qi-Calming Turtle Breathing Mantra and taught her two days of cultivation homework. The punishment for her not leaving the Little Qiong Peak for twenty years had officially begun.