Chapter 27 Dozing Off In Literacy Meeting (1/2)
Cangdome mountain, outside Wuliu village.
Devil Venerable stood there with his left and right protectors. The left protector stood with his Alkaid sword and the right protector held a lute. She was covered with a light veil and wore a graceful water blue shirt as she was playing her lute for the people. She unintentionally revealed a scar on her right arm, as if she had suffered some kind of injury before which looked hideously across her jade arm, making people feel sorry for her.
This was the courtyard outside of Wuliu village, where mortal scholars like to come to recite poetry and discuss their teachings. This was also the stronghold of the Zhong family who recruited talented people who came here.
The biggest difference between the cultivation family and the major sects is that in sects, members are various people of the world while in cultivation family, members were born. The Zong family was a family of scholars whose elder was a cultivator who lived in Wuliu village. But the branch families would enter the imperial court through imperial examination to assist the appointed emperor.
This was the “path” of the cultivation family, just like Wen Renhe fought in the wars to seek his path, the Zhong family was walking the path of the Holy Wisdom, using poetry and preaching books and sought after the scholarly path as a path of cultivating truth. The ancient poet immortal Qinglian Sword Immortal’s “ten steps to kill a person, a thousand miles to not leave a trail” was also practiced on this path.
Therefore, all four major cultivation families will enter the world to collect disciples, in each generation the family head and his heirs will cultivate their own roots . These disciples who worship them, and the Holy Wisdom that has been passed down from generation to generation become the foundation of the Zhong family cultivation. The more scholars there are in the world, the more people will read their words, the higher the cultivation power of the Zhong family could become.
Their realm was the same as the cultivators from the righteous and demonic path, though their powers were very different. The descendants of the family with supporters are extremely powerful, and the more people in the world admire their ideological and literary talent, the stronger their power is. But for the children in that family without supporters, they may not be able to beat the cultivators at Mahayana realm and they were very weak.
In the book, their cultivation family was initially unknown until the massive demonic war in which cultivation suffered heavy losses and the world ushered in a flourishing dynasty in which more and more poor children had the opportunity to study. Even a simple peddler could read a few words, recite a few lines of poetry, remember the names of a few scholars which ushered in the prosperity of the cultivation family. The mortal world became prosperous after the massive demonic war and after fifty years of this prosperity Zhong Liqian had the courage to take away the female lead who was imprisoned in Shangqing sect back mountain.
This time, the massive demonic war was planned personally by Wen Renhe so more aura returned to the world than in the book. In the short period of 12 years, the Zhong family has gained great fame. In the courtyard outside Wuliu village Wen Renhe and others sat in the window seat, which was bought by Shu Yanyan.
They appeared today in this courtyard because today was the day when several young masters from the Zhong family would have lectures and discuss their teachings. Students from all over the world were coming to visit but one cannot enter without an invitation.
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It would be easy to gain an invitation by using illusion technique and hide from the headmaster of the Academy, but the seats were not arranged well. Shu Yanyan stuffed several pieces of silver into the shopkeeper’s hand, and deliberately rubbed him. The shopkeeper was just a casual cultivator at the Foundation Building realm so how could he resist Shu Yanyan’s charm? He took silver in dazzled manner and arranged a clean seat for several people.
At this time the several sons of the Zhong family had not yet arrived and many people saw that Wen Renhe and Yin Hanjiang were dressed in martial artists clothes and not in scholar clothes but were still able to sit in such a good position so they were not satisfied and came to challenge him.
Naturally they did not challenge them to fight but in their ability to recite poetry.
Wen Renhe and Yin Hanjiang could beat them with no problem but when it came to the poetry they felt like countless flies buzzing in their ears and even Shu Yanyan’s twelve heavenly demons were better than the sound of their poetry reciting.
Fortunately, Shu Yanyan was a literary person who held her lute to play a few songs and sang while playing. Both music and singing were very good so these few students became ashamed of themselves. They could only bid their goodbye as they left, Wen Renhe and others who sat firmly in their seats.
After Shu Yanyan chased those scholarly students away she returned to her seat and said in a coquettish manner to Wen Renhe: “Venerable, is it okay if I do this?”
Wen Renhe nodded slightly and extended a finger.
Shu Yanyan eyes lit up as she said excitedly: “My punishment, can it be reduced by ten years?”
Wen Renhe shook his head.
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“One, one year?” Shu Yanyan flattened her mouth.
But who would have expected Wen Renhe to say leisurely: “One month.”
“Only one month?” Shu Yanyan, hearing it acted a little impatient and asked anxiously: “Venerable, you said that as long as I behave well, the punishment time can be reduced?”
“The reward will be given only after capturing Zhong Liqian, how could this just now be considered as a merit?” Wen Renhe said.
Shu Yanyan did not dare to offend the devil venerable again so she shrunk her back as her eyes containing tears looked a little melancholic, almost charming nearby scholars to angrily scold Wen Renhe and Yin Hanging for not being sweet to such jade-like women.
Fortunately, several sons of the Zhong family arrived at this time which prevented the tragic case of the Devil Venerable washing academy courtyard with blood.
The Zhong family had three outstanding sons in this generation, the first one was Zhong Liqian who was dressed in white looked gentle and elegant. Holding a bamboo scroll he slowly walked into academy ground and sat in the main seat. Zhong Liqian has an extraordinary aura, and his every move is covered with a dashing calmness.
“Green cloud clothes and white neon clothes, raising a long arrow and shooting the wolf.” When Shu Yanyan saw Zhong Liqian come out, her eyes, which had fallen on him, couldn’t move.
She sent a voice transmission to Wen Renhe: “Venerable, do you know why I studied poetry and books so hard back then? It was just to develop a talented girl temperament, so that I could hook up with a scholar like Zhong Liqian, he is really …… fantastic!”
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Zhong Liqian was the most outstanding heir of the Zhong family who had countless admirers these years. Just a few days ago he broke through to the Void realm so naturally he was able to feel Shu Yanyan’s unconcealed gaze. With a slight nod to Shu Yanyan, he moved his eyes away and stopped looking at her.
“Venerable!” Shu Yanyan excitedly transmitted: “The person I am going to catch today is him, right? He’s wonderful! When he looked at me, I had already used my charm technique, but I did not expect him to still have such a clear gaze! Is he really a rare gentleman?!”
“If you can seduce him, he is yours.” Wen Renhe transmitted his voice.
If Zhong Liqin could be attracted to Shu Yanyan, then he does not need to find him to attract the female lead. Wen Renhe did not want to make another He Wenchao and he might as well wait for that ghost cultivator to grow up, adding another eight years would be almost the same.
The best way was to use Shu Yayan to see if this Zhong Liqian was the true gentleman or not.
Zhong Liqian was followed by two other sons, one was Zhong Liheng and another was Zhong Lifei.
Zhong Liheng was dressed in a plain green robe and looked very stable as he followed Zhong Liqian. Zhong Lifei on the other hand was dressed in a brocade robe as you could see reckless and frivolous character from his eyes. When Shu Yanyan carelessly looked at him, he even raised his wine glass to toast Shu Yanyan.