104 Professional Level of Anti-Harassment Prevention (1/2)

“Hall of Mortal Reason?”

Unlike a certain aloof Holy Maiden, the Seven Stars Sect’s Elders were familiar with this name.

Regardless whether they wanted it or not, a sect like the Seven Stars Sect would inevitably have to deal with the Hall of Mortal Reason, the department, which was filled with a group of cultivators who took advantage of the weak and fear the strong. They were greedy and insatiable, and only helped the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals. Previously, they turned a blind eye to the Shengjing Sect who supported a sect in the White Moon Country; behind closed door, they took profit and became lenient. Yet, regarding the ringworm and scabies type of sect like the Seven Stars Sect, from time to time, they showed their ability to suppress these loose cultivators who could only cry for their mom and dad.

The Seven Stars Sect was familiar with this truth, or pain. Several years ago, they had occupied a prefectural capital in the Great Ming Country. At that time, they wantonly live in pleasure and delight. However, it didn’t take long for the people of the Hall of Mortal Reason to pay them a visit. Faced with two Xudan Stage and ten Foundation Establishment cultivators, the Seven Stars Sect, who until then was very unyielding, was forced to kneel before them and had to give back six to seven out of ten of their profit before they let the Seven Stars Sect go.

After that bitter experience, they maintained a line of communication between them and the Hall of Mortal Reason, and also regularly send gifts to the people of that hall, which thoroughly defused the crisis and finally stabilized their foundation… However, unexpectedly, even after all of that, this Hall of Mortal Reason still came to pick on them! That hall bit the hand of the person that gave them food; it was like all of their previous spirit stones and spirit objects were given to dogs!

“Sect Leader, what exactly happened here!?”

The Sect Leader was also depressed because the low-level cultivator who was his informer in Hall of Mortal Reason was unwilling to tell him the specific reason of why they came at him again. These several years, he had bribed the several officers in that hall, yet the management level was still beyond his reach, and thus when this thing happened, that was the extent of the information that he could get. Since he had no idea why the Hall picked a bone at them, he convened the Elders to discuss the countermeasures.

However, if even the Sect Leader had no idea, how could the Elders have any? After discussing it till morning, the only thing that they could come up with was for the Sect Leader and several senior Elders to bring all kinds of treasures to personally visit the people in the Hall of Mortal Reason and hope that by spending the money, they could avoid calamities.

What about the matter regarding the Wang Family Village at the Dog Ear Mountain?

What about your ass! While disaster was looming upon the sect, who has f*cking time to care about the people on that Dog Ear Mountain!?

During the month, needless to say, they had spent money like water. After several senior members of Seven Stars Sect managed to treat the management of the Hall of Mortal Reason for drinks several times until they black out and their Jade Mansion swayed, finally, the matter began to settle down.

Fortunately, for several years, the Seven Stars Sect had maintained a good relationship with the Hall of Mortal Reason. That was why they managed to lay the matter down after just a month long of almost daily banquet. If it was another sect, even if they offered the spirit wine, they had no way to invite people out to drink. But even so, it took the Seven Stars Sect a whole month before the subordinate of the subdivision head to appear before they managed to deliver the spirit stones gift, finally settling the matter.

Apart from this, they also got a bonus, which was finally knowing the evil hand behind all this. Actually, it was far from an actual evil hand who manipulated things behind the scene. The culprit was actually a pain in the ass idler who sent a report letter to the Hall of Mortal Reason, reporting that there was an evil cult movement within the Great Ming Country of the Blue River Region… The Hall of Mortal Reason actually received this kind of report letter quite often; it was about eight hundred to one thousand letters per year. Usually, they would just discard these letters, however, this particular letter wasn’t a letter that they could just ignore because the letter was written by a Successor Disciple of one of the Five Uniques.

Even more terrifying was that, a few months ago, there was a scandal in the Blue River Region which greatly implicated the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals’ Hall of Mortal Reason. The Hall Leader and Deputy Hall Leader both were subjected to punishment. Henceforth, they became particularly sensitive about this kind of matter. Initially, the evil sect in the White Moon Country was single-handedly destroyed by a Spirit Sword Sect Elder. The evil manipulator behind the scene, Daoist Master Zhifeng, was defeated and routed. He was then punished by his own sect to live his life as an animal for ten years, depriving him of his human body… This was an inside story that was kept by the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals. However, since then, the Shengjing Sect’s attitude toward the Spirit Sword Sect had dramatically changed, especially within the Blue River Region. They might ignore the voice of other sects, but not from the Spirit Sword Sect.

Thus, with such a twist and turn, a single report letter from a Successor Disciple, even without a follow-up, was actually able to move this Hall of Mortal Reason… However, returning from the Hall of Mortal Reason, whether it was the Sect Leader or the several senior Elders, they all felt as if their skin was peeled off a layer.

When exhausted like that, naturally, it was easy for them to get angry. Being given a hard time by the Hall of Mortal Reason, the Seven Stars Sect naturally had no way to retaliate, however, wasn’t it the perfect time to clean up those shamelessly-seeking-gain group of people that was hiding in the Dog Ear Mountain for a month!?

However, just when the Sect Leader was ready to take a break, someone came to report; a new trouble came again.

“What? Mysterious Sky Mansion!? Are you kidding me!? When did we ever had a deal with them? Usually, we can’t even enter their gate! They say we are dealing with illegal materials, including poison of mass destruction? Is there no justice anymore! We are such a poor Sect, where could we get poison of mass destruction? Moreover, they, themselves, openly auction the high-grade insect poison!? It is said that that poison can even exterminate a small country, and they want to investigate us!?”

The Sect Leader continued to complain loudly, however, the Mysterious Sky Mansion’s power was several times more than that of the Hall of Mortal Reason. Thus, although the one who looked for trouble now was just a subordinate of a small branch of the Mysterious Sky Mansion, that person’s strength was enough to exterminate the Seven Stars Sect a hundred times over.

For such an unexpected misfortune, the Sect Leader had no alternative but to once again convene the Sect Elders. After another round of consultation, they again carried the spirit wine and went on another “public relation” tour.

This went for a half a month. When they came back, they felt another layer of their skin was peeled off. However, the most unlucky one was one of the Elders, who because of excessive consumption of liquor, suffered a cultivation degradation; his cultivation actually dropped a level, which was such an appalling scene of devastation.

At this time, the Seven Stars Sect could not even muster the strength to get angry. However, unavoidably, they subconsciously thought of the scourge in the Dog Ear Mountain.

When they were ready to open the discussion about this issue, the Sect Leader’s heart was moved, and an ominous foreboding came to his mind.

“Damn! Are you kidding me…”