542 This Cabbage Is Contracted by Me (1/2)
The problem of Liu Li was really difficult to solve.
Because of some reasons which were inconvenient to point out directly due to courtesy, it was a fantasy to expect this child to keep the secret. Although Wang Lu had been teaching her for years, right now, there was only one way to get Liu Li to keep the secret.
Kill a person to prevent them from divulging the secret!
Of course, this move was completely unfeasible. No matter how distressed and mad Wang Lu was, it was impossible for Wang Lu to make his move against little Liu Li. However, he also couldn't leave her alone. Otherwise, it would not be long before the entire Spirit Sword Sect knew that he was back.
And he was not ready to go back to the sect.
The problem seemed to be at a standstill. However, if the problem couldn't be solved forward, solving it in reverse would also be the same thing. Since Liu Li couldn't keep a secret, it was better to turn Liu Li into a part of the secret. In short, don't let Liu Li go back to the sect!
However, before doing that, the question of why would Liu Li run toward Mt. Mang City needed to be figured out first.
”Master told me to come.”
”Uncle Zhou Ming? Why would he send you here?”
Liu Li took out a piece of paper and read the content word by word, ”Slay the evil, exterminate the demon, help rectify the justice, contribute to the development of the just cause of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals.”
”... How did he tell it to you in private?”
Liu Li said with a smile, ”He told me to chase a cultivator from blood refining sect and then take his token of oath back to Plentiful City to receive a reward as my experiential learning.”
”Oh, bounty hunter?” Wang Lu suddenly got it. This was the bounty hunting order issued by the Management Committee of Plentiful City.
Since the rise of Plentiful City, the Southern Heaven Region could be said to have become the gathering place for those who looked for opportunities, where dragons and snakes mingled1 with each other. No need to say about super sects like Shengjing, Spirit Sword, and the others, even some cultivators from lower rank sect had also come to the Southern Heaven Region in search of 'gold'. However, more people meant more trouble, and many evil cultivators took the opportunity to fish in troubled water and make waves. The young cultivator from the blood refining sect was one of them.
Nowadays, although cultivators from the righteous path were dominant in Nine Regions, the number of evil cultivators was quite large. Although the high-level power of the Management Committee of Plentiful City was strong, it was impossible for them to cover everything. Therefore, in regard to those evil cultivators that wandered around Plentiful City, the usual method was to issue a bounty hunting order. In any case, although the human resources in Plentiful City were tight, money was never lacking.
When the bounty hunting order began to come out, immediately, many energetic organization rapidly grew like mushrooms, causing severe blows to the evil sects, but also added a lot of trouble… However, for the elite disciples from big sects, this was a very good opportunity for experiential learning.
Those that managed to appear on the bounty hunting list by the City Management Committee were all the elites of the evil sects. Their means were endless, and their life-saving ability was particularly strong. To deal with these people, it was appropriate to send cultivators from the right path. Liu Li was among the top three strongest disciples of Spirit Sword Sect, so naturally, such experiential learning was indispensable.
”Is there any requirement from Uncle for when you have to return the latest?”
Liu Li shook her head. ”No, Master only told me to be careful, not to eat food given by strangers, not to drink water given by strangers, not to read any unknown or strange cultivation method, and also not to spend money recklessly…”
Listening to this, Wang Lu inwardly sighed: Oh Uncle, it is indeed a headache to supervise this kind of disciple.
”Then… During my absence, what is the situation on the mountain?”
Liu Li smiled happily and said, ”It's very good, Carefree Peak has invited a new chef and launched a lot of new dishes!”
”... I mean, did the Elders have nothing to say about me? I haven't been back to the mountain for a long time, they…”
Liu Li said, ”Oh, at first Sect Leader Uncle was very worried. He even held a meeting to discuss whether they should arrange a huge starry sky array and use the great stellar divination to search for you. Afterward, Fifth Aunt suggested that if we have this budget, it'd better be used to build a luxurious office building at Non-Phase Peak, saying that you must have been disgusted with the bareness of Non-Phase Peak and thus ran away. So as long as the home is decorated magnificently, plus adding beautiful women in the room, you would certainly be attracted to return home…”
”And then?”
”And then they seemed to be arguing, and the matter was over.”
Wang Lu nodded. ”She is indeed my good Master. If anything really happens to me, I can count on her to come and kill me.”
Speaking to this, Wang Lu recalled the young introverted girl in the dreamland, and he could not help but sigh with emotion. Time was really a brutal and unfeeling refinement, the current comrade Wang Wu had been completely unrecognizable...
”Besides this, is there any other change in the sect?”
Liu Li pondered about it and then said, ”Everyone really misses you.”
Wang Lu was curious. ”Everyone?”
According to his understanding, his relationship with the others in the sect was not bad, but it was not good either, because he had never spent too much time on the interpersonal relation. Except for a number of people that he had to come in contact with daily, the majority of the sect members would only exchange a nod with him upon meeting. Right now, after several months of not seeing each other, how could everyone suddenly miss him?