Bringing the farm to another world

Chapter 16313 Fear

Li Youfu is a rogue cultivator who is over fifty years old. Cultivators tend to look younger than ordinary people. Although he is a rogue cultivator and looks older than ordinary cultivators, he still looks younger than ordinary people. So he looks like he is only in his thirties, but he also has a weathered face.

Li Youfu had been working under the Ironclad Sect for many years and had a good relationship with some of its disciples. This time, he received a mission from the Ironclad Sect to come to the Myriad Beasts Sect to gather information. If he found any useful information, he could join the Ironclad Sect after returning.

Li Youfu took this mission very seriously. If he could really join the Ironclad Sect, it would be the best news for him. His ultimate goal was to join a sect. He had never dared to think that he would join the Ironclad Sect. The Ironclad Sect was a large sect, not something he could even dream of. Moreover, the Ironclad Sect had not recruited anyone from rogue cultivators for many years. So he had never dreamed that he could join the Ironclad Sect. But now he had such an opportunity. How could he not be excited?

So Li Youfu immediately accepted the mission. He then took a teleportation array to a market town under the Ironclad Sect. From there, he took another teleportation array to a market town of another sect. From that market town, he took another teleportation array to a market town of yet another sect. From that market town, he took another teleportation array to a market town of the Myriad Beasts Sect. From a market town of the Myriad Beasts Sect, he took another teleportation array to the main hall of the Myriad Beasts Sect. Of course, the place he went to was the residential area for rogue cultivators in the main hall of the Myriad Beasts Sect.

The reason he went through all this trouble was because he was worried that someone would investigate where he came from. By visiting more markets, even if people wanted to find out where he came from, they would only find out which markets he came from, and would not trace it back to the Ironclad Sect.

After Li Youfu arrived at the residential area for rogue cultivators at the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, he immediately frowned. He possessed an ability unknown to anyone: he could immediately sense if someone harbored hostility towards him. This ability had helped him avoid several calamities. This time, as soon as he appeared at the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, he immediately sensed hostility, and the intensity of this hostility was unlike anything he had ever felt before. It was so strong that he wished he could turn around and leave immediately.

However, Li Youfu did not do that, nor did he show it. Instead, he slowly walked towards the residential area of ​​the rogue cultivators. Not long after entering the residential area, Li Youfu became certain of one thing. His feeling was correct. Everyone here was hostile to him. Every cultivator he encountered on the road would glance at him inadvertently. All the rogue cultivators in the shops would also pay attention to him. Although those people pretended to be busy with their own things and seemed not to notice him at all, he was sure that their attention was on him.

Li Youfu pretended not to notice and slowly walked forward. After a while, he came to an inn. He glanced at the inn with feigned interest before going inside. Once inside, he went straight to the counter, clasped his hands in a fist salute to the innkeeper, and said, "Innkeeper, is there a man named Li Youfu staying here?"

He gave his own name, and it was common to encounter independent cultivators like him looking for someone, so the innkeeper wasn't surprised at all. He smiled and said, "Please wait a moment, sir, let me take a look for you."

Li Youfu quickly replied, "Thank you for your trouble."

The innkeeper smiled slightly, picked up the ledger and looked at it. After a while, he said to Li Youfu, "Sir, we have no guest named Li Youfu. You must have come to the wrong inn."

Li Youfu said, "That can't be right. The main hall of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, the Bingui Inn, there can't be any mistake. He and I agreed to meet here, and he even said that he was already waiting for me here."

Upon hearing Li Youfu's words, the innkeeper glanced at the ledger again and then said to Li Youfu, "Sir, the location and name of the shop you mentioned are correct, but there is indeed no guest named Li Youfu staying here."

Li Youfu frowned, then said, "No? That's a bit strange. I'll go wait somewhere else for a while and come back to see if he's here." After saying that, he clasped his hands in a fist salute to the shopkeeper before turning and leaving the shop.

The innkeeper watched Li Youfu's retreating figure without saying anything. What he didn't see was that as Li Youfu left, a jade sword appeared in his hand at some point. The jade sword then flew out of his hand, but only spun once. When Li Youfu reached the inn's entrance, the jade sword flew back to him. He quickly reached out and caught the jade sword, pretending to look at it, then shook his head and muttered, "Why didn't you say you were changing locations earlier? Honestly, I made a wasted trip." After saying that, he walked towards the teleportation array.

The shopkeeper had been watching Li Youfu closely. Once he saw Li Youfu receive the jade sword, heard his words, and saw him head towards the teleportation array, he stopped paying attention to him. Li Youfu had noticed beforehand that only the shopkeeper was in the shop; the other staff were busy in the dining area. Only the shopkeeper was watching him, which was why he dared to release the jade sword. He released the sword for himself, to avoid suspicion. His words were, of course, deliberately spoken to the shopkeeper. He wanted to leave. Everyone here was hostile towards him; he couldn't stay. He had to leave, but leaving directly might arouse suspicion. He had just arrived and was already leaving; how could they not suspect him? Therefore, he had to put on this act.

Li Youfu quickly arrived at the teleportation array. He then took the teleportation array and went directly to the market of another sect. When he finally arrived at the market of another sect, he breathed a sigh of relief. He then immediately took the teleportation array again and left. After transferring between teleportation arrays several times, he finally returned to the main hall of the Ironclad Sect.

Once he arrived at the Ironclad Sect's main hall, he finally felt relieved. He glanced around and then immediately headed towards the Ironclad Sect's management office located in the residential area for independent cultivators.

He had received his mission here. When he arrived at the management office, he first looked around, then went directly to the counter, clasped his hands in greeting to the Ironclad Sect disciple inside, and said, "Greetings, sir. I am looking for Master Zhanjia. Is he in?"

The Ironclad Sect disciple glanced at Li Youfu, then smiled and said, "Li Youfu, what do you want with Senior Brother Zhan? Do you want to take on the mission to the Myriad Beasts Sect? Senior Brother Zhan is here, in his room on the second floor. You should be able to find him, right?" This Ironclad Sect disciple thought that Li Youfu hadn't taken on the mission to the Myriad Beasts Sect and was here to take it on, so he directly told him the location of the armor.

Li Youfu thanked them and then went up to the second floor. Soon he arrived at a room on the second floor. This management office was a four-story building, just like the management offices of ordinary sects. The first floor was a large hall where tasks could be issued and handed over. The second floor had offices for some of the disciples and was also a place to issue special tasks. The third floor was the office of the managing elders, which people like Li Youfu could not go up. The fourth floor was the rest area for the Ironclad Sect disciples. Li Youfu was now going to the second floor to find the armor, which belonged to a managing disciple of the Ironclad Sect.

This wasn't Li Youfu's first time on the second floor. He quickly arrived outside the armor's office, then knocked on the door. A voice from inside said, "Come in." Li Youfu pushed the door open and went inside.

This is a small office with only one table. A person is sitting behind the table, and there is only one chair in front of the table. There is also a cabinet behind the person, but it is unknown what is inside.

The man sitting behind the table was short and thin. He had been writing something with his head down. When he heard someone walk in, he looked up and was taken aback when he saw that it was Li Youfu. Then he asked with some confusion, "Old Li, didn't you already accept the mission to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect? Why haven't you left yet?"

Li Youfu bowed to the man and said, "Lord Zhan, I have come for this very reason."

The armored warrior frowned and said, "Come sit down and let's talk."

Li Youfu responded, walked to the table, sat down, and then said to Zhan Jia, "Lord Zhan, it's not that I didn't go to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect; I just came back from there."

Upon hearing this, the armored warrior was taken aback, then asked, "You're back? You're back so soon? Why?"

Li Youfu immediately spoke up: "Lord Zhan, this is exactly what I wanted to tell you. When I arrived at the Wan Shou Sect's unaffiliated cultivator residential area, I immediately noticed something was amiss. Although everything seemed normal there, I noticed that all the unaffiliated cultivators were watching me—every single one of them. They appeared to be busy with their own affairs, but everyone was intentionally or unintentionally paying attention to me. This isn't just my imagination; it's real. I paid special attention, and I discovered that everyone was watching me—the pedestrians on the street, the shop assistants, the customers." "Everyone selling things was watching me. If they were just staring at me, that would be fine; I'd just assume they were curious. But they pretended not to care, yet their eyes were constantly scanning me. This was definitely not normal. They must have been tasked with keeping an eye on all the rogue cultivators heading to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect. That's why they were doing this. It was because I discovered this that I came back immediately. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to come back if I didn't." Li Youfu still looked terrified as he said this. He was genuinely afraid that if he didn't come back soon, he wouldn't be able to return.