Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 869 The Greatest Trader in the Universe (Two in One)

"Master, you are finally back."

Xu Lingyue looked at him aggrievedly, her eyes red.

Li Ru tidied up her hair that fell on her chest and deliberately showed off the sapphire necklace he gave her.

"What do you want for lunch? I'll make it for you."

"Aren't you cold dressed like this?"

To match the sapphire necklace, she wore a white blouse and a chest-length skirt, looking like a noble lady.

"It's not cold, it's not cold, it's almost April, the pear blossoms on the trees are all going to wither."

Xu Lingyue puffed her cheeks and looked very unhappy.

If she wore any less, she would definitely be scolded. Her mother had spent a huge amount of money to buy this outfit in order to welcome her younger brother. Fortunately, Xu Pingzhi had just been promoted to a captain of the Imperial Sword Guard, otherwise if she went out wearing this, she would be reported to the government and would definitely be beaten.

Chu Pingsheng said meaningfully: "There is only the tail end of spring left."

"Abao, Abao..."

At this time, a voice came from outside the door.

Xu Lingyue felt as if her head was buzzing and about to explode.

Sure enough, a figure flashed at the door, and the barbarian girl came in, holding a roasted chicken leg in each hand. Seeing the monk standing in the yard talking to the mother and daughter, she grinned and said, "Haha, the gossip outside is true. You are really back."

Lina didn't say much, she ran past the three people to the backyard, determined to find her good Abao.

"wait."

Xu Lingyue grabbed her arm and said, "Gossip? What gossip?"

This heartless barbarian girl, who never considered herself an outsider, recounted in detail the rumors that he had sent Mu Nanzhi back to the Zhenbei Palace.

She didn't even notice the change in the atmosphere, and praised Chu Pingsheng in a very sincere tone, "You are so awesome," and went straight to the backyard to pet the iron-eating beast she had been thinking about day and night.

"Master, no wonder you were the last one to return home among those who went north. It turns out that you had a beautiful woman with you, so your pace couldn't be fast. I think I might have another master's wife."

Nangong Qianrou came back, but her master husband did not come back.

Li Miaozhen is back, but her master husband is not back yet.

If the two of them had not sworn that the monk was safe and in the best condition, God knows how worried she would be.

Now she knew why Nangong Qianrou and Li Miaozhen said that he was in the best condition possible.

Chu Pingsheng was actually quite afraid of women crying, but he found that even if Xu Lingyue didn't cry, he couldn't resist the smell of the tea.

"Well, what are you talking about? I'm just helping."

"Help? Help with what?" Li Ru didn't want to beat around the bush and asked directly, "Help me so much as to give me a hug and ride on a horse?"

"That was done on purpose for the people in the capital to see. Think about it, with my strength, if I really wanted to take advantage of her, would others see it?"

This is indeed true.

Chu Pingsheng asked again: "Do you know the story of Mu Nanzhi?"

The two nodded.

"What about the crime committed by the King of Zhenbei, the Kui Clan, and the Wushen Cult in massacring 300,000 people in Chuzhou?"

The two nodded again, and Su Su told them what happened to Chuzhou and his party. When Xu Pingzhi heard about the blood sacrifice of 300,000 people by the King of Zhenbei, he almost choked to death on a mouthful of tea.

"Mu Nanzhi entered the palace at the age of thirteen and has been alone in an empty room for nearly twenty years. I told you before that Yuan Jing and the King of Zhenbei might be possessed by evil spirits. One is plotting against the Yuan Yin of the national teacher, and the other is booking the spiritual essence of Mu Nanzhi. Now that the King of Zhenbei has been abolished by me, what should I do with Mu Nanzhi? Will it be wasted? Yuan Jing only needs an imperial edict, and Mu Nanzhi can only re-enter the palace as a concubine. Imagine that the people in the city know that Mu Nanzhi and I have an ambiguous relationship. Will Yuan Jing dare to act rashly?"

"So you're doing good deeds?"

"of course."

Xu Lingyue frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong. He always seemed to be able to find suitable excuses for his excessive behavior, as if he had been prepared for it long ago, just waiting for them to force him to abdicate.

Li Ru didn't have as many thoughts as her daughter, so she sighed and said, "You don't know yet, do you? The emperor took advantage of your trip north to hold a ceremony to marry a concubine in advance and invited the imperial teacher to enter the palace as a concubine."

"Is there such a thing?"

Chu Pingsheng pretended to be shocked.

In fact, he knew it when he was still in Chuzhou, and he knew the details behind the ceremony better than anyone else.

Luo Yuheng left Yuan Jing alone for half a month on the pretext of practicing secret techniques in seclusion.

She was of the second rank, and Yuan Jing was of the third rank. They could not defeat each other in a fight, so the emperor could only choose to wait and wait for Luo Yuheng's karma to erupt before taking action.

In the past, when Liu Rong came to Xu's house to announce the imperial decree, he injected a wisp of Seven Deadly Shadowless Evil into the body of the chief eunuch. With such an informant, he naturally knew that the decorations in the Jingxin Hall had been changed.

As the emperor of a country, he has to endure domestic violence. Even Li Yunqian is not as miserable as him.

In fact, Chu Pingsheng was also waiting for Luo Yuheng's karmic fire to erupt so that he would have a chance to help his father-in-law, Lao Taishan. Oh no, it was to give the national teacher more innate Wu Earth essence to help her condense the earth attribute Dharma image and advance to the first rank as soon as possible.

"Master of Consecration."

At this time, Taoist Jinlian walked in from outside the door with a graceful lady wearing white Taoist robes.

Li Ru and Xu Lingyue looked at the female Taoist priest behind him with curiosity.

"This is my junior sister, her Taoist name is Bai Lian."

"Ah, I see." Xu Lingyue said, "She is the person that my brother went to Jianzhou to protect."

Bai Lian smiled slightly and corrected herself, "Xu Yinluo is protecting it, not me."

She waved her sleeves and two objects appeared in the air. One was a lotus with nine petals, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and white. The nine colors rotated and shone brightly. The other was a lotus root with nine nodes, also in nine colors.

Li Ru was unaware of anything.

Xu Lingyue, a Taoist practitioner who had already entered the Qi-eating state, suddenly felt a change in her expression. She could feel how abundant the spiritual energy contained in the two objects in front of her was.

Taoist Jinlian said: "I heard from Lady Feiyan that the master has already eliminated the demon-possessed leader of the Earth Sect."

"good."

"This action will bring great merit." Taoist Jinlian said, "Since the black lotus has been removed, this nine-colored lotus is of little significance to me and my junior sister. I will give it to the master as a thank you gift from me and my junior sister."

Chu Pingsheng said politely: "This item... is too valuable."

Bai Lian said, "Without the red-armored puppet that Master left behind by Xu Yinluo, with my and Senior Brother's strength, we are definitely no match for Black Lotus' clone and the Wulin Alliance. Jianzhou protects treasures, Chuzhou kills evil, and everything is decided by fate. Master, please don't refuse."

Xu Lingyue tugged at his sleeve very considerately: "Master, I heard from my elder brother that there is another ancestor in the Wulin Alliance named Kou Yangzhou. If he were to plunder, there would be chaos. Why don't you take it first to lure the enemy, and then return it after Kou Yangzhou is dealt with."

She is truly my good disciple and concubine.

Seeing that Jinlian and Bailian agreed, he pretended to take it and put it away.

"In that case, I'll keep it first."

He flipped his hand and released a black gas, which entangled and twisted and turned into the shape of a black lotus.

The Black Lotus with a physical body was like mud and was extremely ugly. Now the demonic energy was absorbed by him and used to replenish the Seven Deadly Shadowless Evils lost in the battle in the North. Unexpectedly, the Black Lotus in a pure soul state was quite handsome, just like a young Golden Lotus Taoist.

"I think you need him."

Chu Pingsheng raised his palm and pushed lightly, and the soul-binding rope that bound Black Lotus' soul dissipated. Jinlian quickly took out a small jade mirror, and with a slight spell, she captured it in the mirror.

"Don't worry about melting it. His devilish nature and spiritual wisdom have been washed away by me."

"Thank you, Master."

Taoist Jinlian was overjoyed. At this point, the resentment he felt at being enslaved by the monk had completely disappeared.

Back then, the Taoist leader of the Earth Sect failed to survive the catastrophe and became possessed. His soul was split into two, and Black Lotus inherited nearly 90% of the power of the Yang God, while he took his merits and the Earth Book and fled far away, transforming into the fourth-grade Taoist Jinlian.

Because he is not a super-powerful person like Dao Zun, with such a soul defect, if he practices in the normal way, he and the Black Lotus will hardly make any progress. Now that the monk has given him the "purified" Black Lotus soul, he can make up for the defect and speed up his cultivation.

Bai Lian said: "The merits of the Earth Sect's cultivation are deeply affected by the karma of cause and effect. Master, if you try to eliminate the evil nature of the black lotus, I'm afraid... there will be a backlash."

"It doesn't matter."

Chu Pingsheng thought that if the black lotus was a demon, then he would be the demon among demons, the king among demons. The heavier his karma, the more powerful the Seven Absolute Shadowless Evils would be, just like Luo Yuheng's karma fire, which were the nutrients he had been longing for.

Just as Bai Lian was about to thank him, the little beauty from the Barbarian tribe heard the conversation in the front yard and left A Bao to run over: "Master Jin Lian, Sister Bai Lian, why did you get here so late? You are so slow."

"It's not that we are slow, it's that you run fast."

"Did you give him the Nine-Colored Lotus?"

"Give it."

After getting a positive answer, Lina pulled Chu Pingsheng's sleeve and walked back.

"You come with me."

Xu Lingyue's expression changed, and she was about to stop them, but Chu Pingsheng waved his hand, signaling her to be patient and let the girl from the Gu tribe pull her to the middle courtyard.

"I heard that you destroyed Black Lotus and killed the first-class wizard of the Wushen Cult?"

Chu Pingsheng was stunned after hearing this, everyone who went north knew about Hei Lian's execution, so it was not surprising that Lina got the news. The subsequent developments after Saren Agu's death could only be sensed by a first-class expert, so how did she know?
"Where did you learn about the Great Wizard's death?"

"Zhong Li, she came to inquire about your schedule a few days ago, and she mentioned it casually when she was talking to my sister."

In the past, Lina called Li Ru sister because she was angry with him and didn't want to lose in the issue of seniority. Now she called her sister with more confidence because she accepted a little kid as her apprentice. The master and mother were of the same generation, so they should call each other sisters. This was also one of the reasons why Xu Lingyue was unhappy with her anyway.

"Zhong Li said..." Chu Pingsheng was suspicious. Given Zhong Li's personality, why did she tell Lina about the death of Saren Agu? It made no sense at all.

He glanced in the direction of the Imperial Observatory, his eyes flickering, as if thinking about something.

At this time, Lina took out an antique wooden box from the storage bag.

"Inside this is the Seven Deadly Gu that Grandma Tian Gu spent decades of hard work to refine."

"Seven Deadly Gu?"

"That's right. With it, as long as you cultivate it carefully, you can use the abilities of the seven spiritual Gu at the same time, including the love Gu, corpse Gu, poison Gu, and heaven Gu."

"You mean... give it to me?"

Lina nodded vigorously, looking at him with her bright blue eyes without blinking.

Chu Pingsheng said: "Isn't this the treasure of your Gu tribe?"

"I went to Dafeng in the north to follow the instructions of Grandma Tian Gu and come here to find my destined person."

"you said I?"

Chu Pingsheng was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Wasn’t Xu Qian’an the person destined for the Qi Jue Gu? This girl had recognized the wrong person.

"Didn't I enslave your Grandpa Tian Gu, the vicious, sinister, and lustful bad monk?"

"Is there a possibility that Grandpa Tian Gu's heroic spirit voluntarily stayed to help you?"

"Well, that's very Ah Q."

Chu Pingsheng silently gave her a thumbs up, saying that she was really a self-taught girl.

"What is Ah Q?"

"The great god of self-salvation."

Since he is a god, even the monks who perform the ceremonial ceremony of opening the shrine respect him...

Lina pretended to be enlightened, her face full of admiration.

"Here, you take it."

Chu Pingsheng pulled his hand back: "How did you come to the conclusion that I was the destined person as Grandma Tian Gu said?"

"Everything has its cause and effect, and everything is caused by fate. First of all, the first-class great wizard is not your opponent, which means you have the strength to challenge the super-class and are destined to be with the great catastrophe of heaven and earth. Secondly, since the heroic spirit of Grandpa Tiangu is in you, it means you are destined to be with Grandma Tiangu. Thirdly, Abao is your pet and also my pet. Lingyue is your apprentice and Lingyin is my apprentice, which means you and I are destined to be together. From then on, you are not a member of the Gu clan, but you have a corpse Gu in your body and can control puppets, which means you are destined to be with the Gu clan. Finally, Taoist Master Jinlian and Sister Bailian are willing to give you the treasure of the Earth Sect. They trust you, and so can I. So you see, it turns out that we have always had a shallow friendship but a deep bond."

"..."

Chu Pingsheng had nothing to say.

Before going north to Chuzhou, she treated him coldly, as if they were enemies in a previous life. But after going north to Chuzhou, she conquered herself and quickly became an idol?

what the hell!

Lina slapped the thing into his hand and said, "My destined one, the Seven Deadly Gu is prepared for you."

Chu Pingsheng looked strange: "Do you want to add another sentence?"

"What to add?"

"The task of policing evil and punishing wickedness and maintaining world peace is now up to you."

Lina thought for a moment and said, "Well, almost."

"So the Seven Deadly Gu is a trap."

"My mother-in-law said that with greater strength comes greater responsibility."

"Girl, you eat too much cake, be careful not to choke."

Lina didn't understand what was going on, but she could tell the difference between sarcasm and sarcasm. She pouted her lips and curled them slightly.

"The Gu God's goal is to turn all living things on the continent into Gu insects. You can either suppress it and eradicate it, or be devoured and killed by it. There is no third way."

"Too bad, I do."

Lina blinked her bright eyes, but her expression was a little dull, as if she couldn't keep up with his pace. Communicating with him always became a headache and difficult problem.

Chu Pingsheng patiently persuaded: "You can have it too."

"I?"

"But before that, you need to transform yourself into the hostess of the Jade Emperor Tower."

"What is the Jade Emperor Tower?"

"The Jade Emperor Tower is one of my residences."

Lina's eyes opened wide, shining brightly. After a few breaths, she realized that the monk was teasing her.

She is a naive little girl who would chirp when a bird sees trash, and quack when a chicken or duck sees a jerk. If she were in Dafeng, it would take another half a year for her to get married. How could he be so lustful towards her?
"Consecrate...you shameless bastard!"

"Why did the girl say this?"

"You still have the nerve to ask questions?"

"How can it be shameless that I sincerely invite you to become one of the hostesses of the Jade Emperor Tower?" Chu Pingsheng said, "Qing Ji is now in the west wing of the backyard. You can ask her to verify what the nine-tailed fox said. If I destroy Buddhism and help the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Monsters to restore its country, the nine-tailed fox will not only offer its virginity, but also promise to give me nine souls as concubines."

He patted the box containing the Seven Deadly Gu and said, "On the other hand, you took out the Seven Deadly Gu and held high the moral stick of saving the world and trying to seduce me to fight against the super-class gods and demons. Are you mocking the wisdom of a great trader like me?"

Lina was speechless after being interrupted by him.

She has followed Grandma Tian Gu for a long time, and her father Long Tu has repeatedly warned her that the existence of the Gu tribe is to seal the Gu God and prevent Jiuzhou from being poisoned, and all members of the tribe must work together for this goal. She went north with this idea in mind, but unexpectedly, a destined person gave her a blow, and his words sounded quite reasonable.

Compared with the conditions offered by the nine-tailed fox, her chips are indeed shabby.

"Seven...Seven Deadly Gu is a treasure. You said so yourself."

"You take the compliments to the Gu tribe seriously?" Chu Pingsheng threw the box to her: "If it is really a treasure, why would I refuse it?"

Lina was so depressed that she had nothing to say.

He accepted the Nine-Colored Lotus with a slight gesture, but when it came to the Seven Deadly Gu, he refused it many times. This move cannot but make people think deeply.

"This thing can fight against the Gu God, but it also has the worry of raising Gu. Once it advances to the extraordinary level, it will definitely become the host and wrestle with me. For the strong below the second rank, it can be called a treasure. For the first rank, the sword has two edges, which can kill the enemy, but also hurt oneself."

Chu Pingsheng sneered: "If you were me, what would you think?"

"This……"

"You have to pay more."

Add money?

She got a headache when she mentioned money. From south to north, out of the Ten Thousand Mountains, and into the capital of Dafeng, the biggest problem she encountered was the difficulty of earning money. She was armed with the power Gu, so fighting bulls and elephants was no problem, but she also ate a lot. Two meals a day were enough for ordinary people, but the power Gu tribe had at least six meals, and every meal had to be solid.

Only when you manage a household do you know how expensive firewood and rice are. It is already difficult for one person to work in the north. A few days ago, Taoist Jinlian, Monk Hengyuan and others went to Jianzhou and left the children of Anji Pavilion to her to take care of. During that period, she went to the dock to carry sacks before dawn in the morning, moved bricks at Beigu Kiln in the morning, and helped Xicheng Rongji Tofu Shop to grind tofu in the afternoon... It was really bitter to talk about it. This is why she covered herself with all kinds of snacks and desserts in order to please Abao, but today when they met again after a short separation, she only got two roasted chicken legs. This was because the owner of the cooked food stall saw that it was not easy for her to take care of the disabled children in Anji Pavilion, so he sold them to her at a 30% discount on the original price.

"But I have no money."

She patted her storage bag and said, "This is worth very little money."

The little princess of the Power Gu tribe, the descendant of the second-rank Heavenly Gu grandmother of the Gu tribe, had actually fallen to the point of pawning her personal magic tools for money...

The smile on Chu Pingsheng's lips was harder to suppress than AK's.

Lina was young and naive and didn't understand human nature, but that didn't mean she was a fool. She blinked her eyes and gradually understood.

"Hmm... bad guy, adding money is just an excuse. In the end, you are still targeting me."

"So I'm a bad guy, and you should let the good guys do the job of saving the world."

"what……"

Lina was almost driving him crazy, wondering what was wrong with the world? Wouldn't it be good to be a hero? He should aspire to be one and should be obliged to do so.

Is it that there is something wrong with his thinking, or is it that his approach is wrong?

This world is completely different from what she imagined. The task her mother-in-law assigned to her is so difficult...

"So you are here."

When Lina was doubting her life, a fiery red figure jumped up from the wall.

The two looked up and saw the female hero Li Miaozhen standing with a gun on her back, looking very heroic.

"Big sister, can you please go through the front door next time? You jump over the wall every day. You are a female knight, not a female thief."

Li Miaozhen ignored his teasing and asked anxiously, "How come you are still in the mood to joke with her after all this?"

Su Su came over from the South Courtyard and said, "Miss Lina, if you do business with him, be careful not to lose yourself. He looks like a monk to everyone, and he is clearly a profiteer."

"Hey, I didn't offend you, did I? As the saying goes, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. That's too much."

Su Su said, "Everyone in the East Market knows that Fuxiang is your private prostitute. What do you have to say about this?"

She could not forget the tone of the merchants in the East Market when they saw her shopping with Li Miaozhen and asked about the prince consort's situation warmly; she could not forget the look in her eyes when the owner of the rouge shop took out a box of Chunlin gouache and secretly told her that the prince consort had bought it for the mistress of the Xu family; she could not forget the envious words of the neighbors in the East Market when they pointed and speculated that Li Miaozhen was the monk's new lover.

"What are you talking about? Are you talking about me being nostalgic? I am willing to give you my body that I have developed feelings for, and I am grateful for it. You should be the one who repays the kindness, Miss Susu."

(End of this chapter)