Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 236 Turning danger into safety
Ten days after Zhou Yixiu and Kang Rongquan transplanted the big elm tree next to the big locust tree, the head of the Kang family could not wait to arrange for Huo Ying to make dumplings stuffed with elm money for the children.

Even Zhou Xinran, who was still guarding the market value of Chongmingfang, was called back by Kang Dabao.

All in all, only Duan Anle, who was still doing business outside and had no time to spare, missed this delicious meal.

Huo Ying had been working hard in the kitchen to hone her skills for all these years just for this day, so she seized this opportunity and made the dumplings with thin skins, large fillings, quickly and well.

The children were used to a good life, and it was just an ordinary meal of dumplings. Not to mention that the elm money used as the stuffing was not a spiritual thing. Even after putting it in their mouths, they couldn't tell whether it was good or bad.

However, Master Kang ate the dumplings with great relish, feeling that they tasted one-third as good as those cooked by his master's wife.

After finishing the meal, he thought about it and sent Kang Rongquan to run errands and deliver some to Qinghan Courtyard.

The younger generation found it difficult to fully comprehend Kang Dabao's deep meaning of recalling the past hardships and thinking of the present. Pei Yi, Yuan Jin and Jiang Qing, on the other hand, felt a little sad.

Even Ye Zhengwen tasted a hint of the flavor.

Chu Huer, who had just returned to the sect after hearing the news that Jiang Qing had built his foundation, felt that the food was mediocre.

He rushed back from Shandugang, Ji County, Fengzhou, not just for this meal of dumplings.

Now that his cultivation and age have almost reached the upper limit of foundation building, Jiang Qing's successful foundation building is an encouragement to him that goes without saying, not to mention that he also gained other benefits from this matter.

It is true that Chu Huer went back to Ji County to visit a friend, but he also had another thing to do, which was to collect debts.

Things were not going smoothly at first. The old acquaintance who wanted to borrow the money was like a stubborn person and refused to give in. He denied that he had ever borrowed spirit stones from Chu Huer.

Chu Huer was a man of hot temper and was not willing to do that. Now, the two sides were almost on the verge of going to war.

Although Chu Huer's abilities were not weak among his peers, all of his reliable and capable friends and relatives were now living in Pingrong County.

If a fight breaks out without help, I'll be at a disadvantage. So I'm planning to go back to the sect to call for some help.

At this time, news came from the outside world that Jiang Qing had achieved the Ice Leaf Foundation.

As soon as the news came out, the old debtor was frightened and his arrogance subsided. So not only did he return the principal and interest in full, but in order to maintain the friendship between the two parties, the other party also gave Chu Huer a gift of apology.

Compared with Jiang Qing's foundation building, this old man's apology seemed insignificant in Chu Huer's eyes.

Sui Ye rushed back day and night. From this incident, we can see the difference in status between the disciples of the foundation-building sect and the disciples of the Qi-training sect in the nearby counties.

All the forces in Pingrong County now understand that the current Chongming Sect has returned to the status it had when it was first established.

The title of the first sect in Pingrong had also been overwritten by Sect Leader Kang on the archway of Chongming Sect.

After eating the dumplings, Master Kang got down to business.

Jiang Qing's foundation-building ceremony is about to begin. It's very complicated to figure out which forces the Chongming Sect should contact, how to arrange the seats, which ones will come, and which ones will only pay tribute. However, Kang Dabao enjoys doing it.

Fortunately, Zhou Yixiu was proficient in general affairs and was able to help Master Kang, and finally shared some of the hard work with the latter.

Before the situation on the fairy mountain of Chongming Sect was settled, Chongming City had already been decorated with red and green and lights under the management of Kang Dahou.

Because of Jiang Qing's foundation-building, the Immortal Mountain and the City Lord's Mansion also sent an edict to exempt all mortals under the jurisdiction of Chongming Sect from three years of taxes, which was truly a blessing for the people.

At this time when everyone in the Chongming Sect was enjoying themselves, Duan Anle was locked up in a dark prison and could not escape.

From top to bottom, no one from the Chongming caravan escaped, and they were all imprisoned in this prison with Duan Anle.

However, the mastermind who captured the Chongming caravan, the head of the Mi family, did not look very happy at the moment.

He sat with his arms and legs spread out on a tiger skeleton. His face was covered with dark scars from being cut by a sharp knife. His face was also smeared with some colorful witch ink paint, making him look quite hideous and terrifying.

At this moment, the head of the Mi family looked at the burly man in the audience with a sinister look, and said in a cold and impatient tone:
"Speak now, you bastard! Didn't you say at the beginning that as long as we captured the Chongming Sect disciple, we could exchange him for a superior foundation-building spiritual item? Why don't you dare to deliver the letter now? Where is your previous ability to command others?!"

"Sir, I just heard that Kang Dabao received a lot of rewards from the provincial government, so there should be a lot of spiritual objects for foundation building, and even one or two foundation building pills.

But I never thought that Jiang Qing could actually achieve the Ice Leaf Foundation. When the news came, I was almost at Pingrong County, but I had to turn back. If I didn't come back, I might have been killed by Jiang Qing on the spot. "

The burly man put on an aggrieved and coy posture, which was totally inconsistent with his tall and straight figure.

The head of the Mi family was angry when he saw him like this, but he could only give up. After all, he was the one sleeping next to him, so he couldn't be too harsh on him.

But this matter was really too infuriating. He had clearly made plans and thought that his idea of ​​​​a boy molester was a good one. It happened that He Dezong had died and the friendship between Chongmingzong and his family was also severed. He would not ruin his reputation among the heroes because of this matter.

As for the strength of the Chongming Sect itself, the Mi family boss did not take it seriously.

Although most of the 300 wizard soldiers under his command were killed in the battle to build the foundation that year.

But a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the head of the Mi family thought that with only the remaining witch soldiers, they were not afraid of the Chongming Emperor, who had suffered heavy casualties and a small population.

The head of the Mi family did not believe that the Taoist Hei Lu was the backer of the Chong Ming Sect.

If it is true as the legend says, that Kang Dabao has become the black-shoe Taoist's illegitimate son, then why didn't the black-shoe Taoist offer protection to Chongming Sect when it was conquered?
How could Jiang Qing, the recognized foundation-building seed of this generation of Chongming Sect, have his Taoist body crippled and end up with his Taoist path cut off?
In the eyes of the Mi family, this Taoist priest in black shoes is to the Chongming Sect what Lang Yi is to the He family.

They are all masters who ride on the heads of their vassals and suck the blood of them. The great thing is that the Black-Shoe Taoist's methods are gentler than Lang Yi's.

Even so, he didn't care during a life-and-death battle, and for the sake of a Qi-training merchant caravan, the Black-Shoe Taoist would not take action.

Mi Jiada thought he was a smart man and saw through Kang Dabao's operation of hiding his true colors. So after thinking it over, he acted very efficiently.

The Chongming caravan led by Duan Anle was considered to be of some size in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of local tycoons like the Mi family, it was not ranked at all.

After all, Mijia Village had forced back two foundation-building forces. The head of the Mi family only sent his confidants to use a few tricks to capture the Chongming caravan.

After succeeding, the head of the Mi family had already sent this burly man to Chongming Sect to ask for the spiritual object. But at this time, another news came.

Knowing that Jiang Qing had already established his foundation and was not Qingye, this was really a bit difficult.

If the caravan has not been captured yet, then the worst that can happen is to abort the idea.

The Mi family boss can just rely on occupying the mountain as the king and honestly collect spiritual stones to buy spiritual objects. Sending a generous gift to Chongming Sect is also a good thing, which can help him build a connection with the foundation-building forces.
If the spiritual object has already been exchanged, then it will be even simpler.

The Mi family boss didn't even want this Mijia Village, and took the spiritual objects for foundation building and fled far away. If he could achieve the foundation building and live to be 400 years old, he could be happy anywhere in the world, so why would he stay in this poor and remote place of Mijia Village. But...
Now he was reluctant to let the head of the Mi family run away alone. If he lost such a great foundation and left home alone to become a casual cultivator, he didn't know when he would be able to earn enough spiritual stones to buy spiritual objects for foundation building.

But if he doesn't run away, no matter whether Duan Anle is killed or released, if this matter is exposed, the Mijiazhai might be in danger of collapse.

Everyone in the family knows their own business. The Mi Family Village had to work very hard to force back two of the most ordinary cultivators in the early stage of foundation building. Although they won, it was a miserable victory.

If they were to face Jiang Qing's Bingye foundation building at this time, even though Jiang Qing had just built his foundation not long ago, the Mijiazhai, whose strength had been greatly damaged, might not be able to hold on.

The head of the Mi family frowned again when he thought of this. The burly man suggested at the right time: "Head, according to me, if we just kill these people one by one, Chongming Sect may not be able to find us."

"Okay, do it now. When Jiang Qing comes to kill you, you'll be the first one to stop him." The Mi family's boss snorted coldly, and frightened the burly man again.

At this time, a monk in plain clothes who looked like a scholar stood up and said, "Master, if I say so, we should just let this caravan go."

"Release him?" The voice of the head of the Mi family rose to a higher level, and his fierce eyes opened wide, which frightened the plain-clothed monk so much that his hair stood on end.

"What I mean is that the boss didn't show up in the whole incident. The people in the Chongming caravan only know that they were kidnapped by the people from Mijiazhai, and they can't confirm whether the boss knew about it. Why not put the blame on the person who did it?

We will put on a show of sacrificing our own relatives for the sake of justice in front of the people of the Chongming caravan, and then compensate Chongming Zong with a generous gift for them to take back. This will barely be enough to give Chongming Zong an excuse to take action.

After all, his caravan did not suffer any loss, and the personnel and goods were all intact. The big stalls are well-known, and our Mijiazhai is not a soft persimmon.

The Chongming Sect has gained benefits and a way out, so they may not be willing to cause trouble for us for the sake of some low- and middle-level Qi training disciples.

Even if the head of Chongming Sect is really ignorant and insists on punishing us, our Mijiazhai is not in Pingrong County.

Even though Jiang Qing is powerful, he is just a newly promoted foundation-building cultivator. Without a clear master, the nearby foundation-building forces will not allow Chongming Sect to act recklessly in front of them. "

The monk in plain clothes felt that his clothes were soaked with cold sweat. He mustered up his courage and forced himself to speak out his thought.

As soon as the words fell, the face of the head of the Mi family improved, while the burly man was shocked and screamed, "Head! Head! You can't do this. The people sent to capture the caravan of Chong Mingzong are all your trusted men. If you do this, it will definitely chill the hearts of everyone in the village."

The head of the Mi family knew why the burly man was afraid. After all, it was he who led people to intercept the Chongming merchant caravan last time. If he really acted according to the plan, he would not be able to escape.

If the monk in plain clothes had not been frightened by the ferocious look of the head of the Mi family, he would not have presented the plan in front of the burly man.

But to be fair, what the burly man said was not wrong. Since it was a matter of spiritual objects for foundation building, the people sent by the head of the Mi family to do this were indeed his trusted subordinates.

If they were all wiped out by himself, the loss of strength of his subordinates would be the least of his worries. With people's minds changing, the Mi family might not be able to hold on to the 300 wizard soldiers in Mijia Village.

The head of the Mi family was instantly caught in a dilemma, his sinister eyes wavering between the burly man and the monk in plain clothes.

The burly man sometimes hugged Mi Jiada's thighs and begged desperately, and sometimes pointed at the plain-clothed monk who came up with such a vicious plan and cursed him. The scene was extremely lively for a while.

It was unknown how long the noise lasted, but suddenly there was a crisp sound in the field, and the burly man's noise stopped abruptly. Large pieces of brain matter splattered on the marble floor tiles in the hall, and a faint fishy smell gradually emanated from the hall.

The head of the Mi family just wiped the starch on his hands on his black feather cloak, and cast a cold gaze towards the scholar in plain clothes, and whispered: "You go and handle this matter yourself, and do it well. How can I do it cleanly? Do I need to tell you?"

"Yes, yes. I will do it right away and will do it thoroughly." The scholar in plain clothes didn't care that there were large patches of yellow and white on the ground. He knelt down barefoot and let his robe be soaked by the sticky liquid on the cloud bricks.

"Well, go ahead. After the task is accomplished, I will reward you handsomely." There was a hint of stickiness in the tone of the Mi family boss, which made the scholar in plain clothes hurriedly press his raised buttocks down again.

"I will definitely live up to your trust!"

The next morning, eleven bloodstained heads were placed in front of Duan Anle and his group.

Some of the people in the caravan were veteran wandering cultivators. They were all recognized as the backbone figures of Mijia Village, and almost all of them were cultivators in the late stage of Qi training.

Some of them became famous even earlier than Duan Anle, but now they were placed in front of Duan Anle like three sacrificial animals.

Duan Anle had been imprisoned for some time, and it was only today that he saw the head of the Mi family.

The latter behaved in the same manner as when he held the banquet in Mijiazhai, but besides the pretended kindness on his face, there was also a pretentious apology.

"Oh, it's my fault that I didn't discipline my subordinates well, causing you to suffer this great crime! I am too embarrassed to meet my fellow Taoists from Chongming Sect again." As soon as the head of the Mi family entered the prison, he bowed and apologized.

Unlike the other people in the caravan, who were trembling with fear at the sight of the eleven bloody heads, his mind was empty.

Duan Anle stood in the middle of the cage, but he always looked calm and composed. Hearing what the head of the Mi family said, he just smiled and responded, "I knew from the beginning that there must be a misunderstanding. Senior is a man of noble character, how could he do such a mean thing?"

"My friend has a keen eye," the head of the Mi family was a little surprised, thinking why didn't he see that this boy was so talented before?

"To express my apology, I have prepared a banquet to make amends for my mistake."

"I should not refuse your kindness, senior, but I have been away for so long that my elders must be worried. I must have a plan for my trip. Something important happened at home, so I dare not delay and must go back to the sect first."

"Oh," the head of the Mi family had a hint of surprise in his eyes, and then he smiled and said, "In that case, I will not keep you. When you come next time, I will ask you to stay for a few more days."

"Thank you, senior." Duan Anle also responded with a smile.

After the two talked, Duan Anle led the caravan members out of the prison and took them to sort the goods in an orderly manner. It took them less than half an hour before they said goodbye to the Mi family stall.

The Mi family boss had a complicated look, with a mixture of fear and admiration, and a slight regret rose in his heart. He then looked at the plain-clothed scholar beside him, as if thinking about something.

Du Qing finally dared to release him only after the caravan was out of the sight of the Mi family.

He came up to Duan Anle with tears and laughter and said, "Brother Duan, who did we offend this time? Let's run!"

Even Du Qing, a mediocre person, was not fooled by the Mi family's big shot, which shows how poor the latter's acting skills are.

"Don't panic. Let's go a little further and speed up. If we run too fast, we might scare that guy and make him regret his actions, which would only backfire."

Duan Anle paused for a moment before continuing, "If my guess is correct, Third Master has succeeded in building his foundation. Otherwise, this fellow wouldn't be so docile."

"Don't worry, Junior Brother. After we go back and report to our master, the elders will have their own ideas. Who knows, the next time we come to Mijia Village, we might come here to destroy the family. Just behave yourself. This account will be settled sooner or later."

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