My junior sister sees everyone as a heretical cultivator.

Chapter 267 Didn't we agree not to cause trouble?!
Wang Sheng shakily pulled out a large ingot of silver from his money bag, more than he usually gave as bribes to merchants. He handed it over, forcing an ugly, fawning smile onto his face.

"Gentlemen, brave men, please don't report this to the authorities! Why bother the government with such a small matter? Let's settle this privately, how about that?"

Zhang San and Li Si saw the silver, but turned their heads away.

"What?!" Zhang San's voice rose even higher. "You actually want to use money to shut us up?! You're trying to stop us from reporting this to the authorities! You're guilty! It really was you who did this! Come on! Let's go to the yamen and talk this out!"

Wang Sheng: "..."

Good heavens! I feel guilty because I really do feel guilty! But it's not the same kind of guilty conscience you're thinking of!
He was so anxious that he kept bowing to the two men, pleading in a low voice, "No, no! You've misunderstood! We really didn't do it! It's just... it's just that my wife and I are too shy to admit it, and it would ruin our reputation if word got out... Please consider this money... please consider it a way to calm your nerves and buy you some wine..."

As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and pulled out a piece of silver from his pocket, stuffing it into Li Si's hand.

Zhang San and Li Si looked at Wang Sheng's humble and submissive demeanor, as if he had done something wrong and was afraid of ghosts knocking on his door. Although they didn't quite understand why this NPC was so cowardly, they still reluctantly accepted the silver ingot.

Zhang San then pretended to check his tattered pants again, making sure the belt was still fastened, and Li Si also straightened his collar.

The two of them then breathed a sigh of relief; it was another pleasant day of the Nine Streams Sect playing tricks on people!
Hehehehehehehe!

"Sigh, fine. I'll let you off this time since you've been quite sincere."

"That's right. Look, because of your petty troubles, I even missed the time to go back and beg for food."

"I haven't even steamed my own buns yet! Let's leave now since we haven't lost anything!"

Wang Sheng and Li Shi felt as if they had been granted a pardon. Their clothes were soaked through, and they quickly put on smiling faces and escorted the two to the door as if they were sending away plague gods.

"Please wait, my valiant warriors! Please wait! Heaven and earth know what happened today..."

The four of them walked out of the guest room together.

Zhang San and Li Si walked in front, while Wang Sheng and Li Shi followed behind. They exchanged a glance and saw the relief of surviving a disaster in each other's eyes. Fortunately, their spouses should not find out now.

But as soon as they stepped out of their room and into the corridor, Zhang San and Li Si stopped and looked up at the sky above the courtyard of the inn.

"Ouch!"

"Brilliant!"

The two of them exclaimed in surprise at the same time.

Wang Sheng and Li Shi followed their gaze and looked up. Then, they froze on the spot, even forgetting the terror of their previous affair.

The sky, just beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn, was filled with a spectacle that defies description.

High in the distant sky, there is a somewhat blurry triangular spectacle, situated on a platform built by the towering pillar to the north of the city, with an irregularly shaped shadow beside it.

And from below that triangle, a line extends...?

A winding black line loomed over Anhe City, stretching downwards from its blurry shadow high in the sky, through the gradually thinning morning mist.

As the altitude decreases, the outline of the line begins to become clearer and wider.

Wang Sheng's eyes widened. He realized that it wasn't a line, but a... a road suspended in the air!
A sky road made of wood and stone twists and turns in the air, forming unbelievable angles, and you can even vaguely see some strangely shaped obstacles on the road.

A straighter line extends vertically downwards from a platform below the triangle, eventually disappearing below the horizon outside the city.

Wang Sheng's brain crashed again.

What's going on? What happened last night?! Is this a warning from heaven about my illicit affair? Two extra men in the house wasn't enough, why is there this thing in the sky too?
More and more people had already gathered on the street outside the inn.

Everyone craned their necks, pointing at the incredible spectacle in the sky, and chattering excitedly.

"Good heavens! What...what is that? Is it...is it a mirage?"

"What kind of mirage is this! Look at that thing, it's completely still! And... and it seems there's a pillar that leads all the way into the city! Was it made by immortals? Have the immortal masters of the Heavenly Furnace Sect returned?"

"Isn't there another ladder? It seems to lead all the way out of the city! Is this some kind of ladder to heaven?!"

"Let's go! Let's go outside the city and take a look! Maybe it really is a destiny to become an immortal! If we can really become immortals, who would still be a poor man here!"

"Let's go check the north side of the city! That pillar is over there! The immortals are making such a big fuss; something big must be happening!"

People pushed and shoved each other, running in two different directions, forming two separate crowds.

……

Su Ling'er woke up.

She slept soundly through the night, the most restful sleep she'd had in months. There were no strange behaviors from her fellow disciples, no sudden attacks from her senior brother, only the familiar scent of her own bed.

Su Ling'er stretched and pushed open the door, preparing to go to the courtyard to breathe in the morning air, but as soon as she stepped out of the door, she felt something was wrong.

Why is the sky a bit overcast today?
She looked up.

Then, she saw in the direction of her guest room that a wooden pillar pierced straight into the sky and disappeared into the depths of the clouds. Looking up along that pillar, in the distant sky, amidst the swirling clouds and mist, the outline of an even larger complex of buildings could be vaguely seen.

Su Ling'er's pupils shrank to pinpoints in an instant, and her mind went completely blank.

She rubbed her eyes, then rubbed them harder, but the scene before her eyes remained unchanged.

She subconsciously raised her hand and pinched her arm hard, feeling a distinct pain.

This is not a dream... it's all real.

She slowly turned her head and looked at the "pillar reaching the sky" rising from the location of her guest room, her legs almost giving way.

No, Senior Brother…! Didn’t you promise last night that you would “have your own rules” and “avoid causing trouble”?! So… this is what you meant by “rules”? This is what you meant by “avoiding trouble”?!

In the stories, the most powerful beings could fight each other was to split a mountain with a single sword strike. But you, overnight, have quietly built a heavenly palace above my guest room!

Could it be that in the eyes of the senior brother, as long as Anhe City isn't blown up, it doesn't count as causing trouble?

As Su Ling'er looked up at the towering building that seemed to reach into the clouds, her initial disdain instantly transformed into deep awe and fear.

What method is this?
No craftsmen were employed, no sound was made, and not even the guards at home were disturbed.

He created a miracle out of thin air!
If he had wanted to kill someone last night... I'm afraid even if everyone in Anhe City died, no one would have let out a single scream.

Moreover, this announcement was far too high-profile and too attention-grabbing. Shouldn't it have been made more low-key?
It's like they've written "I'm a big shot, come look at me!" right in the sky...

Su Ling'er looked at the pillar, her feelings extremely complicated.

Senior Brother, this is too much! It's really too much! The small foundation of the Su family mansion is probably not enough to bear your great favor!
(End of this chapter)