Junior sister, I really need to control you.

On Bamboo Forest Peak, in the guest room prepared by Huangzhu Temple for Li Yinsheng.

Li Yinsheng sat on a bamboo chair, looking at the emerald green tea in his hand, marveling at it.

"This Bamboo Grove Garden, even the tea leaves are shaped like bamboo leaves? But I must say, they smell quite nice..."

After the initial introductions and pleasantries, he parted ways with the others and led Mu Xiaoyu to his guest room.

This Bamboo Forest Peak is very remote, and usually only a small number of disciples from Huangzhu Temple take turns guarding it, so there are very few houses to live in.

Those disciples who were hired to patrol and exorcise demons were all crammed into a single room, and the houses were all temporary structures built using local materials.

However, given how generous Huangzhu Temple was in giving money, not many people expressed their dissatisfaction.

However simple the disciples' quarters may be, we cannot let a master like Li Yinsheng, who came to oversee the situation, suffer.

Each of them had a bamboo hut built in advance on the mountaintop, not made of the sturdy and solid Suyun bamboo, but of another kind of unknown bamboo, which was far superior to ordinary wood.

Living there, one is surrounded by a pleasant fragrance, and the house is warm in winter and cool in summer. The house is divided into several rooms with tables and desks, and disciples bring fresh tea and pastries every day.

Even in this makeshift shelter, there were calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, and bookshelves containing scriptures as decorations.

Mu Xiaoyu really liked the room and asked Li Yinsheng a question without hesitation.

"Senior brother, is this really a temporary structure? It seems even better than some of the buildings in our Xuanzhen Temple!"

Li Yinsheng rewarded his junior sister's curiosity handsomely—

As a reward, she was sent to live with the other patrolling disciples on the mountainside.

Li Yinsheng's actions were also based on careful consideration.

Firstly, it wouldn't sound good if a man and a woman were alone in a room together.

Secondly, the junior sister's daily patrols also start from the dormitory.

She lives on the mountaintop with him, but he can't possibly run from the mountaintop to the mountainside every morning after getting up and then go on patrol with her, can he?

Moreover, this means she has to get up early every day to make time for hiking.

Therefore, after Li Yinsheng's suggestion, even though she was reluctant to part with the bamboo house, Mu Xiaoyu still tearfully chose to stay in the dormitory.

Moreover, she really wanted to make some like-minded friends. She had been in the mountains for so long, and apart from her senior brothers and uncles, she hadn't met anyone else.

However, before leaving, she wanted to finish all the tea and pastries at her senior brother's place!

Mu Xiaoyu was eating voraciously, while Li Yinsheng shook his head in disapproval.

If she ate like that, she would have become as fat as a ball long ago if I hadn't been urging her to cultivate every day.

I wonder if she ate like this before going up the mountain. If so, how come she didn't gain weight?

Just as Li Yinsheng shook his head, Qi Jiushan's voice rang out from outside the bamboo house.

"Fellow Daoist Li? May I enter?"

Li Yinsheng nodded: "Fellow Daoist Qi, please come in."

Qi Jiushan pushed open the door and entered, quickly walking to Li Yinsheng and bowing respectfully: "Fellow Daoist Li, I am extremely sorry for what happened today! I apologize to you!"

"Fellow Daoist Qi, there's no need for such formalities," Li Yinsheng said, helping him up.

"Fellow Daoist Li did a great job today! You slapped that Xu fellow five times on the way here. It was truly gratifying! It also helped me vent my anger!" Qi Jiushan laughed heartily.

Li Yinsheng asked with some curiosity, "Fellow Daoist Qi, judging from your appearance, you don't seem to have a very good relationship with those two people from Shouyi Temple. Why did you invite them here?"

"Fellow Daoist Li, please don't be sarcastic. You're so perceptive, can't you tell that those two came uninvited?" Qi Jiushan said with a wry smile.

"You really are an uninvited guest," Li Yinsheng raised an eyebrow. "I did have a suspicion about that, but I'm not too sure. After all, coming uninvited is a bit too shameless."

"No one in Shouyi Temple is shameless!" Qi Jiushan said indignantly.

"Fellow Daoist Li, you are unaware of this. In the past, when Huangzhu Temple harvested its cultivation materials, Shouyi Temple would come and forcefully sell us talismans. We couldn't refuse to buy them. Fortunately, they weren't too excessive in the past. Although they were selling talismans, the prices were slightly discounted, and the quality was no different from when we bought them normally..."

"But this time they really went too far!" Qi Jiushan clenched his huge fists, his chest heaving with anger.

"How so?" Li Yinsheng asked, somewhat curious.

"Fellow Daoist Li, let me catch my breath first before I explain in detail... The two people you saw at Shouyi Temple are deacons of Shouyi Temple."

Qi Jiushan patted his chest and said, "My Huangzhu Temple and Shouyi Temple have never had much interaction. Moreover, they are tyrannical and greedy, so we have never asked anyone from Shouyi Temple to guard them."

"But just yesterday, those two people came uninvited, and with them came a deputy abbot of Shouyi Temple, who wanted to have a private talk with Brother Liang and his companion."

"I don't know what the abbot said to my senior brother Liang, but when he came out, he was still angry, but he still agreed to let him and the two stewards stay and oversee the situation."

"Not only that, even the list of patrol disciples and demon-slaying disciples, which was already almost finalized and had enough people, suddenly had a lot of the names of Shouyi Temple disciples added."

"Moreover, those disciples of Shouyi Temple who were added to the list haven't arrived yet. They're said to still be on their way. Their names need to be added first, and they'll be personally brought to the temple by the abbot tomorrow by flying boat..."

"Aren't they just bullying honest people?!"

……

Meanwhile, in another bamboo house.

Although Meng Yu, a master of formations, was a level below the experts who were in charge, his treatment was no less than that of them.

She sat before a bamboo table, on which lay a geomantic map and a diagram of a formation, but she paid no attention to them; her delicate brows were furrowed.

She never expected that the people from Shouyi Temple would come.

Previously, when she talked to her master about Li Yinsheng, her master reminded her not to spread the news about Li Yinsheng to Shouyi Temple, so as not to make Shouyi Temple wary.

Ideally, one should secretly observe and wait for the right opportunity.

However, Huangzhu Temple was in dire need of experts this time. She thought that the position of overseeing the temple would not take long and would not require her to show her face in front of others, so there should be no problem. Therefore, she recommended Fellow Daoist Li to Huangzhu Temple.

After all, the reward offered by Huangzhu Temple this time was truly generous. Although the talisman money wasn't a huge amount, a thousand refined coins were priceless.

Although the harvested fruits are clearly priced, most of them have already been pre-ordered in large quantities by the Zhengyang lineage and several other lineages, and will be delivered quickly after harvesting.

Therefore, the practice materials rarely circulate in Taoist temples. Although one hundred coins for a single talisman is not expensive, and it is easy to buy a few to try, it is not so easy to buy hundreds or thousands at once.

A reward of one thousand refined coins is already of great benefit to a cultivator's spiritual awareness; it would be a real pity to miss out on it.

But she never expected that the people from Shouyi Temple would forcibly come to her door yesterday to "help enthusiastically".

In this way, there is a high probability that Li Yinsheng will be known to Shouyi Temple.

Although, in theory, with the constraints of lineage and precepts, Shouyi Temple should not dare to go too far on the surface, they have become increasingly arrogant and domineering in recent years, and some things are hard to say.

After hesitating for a moment, Meng Yu suddenly stood up.

No, I have to go check on Fellow Daoist Li and remind him!