Infiltrating the righteous path? Just another place to be a sycophant.

"You infiltrated the Heavenly Demon Sect to assassinate Li Podao. Although you failed, it's enough to show that you have extensive experience as an undercover agent!" Yu Wanqing said logically. "As the saying goes, 'Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.' Since Elder Lu has been an undercover agent, he must know what it's like to be an undercover agent! He must have experience in capturing undercover agents!"

Lu An couldn't help but remind him, "Do you know that my undercover mission ultimately failed and I was hunted down by the Heavenly Demon Sect?"

"I know. Although being hunted by the Heavenly Demon Sect seems like a failed undercover operation, your escape proves your success, Elder Lu!" Yu Wanqing encouraged. "It's precisely because of your successful undercover operation—not only did you infiltrate the Demon Lord Li Podao's inner circle, but you also learned a great deal about the Heavenly Demon Sect's secrets—that's why they went to such lengths to kill you! That must be it!"

Lu An listened, but dared not speak.

What secrets? What secrets of the Heavenly Demon Sect does he possess? And a multitude of secrets? Isn't this just spreading rumors?

This woman's imagination is running wild!

"So Elder Lu, you can rest assured and do your job! If you have any questions, communicate with me! Everything is for the sake of the righteous path!"

Damn, I feel like I'm in trouble. Should I send him to catch the undercover agent?

It's not uncommon for a thief to cry "stop thief!", but it is uncommon for a thief to be forced to catch another thief.

"Then, where do I even begin? I've been lying here for over a month and I don't know anything."

"Do you still remember Elder Zhang, the one whose mountain peak you shaved off?"

"I remember... the one whose great-grandfather and great-grandmother I both killed, no, it was Alliance Leader Xia, not me!"

"Yes, yes, it's Alliance Leader Xia! Don't worry about these details." Yu Wanqing said seriously, "Zui Meng Lou is going to hold a Culinary God Competition, and he's going to be a judge. We've received information that there's an undercover agent at the Culinary God Competition, and someone is going to poison the competition!"

Lu An was completely confused by this short sentence.

What kind of culinary competition is this? Isn't Zui Meng Lou a brothel belonging to the Hehuan Sect? Holding a culinary competition there? Are you kidding me?

And where did you guys find out about this? You act like you're all-knowing and all-powerful, like the NPCs who give out quests, right?

"Sect Leader Yu, let me ask you a question: how did you know that someone was planning to poison the Culinary God Competition, or that they were an undercover agent?"

"That's because we also have undercover agents! This is the message they sent back!"

Okay, okay, so you're spying on each other, huh? Aren't you afraid of creating a double agent?

"Then...which sect is the undercover agent infiltrating? May I ask?"

"That must be the Heavenly Demon Sect!"

Oh, so it's my old employer.

Chapter 126 So I Was the Undercover Agent All Along

This is Lu An's first day back at work in the Enforcement Hall. What's that saying again?

As soon as I go to work, my whole body aches and feels uncomfortable.

As long as he's not at work, he's full of energy and vitality.

Especially when he returned to the Enforcement Hall and saw a mountain of documents piled up there, Lu An felt even more depressed.

What kind of lousy job is this?

"Elder Lu, while you were away, no one dared to touch these documents!"

Elder Yan Buyu quickly ran over and welcomed Lu An to the main seat.

When Lu An saw the mountain of documents, he felt a strong sense of resistance, much like a working person coming home to find a pile of documents assigned by their boss, or a student seeing a pile of exam papers.

"What is this? Does the Enforcement Hall have so many things to deal with? Is this how an emperor is?"

"It's not as exaggerated as being an emperor, but there are many things in the Enforcement Hall that require your personal attention as the Grand Elder."

Lu An shakily picked up one of the documents and opened it.

"Elder Liu was severely injured by lightning while attempting to transcend the eighth level of the Void Refinement Tribulation. Is it recommended that the eight couples on Three Emotions Peak be punished?"

Lu An was stunned as he looked at the contents of these documents.

Why punish the Daoist partner when someone fails to transcend tribulation and is severely injured by lightning?

"Elder Lu, you may not know this, but it just so happened to be Valentine's Day. They were making vows, so after Elder Liu finished his tribulation, he was struck hundreds of times..."

Now Lu An understood. It turned out that those old scumbags were making oaths, causing them to be struck by lightning repeatedly.

Lu An shook his head and said, "Although they are responsible for making false oaths, they can't be punished arbitrarily. Besides, who wrote this? The handwriting is so crooked."

Yan Buyu reminded him, "Elder Lu, your signature is in the bottom right corner of the first page."

Lu An looked down and saw three characters written crookedly: Liu Zhizi.

"Is that Elder Liu?"

“Yes, Elder Liu said he would write even if he was seriously injured, and we couldn’t persuade him otherwise.” Yan Buyu then brought out dozens more books: “Elder Lu, look, these were all written during the month you were away. I thought the content was all the same, so I only kept one for you to see.”

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Lu An looked at the dozens of books, his lips twitching slightly.

How much hatred must there be to write so many copies?

So Lu An reached out and ticked the document: "From now on, anyone who makes a rash vow on Valentine's Day will be sent to the spirit stone mine to do hard labor for a month."

"Ah, this...this isn't a good idea. Many of our Enforcement Hall disciples also make vows on Valentine's Day."

Lu An said without looking up, "You can handle things yourselves, just be clean."

I'm just protective of my own, so what?

If even my own brothers won't pull any strings, who's going to do things for me?

Besides, I'm single anyway, so this document won't affect me.

It won't affect me at all!

Lu An continued reading the next book. Some things were normal and understandable, but others were outrageous.

"Reporting that the Spirit Medicine Hall is selling fake pills? Our own sect's Spirit Medicine Hall has fake medicines?" Lu An was stunned as he looked at the contents of the book.

In the days following being drained dry by his senior sister and master, he even went there to buy some aphrodisiac and kidney-tonifying medicine. If there were fake medicine, wouldn't that be...?

Then Lu An continued reading, and his heart sank even further.

A disciple surnamed Yu, whose desire for a Daoist partner was too high, couldn't bear it any longer. So he bought aphrodisiacs at the Spirit Medicine Hall to nourish himself. However, after taking them, he still couldn't get an erection. Unconvinced, he spent a lot of money to buy a powerful medicine. After taking it, he went into a state of demonic possession.

Did he really take so much medicine that he went mad? This guy is really pushing himself too hard!

"Elder Yan, what's going on?"

Lu An handed the document to Yan Buyu, who glanced at it and said, "Oh, we've heard about this too. He was causing trouble at the Spirit Medicine Hall. We even brought people there, but he was the only one whose medicine didn't work, so no one took it seriously."

"He's the only one whose condition didn't work? Then what exactly happened?"

"It's probably because he's been exploited too much, so even medicine can't help him recover. We all saw him back then. Old Yu, he's considered a senior brother of Chiyan Peak, everyone knows that."

"How can you tell he's been completely drained?"

Yan Buyu took out two photos and showed them to Lu An.

Looking at the photos, Lu An noticed that one of them featured a plump, strong-looking man with a ruddy complexion.

The other picture shows a skinny, stick-like boy with dark circles under his eyes, looking as if all his energy has been drained.

The difference is that the skinny guy is holding a woman's hand, while the fat guy is alone.

“He used to be fat, but now he’s skin and bones, while her partner has a rosy complexion and is quite plump. Isn’t it obvious what’s going on?”

Lu An looked at the photo; the contrast was too stark.

Women are as fierce as tigers; even zombies don't suck like that.

The difference between this woman and the zombie is that this woman still knows to leave the fat man a breath of life so that he can continue to thrive, while the zombie just sucks him clean and gives him a quick death.

It would be better to be drained dry by a zombie; I'd probably rather be dead now.

So Lu An asked curiously, "What about that medicine? Is it fake or something else?"

Yan Buyu replied, "Later, the doctor came and diagnosed that he had been ruined by overwork. No amount of medicine could help him recover. He was essentially castrated. Now the two of them are getting a divorce."

Lu An stopped talking, simply crossed out a big X, and then instructed, "Tell the female disciples to watch their desires, and the male disciples to watch their bodies. Our Yuan Tian Holy Sect cannot stoop to this level."

Yan Buyu's face was full of helplessness: "It's unavoidable, Elder Lu. You know that cultivation is austere, and the female disciples have not eaten meat for hundreds of years, so their desires are a bit greater. There have been cases of female elders draining male disciples dry before."

Good, good, good, this is supposed to be the number one righteous sect? How come it's all about doing demonic things?

However, thinking back to when I was in the Heavenly Demon Sect, I seem to have seen quite a few senior and junior brothers who had to lean on the wall to walk.

As the saying goes, "When the youth are strong, the clan is strong; when the young women are strong, the young men can lean on the wall."

It was called an approval document, but it was really just a show, because Yan Buyu would always give his opinion, while Lu An could simply decide for himself whether to give a yes or no based on sufficient reasons.

Outrageous, really outrageous.

"Xu Erniu went to the Hehuan Sect to change his body and came back, then applied to be reassigned as a female disciple? Is that even allowed?"

“It’s their freedom to change their gender, but whether or not to arrange it is our business,” Yan Buyu said. “If you disagree, Elder, you can cast a dissenting vote. After all, this is not a decision you can make alone.”

It was only then that Lu An realized that the document was not for him to make a decision, but rather to ask for his opinion. Other elders also had to leave their opinions, and it just so happened that it was his turn.

So he silently gave a negative reply.

No way, he wouldn't agree to someone just transforming into a human to live with a female disciple.

After all, he hadn't tried it himself, and he didn't want others to do it either.

After reviewing a pile of documents, Lu An was exhausted, and it was already late.

So he picked up a document, intending to finish reviewing it and then leave work.

But as soon as he opened the document, he was stunned.

The mark on the first page is the stamp of my senior colleague's approval document.

What does it mean? It means that this document was written by someone from the Heavenly Demon Sect, and it's unclear how it got in.

"What's wrong, Elder Lu? What difficult problem have you encountered this time?"

"It's nothing, Elder Yan, you can go home now."

Lu An simply said this, leaving Yan Buyu somewhat puzzled.

But thinking back to the time she ran around the square in women's clothing, Yan Buyu obeyed and left to go home.

After Yan Buyu left, Lu An slowly turned to the second page.

At the Drunken Dream Pavilion, during the Culinary God Competition, Zhang Kefan of the Spirit Food Hall poisoned someone; he must be eliminated.

Although it was only a few words, it left Lu An completely bewildered.

Does this mean that the Heavenly Demon Sect entrusted him with the task of poisoning Elder Zhang?

So, the undercover agent who wanted to poison me was me?

Chapter 127 The Culinary God Competition: Many Talents

A picture of a porcelain vase slowly appeared on the document, and then the picture of the vase gradually took shape and emerged from the document.

Lu An picked up the porcelain bottle and found that it was still quite warm.

Something's not right. Did you give me a heat pack or poison?

I shook the porcelain bottle and heard the sound of water inside.

What do you mean? Do you mean he should drip the poison into this?

Probably?

After finishing his day's work and returning to Jade Void Peak, Lu An began to ponder how to complete the mission.

On one hand, they want me to protect them, and on the other hand, they want me to poison them. What should I do?

Lu Anchou scratched his head in frustration. He couldn't very well leave the other person both dead and alive, could he?

A double superposition state, stuffed in a safe, is that Elder Zhang, like Schrödinger?

Time quickly came to the day of the Culinary God Competition, but Lu An still couldn't understand why there was a Culinary God Competition.

Why are they still in a place like the Hehuan Sect? Could they be plotting something?

Well, there aren't many normal people in this cultivation world anyway. They've all lived for so long, so it's reasonable that their mental and intellectual abilities are a bit abnormal.

However, sleeping in was Lu An's habit, so when Lu An got up, there was very little time left before the start of the competition.