Chapter 290: Their Sect Master Should Go Working
“Young Master, if we can’t find the indicated place, should we go to the Myriad Immortal Sect to inquire?”
After the food was served, the cultivators didn’t intend to pick up their chopsticks.
It was just mortal food; they had no interest in it at all.
But as they smelled it…
they suddenly found it very fragrant.
The man picked up a chopstickful and suddenly laughed, “The food here tastes exceptionally good, better than anything I’ve eaten before.”
It was rare to see him give such high praise, and the others were somewhat surprised.
A cultivator named Yin San said, “Young Master, it’s just mortal food.”
But the man said, “But I must eat this now.”
Yin Da glared fiercely at Yin San, bringing up something that should not be mentioned!
They were four brothers, named Yin Da, Yin Er, Yin San, and Yin Si.
Their main purpose was to protect the Young Master before them.
The Young Master’s name was Gong Xing Si.
They had traveled to too many places, all for a vague, ethereal instruction.
It was the Young Master’s only hope.
Gong Xing Si drank a couple of sips of the spirit wine that was served.
There was some surprise in his eyes.
The cultivators here are quite interesting, coming up with ways to combine mortal food and spirit herbs into dishes. It can satisfy some cultivators’ craving for food.
They all say cultivators do not value desires.
In reality, it is a lie.
Compared to mortals, cultivators’ desires are even stronger, and they are more prone to indulging themselves.
What was just said might have made the atmosphere awkward, so Yin Da quickly said, “The instruction told us to go east. We have already arrived in the east, and this is the territory of the Myriad Immortal Sect. If we truly have no clues, we can only go and ask the Myriad Immortal Sect.”
“It’s fine,” Gong Xing Si said. “If we force it too much, we might not find it. The Myriad Immortal Sect probably won’t have a solution either.”
Yin Er then added, “I heard that the Xuecang Sect placed a sub-body of the Myriad Things Mirror inside the replica of the Star Picking Tower. Although it’s only a part of the main body’s power, if we could borrow it to deduce, we might be able to find the place indicated by the instruction.”
Gong Xing Si pondered.
Yin San knew he had spoken out of turn and wanted to make amends, “Our relationship with the Xuecang Sect is also good. If we want to borrow the Myriad Things Mirror, it’s just a sub-body, so the Xuecang Sect should agree.”
“But why would the Xuecang Sect help us?” Gong Xing Si merely smiled faintly. “Besides, we are already here. If we still rely on external objects to search, it might lead to unforeseen complications.”
Yin Si couldn’t help but say, “Young Master, we have been searching for five years on this journey.”
They only had a total of twenty years.
The more time they wasted, the closer they got to that fatal deadline.
Gong Xing Si still shook his head gently, “If I can’t find it, it’s my fate.”
“Young Master!”
The four cultivators’ eyes instantly turned red.
It seemed they had touched upon a sorrowful point.
Meanwhile, Zhai Xiaotian in the front row, almost imperceptibly, slightly shifted his gaze.
But there was no further movement, and he drank the wine in his hand.
Not long after, a gray-robed old man with white hair and an extremely long beard came up from downstairs.
He held a book in his hand and muttered to himself, “I wonder what these Arabic numerals are, but they are extremely convenient for counting. Wonderful.”
Zhai Xiaotian, who had been silent until now, suddenly turned his head and smiled at the old man, “This restaurant has a new product today, brewed from Tier 2 Jade Fruit. It tastes extremely good.”
“Really?” The old man seemed to not know how to be polite and leaned in without ceremony, “Let me try.”
Zhai Xiaotian poured him a cup, and the old man added, “So stingy.”
Zhai Xiaotian smiled and said nothing.
The Yin family’s quartet in the back grew even more silent.
If they felt they couldn’t gauge Zhai Xiaotian’s depth, this old man clearly had not a trace of spiritual energy on him!
But he couldn’t possibly be a mortal.
He was drinking spirit wine, and mortals couldn’t consume much of anything tainted with spiritual energy.
Otherwise, if the spiritual energy was too abundant and they were greatly replenished, their mortal bodies wouldn’t be able to withstand it and could explode.
Let alone wine brewed from a Tier 2 spirit material.
Not a trace of spiritual energy?
They carried different magic treasures on them, but they couldn’t discern the old man’s aura at all.
They immediately fell silent.
Gong Xing Si seemed to sense something and calmly said, “I’m full. Let’s go, we’ll look elsewhere. Cough cough…”
The four hurried to get up and left with Gong Xing Si.
After they left.
The old man suddenly turned his head and glanced at their departing backs.
Zhai Xiaotian then asked, “Old sir, do you know them?”
“People from the Silver Firmament Sect,” the old man said, wrinkling his nose dismissively after finishing the spirit wine. After a pause, he narrowed his eyes, “Hmm, not bad.”
“Silver Firmament Sect.” Zhai Xiaotian pondered, as if recalling something, and after a while, said with some surprise, “So it’s them? The Four Fiends of the Yin family? What are they doing here?”
The old man opened his mouth and casually revealed something, “The son of the Silver Firmament Sect Master, Gong Dailan, was injured by a demonic cultivator fifty years ago and had all his cultivation crippled. He shouldn’t have lived long.”
Zhai Xiaotian was also surprised because he genuinely didn’t know about this matter.
However, he did know a little about Gong Dailan’s situation.
“Was that person just now the Young Master of the Silver Firmament Sect, Gong Xing Si?”
The old man was still savoring the taste of the spirit wine and said indifferently, “I don’t know about that. I last saw that girl from the Gong family many years ago and haven’t seen her son.”
That girl from the Gong family.
This statement almost indicated that the old man’s origin was very extraordinary.
Zhai Xiaotian was silent for a moment, but the old man chuckled at him, “Scared?”
Zhai Xiaotian was thinking about how to answer.
The old man continued, “If you’re scared, why aren’t you buying me a couple more bottles of spirit wine? Are you feeding it to mice with just this one cup?”
Zhai Xiaotian: “…”
He gave a wry smile, “If Senior is willing, disciples of the Longevity Sect can offer you countless bottles of spirit wine.”
“Hey! I’m not the type to bully others with my status. I just ate a few meals there without paying, and look at what they say behind my back.”
Zhai Xiaotian: “…”
It seems she didn’t say anything about you.
The old man thought for a moment and suddenly said, “When does their Sect Master usually return?”
“I really don’t know about that,” Zhai Xiaotian said. “She’s always elusive. I estimate she’s even less likely to return during this period. She seems to have gone to the Longshuang Great Marsh.”
After all, she left with her own flying magic treasure, so Zhai Xiaotian could still have some vague perception.
“Gone to the Longshuang Great Marsh?” The old man was stunned for a moment, then his face darkened. “As a dignified Sect Master, she wouldn’t go to work for someone, would she?”
This is because small sects generally cannot go to the Longshuang Great Marsh. If they want to borrow the Guanhai Sect’s teleportation array, they are most likely going there to work for someone.
To be a Sect Master, how could she be so undisciplined!
“She has money, so maybe she’s not working,” Zhai Xiaotian still understood the financial capabilities of the Longevity Sect to some extent.
By paying spirit stones, one could also teleport there.
But then he thought about Song Jiulai’s usual thick-skinned nature.
“However, if it requires spending spirit stones, she probably wouldn’t agree, so she’s most likely working.”
The old man: “…”
