Chapter 694: Pear Garden Affairs Concluded

The next day, at dawn.

The Master of the Lu Sect, accompanied by his Mistress and the Pomegranate Fire Guard, flew to the central main peak.

At that time, several soldiers of the Lu Sect and several Sea Realm hall masters of the original Pear Garden Sect were already waiting in the central main hall.

Seeing the three walk over, everyone seated in the hall stood up to welcome them.

"Everyone sit." Lu Ran smiled and nodded at everyone, then looked around the large main hall.

Such a magnificent building was more than twice the size of the Cloud Sea Cliff's council chamber.

It was quite consistent with the positioning of a first-class sect?

Lu Ran came to the depths of the main hall, looking up at the large Lu Zongzhu's throne on the steps, imagining what the Martial Heavenly Emperor would look like sitting on it.

It must be extremely imposing!

Looking back at the hall, Lu Ran clearly felt that the number of strong people in the sect was a bit scarce.

Hmm... no matter!

Just develop slowly.

"Lu Zongzhu Wu..." Lu Ran did not touch Wu Xiao's throne; he stood on the steps and asked about the current situation of the sect.

Lu Ran nodded secretly as he listened to the various arrangements and deployments.

The three siblings Qin Zhen, Qin Zhan, and Qin Chichan, as well as Qin Pojun—a total of four hall masters surnamed Qin—had all filled their halls to 25 people and were stationed on the southeast, northwest, and four peaks of the Pear Garden Sect.

Wu Xiao's Heavenly Gang Hall and Wei Yun's Flowing Cloud Hall had been recalled to sit in the central main peak, assisting the weak divine disciples in building the sect and maintaining order.

After listening to the report, Lu Ran signaled to the side: "This lady is named Pomegranate Fire; she is the Mistress's personal guard."

Pomegranate Fire immediately stepped forward.

Lu Ran continued: "In the future, Pomegranate Fire will stay in the Pear Garden Sect to assist Lu Zongzhu Wu Xiao in managing the sect; I will have to trouble everyone to cooperate more."

"Yes!"

"Yes." Everyone naturally had no objections, except for He Tangzhu Qin Chichan, who sighed in her heart.

Over the past few days, Qin Chichan had worked with Pomegranate Fire, and she could see that this woman, as bright as fire, harbored secret feelings for Wu Xiao every time she looked at him.

In the past, when Wu Xiao first returned to the sect, Qin Chichan had stepped forward to welcome him immediately, expressing her attitude through various actions.

Which other woman in the sect dared to compete with the little sister of the Qin family?

Now, a high-level official had descended from the Lu Sect and was placed directly beside Wu Xiao to assist him in managing sect affairs.

What made Qin Chichan feel even more helpless was that this woman was also the Mistress's personal guard!

"Sigh..." Qin Chichan sighed heavily in her heart.

Some are happy, some are sad.

After Pomegranate Fire met everyone, she retreated behind Jiang Ruyi's seat; she was extremely grateful for the Mistress's arrangement.

She had always thought that she would serve as the Mistress's guard forever.

There was nothing bad about that.

On the contrary, this was what all living beings in the Mountain Realm dreamed of!

The Lu Zongzhu was gentle and very good to his own people, even giving her an evil sculpture to change her destiny against the heavens.

Although the Mistress was a bit strict, she was by no means as vicious as other Sea Realm kings; you didn't have to live in fear, constantly worrying about being executed.

Looking at the entire Holy Lingshan, ask anyone, who wouldn't want to follow such a pair of man and woman?

Pomegranate Fire was willing to live like this forever, but she didn't expect the Mistress to arrange her into the Pear Garden Sect and put her back beside Wu Xiao.

It very much meant "may all lovers eventually become spouses."

"The Pear Garden Sect is waiting to be rebuilt." Lu Ran continued to announce matters. "From the Dragon Master, and the Phoenix, Swallow, and Qin three Divine Generals, will also temporarily stay in the sect to assist Lu Zongzhu Wu in building and developing the sect."

It seemed to be Lu Ran's decision, but in reality, it was Jiang Ruyi's.

Because the other Divine Generals had been sent back to Cloud Sea Cliff to guard their posts, leaving only the Dragon Master, the Phoenix and Swallow Generals, and the highly functional General Qin.

Lu Ran's expression was solemn: "I won't come to the Pear Garden Sect often. Everyone must cooperate well, build Heavenly Gang City at the foot of the mountain as soon as possible, and protect the refugees as soon as possible; do not be negligent!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!" Although there were not many people in the hall, the voices were very loud.

Lu Ran nodded with satisfaction and called out: "Lu Zongzhu Wu."

As he spoke, a huge phantom abruptly supported itself within Lu Ran's body.

Everyone in the hall changed color, looking at the truly existing divine phantom.

Martial... Martial Student Lord?

The gods' control over the Holy Lingshan was pitifully weak.

The god Martial Student was actually descending upon the Holy Lingshan, relying on the body of the Lu Lu Zongzhu?

No!

Behind the crowd, Wen Cheng frowned.

A few days ago, the Lu Lu Zongzhu clearly stated that he would return the divine technique of the Martial Student faction to him.

And he also said that when that time came, what everyone would worship would no longer be the god Martial Student, but the Lu Lu Zongzhu himself...

The main hall was solemn, and one could hear a pin drop.

At Lu Ran's signal, Wu Xiao stepped forward and knelt, bowing his head.

"Whoosh!"

The god Martial Student was expressionless, looking down at the human race at his feet, slowly leaning over and reaching out, overlapping his palm with Lu Ran's, and placing it on Wu Xiao's head.

Lu Ran could be considered familiar with the road.

First, he signed the inheritance contract, then protected the soldiers, and tore up their original master-servant contracts.

After just a few dozen seconds, Wu Xiao's tiger body shook, and he let out a muffled groan: "Uh."

Lu Ran looked at his Great Martial Student and raised his hand; a pitch-black Rebirth Carp appeared quietly: 【Back then in Thousand Flower Ridge, I promised you a Martial Student stone sculpture, a qualification to become a god.】

【Yes.】 A moment later, Wu Xiao's low voice imprinted itself into Lu Ran's mind.

Lu Ran pinched the fish tail and placed it on Wu Xiao's head: 【Now, you are the true body of this Pseudo-Divine stone sculpture. You know what I want; don't let me down.】

Wu Xiao gripped his Purple Thunder Wild Dragon Halberd tightly, his heart, which had been as still as an ancient well, rippling with little waves, and he replied in a deep voice:

【Yes.】

"Go down." Lu Ran patted Wu Xiao's shoulder and looked toward the back of the main hall: "Wen Cheng, Zhe Mei."

The Pear Garden Sect's neutral faction once had three people; after the sect changed hands, the trio was brought before Lu Ran.

The He Tangzhu of Heavenly Billows among them was executed for being tyrannical, while the remaining two hall masters, Wen Cheng and Zhang Zhemei, were not guilty of death and were spared.

The two obeyed the summons and stepped forward quickly.

"In the future, you must assist Lu Zongzhu Wu well." Lu Ran said, signing master-servant contracts with the two in turn.

The two regained the Martial Student divine technique and were very grateful, responding one after another.

Only then did Lu Ran look at the hall masters of the Pear Garden Sect: "After a while, I will sign contracts with the hall members under each hall master one by one."

Sign contracts with the hall members?

Qin Chichan gathered her courage and asked: "Lu Zongzhu, what about us..."

She was full of curiosity about Lu Ran's abilities and urgently wanted to know more, but didn't dare to speak clearly, so she had to beat around the bush.

Lu Ran looked at the heroic woman and knew that this was one of the Martial Heavenly Emperor's pursuers.

Lu Ran naturally raised both hands in favor of letting these hall masters break away from the gods.

However, there was only one successor!

Lu Ran had no way to help these people tear up their contracts without injury; these hall masters' strength realms were relatively high, and once they fell, the damage would be too great.

Those two neutral faction members were good examples!

Originally, they were Sea Realm Third Stage, but now they had fallen to Sea Realm First Stage.

They dropped a full two stages!

This was two stages of the Sea Realm...

Could they really climb back up?

"Lu Zongzhu, calm your anger." Seeing Lu Ran silent for a long time, Qin Chichan's heart hung in her throat, and she hurriedly said.

"Lu Zongzhu, calm your anger; Chichan did not mean to offend..." Qin Zhen and Qin Zhan, the two older brothers, also hurriedly spoke, begging for mercy for their little sister together.

Lu Ran came back to his senses and hurriedly explained: "It's okay, it's okay, you misunderstood! I just thought of other things.

Don't be so nervous; I'm quite easygoing and not as scary as you think."

Everyone: "..."

Everyone was silent.

The battle of the Pear Garden Sect happened just a few days ago!

Everyone still remembered Lu Ran's cold eyes vividly.

His incomparably terrifying strength made a group of Vast Sea people feel despair.

On the night the Pear Garden Sect changed hands, shrill screams would come from the mansion on the East Peak from time to time!

Intermittent, lasting until dawn!

It was hard to imagine what kind of cruel means could make the person being punished howl and cry so heartbreakingly, enough to make the people of the Pear Garden Sect hair-raising!

The Lu Zongzhu calls this easygoing?

This is called not scary?

"We will get in touch slowly, and you will know." Lu Ran looked at the trembling crowd, feeling a bit helpless.

He didn't respond to He Tangzhu Chichan's inquiry, encouraged the soldiers, and then said goodbye and left for the slave camp.

There were more than 200 disciples waiting to join the Lu Sect.

Called a "camp," in fact, the weak divine disciples of the Pear Garden Sect all lived inside the mountain.

The Pear Garden Sect was undoubtedly a power organization with a very strict hierarchy; only Martial Student disciples could live on the surface, and high-level officials could even own luxurious mansions.

The slave group could only live in dark caves.

This, of course, had to be improved.

Yu Changsheng accompanied Lu Ran throughout the contract signing, also indicating that this matter had been put on the agenda.

It wasn't until more than half an hour later that Lu Ran finished everything; a total of 252 weak divine disciples in the Pear Garden Sect joined the Jade Talisman and Raging Heaven factions, with the numbers roughly equal.

As the last disciple left gratefully, Lu Ran turned his head and looked toward the cave entrance.

There, a woman in a large red robe had been waiting patiently.

Seeing Lu Ran look over, Qin Chichan hurriedly stepped forward: "Lu Zongzhu."

Lu Ran was a bit helpless: "Didn't I say it was okay?"

"Thank you, Lu Zongzhu." Qin Chichan thanked him, then hesitated, "Subordinate, subordinate..."

"Hmm?" Lu Ran was a bit curious, "He Tangzhu Chichan, please speak."

Qin Chichan steeled her heart: "Subordinate fell in love with Lu Zongzhu Wu many years ago; a few days ago when Lu Zongzhu Wu returned, subordinate has been accompanying him..."

Lu Ran couldn't laugh or cry.

What does that mean?

Asking me to grant a marriage?

Lu Ran looked at Jiang Ruyi in the distance; behind the Lu Sect Mistress, Pomegranate Fire was accompanying her, staring at this side without blinking.

Lu Ran pondered for a long time and still said: "I don't care about emotional matters, as long as it doesn't delay the construction of the sect."

It was true that he was a CP fan of Wu Xiao and Pomegranate Fire, but as the actual ruler of the Pear Garden Sect, Lu Ran didn't want to bully others with his power, and even less did he want to deprive others of the right to pursue happiness.

The Holy Lingshan was already bitter enough...

Besides, the peach blossoms Wu Heavenly Emperor stained should naturally be handled by himself.

Qin Chichan's face was happy: "Thank you, Lu Zongzhu, for your fulfillment!"

Lu Ran shook his head and smiled.

Clearly, the arrival of Pomegranate Fire made Qin Chichan feel quite wary, but now with these words from the Lu Zongzhu, she could rely on her own abilities.

"Pay attention to your sense of proportion and handle your relationship with your colleagues well." Lu Ran exhorted again.

"Yes!" Qin Chichan agreed immediately.

Only then did Lu Ran look at Yu Changsheng: "Sir, are you coming back to Cloud Sea Cliff with me? Xuanshuang is ascending; it's a good opportunity for cultivation."

Yu Changsheng refused: "Lu Zongzhu, you go first; subordinate still has some things to deal with here. With General Qin here, I can return at any time."

Lu Ran nodded and added: "I'm also about to touch the bottleneck of cultivation; after returning to the cliff, I estimate I will have to go into seclusion for a period of time."

Yu Changsheng understood immediately and said in a deep voice: "Lu Zongzhu, rest assured! When you come again, the Pear Garden Sect will definitely have a brand-new look."

"Snap!"

Lu Ran patted Yu Changsheng's shoulder heavily, then opened an ancient bronze mirror.

With this departure, the Pear Garden affairs were considered a closed chapter for him.

Lu Ran was originally a hands-off manager.

In the future, he only needed to hear good news from the Pear Garden Sect.

"Let's go, Ruyi!"

"Hmm." Jiang Ruyi drifted over, and several shadow guards appeared one after another around the floor mirror.

As everyone left, Qin Chichan turned her head slowly and looked at Pomegranate Fire in the distance.

One was a heroic female general in a large red robe.

One was a charming woman in a large red dress.

The two women looked at each other from afar, and after a moment, smiled and nodded at each other.

Seeing this scene, Yu Changsheng retreated silently and left quickly...

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 695 =====