Chapter 205: The opportunity bestowed by the Upper Sect!

"Oh? An urgent report from the Tianqing Sect..."

The purple-dressed woman standing on the mountain peak turned around slowly.

The wild wind blew her purple dress until it fluttered, but it couldn't blow away the innate grace and luxury between her brows.

A young girl wearing a green dress walked steadily against the wild wind on the mountain peak.

Her face was clear and beautiful, and between her brows was a cold and sharp aura inconsistent with her age; her fair hands held a secret letter, which rustled slightly in the wind.

The purple-dressed woman flicked her finger lightly, and a wisp of clear wind carried the secret letter in the girl's hand and landed lightly in her palm.

She tore open the seal, her gaze scanning the paper slowly, and that noble and exquisite beautiful face gradually showed some movement:

"Beat back the Seven Kill Sect's Primordial Realm martial artist..."

Immediately following, she seemed to think of something, and a flash of amusement crossed her gray-purple eyes as she murmured softly:

"Right... they are the people from the Tianqing Sect..."

Her voice was very light, almost inaudible in the roaring wild wind on the mountain top.

"Master..."

The girl looked at the purple-dressed woman's appearance of being lost in thought, a flash of hidden strangeness crossing her eyes.

In her impression, her master always acted decisively and cleanly, rarely having times of deep thought like this.

She couldn't help but be a bit curious about what was so special about the Tianqing Sect far away in Yunling Prefecture that could make her master care so much.

After a good while,

The purple-dressed woman suddenly spoke: "The Dongfeng of Tianyun Peak is still empty, right."

The girl was slightly stunned, then responded: "Yes, Master, ever since the Qingyun Sect failed the assessment and withdrew last time, that Dongfeng has been empty and hasn't been assigned yet."

The purple-dressed woman nodded slightly, her voice noble:

"Pass on my order—the Tianqing Sect has merit in eliminating demons; reduce their taxes for three years."

"Additionally, open the Dongfeng of Tianyun Peak, and specially permit the Tianqing Sect to send fifty people to enter the Dongfeng of Tianyun Peak for cultivation."

"The assessment time will be set for half a year from now."

Hearing this, the girl's pupils shrank slightly.

The nine peaks of the Linzhou Upper Sect's inner sect were each a holy land for cultivation where heaven and earth spiritual energy converged; ordinary sects would break their heads and might not even be able to fight for a single spot.

This time, not only did her master reduce their taxes, but she also...

She could already imagine what kind of shock would be caused once this news spread.

She suppressed the horror surging in her heart and bowed respectfully: "This disciple will go handle it."

Tianqing Sect, Jiding Peak.

Inside a quiet courtyard.

Pei Pei Yunchuan's complexion was slightly better than yesterday, and there was finally some blood color on his pale face, but the weakness and lethargy between his brows still couldn't be waved away.

He and Lu Lu Guizhou sat opposite each other in the pavilion, a game of residual chess set on the stone table, tea fragrance curling.

After dropping a few pieces, Pei Pei Yunchuan seemed a bit absent-minded, holding a black piece with his fingertips and suspending it above the chessboard for a long time without dropping it, his gaze drifting from time to time toward the direction of the ruins of the Tianqing Hall outside the courtyard wall.

After hesitating again and again, he finally couldn't help but speak:

"True Person Lu... tell me, will the Upper Sect agree to the request to reduce taxes."

Lu Lu Guizhou dropped a piece and smiled indifferently:

"Rest assured, Sect Master Pei. This old man has already truthfully reported your Tianqing Sect's situation to the sect yesterday; since you have suffered no small damage, the Sect Master will naturally have a decision..."

As soon as the words fell,

Chirp—!!!

A heart-palpitating eagle cry came from the sky.

Pei Pei Yunchuan looked up and saw a huge gray eagle swooping down from the clouds, its speed like a gray stream of light tearing through the sky.

"Gray Feather Eagle?!"

A flash of envy crossed his eyes.

This Gray Feather Eagle had demonic beast bloodline and was far from comparable to ordinary eagles, traveling more than a thousand miles a day.

Whether it was delivering information or assisting martial artists in fighting, or searching for the enemy's tracks, it was a huge help.

Unfortunately, the secret method for cultivating the Gray Feather Eagle was unique to the Upper Sect.

Sects like theirs could only watch with hot eyes.

Immediately following, Pei Pei Yunchuan's heart became nervous again.

Since the Gray Feather Eagle had returned, it meant that the Upper Sect's order had also arrived.

In the blink of an eye, the Gray Feather Eagle had landed steadily on Lu Lu Guizhou's extended finger; it folded its wings and shook the dew off its body, with a thin copper tube tied to its claw.

Lu Lu Guizhou took out the secret report from the copper tube and unfolded it to look; that indifferent old face changed color instantly, a flash of shock flowing in his eyes that couldn't be concealed.

Seeing this scene, Pei Pei Yunchuan's heart skipped a beat, and even his breathing became lighter, fearing he would hear any bad news from Lu Lu Guizhou's mouth.

After taking a deep breath, he asked tentatively: "True Person Lu, the Upper Sect..."

Lu Lu Guizhou looked at Pei Pei Yunchuan, who was full of anxiety, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Sect Master Pei! This old man wants to congratulate you!"

"Congratulate me?!"

Pei Pei Yunchuan was slightly stunned.

Lu Lu Guizhou smiled and handed the secret report directly to Pei Pei Yunchuan: "This is the Sect Master's handwritten order; see for yourself."

Pei Pei Yunchuan took the secret report and only scanned it once, and a joy that couldn't be suppressed burst out on that pale face, his voice trembling slightly from excitement:

"Reduce taxes for three years!!!"

When he saw the last few lines, he couldn't suppress the shock in his heart anymore, stood up from the stone stool, and exclaimed:

"Open the Dongfeng of Tianyun Peak, specially permit the Tianqing Sect to send fifty people to enter for cultivation..."

"Assessment time, half a year from now!"

Tianyang Peak.

Inside the Tiankui Herb Garden.

Jiang Ye sat cross-legged in the center of the herb garden, his eyes closed, the heaven and earth origin qi around his body flowing like a tide, refining the wood-element true divine qi.

Suddenly—

A burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the herb garden.

The heaven and earth origin qi around Jiang Ye dissipated abruptly. He looked up.

A moment later, a middle-aged man wearing the deacon robes of Jiding Peak arrived at the entrance of the herb garden.

He bowed slightly to Jiang Ye with a respectful expression: "Elder Jiang, the Sect Master invites you."

"Oh?!"

Hearing this, Jiang Ye stood up immediately, a flash of surprise crossing his eyes.

Sect Master Pei Pei Yunchuan was not lightly injured; a sudden urgent summons meant there must be something important.

He didn't delay, stood up, and followed the deacon toward Jiding Peak.

When he arrived at the courtyard where the Sect Master was recuperating, he found that the Peak Masters of the other three peaks had already arrived.

Seeing Jiang Ye arrive, Liu Liu Qingyu and Sun Lin nodded slightly to him to signal.

Zhao Jing's body trembled violently the moment he met Jiang Ye's gaze, pulling at the wounds on his body that were still healing, causing the corners of his mouth to twitch slightly in pain.

A complex and awkward look flashed in the eyes revealed in the gaps of the bandages, and then he moved his gaze to the side somewhat unnaturally.

Ever since that night when Jiang Ye and Liu Liu Qingyu joined forces to save him on Thick Earth Peak, the resentment he had toward Jiang Ye in the past had already vanished like smoke.

But to ask him to take the initiative to greet him, he couldn't bring himself to do it for a while.

On the stone stool in the center of the courtyard, besides Sect Master Pei Pei Yunchuan, sat an old man wearing a plain white robe.

That old man had white hair and beard but a ruddy complexion, his eyes containing restrained brilliance, and his whole body faintly exuded a mysterious aura that merged with heaven and earth, and he was looking at him with great interest.

Jiang Ye's heart moved slightly.

This person's aura was as deep as an abyss, even better than those two black-robed Primordial Realm martial artists; he should be the Upper Sect's Primordial Realm martial artist.

"This is the Upper Sect's Primordial Realm Elder, True Person Lu."

Pei Pei Yunchuan opened his mouth to introduce him, his voice still having some weakness, but with more vigor than yesterday.

"Greetings, True Person Lu."

Several people bowed at the same time, and Lu Lu Guizhou raised his hand slightly to signal them to be exempt from the ceremony.

Pei Pei Yunchuan didn't do much foreshadowing, his gaze sweeping across everyone's faces one by one, his tone carrying excitement that couldn't be suppressed:

"Summoning you all urgently this time is because there is good news. The Upper Sect Sect Master personally issued a handwritten order..."

"Reduce our Tianqing Sect's taxes for three years, open the Dongfeng of Tianyun Peak, and specially permit the Tianqing Sect to send fifty people to enter for cultivation, with the assessment time set for half a year from now."

As the words fell, the whole room was shocked.

"What?!"

"The Upper Sect is opening the Dongfeng of Tianyun Peak..."

"This... this..."

Reducing taxes for three years was already an unexpected joy.

The taxes the Tianqing Sect had to pay to the Upper Sect every year were not a small amount, and a three-year reduction was enough for them to have a large amount of resources to recover their vitality.

And opening the Dongfeng of Tianyun Peak was simply a heaven-sent opportunity.

The nine peaks of the Linzhou Upper Sect's inner sect had heaven and earth spiritual energy far beyond ordinary mountain ranges; which martial artist in the entire Linzhou wouldn't break their heads to get in to cultivate.

Besides shock, Jiang Ye's eyes were filled with confusion.

How could this Upper Sect be so kind as to let the martial artists of these subordinate sects freeload off the sect's internal cultivation resources?

Lu Lu Guizhou seemed to see through his doubts, stroked his silver beard, and explained with a smile:

"Actually, the Upper Sect allowing martial artists from the sects below to enter the inner peaks for cultivation is a long-standing tradition."

"The origin of this has to start from a great battle between the Linzhou Upper Sect and the neighboring Miaozhou Gu Sect."

He recounted that dusty history.

Back then, the friction between the Linzhou Upper Sect and the Miaozhou Gu Sect was intense, and both sides suffered heavy losses; to make up for the combat power gap, the Linzhou Upper Sect mobilized a large number of martial artists from the Chiyan Sect, Wan Liuzong, and Cangyue Sect below to participate in the war.

After the war subsided, to reward the meritorious service of the martial artists from these three sects who participated in the war, they bestowed Tianyun Peak as a reward, allowing this batch of martial artists to stay in the inner peaks with abundant spiritual energy to cultivate.

Since then, the Upper Sect has used this as a tradition; as long as the sects below perform great meritorious service, they have the opportunity to obtain spots to enter Tianyun Peak for cultivation.

Of course, the Upper Sect has an assessment mechanism for this.

If they fail the assessment, they will be cleared out, and that spot will end there.

Hearing this, a flash of understanding crossed Jiang Ye's eyes, "So that's how it is; thank you, True Person Lu, for clearing up the confusion."

Pei Pei Yunchuan on the side took over the conversation, his gaze sweeping across everyone's faces again, his tone heavier than before:

"This matter is absolutely a heaven-sent opportunity for our Tianqing Sect!!!"

"In this vast Linzhou, besides the Upper Sect, there are only three sects with Primordial Realm martial artists sitting in town: Chiyan Sect, Wan Liuzong, and Cangyue Sect!"

"Do you know why it is specifically these three sects?"

He paused and answered his own question:

"It is precisely because they have a foundation within the Upper Sect, and can continuously obtain Primordial Qi from Tianyun Peak, that they can feed back into their sects and create Primordial martial artists!"

"So this time... the people we send to Tianyun Peak for cultivation must stand firm there."

"This is not just for the future of those fifty people, but for the future of the Tianqing Sect!!!" ===== CHAPTER 206 =====