Chapter 44: A Solution

Xingde Jun didn't want to admit defeat, so he continued to fight wits and courage with the Three Heroes of Moshan on this road. Relying on his cultivation far exceeding the three heroes, he rolled the three heroes into the array time and time again, but he couldn't beat the three heroes hard, and each time they escaped, followed by more varied harassment and more unbearable scolding.

Liu Xiaolou also tried to improve this situation, but this move of the three heroes was difficult to resolve, and they paid special attention to keeping their distance, making it really difficult to take action. After several days, everyone was exhausted.

Xingde Jun was also helpless. He complained to Liu Xiaolou: "These three dog-skin plasters, why don't they know what's good for them? Why do they cling so tightly? You and I are already a hundred miles away from Moshan, why do they still follow? How much hatred and resentment is this?"

Liu Xiaolou explained the motivation of the Three Heroes of Moshan: "They don't have hatred with us. Doing this is to draw a bottom line for us, telling us that this bottom line must never be crossed."

Xingde Jun said angrily: "Without that ability, they dare to draw a bottom line? Overestimating their capabilities!"

Liu Xiaolou said: "This is their ability... Master, why don't I go and talk to them?"

Xingde Jun flicked his sleeves: "Talk about what? I don't know what's good to talk about?"

Looking at his departing back, Liu Xiaolou called out: "Where is Master going?"

Xingde Jun didn't look back: "I have a headache, looking for a quiet place to rest for a while, don't come to disturb me."

After he left, Liu Xiaolou climbed a high ridge nearby and looked around. It was dusk again, and the Three Heroes of Moshan were likely to start tonight's harassment.

After looking for a while, he really saw the figures of the three brothers, poking their heads and touching over here, so Liu Xiaolou went down the ridge and took the initiative to meet them.

"Three... three old brothers..."

The Three Heroes of Moshan stood far away. Tianying stood in place and looked at Liu Xiaolou, while Diying and Renying scattered to both sides, looking for Xingde Jun's whereabouts.

Liu Xiaolou coughed: "Cough... don't look for him, I want to talk to the three old brothers. It's not a way for us to cling to each other like this."

Tianying asked: "You talk? What about him?"

Liu Xiaolou said: "That master of mine comes from a righteous sect, he definitely won't come out to talk."

Tianying sneered: "Righteous sect? If my three brothers were afraid, we wouldn't be mixing in the rivers and lakes!"

Liu Xiaolou nodded: "The three old brothers have great skills, I admire them, indeed there is no need to be afraid."

Tianying said: "Actually, there's nothing to talk about. You took a mysterious stone, right? Just pay us a spirit stone. My three brothers are the most reasonable, and we definitely don't want more. What we want is not spirit stones, but justice!"

Liu Xiaolou shook his head: "One stone for one spirit stone, absolutely impossible!"

Tianying said: "Impossible? Maybe in a few days, it will be possible."

Liu Xiaolou said: "My master is considering returning to Moshan to destroy the cold pool. Actually, it's not difficult to destroy it. Dig a ditch and drain the pool water. Wait at the edge of the pool for half a month, and dry the mud at the bottom of the pool for a few days, it can be guaranteed that it won't recover for ten years."

Tianying's heart skipped a beat. He looked at his two brothers, Diying and Renying, whose faces were also very ugly, staring at Liu Xiaolou.

"If you really want to do that, that's a deadly feud with my three brothers!"

"If the three old brothers keep making trouble like this, it doesn't make any difference whether it's a deadly feud or not."

The three brothers looked at each other for a while, and Tianying said: "How do you want to talk?"

Liu Xiaolou said: "We didn't bring spirit stones on this trip. Didn't we take a mysterious stone? We are willing to compensate with silver. I have a piece of beautiful jade here. I asked friends on the road, and it's worth at least fifty taels of silver, enough for the three of you to build a few houses by the pool, so that the sect or gang you created can be solid and carry forward."

Tianying said: "Fifty taels of silver? Are you joking? Do you think my Three Heroes of Moshan are short of these fifty taels of silver?"

Liu Xiaolou said: "I also think the three old brothers are not short of it. What the three old brothers lack is recognition. I am Liu Xiaolou, the sect master of the Three Mystical Sect, and that master is the sect master of the Ziji Sect. Our two sects recognize the management rights of you three old brothers over the Moshan cold pool, on the condition that in the future, when our two sects come to Moshan to buy mysterious stones and spring water essence jade, we will pay with silver, for example, fifty taels of silver for a mysterious stone. What do the three think?"

Tianying thought for a while and asked: "You say you are the sect master of the Three Mystical Sect?"

Liu Xiaolou took out a sect master token and displayed it in front of the three brothers. The token was yellowish in color and looked like it had been around for many years, not something made on the spot.

The three brothers' eyes were ethereal, fiercely entangled in the air, and finally made a decision: "Deal!"

Tianying collected the beautiful jade and said again: "Sect Master Liu seems to be a fellow traveler, I don't know where your sect is?"

Liu Xiaolou cupped his hands: "My sect is in Wulong Mountain, Western Hunan. If the three old brothers have time, you can come to Wulong Mountain as guests, Liu will sweep the bed and wait!"

The three brothers immediately respected: "So it's a fellow traveler from Wulong Mountain, disrespectful, disrespectful!"

The Three Heroes of Moshan said goodbye, and after leaving, they were still whispering:

"So it's from Wulong Mountain, no wonder..."

"It's still Big Brother who is wise. If we really turned against them, those guys from Wulong Mountain are not easy to mess with."

"Don't talk about those thieves from Wulong Mountain. The bad idea Liu came up with is not easy to deal with. If we really dig up the roots of the cold pool, what else can we do?"

"Big brother, Sect Master Liu just invited us to be guests in Wulong Mountain, should we go?"

"Are you stupid? Those guys from Wulong Mountain, once you get involved, you can't shake them off. It's better to keep them at a distance. However, this Sect Master Liu is not bad. His Three Mystical Sect is the first to recognize that we are the masters of Moshan. With this, my brothers have gained a lot..."

"Second brother, let's set up a sect too?"

"That depends on Big Brother's meaning."

"Well, let me ponder it..."

Liu Xiaolou watched the Three Heroes of Moshan leave. Xingde Jun appeared behind him at some point and spat hatefully: "Three thieves!"

Liu Xiaolou told Xingde Jun the result of the negotiation. Xingde Jun was still angry: "It's really cheap for them!"

But things had come to this, and Xingde Jun had no good way to shake off the three dog-skin plasters, so he had to admit it: "This trip down the mountain, the materials are ready, let's return to the mountain."

Returning to Xingde Temple, the two didn't delay and immediately began to process the materials.

They had been down the mountain for more than a month and collected seventeen kinds of materials, all of which had to be tidied up now. For example, pounding chicken-blood stone into powder to extract cinnabar, baking toad skin into powder, mixing mysterious stones with gold, silver, and other things to refine into mysterious gold liquid, and sealing mercury into spring water essence jade...

Each process was guided by Xingde Jun, and Liu Xiaolou completed it personally. The obscure words in the array book were also explained in detail by Xingde Jun.

In addition, he cut a small section of his own Illusory Incense Tendon and prepared to add it to the array as a trump card for the magic array.

It took a full month, and as all the materials were prepared, Liu Xiaolou's way of refining array plates finally got on the right track. ===== CHAPTER 45 =====