Chapter 217: Not necessarily just the holy land of one country

How could Lu Xingzhou have imagined that there could be bad people even among the masses?

Can this kind of thing be said so casually? Is this meant to make someone fail at picking up girls? No, this is meant to get someone killed.

However, contrary to everyone's expectations, after Ye Tinglan glared fiercely at Lu Xingzhou, she didn't even ask, her beautiful eyes swept over the truly empty shop, and she snorted coldly: "Borrow the changing room for a moment."

She then walked straight in.

What to scold him for, and how to scold him?

She was only his mentor; what business was it of hers what woman he brought to buy clothes? Could this fire be vented in public? What kind of relationship would venting this kind of fire in public imply?

She could only endure it.

You still want to pursue me? Go to hell.

Ye Tinglan had her own clothes and didn't need to buy any; she just hadn't been able to find a place to change until now.

When she touched her dharma robe while changing, she wanted to slap her own forehead.

If she had been wearing the dharma robe of the Holy Master of Tianyao, those so-called spatial rifts and corrosion today wouldn't have damaged her clothes at all. But just to play the role of "Mrs. Ye," she hadn't worn her dharma robe and had worn ordinary clothes instead, resulting in this sorry state.

What was infuriating was that she still had to continue wearing ordinary clothes now.

What was even more infuriating was that the acting was now completely meaningless... Su Yuan, that idiot, opened his mouth and called her Sect Master, and she was an idiot too, opening her mouth and calling herself "this seat."

But Su Yuan felt that since Long Qinghuang had already shouted it out in public, there was nothing left to hide, so the real idiot was herself.

Judging from Lu Xingzhou's unsurprised reaction, this performance had been a joke from beginning to end. How could such a smart person be fooled by such a hole-ridden joke... Yet, under the background she had just stubbornly maintained of being a junior sister, she had to bite the bullet and continue the farce.

Ye Tinglan painfully gave up on her Sect Master dharma robe, picked out a piece of ordinary clothing to wear, and walked out of the room with an expressionless face.

As soon as she went out, she saw Lu Xingzhou surrounded by a group of people from the Cold Mist Sect: "You still dare to come!"

Lu Xingzhou was very helpless: "Returning evil for good. You don't know how much I've shouldered for you all."

Seeing that the other side had even brought out their Sect Master, Ye Tinglan crossed her arms and watched him die, planning to save him only after he was beaten half to death.

But then she heard Lu Xingzhou continue: "However, you've come just in time; I was planning to pay a visit anyway. In this glacier incident, as the starting point of Cold Mist City, your sect cooperated the most and had direct exchanges and performances with the people from the Tianyao Holy Land. I wonder if you know more inside information? Have you had direct exchanges with Gu Zhanting?"

Ye Tinglan: "..."

Cold Mist Sect Master Zhang Liying sneered: "You certainly know a lot! Take him down!"

Before the words had even faded, Ye Tinglan appeared in front of him with an expressionless face.

Facing those deep pupils, Zhang Liying suddenly felt as if he were being stared at by an ancient tyrannosaur, his whole body going numb.

He had heard that the tyrannosaur this man brought yesterday was also a woman, so what kind of girls was he picking up?

Before he could react, Ye Tinglan grabbed his shoulder, and Zhang Liying didn't even have time to resist before his power was sealed.

With Lu Xingzhou in her right hand and Zhang Liying in her left, Ye Tinglan disappeared with a "whoosh."

Leaving behind the high-level members of the Cold Mist Sect staring at each other in horror, none of them knowing what had happened.

The "bad masses" in the crowd outside ran off without a trace.

After a long while, a high-level member of the Cold Mist Sect finally came to his senses: "The topic that man was talking about is simply not something an ordinary person could know... He is a deep participant in this matter."

"Combined with the two powerful women beside him... have you thought about it? The Demon Emperor and the Tianyao Holy Master openly fighting over a man?"

"So the woman who went into the room to change wearing a man's clothes... was the Tianyao Holy Master? That's why the Sect Master couldn't even withstand a single move, and we couldn't even see her movement trajectory?"

"So the golden, shiny woman who killed our sect's disciples yesterday was the Demon Emperor?"

"Everything makes sense now; no wonder they are so powerful..."

"But why are we still alive?"

A man who is simultaneously picking up the Demon Emperor and the Tianyao Holy Master is not strange; what is strange is that a third-grade ordinary sect that offended both the Demon Emperor and the Tianyao Holy Master has only lost one disciple who was flirting on the street, and now the Sect Master's fate is unknown.

Watching the group of Cold Mist Sect high-level members leave with trembling legs, the clothing store owner looked up and pondered for a long time, then hung two plaques at the door: "Clothing is beautiful, the Demon Emperor swept it clean; the changing room is comfortable, the Holy Master lingered and forgot to return."

Horizontal scroll: "Plum blossoms bloom twice."

Since then, this clothing store has become a local tourist attraction, with more pilgrims coming to visit than people going to the Frozen Moon Cold River for training.

"Bang!" Ye Tinglan threw Zhang Liying onto the side of the road and sat down on a rock by the roadside. Just as she was about to interrogate him, she felt that she was still carrying someone in her right hand, so she casually placed him beside her.

The result was that Lu Xingzhou sat right next to her, and Ye Tinglan didn't even notice that anything was wrong.

Zhang Liying stared blankly at the two of them sitting close together, his mind a complete blank.

His high-level members had already guessed Ye Tinglan's identity, and of course, he had figured it out on the way. So, was True Person Tinglan planning to return to secular life?

Ye Tinglan said coldly: "Speak, have you seen Gu Zhanting or his messenger?" Zhang Liying didn't dare to hide anything: "I really don't know about the Emperor's affairs, but Sovereign Si did come to find me personally. He should have visited the dozen or so sect towns adjacent to the southern part of the glacier, but our Cold Mist Sect was relatively the closest, so he ultimately chose to start from here..."

Ye Tinglan asked a few more times, but it seemed there really wasn't anything new; Cold Mist City was at most an executor and a starting point, and expecting a mere third-grade sect to know any inside information was asking too much.

However, asking for a while like this gave Ye Tinglan other ideas.

It was useless to ask Zhang Liying, why not go and ask Si Han in detail?

If Gu Zhanting wanted to persuade Si Han, he certainly wouldn't just crudely offer a benefit; any ideas the two sides had must have been discussed in great detail.

The game between the Tianyao Holy Land and the Great Gan Imperial Court was a very serious and cautious matter, and it was the one thing that had taken up the most of Ye Tinglan's energy in the last ten years. Now that there was a breakthrough point on Si Han's side, and she had a strategist by her side, why not try to go deeper?

She turned to look at Lu Xingzhou. Lu Xingzhou guessed what she was thinking and said: "If you want to find Si Han, you have to be fast... I'm afraid there will be changes later. Si Han lost his bone dragon and was injured. The Frost Nation is full of sects, and there will be no shortage of ambitious people who want to replace his position as the alliance sovereign; Gu Zhanting doesn't even need to do anything. If Gu Zhanting still has operations behind the scenes, then Si Han might die a miserable death. This might have been the last link in Gu Zhanting's plan; how could he sit by and watch the rise of a unified and powerful Frost Nation right under his nose?"

Ye Tinglan said: "It doesn't matter whether Si Han lives or dies, do you also think it's worth looking for him?"

"It's worth it." Lu Xingzhou said seriously: "This little conflict with him, since it didn't cause any casualties, can only be considered a small conflict. If we can save him in his time of need, then Gu Zhanting's former ally will become the Tianyao Holy Land's ally. By the way, Si Han is not weak; he was able to deal with you and Long Qinghuang... If there is a possibility of a super-grade appearing in the Frost Nation, his chances are the greatest. The Holy Land is independent of the political power; you don't necessarily have to be the holy land of only one country, Great Gan."

Zhang Liying's eyes widened, and Ye Tinglan also stared straight at Lu Xingzhou, the air suddenly quiet.

Being able to think about turning enemies into friends with Si Han and pulling the enemy's ally into one's own camp was still considered normal.

But saying this last sentence was almost not something a normal person would consider.

Was this the man who was stepping on the two boats of the Demon Emperor and the Holy Master?

Ye Tinglan was silent for a moment, then turned back to Zhang Liying: "Sect Master Zhang, this matter, your sect..."

Zhang Liying had received the hint of Lu Xingzhou's grand vision, and this time his brain turned fast, immediately kneeling and kowtowing: "My sect is willing to be affiliated with the Tianyao Holy Land, from now on being a dog for the Holy Master, watching the gate of the Frozen Moon Cold River for the Holy Master from the north, and looking at the changes in the Frost Nation from the south."

Seeing that Ye Tinglan didn't answer for a while, Zhang Liying immediately said: "If the Holy Master wants to annex us directly and use us as a branch, that is also fine, we obey the Holy Master's orders."

Ye Tinglan was actually just stunned by his directness, and hearing this, she finally shook her head and laughed: "Why would I want to annex you? I agree to the proposal of affiliation, and I will have Elder Su Yuan contact you another day."

Zhang Liying was overjoyed: "Thank you, Holy Master!"

Ye Tinglan waved her hand: "Alright, you go back yourself."

Zhang Liying hurriedly bowed: "I wish the two of you a hundred years of harmony."

Ye Tinglan's smile disappeared, and it transferred to Lu Xingzhou's face.

Watching Zhang Liying's back disappear with an expressionless face, Ye Tinglan said with a stiff face: "Su Yuan calls me Holy Master because I used my status as Holy Master to scare people during the previous battle. Including Zhang Liying this time, I'm just using my senior sister's name."

"Mm-hmm." Lu Xingzhou said solemnly: "I know, you are not a monastic."

Ye Tinglan now felt that the person whose brain was kicked by a donkey was not her junior sister, but herself.

She held it in for a long time before saying: "I am the junior sister of the Tianyao Holy Master, of course I am also a monastic."

Lu Xingzhou said: "How so? Her disciples are not monastics."

Ye Tinglan: "..."

How could she have forgotten that.

Someone like Qingli, who was cold-hearted and indifferent, would eventually become a monastic sooner or later, it just wasn't the time yet.

But then she heard Lu Xingzhou say: "Besides, the Imperial Preceptor said that the Daoist priests of the Imperial Observatory can get married."

Ye Tinglan's eyes widened: "Nonsense, when did the Imperial Preceptor say that?"

Lu Xingzhou said: "She just said it, why don't you go find her and confront me?"

"You!" Ye Tinglan stood up abruptly, gritting her teeth as she grabbed Lu Xingzhou: "Plan Si Han's matter properly, don't just fill your head with improper thoughts!"

Lu Xingzhou tilted his head and looked at her for a long time, then suddenly said: "Mr...."

"Hmm?" Ye Tinglan suddenly felt that it had been a while since he had called her Mr....

Lu Xingzhou said: "I want to help you share the burden because I feel sorry for you. Not to be grabbed by the collar and go out of my way to stick my face into a cold butt."

Ye Tinglan let go, revealing a trace of a fake, charming smile, and reached out to smooth the wrinkles on his collar: "Why... does Young Master Lu want me to treat you the same way I treat Shen Tang?"

"That's not necessary." Even though he could feel Ye Tinglan's murderous aura, Lu Xingzhou was still smiling: "But no matter what, I don't eat threats, how about... giving me a reward?"