Chapter 990

The morning sun rose, bright and brilliant. The sun's radiance spilled onto the lakeside. Bright lamps stood on both sides of the long road, and the long steps painted with sea patterns extended to this point. Cultivators flew up and down from time to time, and there were carriages and fast horses coming and going on the road.

"Clatter, clatter, clatter..." The sound of horse hooves approached, and a young man rode over on a horse. He wore white robes with crescent moon and lake wave patterns on the cuffs. Although his attire was not noble, he was high-spirited and vigorous. He tied a brocade pouch around his waist and stopped at a place, in front of which was a door.

This door had seventy-two ridges emitting light, was twelve zhang high, and was intricately carved. It was the gateway to Milin Prefecture—the 【Senior Changxi Gate】. Milin Mountain was the most commendable immortal mountain in the entire Wangyue Lake. There was a market under the mountain. Although the scale was not large and it appeared desolate due to years of chaos, the 【Senior Changxi Gate】, as the gateway to the market, connected the north and south and was extremely important.

Li Suining stopped here and just saw a team of people passing under the gate. When they saw Li Suining, they immediately reined in their horses. An old man with the appearance of a Shanyue person got off the carriage. The carriage team gave way to the road and said respectfully: "Greetings, my lord!" The status of Shanyue people in the Yue Kingdom had always been low, and it was no exception on this Wangyue Lake. Although this old man was only a Qi Refining cultivator, his status among the Shanyue people was definitely not low. Seeing Li Suining's attire, he did not dare to block the way, and he did not know if his surname was Li, so he did not dare to call him Young Master, so he called him my lord.

After a hundred years of education, the Shanyue people were not much different from the people on the lake, just with slightly more hair and typical looks. Li Suining asked: "Which guest official are you?" This old man was not young, but he was still kneeling on the ground, his white hands supporting the ground, and he smiled respectfully: "I wouldn't dare... I am just a garrison guard, hanging under the Jade Court to do things. I am a Shanyue person, and I had the honor of listening to orders under the command of Dahe Ming Fang, and later listened to the orders of Lord Ming Gong. My humble name is Du Dou."

Li Suining was stunned for a moment and replied: "So you are a follower of the Lord. You are too polite. Get up quickly." Li Suining actually had a good impression of these Shanyue people. The current Shanyue people still had the Witch Sect, worshipping 【Dahe Ming Fang】, which was their own King Wei. This matter was not difficult to understand. Firstly, King Wei's fate had not been restrained when he was young, and the significance of the White Qilin in his actions was greater than the original, and the conquest of the Shanyue left them with too heavy a bright Yang brilliance; secondly, it was also a means for the Shanyue nobles to brag and improve their status.

But everything had two sides. After Ting Prefecture fell, this group of Shanyue people still worshipped in private and refused to change despite repeated teachings. The various surrendered tribes could not hide it in the end, and were uprooted by the Shu general Ni Zan, who built a capital view.

"Please mention it when the garrison guard goes up the mountain, report to the Great Uncle Grandmaster, and say that Li Suining has finished visiting relatives and is waiting for him in the mountains to return to the lake together!" After saying this, the old man in front raised his head with some surprise, looked at him carefully, nodded and responded respectfully, and turned away.

"The clan gave a spiritual medicine, and the effect was quite good... It unexpectedly broke through to the sixth level of Fetal Breath in just half a month..." Li Suining was already at the peak of Fetal Breath, and this cultivation speed was much faster than he expected. He was in a great mood for a while. "Calculated this way, when the Yang clan establishes the country... my cultivation can be at the second or third level of Qi Refining, at least I can fly up and down, fight with small cultivators, and build some ordinary arrays."

After waiting for a while at the foot of the mountain, he immediately saw a stream of light galloping over. It was Li Zhoufang! This middle-aged man stroked his beard and smiled, followed by a young man in Ge clothes with his head bowed, and the old Shanyue followed at the end. The three landed in front of the 【Senior Changxi Gate】 in advance, walked nine steps through the gate, and then heard Li Zhoufang smile: "Suining arrived quite fast!"

"Li Chengzai sees that I am developed now and barely gives me a smiling face. I am too lazy to deal with him... Isn't it fast to be able to come! Even if I respond to him a few more times, he will borrow spiritual resources from me!" Li Suining sighed in his heart and smiled without saying a word. Li Zhoufang immediately understood, changed the subject, and led the young man behind him, full of smiles, looking pleasantly surprised, only saying: "Come! Meet... this is the genius of the Pu clan, named Xinya."

He said sternly: "The Pu clan has some inheritance. I met the Pu family and asked carefully. Xinya is a rare genius among them for several generations... It is truly heaven blessing Wangyue, another good thing!" Only then did he turn his head and smile: "Xinya, this is the rare array genius of the Suining family in a hundred years. You can ask for advice!"

The young man saluted and hurriedly said: "Greetings, Young Master!" Li Suining tried his best to hold back his smile and nodded: "No need for courtesy." Pu Xinya was his close friend in his previous life, so he was naturally very familiar with him. This person's array talent was indeed outstanding, but what was even more powerful was his talent in cultivation. His cultivation speed once caught up with him, and it was only after he changed to a higher-level technique that he could pull away. At this moment, his talent had not been revealed.

Having spent a long time together in his previous life, Li Suining understood that Pu Xinya still had arrogance, quite a bit of ambition, and even more of the desire of the small clans around the lake to envy the main family and desire autonomy. Later, this thought was bumped into by the old lord, who sent him to Si Min to run a shop for two years. After seeing the world, he became honest as soon as he returned, understanding that once he left Wangyue Lake, the Pu clan was just a snack, and there was no other way to go except to climb higher on Wangyue Lake.

At this moment, he still had arrogance, and Li Suining did not talk much, but frowned and said: "Uncle Grandmaster, what happened to the Buddhist cultivators?"

"Harm! I don't know what the Great Desire Sect is tossing about!" Talking about the Buddhist cultivators, Li Zhoufang's smile immediately dissipated, and his expression was solemn: "That Mohe passed through the wilderness. A few days ago, he first arrived in Li Xia. He did not carry out a great massacre, and did not even enter the prefecture city. He only scattered the various pitiful ones under his command, each setting up temples in the mountains and fields, lecturing on scriptures and spreading the doctrine. One by one, the people were shaken, watching in the prefecture, and most of them had secretly changed into the clothes of Buddhist cultivators..."

He sighed leisurely: "They built twelve great mountains outside the prefecture again, planted 【Great Good Golden Lotuses】, and hundreds of silver waters flowed down from the mountains. If the people left the prefecture, took off their shoes and rolled up their pants to wade through them, they would see all kinds of bliss, not knowing their parents, not recognizing their brothers. More than ten of our people went, and five did not return."

"Jiangzong gave up on this matter and only drove the loose cultivators around to watch halfway. It is said that the mountains outside Li Xia Prefecture have turned into desire mountains, men and women borrowing each other, naked, indulging in lewd pleasure all night, immersed in it..."

"The several families in that place, the Wu family, the Lu family, are truly unlucky. Fortunately, they were captured, and the younger generation was recruited by the Yang clan, so they could save some bloodline." The middle-aged man sighed: "Now... I heard that the Great Desire Sect has already crossed this place and gone south, and I don't know what happened."

Li Suining sighed endlessly. In his previous life, he was in seclusion and his status was low, so he did not know much about this matter, but he knew quite a bit about the subsequent events, and he secretly verified it in his heart: "Great Desire Sect... I heard that it parted ways with the Great Mu Dharma Realm in ancient times... Although it also promotes the Buddhist land of the current world, the intention is very different. It claims 【There is no suffering in the world, which is the Buddhist land】, and does not require the people under its command to experience suffering to enter the Buddhist land. Being born and enjoying pleasure until reincarnation is a great merit, and everyone competes to be the first, fearing that they are not women..."

What is even more ridiculous is that among the seven paths, the people of the Great Desire Sect suffer the fastest, but they are the best at giving birth. After all, the pain is collected by the 【Great Good Golden Lotus】. Giving birth to one person is letting one person enjoy happiness in the world, which is a great merit, and everyone competes to be the first.

But no matter how absurd this matter is, he understands in his heart that once the Great Desire Sect leaves this place, this group of people will be a mess of accounts that cannot be calculated: "This disaster ravaged the entire north of the Yue Kingdom. If the Song Emperor removes the 【Great Good Golden Lotus】, it will likely reduce the lifespan of millions of people, and they will not live for ten years. No wonder he sealed the mountain and banned sacrifices, first cutting off the influence of this thing, and then promulgating classics, spending many years to sort out people's hearts bit by bit."

He pondered repeatedly, calculating in his heart: "In my previous life, when I left seclusion, this chaos was almost over, and the family did not suffer too much loss. This matter should be fine... I should go to see the old lord first."

He stood in the wind of his Uncle Grandmaster Li Zhoufang, and soon landed on the island, but saw the old man shake his head and smile: "Don't mention this... You are running around on the island, how can you not have someone to run errands? What's more, you usually have to study the array path, and time is precious. I have a hand here, and you just happened to see it, so let him run errands by your side."

"The family has regulations. The cultivation of followers usually cannot be higher than the direct descendants, but you are about to reach Qi Refining, so it's not early!" Seeing that Du Dou knelt on the ground and kowtowed in fear, Li Suining frowned and wanted to refuse, but heard Li Zhoufang transmit: "Just use him. It was arranged by Aunt Ming Gong. Uncle Chengzai doesn't know how to manage, and the group of people in the East Mansion are even more shameless. He received the Lord's order and can block things for you outside. Otherwise, if you refuse one by one, you will hurt the feelings of your relatives." "She is very busy and can't wait for you, so she entrusted me to handle this matter."

Li Suining's expression was a bit complicated. He did not rise so quickly in his previous life, so the benefits were not rich, and Li Chengzai could not pull his face down. It should be very different now, so he had to cup his fists and say: "Thank you, Uncle Grandmaster!"

With Du Dou leading the way, the next road did not need Li Zhoufang to send him off. Li Suining walked all the way to the high pavilion, his gaze sweeping across the pavilion unintentionally, but his pupils dilated slightly.

A gray-clothed man was hurriedly stepping up to the pavilion. When he reached the pavilion, he knocked on the door in fear, and then stepped in.

"Fourth Uncle Grandmaster..." This person was Fourth Uncle Grandmaster Li Zhouluo! Li Suining's heart shook slightly: "Was Fourth Uncle Grandmaster on the lake in his previous life?" This Fourth Uncle Grandmaster Li Zhouluo was not an ordinary person. He was highly valued by the Song Emperor and had been the Mayor of the Capital since the day the Song Emperor ascended the throne. As the Li family declined, his status stood higher and higher... After King Wei passed away, as King Wei's brother, although he was not granted a title, he once entered the Zifu Hall to hold the mysterious, accompanying the driver left and right, honored and favored, extremely prominent.

If it weren't for the fact that this Fourth Uncle Grandmaster Li Zhouluo had always pleaded for mercy in the Li family's affairs, Li Suining still wouldn't know what kind of mood to face him with, but even so, his heart was incomparably complicated.

"Perhaps it is... Uncle Jiangchun passed away, and this Uncle Grandmaster had no grandchildren, and was holding the mysterious in the Zifu Hall under his nose, accompanying the driver left and right, so he was lifted high and appointed."

Li Zhouluo's lineage played an extremely strange role in the entire trend. The elder Li Xizhi of the Four Xi participated in the Changhe chaos, and a method of glow shocked the north and south, but disappeared suddenly after the great war and has not been seen since. And Li Zhouluo's father, Li Cheng Huai, was a person who only heard the name but never saw the person! Li Suining never considered this elder back then, and the whole family was accustomed to the fact that he went out to travel and was not seen, but now that he thinks about it, it is not strange.

But it is true that this Fourth Uncle Grandmaster benefited a lot from King Wei and his Grandfather. He entered the Zifu Hall to hold the mysterious, and the edict of the imperial order was passed down, which contained this sentence: 【Father and brother are dedicated, washing away evil and setting the prefecture】.

"This Fourth Uncle Grandmaster... should have clues..." His gaze was heavy, listening to the court guard in front blocking him: "The Lord is meeting others, please wait, Young Master."

The lights in the pavilion were dim. The old man put down the book in his hand, looked at the gray-clothed man kneeling in the hall, seemed a bit dazed, hurriedly raised his eyebrows, went down and helped him up. Li Zhouluo was a bit flattered and a bit panicked, and was pulled by the old man to sit on the side. Li Xuanxuan also did not return to the main seat, sat near him, held his hand, and asked: "How is it now?"

Li Zhouluo returned to the lake back then and had been accompanying Li Jiangchun. Later, Qingchi recruited, and he sent Pang Yunqing back to Si Min. Now that he rushed back to the lake, he was obviously taking a risk. He lowered his head, a bit confused, and replied: "I don't know what the situation is. Qingchi collapsed suddenly. Yunqing was arranged to the mountain. I was worried about the clan, so I came back."

Li Xuanxuan shook his head, and the old voice sounded: "Your Grandfather went to Duan Mountain fifteen or sixteen years ago. There was news in the previous years, but the letters became fewer later. Five years ago, he replied that he wanted to go into seclusion to verify the orthodoxy. Now there is no news... Does your Grandmother have any letters for you? Is there any news about your father?"

Li Zhouluo was speechless for a while, left his seat and bowed, and said in a low voice: "There have been a few letters... just telling me to cultivate well, and Grandmother's family wanted to give me resources, all of which I declined... It's just that a few relatives in Grandmother's family occasionally looked for me to point out some cultivation matters..."

Li Xuanxuan nodded, and Li Zhouluo said respectfully: "It's just that I got news from the south, it was that Lord Yang, who granted me one or two pieces of land, the location is excellent, in Si Min..." "Junior thought, it just happens to be able to stay for the family to stop, open a small market in that place, which can be considered as reaching out a bit more to the south."

Li Xuanxuan took his gaze back from him, took a sip of tea, and replied: "You are wrong. The Lord granted it to you, how can you push it to the clan? Except for Jiangliang who listens to orders under the Lord's command, no one in the family has such honor. Cherish it well."

Li Zhouluo did not know how to answer him, but Li Xuanxuan asked in a low voice: "Is there any news from the south? How to deal with this surging karmic fire?"

Li Zhouluo immediately got up from the ground, his expression solemn, and replied: "That 【Sparrow Que Que Liyu】 will arrive in Si Min soon. No matter what, the Lord must take action! There is quite a bit of wind and rumors in Si Min. As far as Junior can see, the Sparrow Que Que Liyu cannot be arrogant for long!" "The family only needs to be careful. Once the Sparrow Que Que Liyu withdraws from Si Min, seize the opportunity to recover the territory."

"Oh?" The old man raised his eyebrows to look at him, pondered for a while, and smiled: "Is this the Yang clan's intention?"