[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-transmigrated-into-a-grandpa-embracing-the-laid-":3,"chapter-transmigrated-into-a-grandpa-embracing-the-laid--transmigrated-into-a-grandpa-embracing-the-laid--chapter-131":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1332066,1770,"Chapter 131: Settling Accounts?","transmigrated-into-a-grandpa-embracing-the-laid--chapter-131",131,"\u003Cp>\"Yes, junior disciple Su Ming.\" Su Ming bowed and answered, neither servile nor arrogant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You claim that with a third-stage Qi Refining cultivation, you perished together with a Foundation Grand Perfection cultivator?\" Elder Ma's voice remained calm, yet carried an undeniable pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That question had come again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Ming had already prepared for it, and he repeated that statement again, measured and unhurried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He emphasized Zhao Qianshan's practice of forbidden arts, the backlash of murderous aura, and his own desperate, lucky survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every detail matched exactly what he had told Qingfeng and Liu Jing before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Ma listened quietly, his cloudy eyes betraying no emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Su Ming finished, Elder Ma was silent for a moment before speaking again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Show me your so-called health-preserving technique, run a full cycle for me to see.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here it comes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was going to test his foundation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, he sat cross-legged, slowly closed his eyes, and began circulating the Greenwood Longevity Art that Lin Yu had modified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint, herb-scented spiritual energy started to flow through his damaged meridians at an extremely slow, even sluggish pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process was painful and arduous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Ming's face remained focused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Ma's divine sense, like an invisible net, enveloped Su Ming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could clearly sense every tremor and every current of spiritual energy within Su Ming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The technique's pathway was crude and makeshift, with several key meridians circumvented in the clumsiest ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was plainly a patchwork method with no proper lineage, something cobbled together by someone experimenting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the technique's grade was extremely low; its efficiency at absorbing spiritual energy was outrageously slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the sect's most basic introductory mind-methods, it was worlds apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, Elder Ma withdrew his divine sense and made a faint sound of acknowledgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though garbage, the method was peaceful and orthodox in its essence; indeed a health-preserving technique, with no hint of demonic cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Ming's story was once again corroborated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have no interest in your mundane experiences.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Ma's tone remained cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cloud Hidden Sect does not keep idlers, nor does it keep useless people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Su Ming and said slowly, \"Your body and meridians are damaged; your foundation is ruined. There is no inch of progress left on the path to immortality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This verdict matched Liu Jing's earlier judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Ming's heart sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew the moment that would decide his fate had arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was about to plead his prepared case again, begging to be allowed to serve as a menial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Elder Ma shifted course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, Qingfeng says you were a scholar?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Ming blinked, then nodded. \"Yes, junior served as a Compiler at the Hanlin Academy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hanlin Academy Compiler?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, a trace of interest flickered across Elder Ma's ancient-well-still face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His cloudy eyeballs rolled slightly, as if a thought had occurred to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rose and shouted toward the door, \"Bring me the inbound inventory ledgers from the pharmacy that have been piled up for three months.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged steward outside paled as if he had heard something dreadful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Elder... those ledgers...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bring them here.\" Elder Ma's tone brooked no argument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, two outer disciples struggled in carrying seven or eight heavy wooden boxes into the quiet chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the lids were opened, a mixed stench of old ink and medicinal herbs rushed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boxes were crammed with towering stacks of bamboo slips and account books, in chaotic order, some already mildewed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These are the inbound inventory ledgers for a batch of medicinal materials delivered by the sect's medicinal garden three months ago,\" Elder Ma said, pointing at the mess and looking at Su Ming with a flat voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The disciple responsible was suddenly transferred and no one took over. It's been in complete disorder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You said you were educated and could handle accounts?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now I give you one hour.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sort these ledgers out for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you sort them correctly, I will allow you to do menial work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you cannot sort them...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not finish the sentence, but the meaning was clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Be thrown off the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingfeng and Mingyue were stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew these ledgers were notorious trouble from the External Affairs Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Supposedly the entries were numerous and complex, with several mismatched bad accounts. The two disciples who had been responsible for the paperwork had spent half a month trying to reconcile them and ended up feigning illness and taking leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now they wanted Su Ming, a mortal, to reconcile them in one hour?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn't that impossible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was blatant harassment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Elder Ma, this...\" Qingfeng couldn't help but speak up for Su Ming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\" Elder Ma glanced at him, \"Do you object?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingfeng swallowed his words immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Ming's face, however, showed no trace of fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the boxes and his expression brightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For him, this was not harassment but an opportunity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only chance to prove his value!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he had worked at the Hanlin Academy, he had organized stacks of old paperwork far more complicated than this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Junior disciple, I will obey.\" Su Ming bowed deeply to Elder Ma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the chamber, the disciples standing by the door wore openly mocking or pitying expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This mess of ledgers had been a festering tumor between the pharmacy and the External Affairs Hall for three months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever touched it was jinxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asking a mortal scholar to sort it within an hour?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't just harsh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingfeng's face tightened; he felt Elder Ma had gone too far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mingyue was so anxious she stamped her foot, clutching her senior's sleeve with worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Su Ming, you—\" Qingfeng started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Ming gave him a slight smile and shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze was calm and confident, as if the pile in front of him was not a mess at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked straight up to the heap of ledgers.\u003C\u002Fp>",985,"2026-06-05T19:47:06.815Z",1,"novelbin.me","5c262f48129c0fb47e6a33cbcdfba54c283bcfb5d78c869f159b0a6c55d90538","transmigrated-into-a-grandpa-embracing-the-laid--chapter-132","transmigrated-into-a-grandpa-embracing-the-laid--chapter-130",380,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftransmigrated-into-a-grandpa-embracing-the-laid--cover.jpg"]