Chapter 291

Seeing this, Meng Meng Jingzhou stopped pretending to be sick and wailing, and suddenly got up from the stretcher.

Master Liu and Master Gao were not wearing their oil-stained barbecue shop work clothes, and their faces no longer had the honest smiles they had when entertaining guests. They were dressed in formal attire, their expressions solemn, as if they were recalling the glorious years of the Decayed Sect.

When they looked at Lu Yang and Meng Meng Jingzhou, it made the two feel very cold, and their spines felt chilly.

"Two gentlemen, come with us. We have something to ask for your help with."

Master Liu and Master Gao had already investigated clearly. After Lu Yang and Miss Yun Zhi returned, Miss Yun Zhi didn't know what was going on and left the Profound Heaven Sect again. Now was the perfect opportunity to make a move on Lu Yang!

If not now, when?

There were too many eyes here, so it was inconvenient to act. They had to invite Lu Yang and Meng Meng Jingzhou to their Decayed Sect's main base—the "Come Again Barbecue Shop"!

Previously, the "Come Again Barbecue Shop" was just a small shop that had barely managed to gain a foothold on the commercial street. Surrounded by enemies, with Integration stage powerhouses eyeing them covetously, their situation was very dangerous.

But later, under the guidance of the Sect Master and the Decayed Fairy, and through the careful planning of the Decayed Sect's high-level officials, with a step-by-step winning strategy, the barbecue shop had already become a demonic lair of the Decayed Sect.

And as for the "Come Again Barbecue Shop" entrenched on the commercial street and secretly strengthening its forces, the Profound Heaven Sect knew nothing about it……

"Then let's go." Lu Yang and Meng Meng Jingzhou didn't lose their momentum.

Being sandwiched by two Integration stage powerhouses, how could the two of them have the strength to resist? Even if they didn't want to go, they would probably be carried away, so instead of that, they might as well walk themselves.

"This way, please." Master Gao reached out and invited the two to the barbecue shop.

Lu Yang stood at the entrance of the barbecue shop and found that the shop was pitch black, and he could only vaguely see two figures swaying in the darkness.

The two stepped into the barbecue shop, and Master Liu and Master Gao stood quietly at the entrance like two iron guards.

As soon as he entered the barbecue shop, Lu Yang had a feeling of being isolated from the outside world; he couldn't hear any movement from the outside, nor could he see what the outside looked like.

What he didn't know was that it wasn't just the sound and the scene; the Sect Master had long ago set up a peerless array in the barbecue shop, even shielding spiritual sense.

The light from an unknown source gradually filled the barbecue shop, revealing the true faces of the two black shadows: one was the Sect Master, and the other was the Decayed Fairy. Both were wearing formal attire, seemingly determined to do something big.

"Please sit down, two gentlemen." The Sect Master invited the two to sit down.

"Speak, what is it?" Lu Yang asked coldly, somewhat unable to figure out the Sect Master's routine.

However, Lu Yang wasn't afraid of him; the Decayed Fairy was sitting right next to him.

As the controller of the Decayed lineage, the Decayed Fairy could completely control the Decayed Fairy, the source of the Decayed Sect. With this relationship, no matter what, the Sect Master couldn't make any waves.

"It's not a big deal, I just want to ask Daoist Lu Yang for a small favor. With Daoist Lu Yang's status in the Profound Heaven Sect, it's just a matter of one sentence."

"Look, I learned that the two of you just formed your cores, so I specially prepared a thin gift, a token of my heart. I hope the two of you will give me some face." The Sect Master silently pushed two gift boxes toward Lu Yang and Meng Meng Jingzhou's side.

The Sect Master opened the gift boxes, revealing the contents inside: worth a thousand gold, the Foundation-Consolidating Pill, which can consolidate Jin Dan cultivation, with the remaining medicinal power turning into foundation, helping with future breakthroughs, without leaving a single bit of medicinal residue in the body, thereby affecting future breakthroughs.

A protective magic treasure that can block a full-strength blow from an Integration stage powerhouse.

A book, "Jin Dan Stage Cultivation Insights."

Five small bottles, containing five-element items, such as true fire, pure water, breathing soil, etc., which can be refined into growth-type five-element magic treasures.

Besides this, there were various precious items, each of which no ordinary Jin Dan stage cultivator could afford.

The two didn't want this "thin gift," and Lu Yang said bluntly: "Sect Master, we are old acquaintances, let's not beat around the bush, speak."

The Sect Master slowly stated the plan he had been planning in his heart for a long time: "Specifically, it is to absorb loose cultivators to become a part of us, expand the scope of our influence, improve our influence on the Great Xia Dynasty, and make the world unable to leave us!"

"After the matter is accomplished, we will not treat the two of you badly, and there will be other thick gifts!"

"The two of you might not know yet, our influence is spreading silently, and it has already spread to the entire commercial street. The Profound Heaven Sect knows nothing about this."

Lu Yang frowned. The Sect Master's words were no different from saying that the entire commercial street was their people. If they didn't agree, they were afraid they wouldn't be able to walk out of this street.

But he still didn't loosen his mouth: "What if we don't help you with your small favor?"

"Not helping?" The Sect Master stood up slowly, like a mountain god who had been silent for a long time waking up, putting immense pressure on the two.

The Sect Master squinted at the two and threatened viciously: "I have been very polite to the two of you. We just want to open a barbecue shop branch to the outside world. If the two of you push your luck, don't blame me for kneeling and begging you!"

The Sect Master felt that he had done well enough. He asked Master Liu and Master Gao not to wear shop assistant clothes, but to dress formally, to invite these two over, and to smile.

Considering it was June, the scorching summer, he specially instructed Master Liu and Master Gao to release cooling spells when they saw Lu Yang and Meng Meng Jingzhou, so as not to make them hot.

For safety's sake, and to avoid being eavesdropped on by competitors, he also set up a peerless array to isolate outside investigation.

He cleaned the barbecue shop until it was spotless, without any oil stains.

The two protective magic treasures were refined by him using all his spare time from running the slaughterhouse.

The Jin Dan stage cultivation insights were summarized by the Decayed Fairy relying on the memories of all the Decayed Sect members and written by her own hand.

The five-element items were bought by him visiting the bosses of the commercial street one by one, after much persuasion.

Isn't opening a branch to the outside world just a matter of one sentence? Are these two still not satisfied?

The Sect Master hardened his heart. A great man can bend and stretch. For the barbecue shop's ten-thousand-year plan, he would kneel if he had to!

Lu Yang and Meng Meng Jingzhou hurriedly stopped the Sect Master, confused by this turn of events: "You want to open a barbecue shop branch?"

"Yes."

"Then you just said you wanted to absorb loose cultivators to become a part of you?"

"Recruiting shop assistants."

None of them could leave the Profound Heaven Sect to open a branch to the outside world; they had to recruit shop assistants.

"Then expand the scope of influence?"

"Open the barbecue shop outside the Profound Heaven Sect."

"Improve influence on the Great Xia Dynasty?"

"Become a major taxpayer."

"Make the world unable to leave you?"

"Make people come to our shop more."

Meng Meng Jingzhou looked at the Sect Master suspiciously: "You just said that your influence has spread to the entire commercial street, and the Profound Heaven Sect knows nothing about it?"

"We underreport our income and pay less management fees."

The Decayed Fairy added from the side: "There is another meaning, which is that our barbecue shop's income in the Profound Heaven Sect has reached saturation, and we need to go to the outside world to open branches to expand into new markets."

Lu Yang: "……"

Meng Meng Jingzhou: "……"

Is it necessary to make opening a barbecue shop branch so complicated!

(End of chapter)