hhnovel #304 - Are you threatening me?
#304 - Are you threatening me?
Early August.
It was time again for each branch to submit their harvests.
Gu An increased the amount somewhat.
Hoping not to be at the bottom.
He didn't want to submit too much, but submitting too little easily led to being at the bottom.
This carried the risk of being eliminated.
Fortunately, the next day's rankings placed him third.
Although the ranking had risen, not being first meant he wouldn't be noticed.
However, this time the second branch was at the bottom.
Three days later, Gu An indeed received news that the sect had issued a task to the second branch.
This completely confirmed it.
The bottom branch would have a task assigned.
The only uncertainty was whether the tasks were all issued at the beginning of the month.
Gu An sighed.
He stopped thinking about it and continued reading books during the day and felling trees at night.
Except for meeting Chen Changfeng's elders tomorrow, other matters could be dealt with when the time came.
It had been several months, and he hadn't made any progress.
Standing still was like moving backward.
Everyone else was improving.
There was also the matter of finding the missing princess.
Such a person was like a needle in a haystack, impossible to find.
He could only wait for an opportunity.
Searching in a high-profile manner was definitely not an option, as it would be discovered by others in the sect.
After all, it was a task issued by the same top-level superior.
The next day.
Gu An didn't wait for people to come to his residence, but instead took the initiative to go to the main branch's guest meeting place.
Pang Wen accompanied him.
"Leader, they don't seem to have arrived yet," Pang Wen said.
Gu An nodded: "It's alright, our cultivation is weak, it's proper for us to arrive first."
Pang Wen felt that the leader could bring someone from the first branch.
That way, the visitors would definitely not dare to be presumptuous.
But for the leader to go alone, it seemed somewhat weak.
Although he heard that the leader was already in the late stage of the Golden Core realm, he still didn't have much confidence when facing a Yuan Shen realm expert.
After a moment.
Gu An sat in the reception hall, waiting quietly.
After a long time, he finally heard someone outside announcing that the people had arrived.
Pang Wen looked at the time and said, "They're late."
"Experts, after all, will always be delayed by something," Gu An said calmly.
Pang Wen didn't say anything else and went out to invite the people in.
Soon, the people were brought in.
It was an old man, accompanied by two people.
A middle-aged man and a young woman.
Seeing these people, Gu An was slightly surprised.
An old man?
Chen Tai should be a middle-aged man.
Gu An looked at the old man, Yuan Shen Perfected.
Very strong.
The middle-aged man, on the other hand, was in the late stage of the Yuan Shen realm.
It seemed that this was Chen Tai.
As for the woman, Gu An also observed her, early stage of the Golden Core realm.
She shouldn't be hiding her cultivation.
"Greetings, Branch Leader Gu," the old man said politely.
Gu An stood up and returned the greeting politely: "It's an honor for this junior to have a senior visit, please sit."
The three of them sat down in turn, Gu An sat in the main seat and said calmly: "Senior, are you here to redeem someone?"
"The Branch Leader is joking," the old man looked at Gu An and said: "This little fellow grew up under my watch, I heard that Chen Tai hasn't brought him back yet, so I came specifically to take a look, we can't let the Branch Leader suffer a loss, can we?"
Gu An felt that the other party's words were quite pleasant, but they didn't mention what conditions they would offer.
He wasn't in a hurry and said: "Senior is too polite, the first branch is essentially a business, and businessmen naturally have their own set of rules.
Moreover, the six branches represent the sect, and everyone here is doing equal trades."
Gu An didn't want the other party to use their strength to pressure him.
The old man squinted at Gu An and said: "What the Branch Leader says is very true, but there will always be friendship in business, and we will help each other when we meet in the future, we can't become enemies, can we?"
Looking at the other party's calm tone, Gu An naturally understood that the other party was threatening him.
After leaving the sect, there was always the possibility of meeting, and meeting would be dangerous.
Regarding this, Gu An also felt that danger was everywhere.
He had to be more careful in the future.
"That's natural, we're all relying on you seniors to lend a helping hand," Gu An said sincerely.
The other party initially thought that Gu An was yielding, and then there was another round of rambling.
Gu An looked at the time and suddenly said: "My master said that it's time for me to go back, I have to leave.
I'll have another chance to talk with Senior next time, this time I've really benefited a lot."
With that, Gu An got up and left.
Before leaving, he also asked Pang Wen to see the guests off.
Chen Tai and the others' expressions instantly turned gloomy.
Outside the sect, their eyes became even colder.
"This first branch leader is somewhat ungrateful," the old man sneered: "I wanted him to take the initiative to speak, but I didn't expect him to issue an eviction order, he's really shameless."
"Then what should we do now?" Chen Tai asked from the side: "Chen Changfeng must be redeemed, without him our cultivation speed has slowed down.
We can no longer obtain new magic weapons and techniques.
I have to say, he's really lucky.
We must redeem him before the other party discovers this matter.
Once discovered, it will be impossible to redeem him.
"It's alright," the old man shook his head: "The first branch won't discover it, they won't easily let people go, even if they do, Chen Changfeng is not a fool, he won't hand over what he got to them.
But we do need to do something.
"Why not ask about the price? If it's not very high, we can completely redeem him at a normal price," the woman on the side said: "If we continue like this, we'll be at a greater disadvantage."
"Chen Changfeng's apparent value is not high, two or three thousand spirit stones is about right," the old man sneered: "The other party hasn't mentioned it, isn't it because we took the initiative to come to him, making him think there's profit to be made and wanting to ask for a sky-high price?
Are we going to redeem someone who can be redeemed for three thousand with ten thousand?
Losing is nothing, but letting this ignorant, ungrateful Golden Core trash earn, that's a bit much.
He doesn't know how to use Chen Changfeng.
Keeping him in his hands is a loss."
The woman remained silent, she wanted to say that we are losing more ourselves this way.
And .
Who knows if there will be any accidents in the meantime?
Ten thousand spirit stones is nothing compared to those magic weapons and techniques.
Isn't this losing a watermelon to pick up a sesame seed?
But looking at their expressions, she couldn't say it.
"I heard that the first branch leader killed someone from the Reincarnation lineage," the old man said calmly: "Our sect and the Spirit Blossom Valley want to capture people from the Reincarnation lineage, do you think that with the characteristics of the Reincarnation lineage, they will come after knowing that this branch leader killed someone?
Will our sect's people come to ask him to cooperate?"
Hearing this, Chen Tai was somewhat stunned: "How did you know this news? If this news is true, then this Gu An is afraid that he won't live for long."
The old man chuckled: "Write him a letter, let him lower his posture a little, although he has a lot of things in his possession, I don't like his posture.
Knowing the contents of the letter, he will want to talk to us properly."
Leaving the main branch, Gu An's heart didn't change much.
Perhaps it was because his strength was strong, he felt that a Yuan Shen Perfected realm expert didn't need to be taken too seriously.
Of course, it's not that he wasn't wary of the other party.
Even when seeing the guests off, he could have been more tough.
There was no need to haggle with them over the ransom.
Meeting them was just to know what kind of people they were.
As for whether Chen Changfeng was released or not, it had little to do with them.
Chen Changfeng could have left long ago, it was just that he didn't want to leave.
Since he chose silence last time, Gu An didn't intend to let him go the path of being redeemed.
There was no need.
The other party had brought him many benefits. Now that he had received the benefits, he could naturally discard them.
But he couldn't throw them into a fire pit.
Although they were even.
But retaining some goodwill, so as not to become enemies, was all for a stable future.
He had his own purpose, so he didn't need any gratitude or dedication from the other party.
Last time, they desperately wanted him to leave, which was too exaggerated.
It wasn't necessary.
It really wasn't necessary.
However, the old man's expression was not good when he left.
It seemed he would do something.
Sure enough, that evening, Gu An received a letter.
This time, it was Ruan Huan who delivered it. She was in the middle courtyard, making it easier for her to receive things.
In addition, Pang Wen was busy, so she delivered it.
Not having Pang Wen deliver it also had a disadvantage, which was that she wouldn't know anything if asked.
After letting her leave, Gu An opened the envelope.
There weren't many words on it, just a few sentences.
It informed him that the Tianyang Sect and the Linghua Valley were jointly pursuing and killing the evil cultivators of the Zhuanlun lineage.
And he had killed an evil cultivator of the Zhuanlun lineage.
If the people of the Tianyang Sect found out, he might be drawn into great danger.
It told him to consider it carefully.
It was not signed.
But Gu An already knew who it was.
Naturally, it was the three people who had left during the day.
"Being threatened, as expected, it's difficult to satisfy everyone in everything you do."
They were the ones who didn't mention the ransom, and yet they still threatened him afterward.
Gu An casually burned the envelope.
He didn't take it to heart.
The fact that he killed someone from the Zhuanlun lineage would be known sooner or later, so there was nothing to be threatened about.
He just didn't know when the Zhuanlun lineage would find him, and what their cultivation level would be.
As for whether the people of the Tianyang Sect would come looking for him, he didn't need to care too much.
He was ultimately involved in the struggle between the Six Institutes.
He wouldn't be abandoned so easily, unless he had already been eliminated.
Therefore, he couldn't be eliminated even more.
In the following time, Gu An didn't care about other things.
He was either logging at night or cultivating during the day.
Mainly cultivating the Azure Lotus Profound Yellow Scripture.
He still didn't understand the Azure Lotus Profound Yellow Scripture enough, so he had to start understanding it from the Qi Refining stage, thoroughly understanding his current cultivation and the cultivation method.
Only in this way could he better improve his strength and control the power of his body.
Especially the Profound Yellow Qi in his Qi Sea.
As the Profound Yellow Qi increased, Gu An felt that he understood power more and more.
His progress in the Aura chapter was rapid.
His understanding of power was not only his own power, but also the surrounding spiritual energy, divine sense, poisonous gas, and so on.
He could perceive the power on other people's bodies, as well as the fluctuations that their power brought to the surrounding spiritual energy.
Thus, he could observe more.
In this way, even if someone hid their cultivation, it would be easy for him to discover.
Especially that Yue Han who claimed to be trash.
No matter how he looked at her, she was not simple, but he just didn't know what her background was.
There were many people in the royal family, princesses, commandery princesses, and people of other identities.
None of them could be underestimated.
End of August.
Gu An looked at the panel.
His spells had already reached forty.
He should be able to reach fifty in early October.
So as to improve his spells.
The Qi Sea Heavenly罡 (Gang) technique must be learned first, otherwise it would be easy to get stuck in cultivation.
His current cultivation no longer needed to be tempered.
It would be a loss if he got stuck.
This day, Noodles suddenly appeared in the water tank outside Peak Beyond Peak.
Gu An was slightly surprised when he came out, but he casually threw in two peanuts.
Noodles ate them very excitedly.
Then it opened its mouth.
Seeing this, Gu An was frightened and was about to cover its mouth.
But seeing that what came out was a stone-like thing, he was also a little curious.
Soon the stone was spat out, and then it foamed at the mouth and turned over.
Gu An picked up the stone, looked at it slightly, and found that it was given by the Blood Demon Monarch.
Some words were written on it.
Saying that the music box had been obtained, and he could ask for any reward he wanted.
In addition, the other party also said that the royal family had been making a lot of noise recently, and if he was interested, he could exchange it for enough information.
Gu An was a little surprised, the other party took the initiative to send him news of the royal family?
Afterwards, Gu An agreed, as long as he used Blood Essence to give him secret techniques.
Three days later, the secret technique reacted.
Finally, Gu An received a letter.
It wrote some news about the royal family.
According to the above, some situations have occurred in the royal family.
The originally consolidated royal family suddenly discovered that someone had secretly replaced members of the royal family.
The An Rou Princess, who had been famous for many years, did not have royal blood, especially since this princess was originally scheduled to marry Daozong.
In addition, the replaced princess is now still lost among the people.
This incident plunged the royal family into a vortex.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the eldest princess Yue Han, who had been well protected by the royal family and was known as a waste, escaped from the palace. It is said that the emperor deliberately let them leave, because the royal family was in chaos, and he was afraid that they would be in danger if they continued to stay.
After all, this was the late emperor's most beloved little daughter.
And her maid also has a trace of specialness. It is said that she is an Anwei who was sent to fight against the Zhuanlun lineage. The means of investigating the Zhuanlun lineage are miraculous, but later she suffered from severe poison and her cultivation regressed, so she had to retreat and stay with the eldest princess.
In addition to these, I heard that the third prince's daughter, that is, the royal family's commandery princess, is going to marry Cangmu Sect. This person has always been hidden by the royal family, and no one knows who she is to this day.
And the most interesting thing is that the princess who was lost among the people was taken away by an immortal when she was young. It is said that the immortal claimed to be an elder of the Tianyan Sect.
I'm afraid she has become a disciple of the Tianyan Sect.
Gu An looked at the letter and found that Dongfang Changli said that in order to find out these things, he had traveled over mountains and ridges, looking for people to ask for directions. In short, it took a lot of effort to finally find out who the lost princess was.
Tianyan Sect, a personal disciple of the teaching elder, is naturally in harmony with the Tao, and is known as the Wonderful Sound Saintess, who can peek into the secrets of the world.
However, the commandery princess has never had any news.
Gu An looked at the news and was quite surprised.
The royal family has produced so many geniuses?
No wonder the Cangmu Sect doesn't dare to provoke them. Even a commandery princess can let a true disciple marry her.
The gap is indeed too big.
Especially the princess who was lost among the people, turned around and became the saintess of the sect.
However, what kind of sect is the Tianyan Sect? Gu An had never heard of it.
As for how Dongfang Changli got this news, it doesn't matter.
Anyway, he should be able to hand in the task.
Knowing more people does have certain benefits.
But this Yue Han...
Could she be the eldest princess who escaped from the palace?
He felt that the royal family's affairs were everywhere recently, for some unknown reason.
The Cangmu Sect was inexplicably involved with the other party.
But the other party's maid can discover people from the Zhuanlun lineage?
That's a surprise.
After reading another paragraph, he found that it was written like this: "Speaking of the Zhuanlun lineage, they have long wanted to infiltrate the royal family. This time, they must be going to the Cangmu Sect to bring the person who is marrying the commandery princess into the Zhuanlun lineage in advance.
I heard that someone from the Cangmu Sect also killed someone from the Zhuanlun lineage. I'm afraid there will be a bloody disaster soon. This news can be sold to the other party."
Gu An:
Until the end, Gu An saw the signature.
Call me a news merchant from now on.
Gu An was quite shocked. Why was the other party's news so well-informed in just a few months?