#197 - Sure enough, business is business, and war is war.
#197 - Sure enough, business is business, and war is war.
Late November.
Forty-eight-year-old Gu An had been the leader of the Second Team for quite some time.
During this time, he had been logging.
Both the Second Team and the Left Courtyard were doing the same.
Because he became a leader, Gu An had to find Senior Sister Ye Huaxiao to return the remaining spirit stones to her.
It would probably be difficult for him to come here to log in the future.
Neither side had anticipated this.
And Gu An's logging speed was obvious to all.
Although he was a little reluctant, he didn't care too much.
He was just a logger.
There were loggers everywhere, it was just that some did it well and some didn't.
In the final analysis, he was still just a logger.
After taking back the spirit stones and the token, Ye Huaxiao let Gu An leave.
This was not an open area and could not be entered at will.
Gu An nodded to show that he understood.
He really wasn't qualified to enter here, and he understood that he couldn't enter at will in the future.
For many people, being able to enter here at will was a symbol of status.
Ye Huaxiao and the others felt that they had deprived Gu An of this special right.
However, Gu An had never felt that this so-called status had brought him any benefits.
The bad things that were supposed to come always came.
Late November.
The Blood Refining Sect's matter had finally subsided.
However, many people were injured, and the sect was not in a hurry to let people work.
The back courtyard was the same.
But after nearly half a month of rest, it was time to work.
This day, Gu An received two tasks.
They were issued by the Main Courtyard.
The person who issued the tasks was a Senior Brother from the Main Courtyard.
Gu An looked at him and said, "Does the First Team not have any tasks?"
"The First Team's leader is injured, so it's not convenient to take on tasks for the time being. The Second Team's personnel are all healthy, so it's most suitable to give it to the Second Team.
This was instructed by the Elder." The man, who looked to be in his mid-twenties, looked at Gu An and said.
When he said the last sentence, he knew that Gu An couldn't refute it.
Sure enough, Gu An could only nod in agreement.
"Team Leader Gu, you're new to the job and don't understand many things, so I won't argue with you."
The task-issuing Senior Brother said in an educational tone:
"The tasks I issue here have all been considered by the Main Courtyard, and each Elder will confirm them.
So in the future, don't ask why. A good leader will only accept tasks and desperately complete them.
They won't ask so many questions.
Being talkative easily attracts dislike.
In the future, just listen to what I say. A good hunting dog won't bark at its master."
Gu An nodded and turned to leave.
Then he heard the whispers behind him.
"Senior Brother, isn't it a bit too much to say that? After all, he's a leader, and his status is much higher than ours."
"He's just a leader who's already on a path of no return. I heard that he's been abandoned by the Inner Sect. Letting him be a leader is basically to make him disappear completely.
Of course, I'm saying this on purpose. The people above are watching. Before long, I'll be able to get some spirit stones. Getting these things just for saying a few words, why not?
Isn't the world of cultivation like this? Yesterday you stepped on him to get up, today I'll step on you to get up. Besides, I've also observed him simply. He's just a stray dog. In the future, there will be plenty of hardships for him in the tasks.
Standing on the right side is more important than hard work. You'll understand in the future."
Gu An walked out the door, his eyebrows lowered.
He sighed in his heart. He really couldn't be as impulsive as before.
His strength didn't allow it.
Bear with it, bear with it and it will pass.
Night.
The task-issuing Senior Brother closed the door and took the spirit stones to go to the Inner Sect to find a certain Senior Sister. He had admired her for a long time, and now she needed to improve her cultivation, and what she lacked was spirit stones.
"I earned a lot today. Just a few words and I got so many spirit stones. Gu An is really my lucky star. In the future, when he comes, I'll continue to insult him like this. I think there will be even more spirit stones."
The task-issuing Senior Brother weighed the spirit stones in his hand, a smile on his face: "Now that the Blood Refining Sect's matter has just passed, everyone knows that the people from the Enforcement Hall are watching closely, and no one dares to kill at this time.
As long as I don't leave the outer peak and go to the sect to buy things, I'll be completely safe."
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
He seemed to have thoroughly understood the rules of cultivation.
But not long after he left the building complex, a golden light suddenly flashed.
Then it slapped down on the other party's smiling face.
Pa!
The terrifying force directly distorted his cheek, and then a foot kicked out.
The huge force was like mountains colliding.
Bang!
The task-issuing Senior Brother flew out.
Having just reacted, he looked around in horror: "Who is it?"
"Blood Refining Sect."
As soon as the voice fell.
The Bloodfiend Great Shift was manifested, and then a hand grabbed towards the person on the ground.
One grab and one pull.
Bang!
Blood mist was extracted.
Fresh blood spurted out, like a blood mist sprinkling around.
A scream came.
"Senior, spare me!"
"I can work for Senior."
Then a foot stepped down.
Ka!
The leg bone broke, and severe pain struck.
A scream came.
Perhaps it was because of severe blood loss.
The other party fainted directly.
Thus, Gu An picked up the other party's storage treasure and turned to leave.
Returning to his residence, he dispersed the Bloodfiend Power that came from the Bloodfiend Shift to shield his aura.
He didn't know if the people from the Enforcement Hall could find out.
Of course, under normal circumstances, there was no trace of Bloodfiend on his body.
He wouldn't be noticed.
Besides the spirit stones, Gu An directly sealed some iconic things into the first star, Sheti.
Just sealing such a small thing could seal it for a long time.
This sealing technique was really powerful, making it much more convenient for him.
He just didn't know if anyone would notice that he had the Twelve Stars of the Years.
After cleaning up the storage treasure, Gu An sighed.
This person was a bit poor.
He was also in the early stage of the Golden Core realm, with the same cultivation as himself.
The entire storage treasure, inside and out, added up to twenty-six spirit stones, and twenty of them were obtained from insulting him at noon.
Why was he so poor when he was so good at earning spirit stones?
He didn't have spirit stones, pills, or talismans.
The only magic weapon was a passable spirit sword.
He had seen poor people, but he had never seen anyone so poor.
He really didn't know where the other party spent his spirit stones.
He didn't seem like he often went to the pavilion either.
Shaking his head and sighing, Gu An stopped thinking about it.
He had a lot of troubles now.
But he had a lot of spirit stones.
Several thousand spirit stones, he could think about buying something else, or going to buy a Divine Soul Technique.
If Hua Jiyang wrote to him again, he probably wouldn't be able to save the spirit stones.
He didn't know where the other party had gone.
He wasn't sure which Inner Sect Senior Brother he was at odds with.
According to what Chu Meng said, Hua Jiyang was not simple.
He was indeed not simple, the things he gave were all good things.
The Aura Chapter and the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Chapter in the Myriad Forms of the Universe were all top-level secrets,
As well as the Qi Sea Heaven, the sequel, and various news.
He didn't know what he would give next time.
Of course, it was normal if he didn't give anything.
Normal people didn't have so many good things.
But Noodles would bring good things, but he didn't dare to take them.
He didn't dare to take any of them.
After that, Gu An began to check the two tasks.
He had to complete two tasks in December, otherwise there would be punishment.
Gu An didn't look carefully when he received them, but now he had time,
The two tasks involved two sects.
One was the Joyful Union Sect, and the other was the Blood Refining Sect.
Looking at the two names, Gu An was stunned.
Two Demon Sects?
And one of them was the one he had just fought fiercely with these past few days.
It really is, fighting is fighting, business is business.
For a time, Gu An was quite emotional.
In short, this was something he hadn't expected.
But wouldn't it be very dangerous for someone with a sensitive identity like himself to go to the Blood Refining Sect?
He had to know that Luo Yutong would definitely remember him, even though she didn't know his background at the time, it shouldn't be difficult to investigate it after so many days.
There must still be lurking people outside of Peak Beyond Peak.
Perhaps this mission is the masterpiece of a lurking person.
"Not good."
Gu An was quite emotional.
He knew a little about the Joyous Union Sect. There were both men and women in the sect, and they liked to take advantage of others with charm techniques.
So every business deal required after-sales service, and they always had to pay something.
Although troublesome, it was easy to solve.
Moreover, they wouldn't attack, and their attitude wasn't high.
On the contrary, their attitude would be more delicate.
They could even use dual cultivation to communicate.
In short, the Joyous Union Sect tested one's concentration.
Many people wanted to go, but they didn't dare to.
For fear of falling into it.
Especially those who didn't have much contact with women, were most likely to fall into a gentle trap and be unable to extricate themselves.
In the end, their future would be ruined.
Gu An was filled with emotion, these people had put a lot of effort into helping him get out of being single.
The after-sales service submitted by the Joyous Union Sect this time was that there was a problem with the construction.
The backyard only managed two things, one was construction, and the other was wood.
This time it was construction.
When there was a problem, a report would be submitted to the main courtyard to send people back to rework it.
He just didn't know if it would be convenient for him to handle it now.
Afterwards, he looked at the problem of the Blood Refining Sect.
The other party bought Vajra Wood, and found that it couldn't be burned, and suspected that it was filled with other spirit wood.
Causing them heavy losses.
They needed to give an explanation.
Seeing this, Gu An frowned.
Vajra Wood?
Wasn't that wood from the Vajra Wood Spirit Garden?
How could there be a problem with the wood there?
Moreover, that was the cheapest wood, what spirit wood could replace it?
Replacing it would result in a loss until death.
But why would the other party say such a clumsy lie?
It didn't make sense.
If there was a conspiracy, they would never use such a flawed reason.
Either it was true, or the other party didn't care.
Just casually found an excuse.
Not caring about the Azure Wood Sect at all.
Gu An was also uncertain.
The next day.
Early December.
Today was the first, everyone went to collect resources.
Gu An was also like that.
Thirty from the sect, two hundred from Peak Beyond Peak.
Plus one hundred and thirty merit points.
However, there weren't many merit points, adding up to only two hundred or so.
Useless.
If he wanted to attract the attention of the Merit Hall, he needed enough merit points, tens of thousands, and he needed to obtain them in a short period of time.
Of course, accumulating them for a long time without using them was also possible.
But he needed more.
Counting the spirit stones, Gu An found that he still had eight thousand four hundred and sixty-three spirit stones.
Originally it should have been nine thousand, but he returned six hundred spirit stones to the left courtyard.
So there were less.
But more than eight thousand was not a small amount, recalling when he was in the Vajra Wood Spirit Wood Garden, he couldn't even take out a few spirit stones.
His residence could be taken back at any time.
But compared to that time, the current situation seemed even more dangerous.
After receiving the resources, Gu An returned to the courtyard of Thousand Dust Peak.
After feeding Noodle, he planned to chop wood.
Recently, he had improved his Qi Sea Heavenly Dipper once, and tempered his Golden Core Perfection.
His strength had reached a new level.
After tempering, he felt that his Golden Core was more pure and thick.
Two temperings had increased his strength by thirty to forty percent.
Sometimes he really wanted to find a genius Golden Core Perfection to try his hand.
He was inflated, just wanted to test his strength.
When he came to chop wood, the Blood Demon Divine Monarch was sleeping again.
So chopping wood was not noisy.
Late at night.
Gu An completed the accumulation of spells.
Then he returned to Peak Beyond Peak.
After confirming that there were no problems around, he improved the second layer of Qi Sea Heavenly Dipper.
Everything was very smooth, after all, Qi Sea Heavenly Dipper only needed accumulation.
This time the accumulation was longer than before.
How could a normal person complete nine layers during the Golden Core period?
It was simply demanding the impossible.
On average, once every hundred years, it would take nine hundred years.
Even if his lifespan was so long, it was less than nine hundred years.
Wasn't this originally not for people to cultivate?
It was almost the same to find a long-lived demon race.
Gu An was quite emotional, but fortunately he could cultivate.
The power of Qi Sea Heavenly Dipper was also very great, so he still had to learn it.
Otherwise his combat power would decline linearly.
Now that he had advanced two layers, the original water-like Gang Qi began to condense ice slag.
After stabilizing his breath, Gu An summoned all the people in the second team, the resources had been collected, and they had rested, it was time to do the task.
Afterwards, Gu An told the five people about the task.
These five people felt their scalps tingle after reading the task.
Especially the task of the Blood Refining Sect.
Where was this a task.
Wasn't this clearly sending people to their deaths.
Going to talk to them at this time, wasn't it like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?
The two sides had just fought, and there was a lot of hostility.
If they disagreed and started fighting, it would be a white death.
"Don't be so pessimistic."
Gu An looked at the five people and said: "We are worried, the Blood Refining Sect is naturally also worried."
The people handing over should all be Golden Core, few Nascent Soul would handle these trivial matters, unless the impact was large.
So with the same cultivation, they must also be afraid.
Especially since the Blood Refining Sect had lost.
If this guess was true, then the Blood Refining Sect was probably really in need of after-sales service.
After all, under worrying circumstances, they still had to do so, naturally they were also forced to do so.
The five people were silent, but they couldn't refuse.
"How is Junior Brother Pang's injury?"
Gu An asked Pang Wen.
The latter heard this and immediately respectfully opened his mouth: "It's already healed, thank you for the team leader's concern."
He was defeated by Gu An, and now he didn't have any dissatisfaction or unwillingness.
"Good, then Junior Brother Pang, take Junior Sister Shu and Junior Brother Leng, to contact the Joyous Union Sect."
Gu An said.
Hearing this, Pang Wen breathed a sigh of relief.
Nodding in agreement.
"Junior Sister Ruan and Junior Brother Shang, go to the Blood Refining Sect with me."
Gu An looked at everyone and said: "You all go back and think carefully, what method should you use to deal with the two sects.
Give me your thoughts within five days, and then finalize the regulations, and then you can set off."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Shu Ci stayed behind again, the clothes she wore were not as loose as before, but her graceful figure was not fully displayed.
It would only be revealed with movement or wind.
She said seriously: "Senior Brother, I have dealt with the Blood Refining Sect, why don't I accompany you?
When speaking, she was respectful, without the slightest affectation, and would not deliberately show off her graceful figure.
But it made people want to wait for the gentle breeze.
To peek at that proud curve.
This woman was amazing.
However, Gu An refused the other party.
With the other party there, he could guarantee that the Joyous Union Sect would not make things difficult.
He had to make a trip to the Blood Refining Sect himself.
Other people should be difficult to complete it.
There was no need to send them to their deaths.
The remaining time was to improve the Qi Sea Heavenly Dipper as soon as possible, and then see if he could make a trip to the Longevity Sect.
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