"Baixiang Country... Lotus Pond..."
Chen Baiqing gently held a jade token in her hand and looked up at the map of the Eastern Continent of Superior Gods hanging beside her. Her eyes quickly locked onto a location in a corner of the Eastern Continent of Superior Gods.
It was an unremarkable and rather remote place, with no special features and no spiritual veins.
The cultivators from the Tianyan Sect she brought had all been dispatched to track down where these exquisite Buddha statues had been scattered.
These exquisite Buddha statues had gone through round after round of twists and turns. After several months, they were transported in batches. During this process, there was also very covert extraction of merit power, and the people handling them were all different.
The operation was very covert, and the means were also very changeable.
The disciples of the Tianyan Sect had lost track of them several times. Most of the leads were not followed to the end, but all the leads that were followed to the end pointed to the Lotus Pond in the Eastern Continent of Superior Gods.
There was no doubt about the ability of these Tianyan Sect disciples to handle affairs. However, even they had lost track of most of the targets. To be able to do this, this matter was probably far more surprising than initially expected.
The merit power over the East Sea had not completely subsided yet. There was also no doubt about who this huge amount of merit power was directed at.
"Is it the Heavenly Demon?" Chen Baiqing reached out and gently tapped on the location of the Lotus Pond on the map. "This is really extremely interesting."
Lin Luoyu looked up and followed Chen Baiqing's gaze to the Lotus Pond.
"Should we report this to Master?"
"Of course, we should report it to Master." Chen Baiqing's eyebrows drooped slightly. "If there really is a Heavenly Demon in the Lotus Pond, this matter is beyond our ability."
"However... if it really is the work of the Heavenly Demon, isn't it a bit too obvious?"
"Using official sea transportation, transporting exquisite Buddha statues from the Western Continent of Cattle and Happiness, changing to other carriers at the destination to transport the merit power, and finally sending them to the Lotus Pond."
"If it is the Heavenly Demon, I think it is making an explicit hint."
Lin Luoyu pondered slightly and asked with some confusion:
"If it is an explicit hint, why make it so complicated and so covert?"
Chen Baiqing was using her spiritual sense to write a message on the jade token to report to her master:
"To filter out other immortal sect forces so that they won't interfere, but to let us find them."
Lin Luoyu asked, "What's the meaning of that?"
"The most terrifying thing is what we don't know." Chen Baiqing's tone became serious. "We should think of our opponents as more terrifying."
Chen Baiqing personally handed the written jade token to Lin Luoyu.
"Sister, you take this jade token to find Master. You must hand this jade token to Master personally and don't let anyone else see it."
Lin Luoyu subconsciously took it, then looked up at Chen Baiqing and asked:
"Will you stay here alone, Sister?"
Chen Baiqing understood Lin Luoyu's subconscious worry and comforted her with a gentle smile:
"I'm not stupid and I won't do stupid things. Someone has to stay here to find out what needs to be found out. I also don't want to make Master sad."
Hearing this, Lin Luoyu didn't hesitate. She nodded heavily and then turned to leave.
Chen Baiqing looked calm as she watched Lin Luoyu's figure turn into a rainbow light and fly away.
In the temporary central hub of the Xiaoyun Hall in the Eastern Continent of Superior Gods.
Chu Xingchen was lying lazily on the main seat. There were all kinds of spiritual fruits and spiritual fruit juices on the table in front of him.
On one side, there were a lot of jade tokens on Yunxiao's seat.
Yunxiao didn't flip through the jade tokens quickly. In fact, most of the time, he was observing Chu Xingchen.
It didn't matter if some messages were not processed. The people below would naturally handle them well.
Most of the messages were just reports on the progress and situation.
"Is there something written on my face?" Chu Xingchen suddenly spoke and glanced at Yunxiao beside him.
Yunxiao came to his senses. "No."
"Then why are you staring at me?" Chu Xingchen stood up and leaned on the table in front of him with one hand. "Don't think my good looks come for free. From now on, I'll charge you spirit stones for every extra look you take at me."
Yunxiao was a bit speechless when he heard this. Sometimes, one's bottom line really was hard to fathom:
"This is a bit unreasonable, isn't it?"
Chu Xingchen raised his eyebrows and said with a dissatisfied tone: "What's unreasonable? This is a spiritual comfort fee. After being stared at by your fierce eyes for so long, I won't be able to sleep at night."
"If you don't believe me, I'll find a few extremely ugly people to stare at you here every day and see how you feel."
Yunxiao took a deep breath and lowered his eyes to look at the jade tokens on his table.
If Bai Xuanling was known for never losing a fight with her hands, then Chu Xingchen was known for never losing an argument with his mouth.
The first one could be life - threatening, and the second one could be heart - wrenching.
Some of the outside rumors were not true, but some were even more exaggerated than the rumors.
Yunxiao didn't get angry. He really just lowered his head and only looked at the jade tokens. Anyway, he didn't really expect to get any useful information from the expression of someone like Chu Xingchen.
As the sun was setting and the rosy clouds were rising.
Just as the setting sun shone into this meeting hall, Lin Luoyu flew in. She didn't exchange greetings or pay respects. She skipped all the formalities and ignored Yunxiao beside her. She directly handed the jade token tightly held in her hand to Chu Xingchen.
Lin Luoyu tried to keep her tone calm. "Third Sister asked me to give this to Master personally."
Hearing this, Chu Xingchen frowned slightly and reached out to take it. Then, noticing someone's inquiring gaze, he looked in the direction of the gaze and found that it was Yunxiao looking up at him.
Seeing this, Chu Xingchen said angrily:
"Does this concern you? It's one thousand spirit stones for every extra look at me today. The count restarts every three breaths. Now you owe me one thousand spirit stones!"
"If you think it's a loss, you can leave now. Don't say that Chu the Great Philanthropist is forcing you to give me spirit stones."
Hearing this, Yunxiao lowered his head again.
Anyway, he couldn't see the information on the jade token. He could just listen with his ears. Whether he could see it or not didn't really matter.
If they used spiritual sense to transmit the message, it meant that the matter they were talking about was extremely important, and this could also be considered a kind of intelligence.
But just for a moment.
Chu Xingchen's angry exclamation reached their ears:
"What? How dare they do this?"
Yunxiao immediately looked up at Chu Xingchen again, but instead of seeing an extremely angry look in Chu Xingchen's eyes, he saw a playful look sizing him up.
Chu Xingchen's satisfied voice came again:
"Two thousand spirit stones now, Fellow Daoist Yun Xiao."
Yunxiao didn't argue. He lowered his head again just in time.
Chu Xingchen said urgently again:
"For such an important matter, don't come to me first. Go to Senior Bai for urgent help first, and then go to the Xuanqing Heavenly Sect to call Huang Miao."
Yunxiao slightly suppressed his desire to look up.
Since there was no spiritual sense transmission, it might be another trick.
Lin Luoyu's nervous voice came. "Right now?"
The nervousness in the voice of this cultivator with a noble aura was self - evident.
Yunxiao looked up at Chu Xingchen again. Facing Chu Xingchen's teasing eyes, he spoke first:
"One thousand spirit stones for every three breaths. The Xiaoyun Hall will pay."
"Sure enough, it's a great sect. It's wealthy and generous." Chu Xingchen sighed when he heard this. Then he reached out to pick up a fruit on the table and handed it to Lin Luoyu. "Come, Luoyu, have a fruit and tell us slowly."
Lin Luoyu nodded understandingly, reached out to take the fruit and started eating.
Hearing this, Chu Xingchen let out a long, melancholy sigh.
"Disciples at the core of the major sect are truly different. They spend a large amount of spirit stones just to watch others eat fruits."
"I can only say that I'm envious."
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