Report Document

Originally, she had just planned to go down the mountain to check on her family's fields, but unexpectedly, as soon as she descended, she saw the county magistrate dressed in a green official uniform along with a group of yamen runners.

Hearing this, the three people in the sect's main hall hurriedly walked out.

They used a concealment spell and walked down the mountain.

Sure enough, they saw a group of yamen runners and a man in a green official uniform surrounded by villagers, hesitating in front of the Path of Asking the Heart.

Lin Xiao thought for a moment. If they didn't show up and let the villagers and officials guess wildly, they might mistake this place for a demon's doing and invite the cultivators of the Shangyang Sect or even join forces with the military camp to come over, which would be troublesome.

So, after a moment of thought, he ultimately removed his concealment spell and walked out from the Path of Asking the Heart.

Thus, the crowd outside the Path of Asking the Heart saw a handsome, tall young man wearing a white and green Daoist robe. From this dreamlike mountain path, he calmly used the air-stepping technique, walking step by step in mid-air before slowly descending to the ground.

Lin Xiao's calm gaze swept over the crowd at the foot of the mountain path, and he spoke lightly,

"Everyone, you have visited my Lingxian Sect. May I ask what business you have here?"

Seeing this, Magistrate Wen immediately treated him like a god. He lowered his gaze, raised his hands, and gave a deep bow in Lin Xiao's direction, saying with a hint of trepidation,

"I, Wen Keming, pay my respects to the Immortal! Yesterday, upon hearing the rumors in the city about your esteemed land, I was worried something was amiss and came specifically to investigate. I did not know that an Immortal was cultivating here in peace. Please forgive me for any disturbance..."

Seeing this, the yamen runners and servants behind him immediately followed suit and bowed deeply to Lin Xiao.

Behind them, the villagers of Xiushui Village looked bewildered.

If they weren't mistaken, that person in front who looked like an immortal was the second son of Lin Dayou's family, right?

They hadn't seen him much recently, but to think he had turned into such an ethereal figure!

The group of fellow villagers who had watched him grow up from playing in the mud and teasing cats and dogs fell into deep self-doubt.

Although many of them had been gossiping earlier, saying that the second son of the Lin family had obtained an immortal encounter and become an immortal, that was just talk.

Now that they had actually seen it with their own eyes, they were more shocked than anyone else.

On the mountain path, Lin Xiao felt uncomfortable listening to the magistrate speaking in an official tone. However, in order to maintain the image of an "immortal" in the eyes of ordinary people and prevent them from accidentally associating him with demons or evil spirits, his expression did not change in the slightest.

He only spoke to Magistrate Wen with a tone that still lacked any fluctuation:

"This place is an important ground of my Lingxian Sect. This mountain path is called the Path of Asking the Heart. It is a necessary path for our sect to select disciples. There are no demons or monsters here. Disperse quickly, and do not make a huge fuss and disturb the people."

After saying that, he turned around and headed back up the mountain without looking back, leaving a crowd of people staring blankly at his aloof retreating back.

It wasn't until his figure completely disappeared from the sight of the people at the foot of the mountain that everyone came back to their senses.

The villagers began to whisper to each other in extremely low voices.

Meanwhile, Magistrate Wen immediately got up and returned to his carriage.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry back to the county!"

He needed to go back and write an official document to report to the imperial court!

An immortal had actually established a sect within his jurisdiction!

He wondered if he would gain the Emperor's favor after reporting this matter.

Just like that, Magistrate Wen's carriage didn't stay in Xiushui Village for long before leaving in a hurry.

And after the villagers of Xiushui Village watched Magistrate Wen's carriage leave, their whispering turned into loud discussions.

"Has the second son of the Lin family really become an immortal?"

"Of course! Didn't you see just now? That boy walked right down from the sky!"

"Pah, pah, pah! What 'that boy'! You should call him Immortal Lin! If you want to offend an immortal, don't drag me into it!"

"Oh my! To think that when Immortal Lin was shouting in the village about taking disciples to cultivate immortality, it was actually true! If I had known, I would have let my boy play more with the Lin family's little... Immortal. Maybe he would be an immortal now too!"

"Tsk, if you put it that way, have the youngest son of the Jiang family, the one from the Qin family, and the eldest son of the Hu family all become immortals?"

"Oh my! I'm actually neighbors with immortals!"

"Hey, hey, hey, did you hear just now? Immortal Lin said that this Path of Asking the Heart is a necessary path for their sect to select disciples. Tell me, if my kid walks across it, can he become an immortal too?"

...

When Magistrate Wen rushed back to the Anqun County yamen, he ran straight to his study without even washing his face and started drafting the report.

You must know, normally he paid the most attention to his appearance and grooming.

But right now, he had no time to care about that. Currently, he only had one thought in mind.

That was that he might be able to ride the tailwind of the Lingxian Sect and soar straight up!

The excited Wen Keming's thoughts flowed like a spring, and with a few swift strokes, he wrote a brilliant and flowery official report.

Then he immediately sealed it and called his trusted aide to deliver this letter to the relay station.

And he repeatedly emphasized that it must be placed in the urgent document column.

According to convention.

This official document would first be sent to his superior at Liaoju Prefecture.

Wen Keming thought for a moment, hastily wrote another letter, and immediately had his trusted aide prepare a generous gift. Taking this letter, the aide was to leave the city overnight while the city gates were not yet locked, and ride as fast as possible to Liaoju Prefecture.

He aimed to deliver the gift and his letter to the Prefect before the official document reached Liaoju Prefecture, so that the Prefect could facilitate the passage of his document.

Furthermore, he promised in the letter to yield a portion of the credit.

Only then did Wen Keming return to his room in a good mood and began to bathe and change his clothes.

In his heart, he had already started fantasizing about the scenes after his meteoric rise.

And he was also pondering that he should visit Xiushui Village more often recently.

He needed to build a relationship with the immortal; perhaps the immortal would find him pleasing to the eye and give him more assistance.

However, what he didn't know was this.

The next day, when his trusted aide delivered the gifts, Prefect Tong Shuzheng of Liaoju Prefecture read his letter at a glance, but then asked his aide to take those gifts back.

He said he would handle matters impartially.

He told Magistrate Wen not to do such acts of bribery again.

After Wen Keming's trusted aide left, Tong Shuzheng turned around and instructed his subordinates to immediately intercept Magistrate Wen's official report when the relay station delivered it to the prefectural city.

They were to place this document into the slowest column for transmitting official documents.

That is to say, originally, if his document went through the urgent document channel, it might reach the capital in less than half a month.

However, now that Tong Shuzheng had switched it to the most ordinary routine document channel, it would take at least two months for this document to reach the capital.

After making the arrangements, Tong Shuzheng was still very worried and paid out of his own pocket to grease some palms.

He had his advisor emphasize to those people that they absolutely must not deliver this document quickly.

When all this was arranged, Tong Shuzheng finally returned to his study. After pondering for a moment, he took out the tracking voice transmission talisman that Lin Xiao had given him earlier.