With his instincts from many years of plundering, the ugly man could sense that this young man would not be easy to deal with. Seeing how his seniors and juniors were still yelling at each other without any sense of propriety, even rubbing their hands and wanting to fight, he called out, "All of you, shut up." He asked cautiously, "May I ask what your name is?"
"Let's go!" Li Qingshan said to Qian Rongzhi. He directly strode off as if he did not exist. The ugly man's expression changed. Just when Li Qingshan was about to collide with him, he dodged to the side. He watched as he left with Qian Rongzhi and gulped silently.
"Big brother!"
"Don't provoke him. This person is very dangerous." The ugly man looked at Li Qingshan's back. If this young man were the Black Wolf commander, he would not even consider contending with him. This woman would truly be difficult to deal with now that she had gained his assistance.
… …
In the main building, Fang Enshang pushed aside the curtains, tidied his desk, and sprinkled some water on it. He was prepared to deal with official business. He was still filled with passion for this job. Hearing the footsteps, he raised his head and said, "Oh Rongzhi, you've come. Who's this?"
This was the second time Li Qingshan had seen Fang Enshang. Back then in the Quiet Spring Valley, if Fang Enshang had not interfered, it definitely would have turned into a battle to the death. Li Qingshan had a rather good impression of him.
Qian Rongzhi introduced the two of them. Li Qingshan clasped his hands. "Subordinate Li Qingshan greets the commander!"
"So you're Li Qingshan." Fang Enshang looked at the tall young man before him and studied him, as if he refused to believe that he was the Tiger Butcher who had killed countless people. He could not help but ask the question in his mind, "Where have you been during this period of time?"
As a result, Li Qingshan told him the story he had prepared for a very long time. It was seventy percent true and thirty percent false. He admitted that Zhuo Zhibo had persecuted him and forced him to go underground. As he fled, he alarmed a powerful daemon underground, which wiped out Zhuo Zhibo and the others. Only he managed to escape.
This story. Apart from the fact that Li Qingshan was the monster, there was not a single lie.
Qian Rongzhi, who was at the side, helped him out at the right time. With her scheming methods, she had gotten along very well with Fang Enshang over the past few months. She also knew his temperament very well, so she cleverly manipulated his thoughts.
Sure enough, Fang Enshang was filled with righteous indignation. "How could there be such a person who colluded with a sinner? A commander who wholeheartedly wanted to deal with his subordinates, his death was truly not to be regretted! What about the former Black Wolf Commander, Lao Xishan? "
Li Qingshan said, "I parted ways with the Deputy Commander there. I'm afraid the Deputy Commander didn't believe me and went underground as well."
"Then why did you only return now?"
Qian Rongzhi said, "That's something everyone knows about. Because of a child, guard Li has offended the sect, but he's not a disciple. Because of this matter, the sect's vice sect master and the four grannies all came to Jiaping City. If I hadn't informed him to escape in time, he would have already been killed. "
Fang Enshang slammed the table. "They're completely out of control!"
Li Qingshan said, "I know the sect is powerful. I've returned this time because I want to enter secluded cultivation on the mountain for a while. The mayor of Zhou Zhi has been kind enough to agree to recommend me to the Hundred Schools of Thought. As long as I go to the Hundred Schools of Thought, the sect should have some qualms! "
Fang Enshang patted Li Qingshan's shoulder. "Don't worry. As long as you're in the Hawkwolf Guard, no one will be able to touch you. Once you go to the Hundred Schools of Thought, it's even more impossible for these sects to act as they please. Our Hawkwolf Guard won't allow anyone to trample over us!"
He was so sincere that even Li Qingshan felt rather embarrassed about lying to him. In the end, he took out the Zombie Daoist's corpse and handed in the mission, exchanging it for over ten thousand points of contribution.
These points of contribution could be exchanged for Qi Gathering pills or spiritual stones. They were no longer in Li Qingshan's eyes. However, entering secluded cultivation in the dwelling on the mountain also required contribution. And, it was not cheap. It required fifty points of contribution every day.
Qian Rongzhi brought Li Qingshan to where he cultivated. It was also a spacious cave carved out of the mountain.
Li Qingshan could sense that the spiritual qi in there was indeed slightly denser than outside. There were no tables, chairs, or beds in there. There was only a huge formation engraved on the ground.
Qian Rongzhi said, "This is a Spirit Gathering formation, but you'll have to pay for it with spiritual stones if you want to activate it."
Li Qingshan looked at the formation. Sure enough, there were many grooves on it. He nodded slightly and thought, What a good plan.
Qian Rongzhi then pressed her hand against a disc on the wall. She channeled true qi into it and turned it gently. A huge boulder rolled over with a rumble.
"Once this stone door is sealed, it can only be opened from the inside. It's possible to open it from the outside as well, but you'll need to break through it forcefully. I think even the sect master wouldn't be bold enough to do something like that."
Li Qingshan nodded. The entire Hawkwolf Guard would never allow something like that to happen. He took out a pill from his hundred treasures pouch and passed it to Qian Rongzhi. "If anything happens outside while I'm in secluded cultivation, I'll have to trouble you to deal with it. If there's any danger, I'll have to trouble you to warn me."
Although his lies had fooled Fang Enshang, this was related to the deaths of two commanders and a group of Hawkwolf guards. Fang Enshang could not act on his own. He had to report this to his superiors. According to Qian Rongzhi's analysis, there should not be any major problems. This was just a precaution.
"A Sea of Qi pill!" Qian Rongzhi's eyes lit up.
The Sea of Qi pill was a crucial pill for breaking through from the fifth layer to the sixth. It could assist Qi Practitioners in condensing their sea of qi, so it was quite valuable. However, Li Qingshan had found almost a hundred of them from over a thousand hundred treasures pouches. Taking one out was nothing.
"I've already found one. With this one, my chances will increase by another thirty percent." Qian Rongzhi accepted the pill. She did not say any words of gratitude.
This was their relationship. They had nothing to do with each other, and they did not owe each other anything. It was a simple and clear way of using each other. There was absolutely no false feelings involved. There was not even a single word of nonsense.
At this moment, there was a thump, and the huge rock sealed the door. The cave was pitch-black.
Qian Rongzhi also felt extremely relaxed. In this completely sealed space, her expression and bearing underwent a wondrous change. The warm and intimate feeling vanished, and the cold, slippery feeling filled Li Qingshan's heart once again.
She was like a snake that was about to bite someone. Her eyes shone with a faint, cold light. She pursed her lips and smiled. "With that, I can use the medicinal catalysts I left behind."
The ugly man and his companions were all medicinal catalysts she had prepared for breaking through to the sixth layer. They would provide her with tremendous amounts of true qi at crucial times.
Li Qingshan frowned. He turned the mechanism, and as the stone door slowly opened, the light landed on her face once more. Like magic, her expression changed slightly wherever the light shone. Once the light completely enveloped her, she recovered her image of a warm, gentle elder sister.
Li Qingshan felt like she was more like a daemon from the legends than him.
The light cast a long shadow into the cave. Li Qingshan looked at the owner of the shadow. "Diao Fei?"
Diao Fei hesitated. "I heard you've returned." His cultivation had already reached the fourth layer. Although he did not progress as quickly as Li Qingshan and Qian Rongzhi after they had joined the Hawkwolf Guard, he did not waste his time.
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