Shan Qiuli is a generous and kind person. Although she is always a little concerned when it comes to matters concerning her brother, overall, the character of this fellow Taoist Shan is completely opposite to that of her brother.
She was able to endure such a big thing as her innocence being ruined by a playboy, and she kept it a secret from her brother so as not to make him worry.
From this we can see that Shan Qiuli is definitely a very smart woman.
She is not a wimp.
He swallowed his anger, probably because he wanted to protect his brother from getting into this mess. Besides, he dared to do such a dirty thing to the disciples of Tongtianfang, but he was only driven away afterwards...
This shows that Fang Qingyun is definitely a man with a background.
Now that the Shan family has been defeated, it is definitely not a good thing for the now fledgling Shan Qiuming to provoke such an enemy.
Unfortunately, the news leaked out.
"From what I see, Fellow Daoist Shan, now is not the time to be angry."
In the Liu residence garden, Jiang Xia said seriously to the eldest sister of the Shan family:
"You were determined to conceal something. With your cultivation in the Divine Realm, you would never let it slip, but Brother Qiu Ming knew about it.
This means that he either has other sources of information.
Or, there is a traitor around you!
This is a fatal matter.”
"No, Brother Jiang, it's not as scary as you say."
Shan Qiuli quickly managed her expression and let herself skip the embarrassing topic. She drank the delicious spiritual tea and said helplessly:
"This must be something that Xiao Ya'er said. She is a fellow disciple of mine and we have known each other since we entered the sect. We are as close as sisters.
She is a good person in normal days except that she can't control her mouth. She also has some feelings for my brother, and my plans were ruined by a little question from my brother.
This time when I go back, I will definitely punish her severely!
The disciples of Tongtianfang are harmonious and live in the spiritual realm of Zhongzhou. Every move we make is well-organized, and there won’t be any vicious incidents such as internal strife or internal fighting. "
"etc!"
Old Jiang suddenly stretched out his hand and interrupted Shan Qiuli's words. He played with the teacup and said to the great cultivator in the God Cultivation Realm with a strange look in his eyes:
"Could the 'Xiao Ya'er' that Fellow Daoist Shan is talking about be the one who calls himself Yunyazi?"
"Yes, that's her."
Shan Qiuli of course knew what Jiang Xia meant, so there was no need to hide it. She drank a sip of spiritual tea and said to Lao Jiang:
"It's the 'Xiao Ya' in my Hongyan Society who has been in contact with you. To be honest, Xiao Ya is also blessed by you. If it weren't for the precious ash medicine you entrusted to her,
With Xiao Yaer's seniority in my sect, she still has a long way to go if she wants to officially join the Hongyan Society.
But don't worry, fellow Daoist. I, Hongyan, will do things according to the rules. Even if Qiu Ming is here today, I will never ask you about the origin of the precious medicine.
Just think of me as Shan Qiuming's sister, a friend you just met."
"Um."
Jiang Xia nodded.
The two of them had a tacit understanding and did not talk much about the Hongyan Society. Jiang Xia took the initiative to change the subject and said to Shan Qiuli with a smile:
"Just now I heard what Brother Qiu Ming said, saying that Brother Shan had harmed him. Now I finally have some clues. Brother Shan, you have such a wonderful initiation and power transmission technique.
Could it be that he learned it through many experiments with Brother Qiu Ming?"
“I guess so.”
When this topic was mentioned, Shan Qiuli felt a little embarrassed again.
She was quite helpless, and said with a hint of amusement:
"My Tongtianfang practices the Huang-Lao method, not the art of killing. We also have a great technique left behind by a great being from the other side, so our disciples' practice progress is very fast.
Like me , I practiced cultivation with my brother, but I entered the spiritual realm many years earlier than him.
But fellow Taoist, you are also a cultivator, so you should naturally know that if you have not found your own Taoist heart, you must not rashly enter the realm of seeking the Tao, which is above the realm of cultivating the spirit.
We are also helpless. Once a disciple in our sect enters the realm of truth, we have to use the channels of the Hongyan Society to find people who need initiation and disperse their spiritual power.
Otherwise, you will not be able to suppress your practice too quickly.
At that time, I had just entered the realm of truth and had not yet been promoted to a high position in the Hongyan Society. There were not always cultivators who needed initiation every year. I saw that the cultivation was progressing too fast and it was somewhat unstoppable.
I took the opportunity to go home to visit my family and gave my brother, who was still in the Qi training stage, several initiations.”
At this point, Shan Qiuli sighed and said:
“It was fate that played tricks on me. I didn’t know when he secretly started practicing body refinement. After a few rounds of initiation, he couldn’t suppress his spiritual power anymore and survived the thunder tribulation. He inexplicably broke through to the realm of truth.
The reason why he said I hurt him.
It's because of this.
This body cultivator's path of practice is completely different from that of us orthodox spell-casting practitioners. The Qi training stage is the time to lay the foundation, and he hasn't laid a good foundation.
In the realm of reality, it takes more time to make up for it...
He had a big fight with me because of this. My original intention was that since things had come to this, he might as well give up the body refining technique and practice with me in Tongtianfang.
Anyway, his spiritual roots are not bad.
But he just didn't want to.
He was angry with me because of this and moved out of my Shan family's home in Zhongzhou Lingyu, and ran all the way to the ancestral land of Fengming Kingdom in the East to find my second uncle and hang out here.
More than 30 years have passed in the blink of an eye. Seeing that he is still suppressing his cultivation and not making a breakthrough, I'm afraid he is still making up for the foundation he missed in the past. In this way, it was indeed me who was ignorant back then.
Hurt him.
Our relationship has become very tense since then.”
"More than 30 years?"
Jiang Xia blinked, put down the teacup, and asked:
"Then Brother Qiu Ming this year..."
"Fifty-three."
Shan Qiuli replied:
“He is cultivating a copy of the Dragon-Tiger Secret Book left by my Shan family’s ancestors . My ancestors had some friendship with the powerful people of Liangyi Weichen Mountain. This body-refining secret book also has the miraculous effect of keeping youth forever.
So now it seems that he still maintains the appearance he had when he was twenty years old.
how?
Fellow Daoist Shan, do you think that my younger brother is the same age as you?
I won't hide it from you, my younger brother has been a naughty boy since he was young. Now he is nearly sixty years old, but he is still like a naughty boy.
It can be said that the original intention has not changed.
Of course, for monks like me, fifty-three is not really old, and can be considered young."
"I thought he was a hot-blooded young man."
At this moment, Lao Jiang felt that his understanding of the world was once again challenged.
He shrugged and said helplessly:
“I never thought that my brother Qiu Ming was actually such a passionate old man. This cultivation thing is really amazing.
But he himself didn't say it, he really had bad intentions. Not only did I think he was young, he had a very good reputation in the local spiritual practice circle. Those serious young people all regarded him as their peer.
He calls me Brother Qiu Ming all the time. He calls me Brother Qiu Ming all the time.
They called each other brothers and were very enthusiastic. "
"That's why he is called a naughty boy."
Shan Qiuli chuckled and said to Lao Jiang:
"Tell me, Fellow Daoist Jiang, given my brother's character, how can I let him go and explore the world?"
"That's wrong."
Jiang Xia shook his head, and like someone who had experienced this, he said to Shan Qiuli:
"This guy is actually a stubborn ass. The more you put pressure on him, the more he will jump up. The more you deny his talent, the more he will prove it to you.
What's more, Brother Qiu Ming is wholeheartedly pursuing the art of body refining, probably because of the stimulation from his family.
I heard him talk about the past of the Shan family today. It is said that your parents, Fellow Daoist Shan, died in an accident?"
"Um."
Talking about this, Shan Qiuli also revealed a bitter smile.
The beautiful monk from the God of Wealth Mountain said softly with a hint of melancholy:
“My parents are also monks from Tongtianfang. That year, they went to the West Sea to worship their ancestors, but they encountered an outbreak of evil energy from the Sin Abyss, and the monk who was responsible for protecting them was infected by the evil energy.
Even though there were monks from the Immortal Alliance rushing there as quickly as possible.
But fellow Daoist, you also know that the cultivators in our Tongtianfang really are... how should I put it, facing that kind of sudden disaster, we really have no ability to resist at all.
Alas, the entire Ku Mu Realm says that we only have realm in our possession and are a group of old turtles who only care about longevity. In fact, what they say is not wrong.
I have actually thought about this over the years.
It is indeed as Daoyou said, the reason why he was so disdainful of the Huang Lao practice in Tongtianfang and the reason why he was so extreme that he wanted to practice body refining was probably because he didn't want him and me to encounter the tragedy that my parents had experienced."
“But there is more to it than that.”
Jiang Xia shook his head and said seriously:
"Friend Shan and Brother Qiu Ming haven't had a good talk for many years. I had a chat with Brother Qiu Ming today , and I could feel that what Brother Qiu Ming wanted was not just to protect his relatives.
He also wanted to restore the glory of the Shan family.
Although he didn't say it, I could clearly feel that he admired the power of your ancestors and was very dissatisfied with the current situation of the Shan family.
He is under a lot of pressure.
Perhaps, fellow Taoist, you can change the way you get along with him.
Maybe you can give him some support.”
"This is also the issue we are going to discuss next after so much talk and preparation between you and Brother Jiang Daoist."
Jiangxia’s chicken soup hasn’t been finished yet.
Shan Qiuli waved his hand to interrupt him. The old monk Huang stared at Jiang Xia and said:
“I don’t want to ask about your secrets, Brother Jiang, but before coming to Fengming Country, I also collected some information about Brother Jiang through the information channels of Tongtianfang.
There is no malicious intent, it is just an advance check of guests who need empowerment services.
There was an incident before where a guest deliberately used our Tongtianfang disciples to ward off disaster, so this kind of background check is the rule of the Hongyan Society, please don't mind it, fellow Taoist."
"No, I understand."
Jiang Xia shook his head and said:
"Xiao Ya has reminded me many times, and I am a businessman. Fellow Daoist Shan, just speak your mind. Don't worry that I will use this matter to blackmail you."
"Um."
Shan Qiuli organized her words and said to Jiang Xia:
“Although the information I got is not much, I can piece together how you, Daoist Brother Jiang, behave in the world. In my opinion, you are not a person who is content with what you have to live with.
Let me put it more bluntly.
If possible, I wouldn't even allow my brother to have much contact with monks like you.
I have also heard about the great battles between evil cultivators in Yunhuo Cave in Huaidong Prefecture last night and today, although local cultivators all say that it was Mo Shuang Mountain and San Que Mountain who were instigated.
But from the clues I heard when we were chatting just now, this matter should be designed and manipulated by you, Brother Jiang.
My brother already knows about me.
He has a stubborn character and there is no way to change him.”
Shan Qiuli took a deep breath and said to Jiang Xia:
"I want you to promise me, Brother Jiang, that if my brother asks you to help him do something dangerous...promise him, keep him steady, but never help him!
This is for his own good!
It's for your own good, too.
Fang Qingyun has a very strong background.
The playboy himself is not worth mentioning, but the power behind him makes Tongtianfang think about it. I swallow my anger, not just for Qiu Ming.
I also have to consider my sect.
That's not an enemy that my brother and you can handle alone."
"Emmmm"
When Jiang Xia heard this request, he immediately frowned.
After a few breaths, Lao Jiang changed his posture and sat there with a very familiar expression on his face. In the night, Lao Jiang lit a cigarette.
As the smoke rose, he reached out and knocked on the table, then said to the monk in front of him:
"Fellow Daoist Shan, you were born in the God of Wealth Mountain, so you must be familiar with the rules of doing business. If you want to ask someone for help, you have to pay."
"One hundred thousand immortal coins!"
When it comes to money, a hint of disapproval flashes across Shan Qiuli's face.
She casually quoted a price.
For the sake of his brother's safety, Shan Qiuli would never frown when spending money.
Lao Jiang is a businessman, as he said.
The moment he heard the price, Lao Jiang shook his head without even thinking.
Bargain.
It is a necessary skill for every businessman.
"One million immortal coins!"
Shan Qiuli also remained calm and raised the price tenfold. He was worthy of being born in the God of Wealth Mountain and the last descendant of a thousand-year-old family.
This sister Shan's ability to make money is far beyond what that stinky brother Shan Qiuming can compare to.
Old Jiang originally wanted to wait a little longer.
Let’s see if Shan Qiuli will raise the price tenfold again.
But when he looked up, he saw a knowing smile on Shan Qiuli's pretty face. Obviously, she had seen through Lao Jiang's little plan.
They both knew it.
At this price, it’s almost ready.
"make a deal!"
Old Jiang sighed with regret, stood up immediately, waved two fingers at Shan Qiuli, and said:
"One more condition. Before I enter the realm of spiritual cultivation, all the initiations will be handled by you, Brother Shan. And I will not pay a penny for this service!"
"make a deal!"
Shan Qiuli also stood up at this moment.
The two men high-fived each other as an alliance.
The transaction is established.
"Don't default on your debt, Brother Jiang."
Shan Qiuli took out a communication stone from his hand as if by magic, shook it at Jiang Xia, and said:
"The transaction between us just now was witnessed by my senior sister from Mo Shuangshan, who was a great master in the Dao Seeking Realm."
"That's what I want to tell you, fellow Shan Dao."
Jiang Xia shrugged his shoulders, spoke in a leisurely tone, pointed to the sky mysteriously, and said:
"I have evidence here, too."
"If you break the agreement, your eldest sister won't be able to protect you. But now, let's not talk about this. I have prepared a good guest room for you, fellow Daoist Shan.
It’s not easy for you to come here, so please stay in Fengyang County for a while.
I will go and persuade Brother Qiu Ming to see if I can get him to change his mind. After all, you are siblings and have depended on each other since childhood. How can you be so estranged now? "