Acc to Liu Qingmei's words, that Lu is the nephew of an elder from the Fifth Peak. He will definitely be protected by the sect, so he won't be foolish enough to directly hand over the Seeking Dust Inse and Liu Qingmei's body.
"If what Sister Qingmei said is true, with Lu 's sinister personality, he might even try to find the person who reported the case and kill me to silence me."
While dragging Liu Qingmei's body back to the courtyard, Xu Taiping pondered in his heart.
***
"Boom!"
One night, there was a loud explosion in Xu Taiping's bedroom in the Green Bamboo Residence. Immediately after, Xu Taiping angrily excimed in his slightly immature voice:
"Beast!"
After pg Liu Qingmei's body, he lit a stick of Seeking Dust Inse. From the smoke of the inse, he saw the ses of Lu t Liu Qingmei.
The ses he saw couldn't be described with just a few simple words. Calling Lu a beast was only because those were the only curse words he knew. Lu 's as were worse than a beast.
"Sister Qingmei, I will definitely give this Seeking Dust Inse to Sister Zijin. Yrievances and Lu 's crimes will be exposed to the public."
Xu Taiping put away the st two sticks of Seeking Dust Inse, ched his fists, and stared bnkly at the shattered table on the ground.
He didn't think of himself as a person with a chivalrous heart, and even believed that he could be selfish to survive. But if even a vilin like Lu couldn't receive retribution, it would make him doubt the meaning of his existence.
"Grandfather often said that ignorance is bliss, but even if I y eyes now, I 't fet the se of Sister Qingmei begging and pleading with that beast."
Xu Taiping looked at the debris of the table, and his tone became unusually cold.
***
The day, at noon.
"Did you report the case?"
Two male disciples wearing the Qingxua's robes arrived at Xu Taiping's small courtyard.
"Senior Brothers, I reported the case."
Xu Taiping politely replied.
"You, an outer disciple, dare to call us Senior Brothers?"
The man with a hooked nose on the left side gred at Xu Taiping fiercely.
These two disciples beloo the West Wind Pavilion's Liefeng Hall, specializing in dealing with is where disciples from the lower mountain were attacked by monsters. Although they were both on the lower mountain, they were genuine inner disciples, with a slightly lower status than the disciples of the Seventh Peak.
"Let's get straight to the point."
The other disciple with a face full of freckles impatiently waved his hand.
So Xu Taiping didn't waste any more words and reted the i of being attacked by an evil ghost and the monster trolled by the evil ghost to the two disciples from Liefeng Hall.
Of course, he omitted everythied to Liu Qingmei.
"This is troublesome. I have to report to the Hall Master of Liefeng Hall first, then the Hall Master will report to the Sect Master of the West Wind Pavilion, and finally, the Sect Master will inform the Bck Dragon Elder to ha."
The freckled disciple rubbed his and said with a troubled expression.
"How long will it take?"
Xu Taiping hurriedly asked.
"It could be as fast as three months, or as slow as a year or more."
The man with the hooked nose crossed his arms and smirked, his eyes ingly gng at Xu Taiping.
"Does it have to take that long? The evil ghost has already targeted me."
Xu Taiping frowned.
"Do you think Liefeng Hall exists just for you? We'll ha when we ha."
The man with the hooked nose gred fiercely at Xu Taiping.
"Old Left, speak nicely. Why are you so fierce to this young brother?"
The freckled disciple stepped in to mediate.
"Actually, if you want to get rid of the evil ghost quickly, there is a way."
He gri Xu Taiping, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.
"What way?"
Xu Taiping became curious.
"It depends on how ma s you offer."
The freckled maended his hand to Xu Taiping and rubbed his thumb and index fiogether.
"So, you want to extort us outer disciples uhe pretext of demon-sying. You are all shameless sdrels. No wonder Sister Qingmei doesn't trust you."
He thought to himself, uanding why Liu Qingmei hadn't reported the case yet.
"It's okay if you don't have a s. Just wear this bracelet and make a tract with us, promising to give us seventy pert of this year's harvest. We aturally ensure your safety."
The man with the hooked ook out a copper bracelet from his pocket.
"Seventy pert?"
Xu Taiping gasped.
He had thought that these people would ask for a high price, but he didn't expect them to ask for seventy pert right off the bat. If seventy pert was given away, he would probably be expelled from the Qingxua year for not having enough moo tribute.
"Seventy pert is not much. You should know that you are being targeted by an evil ghost now. If something goes wrong, you won't even be able to save your own life!"
The freckled man threatened Xu Taiping.
The appearance of these two men made Xu Taiping even more disgusted. He thought to himself, "Linglong was right. I only rely on myself here in the lower mountain."
His st trace of relian the sect to deal with the evil ghost also disappeared.
However, in order to avoid flict, he didn't expose them on the spot. He wao see how shameless they could be.
"Seventy pert is too much. Let me think about it."
"You..."
"Alright, think about it. This unication talisman is my gift to you. Tear it apart when you enter the evil ghost again, and we will e quickly."
The man with the hooked nose was about to get angry, but was stopped by the freckled man, who then handed a talisman to Xu Taiping.
"But we have to take away this monster wolf. It's evidend o be brought back to Liefeng Hall."
The man with the hooked nose grabbed one of the monster wolf's legs from the ground and gred fiercely at Xu Taiping again.
***
"These are the people in charge of the outer disciples. No wohey say that few outer disciples st for three years."Watg the two figures dragging away the corpse of the demon wolf, Xu Taiping murmured to himself in his heart.
"Senior Brother, why did we just leave like this? Behind this kid's courtyard is a medial garden, we could earn quite a bit of merit in a year. As long as the tract Scroll is signed and the bracelet is worn, he would have to work for us day after day, year after year."
"What's the rush? Evil Ghosts are known for holding grudges. Give it some time, he will surely e to us obediently."
"Senior Brother is wise!"
"Keep your voice down!"
"Don't worry, this kid hasn't even reached the Opening Realm, he 't hear our versation."
Just as Xu Taiping was about to ehe house, he suddenly heard the whispers of the pockmarked fad the hawk-nosed man.
He didn't expect these two to be so malicious. He g the message talisman that the pockmarked face had given him and sneered in his heart:
"Don't worry, that day will never e."
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