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Chapter 811 - 46 You’re Not Even Willing to Call Me Master Chu [Thanks to Alliance Hierarch "Lao Liu824"!]_2

Chapter 811: Chapter 46 You’re Not Even Willing to Call Me Master Chu [Thanks to Alliance Hierarch "Lao Liu824"!]_2

"It doesn’t matter, I respect your opinion, Young Master Hong. You can completely refuse, or you can think it over some more," Chu Liang said amiably.

"Ah, then I’ll think about it some more..." Upon hearing this, Hong Jufeng, seizing the opportunity, wanted to buy himself some more time.

This was indeed a difficult decision for him to make concerning such an important matter.

Then, he saw Chu Liang stand up and smile as he greeted Elder Mayfly, "Then, Elder Mayfly, let them keep digging for now. I’ll send someone to fetch the goods ahead of time later. I have matters to attend to on my mountain, so I won’t stay with you all for long."

Elder Mayfly bowed and said, "Warrior Chu, at least have a quick meal before you leave. I have summoned you all the way here, I would feel guilty if the hospitality was lacking..."

Before he could finish, Hong Jufeng had already abruptly stood up, "What’s so good about these rotten fish? Let’s just finish discussing the matter first."

Alright then.

Seeing Chu Liang’s attitude, it seemed he planned to leave immediately if they couldn’t reach an agreement.

If you leave, it’s no big deal, but what about my several hundred people still mining here? Am I supposed to just turn around and let the old man let me go? It’s more likely he’ll feed me another bug and have me continue mine in a daze.

I haven’t even eaten my mutton leg yet!

It was only now that he realized that all the conditions Chu Liang had talked about were secondary. The most urgent condition was... his own life!

It was just that Chu Liang’s tone had been so polite that he had actually thought he had a choice.

"Warrior Chu, let’s do as you said," Hong Jufeng said emphatically. "I agree to all your conditions!"

When Chu Liang heard this, he slowly sat back down and said softly, "You even refuse to call me ’Master Chu’."

...

The acquisition of Town Star Island was not something that could be settled in a day. After Chu Liang and Hong Jufeng discussed the general model, he let him return to Town Star Island to prepare.

As for the majority of the troops, they stayed on the Stone Mining Islands as miners. They served as both hard labor and hostages. If Hong Jufeng wanted to immediately go back on his word and seek revenge on Penglai, regardless of whether he could capture Elder Mayfly, his own sect was likely going to be destroyed.

They agreed that they would claim to the outside world that Town Star Island had retaken the Stone Spirit Mine on the Stone Mining Islands and was accelerating the mining. Fuyao Country naturally had no objections since Chu Liang was paying both parties.

All this was done to show Penglai.

From now on, Town Star Island was to cooperate covertly with Red Cotton Peak while maintaining its relationship with Penglai. Whether Hong Jufeng could play the role well, benefiting from straddling between two sides, remained to be seen. But even if he messed it up, it wouldn’t matter.

After all, what Chu Liang valued the most in acquiring Town Star Island was the Zhenshan Stone Spirit Mine. As long as there was a continuous supply of spirit stones, the Earth-Wood Hall of Shu Mountain could work with peace of mind, daring to undertake even the most significant construction projects.

Upon returning to Red Cotton Peak, before Chu Liang could arrange for someone to handle these matters, he heard some significant news.

The first was that the Ice Soul Sword Sect had nearly wiped out Xuan Tian Temple.

It was said that a female disciple of the Ice Soul Sword Sect had eloped with a young monk from Xuan Tian Temple. However, when Abbot Chi Yue used Heavenly Eye to search heaven and earth, he discovered that the female disciple was within their own sect.

Han Qinglin, the Sect Leader of Ice Soul Sword Sect, didn’t say a word and led his troops to attack, turning Xuan Tian Temple’s long-guarded secret realm upside down.

If one were to carefully analyze the incident, some aspects seemed suspicious. Had Xuan Tian Temple truly been responsible, and had Abbot Chi Yue been aware, how could he have gone to search their own secret realm?

If he wasn’t aware, it would only be a disciple’s doing. The most that should be done was to punish the culpable disciple and offer Ice Soul Sword Sect some form of compensation for consolation. That would be the most normal course of action.

In any case, it should not have led to outright warfare.

The extreme reaction of the Ice Soul Sword Sect was probably related to the upcoming Ten Earth Sects selection.

Both parties were competitors in the selection, and aside from rescuing their disciple, the Ice Soul Sword Sect probably also harbored intentions of severely weakening their opponent.

Indeed, the Ice Soul Sword Sect achieved their goals. Now Xuan Tian Temple was seen as a place that harbored corruption, having also been physically battered, the Buddhist tradition of many years was all but lost.

Abbot Chi Yue had ordered the closure of the secret realm and imposed an indefinite period of retreat for the whole temple. It seemed they were going to withdraw from the selection this time.

One competitor had vanished just like that.

One couldn’t help but acknowledge the ruthlessness and decisiveness of Han Qinglin in exploiting the situation. This Sect Leader of the Ice Soul Sword Sect had quite the resolve.

The second piece of news was that War Mausoleum Mountain had been beaten as well.

Initially, some disciples of War Mausoleum Mountain had been beaten by an unknown Confucian cultivator, who even left behind some threats.

The quick-tempered heroes of War Mausoleum Mountain donned their armor and embarked on an expedition to Yu Mountain Academy. However, when they arrived, they found that all the cultivators in the Academy were gone, leaving only a group of children who were studying there.

The heroes faced the children, not knowing what to do. Even if they were fierce, they couldn’t bring themselves to hurt the children. Some wise individuals among them suggested, "Let’s just wait here."

The people from Yu Mountain Academy would eventually return.

Even if they didn’t want the Academy, surely they couldn’t just abandon these students?

But what they waited for was not Yu Mountain Academy’s people, but Deputy Mountain Chief Shentu Yang from the Ascending Dragon Academy.

I won’t describe the scene that ensued.

If it weren’t for the children being present, the scene could have been ten times more bloody and brutal.

Not until their forces were decimated did someone call upon a cultivator from the Eighth Realm of the Heavenly Gang Sect to intervene. When two Tianyuan cultivators met, and since they were not mortal enemies, it was hard for them to come to blows.

After a verbal spar with the opponent, Shentu Yang and the other party each returned home.