novelapdf #302 - Who will the princess marry?
#302 - Who will the princess marry?
Inside the Grand Hall of the Azure Wood Sect.
Watching the compassionate fairy shed tears, Qu Youdao also sighed, "She's crying, she's crying, she truly is compassionate.
Now, let's discuss the situation of these people and how to pass the message down.
Also, be careful of the royal family's spies.
We also need to have someone investigate the situation of the Dao Sect."
"These aren't urgent matters. Do you know the Sect Leader's attitude?" Yan Ruxue asked.
"What attitude could the Sect Leader possibly have?" Situ Baichuan casually said, "He has only one attitude, and that is to value harmony above all else. We haven't actively provoked anyone.
When others hit us, we always shrink back and let them hit us.
This is called 'taking a step back to see a broader sky.'
Such actions perfectly align with the Sect Leader's emphasis on harmony.
Even when we fight back, it's always within the scope of self-defense, without seizing other people's assets or territories."
"That's right," Qu Youdao nodded. "We have always adhered to the Sect Leader's philosophy of valuing harmony. When others scold us, we turn a blind eye. When others reach out to hit us, we at most raise our hands to block.
To preserve their self-esteem, we haven't even used our full strength.
When the Fire Phoenix Clan invaded, we even expanded the Wutong trees for them to live in.
It can be said that we have been working hard to maintain the sect's peace."
"Doesn't it sound cowardly?" Yan Ruxue asked.
Hearing this, everyone in the hall fell silent.
The compassionate fairy was crying even harder.
This time, it seemed she was truly pitying herself.
"Whether it's cowardly or not is beside the point. I'm just afraid the Sect Leader will take it seriously and make us explain ourselves," Situ Baichuan said.
Hearing this, the hall was filled with sighs again.
Finally, Qu Youdao continued, "Let's not worry about these things for now. The royal family's matter must be done. In short, we, who have always upheld integrity, must ensure this matter proceeds smoothly.
Then, shorten the Six Courtyards Competition time.
What's the current situation?
Which courtyard is at the bottom?"
"The Fifth Courtyard is at the bottom," Yan Ruxue said.
Hearing this, Qu Youdao was slightly surprised, "What about the First Courtyard?"
"Third from last. For some reason, he has increased the contribution of spirit stones and special techniques," Yan Ruxue looked at Situ Baichuan and said, "You didn't remind him, did you?"
"Could I remind him? He has ruined the reputation of my Sky Suspension Peak by letting him find the spies," Situ Baichuan became angry at the mention of this. "I stuffed all the suspects to him, thinking he could complete the task if he found just one.
But he went too far and cooperated with the Law Enforcement Hall to uproot them all.
At first, I thought he wasn't doing anything, but he was waiting for a thunderous strike.
Clearly, he didn't care at all in the beginning."
Yan Ruxue pondered for a moment and said, "He might have guessed something. The Six Courtyards Competition is easy to guess, but your sudden personal announcement of the task is quite unusual. If he thinks about it more, he might be able to connect the dots.
Then, he was ranked last, so he hurriedly changed the items he contributed and completed the task along the way.
If the other courtyards aren't stupid, I'm afraid the Six Courtyards will start fighting openly and secretly."
They weren't fighting for anything else, but everyone wanted to fight for the top five.
"It seems we can't pay too much attention to them. Also, all the peak masters should stop showing up and issue tasks directly through the sect.
The sixth-ranked person each month will have to accept a task.
If the task fails, they will be eliminated.
Leave the top three for the royal family to choose from," Qu Youdao said.
July.
After having some free time, Gu An went to the main courtyard to check the rankings.
He wasn't at the bottom.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
However, he saw that the Fifth Courtyard was at the bottom and decided to observe the other party.
To see if they had received a task.
If they had, then it would prove that his guess was correct.
He would have to be careful in the future.
If they hadn't.
Then it should just be an accident, which would be even better.
He wouldn't need to worry too much in the future.
Everything could remain the same.
Unfortunately, three days later, he discovered that the Fifth Courtyard's leader had received a sect task.
Although it wasn't issued by the peak master, why would the sect suddenly issue a task?
It was too coincidental.
Therefore, Gu An felt that his guess should be correct.
And the other courtyards had more or less noticed something as well.
They had been paying some attention to the leaders of each courtyard.
Now that two leaders had successively received tasks.
There might be something going on.
However, to be sure, they would have to observe for a few more months.
Without thinking further, Gu An looked at the panel.
【Name: Gu An】
【Cultivation: Early Stage of Returning to Void】
【State: Azure Lotus Planted in Qi Sea, Xuanhuang Born in Qi Sea】
【Techniques: 20 / 50】
【Hard Cultivation: 4 / 100】
【Wheel of Fate】
Looking at the few points of hard cultivation, Gu An felt that it wouldn't be easy for him to quickly improve his cultivation.
Currently, he could only chop down the Moon Tree, but it wasn't as fast as before.
However, being able to improve once every two years during the Returning to Void stage wasn't too slow.
He just didn't know when the trouble would come.
The Reincarnation lineage should take quite a while.
The Fire Phoenix Clan was a bit strange.
Besides that, he also needed to pay attention to the Six Courtyards Competition.
Recently, it didn't seem as casual as before.
There were now last-place tasks.
The future was unknown. Perhaps one day, because no one had been eliminated, the last two or three would start a task together.
Finally, they would be eliminated until only one remained.
As for what the winner would do, that was unknown.
Recently, when Gu An finished logging, he would always see some people arriving from outside.
They all seemed to be prominent figures.
Late July.
That day, Gu An heard some rumors.
These rumors livened up the entire sect, and it seemed like they had some fresh gossip.
Gu An also heard the general news that the royal family was going to have a marriage alliance with the Azure Wood Sect.
The marriage partner was the royal family's county princess.
The person chosen would naturally be an outstanding disciple of the sect.
Many people began to guess which true disciple it would be.
After all, with the royal family's such prominent strength, the person chosen to marry them from this marginal sect would definitely be a true disciple.
However, some people held different opinions.
That was because a county princess wasn't a princess, and she couldn't completely represent the royal family.
Moreover, who knew what the county princess's talent was like, or which prince's daughter she was.
Perhaps she wasn't a particularly important county princess?
In that case, why would they need a true disciple?
True disciples were heaven-defying figures; they wouldn't degrade themselves like that.
Therefore, a personal disciple was more likely.
It just depended on what kind of personal disciple it was.
After all, there was a big gap in cultivation between personal disciples.
However, more people still felt that the Azure Wood Sect was just a small, remote sect in front of the royal family.
The sect was already beset on all sides, and if they didn't give the royal family face.
Then the problem would be very big.
Perhaps some county princesses really weren't worthy of a true disciple, but sometimes marriage wasn't just about whether the two sides were a good match.
It also depended on the backgrounds of both parties.
If it was a true disciple, it would show the royal family's importance, and the other party would also lend a helping hand.
After all, they would be considered their own people.
Therefore, for the sake of benefits, they still needed to sacrifice a true disciple, and it just depended on which true disciple it would be.
However, they didn't know much about the true disciples.
In the end, they brought it up again to the personal disciples.
When Gu An received the news, he was quite emotional.
The royal family would actually have a marriage alliance with the Azure Wood Sect; this was something he hadn't expected.
Of course, the main reason was that he didn't know the specific situation of the royal family.
Logically speaking, those who are married off should be princesses, after all, princesses are the first direct line of the royal family.
What does a county princess count as?
If it's the child of a powerful prince, that's fine, but if they don't have any power, sending them for marriage might be looking down on the Cangmu Sect.
Gu An shook his head, it seems that the Cangmu Sect in the eyes of the royal family seems to be just average.
For the entire Dongdao Ancient Prefecture, the Cangmu Sect is indeed not ranked high, it can only be regarded as a sect with ordinary comprehensive strength.
Even the royal family would not take a serious look at it.
It's just that a sudden marriage, I'm afraid, is also with some kind of plot.
What does the Cangmu Sect have?
Without a doubt, only spirit wood.
The royal family should be coming for the spirit wood, if the special spirit wood is controlled by them, then the problem will be troublesome.
After all, I have worked so hard to get to where I am now, and I am not far from the special spirit wood.
If the royal family intervenes, then everything may change.
At this thought, Gu An sighed heavily.
"It seems that the royal marriage is not a good thing for me."
It greatly affects his logging.
However, the news spread quickly, and the entire sect knew about it a few days later.
Not only that, but other sects also knew about it.
However, it has not been revealed which county princess it is, nor has it been mentioned which direct disciple it is.
In this regard, Gu An no longer cared.
Before the impact arrives, he still has to improve his cultivation.
It is difficult to improve through hard cultivation, but spells are much easier.
Roughly eight points in a month.
In another two months or so, it will be almost time to upgrade a spell.
Let's upgrade Qi Sea Heavenly Dipper first.
The current Qi Sea Heavenly Dipper has undergone tremendous changes, so we must first upgrade it to see the situation.
Moreover, this also needs to improve combat power.
On this day, Pang Wen suddenly came over.
"Team leader, some more people have come to the First Institute, but this time the people assigned to us are a bit strange. The Law Enforcement Hall said to hand this over to Senior Brother." Pang Wen handed a small booklet to Gu An.
The latter checked it and was slightly surprised.
This is naturally the preferential treatment given to him by the Law Enforcement Hall.
Saying that among the people given this time, there are two with very special identities.
They may be people from the royal family.
"People from the royal family?" Gu An was slightly surprised.
This is the first time he has encountered this.
As for the previous undercover agent, he naturally let Dugu Jing catch them.
There was nothing else in the box he gave, only the list and origins of the undercover agents.
So after a few days, Dugu Jing took action.
He didn't expect that this time the other party would send him back a royal undercover agent.
It can be regarded as the other party's return gift.
"How many people came this time?" Gu An asked, putting away the booklet.
"Seven." Pang Wen respectfully said: "Now there are forty people in the First Institute, only ten of whom are fully cooperating.
I have separated them and locked them up. Those who are unwilling to cooperate are locked in the small dark room, and they are sent out in turn to chat with those people.
This can effectively shake their hearts.
In addition, Zhao Qingshan also wants to see the team leader.
Besides this, there is also this."
Saying that, Pang Wen gave another letter.
Gu An was slightly surprised after reading the letter: "Willing to spend 20,000 spirit stones to redeem the Golden Core stage Chen Changfeng?"
Pang Wen nodded: "Yes, the other party is an outer sect deacon of the Tianyang Sect, and should be a Nascent Soul cultivator."
Gu An looked at the envelope and said: "Did you tell Chen Changfeng?"
Pang Wen shook his head: "This letter is for the First Institute, so after I read it, I immediately left it for the team leader to handle."
Hearing this, Gu An nodded.
This is indeed not easy to handle.
But he has to ask about it, and then talk about the specific situation.
Logically speaking, a Golden Core Completion should definitely be worth more than 20,000 spirit stones.
But sometimes, the price can be raised.
But it is indeed making too much profit.
It mainly depends on the other party's status and position.
If someone values it, it is valuable, if they don't value it, they can only be pulled to log wood.
20,000 spirit stones, how long will it take to log wood?
Thirty a month, three hundred and sixty a year, three thousand six in ten years.
Thinking about it carefully, going to the night logging yard, you can earn it back in a hundred years.
It's just easy to have accidents.
Whether the First Institute can last for a hundred years is a question.
I don't know how much it can be sold as a slave, it should be able to sell for tens of thousands.
When he came to the First Institute, Shu Ci was busy at the door.
Seeing people coming, she immediately respectfully said: "Team leader, Senior Brother Pang."
Gu An glanced at the other party and found that the other party was dressed normally recently, and her makeup was also normal.
Of course, it's not that it's not exquisite, it's just that the feeling it gives people is different.
It used to make people feel frivolous, but now it's stable.
Like a normal immortal fairy.
Gu An nodded and didn't say much.
Instead, he walked inside.
Shu Ci came to Pang Wen's side and asked slightly curiously: "Why is the team leader here?"
"There are many important things." Pang Wen replied.
"Senior brother, do you think there is anything different about me today?" Shu Ci asked with a smile.
Pang Wen was stunned for a moment, a little unable to react.
Gu heard the conversation between the two and was a little surprised, but didn't think much about it.
He went straight to the dungeon.
When he came over, he saw Zhao Qingshan saying to Yang Qi: "You people are progressing too slowly. Although Zhang San has given you enough things and tried to teach you.
But there is an important problem.
That is, even the best cultivation experience is just something said on the lips, written in books, and placed on shelves if you don't understand it well."
"Then how can we better understand it?" Yang Qi asked.
Zhao Qingshan said with a smile: "Any cultivation method and experience actually have their own methods.
The procedures for thoroughly understanding the experience should be used as long-term and effective construction content.
At the same time as the establishment of the procedures, the assessment system should be implemented simultaneously to strengthen the accuracy of the procedures and implement the practical content."
Gu An heard Zhao Qingshan saying these things when he just came down.
After listening for a while, he felt that what the other party said made sense.
Then he carefully recalled it, but he didn't seem to hear anything.
Then he ignored it and continued to enter the prison.
He found Chen Changfeng.
Yang Qi naturally saw him, and Gu An asked them to continue.
It's good to listen, so that Yang Qi can deal with the situation when no one is around in the future.
"Dean, I didn't do anything wrong." Chen Changfeng looked nervous when he saw Gu An coming over.
Gu An looked at the other party and said calmly: "Someone wants to redeem you."
Hearing this, Chen Changfeng was stunned and said: "Who?"
"Chen Tai." Gu An looked at the person in front of him and said: "He spent 20,000 spirit stones to redeem you."
Hearing this, Chen Changfeng was stunned for a moment and hesitated for a while.
Gu An looked at the other party and opened his mouth again: "What he gave was the price of Golden Core, I refused."
Saying that, without waiting for the other party to react, Gu An walked inside.
Then came Chen Changfeng's excited voice: "Dean, look for me if you need anything in the future, I am very useful, 20,000 spirit stones can't redeem me."
Gu An ignored the other party and came to Zhao Qingshan.
Then he ordered Yang Qi to take the people brought today to the outer prison.