The Wheel-Turning Master.

Chapter 317: Guardian Tower

Jiang Xingchi's words implied that he supported Shoutian Pavilion as the leader and also protected Zhou Huishan's old friends, which really made everyone look at him with higher regard.

Not to mention that there was some sincerity in his words, Jiang Xingchi came here on behalf of Xiang Wuhui and was Qiaoshan's face, so once he had said it, he had to follow through.

"With the help of fellow Taoists, there is no need to worry about not being able to accomplish great things." Wu Muchun was very satisfied.

The Yuanyings also spoke out, saying that they would contribute manpower and effort, but none of them were as sincere as Jiang Xingchi who swore and vowed.

However, Yuan Jie of Yubi Mountain and Meng Shanhe of Yinshan Mountain were afraid that Shoutian Pavilion would cause trouble, so they worked very hard.

"Xie Qingxuan has always been a man of few words, but he is also very scheming. He is also well versed in battle formations and layout." Yuan Jie from Yubi Mountain sold out his old friend first. "When I went south in my early years, I knew he was not a good person, so I drove him out!"

All the old enemies who came back to the mountain did not say anything, but they all sneered in their hearts: It was obviously you, the second batch of people going south, who wanted to keep Xie Qingxuan, but he was unwilling. Otherwise, how could you have driven away Xie Qingxuan, who was proficient in formations and had just reached the Nascent Soul stage?

A group of Yuanying showed their sincerity and repeatedly stated that they would never join forces with Xie Qingxuan. Wumuchun became even happier and even offered a reward, saying that if anyone made great efforts in capturing and killing Xie Qingxuan, they could meet with the Jade Pot Patriarch in person and get his guidance.

Among the people present, except Wumuchun of Shoutian Pavilion, only Yuan Jie of Yubi Mountain and Meng Shanhe of Yinshan Mountain had the honor of meeting the Yuhu ancestor. Others had never even smelled his scent.

The Yuanyings were all interested. If they could get guidance from the Huashen, it would not be impossible for them to make further progress in the future. Even if there was no hope for the Great Dao, it would be great to be able to become a familiar face or get some rewards.

Jiang Xingchi was particularly excited, and even asked in a low voice what kind of etiquette he should follow when paying a visit to the ancestor Huashen.

Lin Bai said nothing and was extremely respectful. He used to think that high-level Yuanying cultivators were like immortals, but now he saw that they were just a makeshift group, full of noise.

Of course, Lin Bai did not dare to look down on them. The cultivators who could reach the Nascent Soul stage were all geniuses in the past, and they were definitely not ordinary people. If they wanted to take action, they would definitely make a long-term plan. Even a straightforward person like Aunt Gu would sit down and think about it, not to mention these old men.

After a while, someone finally remembered the important matter and asked where Xie Qingxuan was hiding.

Lin Bai was also very curious. Since Wumuchun had pinned the stolen goods on Xie Qingxuan, he was obviously confident that he could catch Xie Qingxuan. Otherwise, he would have said it but not caught the person, and it must have been someone from Shoutian Pavilion who had committed the crime.

"I already know what Xie Qingxuan did. I will go back and report to the head master. I will make sure Xie Qingxuan is arrested and made to apologize soon!" Wumuchun stroked his beard, looking very confident.

Since they have said so, there is no need to ask any more questions. We can just wait.

Lin Bai just found it interesting that Wumu Chun offered a reward but did not tell where Xie Qingxuan was. Otherwise, if Yuanying was determined to escape, it would be difficult to stop him.

Although no one really wanted to contribute, it was just too much to handle.

"Could it be that he didn't expect anything, didn't know it was me who did it, and didn't even know where Xie Qingxuan was, and was just fooling people?" Lin Bai kept complaining in his heart, but his face became more respectful.

After a while of commotion, Wumuchun brought all the Yuanyings off the flying boat and landed on the frozen Xiaowu Mountain.

After Jiu Yuanying sighed at the power of the Divine Transformation, he dispersed for a while.

All the Yuanyings returned to their homes, and Wumuchun went to sit for a while in Yinshan Mountain. Yuan Jie and Meng Shanhe accompanied him, and Jiang Xingchi was also by his side.

"Brother Wumu, go first. I will be there later." Jiang Xingchi had been in seclusion before, and only came out because of Xia Fenyi's matter. He has not yet visited Xuyun Sect, Tianyan Sword Sect and Yuanying Shi Clan.

Although they had just met, Jiang Xingchi came here on behalf of Qiaoshan after all, so he had to climb the mountain and visit him in person.

Wumuchun seemed to like Jiang Xingchi very much. He praised him for a few words of benevolence and righteousness, then flipped up his feathered robe and went north.

Jiang Xingchi finally got some free time, but he talked to Yuan Jie and Meng Shanhe for half a day before summoning Cheng Yuanli and Lin Bai.

They arrived at a cave where there was no one else. Jiang Xingchi was alone, holding the chess pieces and looking at the chessboard.

Lin Bai and Cheng Yuanli stepped forward and saluted.

Jiang Xingchi first asked a few questions about cultivation, and then reminded Lin Bai and Cheng Yuanli to emulate the wise men of the north and be steadfast in their pursuit of the truth.

After talking nonsense for a while, Jiang Xingchi finally put down his chess piece, looked at Lin Bai, and said, "Before I went into seclusion, I asked you two to practice well, but what did you do? In what you did, did you ever consider the reputation of Qiaoshan?"

Cheng Yuanli looked at Lin Bai with pity, but did not dare to plead for mercy.

"I know I was wrong, and I won't do it again." Lin Bai admitted his mistake honestly, and took out the black dot that Jiang Xingchi had given him, saying, "The senior has already passed the quarantine, so I should return it to you."

"Keep it. It will be useful someday." Jiang Xingchi didn't even look at it.

Lin Bai put it away obediently again.

Seeing that Jiang Xingchi seemed to have let Lin Bai go, Cheng Yuanli quickly changed the subject, "Senior, since we are going to help Shoutian Pavilion find Xie Qingxuan, should we report back to the sect?"

"I can make the decision on this matter." Jiang Xingchi picked up another chess piece. "Nascent Souls have a long lifespan, so naturally they have a lot of experience, but their temperaments are already determined. Some are scheming, while others are kind and amiable. However, they are limited by the place they are in and the circumstances they encounter, so there is no need to overestimate them."

It was unclear whether this was directed at Xie Qingxuan or someone else.

There was silence in the cave for a while. Jiang Xingchi looked at the chessboard for a while, then suddenly asked, "Whose family is the woman you are having an affair with?"

"..." Lin Bai leaned down even lower and said, "Bi Huanqiu of Jiuzha Mountain, I met him before in the secret realm of Jiuzha Mountain."

"Lin Zhuanlun is indeed a good man." Jiang Xingchi sneered, "When you get to Shoutian Pavilion, you should also pay more attention to it. The children of the Huashen family are always prettier than the disciples of the Yuanying family!"

Lin Bai didn't dare to say a word.

"You have an unstable temperament and are obsessed with lust. How can you achieve great things?" Jiang Xingchi was very unhappy. "I asked you to go with Cheng Yuanli because I saw that he was a sincere gentleman and hoped that you would learn from him. But I didn't expect that you still have the same nature!"

Lin Bai leaned down even lower, and Cheng Yuanli also lowered his head and said nothing.

"Go and bring Bi Huanqiu to me." Jiang Xingchi said.

"Yes." Lin Bai quickly bowed and left.

Cheng Yuanli also followed and held Lin Bai's arm, "Brother Zhuanlun, Senior Jiang is right. You should be more restrained in the future. You still have your master to protect you in other places, but if you still act like this in Shoutian Pavilion, I'm afraid..."

"Brother is right. I will never make the same mistake again in the future." Lin Bai sighed.

"That's not necessary. The yin and yang of men and women are the principles of the Tao after all." Cheng Yuanli is a gentleman after all. "It's just that you still need to restrain yourself and not be greedy."

After chatting for a while, Lin Bai said goodbye to Cheng Yuanli and went to look for Bi Huanqiu alone.

After a few days of meditation, Bi Huanqiu had recovered.

"Is everything peaceful outside?" Bi Huanqiu asked after seeing Lin Bai cast the ban.

"It's no big deal. Xia Fenyi is dead. Senior Wumuchun of Shoutian Pavilion personally made a judgment and deduced that it was done by Xie Qingxuan, an old friend of Zhou Huishan." Lin Bai said.

"Deduction..." Bi Huanqiu was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Xie Qingxuan is so bold?"

Then he sighed again, "Alas, chaos is about to break out in the North again."

"Who said it wasn't?" Lin Bai also agreed with Bi Huanqiu's words.

"But it's none of our business." Bi Huanqiu breathed a sigh of relief and moved closer to Lin Bai. "I've been thinking about you a lot these past two days."

Lin Bai pushed her away and said seriously, "Senior Jiang wants to see you."

"Ah?" Bi Huanqiu was stunned for a moment and quickly straightened her clothes. "See me?" She was a little timid.

"Senior Jiang already knows about our relationship and reprimanded me for my improper behavior. He also knows that you are from Jiuzha Mountain, so he wanted to meet you." Lin Bai said. Bi Huanqiu thought for a moment and then nodded.

The two did not dare to delay and left Changshengfang, returned to Yinqi Mountain, and came to the cave where Jiang Xingchi was staying.

"The junior Bi Huanqiu from Jiuzha Mountain pays homage to the senior." Bi Huanqiu bowed respectfully, lowered his head and dared not say much.

Jiang Xingchi was still playing chess alone. He glanced at Bi Huanqiu and said, "Jiuzha Mountain is still thousands of miles southwest of Qiao Mountain. Did you gain anything by going north alone?"

Bi Huanqiu lowered his head and replied, "I have seen the local customs and geography, and met many people of the same trade. I have made some progress."

"Good." Jiang Xingchi smiled and said no more.

Lin Bai and Bi Huanqiu bowed and left.

After returning to their guest house, Lin Bai and Bi Huanqiu stopped talking again.

Lin Bai did not leave either. He closed his eyes and came to the stone plate.

The traces of Aunt Gu and Xiuxiu are still there, but outside the mist there are layers of colorful light.

After sitting quietly for a while and calming his mind, Lin Bai opened his eyes.

Bi Huanqiu knelt in front of him, looking curious.

"What are you looking at?" Lin Bai asked.

“If it weren’t for you…” Bi Huanqiu waved his sleeves to set up the ban, feeling somewhat lonely and a little scared, and said, “I didn’t know that Senior Wu Mu was familiar with the method of Yin-Yang deduction… How did he deduce it to Xie Qingxuan?”

"Of course it's the Taoism that makes one reach the divine." Lin Bai smiled.

Bi Huanqiu was timid and still didn't say anything. She didn't know why Wu Muchun believed that Xie Qingxuan was the murderer, but she knew that this time he almost dragged Lin Bai and even Qiao Shan into trouble.

"It's all in the past. You are the successor of Jiuzha Mountain, and I am the beloved general under Ancestor Gu. You and I still have a long way to go in the future." Lin Bai did not explain much.

After hearing the name Gu Qingshui, Bi Huanqiu guessed that Lin Bai might have Gu Qingshui's secret treasure as his support. She didn't ask any more questions and just moved forward.

"Touch me, my body is very hot and I don't know what happened." Bi Huanqiu said.

She was particularly docile this time and very helpful.

Lin Bai gained a lot of benefits, and seeing that Bi Huanqiu had no intention of stopping, he quickly withdrew.

"You should meditate here and don't go out."

Lin Bai closed the door and went out to see Cheng Yuanli waiting for him.

"Junior brother, be careful about sex." Cheng Yuanli grabbed Lin Bai's sleeve and refused to let go. "Come to my room to practice from now on!"

"..." The other person meant well, Lin Bai had no way to refuse and could only accept it.

After chatting for a few more words, Lin Bai went to look for Meng Yiwei.

The people from Yubi Mountain had not left yet. Yuan Qiye was chatting with Meng Yiwei, both of them looked troubled.

After Xia Fenyi's incident, although Yuan Qiye came early, he didn't have the chance to say a few words to Lin Bai.

"Are you still writing Journey to the North?" Yuan Qiye asked with a smile.

"That's natural." Lin Bai replied.

Yuan Qiye smiled, said nothing more, nodded and left.

"Senior Jiang wanted to see Bi Huanqiu, and I have brought her back." Lin Bai looked at Meng Yiwei.

Meng Yiwei didn't think much about it, and just said: "Senior Jiang saw that you had offended too many people, so he has to take care of it personally."

"Senior Jiang has always been supportive of the younger generation. I have asked him to remove the secret coldness in Bi Huanqiu's body." Lin Bai said with a smile.

"Senior Jiang is kind and generous." Meng Yiwei smiled and asked in a low voice, "Are you really in contact with the eldest daughter of Senior Jiang's family?"

"One of his daughters is my apprentice." Lin Bai said frankly.

“You…you in Qiaoshan, even the master and the disciple…I thought the people from Hehuan Sect and Jiuyin Mountain didn’t care about these, but I didn’t expect that you in Qiaoshan would also…” Meng Yiwei was quite shocked.

"What are you thinking about?" Lin Bai had a headache.

"So it's another member of the Jiang family." Meng Yiwei smiled, then his face became gloomy again, and he said, "Now something has happened in Shoutian Pavilion, and the perpetrator is still an old friend of mine from Zhou Huishan. Although Senior Wu Mu didn't pursue the matter, in the end..."

She looked at Lin Bai and pleaded, "It will be difficult for our Zhouhui Mountain to return to its former glory, and no new Yuanying has been produced. We can only return to Qiao Mountain when the time comes."

"I will definitely speak well of you in front of Elder Gu." Lin Bai said.

"Although Yinshan has declined, the heritage is still there..." Meng Yiwei said pitifully, "I just hope that we can live in peace in the future."

Lin Bai didn't say much. It seemed that the old people from Zhou Hui Mountain in Yinshan were indeed a little less ambitious than those from Yubi Mountain and Wuque Mountain, but they still had some foundation.

Moreover, Lin Bai also knew that there were several people working in Yinshan. For example, Meng Yiwei followed him to find Gu Qingshui's way, and Zhang Qing followed the Jiang family's way.

In addition to Qiaoshan, I heard that he also sent people to inquire about the connections with Yunxia Sect and Jiuyin Mountain. Obviously, he did not intend to hang himself on the old crooked tree of Qiaoshan.

This was a move for survival, and Lin Bai understood it very well. Even if the three groups of Zhou Huishan's old people gathered together and fought for a territory, it was within expectations.

"Senior Sister, I will be going to Shoutian Pavilion with Senior Jiang soon. I wonder what the personalities of the seniors there are like?"

Lin Bai knew quite a lot about Zhou Huishan's old friends, but when it came to the Yuanying of Shoutian Pavilion, he knew very little.

Now, there are four Yuanying in Shoutian Pavilion, three of them are from Northern Wilderness, and the other one is an old acquaintance of Zhou Huishan.

Wumuchun was also a follower of the Northern Wilderness. Lin Bai didn't find out any useful information about him. He only knew that this person was kind and never cared much about the affairs of the sect.

"I was born after the migration to the south, so I don't know much about these things." Meng Yiwei did not hide anything and immediately told everything he knew.

The head of Shoutian Pavilion, Xia Yufeng, has the greatest power and has always been strong. He is in the middle Nascent Soul stage and it was he who led the way south.

There is another Yuanying named Yu Liushan, who is in the late Yuanying stage and is said to have the potential to advance further. Moreover, he is good friends with Xia Yufeng and has the same domineering temperament.

As for Wumuchun, he was much kinder, but he was also very cruel when it came to cheating people. It was rumored that he was the one who came up with the method of squeezing out Zhou Huishan's old friends.

Apart from these three followers from the Northern Wasteland, the other one was the old Yuanying Huo Taiping from Zhou Huishan. This person was mediocre and submissive, without any spirit of a high-level Yuanying cultivator, and was always despised by the old people from Zhou Huishan who went south.

After listening to Meng Yiwei talk for a long time and seeing that he didn't know much, Lin Bai stopped asking.

A day later, Jiang Xingchi took Cheng Yuanli and Lin Bai to visit Xuyunmen and three other families.

It took only five or six days to complete the journey and say some old clichés. Then Jiang Xingchi kept going, taking Lin Bai, Cheng Yuanli, and Bi Huanqiu with him, all the way north to Shoutian Pavilion.

(End of this chapter)