After the mind-reading cripple junior sister, the entire sect rose to prominence.

Chapter 22 Retreating to Advance
Everyone in the Immortal Sect knows Meng Zhu. He and Du Yue have been in a relationship for three years, and they have been seeing each other frequently.

Du Yue liked him very much, and she would talk about him for a while after each meeting.

Meng Zhu has a sickly mother who can't live without taking pills. To make him feel better, Du Yue always gives him money to help him out.

Everyone felt this wasn't very good, but Meng Zhu was always very polite and courteous whenever she met them, so there was nothing wrong with her on the surface and they didn't say anything.

Not to mention that Du Yue didn't believe Mo Jiuwei's words when she first heard them, even Ji Qingqing, an outsider, thought it was a bit outrageous and felt that Meng Zhu's crime was undeserved.

but now……

Just then, Chen Lan happened to pass by and overheard Mo Jiuwei's words. On a whim, she took out a communication stone and began to call for the other members of the Immortal Sect to come over.

Because the Immortal Sect has too few disciples now, many places in the sect are abandoned and unused, and everyone's living quarters are relatively close together.

So soon everyone dropped what they were doing and rushed over, only to find Ji Qingqing and Chen Lan already standing together, watching the show.

"Junior Sister Ji, Senior Sister Chen, what's going on?"

"Shh, don't make a sound, watch first."

The people from the Immortal Sect stood in a huddle, each trying to shrink their figures, while sneakily peeking at Du Yue's situation.

With so many people, and Du Yue facing their direction, it would be hard not to see them!
When she realized that so many people were peeping, she couldn't help but twitch her lips, but she didn't expose them. Instead, she adjusted her position so that Meng Zhu on the other side wouldn't notice.

"I see. But Yueyue, you look absolutely radiant today, I can't take my eyes off you." Meng Zhu looked at Du Yue with deep affection, sizing her up from head to toe, and said.

Du Yue noticed that his gaze lingered on the hairpin in her hair for a while, and her heart sank slightly.

She then convinced herself that this didn't mean anything, and that she should wait and see...

"Really? This was given to me by Junior Sister Meng Ling."

When Meng Ling was refining magical artifacts, she also used many things to test her skills, such as this hairpin. It looks pretty, but it is not actually a magical artifact; it is just a pretty face.

Meng Ling made many of these hairpins, one for each person. It was only because Mo Jiuwei was too young and her hair was sparse that she would have been given one as well.

[Here he comes, he's definitely going to keep asking if the Immortal Sect has made a fortune.] Mo Jiuwei thought to herself.

Ji Qingqing and Du Yue couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

"You guys actually have some spare cash? I noticed that Junior Sister Ji's attire was quite impressive just now, unlike her usual self," Meng Zhu asked, seemingly out of curiosity.

After asking, he noticed that Du Yue seemed to be looking at him strangely. "Yueyue, what's wrong?"

"I wouldn't say I have any spare money, just enough to eat," Du Yue said, lowering her eyes.

Meng Zhu was eager to answer the question in her heart, so she didn't take Du Yue's unusual behavior seriously at all. When she answered, she asked impatiently, "I heard outside that the Immortal Sect seemed to have had some extraordinary encounters. Now it seems that it is true? Yueyue, I am so happy for you."

Meng Zhu smiled with utmost sincerity, as if she were genuinely happy for her.

Du Yue relaxed a little, thinking that he was probably just concerned about her, which was why he asked her that casually.

"Your information network is quite good, but the rumors outside are a bit exaggerated. We just got lucky and hunted some monsters while we were training. We only got some crystals after selling the items," Du Yue said.

"I see." Meng Zhu's eyes flickered, but she still felt suspicious.

Hunting monsters?

The people from the Immortal Sect are of average strength, they don't even have any healing pills, and most of their magical artifacts have been sold off... How will they hunt demonic beasts?

The Immortal Sect is so poor now, the amount of crystals needed to save them must be enormous. How many monsters would they have to hunt to earn that much money?

So either Du Yue is lying, and what they obtained actually came from somewhere else, or the monster they hunted was no ordinary creature, but a rare and valuable one!
But he didn't press further, only sighed softly, "Sigh."

He sighed! He's definitely going to start complaining and playing the victim next!

[Hmph, I can see through such a low-level trick at a glance.]

[It's only because Senior Sister Du is young and inexperienced that she was fooled by such a trick.]

Du Yue pursed her lips. "Brother Zhu, why are you sighing? Is something bothering you?"

"Yueyue, don't ask. I don't want to bother you with my affairs. Your Xianlai Sect has finally made some progress, and I want you to focus on your cultivation and not be disturbed by these trivial matters," Meng Zhu said earnestly.

[Ugh, I'm going to throw up. This jerk is such a good actor!]

[A good move is to retreat into advancement. 】

[Oh no, now Senior Sister Du's sympathy is kicking in, she'll definitely keep asking questions, and then she'll obediently take out the crystals to help this scumbag!]

[No, these people from the Immortal Sect are already here. Are they just going to sit here and watch the show? They can't just stand by and watch Senior Sister Du get swindled out of her money without doing anything about it!]

Mo Jiuwei was already anxious when she saw this, because she could almost foresee what would happen next.

Just like the methods that scumbag used before, it's old-fashioned and low-level, but it just happens to work on Senior Sister Du Yue!
"How can you say that? Your business is my business. If you have something to say, just say it, otherwise I'll worry about you too." Du Yue's eyelashes fluttered, and then she looked up and asked, her tone full of concern.

Meng Zhu's lips curled up slightly, but he managed to suppress it with force.

"You know, my mother... sigh, her illness keeps recurring and is hard to cure. I'm afraid the old medicine can't cure her anymore, and we need to change the medicine. But where am I going to get the money to hire a master alchemist?"

Meng Zhu smiled bitterly and shook her head self-deprecatingly.

Du Yue's heart turned completely cold.

Meng Zhu's every reaction was exactly as his junior sister had predicted! Was it all just a coincidence, or was Meng Zhu truly...?

And what do the people of the Immortal Sect not know after seeing this?
Even if they initially trusted Meng Zhu, by now they knew what his true intentions were, not to mention that they didn't trust him that much to begin with.

The first person to impulsively want to stand up was Hu Jiu. In his eyes, all the female disciples in the sect were his sisters, and as their senior brother, he had to protect them.

Anyone who dares to deceive the junior sisters will be punished severely!
But Liu Feng reached out and grabbed Hu Jiu's arm, shaking his head at him.

They could hear Jiuwei's words, and so could Duyue.
Now that I've heard it, I must have some idea of ​​what's going on. Let's see what she decides first.

With them around, they wouldn't just stand by and watch her suffer without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)