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

Chapter 50 Jingrong General Store

Just then, Ji Qingqing saw something and stared intently at the shop diagonally in front of her.

It's the same shop!

Mo Jiuwei looked over and found that it was a general store called "Jingrong".

At that moment, two people were standing at the door talking. One was a woman in her thirties, who seemed to be the shopkeeper.

The other person was probably a customer who came to buy something. He was carrying a bag or something. After speaking, he left.

As soon as he left, the female shopkeeper did not go in immediately. Instead, she leaned against the door frame and chatted leisurely with someone from a nearby shop, occasionally letting out a few giggles.

"Senior sister, why can someone like Wei Jiaojiao live such a comfortable life?" Ji Qingqing asked, her voice full of resentment.

“Heaven doesn’t always open its eyes,” Chen Lan said.

Oh dear, what happened? Tell me quickly!

Mo Jiuwei was scratching her head in frustration.

In fact, if she really wanted to know, there would be nothing in this world that she didn't know, but many things were unnecessary for her, and she was too lazy to bother thinking about them.

However, matters concerning the Immortal Sect members were not considered "unnecessary." On the contrary, because they were all her own people, Mo Jiuwei preferred to let them tell her many things.

She enjoys the feeling of listening to others tell stories even more!

Fortunately, this time Senior Sister Chen finally understood her perfectly, and soon after, she brought up the shop in her conversation with Ji Qingqing.

Mo Jiuwei then realized that this Jingrong General Store was actually a property of the Xianlai Sect!

All sects are like this; they will definitely set up some shops in the market or city, which can be considered one of the sources of crystals.

The Xianlai Sect used to have many shops, but due to its decline, only Jingrong remained. The manager of Jingrong was Huayan, one of the disciples of the Xianlai Sect.

This shop has been open the longest of all the shops in the Immortal Sect. It's the kind of shop that all the cultivators in the city know, and it has quite a few regular customers.

It can be said that as long as it exists, even if it doesn't make money, people will still have enough to eat and drink.

Hua Yan was able to become the manager because of her father's influence. Her father had been a manager his whole life, always working diligently and honestly.

So when he applied to have his daughter continue to manage affairs for him, the sect agreed because they trusted him.

But it was precisely because of Hua Yan that this shop betrayed them during the most difficult time for the Xianlai Sect—she tampered with the accounts behind the sect's back, causing the sect to lose tens of thousands of crystals. Later, the shop was even lost and sold off cheaply to a male cultivator from a small family surnamed Lu.

But little did they know, the male doctor surnamed Lu was actually Hua Yan's lover, and it was all a conspiracy between the two of them!

After learning the truth, the Immortal Sect naturally wanted to investigate the responsibility, but unfortunately, it was during an internal power struggle when Zhong Yu led Du Wangquan and others to defect from the sect, leaving them with no spare energy to deal with it.

By the time everything settled down, it was too late to turn back.

The Immortal Sect was facing increasingly difficult times, but Hua Yan and her Daoist partner were thriving, and she would often deliberately appear in front of the Immortal Sect members to annoy them.

Not only that, when the disciples of the Xianlai Sect were on the verge of starvation and had to sell their belongings, Hua Yan and her husband's family, the Lu family, colluded with some shops in the market to deliberately lower prices, which made things even worse for the Xianlai Sect.

With all these entanglements involved, Chen Lan and Ji Qingqing naturally didn't give Hua Yan a friendly look when they saw her again.

Mo Jiuwei felt indignant for them after hearing this. [Ugh, so infuriating! How can there be such people!]

Isn't this taking advantage of your weakness to kill you? Truly despicable and shameless!

This is a shop belonging to our Immortal Sect, how can we let her take it away?

Perhaps it was because their gazes were too intense, but Hua Yan, who was speaking, seemed to sense it and looked over in their direction.

Upon looking at them, their eyes met.

Hua Yan paused for a moment, then something flashed in her eyes.

She left the person who was speaking and walked gracefully towards them.

"What bad luck! What kind of filthy thing suddenly came over? It stinks terribly," Ji Qingqing suddenly said, then fanned herself with her palm.

Hua Yan paused, but didn't seem to mind at all; instead, her smile widened.

"Oh, I thought it was someone else, isn't this Junior Sister Chen and Junior Sister Ji?" Hua Yan giggled, covering her face with her hand. "How come you two have set up a stall after not seeing each other for a while?"

"What's it to you?" Chen Lan said coldly.

"I just feel sorry for you guys." Hua Yan clicked her tongue. "You must be very tired setting up your stall outside, right? If you're tired, just say so, and I can invite you to sit in my shop and rest for a while."

She emphasized the phrase "my family's shop" with particular emphasis, as if she were referring to something.

Ji Qingqing was still young, and upon hearing her deliberately provocative words, she immediately turned red with anger. "Shameless! Who would want to go? I know without even going that the whole place will stink, just like someone else's smell!"

Her voice grew louder, attracting surprised glances from passersby who stared at Hua Yan with curiosity, seemingly wondering if she really smelled bad.

Hua Yan's smiling face darkened at those words. "Junior Sister Ji, watch your words!"

"Pah! Who's your junior sister? What kind of bastard dares to think he can be my senior sister? You're not worthy!" Ji Qingqing put her hands on her hips. "I really don't know where you got the nerve to show your face in front of us. You're so proud of swindling a shop out of our Immortal Sect? Just you wait, you'll get your retribution sooner or later!"

The Immortal Sect may not be able to deal with her now, but Ji Qingqing believes that they will be able to deal with her sooner or later.

She has that confidence!

"Ji Qingqing, I'm only being polite by giving you face. Do you really think you're something special?"

Hua Yan sneered, "Your Immortal Sect is all talk and no action, but what good is your tough talk? It doesn't change the fact that you're about to collapse! I'll wait and see how you become stray dogs and starve to death on the mountain!"

"Hua Yan, you should be the one waiting." Chen Lan stood up, holding Mo Jiuwei, her expression icy. "What you stole will one day be returned to its rightful owner. Don't be kneeling down and begging us then."

"What a joke! What's mine is mine, how can you 'steal' it? Besides, what makes you think you can take it back? If you were really capable, I wouldn't be running my shop while you're stuck sitting on the roadside selling things!"

Hua Yan raised an eyebrow, showing no fear whatsoever.

"I said, what's wrong with us street vendors? What have we done to offend you?"

Someone spoke up, and it was the old man with an unfriendly expression.

(End of this chapter)