Hidden moth

Chapter 336 Enjoying Wine Under the Shade of the Trees

At this time and in this place, almost no one would come. He Kao didn't want to stay any longer. He found a high vantage point, took out the Reflection Mirror, locked onto an area as its reflection, and then turned and disappeared.

After a while, a man appeared in the valley. He was a middle-aged man of Eastern descent. He picked up a few branches and stuck them in the ground.

Just then, his phone rang. When he answered, someone asked, "Is this Mr. Mi?"

Mr. Mi: "Who are you?"

As he spoke, he used his divine sense to scan the area, his gaze falling on the top of a nearby hill, which was the observation point from which He Kao had locked onto this area using the mirror.

"Just walk in the direction you're looking now, and you'll see me after you cross two hills. I've prepared some ice-cold beer and am waiting for you."

Mr. Mi soon arrived at another valley a few kilometers away. This area had not experienced any wildfires in recent years, and it was the time when the trees were growing most luxuriantly.

In the open space under a big tree, a small travel table is set up among the flowers and plants, with two lounge chairs next to it. Beer is laid out on the table, along with freshly picked cherries and lychees, all chilled on a tray.

Mr. Mi walked over and sat down, saying, "That place was simply not fit for human habitation."

He Kao apologized, "It wasn't like this when I came last time. I didn't expect the weather to be so hot, and there was a wildfire there, so we changed locations at the last minute."

As he spoke, Mr. Mi had already started eating cherries, nodding as he ate, saying, "These are citrine cherries, the taste is just right."

He Kao: "It's from Cherry Valley in Northeast China, and it's the perfect time of year."

Mr. Mi began peeling lychees again: "This is Guagreen, it's quite rare..."

He Kao: "I can recognize the variety at a glance. Mr. Mi, do you often eat here?"

Mr. Mi: "You're dreaming. How could that be possible here? I was also born in the East. My family was in the Northeast when I was a child, and I later went to study in the South."

"I've brought you what you wanted." He Kao pushed two small wooden boxes and a USB drive over from the table.

Mr. Mi picked up a small wooden box, opened it, and took a look. The rectangular box had two compartments, each containing a golden-yellow pill and a silver-white pill, namely the Pure Yang Pill and the Peony Pill.

Mr. Mi closed the wooden box again, pushed it back, and said, "The Clan Court is indeed trustworthy. Thank you!"

"I have received the method for taking the pill. It can be taken by one person or two people. If two people take the pill together, one of them must have a cultivation level of at least the fifth rank and be aided by the Yin-Yang Tai Chi Formation."

He Kao: "I heard that Mr. Mi himself has a sixth-level cultivation. As for the Yin-Yang Taiji Formation, if you need to use it, I can try to help you solve the problem, but it can only be set up somewhere in the Eastern Kingdom."

Mr. Mi then asked, "May I ask your name?"

He Kao: "Since you are the one contacting the Clan Court, you can call me Zongluo."

Mr. Mi only accepted the USB drive, then pushed the two small wooden boxes back, saying, "I will try my best to send the Clan Law Hall's announcement to every member of the Free Alliance. If I succeed, could the Clan Law Hall do me a favor?"

He Kao: "Tell me, and I will pass it on."

Mr. Mi: "These two Pure Yang Pills are not for my own use. I have a son and a daughter, and I want to send them to study in the Eastern Kingdom. I would like to ask the Clan Court for help..."

Mr. Mi's daughter is 21 years old this year, and his son is 17 years old. One is about to graduate from university, and the other is about to go to university.

He wants his children to return to Dongguo to study. As for which school and major they should study, he needs the help of the Zongfa Hall to arrange that. Mr. Mi can cooperate in handling the procedures in the United States.

Mr. Mi also hopes that the sect can protect his children. If there is an opportunity, he will personally take them to take the Pure Yang Pill. If there is no opportunity, he asks the Zongfa Hall to arrange for an expert to take it with them.

As for the two Pure Yang Pills, they are temporarily stored at the Zongfa Hall.

He Kao cautioned, "I can inform the Clan Court about this matter and try my best to arrange things for you. But at this sensitive time, won't it arouse suspicion by suddenly sending your children back to the Eastern Kingdom?"

Mr. Mi sighed: "This is not a last-minute arrangement, but a plan that was made long ago. Three years ago, the Xiaomeng wanted to send my daughter to the Eastern Kingdom, but I managed to stop it. However, I didn't completely stop it; I just delayed it as much as possible."

After that incident, the Xiaomeng rearranged its plans and intended to send my daughter and son to the Eastern Kingdom this summer to carry out a mission to infiltrate the sect.

They were from the Eastern Kingdom, and the Xiaomeng believed they would be easier to take down.

The Xiaomeng suffered heavy losses in the Eastern Kingdom recently and urgently needs to replenish its manpower. Even if I wanted to stop it this time, I couldn't. The representative of the Supreme Council has already told me that if I want to join the Supreme Council, this is a contribution I must make.

But they don't understand that I no longer want my children to stay in the United States, and this is a good opportunity to send them back. They are still young and don't quite understand, and I hope the Alliance can guarantee their safety and provide them with as much guidance as possible.

Hearing the words "they are still young and don't understand much," He Kao felt a headache coming on. It seemed the situation might be complicated. They were about to turn eighteen and twenty-two, which was no longer young.

These two children probably don't know about their father's connection to the magic sect. They might genuinely believe they are undercover agents sent by the Xiaomeng to the Eastern Kingdom, with their main mission being to infiltrate the magic sect.

He Kao then asked, "How could they be from the East? Do they understand your intentions?"

Mr. Mi then offered another explanation.

He was born in the East. After graduating from university, his parents sent him abroad to study, and he then stayed in the United States. After his parents retired, they also came to the United States and transferred a considerable amount of assets overseas in advance.

Mr. Mi did not reveal his parents' specific identities, but He Kao roughly guessed what they were. Mr. Mi looked to be in his thirties or forties, but was actually over sixty. He had long since become a U.S. citizen, but married and had children very late; his wife was also an Eastern citizen when she gave birth to their child.

According to US policy, his children could choose their own nationality at the age of eighteen, but the higher-ups in the Xiaomeng Alliance arranged for his daughter to choose Eastern nationality.

The daughter was unwilling at the time, but the higher-ups of the Anxiao Alliance promised that as long as she completed the tasks assigned by the organization, her future would be well arranged... As for her son, he would face this issue in the second half of this year, and the instructions from the higher-ups of the Anxiao Alliance were to choose Eastern citizenship.

The purpose of this arrangement was to facilitate their infiltration into the world of magic. However, Mr. Mi did not want his children to get involved in such matters; even if they practiced magic, it was for a better life.

Not long ago, Mr. Mi broke through to the sixth level of Dan Ding Technique and became a sixth-level pharmacist.

Traditionally, sixth-tier cultivators would become members of the Supreme Council, and some core fifth-tier cultivators had already joined the Supreme Council, but the Free Alliance did not directly allow him to join.

The excuse is readily available: it's not an explicit rule that a sixth-tier warlock can join the Supreme Council. Aren't there fifth-tier cultivators in the Supreme Council as well?
This logic is a bit strange. Even fifth-order cultivators can join, but sixth-order cultivators are still being kept out? But the Supreme Council's logic is that since fifth-order cultivators can join, it means that sixth-order cultivation is not a necessary condition for joining.

The real reason is well-known: Mr. Mi was born and raised in the Eastern Kingdom, and was only chosen as a disciple by the Xiaomeng sorcerers when he was studying for his master's degree abroad.

The Free Alliance wants to deal with the Magic Sect, but it both needs to rely on people like him and naturally discriminates against them.

There was also a member of the Supreme Council named Fabre, who was of East Asian descent.

However, Fabre was already a third-generation immigrant born in the United States. After breaking through to the sixth level of cultivation, he was not immediately absorbed by the Supreme Council. Instead, he made great contributions to the Xiaomeng Alliance, proving his ability and loyalty.

Mr. Mi usually runs his own small company and focuses on cultivating his magic, making almost no contribution to the organization... Until recently, the higher-ups of the Xiaomeng Alliance made a decision to let Mr. Mi enter the Supreme Council.

In fact, Mr. Mi was able to join the Supreme Council so "smoothly" thanks to the magic sect, because when he broke through to the sixth rank, Danqiu Master had already fallen into the Immortal Pot Cave Heaven, and there was no other sixth-rank alchemist in the Free Alliance.

Hearing this, He Kao asked curiously, "Mr. Mi, when did you join the Supreme Council of the Xiaomeng Alliance?"

Mr. Mi smiled and said, "Next week."

"Oh, so you haven't joined yet," He Kao asked again. "To join the Supreme Council, is it necessary to take an oath or something?"

Mr. Mi: "Of course, an oath is required. The oath mainly states that one will not leak secrets or betray the organization."

He paused for a moment, then said, "I did not reveal any secrets to you that are only known to members of the Supreme Council." He then sighed and added, "As for betraying the organization, I have my own judgment."

For example, regarding today's events, I don't believe that letting members of the Free Alliance know the facts they should know is a betrayal, nor do I believe that plundering and stealing from the arts is the Free Alliance's fundamental principle.

He Kao couldn't help but ask, "May I be so bold as to ask how you broke through to the sixth level of cultivation?"

Mr. Mi finished a whole bottle of beer, let out a small burp, put down the bottle, and said, "This question is really presumptuous. You should know that there are no fixed rules or ready-made paths to follow. More importantly, it shouldn't be asked in the first place!"

He Kao: "Sorry, then I won't ask."

Mr. Mi countered with, "Fellow Daoist Zongluo, if you had children, would you want them to master magic and join a sect specializing in it?"

He Kao: "Is there even a question? I'm afraid they don't have the qualifications to even get started!"

Mr. Mi seemed to be talking to himself, saying, "My two children are not bad in terms of talent, but they are not top-notch either. If they had been born into an ordinary family, they might not have had this opportunity."

If I were to concentrate my resources on their cultivation, they should all be able to get started, but the chances of them breaking through to higher levels in the future are not very high.

However, I hesitated for a long time and only taught them some methods before foundation building, in order to ensure their physical and mental health, abundant energy, and a solid foundation. I did not teach them the introductory techniques.

With my fifth-tier cultivation level at the time, my status in the Free Alliance was not low. I was able to understand a lot of things and knew about many of the things the Free Alliance had done, so I did not want them to get involved.

After all, they are still young, so we can wait and see how things go. I myself only started learning magic after I turned twenty-two.

However, some people in the Free Alliance didn't want me to wait like this. Someone contacted my daughter, taught her the basic techniques, and even came to tell me about it, blaming me for delaying her.

She is now a second-level mountain hermit, while my son has not yet entered the realm of magic... Actually, none of this matters. What matters is that I hesitate and do not want them to learn magic.

This has nothing to do with magic; I just don't want them involved in the affairs of the Free Alliance, which is something worth reflecting on.

Three years ago, the higher-ups of the Xiaomeng approached me, hoping to arrange for my daughter to go to the Eastern Kingdom to infiltrate the magic sect as an undercover agent. In fact, since then, I have begun to rethink many issues.

I don't want them to go. Not to mention them, I myself don't want to do such a thing. Is this a problem of the Xiaomeng Alliance or a problem of my own?
Until recently, and I must thank the Clan Court for that, I finally understood.

He Kao: "Oh, why should we thank the Clan Court?"

Mr. Mi: "Because the Lord of Danqiu was trapped in the Immortal Pot Cave, and a member of the Supreme Council was beheaded in Qiyuan, the Clan Law Hall issued a special announcement, which I happened to see, so I understood."

If you want to ask me what I went through when I broke through to the sixth rank, it mainly consisted of these things... This is not a safe place, you don't need to stay any longer, please take care of what I just said!

Mr. Mi did not say what he had figured out, as if he did not want to say it or that he did not need to say it, leaving He Kao to figure it out himself.

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(End of this chapter)