Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 129 Flattery
"Xu Pingyang has committed countless evil deeds, bullying us small-time warriors and forcing us to do things that go against our moral conscience. We have long been unable to bear the heavy burden... Now that Alliance Leader Li has killed the evil leader and brought about a new era, it is a blessing for us..."

"With Alliance Leader Li here, the alliance will be at peace, and we will have a bright future..."

The lords of several small hills were deeply moved and bowed down one after another, their gestures seeming to be filled with genuine emotion.

This flattery made Luo Feibai, who was waiting below, blink his eyes.

How come he hadn't realized that these people had such talent before...

Oh wait…it turns out he wasn’t very familiar with these guys either!

Most of those he was familiar with had died at the hands of Li Ye!
Thanks to Xu Pingyang, he was able to mobilize a lot of mid-to-late stage Qi training cultivators from various mountains to assist him when he besieged the Changcui Mountain formation.

In the end, he died, and the group of monks he called over could not escape Li Ye's reckoning and were all killed.

Once that group of people died, the mountain alliance was completely reshuffled, and the changes in the situation were even more exaggerated than when the Chang and Luo families were destroyed!

With the disappearance of many mountain masters, the strength of the corresponding mountains has dropped significantly, and a wave of power struggles will arise internally, and several people are bound to die.

As a result, apart from other things, the strength of the various factions has been shortened a lot, which gives some of the weaker factions more room to compete for interests than in the past.

Now that Li Ye has taken control of Pingyang Mountain and has seized the position of leader, as soon as the situation has been confirmed, the current leaders of various mountains immediately come to pay their respects and express their submission.

These ruthless people who were able to kill two foundation-building cultivators by themselves just after a breakthrough, even though their mountain master died at the hands of Li Ye, not only did they not dare to show any intention of revenge, they even had to bow their heads to show their submission.

This means that the group of people who come to meet Li Ye now are either the second in command or the weak leaders of marginal mountains.

For them, during this major reshuffle, they must seize the opportunity and cling to some powerful people!

Compared to the benefits that one will eventually gain by pleasing Li Ye, what does a little flattery matter?
Didn't you see that Luo Feibai, because of his friendship with the leader, avoided involvement in many subsequent events to avoid suspicion...

But now he has risen to prominence and even received a pill as a gift from the leader of the alliance. His cultivation has reached the ninth level of Qi training!

With such cases in front of us, even if Li Ye intends to establish himself, there is a high possibility that other people will benefit from it when he just comes to power.

However, Li Ye's reaction to this performance, which he was already tired of, was quite indifferent.

However, simply going through the reception process, accepting the gifts they offered, and making a few words of encouragement and promises was enough to establish the relationship of superiority and inferiority.

After everyone left, Luo Feibai stepped forward and bowed, "Alliance Leader, except for... the Lan family of Changcui Mountain, every mountain in the alliance has sent people to pay their respects to you. Look..."

He raised his eyes and asked carefully.

"Evergreen Mountain..."

Li Ye was silent for a moment, then said calmly, "It's okay! As long as the Lan family doesn't do anything out of line, you don't need to worry about these minor details. You should also pay attention to them and give them some advice from time to time..."

"I obey the order!"

Luo Feibai understood immediately.

After Luo Feibai left and Li Ye was left alone, he sat in the hall with a complicated expression.

That day, when he returned Chang Cuishan and the magical instruments left by his father to Lan Xinyi, the girl just smiled bitterly and stood up to salute respectfully.

There was no overreaction, nor any sign of closeness, as if the two were just strangers.

This result was already pretty good in Li Ye's opinion... No matter whether this woman had let it go or not, this was the best he could do.

So let it be!
Li Ye stood up and walked out, continuing his work of weighing Pingyang Mountain.

To him, the Blazing Flame Formation was far less suitable than the Green Vine and Jade Wood Formation, and its power was also far inferior to the latter, which was blessed by the Sky Realm Tree. Originally, he wanted to dismantle this formation and set up a new one.

But in a flash, he suddenly felt that the previous model in Changcui Mountain was also good.

If the Blazing Fire and Flowing Flame Array is one layer and the Green Vine and Jade Wood Array is another layer, the former is usually the main one, and the latter only protects his place of practice and spiritual fields.

Although this will weaken the power of the Blazing Flame Formation under normal circumstances, it will not fall to the first level, so there will be time to react.

If a war breaks out, the power of the Green Vine and Green Wood Formation will be expanded, and the two formations will be nested and fully activated. By using wood to generate fire, its power will definitely far exceed that of any single formation!

By combining the power of the void realm of the second-level void tree, perhaps we can gain some of the power of the third-level formation!

"This is a clever trick for my current attainments in formations. Once I've truly reached the point where I can use the Void Realm Tree to construct a third-order formation, I can remove the Blazing Flame Formation..."

Li Ye walked, making a mark from time to time, thinking silently.

At the same time, the hall on the top of the mountain is also being redecorated. The palace itself is quite good and has all kinds of functions. It only needs to adjust the overly exaggerated parts.

However, when the people on Pingyang Mountain saw his every move, they were secretly frightened.

"Alliance leader, are you... planning to rebuild the formation?"

A pretty female cultivator beside Luo Feibai asked carefully.

"Maybe..."

Luo Feibai was a little absent-minded. He still remembered the feeling that the formation set up by Li Ye gave him.

If we change the formation, perhaps we won’t have to worry about being broken through in the future?
Then he came to his senses and turned to the female cultivator and warned,

"Your sole duty is to serve the leader well. Don't ask unnecessary questions. The leader dislikes others prying into his secrets. Don't break the taboo!"

"You must know... In order to curry favor with the leader, many mountain leaders have been sending women to him these days!"

"There are all kinds of female cultivators, including those who are pretty and slim, gorgeous and plump, and cute and petite. You are just one of them. If you don't perform well and are squeezed out by other female cultivators, then that's fine. But don't let me be implicated!"

Having said this, Luo Feibai's face was already stern.

This girl was the daughter of an old friend of his who was a casual cultivator. If her appearance and figure were not indeed quite outstanding, even more so than that of Lan Xinyi, she might really have won the favor of the leader.

Otherwise, Luo Feibai would never agree if the other party came to ask for help.

What if the leader of the alliance thinks that I want to use this to gain more power and becomes unhappy, wouldn’t that be shooting myself in the foot?
The pretty female cultivator nodded hurriedly, "Ruan Jin will remember this!"

"Ok!"

Luo Feibai nodded with satisfaction and continued to instruct,
"Just listen..."

……

After retracting his spiritual consciousness attached to the insect, Li Ye smiled and no longer paid attention to what was happening on Luo Feibai's side.

He is not a gentleman, but as long as their background is not questionable, it is fine for him to have a few maids.

But compared to such fun things, it is better to complete everything first and turn this mountain into your own territory...

(End of this chapter)