If the sect doesn't accept geniuses, they will become giants once they leave?

Chapter 7 The Ominous Son
A young man holding a folding fan, dressed in gorgeous clothes, with various jade pendants on his waist, stood beside Li Yanmo at some point. It was too late to complain in the direction of Qingshan Sect, but his eyes fell on Li Yanmo.

The other party seemed to be a high-ranking official of the Dayu Dynasty.

Li Yanmo hesitated for a moment and was about to speak when the young man clasped his fists first and said, "Fellow Daoist, may I know if you are the legendary Red Dust cultivator?"

The gorgeous attire and the frivolous tone, when combined, make the words, no matter how polite, sound sarcastic.

"There's no such thing as a mortal monk. He's just trying to make a living."

Seeing Li Yanmo's uncomfortable expression, the young man blinked, glanced down at his clothes, then glanced at the expressions of the other Luoyang Town residents. Suddenly, he realized something and slapped his forehead in frustration. "Brother, you misunderstood me. I've always had this tone since I was a child. I definitely didn't mean to mock you. My father... always told me that a cultivator who works for the people is a good cultivator."

As he spoke, the young man put away his folding fan and reached out to help Li Yanmo take a bundle of wood.

The bundle of wood, still covered in dirt, fell directly on top of the luxurious clothes.

"My surname is Nu, and my name is Nuchenfa."

"pseudonym?"

"Now it's true."

Li Yanmo once again looked at the young man in front of him who called himself Nuchenfa. A strange expression appeared on his face, but seeing Nuchenfa's leisurely appearance, he did not ask any further questions. "My name is Li Yanmo. I am not a commoner. I will collect every penny I owe you."

"Brother Li, what are you talking about? As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. You put in the effort, so you should get the due reward. This is the law of nature. If anyone uses your cultivation level to make a point, that is disobeying the law of nature and should be punished."

The female minister shook her head and waved to other residents of Luoyang Town from time to time.

Seeing that the female minister not only had no intention of leaving, but also greeted people everywhere like a social terrorist, Li Yanmo lost his temper and quickly led the female minister to the location to hand over the wood.

The boss, who used to smile happily at the sight of lumber, this time rubbed his hands, trembled, and occasionally wiped the sweat from his forehead. When the female minister asked about the previous price, the boss's knees weakened and he almost fell to the ground.

However, the boss was conscientious and did not play any tricks on the quotation, so the female minister did not say much.

Li Yanmo noticed that the boss had been looking at the jade pendant around the female minister's waist.

However, the female minister had too many jade pendants around her waist, and Li Yanmo didn't know which one the boss was looking at.

Li Yanmo originally thought that his fate with Nuchenfa had ended here, but he didn't expect that Nuchenfa would follow him as a matter of course.

"Brother, do you have anything else to say?"

"Oh no—I missed the Qingshan Sect selection. If my family knew about this, they would definitely give me a beating. I'm just trying to hold off for as long as possible."

The female minister knocked her forehead in distress, but Li Yanmo always felt that the female minister had been careless about some details.

"Fine--"

Li Yanmo simply squatted down by the roadside, picked up a piece of grass and put it in his mouth, looking in the direction of Qingshan Sect.

The female minister tilted her head, chuckled, bent down, pulled her trouser legs to her knees, tied her robe around her waist, and squatted down like Li Yanmo. "Brother Li, haven't you thought about participating in the Qingshan Sect's selection?"

"I'm over the age limit," Li Yanmo yawned. "But you, my dear brother, this is the first time I've heard of being late for seven days."

Seeing that her lie was exposed, the female minister laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha - to be honest with you, Brother Li, I did it on purpose."

"The Qingshan Sect is indeed somewhat famous in Qianzhou, but that's all. Their great ancestor died at the peak of the Spiritual Transformation Stage and entered into a deathly retreat two hundred years ago. Most of the remaining elders are in the Nascent Soul stage, and only the chief elder is in the Spiritual Transformation stage."

"Everyone is worried and anxious."

Li Yanmo raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Is the Qingshan Sect really that bad?"

The female minister gave a mysterious smile and raised her hand to point at the strange phenomenon in the sky. "Look at that strange phenomenon. Do you think that Qingshan Sect is full of immortals?"

"That's what it looks like."

"Those are all fake," the female minister shook her head and took out a jade pendant from her bosom and threw it to the ground.

The jade pendant shattered, and various miniature visions emerged from it, nearly identical to the visions seen in the Qingshan Sect. "Every year, the Qingshan Sect purchases visions from the Dayu Dynasty to create a seven-day atmosphere. A hundred years ago, the Qingshan Sect could customize visions from the Dayu Dynasty, but in the past century, they've been limited to purchasing visions off the assembly line."

The unexpected truth left Li Yanmo speechless for a moment, but the female minister added a sentence at this time.

"Many people have noticed this, so the people who came to Qingshan Sect this time are all ordinary people without any cultivator background."

“It’s really true.”

This was all Li Yanmo could do to complain.

"The millions of sects in the Dayu Dynasty are no joke," the female minister shook her head again.

It happened that a spaceship with the surname "苗" written on it passed by. On the spaceship, several young heroes were proudly holding their chins high. Among them, a girl was the most conspicuous, like the moon held up by the stars.

The female minister pointed, "That's the Miao family from Churi City. Their head is friends with the Fifth Elder, so they provide excellent seeds to the Qingshan Sect every year. However, their relationship seems to have ended here."

As if she sensed something, the girl who was the center of attention looked down and happened to meet Li Yanmo's gaze. The girl snorted lightly, her eyes full of contempt.

"Miao Qianqian, she has good talent, but it's a pity that she was born in Qianzhou. If she performs well, she may have a chance to leave Qianzhou," the female minister noticed the girl's gaze and commented lightly.

"So why did you come to me?"

Li Yanmo moved to the side.

Li Yanmo was very grateful to the female minister for sharing this information with him, but this also made Li Yanmo more suspicious of the female minister's ulterior motives.

"Actually, I'm here to look for someone."

The female minister raised her finger and spoke softly.

"There was a woman who was born into a prominent family, but because of some strange ailments, she was spurned by her clan and even considered taboo and unlucky."

The familiar words made Li Yanmo's eyes jump, and he thought of Jian Xin who was sitting on the wooden stake with a numb look at times.

"That day, she took advantage of her tribe's inattention and slipped out secretly, hiding her whereabouts. No matter how hard her tribe tried, they couldn't find her."

"But as the saying goes, there are unexpected winds... No, there is no wall that is impenetrable." The female minister twirled her fingers and tapped her ears. "Didn't I just hear some rumors and find an excuse to come here?"

"I heard that Brother Li has a very close relationship with that person."

"I wonder if Brother Li can do me a small favor."

"I'm sorry, I don't know anything."

"This girl's surname is Jiang, and her name is Lily."

"..."

Lily Jiang put down the cigarette pipe, her eyes slowly raised up, “Is this the reason why you betrayed me?”

Li Yanmo, who was standing next to the female minister, rolled his eyes. "Big sister, next time you're on the run from the law, can you please not use your real name? The whole Luoyang Town knows you're a doctor who picks his toes. I spent so much time making up a fake address, and it's still like an idiot!"

“You can’t attribute it to external factors.”

Lily Jiang waved her hand slowly, her leisurely attitude did not seem like a prisoner who was absconding from the crime. And the female minister still had a smiling expression, not at all like someone coming to arrest someone.

Li Yanmo couldn't help but become curious.

"So, what is the weird thing?"

Lily Jiang didn't speak, but the female minister said with a smile.

"Brother Li, don't you already know the answer?"

(End of this chapter)