Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

"Sect Master! Sect Master! Something terrible has happened!"

A young disciple dressed in menial clothes scrambled in, his face full of panic.

"What's the panic!" Yuan Shan was furious. He slammed his hand on the table and roared.

The disciple trembled with fear, knelt on the ground, and cried out in a tearful voice, "Sect Master, the Crimson Sun Sect... the people from the Crimson Sun Sect have arrived!"

Yuan Shan's head buzzed.

He swayed slightly, but managed to grab the table to keep from falling.

coming.

It finally came.

Counting the days, it's been exactly one month.

The other party was indeed punctual.

"How many people came? Who's leading them?" Yuan Shan forced himself to calm down, his voice a little hoarse.

"A flying boat has arrived and stopped outside the mountain gate. More than a dozen people disembarked, and the leader... the leader is Li Qian, the young master of the Crimson Sun Sect!"

Li Qian?

Yuan Shan's heart sank completely.

The only son of Li Fentian, the sect leader of Chiyang Sect, is known for his arrogance and ruthlessness.

The fact that the Chiyang Sect sent him clearly means they weren't there to negotiate.

This is to issue an ultimatum and to humiliate the Stone Ape Sect to their face.

"Okay, you can go now." Yuan Shan waved his hand, feeling as if all his strength had been drained away.

The disciple felt as if he had been granted a pardon and quickly withdrew.

Only Yuan Shan remained in the council chamber.

He slumped into a chair, staring at the empty room, enveloped by an unprecedented sense of powerlessness.

What should I do?

What can we use to fight them?

Should we invite that person from the back mountain out?

Yuan Shan gave a wry smile.

He dare not.

He didn't even know if the Supreme Elder would care.

What if that person gets annoyed and kills everyone from the Red Sun Sect along with themselves?

Or, worse, that person might not even show up, just watch the Stone Ape Sect be wiped out, then take the cultivation manual and leave.

He placed all his hopes on a mysterious person he had only met once and knew only the character "Yan" from the person's name, which was a huge gamble in itself.

Now, it's time to reveal the cards.

"metropolitan."

Xu Changqing, whose hair and beard were both white, walked in from outside the door. His face was still somewhat pale.

That was a lingering effect from being injured by Lin Bai's aura; it hasn't fully healed even after a month.

"Elder Xu." Yuan Shan stood up.

"I've heard about it," Xu Changqing said in a deep voice as he walked to his side.

"What's meant to be will be. Let's go, let's meet them. Even if only ruins remain of my Stone Ape Sect, not just anyone can trample on them!"

Seeing the determination in Xu Changqing's eyes, Yuan Shan felt a surge of passion.

Yes.

There's no way to avoid it.

He took a deep breath and straightened his slightly wrinkled sect leader's robes.

"Let's go to the main hall!"

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Stone Ape Sect, Main Hall.

A dozen or so cultivators dressed in crimson outfits stood swaggering inside the hall, their expressions arrogant, as if they were surveying their own territory.

The leader was a young man in his twenties, with a handsome face, but a hint of undisguised contempt on his lips.

He is Li Qian, the young master of the Chiyang Sect.

He stretched out his finger and ran it across a dusty stone pillar inside the hall, then wiped it on his clothes in disgust.

"Tsk tsk, Sect Leader Yuan, your Stone Ape Sect is really getting more and more stale. You can smell this poverty and squalor from eight hundred miles away," Li Qian said sarcastically.

The monks behind him burst into laughter.

As soon as Yuan Shan and Xu Changqing entered the main hall, they heard this harsh mockery.

Yuan Shan's face flushed red instantly.

Xu Changqing was so angry that he trembled all over and clenched his fists.

"Young Master Li, it is an honor to have you here. I apologize for not being able to greet you properly." Yuan Shan suppressed his anger and cupped his hands in greeting to Li Qian.

People have to bow their heads under the roof.

"Forgive me?" Li Qian seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. "Yuan Shan, do you think you deserve to be called that?"

He walked step by step to Yuan Shan, half a head taller than Yuan Shan, and looked down at him.

"It's been a month. My dad's patience has its limits, and mine is even more limited."

"I've come today to ask you only one question."

Li Qian stretched out a finger, almost poking Yuan Shan's nose.

"The complete manual of the 'Demon Ape Suppressing Prison Technique,' and the land deed for the West Mountain mine. Will you hand them over yourself, or shall I take them?"

Deceiving too much!

Xu Changqing could no longer contain himself. He stepped forward and roared:

"Li Qian! Don't go too far! My Stone Ape Sect has no connection with your Crimson Sun Sect. You've come to our door to coerce us time and time again. Do you really think my Stone Ape Sect has no one to rely on?"

"Nobody here?" Li Qian glanced at Xu Changqing and sneered.

"An old geezer clinging to life with pills, and a useless sect leader who hasn't even reached the Nascent Soul stage. Is this what you mean by 'having connections'?"

"You!" Xu Changqing was so angry that he felt a mouthful of blood rise to his throat.

"Elder Xu!" Yuan Shan quickly grabbed him.

He knew that there was no reasoning with someone like Li Qian.

Yuan Shan looked at Li Qian and spoke with difficulty, "Young Master Li, our cultivation techniques are the foundation of our sect and there is absolutely no way we could pass them on to outsiders. As for the Xishan mine..."

"Alright," Li Qian interrupted him impatiently. "Don't give me this nonsense. I'm not here to listen to your complaints."

He took two steps back and revealed that smug smile again.

"Alright, I'll give you a chance."

Li Qian clapped his hands.

The two monks behind him carried a heavy wooden box up and placed it heavily on the ground.

The box was opened, revealing neatly stacked low-grade spirit stones that gleamed alluringly in the dimly lit hall.

"Here is 100,000 low-grade spirit stones," Li Qian said, pointing to the box like a benevolent person giving alms to a beggar.

"Hand over the cultivation technique and the land deed, and these spirit stones are yours."

"Moreover, my father said he could make an exception and accept you as a disciple."

"From now on, your Stone Ape Sect will be merged into my Crimson Sun Sect and become an outer branch."

"You, as sect leader, could at least get a position as a steward of the Crimson Sun Sect. That's better than waiting to die in this dilapidated temple, isn't it?"

"This is your last chance."

Every word Li Qian uttered was like a resounding slap across the faces of Yuan Shan and Xu Changqing.

Use 100,000 spirit stones to buy a sect with a thousand-year history.

This is no longer coercion.

This is an insult.

It's about trampling the last vestiges of dignity of the Stone Ape Sect underfoot and crushing them a few more times.

Yuan Shan's body began to tremble uncontrollably.

His extreme anger made his blood feel like it was on fire.

But he couldn't do it.

He clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh.

Fresh blood dripped from between his fingers.

Behind him lies the millennia-old foundation of the Stone Ape Sect.

Behind him are the ancestral tablets of his ancestors.

He can't retreat.

Not even one step.

"Young Master Li's kindness is appreciated by our Stone Ape Sect." Yuan Shan's voice was hoarse, as if it had been sanded.

"But this legacy was passed down from our ancestors. No matter how incompetent I am, I, Yuan Shan, will defend it to the very end."

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