Sect Recruitment: I Can See Attribute Entries

Chapter 679: Chapter 680: Let Others Handle the Difficult Matters

The recent turmoil in Yunmeng Marsh had naturally affected Chen Baiqing’s plans.

The entire Yunmeng Marsh was in a bizarre state—chaotic to the extreme yet restrained to the extreme. This caused many of the originally designed methods to be scrapped on the spot.

At the same time, the drastic abnormal situation had also caught the attention of the evil cultivators who had infiltrated the area.

As evil cultivators, reading the wind and adjusting the sails, knowing when to quit while ahead, running when they should run, selling out when they should sell—these were essential qualities for being a good evil cultivator.

After all, if you’ve already become an evil cultivator, you can’t still want to be a good person with doubts, can you?

Especially with the situation being so bizarre, and even Zheng Zhaoling having arrived in Yunmeng Marsh.

No matter how great the benefits, one also had to learn to see the tsunami-like risks.

Quite a few evil cultivators had already begun slowly withdrawing from Yunmeng Marsh, avoiding this wave of unknown yet crazy dangerous chaos.

Although the evil cultivators Chen Baiqing was tasked with tracking had far deeper foundations than other evil cultivators and had been lurking and observing in Yunmeng Marsh for quite some time, according to Wang Chuan and Li Zhuhua’s investigations, they also seemed to be preparing to withdraw from Yunmeng Marsh first and wait for the turmoil to settle before making further plans.

It was at this critical juncture that Lu Lingyi was sent by Chen Baiqing to meet with Cui Hao.

When she came—

Chen Baiqing had given Lu Lingyi two tasks.

The first was to reprimand this junior brother for making too big a scene in Yunmeng Marsh, and for not proactively reporting on certain matters. This kind of offense deserved eating a Ten-Complete Great Tonifying Pill.

Lu Lingyi didn’t understand what a Ten-Complete Great Tonifying Pill was. But what she understood even less was—the Yunmeng Marsh turmoil had been caused by Cui Hao?

A Golden Core true person had driven the entire Yunmeng Marsh’s turmoil?

Lu Lingyi naturally didn’t believe it in her heart. But Chen Baiqing’s methods of control were too profound, so she didn’t dare to openly refute and instead accepted the order.

The second task was to need Cui Hao’s assistance in finding a way to entangle and keep those evil cultivators who were preparing to leave Yunmeng Marsh.

The evil cultivators Chen Baiqing was investigating had been tracked by following the clues. But there were still some core members who might know the ultimate secrets whose exact locations had not been found.

If the most core people weren’t caught, catching a bunch of small fry was useless.

In Lu Lingyi’s mind, although Cui Hao wasn’t stupid, he clearly wasn’t smart enough to this degree.

But truly arriving at the god shrine of Huaze Village and hearing Cui Hao’s instructions and arrangements—

No matter how much she didn’t want to believe it, Lu Lingyi could only believe that the one who had stirred up all of this was indeed an unremarkable Golden Core true person.

Cui Hao’s heart skipped a beat. He looked up, and when he saw it was Lu Lingyi, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Having such low cultivation was truly enough to make one’s heart pound with fear.

What was annoying was that Uncle Wanban hadn’t even given a warning. Not a hint. No subjective initiative at all.

With a spiritual treasure like that, why did it deserve to be his master’s spiritual treasure?

It hadn’t learned even a fraction of his master’s cleverness.

Or had he not flattered it enough?

That couldn’t be, right?

His own thick skin was almost unbearable. How could it still count as not flattering enough?

Cui Hao’s mind raced through these thoughts, and he subconsciously asked:

”What did I do?”

Lu Lingyi said: ”Of course the recent events in Yunmeng Marsh. Did you do it all?”

Cui Hao nodded with sudden understanding, then naturally glanced at Zhu Tu beside him.

Zhu Tu very tactfully said not a word, turned around, and left the shrine.

Lu Lingyi took out a talisman from her spatial ring that blocked sound and divine sense detection. After activating it, a not-very-large barrier enveloped the two of them.

Although she very much wanted to ask Cui Hao how he had done it, clearly now was not the time for discussion.

Lu Lingyi spoke directly:

”Your senior sister asks you why you didn’t make a detailed report on what you’ve done. Do you want to eat a Ten-Complete Great Tonifying Pill?”

”No!” Cui Hao’s face instantly paled slightly, and he quickly said, ”I did make reports. It’s just that for many things I hadn’t confirmed, naturally I couldn’t report them.”

”Sister Lu, you know too. Many things change constantly, and situations are completely different. You understand this principle, so please explain it well to my senior sister too.”

Lu Lingyi looked at Cui Hao’s terrified expression. She also didn’t understand what secret code the Ten-Complete Great Tonifying Pill was. But she certainly couldn’t agree to Cui Hao’s words.

How could it be her place to meddle in matters between two direct senior brothers and sisters?

Besides, Chen Baiqing was quite strong at controlling her subordinates. She knew her junior brother’s methods were not simple, yet she didn’t let him out to make waves.

Perhaps the first question was precisely preparation for the second.

Lu Lingyi didn’t answer. Instead, she said: ”No need to be so panicked. The evil cultivators the captain is tracking are preparing to withdraw because of the drastic fluctuations in Yunmeng Marsh. The captain needs you to find a way to keep them here, trying to buy us more time.”

As she spoke, she took out a jade token from her spatial ring and handed it to Cui Hao:

”This is the intelligence we’ve collected so far. The captain said to give it to you, and you’ll roughly know what to do.”

”The captain also said that she can neither botch things here nor move too slowly. She’s leaving it to you to handle.”

”Naturally, if you have any difficulties or need cooperation, you can raise them with the captain.”

Cui Hao was stunned at these words, but he subconsciously reached out and took the jade token Lu Lingyi handed him.

Lu Lingyi’s task was now essentially complete.

She looked at Cui Hao and asked curiously:

”Fellow Daoist Cui, I truly didn’t understand you before. But with these kinds of methods, why did you leave to work alone? Are you in some kind of competition with the captain?”

”Compete for what?” Cui Hao sighed heavily. ”My senior sister is my master’s little cotton-padded jacket. At best, I’m a pair of shorts. We protect different places. What’s there to compete for?”

Lu Lingyi heard the vulgar metaphor and smiled, shaking her head:

”Alright, alright. I won’t ask more. But this matter is truly urgent. The captain is watching closely. If Fellow Daoist Cui botches it, there probably won’t be good consequences.”

”I still need to go back and report. The captain also has many things for me to do, so I won’t stay longer.”

Lu Lingyi cupped her fists. ”See you later.”

”See you later...” Cui Hao replied weakly. Then he remembered something and quickly added, ”Tell my senior sister that Zheng Zhaoling’s target isn’t us. Tell her not to waste effort on Zheng Zhaoling.”

Lu Lingyi was stunned at these words, then nodded solemnly and turned to leave.

Cui Hao held the message token in his hand, probed it with his divine sense, and began reading.

Then he exhaled heavily.

His senior sister had given him this task. She had probably realized it from Zheng Zhaoling’s second pressure on the Yunze God and the divine decree that followed.

He had already met with Zheng Zhaoling.

And had reached some kind of tacit understanding with her.

His senior sister’s special visit was probably also to inquire about Zheng Zhaoling’s situation.

Not telling Lu Lingyi directly was probably also to prevent her from deducing his master’s involvement from this matter.

Cui Hao looked at the message and felt quite a headache. Then he helplessly took out the token Zheng Zhaoling had given him.

This kind of troublesome matter... he really didn’t want to handle it, and he might not handle it properly either.

For difficult matters, let others handle them. Let Zheng Zhaoling do it instead.

It was just... what excuse should he use?

While thinking, Cui Hao didn’t hesitate for even a moment and activated the token.

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