Sect Recruitment: I Can See Attribute Entries

Chapter 680: Chapter 681: A Good Person, Cui Hao

”Kind soul, you’ve finally come!”

At the entrance of the god shrine, Cui Hao warmly welcomed Zheng Zhaoling, who had rushed over in a hurry.

”Is there some kind of emergency?” Zheng Zhaoling swept her divine sense across the surroundings but found nothing unusual, so her gaze returned to Cui Hao as she emphasized, ”My time is not exactly plentiful.”

She had indeed been under considerable pressure lately—the Yunze God’s dissatisfaction was practically showing on the surface.

Especially amid the earth-shaking changes sweeping through Yunmeng Marsh.

Zheng Zhaoling’s advantage lay in her ironclad status. Even under pressure, the Yunze God had held back from making any extra moves, seemingly planning to coax this powerful figure away before deciding on next steps.

Cui Hao nodded repeatedly. He naturally understood that Zheng Zhaoling had probably been extremely busy lately.

After all, the fact that Zheng Zhaoling had pressured the Yunze God was real. Besides the Yunze God feeling the pressure, Zheng Zhaoling herself had to bear plenty of it too.

Although Zheng Zhaoling had never personally confirmed her identity, anyone who still couldn’t recognize who stood before them at this point would simply be too stupid.

”There is indeed something I need your help with, fellow daoist.” Cui Hao immediately spoke up. ”Are you aware that the demons of Yunmeng Marsh have been trading with outside evil cultivators?”

Zheng Zhaoling’s gaze fixed at these words. After a moment of silence, she gave a slight nod.

The elder operating within Yunmeng Marsh had naturally already briefed her on the details.

Although the wish-power path was a common cultivation method for ordinary demons within Yunmeng Marsh, the truly top-tier demons of the marsh did not cultivate it.

For example, the current nominal apex of Yunmeng Marsh—the great demon known as the Yunze God—was exactly like this.

Yunmeng Pavilion provided a fixed monthly subsidy of spirit stones to Yunmeng Marsh, but relying solely on spirit stones to supply the entire marsh was unrealistic.

This batch of spirit stones would naturally be completely divided among the high-tier demons and would not flow outward—even if they couldn’t use it all, they had to save some for the future.

Compared to turbid wish-power, spirit stones providing spiritual energy were naturally far superior.

Ordinary sects would not dare to trade with the demons of Yunmeng Marsh under Yunmeng Pavilion’s pressure.

After all, within Yunmeng Marsh, the only things worth taking were wish-power and those mortals.

Since the spirit stones supplied by Yunmeng Pavilion were completely divided among the high-tier demons, the lower-tier demons would naturally find ways to get some spirit stones too.

And in making such trades, the demons certainly couldn’t be the ones getting manipulated.

Compared to sects, evil cultivators were naturally far more secretive.

After all, even if an evil cultivator betrayed them, it was easier to handle than a sect turning hostile.

Once you became an evil cultivator, it was equivalent to tacitly losing all voice and human rights.

Zheng Zhaoling naturally understood all of this, but she also understood that these matters could only be reduced, not eliminated.

Even if they didn’t kidnap their own incense followers, they would kidnap someone else’s.

They couldn’t possibly flatten every demon in all of Yunmeng Marsh.

What’s more, there were still humans selling humans—weren’t the ones trading with Yunmeng Marsh demons precisely human evil cultivators?

The Yunze God was certainly aware of this too, but chose to turn a blind eye.

If this path were truly cut off, Yunmeng Marsh would inevitably descend into complete chaos.

The Yunze God could tolerate the current pressure, but it absolutely could not accept a Yunmeng Marsh that was thoroughly chaotic and lawless.

Because it would inevitably be the first target in such a chaotic, lawless Yunmeng Marsh.

For some things, besides pretending not to see them and applying minor corrective measures, there really was no better solution.

Zheng Zhaoling had no desire to speak with excessive naivety, especially when the Cui Hao before her was exceptionally smart.

Her tone carried some helplessness as she said, ”I know about it, but these matters can’t be brought out into the open, and there isn’t much more I can do.”

”If you want me to deal with those evil cultivators, there isn’t much I can do either.”

”I naturally understand the difficulties you face.” Cui Hao’s expression was sincere. ”I’m not asking you to eradicate evil cultivators. After all, you’ve already done a lot for me, and I should do my part too.”

Hearing this, Zheng Zhaoling sighed lightly and then gestured for Cui Hao to continue.

Cui Hao went on, ”There are things you can and can’t do. The evil cultivator matter is one of them. If you handle it versus if I handle it, the implications behind each are entirely different.”

”I’ll deal with the evil cultivators myself. I only hope you can buy me some time to handle them—keep them from fleeing beyond Yunmeng Marsh’s borders.”

”I understand this kind of thing can’t be completely stopped, but let’s close the door and beat the dog first, so they don’t disrupt the plans between you and me.”

”If other outside forces get involved, everything could fall apart.”

Listening to this, Zheng Zhaoling felt that besides being intelligent, Cui Hao could also think on behalf of others and hadn’t simply dumped the problem on her.

Cui Hao had clearly received intelligence that outside evil cultivators were preparing to intervene in Yunmeng Marsh.

Thinking about it that way, Cui Hao’s investment was probably no less than her own.

Her mood improved considerably, and she spoke up:

”I should have a way to temporarily seal off Yunmeng Marsh. The key question is—how do you plan to handle this?”

”Evil cultivators have no humanity, and infighting among them is normal.” Cui Hao set the tone first, addressing what Zheng Zhaoling might have worried about, before continuing,

”I can’t handle this alone, so I’ve invited a few like-minded friends to help.”

As he spoke, Cui Hao took out a jade token and extended it toward Zheng Zhaoling:

”Inside is the intelligence my friends have gathered on the evil cultivators, along with the measures we’re preparing to set up. You can take a look.”

Zheng Zhaoling looked at Cui Hao for a moment before finally nodding in agreement—but she did not reach out to take the jade token.

She said, ”Understood. I won’t look at the plan.”

Rather than reading a plan and appearing distrustful, it was more practical to just see how Cui Hao actually carried things out.

What was written and what would actually be done had nothing to do with each other.

”Anything else?” Zheng Zhaoling asked.

Cui Hao shook his head.

Zheng Zhaoling nodded lightly and then turned to leave.

This was a place she naturally wanted to visit as little as possible. If her presence were detected, it would be troublesome.

”By the way, if your pressure gets too great, I have a suggestion.” Cui Hao suddenly called out, stopping Zheng Zhaoling.

Zheng Zhaoling glanced back over her shoulder.

Cui Hao said, ”You probably already understand this principle, but I’ll remind you anyway—the best way to deal with unreasonable people isn’t to understand their difficulties and carry the burden yourself.”

”It’s to throw your own difficulties out there first. If your own problems aren’t resolved, who has the time to listen to theirs?”

”If we don’t carry the burden, then the burden becomes theirs.”

Listening to Cui Hao’s words, Zheng Zhaoling looked at him slowly and said:

”That doesn’t sound like something you’d say.”

Cui Hao lowered his eyes slightly and sighed with a hint of loneliness:

”If I could, I wouldn’t want to understand this principle either.”

Seeing Cui Hao’s lonely expression, Zheng Zhaoling seemed to suddenly understand something.

She opened her mouth to speak but didn’t know what to say, and finally could only say:

”Thank you, fellow daoist. I’ll remember it.”

With that, she turned and left.

Zheng Zhaoling sighed in her heart.

Sure enough, good people were easy to bully. Cui Hao had probably had his kindness taken for granted before too.

What a pity for a good person like Cui Hao.

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