Martial Cultivator

That Senior Sister Liang did not need to raise her head to look at the paper lantern above to know who was drawn on it, this woman from Pinecreek Mountain who had already been confirmed as the next mountain lord said with a smile, “Since there are traces of Daoism everywhere here, and it is the Kuchai Festival, who this person is, does it even need to be said?”c

The woman who had asked the question was also quick-witted, she raised her brows and smiled, “Then it must definitely be the Dao Ancestor.”

As a result, Senior Sister Liang shook her head and said with a smile, “It is that great daoist sage who established Danxiao Commandery.”

The woman was stunned, then immediately gave her senior sister a look, “Senior Sister has started being mischievous again.”

The other women smiled knowingly when they heard this, among them, some were that Senior Sister Liang’s senior sisters, while some were junior sisters.

Since this Senior Sister Liang was the confirmed next mountain lord of Pinecreek Mountain, her status in the mountain should be quite high, to be able to speak to her in such a tone, either she had an extremely good relationship with her, or this woman simply had no airs.

But judging from the other girls, it was probably the latter.

Senior Sister Liang reached out and pointed at that woman’s forehead, teasingly saying, “Yefu, you are quite clever, but when you encounter matters, you need to think more about whether you are clever enough, with you like this, perhaps you will suffer a great loss in the future.”

The woman named Yefu was surnamed Liu, she had only come up the mountain not long ago, but her talent was extremely high, and she was praised as the best sapling of Pinecreek Mountain in the past hundred years, even if it were not because the Mountain Lord had already determined the position of the next mountain lord, many people suspected that she would be the next mountain lord.

However, even so, many Pinecreek Mountain disciples also believed that Liang Jinjin, who had already been determined as the next Mountain Lord, might take the initiative to pass the position to this junior sister of hers after a few more years.

It was just hard to say how the mountain would think when the time comes.

“With Senior Sister teaching me, I’ll learn slowly.”

Liu Yefu stuck out her tongue, changing the subject, she said, “They all say that if there is still one place in the Great Liang Dynasty that is not under Great Liang’s jurisdiction, it should be this place, but why does it look like they are happier about winning a battle in the north than about the Kuchai Festival?”

Liang Jinjin was stunned, actually, when entering the city, she had also noticed this point, in previous years the Kuchai Festival only had the matter of watching paper lanterns, but this year paper boats had newly been added, releasing paper boats from upstream on that river running through Danxiao City from top to bottom, letting them slowly flow out of the commandery city. This kind of custom had always been used by the common people of Great Liang to pray for people traveling far away to return safely, and for all matters to be peaceful.

When they had passed by the upstream earlier, they could even see those common people asking some gentlemen who wrote letters on behalf of others to write words such as Great Liang must win, the Northern Frontier Great Wall will not fall, and so on, on the paper boats.

Afterward, walking all the way here, they could even see that when these common people were strolling through the lantern festival, they all seemed to be somewhat going through the motions, most people were holding paper boats in their hands, hurriedly heading toward the riverbank.

This kind of change was actually difficult to discover without paying attention, but after discovering it, Liang Jinjin also seemed somewhat unable to explain it.

After being silent for a moment, Liang Jinjin casually said, “Perhaps it just happened to coincide.”

Liu Yefu muttered to herself, “How could it just happen to coincide, could it be that these common people who are called the Daoism’s most devout believers have already begun to become not very devout?”

Liang Jinjin had just wanted to tell Liu Yefu to be cautious with her words, when she saw a familiar figure appear not far ahead.

A young man, alone, dressed in a blue robe. Looking quite refined in bearing, he could be described with the words handsome as jade.

It was just that several of the women were almost completely unmoved. The reason was simple, they were not ordinary cultivators, Pinecreek Mountain was one of the qi refiner sects of the northern lands. Compared with ordinary cultivators, qi refiners naturally would all see everything in this world more lightly.

Moreover, although this young man was still considered pretty good, compared with that young temple master of Infatuation Daoist Temple, he was still far too lacking.

One had to know that now, that young temple master of Infatuation Daoist Temple had always had the saying of being an exiled immortal in the cultivation world.

“Jinjin, if you said earlier that you wanted to come see the lantern festival, wouldn’t I have come with you? Luoshui Mountain has been in this Danxiao Commandery for so many years, how could it not count as half a host? The hospitality of a host should still be given when it should be given.”

The young man walked toward several people, his face full of smiles.

Liang Jinjin’s expression did not change, her face still had little expression, she only said lightly, “Young Mountain Lord Gu.”

This young man was named Gu Shaofeng, and was the young mountain lord of Luoshui Mountain, while Liang Jinjin had come to Qingshan Prefecture this time precisely to negotiate a business deal with Luoshui Mountain, but at their first meeting, the two sides had not reached a consensus, instead this Gu Shaofeng had become very interested in Liang Jinjin, intentionally or unintentionally hinting to the Pinecreek Mountain side that if Liang Jinjin was willing to become his Dao companion, then this business deal would definitely be concluded.

If it were someone else, that Mountain Lord of Pinecreek Mountain probably would have nodded, but with Liang Jinjin involved, that Mountain Lord truly had not expressed any position on this.

Actually, all the disciples of Pinecreek Mountain knew one matter, which was that the reason Liang Jinjin had been determined to be the next mountain lord was because of her relationship with that young Lord Warden Commander.

Quite a few years ago, during a trip to the Northern Frontier, the two had encountered each other and could be considered acquainted, originally Liang Jinjin had hidden it very well, but as the reputation of that young Lord Warden Commander had grown greater and greater over these years, some things naturally could no longer be concealed.

If it were in the past, Pinecreek Mountain naturally would have been completely indifferent toward the people and things of the Great Liang Dynasty, and might even have looked down on them with disdain, but now, especially after that young Lord Warden Commander directly crushed the backbone of the southern qi refiners with one foot, these qi refiners in the north no longer dared to think this way.

Since these two had such a relationship, then regarding Liang Jinjin, whether it was the mountain lord or anyone else, they would not pretend not to know.

However, after so many years had passed, that young Lord Warden Commander still had not personally made a trip to Pinecreek Mountain, which also made quite a few people understand some things.

Perhaps some things that certain people regarded as extremely important were also not worth mentioning in the eyes of some people, and simply would not be taken to heart.

Someone regarded it as a priceless treasure, someone regarded it as straw.

Gu Shaofeng looked at Liang Jinjin and smiled, “Jinjin, don’t always keep a straight face, you were born so pretty, if you don’t smile more, you won’t look nice.”

Liang Jinjin shook her head and said, “There is no need for Young Mountain Lord Gu to worry about it.”

Gu Shaofeng, who had repeatedly met with setbacks in front of this woman, became somewhat sullen. Just as he was about to speak, Liu Yefu beside him directly said, “Fellow Daoist Gu, my senior sister has no interest in you, why do you keep doing this here? There are plenty of pretty girls in this world, why keep clinging to my senior sister and refusing to let go?”

Liu Yefu was usually quite favored on the mountain because of her talent, and along with that, her personality was also somewhat direct, so at this moment when she spoke, naturally she did not take so many things into consideration.

Liang Jinjin actually liked this junior sister of hers, also because she could probably see her former self in her.

A long time ago, was she not also such a woman?

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