Mingde Collects Debt, Daoyi Opens Hearts with Him [Please Subscribe]

Chapter 82 Mingde Collects Debt, Daoyi Opens Hearts with Him [Please Subscribe]

The mountain gate of Spirit Beast Manor is located within Black Soil Ridge, where the Three Absolutes Sect originally planned to take root.

Black Soil Ridge was originally a desolate and treacherous place within Lanzhou, teeming with monsters and poisonous insects.

The reason why the Three Absolutes Sect chose this place as the location of its mountain gate after relocation was because it knew that this place was unclaimed and that as long as the demonic beasts and poisonous insects were cleared out, it would be a good place for cultivation.

Later, the Three Absolutes Sect split into four, with the Zhou family of spirit beasts and the Li family of elixirs both finding new places to establish their own sects.

Only the Spirit Beast Manor and the Formation You Family each occupied the spirit mountains on the east and west sides of Black Soil Ridge, and established their mountain gates there.

Among the four forces, Spirit Beast Manor is considered the strongest because it absorbed most of the original disciples from the Three Absolutes Sect.

Now, in addition to Yu Jinghua, there is not only a Golden Core cultivator, but also four Purple Mansion cultivators and dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After arriving at the Spirit Beast Manor in a fit of rage, Zhou Mingde soon met with Yu Jinghua, the Supreme Elder of the Spirit Beast Manor.

Although Yu Jinghua, a Golden Core cultivator, had lived for over seven hundred years, he looked about the same age as Zhou Mingde, or even younger, with very little white hair.

Upon seeing Zhou Mingde's furious expression, Yu Jinghua was slightly taken aback, then asked, "Wende, why are you rushing over here in such a huff? Who has angered you this time?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde took a deep breath, suppressing his raging anger, and said in a deep voice, "I have now changed my name to Zhou Mingde. Senior Yu, please continue to call me Mingde!"

After saying that, he didn't give Yu Jinghua, a Golden Core cultivator, much face, and said angrily, "As for who angered me, Senior Yu, you can find out now by calling that vile woman Xiao Lingyan over to confront me!"

Strangely, Yu Jinghua, a dignified Golden Core cultivator, didn't seem to mind his rather rude tone at all, as if he was already used to it.

He merely frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "Did Lingyan offend you? That can't be, Lingyan has been cultivating within the sect lately, how could she have offended you?"

"Not only Xiao Lingyan, but also your dear junior, Yu Deguang, Senior Yu!"

Zhou Mingde stared at Yu Jinghua with a gloomy expression, then uttered a name that made Yu Jinghua's face change.

"Even De Guang is involved?"

He muttered something under his breath, his brow furrowed.

He quickly nodded and said, "Alright, I'll have them come over here to confront you!"

Then he sent a message to Xiao Lingyan and Yu Deguang to come see him.

But to his surprise, after learning that Zhou Mingde had come to the Spirit Beast Manor in a menacing manner, Xiao Lingyan and Yu Deguang knew something was wrong and left the gate of the Spirit Beast Manor first.

At this point, he had no way to bring the people over for a confrontation.

This made Yu Jinghua realize that the two of them might have secretly done something against the Zhou family behind his back.

He was quite annoyed at that moment.

Although Yu Jinghua has now established his own Spirit Beast Manor, he did protect the Zhou family for many years and is not entirely without affection for them.

It could even be said that if the Three Absolutes Sect had not been forcibly dismantled by the Green Lotus Temple, he would still have been the Zhou family's backer within the Three Absolutes Sect, continuing to protect the Zhou family.

His original intention was to establish the Spirit Beast Manor with the Zhou family as the main focus.

However, Zhou Mingde and other direct descendants of the Zhou family did not want to use the Zhou family's resources to support so many non-family cultivators.

Other non-Zhou family cultivators also did not want the Zhou family's direct descendants, who constituted only a small number of people, to control most of the new sect's resources, so that they and others would continue to serve the Zhou family!

In addition to other factors, the direct descendants of the Zhou family eventually left on their own, forming their own lineage and completely severing ties with the Spirit Beast Manor.

At that time, Yu Jinghua, for the benefit of the new sect and in order to secure his position as the founder of the Spirit Beast Manor, forcibly used his prestige and cultivation to retain most of the resources that originally belonged to the Zhou family.

This has always made him feel guilty towards the Zhou family, so after the establishment of the Spirit Beast Manor, he strictly forbade the sect's cultivators from becoming enemies with the Zhou family or harming Zhou family cultivators.

Of course, his own guilt was one thing, but the real reason he was so tolerant of Zhou Mingde was another secret known only to a very few people.

In short, Yu Jinghua was extremely angry when he learned that his disciples dared to disregard his orders and provoke the Zhou family.

He was the founding patriarch of the Spirit Beast Manor. To dare to disregard and disobey the orders of the founding patriarch is, to put it bluntly, a betrayal of one's master and a disgrace to one's ancestors!

However, despite his anger, he couldn't show it on his face.

He simply looked at Zhou Mingde and said in a deep voice, "They are not inside the mountain gate right now. What exactly happened, Mingde? Tell me directly, and I will handle it impartially!"

"Then I'll see how you handle this impartially, Senior Yu!"

Zhou Mingde could no longer contain his anger and immediately recounted in detail how Xiao Lingyan and Yu Deguang had seduced Zhou Zhengkang into betraying the Zhou family. He even did not hide the fact that Xiao Lingyan had taken Zhou Zhengkang's virginity.

As he listened to his story, Yu Jinghua's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and anger appeared between his brows.

Yu Jinghua had naturally heard of Zhou Zhengkang, the young genius of the Zhou family.

If Xiao Lingyan and the others could lure this Zhou family genius to the Spirit Beast Manor and nurture him diligently, he might actually turn a blind eye and not pursue the matter.

However, it is now said that Zhou Zhengkang was treated like a male concubine by Xiao Lingyan, which directly caused the Zhou family to lose a cultivator of the "family" generation, and also forced Zhou Mingde to personally execute his most beloved junior.

Yu Jinghua couldn't help but get angry!

"How dare they! They have such audacity!!"

Yu Jinghua roared angrily, his face full of rage.

His anger was seven parts genuine and three parts feigned; it was not an act or a pretense.

He immediately told Zhou Mingde, "I understand about this matter. Once they return, they will be severely punished without any leniency!"

"Senior Yu, don't try to fool me with that. What's wrong with severely punishing them? One of them is a Purple Mansion stage cultivator, and the other is your junior. Can you kill them or cripple their cultivation?"

"If these two points cannot be achieved, what is the point of so-called severe punishment?"

Zhou Mingde looked at Yu Jinghua with a sneer and shook his head repeatedly. His words made Yu Jinghua's eyelids twitch and his face turn very ugly.

In the end, Zhou Mingde shouted angrily, "At most, they'll be confined to seclusion by you, Senior Yu, for ten or twenty years, but I've lost my beloved grandson!"

"So what do you want to do? How do you want me to compensate you?"

Yu Jinghua stared at Zhou Mingde with furrowed brows and asked, already realizing Zhou Mingde's purpose for coming today.

Clearly, since Zhou Mingde knew perfectly well that he couldn't possibly kill or cripple Xiao Lingyan and the other person, his angry arrival to demand an explanation could only be motivated by a desire for personal gain.

Zhou Mingde didn't mince words and immediately offered his terms: "Half of the Jade Spirit Bee and a Green Condensation Tea Tree—only then can I quell my anger!"

"That's impossible!"

Yu Jinghua rejected his offer without hesitation.

He could understand that Zhou Mingde wanted to use this matter to ask for some benefits, and he was willing to give some benefits to let the matter drop.

But that absolutely does not include situations involving massive bleeding!

He immediately looked at Zhou Mingde and said in a deep voice, "I understand the grief in your heart, Mingde, and I am willing to offer some compensation, but please be careful what you say."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde immediately changed his mind and said, "Then half of the [Jade Spirit Bee] is a must!"

After hearing his words, Yu Jinghua also pondered for a moment.

After pondering for a long time, he looked at Zhou Mingde and said, "One hundred Jade Spirit Bees, including one queen bee, is the greatest compensation I can offer!"

"If that's all there is to it, then we must add a Qingning tea tree!"

Zhou Mingde's eyebrows twitched, and he began to negotiate, offering new terms.

"That's settled then!"

Yu Jinghua frowned, but finally nodded slightly in agreement.

He immediately took Zhou Mingde to retrieve the relevant documents.

After Zhou Mingde left with his belongings, Yu Jinghua, his face ashen, summoned all the Purple Mansion cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators within the mountain gate and gave them a stern lecture.

Through this incident, he realized that although he was a Golden Core cultivator, his ability to intimidate and control the cultivators below him was not as strong as he had imagined.

To put it bluntly, it's because the Spirit Beast Manor was set up in a very rushed manner.

Most of the Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion cultivators in these sects had little to do with Yu Jinghua before, and many of them even belonged to the Li family or You family factions.

In this situation, if he doesn't take concrete action, then it's inevitable that he will outwardly comply but inwardly defy him.

He had long been aware of these issues, which was why he initially wanted the Zhou family to remain at the Spirit Beast Manor so that he could supervise and control them through the Zhou family cultivators.

Unfortunately, the Zhou family was unwilling to serve him, a man who had already betrayed them, and was unwilling to sacrifice the interests of the entire family to benefit him alone. They abandoned him on their own initiative.

Now, if he wants to make up for this, he can only do so by supporting and cultivating his own trusted confidants to rise to power.

But does he really have that ability?

Leaving aside how hard Yu Jinghua worked to solidify his position as the founder of his school.

After Zhou Mingde returned to the Zhou family with the items, he discussed the follow-up with Zhou Daoyi.

"Although there are fewer of these Jade Spirit Bees, with the queen bee present, they will eventually grow stronger if we nurture them carefully."

"It's a pity that Yu Jinghua still played a trick on me. He only gave me this one sapling of the Qingning Tea Tree. It will probably be decades before it grows up and produces spiritual tea in large quantities!"

Zhou Mingde was also somewhat annoyed and angry when he got to this point.

On the contrary, Zhou Daoyi remained calm after hearing his words and did not feel any regret or pity.

He simply shook his head slightly and said, "It's already quite good that Yu Jinghua has to spit out these things. After all, the things left by our ancestors only have so much of a restraint on him. If he's really determined not to give us anything, are we really going to risk the lives of our entire clan and perish with him over this?"

Zhou Mingde knew this too, but the thought that those things originally belonged to the Zhou family filled him with resentment, and he sighed deeply, "Alas! I only hope that the younger generation of the Zhou family will be more ambitious and able to reclaim what our Zhou family has lost!"

"If I can accomplish this in my lifetime, I will die without regrets!"

After the two discussed who should take care of the Jade Spirit Bee and the Green Tea Tree, Zhou Mingde suddenly seemed to remember something.

Suddenly, he looked at Zhou Daoyi and asked, "That traitorous beast Zhengkang has now been executed. Who do you plan to give him the Foundation Establishment Pill that was originally intended for him?"

"I haven't decided yet, Grand Uncle. Do you have any suggestions?"

Zhou Daoyi looked at Zhou Mingde and asked a question in return, without revealing his attitude.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde didn't mince words and immediately said, "I suggest giving it to Jiacheng. He achieved excellent results in the martial arts competition jointly organized by the five major cultivation families, and he is also the grandson of Elder Daofu, who sacrificed himself for his family. He deserves to receive a Foundation Establishment Pill!"

"Then let's give it to Jiacheng. I have no objection!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded and readily agreed.

Seeing that he agreed, Zhou Mingde's expression relaxed, and he immediately said, "Then let's do it that way. I will be going into seclusion for a while. I'll leave the aftermath to you, Daoyi."

"Uncle, rest assured, I will handle the aftermath properly."

Zhou Daoyi responded and then escorted Zhou Mingde out of the main hall.

After Zhou Mingde left, he gave the blue parrot "Lanlan" the order to find Zhou Chun.

"That's the gist of it. Now that Zheng Kang has been executed, this matter is over. You must continue to keep this a secret and not reveal the truth, understand?"

Inside the Zhongping Hall, Zhou Daoyi told Zhou Chun everything without any concealment, recounting how he discovered and executed Zhou Zhengkang, and instructing him to keep it a secret.

After hearing what he said, Zhou Chun was shocked by the ruthless and decisive methods of Elder Zhou Mingde.

A junior whom he had cherished and nurtured for decades, to whom he had devoted countless efforts, could be executed so easily.

This ruthlessness and decisiveness is something that not everyone can do.

While inwardly marveling at the situation, he quickly assured his elders, "Rest assured, clan leader, I understand the implications and will not divulge a single word!"

"It's a pity your cultivation level is still a bit lacking, otherwise, I would have definitely tried to get you that Foundation Establishment Pill that Zheng Kang had set aside this time!"

Looking at the young junior he was growing to like more and more, Zhou Daoyi couldn't help but sigh softly, lamenting that he was born at the wrong time.

Then his gaze sharpened slightly, and he looked at Zhou Chun with a serious expression, saying, "But don't be discouraged. Once your cultivation reaches the twelfth level of the Qi Refining stage, I will do my best to support you in establishing your foundation."

This was the first time he had so clearly stated that he would support Zhou Chun.

With these words from him, Zhou Chun's path to Foundation Establishment will undoubtedly be much smoother.

Therefore, even with Zhou Chun's temperament, he was deeply moved at this moment and hurriedly bowed deeply to Zhou Daoyi, saying, "I am deeply grateful for the clan leader's kindness. Please accept my bow!"

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