My Lady Always Lacks Ambition-Chapter 945 - 924: Old Man, Wait for Me

On her trip to the capital, with a large sum of money, Qin Liuxi bid farewell to the Qin family and Feng Xiu, and left quietly. By the time Lin Xiang came looking for her, she was long gone.

Lin Xiang: At least give my son some guidance before you leave!

Mu Xi: The heartless little god stick is gone again!

The gloomy Young Master, Ming Hui, thought secretly, "I haven’t been to that little place, Li City."

The same thing happened with the Second Prince, Qi Yuntai. Surprisingly, the person whom Bo Yin considered a talented expert turned out to be a female crown, and from the previously exonerated Qin family.

This female crown, her connections truly make people envious.

Without a crown prince yet established, the princes competed with each other. Though Qi Yuntai acted secretly, the other princes still discovered what he was investigating and all turned their focus on Qin Liuxi and the Qin family behind her.

As a result, Qin Yuanshan, the Junior Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who had been demoted one rank after the exoneration, suddenly found that he had become more popular. Every morning at court, people greeted him enthusiastically, and invitations increased.

Rather than being overjoyed, Qin Yuanshan trembled with caution and kept an even lower profile.

He feared getting involved too deeply and having no one to support him, which would mean losing both the firm and the army.

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On the small dragon vein.

Master Chi Yuan was deducing the divination he had calculated using the Da Yan Divination Technique, but the deeper he pushed, the harder it became to advance, and his face gradually paled.

Like seeing flowers in the mist, what seems to be is not.

Master Chi Yuan clutched his chest, furrowed his brow, and only stopped when his eyes stung, blurring the divination.

Just two steps away, he still couldn’t deduce it, but the divination was ominous.

A cup of tea was handed over.

Master Chi Yuan turned and looked at Sha Yuanzi. Seeing his clear eyes, he swept his head and said, "Go back to Qingping Temple."

Sha Yuanzi shook his head with a tilted neck.

Master Chi Yuan was about to say something when the void twisted, and he looked up to see the rebellious disciple appear.

Seeing that she gained more merit, Master Chi Yuan smiled with his eyes.

"What are you doing here?" Qin Liuxi walked over with a bundle, seeing Sha Yuanzi jump in front of her, she took out a sugar figurine wrapped in oil paper from her waist and handed it over disdainfully saying, "Go lick it over there."

Sha Yuanzi accepted it with a full smile, thinking his junior brother was really nice.

Master Chi Yuan was speechless: "Look how you’re talking, he’s not a dog."

Qin Liuxi snorted coldly: "You’re flattering him, he’s not as good as a dog! So much sin committed."

Showing him face was her kindness.

Master Chi Yuan couldn’t be bothered to argue with her, saying, "Where have you been? You’ve been gone for almost two months."

"I went to Heavenly Mountain and destroyed the Buddha Bone there."

Master Chi Yuan frowned: "Destroyed?"

"Yes, Si Luo will never gather his rebellious bones again." Qin Liuxi was triumphant, with eyes full of extreme disgust.

Master Chi Yuan said, "It’s good that it’s gone too. Missing a bone, he’ll be less powerful. But don’t be fixated on destroying his Buddha Bone. True strength lies in being invincible in yourself, did you go into seclusion before?"

"I went into seclusion for a month in Heavenly Mountain."

Master Chi Yuan was quite pleased: "Also, don’t forget to do good and accumulate merit."

Qin Liuxi threw the bundle onto the stone table in front of him with great vigor and said, "Do you know how much incense oil and silver this is? It’s as much as five hundred thousand taels."

Master Chi Yuan’s eyes sparkled: "My disciple has brought honor to our Qingping Temple."

Even if a large part is used for almsgiving and doing good, there’s still plenty to renovate the temple, build a golden roof, and burn the thickest incense, the Grandmaster would be grinning!

"It’s just that the matters I encountered were somewhat annoying." Qin Liuxi spoke of the issues with the Great General’s family.

Master Chi Yuan sighed, "Everything is a calamity. The noble families, for the sake of family interest, the underhanded dealings, the overt power schemes, they’re countless, and they fight incessantly for this, it’s all worldly affairs."

Qin Liuxi drew the lines of the Eight Diagram, deeply agreeing.

"We people of the Mystic Sect, dabble in mystical magic, exterminate evil, and defend the Dao is our duty. But we must not use magic on innocent ordinary people, nor use magic for personal gain or engage in evil cultivation which would lose the Dao Heart." Master Chi Yuan looked at her, "Taoists do not speak of worldly affairs, but with matters of the mundane world, by firm belief and steadfast in your Dao Heart, can you move forward unwaveringly on the Righteous Path."

Qin Liuxi gave him a strange look, "Lecturing now, unusually - a demon."

Master Chi Yuan stood up and said, "Since you gained something in seclusion, let me test you?"

Qin Liuxi raised an eyebrow, "Hehe, aren’t you afraid I’ll as the rising wave to crush you, the old crest, fine, let’s fight, exhaust me so I can go into seclusion, I’ll refine an elixir for you when I get back."

Master Chi Yuan looked at her like you would at a spoiled child.

To avoid damaging the Spirit Gathering Array, the mentor and disciple shifted their terrain, went to a nearby mountain, and engaged in a fierce magical duel, scaring away the wandering ghosts in the area howling away.

Immortals fighting, little ghosts suffer, they can’t withstand this!

This magical duel lasted a whole day until the sun was about to set, Master Chi Yuan collapsed tiredly on the grass, "I’m getting old as a teacher."

Qin Liuxi walked over, stuffed an elixir in his mouth and said, "Just admit you’re old, so you obediently go into seclusion here for cultivation, and in future magical duels leave it to me, you as the teacher just be proud!"

Master Chi Yuan laughed: "Good."

Qin Liuxi squatted before him, "Get on, seeing you’re exhausted too, I’ll carry you back."

"Oh, the unfilial disciple has a filial day after all."

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up."

Master Chi Yuan got up, looked at her thin yet strong back, smiled slightly, and laid on it, "I, the old Taoist, get to enjoy the blessings."

Qin Liuxi clasped his leg hollows with her hands, "Hold tight, if you fall, no compensation."

Master Chi Yuan, holding her neck, looked down at the young girl’s straight back, watching ahead, as they walked step by step back to the house, then said, "Heavy or not? Your spine and back should always stay this straight."

"Just with your lightweight, could you bend my back? No one can!"

Master Chi Yuan, smiling, began recounting her embarrassing childhood incidents, their chatter as they walked back.

The sunset hues fell upon them, casting long warm and beautiful shadows.

After sending Master Chi Yuan back to the hut, Qin Liuxi again administered acupuncture, left some elixirs, and said, "You just focus on cultivation, I’ll bring the Foundation Establishment Pill once I refine it."

"Alright." Master Chi Yuan said, "I’m also considering going into deep seclusion, you take Sha Yuanzi back to the temple, otherwise who would he speak to."

"Leave him here as a protector for you then, keeping him around is not just for loafing." Qin Liuxi gave a contemptuous glance at the silly Sha Yuanzi.

Master Chi Yuan was helpless.

Qin Liuxi explained all trivial matters, shouldered the bundle, and said, "Then I’m leaving."

Master Chi Yuan smiled and waved: "Go."

Only then did Qin Liuxi cast a spell, opening the Yin Road, and entered. Looking back at him standing there, his robe and horsetail whisk blown by the wind, looking the very picture of an immortal ready to soar with the wind, her heart stirred, and she shouted as the Yin Road gate closed, "Old man, wait for me!"

Master Chi Yuan never replied.