The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 212 The unreliable master

In the Soul Lantern Hall of the Yu Lei Sect, Xie Feng came back in a depressed mood. Seeing Pan Chengfeng and the others still there, he immediately put on a smiling face and said, "My nephews are still here~ It's just right. I have something to discuss with you. Little Wood, you go back first." Mou Xuyou said, "I have to send you back later..." Xie Feng suddenly scolded, "Just get out if I tell you to! Why are you talking so much nonsense! Go find your master!" Mou Xuyou then ran away in a hurry, shouting, "Junior brother, I'll wait for you at the master's place." Seeing that Little Wood had left, Xie Feng changed his face and put on another face, smiling, "Your name is Pan Chengfeng, right?" Seeing Xie Feng's lecherous look, Pan Chengfeng suddenly tightened his asshole and said, "What does Uncle Xie want to do? I have a bottom line!"

When Mou Xuyou returned to his master's cave, he saw his master had also returned. He hurried forward and said, "Master, Uncle Xie just now..." Qiu Xiaotian was furious when he heard the surname Xie, and said, "Get lost! Don't bother me anymore!" He waved his hand like he was chasing away a fly and said, "Don't mention the surname Xie in front of me anymore!" After that, he went straight into the cave, leaving Mou Xuyou standing there at a loss. Mou Xuyou murmured, "What's going on? Why am I disliked wherever I go?" Finally, he shook his head and flew away towards the outer door.

Pan Chengfeng wiped the sweat off his forehead and thought to himself, "I'm so scared. I thought it was something else. It turns out he wants to take me in as his apprentice. How come I'm so popular?" Pan Chengfeng bowed and said, "Uncle Master, I've already kowtowed to you. Isn't it a good idea to change my school?" Xie Feng said, "As long as you nod, I'll go and tell Qiu Xiaotian that the old man is not fit to be a master. You won't learn anything from him in the end." Pan Chengfeng hesitated and said, "This is not good. Once a master, you are a father for life. Besides..." Xie Feng interrupted, "Don't mention it. It's okay if I say so. If Qiu Xiaotian dares to cause trouble, I'll just take care of him!"

Pan Chengfeng said, "Uncle Master, I'm here to make a soul lamp. Can we talk about this later?" Xie Feng thought about it and wondered if he was being too hasty, so he said, "Okay, think about it. Everyone in the Yu Lei Sect knows about the old man's character. You'll know if you ask around. I'll make a soul lamp for you first. Stand still and relax."

Pan Chengfeng did as he was told. Xie Feng made a move instantly and tapped Pan Chengfeng's forehead. Pan Chengfeng felt as if he was pricked by a needle. Then he saw a little white light appear on the finger of Uncle Xie Feng. Xie Feng said, "I have taken one thousandth of your soul and deposited it in this lamp. The flame of this lamp will change with your vitality. The stronger your vitality is, the more vigorous it will be. As your vitality is lost, its flame will be smaller. Until it goes out, it means you are dead." Pan Chengfeng's pupils shrank. Looking at this soul lamp that was no different from an ordinary oil lamp, he asked, "Then it won't have any impact if I lose one thousandth of my soul, right?" Xie Feng smiled and said, "It won't have any impact. After all, it's only one thousandth. If someone threatens you with this lamp and breaks it, at most you will feel like someone hit you on the back of your head and you will be fine after a while." After listening to Uncle Xie's explanation, Pan Chengfeng bowed his hands with relief and said, "Thank you for clearing up my doubts, Uncle. I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave first."

Pan Chengfeng returned to Qiu Xiaotian's cave, but didn't see Mou Xuyou, so he went straight into Qiu Xiaotian's cave. Seeing Qiu Xiaotian drinking and eating meat, Pan Chengfeng didn't hesitate to sit down opposite Qiu Xiaotian, picked up the braised beef and said, "Ah~ I think this meat is not one or two days old, Master, can you tell me the recipe?" Qiu Xiaotian asked, "My good disciple, did you go to the Soul Lamp Hall just now? Did that shameless Xie Feng say anything to you?"

Pan Chengfeng rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, I just came back from Uncle Xie. Uncle Xie asked me to become his disciple..." With a bang, the table turned into powder. Qiu Xiaotian said angrily, "He's shameless. He tried to steal my disciple so blatantly! I won't let him off!" As he said that, he wanted to take the wine to drink, but he found that the table was gone, so where could the wine be?

Pan Chengfeng took out the peach blossom wine and said with a smile: "Master, don't be angry. Since I have already kowtowed, I will naturally not go to worship another master. Don't worry." Hearing what Pan Chengfeng said, Qiu Xiaotian's anger turned into joy and said: "Good disciple! Well said! Hmm? This wine?" Pan Chengfeng quickly handed it over and said: "This is the wine I brewed, Master, try it~"

Qiu Xiaotian took the wine jar, took a deep sniff and said: "Just smelling the wine, I know it is definitely a holy wine!" Then he opened the wine jar, and the aroma of the wine immediately filled the entire cave. Qiu Xiaotian looked at the wine inside and said in surprise: "It is as clear as water, how did you do it?" Pan Chengfeng smiled and said: "Master, please taste it again." Even if Pan Chengfeng didn't say anything, Qiu Xiaotian couldn't help it, took out the wine glass, poured a glass, smelled it again, and then drank it all.

After closing his eyes and taking a few breaths, Qiu Xiaotian exclaimed, "What a good wine! It's really good wine. I didn't expect that wine could be brewed like this. The spirit wines I had before were as light as water compared to this." He drank another glass. Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "Master, I'm glad that you like it. I still have some left. Master, you can take it to drink with a few friends. If anyone asks, you can say it's the century-old wine 'Peach Blossom Wine' brewed by the Zhong family in Fancheng."

Qiu Xiaotian laughed and said, "Why? You want me to pave the way for your Zhong family's wine shop? You should focus on your cultivation and leave these matters to the people in the family." Pan Chengfeng said, "That's right. I don't want to get involved. It's just that this wine is brewed according to my recipe. I have just started, and the most important thing now is to make a name for it."

Qiu Xiaotian said, "Okay, I will help you. You should focus on training. Have you received the basic skills?" Pan Chengfeng said, "I received it. I took a quick look at it. It doesn't seem to be anything special. It only gives you the Golden Core Chapter." Qiu Xiaotian thought for a moment and said, "That is for ordinary disciples to practice. Don't practice it yet. I will find you a top-level skill of the Thunder Sect in a while!" Pan Chengfeng said in surprise, "Thank you, Master!" Qiu Xiaotian looked at this disciple and became more and more satisfied. He stroked his beard and said, "Okay, go find your senior brother and let him take you to your cave."

After Pan Chengfeng left the cave, he wanted to send a message to Mou Xuyou. But before he could send the message, he received a message from Mou Xuyou. Pan Chengfeng caught the message talisman with one hand, and the message talisman burned instantly. Then Mou Xuyou's voice came out: "Junior brother, come to the Yajing Courtyard of the outer gate quickly. The person you asked me to find is here." Pan Chengfeng said happily: "It's Shuang'er and the others. They are finally here." Then he immediately flew to the outer gate.

When Pan Chengfeng arrived at the main gate where the inner and outer gates met, he landed and asked the two gatekeepers, "Two junior brothers, where is Yajingyuan? Please tell me." Seeing that Pan Chengfeng was wearing the attire of a direct disciple, the gatekeepers did not dare to cross the line and quickly bowed and said, "Uncle, we are only the outer gatekeepers and do not dare to be your junior brothers. You should just call us nephews." Pan Chengfeng looked at his attire and thought to himself, "The rules are quite strict. Two Jindan cultivators insisted on being my nephews."

The gatekeeper disciple said, "Uncle, I'll take you there. It's just to the west. It's a little far from here." Pan Chengfeng nodded and said, "Then I'll trouble you, nephew." Then he threw a top-grade crystal bead to the gatekeeper disciple. After receiving the crystal bead, the disciple said in panic, "No, no, it's my duty to lead the way for uncle, I dare not accept your reward."

Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "Take it if it's given to you. What's your name?" The gatekeeper said: "My name is Bi Ruqing. I don't know whose disciple my uncle is?" Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "Me? I am the disciple that Great Elder Qiu Xiaotian just accepted." Bi Ruqing was shocked, but he immediately concealed his expression, but it still didn't escape Pan Chengfeng's eyes. Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "What's wrong? What's wrong with my master?" Bi Ruqing stammered: "No, no, the Great Elder is my nephew's ancestor and one of the Three Friends of the Yu Lei Sect. How dare I criticize him?"

Pan Chengfeng could see that his master must have a bad reputation, but he didn't know to what extent. He thought to himself, "I have to find out today." The two flew to Yajingyuan one after the other, chatting occasionally. Gradually, Bi Ruqing felt that Pan Chengfeng was easy to talk to and had no airs. He had never met such a direct disciple in Yu Lei Sect. Which of those direct disciples didn't have eyes on the top of his head? Pan Chengfeng asked, "Little Bi, don't you think my master is too unreliable? He made a bet with others and lost all his belongings. He also caused us, his disciples, to be looked down upon. Sigh."

Bi Ruqing finally couldn't help it and continued, "That's right. Grandmaster Qiu has such a high level of cultivation, but he often does some unreliable things. These things have been spread in the sect for a long time." Pan Chengfeng asked, "Oh? What else has that old thing done?" When Bi Ruqing heard Pan Chengfeng calling his master "old thing", he finally dared to speak. He approached Pan Chengfeng and whispered, "Last time, an outside family came to the sect to make trouble. It turned out that the sect master was very angry. But they came to the sect to collect debts and brought the IOU of the great elder. They said that the great elder made a bet with others and owed them a lot of debts, and then hid in the sect and did not respond to messages. They had no choice but to come to the sect to ask the sect master for an explanation." Pan Chengfeng thought to himself, "This old thing still owes foreign debts. Will I help him pay off his debts in the future?"

Bi Ruqing continued, "There was another time that was even more outrageous!" Pan Chengfeng quickly pricked up his ears and asked, "Why was it outrageous?" Bi Ruqing said, "Elder Qiu went to propose marriage to his disciple, but the disciple refused, so Elder Qiu beat him up! The ancestor of that family was also a branch of the Yu Lei Sect. He came to the sect crying and complained to the sect master, saying that he had stripped the girl's father naked and hung him at the city gate for three days and three nights. The girl was so angry that she almost couldn't recover. The sect master had to appease him and gave him a lot of benefits before the matter was suppressed."

Pan Chengfeng stroked his chin and thought to himself, "So, the old guy is still good to the little guy, but he doesn't pick on people." Seeing that Pan Chengfeng didn't say anything, Bi Ruqing thought he had said too much and the old guy was unhappy, so he quickly shut up and didn't continue. Unexpectedly, Pan Chengfeng took out a storage bag and handed it to Bi Ruqing, saying, "Tell me all the embarrassing things about the old guy. These are just a little things. Take them to practice and become a baby soon, and don't guard the gate anymore."