Chapter 709 - 388: Senior Brothers and Sisters, Sudden Total War_3
Chapter 709: Chapter 388: Senior Brothers and Sisters, Sudden Total War_3
"Will these positions be rotated in the future? Can they be exchanged for other immortal positions?"
Zhao Gongming laughed and replied:
"Others cannot, but you as my little disciple certainly can."
All the senior sisters smiled at this, and the two elder sisters Bixiao and Qiongxiao chuckled softly.
Su Yu also laughed heartily and said:
"If the positions could be rotated, allowing exchange for other immortal roles, then let’s first elevate to the position of an Immortal Envoy. It seems adventuring outside leads to faster cultivation than staying in the Celestial Court, and besides, I want to find someone."
Zhao Gongming asked casually:
"Who are you looking for, little brother? I have some connections with the Immortal Officials Thousand-mile Eye and Favourable Wind Ear."
Su Yu was delighted and said immediately:
"A Snake-man named Yusheng, who seems to have apprenticed under the Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha of the Western Sect and obtained the Arhat Fruit Position."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone looked towards the eldest brother Duobao.
Duobao asked:
"Did he offend you?"
"He and I had a minor feud."
Su Yu recounted his past grievances with Yusheng to his senior brothers and sisters, even mentioning how he stole several Dinghai Pearls from Yusheng.
He spoke with an angry expression:
"If I couldn’t defeat him, I’d let it go, but he played dishonorably by bringing in the Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha and used force against me, almost forcibly converting me."
"Bang!"
Zhao Gongming slammed the jade table, and coldly said:
"It’s that old bald donkey again. He once ambushed senior sister Jinling, and now he bullies the little disciple with his might, he cannot be forgiven."
Duobao also nodded and said solemnly:
"If I’m not mistaken, the new disciple under Lamp-Burning who obtained the Arhat Fruit Position should be the Green Lion Arhat."
He turned to Su Yu and asked:
"How do you want to deal with him? Is it for revenge, or..."
Su Yu answered:
"At the very least, kill him once, and then take those Dinghai Pearls from him as compensation."
"Agreed!"
All the senior brothers and sisters nodded. Zhao Gongming, thinking the Dinghai Pearls were snatched on his behalf, felt touched and said:
"Once you get the Dinghai Pearls, keep them for yourself, consider it a gift from senior brother."
Su Yu paused for a moment and then understood Zhao Gongming’s meaning, assuming he snatched the Dinghai Pearls for him. Everyone knows these Dinghai Pearls were once Zhao Gongming’s magical treasures, taken by Lamp-Burning during the Fengshen War.
Remembering this, he had a question in mind and directly asked:
"Brother Gongming, since Lamp-Burning worked hard to obtain the twenty-four Dinghai Pearls, why doesn’t he use them himself, but sets them free?"
Zhao Gongming sneered and said:
"Of course, to further his ambition."
He explained:
"After the Dinghai Pearls were taken by Lamp-Burning, they transformed into twenty-four heavens. Though powerful, they didn’t serve as much of an aid to Lamp-Burning as expected. Previously, they remained within the Buddhist Sect. Yet hundreds of thousands of years ago, when the new calamity began, the Heavenly Dao’s protagonist shifted, and Lamp-Burning schemed for the calamity, dispersing the twenty-four Dinghai Pearls before it began."
"However, the Heavenly Dao is supremely fair, and for his plan to gain the Heavenly Dao’s approval, he had to erase the imprints within the Dinghai Pearls, turning them into ownerless objects."
"He only knows the general area they fell but not the specific spot, and any cultivator may refine them."
"Therefore, any chosen target must rely on themselves to locate the Dinghai Pearls, how many items can be found and captured are uncertain."
"The treasures are ownerless, so little disciple, you can completely seize them, rendering his plans void."
"Oh!"
Su Yu nodded thoughtfully, then asked again:
"These Dinghai Pearls originally belonged to brother, have you ever thought about recovering them?"
Zhao Gongming smiled wryly, shook his head and said:
"After the Fengshen War, this treasure is no longer related to me. Plus, now that the new calamity has started, people like me listed on the Fengshen Board have no autonomy and cannot partake in the calamity."
"Then... I won’t hold back."
"Feel free to capture them, best to snatch them all."
"Alright!"
Afterwards, the senior brothers and sisters stopped crowding around him and gathered to chat among themselves, as they hadn’t seen each other for a long time. Especially Master Brother Duobao, now a sect hierarch for the Minor Buddhist Sect, is unable to casually leave. If not for this reason, he wouldn’t have come.
Su Yu sat aside, about to take some celestial fruit to treat the senior brothers and sisters when he heard footsteps. Turning around, he saw four beautiful women carrying celestial fruit approaching, among them were Bai Muqing, the eldest disciple of senior sister Wudang, and Qingchan.
She looked surprised at her husband seated with their master, recalling his earlier words.
"You truly are..."
Su Yu heard a voice transmission in his ear, blinked at her.
The apprentice nephews placed the celestial fruit down and stayed on standby.
Saintess Wudang pulled them aside and introduced them to everyone:
"This is my newly accepted disciple, Qingchan!"
She quickly bowed:
"Qingchan pays respects to the senior uncles and senior brother-in-law."
Everyone inspected her, nodding and saying:
"Indeed beautiful and intelligent, with ice skin and jade bone."
Soon after Wudang added:
"Moreover, she is also the Tao partner of the little disciple."
"Oh!"
Everyone obviously valued her more, and Master Brother took out a jade bell and passed it to her:
"Cultivate well!"
Qingchan respectfully bowed:
"Thank you, senior uncle, for the treasure."
Subsequently, several others presented gifts, one each, the least being middle-grade Spiritual Treasures.
The other three disciples under the Saintess Wudang appeared unaffected, not displaying any envy, having received similar gifts when first meeting senior uncles and brothers-in-law in the past.
After gathering with fellow disciples for a while, they gradually departed the following day.
Su Yu stayed only briefly, and after consulting with senior sister Wudang, left with Qingchan who graduated early.
The couple sat on the back of a Nine-colored Spiritual Deer, treading clouds leisurely, continuing their patrol of the realms.