Chapter 1470: Chapter 1470: 3,600 Cycles of the Great Celestial Circuit
i Jiushan didn’t pay any attention to the words “late paynt fee”; strictly speaking, transactions among Cultivators are usually made with cash and goods on the spot.
If one party in a transaction dares to incur a debt, it must be a long-standing relationship, or they have strong backing and aren’t afraid of the other party defaulting — try not repaying if you dare?
So he handed a Storage Talisman to Feng Jun, “Thank you, Mountain Master Feng, for your understanding. Here are twenty thousand Spirit Stones. Please check them.”
But Jiang Shangren was more ticulous, “Late paynt fee… is it interest? How should it be calculated?”
Feng Jun took the Storage Talisman, glanced at it casually, then responded, “The late paynt fee is interest. For each day delayed, it’s half a percent of the principal, which is five hundred Spirit Stones… is there a problem?”
Upon hearing this, i Jiushan was stunned, “You’re actually charging interest?”
He didn’t care about the amount of interest; the key issue was that soone was actually charging him interest — is this doubting my credibility?
“If it’s repaid within two months, there’s no interest,” Feng Jun was also irritated, “Or you can settle it now. I’ve understood your difficulties, but you can’t understand … if everyone is like you, conducting deductions without paynt, should I still help people with deductions?”
i Jiushan’s temperant wasn’t good either. Hearing this, he frowned, “You clearly don’t trust .”
“Please, it was you who didn’t trust first, doubted my deductions!” Feng Jun beca angrier, his voice getting louder, “You have the right not to trust , and I can’t doubt you… does the reason of the world all belong to you alone? Or do you see as easy to bully?”
“Who dares to bully Mountain Master Feng?” a voice ca from afar, and a figure blinked into view, followed by strong pressure.
i Jiushan’s eyes widened in an instant, “A Golden Core Master?”
He knew that there were many Golden Core Masters at White Pebble Beach, but facing a Golden Core directly still felt quite pressuring.
“Greetings, Master Qu,” Jiang Shangren cupped his hands towards Qu Jianlei. As a mber of Mingsha Tiantong, he knew Master Qu, “The little disputes over Spirit Stones have nothing to do with bullying or not, I ask Master Qu to calm his anger,”
Then he turned his head to Feng Jun, speaking with a smile, “Mountain Master Feng, I can vouch for this matter. If i Shangren can’t gather the money within two months, I can urge him, or help him pay… i Shangren, is that right?”
“That’s right,” i Jiushan nodded, also cupping his hands towards Qu Jianlei, “Master Qu, I just considered that the trip to and from Sword Forging Peak isn’t easy, and it takes quite a bit of ti on the road. I didn’t an to default.”
At this mont, another noble woman in palace attire appeared in the sky, sneering as she spoke, “Sword Forging Peak? Such a grand na, if you want to default, you can try.”
Of course, the newcor was Nie Chifeng. Although she was quite old, being a female cultivator, even if she was about to die, she had to dress beautifully.
i Jiushan very much wanted to ask, who are you to underestimate Sword Forging Peak like this, but after thinking about it… he decided against it.
After leaving Lantern Town, he did not head straight for Mingsha Fang Market. Instead, he released a Flying Boat and flew day and night for seven or eight days before entering a Transmission Array in another Fang Market.
He did this, firstly, to save Spirit Stones, and secondly, not to let others know what he was up to.
After returning to the i Family, he directly visited the Clan Leader who was at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, told him his experiences, and requested to review the Technique Repository thoroughly — he, of course, did not ntion who he had asked for deductions.
The Clan Leader also dared not neglect him after listening. In fact, no one had ever been able to clearly ascertain the authenticity of the Seven Yang Snow lting Technique, which was why the clan never encouraged its cultivation and not just because of talent issues.
Thus, he took i Jiushan to find the Elder in charge of the Technique Repository.
This Elder was also a High-Rank practitioner and usually did not guard the Technique Repository. He only appeared when the repository was open, holding one key while the Clan Leader held another. Both keys were needed to open the Technique Repository.
The Elder was in seclusion, so two days later, the three finally entered the Technique Repository and retrieved the Liu Yang and Seven Yang Snow lting Techniques.
Upon comparing the two cultivation techniques, all three were dumbfounded. Why? The two techniques were indeed different, but the differences were minimal.
The difference is extrely small, so small that it cannot even be called an improved version; it was just — a different way of expressing it.
The three analyzed it for an entire day and even asked i Jiushan to recount Feng Jun’s analysis. Finally, they decided… to ask the Supre Elder.
The Supre Elder was only at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer; he had lived too long, having consud an Exotic Fruit that extended his lifespan by two hundred years, making him over six hundred years old now, with average cultivation and combat strength but vast knowledge.
The Supre Elder was also in seclusion. Now he was a treasured elder of the i Family, where being alive was more important than anything else.
The three waited another two days before the Supre erged from seclusion. Upon seeing the two versions of the Snow lting Technique, the Supre imdiately stated, “Both are the Liu Yang Snow lting Technique. The Seven Yang Snow lting Technique contains a Dharma to strengthen the advancent barrier… it should require the use of ice attribute treasures.”
Upon hearing this, i Jiushan couldn’t help but twitch his mouth, “But I have already passed the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.”
The Supre Elder glanced at him, “If you couldn’t even pass the Qi Refining Seventh Layer… would you be qualified to speak to now?”
i Jiushan dared not offend this old man — he was over four hundred years old after all, “I have acquired two dicinal recipes. Supre Elder, could you take a look at them for ?”
The Supre Elder took two pieces of obsidian, glanced at them, thought for a mont, and asked, “Who gave you the formula?”
With the Supre Elder asking, i Jiushan had no choice but to tell the truth. He recounted his encounter with Feng Jun and then everything he knew about Feng Jun.
The Supre Elder, upon hearing this, was sowhat bemused, “Then why are you still hesitating? Just complete the Grand Circulation three thousand six hundred tis, isn’t it?”
i Jiushan hesitantly replied, “I just feel that… he might not be reliable.”
“Still too young,” the Supre Elder sighed, “Even if Crimson Phoenix is blind, is Taiqing also blind? Yue Qing of Qinggang… was such a formidable person also deceived by him? Yue Qing is really a tough one.”
i Jiushan, however, with the stubbornness of youth, said, “He wouldn’t dare deceive them, but deceiving our i Family… if he does, so be it.”
The Supre Elder pointed at him and, after a long pause, said speechlessly, “He brings trendous benefits to Crimson Phoenix, Taiqing, and Qinggang… these are the three great sects. Let ask you, haven’t they thought about bringing him back to their sects?”
“I suppose they have, but the problem is, none of them have taken Feng Jun back. Have you ever thought about why they haven’t brought him back… Could it be because he’s good-looking?”
“I don’t think it’s like that. He must have a strength that intimidates the three great sects, making them wary of making a move against him.”
i Jiushan couldn’t help but shout out. This was entirely beyond his expectations, “Can he make the three great sects wary of him? That’s impossible; could he have twenty Golden Cores behind him?”
Actually, it wasn’t his stupidity; he had never considered what the relationship was between Feng Jun and the three great sects.
But the Supre Elder saw it clearly—after living for over six hundred years, you know better than to be ignorant, “He doesn’t need twenty Golden Cores, nor does he need to confront the three great sects head-on; he just needs to make one great sect wary, and that’s enough… The Four Great Sects are mutually restraining each other.”
i Jiushan slapped his forehead and, suddenly enlightened, nodded; his understanding was truly not lacking, he just focused too much on his own advancent, neglecting many things, “So, the three thousand six hundred Grand Circulations… is actually correct?”
“Of course,” the Supre Elder smiled, “Why would he need to deceive you? Are thirty thousand Spirit Stones that important to him?”
“Then I’ll go into seclusion now,” i Jiushan turned and ran off.
The three elders didn’t stop him—having a fourth High-Rank Out-of-the-Dust cultivator in the clan after a year is a good thing.
However, in the end, the Supre Elder frowned, “When exactly was the Seven Yang Snow lting Technique stolen?”
From beginning to end, no one ntioned whether i Jiushan’s thirty thousand Spirit Stones were paid off—he himself forgot about it.
He forgot, but Jiang Shangren rembered—he was the guarantor.
On the tenth day after i Jiushan returned, which was the first day of his seclusion, soone from Tiantong under Sword Forging Peak ca to find i Jiushan, saying they wanted to discuss sothing with Elder i.
Jiang Shangren couldn’t wait until the last mont to show up; he certainly had to prod him in advance. This had nothing to do with trust—a sum of ten thousand could still be considered money, and preparing ahead was quite necessary.
However, the information Jiang Shangren received was: i Jiushan went into seclusion!
This news was sowhat troubling but didn’t matter; seclusion was seclusion, but the debt had to be acknowledged.
During this period, the Earth Vein Traction and Spirit Gathering Array at White Pebble Beach was thriving.
Both Crimson Phoenix and Taiqing’s outposts were constructing Spirit Gathering Arrays, with investnts that must also be in the hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones. However, despite being one of the Four Great Sects, building such a Spirit Gathering Array in such a remote place was primarily for Feng Jun.
Strictly speaking, this was close to the treatnt of the Tiantong Headquarters—apart from the Tiantong Headquarters, there was truly no other place worthy of such a level of flattery from the Four Great Sects.
But to be honest, Feng Jun’s investnt was the largest, with five supporting Spirit Gathering Arrays, along with related defensive formations—clearly, he planned to make this his base.
The construction party was Tiantong, who were currently working intensively, even refusing Crimson Phoenix and Taiqing’s oversight—the project was Tiantong’s affair, outsiders not invited.
Such an attitude seed insulting to the two sects, but they understood—Tiantong appeared to be a comrcial organization, but if they truly wanted to take on a project, no one could interfere.
However, even so, they had their own opinion: why not allow us to observe and help Tiantong fix any issues?
Tiantong responded, “This is our cooperation with Mountain Master Feng. The reason Mountain Master Feng chose us is that we’re dependable in our work… You, the Four Great Sects, are incredible, but you have your agendas.”
The accusation of “having agendas” indeed pierced deep, leaving even Kong Ziyi, who had the best relationship with Feng Jun, speechless.
However, just at this mont, Jiang Shangren arrived, “Mountain Master Feng, the business I introduced to you might be running into so complications.”
This was really as reliably unreliable as it could get…
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