Chapter 51: Remuneration!

  "Ah... Ah..." Sun Wei hugged his chest with both arms, and even speaking became somewhat awkward. How did it suddenly become so cold? What's going on here? He couldn't figure it out, had Zheng En really died? This was unlikely, right? He still couldn't believe it!

  "What are you? You're a piece of trash, a scoundrel, a shameless person who deceives and betrays others. You won't have a good ending." Zheng En said disdainfully.

  "Zheng... Zheng En, stop pretending to be a ghost! If you have the guts, come out and face me!" Sun Wei shouted loudly, his voice trembling with fear. The place where he was standing was dark and gloomy, and all he could hear was Zheng En's voice, but he couldn't see him, which made the pressure in his heart even greater, and his fear even deeper!

  "I've told you I'm already dead, can't you understand human language? And do you think ghosts have a breed?" Zheng En said with a light smile, but Sun Wei's heart wasn't as easy-going.

  "You... can you tell me where this is first?" Sun Wei calmed down and asked, although he was half-believing and half-doubting Zheng En's words, but not even knowing where here was made him feel a lot of pressure!

  "This is a place where only people who do bad things would come, hehe, so you're here!" Zheng En said with a somewhat gloating smile, hiding in the shadows and seeing Sun Wei's face turn white and his whole body trembling, his heart was truly delighted!

  "No... this can't be, aren't you also here?" Sun Wei hastily asked back.

  "Haha, I'm here to take revenge on you. You don't know, do you? The Lord of the Underworld has already found out about your actions, and is extremely angry about your behavior of deceiving your master and harming your friends. He's agreed to let me come and take revenge on you personally. This must be what they mean by 'evil will be punished'! You've done too many bad things, even if you go to hell, you won't have a good day!" Zheng En said with a smile, his laughter seeming to contain the joy of having avenged a great grudge.

  "No... I didn't, I was forced to!" Sun Wei still wanted to argue.

  "Who forced you?" Zheng En asked coldly, he was extremely disappointed with Sun Wei's true nature. He couldn't understand how he had considered Sun Wei as a sworn brother in the past. His judgment was really not good!

  "Of course it's about my family, you're not me, you don't know how much pressure I'm under." Sun Weikuo said pitifully.

  "Is the pressure too great? Can the pressure be used as an excuse to frame me?" Zheng En asked.

  "I'm also helpless! If I don't do that, I'll be useless in the family. I don't want to become a discarded child, so I have to become the apprentice of the Dan Shi Zong Hui's president, only then will I have a place in the family." Sun Wei said truthfully, his face still full of fearful expressions!

  "Hmph! You've done all sorts of bad things yourself, and yet you still say it's the family forcing you? Sun Wei, I've found that your face is really not ordinary thick!" Zheng En coldly sneered.

  "Honestly, I had no choice! Back then you were my greatest rival, if I didn't frame you, I wouldn't have had the opportunity. Alas... I didn't want to, I really didn't want to!" Sun Wei said with a hint of choking, as if he had suffered great injustice.

  "Sun Wei, stop making excuses. You're clearly harboring ulterior motives and yet you claim to be forced into it. Are you even a man? A man who does something like this is truly shameful." Zheng En said with great disdain.

  "I... I'm a man, of course, but now I'm not anymore, I've lost my humanity, waaah..." Sun Wei brought out this kind of reason just to survive, he thought he understood Zheng En very well, so he knew that the more pitiful he acted, the greater his chances of survival would be.

  "Sun Wei, you're really shameless." Zheng En was speechless. Sun Wei was indeed willing to do whatever it took to survive, even abandoning a man's dignity!

  "I'm telling the truth, I really can't take it anymore... Waaahhh..." Sun Wei cried out, although this kind of thing is very embarrassing, but after all, it's better than losing one's life!

  "Sun Wei, stop pretending to be pitiful, I won't sympathize with you." Zheng En said coldly. Humph! Sun Wei really underestimated him, thinking he was still the overly kind man from back then?

  "Then... then what do you want? As long as you spare me, I'll do whatever you say." Sun Wei begged, he didn't want to die, waaah...

  "You first tell me how you framed me back then! If what you say satisfies me, I might consider pleading with the Lord of the Underworld to spare your life and let you off!" Zheng En thought for a moment, he had to get Sun Wei to personally reveal the truth from that year, only this way could he thoroughly clear his name, otherwise all Miss's arrangements would be wasted.

  "If I tell you, will you really let me go?" Sun Wei said somewhat uncertainly.

  "Of course, Master Ming has said it before, this is our personal vendetta. If I'm willing to let you off, he won't pursue it." Zheng En said very sincerely.

  "Alright, I'll say it!" Sun Wei hesitated for a moment before speaking up.

  "Come on, I'm listening!" Zheng En urged.

  "Zheng En, actually you are a very good friend, it's me who owes you an apology." Sun Wei said with a hint of sentimentality.

  "Never mind all that, I don't want to hear it. Just tell me how you framed me." Zheng En said emotionlessly.

  "Do you still remember that patient from back then?" Sun Wei asked.

  "Hmm." Zheng En responded, how could he not remember? The patient was said to have eaten the elixir he refined, which is why he died, and at the same time, it also changed his fate.

  "In fact, that person didn't die at all. He ate the elixir you refined and quickly recovered. It was I who gave him benefits, so he was willing to collude with me to frame you!" Sun Wei explained.

  "Isn't he dead? Then where is he now?" Zheng En asked, suppressing his anger. He really hadn't expected that his momentary kindness would bring him such unexpected disaster!

  "I don't know either, but he should be living a pretty good life now, because I gave him a lot of money back then," said Sun Wei.

  "Is life treating you well? Sun Wei, why didn't you kill that person to silence him? Didn't you silence many people who helped you in the past?" Zheng En asked with some puzzlement.

  "I wanted to kill him, but that man was very cunning and before I could make a move, he slipped away on his own. I've never been able to find out what happened to him!" Sun Wei said with some frustration, sighing. If it weren't for that man's disappearance, he wouldn't have spent over ten years chasing after Zheng En!

  "I didn't think you'd also have a moment of carelessness." Zheng En said in a cold tone.

  "Yes, I didn't think he would slip away that quickly either." Sun Wei said with a hint of regret.

  "Sun Wei, you've done all sorts of bad things and deceived your master and ancestors. Don't you have nightmares at night?" Zheng En asked curiously.

  "I didn't, I was forced to." Sun Wei explained.

  "Haha, Sun Wei, I've lived for so long, but this is the first time I've seen someone with a face as thick-skinned as yours." Zheng En said disdainfully.

  "I have no choice either." Sun Weijun emphasized.

  "Sun Wei, back then you framed me, was it just because of jealousy or was there another reason?" Zheng En couldn't help but wonder, if it was only due to jealousy, it shouldn't have gone as far as trying to kill him!

  "I want to be the disciple of Master Dan, but your existence puts too much pressure on me, so I have no choice but to take action against you. Actually, I also consider you as a friend." Sun Wei tried to move Zheng En with emotions, because he thought he understood Zheng En very well, and in his heart, Zheng En was always a kind and just man, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to deceive him successfully back then.

  "Sun Wei, don't insult my intelligence. You've never considered me a friend from the start, and you only approached me with an ulterior motive." Zheng En said in a very cold tone, he really didn't expect that Sun Wei would still try to take advantage of his kindness now. Alas! Did Sun Wei really think he was still the same old Zheng En?

  "What I said is all true." Sun Wei's attitude was unusually sincere.

  "Sun Wei, no one will believe you anymore, including your master." Zheng En reminded kindly.

  "Master? Where is my master? I want to see my master!" Sun Wei heard the two words "master", as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

  "Sun Wei, don't waste your energy, your master doesn't want to see you." Zheng En said straightforwardly, glancing at the middle-aged man beside him.

  "No, it can't be. Master won't treat me like this!" Sun Wei couldn't believe that his master, who had always been kind to him, wouldn't recognize him!

  "You don't even recognize your own master, and whatever your master does to you is taken for granted." Zheng En reminded.

  "I'm being forced, I'm really being forced, Master, believe me, save me, I don't want to die!" Sun Wei cried out in a somewhat frantic tone, but there was no response, not even Zheng En's voice could be heard...

  In the forest.

  Leng Ruo Xue looked at the dozens of old men with different expressions around him, these old men were the elders of Dan Shi Zong Hui who had been locked up by Sun Wei, and Sun Wei's master Ren Li was also among them.

  "Now that you know the truth, do you have anything to say?" Cold Snow raised an eyebrow and asked in a cold tone. If it weren't for giving Zheng En justice, she wouldn't care about these old men's lives!

  "We..." An elder wanted to speak up, but didn't know how to start!

  "What are you? How can this be fair to me?! If that's the case, then none of you have a reason to live either!" Leng Ruoxue said with complete indifference.

  "You can't kill us! We are respected Dan masters!" Another elder said in disbelief.

  "Respected Master Dan? Haha, it's really laughable. In my eyes, you're nothing but a stray dog from a poor family. Since I saved you, you can't even serve me, then what's the point of your existence? Miss doesn't raise idle people, you'd better die early and be reborn early!" Cold Snow lightly laughed and said.

  "Xue Er, even if they're dead, there's no way for them to be reborn." The demon said with a somewhat delighted tone.

  "It's also fine, I'll just keep their souls to refine the elixir then. It's said that in ancient times, there was a kind of elixir that required souls to be refined." Cold Snow lightly said.

  "Ah, you know this too?" The old man asked with a surprised expression.

  "Hmm, Master Du, did you know too?" asked Leng Ruo Xue in response.

  "Haha, young lady, I've also seen it in an ancient book. It's said that adding soul to the elixir can cultivate a Dan spirit." The old man said with great interest.

  "Grandfather Du, once we've gathered all the medicinal materials, let's refine a Danling as well. With a Danling, our future alchemy will be much more convenient!" Leng Ruoxue suggested, her beautiful eyes constantly scanning the dozens of elders, seemingly searching for a suitable soul!

  Leng Ruo Xue's conversation with the little old man made all the elderly people present stand up their sweat hairs, wooo... this woman is really too ruthless, they don't want to be refined into Dan Ling ah!

  "Alright, heh heh, it seems that only you, Ling'er, can refine the Danling! Hmm, my dear apprentice also has a chance." The old man said with a face full of envy. The conditions for refining the Danling were extremely harsh, requiring not only a soul but also extremely high requirements for the alchemist's flames! Unless it was divine fire, otherwise, it would be impossible to refine the soul.

  "Hmm, with so many souls, if we can find enough medicinal materials, we should be able to refine a considerable amount of Danling. Master Du, at that time, I'll give each of you one." Lan Xue said very generously.

  "Hmph, you think you can just waltz in here and act like this? I've had enough of your nonsense! As for extracting the soul, leave that to me, I'll take care of it!" The old man said with a self-righteous tone. Hmph, these elders really have no shame, at a time like this, they still dare to put on airs, but she's not someone who can be tolerated by them!

  "Hmm, Master Du, then trouble you to deal with these people first, their area is too large and takes up space!" Leng Ruoxue said disdainfully, humph! If I had known they were so stubborn, I wouldn't have saved them in the first place!

  "Alright, no problem, leave it to me." The old man replied, then raised one hand above his head and prepared to take action!

  "Hold on." Just as the old man was about to take action, Leng Ruo Xue suddenly spoke out and stopped him.

  "Girl, don't be soft-hearted! Some people are not worth it." The old man advised.

  "Grandfather Du, you misunderstood me. I wanted them to pay for the room and food expenses for these few days first. I don't have the obligation to support them for free." Leng Ruo Xue explained with a smile.

  "Hmm, that makes sense. You all pay back the money you owe Lian first, and then I'll collect from you." The old man nodded and commanded the dozens of elders with very ugly faces.

  "Du Ming, you are in a superior position in the Dan Shi General Assembly, how can you help outsiders bully us?" At this time, an elder asked with a hint of dissatisfaction. In fact, he didn't think Du Ming would really kill them, so he dared to be fearless!

  "Outsiders? To me, you are the outsiders." The old man said without any emotion, in his heart he despised these elders who still couldn't see the situation clearly.

  "Director Du, it's always good to discuss things. Miss Leng is now letting us give Zheng En a fair chance, which is somewhat difficult for us." Another elder mediated.

  "What did he say?" The old man asked with narrowed eyes.

  "Director Du, you should be clear about the situation of the General Association. Now we are also being controlled by the General Association, so we have no way to clear Zheng En's name." The elder explained, with a look of difficulty on his face.

  "That's right!"

  "Really!"

  His words had barely fallen when the other elders also hastened to echo him.

  "Your meaning is, you want us to help you take back the Dan Shifu General Assembly?" Leng Ruoxue asked with a light smile, her absolutely beautiful face full of understanding expressions. Hum! These old foxes have finally revealed their own fox tails!

  "If you are willing to help, once we regain control of the association, we will immediately clear Zheng En's name." The elder hastily said, although he had not been with Leng Ruoxue for a long time, but he admired her methods.

  "You're setting conditions for me?" Cold Snow said calmly, her stunning face showing no emotions.

  "Eh! We just hope Miss Leng can help us out." The elder said very sincerely.

  "Don't bother! Even if you can't clear Zheng En's name, we don't care. Anyway, Dan Shifu will be finished soon, and it's not necessary to clear his name anymore!" Leng Ruo Xue said disdainfully, humph! People who can threaten her haven't been born yet! How could she possibly be threatened by a few old men?!

  “……”

  The elders were stunned, none of them had expected that Leng Ruoxue would refuse so directly. This was beyond their expectations and left them unprepared, because it was far from what they had originally thought! And the reason why they didn't immediately agree with Zheng Enqing earlier was also to grasp the initiative in the negotiation, but Leng Ruoxue didn't play by the rules!

  "Miss Leng, how can we get you to help us?" Another elder couldn't help but ask. Sun Wei was in Cold Snow's hands, and with their current strength, they had no way of taking back the power of the General Assembly, so they were in dire need of Cold Snow's assistance.

  "I'm afraid it's not possible for me to help you, but you can pay me a fee, and if the fee is satisfactory, I can lend you a helping hand." Lan Ruo Xue said with a faint smile. In fact, from the moment she sent someone to rescue these old men, she had decided to fleece them thoroughly! Who let them dare to bully her people! Hmph!

  "What kind of compensation does Miss Leng want?" an elder asked, gritting his teeth.

  "Not much, I just want two-thirds of your total assets." Leng Ruoxue said kindly.

  “……”

  The elderly people's foreheads were covered in cold sweat, and their hearts were even more unbearable. Three-fifths was not enough? To think that it was the wealth accumulated by Dan Shizong over thousands of years! And she was about to take away three-fifths with her lion-like open mouth! It was truly detestable!

  "What? Can't bear to part with it? Then forget it." Leng Ruo Xue shrugged her shoulders, seemingly not very concerned.

  "That... Miss Leng, can we discuss this?" an elder asked.

  "You can, you guys discuss it well, but Miss's patience is also limited." Leng Ruoxue warned, implying that she won't wait for them for too long.

  "Alright." The elders responded in unison, then walked together to a corner on the other side and began discussing.

  "Miss, will they agree?" Zheng En asked curiously. As the miss said, whether Master Dan would clear his name or not was no longer important, because Sun Wei had already spoken out loud and many people had heard it, which was enough for him!

  "I will." Leng Ruoxue said with great certainty.

  "Xiao Xue, you're ruthless!" Lan Ming said with a face full of admiration. Uh... only now did he realize that the price Xiao Xue had quoted him was actually quite cheap!

  "When you make a move, you have to go all out! Who let them care so much about Master Dan's conference!" Leng Ruoxue said with a smile, anyone who dares to bully her, anyone who dares to threaten her, must pay the price!

  "Miss, how is Sun Wei doing?" Zheng En suddenly asked.

  "Do you want to kill him?" asked Leng Ruoxue, Sun Wei's current location was an illusion set up by her, that illusion had a great influence on people's minds and would make people hallucinate, so Sun Wei thought he was really in hell, and fear had already taken root in his heart!

  "I don't want to, I don't want to dirty my own hands." Zheng En thought for a moment and then said that actually, before he had hoped to be able to kill Sun Wei with his own hands. But now, he felt it was no longer necessary because the Sun Wei in the illusion had already suffered a huge mental blow. Even if he killed Sun Wei now, it would not bring him any sense of accomplishment!

  "Then let him be dealt with!" Cold Snow said, and gestured to the small white snake coiled around her wrist to get rid of Sun Wei!

  The little white snake slithered quietly down Leng Ruo Xue's wrist and crawled towards the illusion it had set up for itself.

  Half an hour later.

  The many elders of the Dan Shi General Assembly returned to Leng Ruo Xue and the others.

  "Leng Miss, we've already discussed it and if you can help us regain control of the Dan Shifu General Assembly, we're willing to pay two-thirds of our property as a reward!" said an elder, representing them. Although two-thirds of their property was a painful price to pay, it was still better than losing the Dan Shifu General Assembly!

  "Those who know the truth are outstanding, your decision is wise." said Leng Ruoxue in praise.

  "I don't know when Miss Leng can help us retake the Dan Shi General Assembly?" The elder continued to ask.

  "If you're not afraid of trouble from Wu Huan, you can come anytime." Leng Ruo Xue replied with a faint smile.

  "Hmm! This..." The elder looked somewhat depressed, because they were now also uncertain whether Wu Huan would cause them trouble or not. However, they wanted to quickly regain control of the General Assembly... Ah, it's really a dilemma!

  "You'd better think carefully!" Ling Ruo Xue reminded.

  "Leng Xiaojie, we have decided to take back the General Assembly as soon as possible." The elders exchanged a look with each other through their eyes, and then one of them spoke up.

  "Alright, but I can only assist you in secret. Taking back the main force of the Dan Shifu Association is up to you!" said Leng Ruo Xue.

  "Hmm." The elders nodded, Wu Huan's question was left unanswered. Even if they wanted to let Leng Ruoxue help openly, it wouldn't work. They didn't want to become Wu Huan's first target!

  "You guys plan carefully then, if you need me to cooperate just let me know. By the way, don't forget to pay for the house and food!" said Leng Ruoxue with a good mood.

  "Ah!" The elder masters were collectively speechless, they had all paid two-thirds of the total assets of Dan Shifu's sect as compensation, how could Leng Ruo Xue still remember that little bit of housing and food money?!

  "Sun Wei's matter has been settled, let's hurry back to the guest shop!" Leng Ruo Xue said, pulling Yao Jiao away from the deserted small forest, with Zheng En and others following closely behind.

  Back at the Xianyao Building, Leng Ruo Xue and others directly walked into the living room of the suite.

  After sitting down on the chair, Leng Ruo Xue swept her gaze across the crowd in the hall and said, "Song Di, you've all done a good job."

  "Thank you, Miss. Is there anything else we need to do?" Song Di asked with some expectation, as Sun Wei's strength was too low and there were no powerful experts around, so their task was relatively much easier!

  "Have Sun Wei's men been taken care of?" asked Leng Ruxue.

  "It has been handled." Song Di said in his report.

  "Oh, then go help those elders at Dan Shizong's place!" Leng Ruoxue said after some thought.

  "Miss, the people from Dan Shifu's group aren't very strong, we won't need this many people!" Song Di said cautiously. In fact, he wanted to go help Cheng Da Ge and the others deal with Wu Huan, but he didn't know if Miss would agree.

  "Then go help Cheng Wu, and let others assist those elderly ones." said Leng Ruoxue calmly.

  "Miss, we also want..." a somewhat embarrassed Xuan Huang said, his words trailing off halfway.

  "After you've finished Master Dan's tasks, go to Cheng Wu's place." Leng Ruo Xue said. She was very clear about the thoughts of her subordinates. Since they were so enthusiastic, she couldn't disappoint them!

  "Yes, miss. We'll go find the elders now." The crowd of emperors stood up, somewhat impatiently said, and then they all left the living room.

  "Song Di, you go too!" Leng Ruo Xue said with some helplessness, sighing! When did these people become so impatient!

  "Yes, miss." Song Di hastily replied and stood up, leaving the living room.

  "Haha, girl, your subordinates are quite proactive! The old man said with a face full of envy. If the elders of Dan Shifu General Assembly were like these people, Dan Shifu General Assembly wouldn't have become what it is today."

  "Master Du, I'm afraid Dan Shizong will suffer a great loss. You won't blame me for it, will you?" asked Leng Ruoxue calmly.

  "No, no, heh heh, those properties have entered your pocket, after all, it's better than giving them to those white-eyed wolves! Moreover, didn't you leave them one-third of the shares? That's enough for them to rebuild the headquarters!" The old man said with a very open-minded tone. Earning money was easy for Master Dan, so he never put external things in his eyes.

  "Heh heh, as long as Master Du doesn't blame me, that's all that matters. It's getting late today, let's get some rest early!" said Leng Ruoxue, glancing at the sky.

  "Good." Everyone nodded and then went back to their rooms to rest.

  Leng Ruo Xue and Yao Jiao returned to their room and directly entered the circle.

  "Xue Er, will Master Dan's matter be resolved tomorrow?" Wu asked, who was waiting for them on the stone chair in front of the Purple Bamboo House.

  "Haha, it's up to those elders' abilities now!" Leng Ruoxue laughed and said.

  Digression

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