Chapter Eleven: The Leisurely Jade (Part One)

  We arrived at the hideout with a few little soldiers, and what was presented in front of me were two large boxes. Headache, these big boxes are the most difficult to deal with.

  "Where's Master?" Li Da asked anxiously, while Zhang Yu beside him looked puzzled, but he kept staring at me. Did he see that the child in front of him was their master? Impossible, my Tianxin Sect's secret technique (actually it's a secret technique of the Cultivation World, but in this world I'm the only cultivator, so I say it belongs to whoever I want), how could he possibly see through it.

  I smiled and my body gradually transformed, eventually turning into the appearance of Jian Shen Su Ye. Li Da stood beside me, staring at me in a daze.

  "Master? Are you the master?"

  "Really!" I smiled at him.

  "Ahh, my master can cast spells! My master is a god!" Li Da jumped up and down, shouting loudly, attracting the attention of some mountain bandits nearby. What's with the huge difference in reaction between Li Da and Yu Jie?

  "Just now I saw a kid turn into that skilled swordsman, ah, really, I really saw it." A little soldier who saw me transform wanted to show off to his comrade, but the result was that his comrade left him, with an expression like he didn't know him.

  "A Yu, what were you looking at me just now? Did you figure out that I'm your master?" I asked my third disciple. This question has been puzzling me.

  "How could the young one possibly see through this magic? It was only when we were at the foot of the mountain that I realized, in the beginning, there was no master in the carriage, only a small child. Later on, the child disappeared and the master appeared. Earlier, the master had disappeared and the child reappeared again. That's why I had my suspicions, but it's still hard to believe that such magic exists in this world." My third disciple looked at me with an expression of reverence.

  It makes me quite proud to see my three disciples like this, but I immediately remember our purpose.

  "What happened to the money we found?" I asked my senior apprentice as I looked at him.

  "Master, we have cleared out the collective property of the mountain stronghold, totaling about 350,000 taels of white silver." Li Da said with a proud face.

  "How can there be no other valuables? It's impossible that the robbery was only for money. What about the gold, silver and jewels?" Yu Jie asked with a puzzled expression.

  "It goes without saying, it must be in that Li Si's little treasure trove. I'll let my second brother keep an eye on it. Let's go take a look and see what treasures are inside!" And then this kid Li Da actually didn't even wait for me before taking the lead and walking ahead, showing no respect for his master at all.

  "Li Da, I haven't left yet!" I said coolly, looking at him.

  Li Da Yi took one look at me and thought to himself: "Oh no, I just let Master go ahead of us earlier, what am I going to do now?"

  Li's eyes blinked, and he immediately said respectfully: "Master, I was leading the way in front, afraid that Master would take a detour!"

  It makes sense when I think about it, and I really don't know where Li Si's room is.

  "Li Da, you're not bad. Master will teach you the ultimate martial arts when we arrive in Beijing. You can lead the way for now." I said loudly. After arriving in Beijing, I was going to teach them Tai Chi Yin Yang anyway, and it wouldn't be a loss for me either.

  "Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!" Li Da immediately became more energetic and ran even faster in front.

  A bamboo house similar to the others appeared before his eyes, it seems that this Li Si is not too stupid after all, he still knows how to do this, to confuse his subordinates and show himself as one of them.

  "Master, I've been watching from here, that little safe definitely hasn't been opened by anyone." Li Er burst out of Li Si's inner room, announcing his great achievement to me with his chest puffed out high.

  "Second brother, I'm telling you, our master is a god! Just now, I saw him transform from a little kid to what he looks like now!" Li Da immediately began boasting to his younger brother about the secret he knew.

  "Big brother, you're not feverish, are you? Are you too excited today, so excited that your brain is muddled? You can even say something like Master is a god, I'm really pitiful to have such a foolish big brother." Li Er started sighing.

  "I really didn't have a high fever, I'm fine, I really saw Master change from a child to what he is now. Ah, you still don't believe me, Master? You ask me if what I said is true?" Li Er was at his wit's end and had no choice but to get me, the person involved, to prove it.

  I gazed at the two treasures, helplessly sighing with a bitter smile - after all, I'm their master! With a surge of my true yuan energy, I slowly transformed from the Sword God's Feathered form back to my original appearance. Shaking my head, I walked towards the house. "Aoyu, you guys come in quickly!" I said lightly.

  Leaving Li Er stunned and Li Da smug, Ah Yu and the others followed me into Li Si's house without any surprise.

  I walked into Li Si's house, wow! It was not just ordinary luxury, stepping into his inner room, a very ordinary style bed made of purple dragon wood lay in the middle. I looked under the bed and smiled faintly, Dad, you didn't think your son's first pot of gold would be obtained so easily, did you?

  My big apprentice immediately ran up from behind, and with one move, he removed the larger wooden bed. A messy "beautiful scene" appeared before us. Li Da sneered and kicked away the cluttered things, and a small iron ring immediately appeared before us.

  My eldest disciple immediately turned his head to look at my third most intelligent disciple, Zhang Yu looked at Li Da, smiled, and walked from beside me to the bedside. It seems that my third disciple is still not bad, not always cold and unfeeling, treating brothers and even this master quite well.

  Zhang Yu walked to the iron ring, stretched out his right hand, and grabbed the iron ring with one hand. He turned it left three times, right four times, and then left four times again. A "clank" sound was heard, and a small stone box emerged from under the ground.

  I walked forward, took a closer look. I looked at the only defensive measure on this stone box - the large stone lock, smiled, and my right hand lightly slid over the stone lock. A sword gleam flashed by, and with a "bang", the large stone lock fell to the ground.

  I looked around at the people staring at the stone box, and I smiled. Who can resist the temptation? I calmly lifted the lid of the stone box, gazing inside. On the surface, I was very calm, but in my heart, a stormy sea had risen. What was it?

  Everyone around looked at everything inside, and for a moment they all quieted down. After a long time, the sound of surprise finally started to echo. What is it? Inside, in addition to thirty 10,000-yuan silver tickets, there was also the national treasure Blood Phoenix, which is worth nearly one million yuan! In addition, there were some jade stones on the side.

  They were all amazed by this Blood Phoenix, but I've been in the Zhang family since I was a child, and I don't know how many treasures like this I've seen. Although this Blood Phoenix is an extreme treasure and proof of the previous dynasty's empress, to me, a cultivator, all of this still can't shock me.

  What shocked me was that these dozen or so jade stones, in the Zhang family's ancestral home I had discovered that the crystal stones used for cultivation or replenishing true yuan energy in the Xianxia world were actually the jade stones of this world. But the best crystal stone I had seen before in the Zhang family's ancestral home was only a high-quality crystal stone. I thought that there wouldn't be any top-grade crystal stones in this world.

  Among these dozen or so pieces, two of them are actually top-grade crystal stones, and the remaining five are high-grade crystal stones. The other eight are mid-grade crystal stones. Good heavens, this top-grade jade stone is extremely rare even in the Cultivation Realm. If it were an ordinary cultivator, they wouldn't be able to use it at all. Only the elders or sect masters of large sects, as well as the next generation's successors, have the qualifications to enjoy it. Moreover, it has a very special feature: generally, crystal stones that have been drained of energy will turn into powder, but only top-grade crystal stones, after being fully absorbed of their energy, will transform into flawless, unblemished jadeite, although its hardness will decrease to that of high-grade crystal stone.

  I suddenly thought of Zhang Yu, his father was a very famous jade carver, maybe he knew where this top-grade crystal stone would be. I couldn't bear my anxious mood anymore. With one stretch of my hand, I took over those few pieces of jade (from now on in the text, crystal stones will all be referred to as jade stones, and the grade of jade is equivalent to that of crystal stones), they all fell into my hands.

  I took a glance at Yu Jie and the others who were still observing Xue Feng, then said loudly: "Wang Ge, now that you're in charge of our finances, take these things first. From now on, we are all one entity, whatever difficulties we encounter, we must speak out, remember, we are a whole."

  "Yes, Master (Young Master) (Second Brother)". Everyone was looking at me, very happy, because everyone had a sense of home, we were all relatives.

  Wang Ge immediately started packing up all of his belongings, and everyone else helped move things.

  "Zhang Yu, go visit your father for me. I have some questions about jade that I want to ask him, and it's been a while since I last went to see him, he's still not doing well." I said with a smile to Zhang Yu.

  "Alright, Master, I'll lead the way." Zhang Yu walked ahead with a calm expression, but his heart was uneasy. The little kid beside him spoke to himself in the tone of a master, which seemed amusing on the surface, but when he faced his master, all he saw was his towering figure, and didn't notice that his master was just a small child. He became even more convinced that he hadn't chosen the wrong master.

  I followed Zhang Yu over a small stone bridge, and a thatched hut appeared before my eyes. A middle-aged man of about forty was chopping fine bamboo with a bamboo knife on the empty ground outside his house. The more he chopped, the finer the bamboo became, but he continued to chop without cutting off the already very thin bamboo strip. I observed all this with my spiritual awareness.

  He has no martial arts skills, why does he have eyesight better than those who practice martial arts? His knife is just an ordinary cleaver, why can he easily split the bamboo in two with it?

  "Dad, I've brought my master to see you!" Zhang Yu excitedly shouted at the middle-aged man.

  Oh, so he's Zhang Yu's father, the chief sculptor of the world's number one jade store. I thought to myself as I looked at him.

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