Volume 1: Huashan Immortal Gate Chapter 102: The Ancestor's Decision

  The head of general food can't be eaten, but there are exceptions, such as fish heads.

  Pickled pepper fish head is a pretty good dish.

  The key to this dish is to remove the fishy smell, first marinate the fish with a small amount of salt and cooking wine for a period of time, topped with ginger shreds. Second, pour oil, use boiling hot oil to pour over those chili peppers and various seasonings, this dish is heavy on oil and spicy.

  The dish has a bright red color, rich flavor, and tender meat. The fish head is soft and glutinous, fatty but not greasy, salty, fresh, and spicy.

  Finally managed to get this dish of chopped pepper fish head done, looking at the big green flower porcelain bowl in the chopped pepper fish head, that tender fish head, red hot peppers, can't help but swallow saliva.

  My own taste is really too biased towards spicy food, I'm addicted to spicy food.

  But if you like spicy food, then just enjoy it, as long as you're happy with what you eat.

  He brought the bowl of chopped pepper fish head to the middle of the courtyard, under several bamboo leaves in the courtyard there was a bluestone table and four bluestone chairs. Sitting on the bluestone chair, he savored this dish with relish.

  A sip of wine with a bite of food.

  Even if I were a god, I wouldn't trade.

  Savoring this delicious dish is so satisfying, taking a few sips of wine, feeling extremely happy and carefree.

  Bamboo groves on both sides, bamboo shadows are moving, and the pool water in the courtyard is flowing slowly.

  At this time, Li Fang hurriedly walked in: "Young Master, Young Master."

  Lu Yuan didn't rush to answer him, first finishing the wine in his cup before saying: "What's up?" Isn't this guy already busy enough being depressed in prison, how does he have time to look for me now?

  Li Fang said, "Young Master, what should we do now? Shouldn't we take advantage of this opportunity to extort the leaders of these more than ten forces?" As soon as Li Fang finished speaking, he realized that he was no longer the serious old man he used to be, and he didn't have the habit of extortion.

  Can't help but admit, the last time watching Xiao Zhuang extorting Sun Tiangang was really too enjoyable. Now that there are so many hostages in hand, I couldn't help but start thinking like this again.

  One should be serious and strict with oneself as an elder.

  Li Fang found that his original image was getting farther and farther away from himself.

  Lu Yuan picked up a fish: "No, this time we can't extort them. We're all fellow cultivators, how can we keep extorting each other? This is too discordant."

  Li Fang was taken aback, "Huh? The young master has changed his ways and suddenly become so righteous?"

  Lu Yuan said in a deep voice, "The Zong Lao Hui is responsible for managing all disputes between the various Xian Men of the Great Jin Nation's Xian world. Of course, it cannot interfere with the internal affairs of an individual Xian Men. The Great Jin Nation's Xian world is basically dominated by the five major Xian Men, and the members of the Zong Lao Hui are also mainly from the five major Xian Men."

  "Now, this dispute makes me think, the royal family with a thousand-year history, the Wang family, and the imperial family related to the Jin dynasty, the Qian family that serves as a backing for the middle-ranking immortal sects, plus other forces such as the seven or eight great powers. The strength of these people in the Zong Lao Hui is far inferior to that of the five major immortal sects, yet they are so bold and daring as to launch a preemptive attack on the Li family's mountain estate of Huashan, this is no light offense."

  "If they hadn't fallen into our hands, relying on the Qingcheng Sect and other forces, they could still have a chance to struggle at the Zong Lao Hui, but now it's clearly impossible."

  Lu Yuan smiled: "With such crimes, these forces should all be eliminated from the Dongdao government. It's normal for people like Huang Fengbo, Qian Leng and Wang Hongtu to be imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison of Huashan for hundreds of years until their lifespan ends."

  "So this time we won't extort. Lu Yuan said with a straight face: "The mines in the entire Dongdao Prefecture, we'll take them all."

  Li Fang couldn't help but tears streaming down his face, originally thought he had become not too serious now, thinking of extorting these captured people, didn't expect that the young master was even more vicious and powerful, directly thinking of pushing this matter to the Zong Lao Hui, according to the rules of the Zong Lao Hui game, occupying all the mines in the Dong Dao Fu area.

  "Then there's the Sun family manor with Qingcheng Xianmen as its backing?" Li Fang asked.

  "Let the higher-ups handle this matter." Lu Yuan shrugged his shoulders: "The Qingcheng Sect is also one of the five major sects, and at the meeting of the elders, one of the five major sects won't have much advantage over another. However, this time we have more evidence in our hands, and we've captured Sun Tiangang, so the higher-ups will handle it well, there's no need for us to worry."

  It was settled like this, and Li Fang also left quickly.

  Lu Yuan continued drinking his own wine.

  The most important thing for a Xian to accept a disciple is the heart and nature, followed by the root bone. Accepting a disciple with a bad heart and nature will eventually lead to the murder of the master and chaos. After several such incidents occurred in the Xian world, accepting disciples began to prioritize the heart and nature, while other factors took a back seat.

  Cultivation itself emphasizes enlightenment, talent, and resources, none of which can be lacking.

  Talent and insight are innate, if the insight and talent are low, it's hard to cultivate immortality even with great effort. As a true disciple, no one has poor insight or talent, they are generally top-notch, and Lu Yuan's talent is top-notch, his insight is top-notch among the top-notch. As for resources, no matter how high your insight is, or how strong your talent is, you can't do without resources.

  Legend has it that in ancient times, there were people who thought they could become immortals overnight, and then crossed the thunderbolt tribulation to achieve earthly immortality without needing any resources. However, this is just a legend from ancient times, and nowadays such figures basically do not exist.

  People like Lu Yuan also need resources.

  Of course, I've never gone out of my way to demand any resources, and forcibly taking them would go against my nature, making it easy to fall into the demonic path. However, with this resource being delivered right in front of me, why shouldn't I accept it?

  Cultivating immortality is actually a rather difficult thing.

  No resources is not feasible, but blindly pursuing resources can also lead to a devil's path.

  Carefree and doing nothing, being natural and at ease, acting according to one's nature. These twelve words are easy to say but not so easy to do.

  After sending things to the upper house and sending them to Zonglao Hui, Lu Yuan restored his usual carefree life.

  The current Dongdao Prefecture no longer has any power that can rival the Li family's mountain villa. It is said that now, when the cultivators of the Li family's mountain villa go out, they are not just showing their face, but are awe-inspiring, with an aura of invincibility in all eight directions. Now, anyone who is familiar with this circle knows that the various forces of Dongdao Prefecture have been largely eliminated, and those that remain cannot rival the Li family's mountain villa.

  Of course, this has nothing to do with Lu Yuan.

  Lü Yuán's recent days were spent drinking, sleeping, and eating all sorts of delicious food at various restaurants in the East Path Inn. This was basically his life now. Of course, who would have thought that a simple young man dressed in a green robe like Lü Yuán would be the most powerful person in the Li family's mountain estate in the East Path Inn?

  This is a pond.

  The water in the pool is crystal clear, reflecting the willow trees surrounding it like a mirror. The leaves of the willows gently brush against the surface of the water, while birds leap and flutter around them, breaking the stillness of the water's surface. The ripples disturb the reflection of people standing by the pool. By the side of the pool stands only one person in green clothes, wearing a conical hat, making it impossible to discern their features or age.

  A man in a green robe wearing a bamboo hat held a fishing rod, the line slightly moving indicating that there was a fish on the hook. However, this man seemed to be unaware of it and after a long while, he finally came back to his senses: "Oh, I dozed off, and didn't even notice that there's a fish on the hook, what a sin, what a sin." He tried to pull out the fish with one circle of his hand, but the fish had already swallowed the bait and swum away to who-knows-where.

  The young man in blue couldn't help but smile, and wasn't annoyed at all by the fish that had eaten the bait swimming away.

  Fishing is all about the mood.

  A good state of mind makes everything all right.

  Today Luyu rarely went fishing.

  Fishing is one of the rare activities that Lu Yuan likes, where he can sit there motionless for a long time and even take a nap. Such an activity is really hard to come by, it's impossible not to like it.

  Since this fish has swum away, let's go for the next one.

  You have to believe that there are stupid fish that, after taking the bait, don't swim away and instead take a little nap before letting themselves be caught. Since there are people like this in the world who are lazy by nature, then there must also be lazy fish. Just wait here and you'll see. Lu Yuan threw out a worm as bait and cast his line again.

  But this time, I didn't wait for fish, but waited for people first.

  An old man with white hair, Lu Yuan knew this person, whose surname was Lu Ping and who also lived in Beifeng. He had always called him Uncle Lu. Lu Yuan immediately stood up. Although Uncle Lu was a subordinate of his master, he was also his elder. The education at Huashan Xianmen for many years made it a habit to respect elders: "Uncle Lu, you're here?"

  The old man with the surname Lu nodded: "Young master, you did a good job this time. You caught all the leaders of these forces beautifully and used magnetite to record their appearances when they were captured. All of these have become favorable evidence. This time at the Zong Lao Hui, we won a big victory. These forces were all expelled from the Dong Dao Fu, and the mines in this area are now under our control. However, in exchange, the other side paid a not-too-substantial amount of spiritual stone as compensation, and they can ransom those people back."

  The verdict of the Zonglao Association has finally come down.

  As expected, the verdict of the Zong Lao Hui was indeed as I had anticipated. Although the Zong Lao Hui claims to be absolutely fair and just, it is also absolutely biased towards the Five Great Immortal Sects. After all, the Zong Lao Hui is basically composed of people from the Five Great Immortal Sects, and being made up of humans, it can't avoid human emotions. Once a dispute arises, it's normal for them to lean towards the Five Great Immortal Sects.

  "As for the Qingcheng Xianmen, a private agreement was reached with them not to bring Sun Tiangang's matter to the attention of the Zong Lao Hui, so as not to lose face in front of Qingyin Jianxian Sun Qingyi. However, there is also a condition that the Sun family must withdraw from the mines in this area according to the agreement."

  The decision of the village elder seems to have been made like this.

  As for the old man with the surname Lu coming in person, it's probably quite simple. Lu Yuan is just here to hone his skills a bit, and after he's done, he'll be heading back to Mount Hua. Since Li Fang can't hold down the fort well enough, they've sent the old man with the surname Lu to keep things under control around here.

  This matter has finally come to an end.

  People can finally let out a sigh of relief.