nyslfriends Chapter 60 Ling'er's Background
Chapter 60 Ling'er's Background
"The Moon Demon is a thing of the past; now this is Huanzhu Tower."
Li Qingyi stood with his hands behind his back, calmly gazing at the beautiful woman who had come uninvited.
The person who came was the seemingly frail woman from the blacksmith's shop last night.
"So it's my benefactor." Zhao Mengxi's lips curled into a meaningful smile as she moved gracefully, her skirt trailing on the ground.
"Last night's life-saving grace... how does my benefactor wish to repay me? I have no way to repay you except to offer myself to you."
She completely ignored Li Qingyi's words and walked to her side, her voice carrying a hint of seduction.
"This woman is a lunatic!" Li Qingyi made the judgment in an instant.
When Zhao Mengxi made a move to throw herself into his arms, Li Qingyi subtly moved and nimbly dodged her.
"What brings you here, young lady?"
Zhao Mengxi wasn't annoyed. She sat down comfortably in the main seat, covered her mouth with her slender fingers, and yawned.
"Didn't the Moon Demon tell you anything?"
"He died too quickly, he didn't have a chance to say it."
"Then you really are unlucky." Zhao Mengxi chuckled, a hint of amusement in her eyes.
"But meeting me is your good fortune."
Li Qingyi asked, "What do you mean?"
She looked Li Qingyi up and down with a half-smile:
"Moon Demon, no, or rather, your Huanzhu Tower is actually a property of the Zhao family. Eighty percent of the monthly profits have to be offered as tribute."
Li Qingyi: "???"
He finally understood; after all that, he was working for someone else.
He did not doubt what Zhao Mengxi said. After all, a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining would not bother to fabricate lies to obtain worldly things.
Moreover, the other party is very likely to be involved with the Purple Mansion Immortal Clan.
Seeing that Li Qingyi remained silent, she continued:
"I'm giving you two choices now: one, obediently pay tribute; two, become my lover."
Li Qingyi's lips twitched, and a series of props such as steel wool and small leather whips inexplicably appeared in his mind.
"No, I refuse."
Zhao Mengxi was clearly taken aback, obviously not expecting him to give this answer.
"If you come with me, you'll get plenty of benefits." Her voice was soft and seductive. "This is a special exception made just for you."
Li Qingyi sneered inwardly, 'Unsolicited kindness is either a tactic or a thief.'
He didn't believe the other party was truly kind; there must be another motive.
He simply couldn't figure out what the woman was trying to do.
"Thank you for your kindness, Miss Zhao, but I am unworthy of it."
"You're now at the third level of Qi Refining, and the resources you need for cultivation are no small amount," Zhao Mengxi coaxed patiently. "Be my man, and I'll give you five spirit stones every month, and I'll also exempt you from paying tribute to the Zhao family."
However, Li Qingyi didn't believe the woman in front of her at all. "I refuse."
"Aren't you worried about the money?"
"In the pursuit of immortality and enlightenment, why bother with mundane matters?"
"You really are interesting." Zhao Mengxi's interest deepened. "I'm becoming more and more interested in you."
Upon hearing this, Li Qingyi felt a chill run down her spine. "This young lady of the Zhao family really has something wrong with her head."
Seeing his silence, Zhao Mengxi looked hurt.
Before leaving, she tossed a scroll aside: "Find this person for me."
"Tsk, they really are treating me like a subordinate." Li Qingyi clicked her tongue lightly.
Li Qingyi unfurled the scroll, her pupils contracting slightly—it was a portrait of Ling'er!
"Is this correct?"
Li Qingyi immediately recalled her experience in the last simulation, "No way... what a coincidence?"
He immediately controlled the Green Puppet to go find Ling'er.
Qingkui gently knocked on the door. Ling'er, who was cultivating, heard the sound and was about to open the door.
But remembering that Li Qingyi had gone to a brothel last night, his face immediately darkened, and he said coldly:
"What is it?"
The unfriendly tone startled Li Qingyi.
"Did I provoke her?" Li Qingyi couldn't help but fall into deep thought. "I didn't provoke her!?"
Unable to figure it out, Li Qingyi decided to stop thinking about it and asked directly:
"Ling'er, what is your connection with the Zhao family of Zichuan?"
Ling'er, who was inside the room, paused for a moment, then spoke calmly:
"Ling'er was orphaned at a young age and lived by begging from the time she could remember. When she was eight years old, she met her master, who said that she had a connection with him and took her to the Zhengyang Immortal Sect to cultivate."
Li Qingyi then asked, "And who gave you your name?"
"My master saw that I was clever and cute, so he named me Ling'er. At that time, I had a jade pendant with the character Zhao engraved on it, so I was called Zhao Ling'er."
"Have you ever suspected that you have any connection with the Zhao family of Zichuan?"
Ling'er's tone revealed no emotion:
"Whether it is or not is no longer important. The Purple Mansion's methods are all-encompassing. If I were truly related to the Zhao family, why would I have been begging for so many years?"
"Even if I truly have some connection with the Zhao family, now that I am a true disciple of the Purple Mansion of the Zhengyang Immortal Sect, why should I shamelessly seek kinship?"
Although Ling'er's tone was calm, Li Qingyi could hear the resentment hidden in it.
For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
At this moment, Ling'er, who was inside the room, asked, "Why are you asking these questions?"
Li Qingyi's face twitched, and she thought to herself:
"Looks like I've really offended this girl; she's even stopped calling me 'Brother Qingyi.' But what exactly did I do to make her angry?"
Li Qingyi couldn't understand, but said calmly, "It's nothing, I'm just curious about your background."
"Oh," Ling'er replied coldly, and then ignored her.
Seeing this, Li Qingyi had no choice but to control the green puppet back into the house.
At this moment, he discovered that the magic power in the Green Puppet's body had been restored to its full strength, so he ordered him to continue drawing the Golden Body Talisman.
As for himself, he would have to become a ruthless killer.
"This Listening Rain Pavilion really takes on all kinds of jobs."
While browsing the task list, Li Qingyi discovered that there were even tasks involving slaying demonic beasts and obtaining their demonic essence crystals.
Without hesitation, he accepted the mission to go to the Tianyun Mountains outside Xuan Ce City, slay the Qi Refining Level 3 demon beast Thunder Tiger, and obtain its complete corpse.
Reward: 200 contribution points.
Gazing at the scenery outside the window, Li Qingyi thought to herself:
"Ling'er might actually have some connection with that Purple Mansion Immortal Clan."
While he was pondering, he had already left Huanzhulou, passed through the hidden formation, and arrived at the inner courtyard of Wangchunlou.
During the day, Wangchun Tower is sparsely populated, with the girls all resting.
After taking only two steps, Li Qingyi bumped into two unexpected figures—
It was none other than Qiu Ming, the head of the Qiu family, and Zhang Fang, whose limbs had been broken.
The moment Li Qingyi saw Zhang Fang, she immediately recognized him as the loyal guard who had protected his master during the corpse puppet's tribulation.
"What does Patriarch Qiu mean by this?" Li Qingyi asked.
Qiu Ming was shocked, never expecting that the other party could see through his identity at a glance.
"This new leader is indeed unfathomable."
Qiu Ming respectfully said:
"This fellow has a close relationship with Yue Sha, so I have specially sent him here for the leader to deal with as he sees fit."
Qiu Ming was shocked when he heard the news of the change of ownership of the Moon Demon last night.
In order to curry favor with Yue Sha, he made Zhang Fang a retainer of the Qiu family and claimed to the outside world that the two were as close as brothers.
Now that the Moon Demon has been destroyed, he is naturally eager to distance himself from the situation.
In addition, having some knowledge of the Leng family massacre, and hearing that Leng Qiuyi had a close relationship with the new leader, he decisively dismissed Zhang Fang and sent him to curry favor.
Li Qingyi smiled calmly: "Patriarch Qiu is too kind. Besides, Yue Sha is dead, and this is now Huanzhu Tower."
Qiu Ming understood immediately: "It was a slip of the tongue. In that case, I won't bother you any longer. If you need anything, you can send someone to the Qiu family to find me at any time."
Looking at Zhang Fang, who lay there like a dead dog, Li Qingyi was filled with mixed emotions.
In this world of cultivation, the weak truly find it difficult to gain a foothold.
"Guards, take him away and hand him over to Vice Master Leng for further processing." Li Qingyi's voice echoed through Wangchun Tower.
After giving his instructions, he turned and left.
No sooner had he left than someone dragged Zhang Fang toward the Huanzhulou dungeon.
The news of the change of ownership of the Moon Fiend has spread like wildfire throughout Xuan Ce City.
"You have no idea what happened last night. It was so brutal! The Moon Fiend leader was skinned alive and his tendons were pulled out!"
"And that new leader..."
Someone hurriedly interrupted, "What leader? You should call him 'Lord'! Huanzhulou issued a notice last night that Yue Sha is dead, and now it's called Huanzhulou. Don't get it wrong and implicate us."
"I heard that the master of that building is a Qi Refining Stage 3 immortal, capable of summoning wind and rain and heavenly fire with a wave of his hand!"
"Such miraculous skills are truly enviable."
"I also want to embark on the path to immortality and experience what it's like to be an immortal."