Chapter 189 Master's Masterpiece
There were many people involved in sending Ji You to the Snow Region, but no matter what, the matter was still decided by the Office of Administration.

Although immortal cultivators do not receive orders from the emperor and do not need to report to the emperor of Daxia, they still have to report to the academy after returning from a mission. This has always been the established procedure of Tianshu Academy.

But seeing that Ji You did not come, the three leaders discussed it and then sent someone to invite him in person.

Not long after the disciple of the Director's Office received the order and left the Director's Office, a middle-aged man in the official uniform of the Great Xia entered the Director's Building in the Director's Office.

The three managers were drinking tea and waiting for someone at this time. Before they could open their mouths, they saw the person in front of them bowing forward.

"Master Qin, Master Lang, Master Ji, I am the Minister of Revenue, Dou Xiong. I am honored to meet you three masters."

"Oh? It's Lord Dou. I'm sorry for not welcoming you in person. Please take a seat."

Tianshuyuan is the holy sect of Daxia. The head of the sect was once related to the royal family by marriage, and the ancestor of Daxia was originally from Tianshuyuan. Therefore, even though the world of Qingyun is dominated by immortals today, Tianshuyuan still has a good attitude towards the senior officials of the Xia Dynasty.

But there has never been much interaction between them.

After all, they are in charge of the affairs of the institute, whether overt or covert, and they still have to ensure that they remain independent to a certain extent and not get too close to worldly forces. This is the institute's rules.

Although the three people in charge of the academy like to put on airs, they have always regarded the prestige of Tianshu Academy as their lifelong philosophy and they also respect the academy rules.

Unless someone gives you a lot...

There is an old saying in Qingyun that one does not visit a temple for no reason, especially when it comes to people with whom one has no contact on weekdays. So Qin Rong could not help but ask, "I wonder why Lord Dou came here today?"

"I want to sue the disciples of Tianshu Academy for committing murder in the streets of Shengjing!"

"Oh? Is this true?" Qin Rong's expression suddenly became serious.

"Today at 9:00 pm, someone drew his sword for no reason and chopped off the lion's head in front of my house. Everyone in Shengjing can testify to this!"

"Who dares to act like this?"

"Ji You!"

Dou Xiong stood in the hall of the master's building with a look of grief and anger on his face.

The Immortal Supervisor ignored him? He still wrote poems? He should be honored by the history books for all eternity? Then he would report to the immortals!

In short, he could not accept the fact that his son could never return to Beijing.

In Dou Xiong's opinion, the Tianshu Academy did not like Ji You. Otherwise, when his son designed to lure Ji You to the Snow Region as an envoy, the Office of Management would not have stepped in to add fuel to the fire.

Even though some elders from the inner courtyard were definitely behind this, the Office of Administration did not want Ji You to live in peace.

As an inner court disciple of Tianshu Academy, Ji You is not afraid of Sixianjian, and Sixianjian does not want to go against him, but he is still afraid of Tianshu Academy.

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After Dou Xiong finished speaking, he clapped his hands outside, and then he saw several servants of the Dou Mansion carrying a box into the master's courtyard.

Then the box was opened, and the bright yellow light shone brightly.

When you ask someone to do something for you and they ask you for help, if they are unreasonable, you must be polite.

This rule has been followed in Qingyun Tianxia for thousands of years, and since Dou Xiong came from the officialdom of Daxia and was once one of the important officials in charge of taxation, he naturally knows this well.

Qin Rong was startled when he saw this, and looked at Lang Hetong and Ji Jingyao who were sitting opposite him. The three of them simultaneously thought of the sword energy they had just felt in the western part of Shengjing City.

Everyone knows that the only one who can carry such a powerful sword spirit here is Ji You.

But it was not until this moment that they knew where the sword had fallen.

The role played by Dou Yuankong in the mission was no secret. The three leaders thought about the cause and effect at this time and felt that this sword was not without reason.

Lang Hetong put down his teacup and said with a smile: "It's just a pair of stone lions. You can change them for another pair. Besides, you should also know the situation between our human race and the demon race. Stone lions are no longer suitable for display."

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"When the ancient descendants ruled all the races, they not only liked to eat people alive, but also liked to pull out the true spirits of the demon race, forcing them to return to their ancestral form and tie them at the door. Their methods were extremely cruel, and your bad habit of placing a lion in front of the door was inherited from that time. This is a shame for the demon race."

Lang Hetong looked at him and said, "The demon race promised not to be an enemy of our human race. In the future, the two races will have more exchanges. Lord Dou, if you keep this lion, it will cause trouble sooner or later."

Minister Dou did not come here to talk about Qingyun's history. After hearing this, he could not help but say, "The lion is fine. It would not be a big deal if it is not displayed. But the key is my son."

"Your Majesty?"

"After Ji You cut down the stone lion in front of my house, he threatened me that my son would never be able to return to Beijing. I would like to ask Tianshuyuan to make the decision on this matter. I don't need him to compensate me for the lion, but I want my son to come back and also ask him to apologize to my Dou Mansion!"

Ji Jingyao asked at this time: "Where is your son now?"

Dou Xiong heard the voice and said, "My son was invited by a friend a few days ago to leave Beijing for a winter tour."

The old father did not mention at all how his son packed his bags in a hurry and left Beijing after hearing the news that Ji You had returned to Jiuzhou. This was basically the same answer whenever someone asked him about it.

Winter travel.

Hearing this, the three managers looked at each other, but no one spoke.

At this moment, a disciple came back from outside the door, bowed in the hall and said, "Master, Ji You is here to report."

Manager Qin turned to look at Dou Xiong and said, "Ji You is here, Minister Dou, how about... stepping aside for a while?"

In fact, Dou Xiong was a little scared when he heard Ji You's name, not because of how strong he was, but because he never understood the rules and never considered face.

So after showing a vicious expression, the Minister Dou stood up and went behind the screen. After a moment, he said, "I'm just standing here. Will he find me?"

Manager Lang thought for a moment, then waved his sleeves and a ray of mysterious light instantly fell on the screen, concealing his breath.

Dou Xiong breathed a sigh of relief, then looked towards the front hall from behind the screen.

Unlike what one might have imagined, Ji You did not enter the room respectfully. Instead, he held his head high and chest out, which made Minister Dou frown slightly.

What puzzled him the most was that after this country private cultivator came in, the first thing he looked at was not the three masters, but the box of gold he brought with him, and then the three masters.

Ji You suddenly raised the corner of his mouth, and his mood improved a lot: "Meet the three masters."

Qin Rong was surprised at his politeness. He looked at the other two and said, "Ji You, sit down."

"Thank you for the seat, Master."

"We have already learned about the process of this mission to the Snow Region through the communication from the Sixian Supervisor. We summoned you here just to go through the process. We will not ask you any more questions here. There are just some files that require your signature."

Manager Qin took out several case files, all of which were covered with densely written words.

Ji You took a look at it and found that it was basically a summary document written based on the message from the Sixianjian, describing the entire journey of their mission to the Snow Region.

Shi Junhao and Xiao Hanyan have both signed, and now only Ji You is left.

“It’s good to just go through the process.”

Ji You picked up the pen and signed his name while muttering something, then a light flashed on his waist and there was a rustling sound, and he was ready to start the process.

Minister Dou was standing behind the screen at this time. He raised his eyebrows when he heard the voice, and saw the broken swords scattered all over the floor of the office.

The specifications and styles of these swords are similar, and they should have been bought together. Not much can be seen from the broken pieces of the sword body, but the hilts can be seen.

There were dozens of sword handles on the ground.

After he woke up in the snowy area, in addition to wanting the gold nugget hanging on the beam, he also asked Gongshu Chou for the broken swords he had retrieved.

Gongshu Chou didn't quite understand at the time. Since the sword was already broken, what was the point of it?

Now, this is useful.

Qin Rong, Lang Hetong and Ji Jingyao's expressions froze and their right eyelids twitched wildly.

Ji You did not see their expressions, but murmured, "During my mission to the Snow Region, I shot a spirit sword with my bow, and when I slashed the Barbarian Soldier King with my sword, forty-one swords were broken, which are worth about three thousand taels."

Dou Xiong: “?”

The corner of Qin Rong's mouth twitched: "If I remember correctly, those swords were bought for you by my Office of the Headmaster to support your mission?"

Ji You was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "Really?"

"Yes."

"Oh? I forgot about this..."

Ji You glanced at the debris on the ground and asked, "Does this mean you won't have to pay for it?"

Qin Rong was stunned for a while: "We paid for it in the first place, why should we pay for it?"

"But I don't have a sword."

"You don't have fifty spirit swords, do you?"

Ji You was silent for a long time. "Okay, I won't charge you for these, but when I was fighting the demon general in Yuyuan, two precious swords that I cherished since I was a child were taken away. They were obtained during a strange encounter of falling off a mountain. They will cost you five thousand taels in total."

Qin Rong frowned at this time and turned to look at the other two managers beside him.

Lang Hetong stood up and went to the case file room at the back to take out the case file. After looking through it for a long time, he asked with some doubt: "Didn't you kill that demon general in the end?"

Ji You turned around and looked: "Yes, he was killed, but I searched his whole body and couldn't find my knife."

"But I remember you never used a knife?" Ji You looked at him, thinking, "You haven't gone out to kill anyone, have you?" "Master Lang, you are joking. Who doesn't have some hidden means of saving their lives? Otherwise, how could I, a rural private cultivator, survive in this world where I am targeted everywhere?"

Hearing the words "targeted everywhere", Lang Hetong was speechless for a moment, and then he saw Ji Jingyao also stood up, came up to him and read the case file again.

When he saw that the demon general beat Ji You with his bare hands, leaving him covered with knife wounds, and now heard that Ji You had lost two precious swords that he had cherished since childhood and were worth more than five thousand taels, his mind couldn't help but stop working.

At this time, Ji You looked at the box of gold in the hall: "Actually, these are enough."

Seeing this, Qin Rong held his breath and suddenly realized that he had misunderstood since he entered the door.

What he meant by simplifying the process was that he no longer needed to personally write a case file on the entire mission to the demon tribe. He only needed to sign the summons from the Sixianjian as the draft.

What he finally understood was to just give the money directly.

"Then I'm welcome?"

Ji You waved his sleeves and put the box of gold into his storage gourd. He couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth: "I have already prepared it, but you are still acting here. In fact, I have always disliked your office. I think you are too pretentious, but now I have changed my mind."

Qin Rong wanted to stop him, but he hesitated before extending his hand.

Because he felt that if they stopped him at this time, the money for the two swords that Ji You lost would have to be paid by their office.

Forget it, just think of it as Minister Dou dropping a box of gold here, and then Ji You picked it up...

At this time, Lang Hetong and Ji Jingyao looked at each other, and then looked in the direction of the screen calmly.

After collecting the gold, Ji You stood up from the hall of the Director's Office, looked at Qin Rong and said, "Next time if there is such a good thing, call me. As a disciple of the Heavenly Academy, I have to share the worries of the Heavenly Academy."

No, no more shouting.

Your daughter is very precious.

Before leaving, he was given ten thousand taels of gold and three thousand spirit stones, which was already a huge amount. Afterwards, he owed him a debt at Qionghua Pavilion, which was probably about the same amount.

Now he is back and has taken away almost the same amount.

Although the seven major immortal sects are supported by the people in the underground and do not care much about these yellow and white things, they do not produce anything and usually need to spend a lot of money to buy elixirs. Such consumption is also very shocking.

The three managers were no longer clear at this time whether this was a trick to trick him or to help the poor.

Seeing Ji You walking out of the Council of Executive Yuan, Minister Dou came out from behind the screen in some astonishment, staring at the distance for a long time, not understanding why Ji You dared to be so arrogant in front of the Council of Executive Yuan.

This was completely different from what he had imagined when he came here, which was the scene where Ji You bowed his head and admitted his mistake under pressure from Tianshu Academy.

Manager Qin saw his confusion, stood up from the wooden chair and spoke slowly.

"Do you think his disregard for the rules is something he only does outside?"

"Do not."

"When Ji You's talent gradually emerged, it surprised some people. Some people were afraid that he would hinder the second son of the Chu family from being promoted to the inner court, so they asked us to send him to Qiling to investigate the large-scale escape of the evil species from the ruins."

"That time when he came back to report, he rode a sword over the mountain and walked past me with sword energy all over his body."

"Some people say that no matter how strong a cultivator is, he cannot compare to someone with a powerful background. Ji You is just a rural private cultivator and is not to be feared. But later people gradually realized that people who are not afraid of death are actually very scary. Although I don't know if he is really not afraid of death."

After hearing this, Minister Dou frowned and said, "Could it be that the Heavenly Academy, as the Holy Sect of Great Xia and the leader of the seven great immortal sects, can't even discipline a single student?"

Lang Hetong spoke from behind at this time: "I know what Minister Dou was thinking when he came. He thought that I, the head of the Ministry of Affairs, and Ji You were not getting along, and that we also wanted him to live a stable life. In fact, it was true at the beginning, but it was different later."

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"When he was copying the case files a few days ago, Manager Qin told me that he always felt bored when writing this kind of stuff before, but he felt most refreshed when writing about Ji You."

Lang Hetong picked up the signed case file on the table and said, "Do you think this is just a routine matter? No, this will be recorded in the Qingyun Immortal History Zhongtian Academy Volume. Qiling rescued the direct disciple of Danzong, Lingjianshan asked for the way to break through the sword forest, and planned Yuyuan's counterattack in exchange for the Demon Emperor's peace agreement. These are all big things."

"Tianshuyuan always has to leave some stories for future generations to read. We don't care what the high-level leaders of the Immortal Sect decide, but in fact, after asking Lingjianshan, we really admire Ji You."

"Some people say that history is nothing, but we don't want people in the future who read these historical records to ask what happened to Ji You, and be told that he was persecuted to death by the three officials of the Office of Chief Affairs."

At first, Minister Dou wanted to make Ji You suffer from the pressure of Tianshuyuan, and then humiliate him severely when he came to the mansion to apologize.

But it was not until this moment that he suddenly realized what role Ji You played in Tianshu Academy.

For thousands of years, private cultivation in the countryside like Ji You was rare.

His difference comes from his background, which naturally makes him different from other children from aristocratic families. But putting all that aside, no one would question that he is one of the best students in Tianshu Academy in recent years.

If he had not been admitted to the academy in the same year as Chu He, and if he had not insisted on reducing taxes from foreign immortal estates, he would have even entered the Immortal Palace and was doing very well.

Then he would become a disciple of an elder, make friends with all the major families, marry a woman from a famous family, and control one-ninth of the taxes of the human race.

In other words, whether inside or outside Tianshu Academy, the reason why everyone dislikes him is not because they look down on him or want to exclude him, but because he took the initiative to choose this most difficult path.

Before the establishment of the Ji family in Fengzhou, there were actually several elders in the inner courtyard who wanted to choose him as their personal disciple.

It was he who chose to point his sword at Yecheng Mountain, destroy Xianzhuang, and cut taxes.

In other words, from the very beginning, he was the one who excluded everyone.

But what does the Dou family have?
The Dou family was just a new noble family that became vassals of Wei Li when he was in power. In the Qingyun world where imperial power was lower than immortal power, Dou Xiong, the Minister of Revenue, was not even a powerful official.

The three heads of Tianshu Academy would take action against Ji You because of family reasons and the reasons of the inner court elders, but how could they deal with Ji You for the sake of a mortal family?

That guy is the one who dares to kill the King of Soldiers with a sword in the wilderness.

Only then did Dou Xiong finally accept the reality and realized that he had thought too little of Ji You.

His son's sudden inspiration might really make it impossible for him to return to Beijing in his lifetime.

At this time, Manager Qin patted Minister Dou on the shoulder and said, "Actually, Lord Dou, there is no need to be so anxious. Since Ji You has accepted your money, it means that there is still room for easing the situation. Just take your time. Let your son travel outside for a while, and he will eventually calm down."

Dou Xiong looked up at him, his mouth twitching as he spoke: "Really? But you didn't seem to say that the box of gold was given by me."

"Um, I forgot about this..."

"..."

At this time, Ji You had already left the Office of the President. He had so much money that he even had the urge to treat everyone. It was really scary.

Then he walked along the mountain path into the vast forest and returned to his own courtyard.

The inner courtyard disciples are also under the charge of the head courtyard's daily affairs. They have learned of Ji You's return, and have cleared the fallen leaves in the courtyard and added new water to the water tank.

However, because it had not been occupied for a long time, there was still a closed and stale smell in the room.

Ji You stepped inside, opened the doors and windows, then took out the quilt from the bottom of the camphorwood box, shook out the cotton wool and hung it on the bamboo rack in the yard to dry.

Then he turned back to the house, cleaned the furnace, started the fire with firewood, threw in charcoal, used spiritual energy to ignite it, and boiled a pot of tea.

After everything was done, he took out the letter with "Nanhua City - Ding Wanqiu" written on it from his arms.

Just now, because he was in a hurry to go to the Office of the Administrator to ask for money, Ji You was a little afraid that after opening the letter, he would be in a bad mood and would not be able to open his mouth wide enough when he saw the head of the Office of the Administrator, so he kept the letter until now.

At this time, Ji You brewed the tea and slowly opened the envelope.

But when the papers in the envelope were unfolded under the bright winter day, Ji You's eyes froze.

At first he thought the letter would be a long, somewhat stiff but inexhaustible speech. After all, he had been away for so long, he must have a lot to say.

It might be about breaking through the realm, or asking him some questions about his mission to the demon tribe, but what Ji You didn't expect was that there were no words in the letter at all.

What is inside is not a letter, but a painting.

It’s not quite accurate to call it a painting, as there are only two stick-figure-like figures on it.

The one on the right should be a woman. The head is depicted as a black circle with a dot and a hook in the middle, which should be the eyes and mouth. The black lines hanging from the top of the head represent the hair. She holds a long sword in her hand and is thrusting forward in a bow stance.

As for the long sword, it was actually just a horizontal line drawn by ink, but with Ji You's intelligence, he recognized it at a glance.

On the left side of the picture is another rough little person, who is even more crudely drawn. There is a dot drawn on the black ink dot representing the head, like a hair crown. Then, the long sword in the hand of the female little person pierces the heart and is picked up in the air, like a roasted chicken... The posture of lowering the head and hunching the chest is very vivid.

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Ji You looked at the letter and suddenly fell silent.

What do you mean?
Are you going to kill me with this sword?

Ji You thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. He thought to himself that there was nothing in my letter that would anger this arrogant guy.

After staring at it for a long time, he put the letter down, picked up the teacup and took a sip slowly, thinking that maybe he had gone astray when he broke through the realm...

But what can I say about this painting? Although it doesn’t have any aesthetic appeal, it somehow makes people feel very cute.

The Little Master of Lingjian Mountain is the fastest person in the world at Yingtian Realm, and the weapon master of Lingjian Mountain. He is also extremely beautiful. I didn't expect that the paintings he drew would be so childish.

While thinking, Ji You seemed to imagine a fairy with bare snow-white jade feet, a fierce expression, holding a brush and splashing ink, and finally completed a picture with the clumsy brush of a child.

(Ask for monthly ticket)

(End of this chapter)