#250 - Brother Shi's Methods
#250 - Brother Shi's Methods
Demon Sect.
Azurewood Sect.
Gu An sat by the lake, sighing for what felt like the hundredth time.
Many people had left, some with hope, some making sacrifices, and others like headless flies, drifting with the current.
Perhaps before long, a new sect would emerge in the more distant mountains on the other side.
That side would receive support from the Immortal sects.
While this side would be scorned.
Even besieged.
Besieged, however, was not something Gu An needed to consider at the moment.
What he needed to worry about was Senior Brother Shi.
It seemed he represented not only himself but others as well.
They probably didn't want him to stay in the sect.
After all, with such high merits, he would inevitably be targeted.
Some people could genuinely admire someone's abilities, but someone who climbed up from the bottom might be resented.
Why?
Probably because they felt he wasn't worthy.
After all, he was just a nobody before, and now he's on par with them just because of luck.
This might make them feel that any Tom, Dick, or Harry could be compared to them.
Gu An stood up and sighed.
Now, he didn't know what he should do.
He might as well go back to logging for now.
Afterward, he returned to Peak Outside Peak on his sword.
He arrived at the main courtyard.
There were significantly fewer people.
Gu An looked at the task elder, slightly curious, "Have they all left?"
The task elder looked at Gu An and sighed, "Team Leader Gu, you're still here? Many people have left. Peak Outside Peak is the place for contact with other sects.
Now that the sect has become a Demon Sect, it's dangerous to contact other sects.
After all, we are a Demon Sect."
"Why isn't it safer?" Gu An looked at the other party's puzzled eyes and said, "We are a Demon Sect, and Demon Sects are the most dangerous.
They should be afraid of us.
After all, we might do anything extreme.
Junior Brother, are you afraid of the people from the Immortal sects, or the people from the Demon Sects?"
"Of course, it's the people from the Demon Sects. They have no bottom line and are capable of anything," the task elder said seriously.
As he spoke, he felt it made a lot of sense.
It didn't seem like all bad things.
It's just that going to some places would be very dangerous.
And many problems might arise within the sect.
Murder and robbery are common in the Demon Sect.
Even to refine the Myriad Souls Banner, they could kill half the sect.
The Demon Sect is still dangerous.
Gu An didn't refute.
That was indeed the case.
The Demon Sect had a certain degree of danger.
He'd deal with future matters later.
He should log first.
"I submitted an application before, hoping to open up more of the forest in the back mountain," Gu An looked at the person in front of him and said:
"Does Junior Brother know the result?"
The task elder said seriously, "Originally, it was going to be approved depending on the situation, but the sect suddenly underwent a major change, and it was never followed up.
Moreover, some elders left the sect directly. Now Peak Outside Peak is in a state of semi-paralysis.
Also, Team Leader Gu can see how many people are left under your command.
I'm afraid many will leave."
Gu An nodded, he was somewhat aware of this as well.
He had felt it before.
He didn't know how many of the five people would be left in the end.
Shu Ci probably wouldn't leave, she was already an undercover agent.
As for the others, it was hard to say.
After all, the new sect had made various promises, so it was normal for them to go.
In the Azurewood Sect, they were just ordinary members, doing thankless tasks.
But it would be different in the new sect.
The new sect's Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul stages were far from comparable to the Azurewood Sect.
However, this place had abundant resources, and various spirit woods could not only be traded, but logging itself was a form of tempering.
The Azurewood Sect could be said to disdain this kind of tempering.
They even spent spirit stones to have others help with logging.
But in other sects, did they really have that?
At least Gu An had never encountered such resource tempering when doing tasks in the back mountain.
Relatively speaking, the Azurewood Sect was wealthy.
Of course, the sects he had seen were not major sects.
They were all from small places.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Leaving the main courtyard, Gu An returned to the back mountain and picked up his axe to log.
Duanmu Qingping was a little surprised to see Gu An going to log, "Junior Brother, what are you doing?"
"Logging," Gu An replied truthfully.
"The sect has undergone a drastic change, and you're still in the mood to log?" Duanmu Qingping asked.
"Otherwise, what should I do?" Gu An asked back.
For a moment, Duanmu Qingping was stumped.
Yes, what should he do?
Many people had left Peak Outside Peak, and transactions would be suspended after becoming a Demon Sect.
The people of Peak Outside Peak should be quite idle for a short time.
Since they weren't leaving, they couldn't stop others from leaving.
They couldn't even resist anything.
Then only logging was left.
Realizing this, Duanmu Qingping picked up an axe and followed him to log.
"How many people are left in Junior Brother's second team?" Duanmu Qingping asked during logging.
Gu An shook his head, "Hard to say, what about that team?"
"Only the team leader and I are left. Many people have left the main courtyard as well.
And the people from the front courtyard, the people from the right courtyard, many people have left," Duanmu Qingping sighed:
"I don't know what will happen in the future. We will be Demon Sect disciples in the future.
Fortunately, I don't have any family members, otherwise, what would I say when I go back?"
Gu An nodded slightly, "Fortunately, I am also alone, so I don't have to worry about these things."
In the middle of the night.
Duanmu Qingping left.
Gu An continued to log alone.
At this time, bitter cultivation was full, and spells were slowly increasing.
In one day, it only increased a little.
That was still with good luck.
Because the future environment was uncertain, he needed to save bitter cultivation. If he was really desperate, he would exchange it for the Void Return Method.
Then advance.
If he could choose, he would naturally want to improve his Qi Sea Heavenly罡.
He found that after the fourth volume, the Qi Sea Heavenly罡 was completely different.
Poisons were cracking.
The Xuanhuang Qi was even more remarkable.
He could give up before, but now...
He really couldn't bear to.
Returning to the courtyard, Gu An found four people standing at the door.
It was the four members of the second team.
"Team Leader," Pang Wen and the others respectfully saluted.
Gu An looked at them. Pang Wen was there, Shu Ci was there, Ruan Huan was there, and Shang Huo was also there.
That is to say, Leng Xin, who was at the Perfection of Foundation Establishment, was missing.
He could feel that the other party had ambitions when he first saw him.
Now it was reasonable for him to leave.
"Just the four of you?" Gu An looked at them and asked.
"Yes," Pang Wen said, "Leng Xin decided to develop in the new sect."
"Well, that's good too," Gu An nodded and said, "We will be Demon Sect disciples in the future. Be careful when going out. Ask Shu Ci about this matter. She is knowledgeable and may understand how to be a Demon Sect disciple."
For a moment, everyone looked at Shu Ci.
The latter said somewhat awkwardly, "Team Leader, I don't quite understand either, but if everyone trusts me, I can talk to you about it."
She started talking about how to be a Demon Sect disciple in Gu An's courtyard.
Duanmu Qingping, who was passing by, was stunned.
She also started listening.
Simply put, it was to hide their identities.
Because the Azurewood Sect was only a Demon Sect in name, there was no problem with the cultivation methods.
When going out, there was no problem as long as they didn't wear sect clothes.
It wasn't as dangerous as they thought.
If their identities were known, there was no need to worry about anything.
Being able to win is fine, but if not, I'll just make sure to run away in time, so I need to practice my movement techniques.
But there are also advantages, such as being able to flaunt my Demon Sect identity when buying things.
They are all afraid of danger, so they'll be a bit more gentle when ripping me off.
Gu An listened, filled with emotions.
Helplessly, everyone began to adapt to the Demon Sect life.
Just then, he suddenly received feedback from the Ring of Destiny.
【Yesterday afternoon, Shi Yuan saw that you were not threatened, and knew that you would definitely stay in the sect. To make you suffer a bit, he found someone to assign you a sect mission.
Tomorrow, the mission will fall into your hands.
At this time, the sect is in a state of chaos, and logging will definitely be affected.
The people in the Law Enforcement Hall will not manage this kind of thing at all.
They mostly issue temporary tasks, asking people to handle them.
Record absences, fine spirit stones, or arrest people and confine them.
This time, he plotted for you to get the position of mission leader.
The rest of the people are his men, and no one will cooperate with you.
When facing some fellow disciples in the late stage of the Golden Core realm, you can only leave with your tail between your legs.
In addition, this is a task that has been abandoned by others.
At that time, the entire sect will resent you.】
Gu An's expression did not change in any way.
This senior brother is indeed kind, actually letting me do such a task.
Now is the time of great change in the sect, normally speaking, no one would pay attention to logging matters.
But precisely because no one is paying attention, the matter of exempting all logging tasks has not been implemented.
Now they still want me to record and punish people.
It is indeed a bit inhumane.
But it also seems to fit the characteristics of the Demon Sect.
And doing this thing, I will definitely be criticized, and if I do it well, I will be resented by countless people.
Sooner or later, something will happen.
If I don't do it well...
I will also be criticized.
Because there will always be a part of people who have logged, wouldn't they feel that they logged for nothing?
This is a task that is impossible to please everyone.
At first, Gu An thought that Senior Brother Shi would find a way to sneak attack him and kill him.
At that time, he only needed to sneak attack back, but now it seems that the other party did not want to directly attack.
And recently, the Law Enforcement Hall seems to be stricter than before.
Once someone dies, they will directly investigate and arrest people.
If the fighting is too loud, it will easily attract the people from the Law Enforcement Hall.
In a battle of primordial spirits, before he could kill the person, the Law Enforcement Hall would arrive.
At that time, not only would he fail to kill the person, but he would also put himself in danger.
It would not be worth the loss.
Sure enough, when Shu Ci was nearing the end of her lecture, Gu An received a notice.
Sect mission, to be carried out tomorrow.
Inspect the sect's logging forest, find all those who have not completed their tasks, register them, and punish them.
If necessary, arrest some people to guard the place.
The place is the building complex in the logging forest, where there are guard houses.
Gu An had been to the outer sect's eastern district.
Four people form a team, which must be completed this month.
However, it is not the entire sect, he only checks three places.
Below Heavenly Suspension Peak, below Spirit Bamboo Peak, and the eastern district of the outer sect.
Other places are not under his jurisdiction.
Heavenly Suspension Peak is precisely the main peak where Gu An is located.
Offending them means that the reputation brought by the bamboo forest will be worn away.
And Spirit Bamboo Peak is almost all female cultivators, offending them is equivalent to offending countless senior brothers and junior brothers of the sect.
After all, there are many beautiful fairies on Spirit Bamboo Peak, who are sought after by various peaks.
Pang Wen looked at Gu An, seemingly curious about what was happening.
Gu slightly shook his head: "It's okay, you guys continue."
Because they had become members of the Demon Sect, the people in the second team seemed to be much more united than before.
After all, they all felt that the people from other places were dangerous, so they could only rely on the people in the same team.
Shu Ci talked a lot, some of which was useful, and some of which was nonsense.
For some reason, Gu An felt that she was very happy to be talking.
It seemed that she had never experienced this kind of feeling before.
She was actually teaching people how to be Demon Sect disciples.
When they left, they were also talking and laughing.
The next day.
Gu An took a deep breath and came to the meeting place, below Heavenly Suspension Peak.
The first stop of the mission was here.
In front of the logging forest, Gu An stood at the entrance waiting.
The three-day deadline to leave the sect had ended, but many people had not yet realized it.
Not many people came to complete the logging task.
Less than half of them were present.
Gu An waited for a long time before seeing three people walking over slowly.
Gu An's eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Senior Brother Shi had assigned him two men and one woman. One of the men was burly, carrying a giant sword.
He also seemed to be from Heavenly Suspension Peak.
The other one was playing with a colorful snake in his hand.
His body was full of poison gas.
He should be a disciple of the Spirit Control Peak.
The last one was a woman, holding a sword in her hands, with some arrogance.
She did not take Gu An seriously.
They were all in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm.
And each of them was close to the late stage.
With this kind of cultivation, he could not command them, nor was he their opponent.
In this way, he could not do anything.
And he was the main person in charge this time.
Therefore, the main responsibility was on him.
"Junior Brother Gu?" The burly man looked at Gu An and said: "Is that Junior Brother Gu?"
Gu An nodded: "It's me."
"So Junior Brother Gu is here. The three of us just gathered and were looking for Junior Brother Gu everywhere, but we didn't see anyone.
I didn't expect Junior Brother Gu to be here all the time.
You didn't even give us a signal, so we wouldn't have wasted so much time.
It even made Junior Brother Gu wait in vain," the burly man said.
"Yes, we were indeed looking for a long time and didn't see Junior Brother Gu," the woman also said.
"Junior Brother is the leader this time. We couldn't find Junior Brother at the first time, so you shouldn't blame us, right?" The man with the snake on his arm looked at Gu An and said: "Junior Brother is not such a petty person, right?"
Gu An looked at the three of them, feeling that they had said all the good and bad things.
"The three of you have delayed the inspection," Gu An said.
"It's our fault, then let's start the inspection?" The burly man said with a smile: "The three of us will definitely cooperate with Junior Brother Gu and follow Junior Brother Gu's lead."
"Yes, we will definitely follow Junior Brother's lead. If Junior Brother asks us to do it, we will do it," the fairy holding the sword also said.
At this time, several disciples in the distance quickly came towards the logging forest.
And the moment they saw the people, the burly man directly drew his giant sword and swung it out, blocking everyone.
Then, a rough voice came out:
"By the order of Junior Brother Gu An, supervise everyone's logging.
Now everyone line up and report the situation to Junior Brother Gu.
Whether you have logged, whether you have worked hard, whether you have reflected on your mistakes.
Record what should be recorded, fine what should be fined, and send those who should go to the small black room to the small black room.
If you annoy our Junior Brother Gu An, you will be in trouble."
In an instant, three Golden Core auras spread out.
They even took out their tokens, saying that they were inspecting on behalf of the sect under Gu An's order.
They could not let go of even the slightest problem.
Gu An in the back did not even say a word.
They suddenly took action, leaving him speechless.
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