Chapter 98 Mysterious Confidence

"Hello, Master, hello, and all the garden masters." Someone stuttered.

Someone started it, and then others followed suit, calling on others and standing up to salute.

"Master!"

A female cultivator shouted as if she had seen a savior.

"Yuyu, come here." The man Zhang Yuyu called "Master" was called Qiao Yu, the owner of Luoya Garden.

Zhang Yuyu's face lit up with joy, and she quickly ran over and grabbed her master's sleeve, "Master, what's going on?"

"Don't ask anything else for now. Just tell me if there is anything unusual today." Qiao Yu smiled soothingly and asked softly.

They had been asked this question while they were waiting, more than once, and they had said everything they could think of and knew.

Zhang Yuyu shook her head. "No, I originally wanted to reach the middle stage of the Golden Core, so I kept practicing until I found that the spiritual energy I absorbed was getting less and less, and then I felt something was wrong."

Zhang Yuyu is the youngest disciple of Master Qiao Yuan. She has accumulated four days of qualifications to practice in the Nine Nether Spring and deliberately put them together, intending to reach the middle stage of the Golden Core in one fell swoop.

Today is only the second day and everything was going pretty smoothly, but I didn't expect something like this to happen.

"Besides this, can you hear any other noises? Made by the monks?" Qiao Yu asked again.

"The noise made by the monks?" Zhang Yuyu thought for a moment and said, "I seemed to hear the footsteps of someone leaving an hour ago, nothing else."

The reason why I could tell they were footsteps of leaving was because it was already afternoon an hour ago, and most of the day had passed. It was impossible for someone to have just entered Jiuyou Garden at this time.

The only possibility is that he left early in a hurry because of something.

Qiao Yu looked at Sect Leader Liu.

He left an hour ago, so this person must be Zhao Ning.

But this is not much of a clue.

Liu Wuhan didn't expect to be able to ask anything now, because he had already asked everything he needed to ask, and someone who was willing to tell the truth would not wait until now to speak.

In other words, people who want to hide something will still do so and will not speak up just because he asks them a few more times.

Liu Wuhan's gaze swept across the disciples present and paused on Chen Lan.

When Chen Lan met his gaze, her heart tightened, but she managed to show a fearful expression similar to that of the others.

This is the normal reaction of a low-level disciple after seeing many powerful people. It is reasonable and logical.

Liu Wuhan's eyes were somewhat cold, and it was unclear whether this was his natural nature or he was provoked by Quan Ling's escape.

Chen Lan felt cold all over when she was looked at, and her back was covered with cold sweat without her noticing.

But at this moment, she thought of Mo Jiuwei's thoughts before entering the Immortal Palace——

[We've all gone in, but Senior Sister Chen is the only one left to face all this. Senior Sister, don't panic. No matter how the people from Qingyue Sect investigate, they will definitely not suspect you.]

[Anyway, you can just pretend to have the same expression as others and you can get away with it.]

Just as he thought of this, he felt the gaze move away and move to a disciple next to him.

Chen Lan breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're here too?" A garden owner named Qi also saw Chen Lan. They had met on the day of the photo stone, so he recognized her. "Did you find anything?"

Chen Lan was startled, then quickly answered, "No... But, I was told to practice at Jiuyouquan for two days, but my time is not up yet. Will I get it later?"

She looked like she was afraid of being at a disadvantage.

This made the senior executives who knew the inside story speechless.

Make up your head!

You're still replenishing it? The spring spirit has run away, so I'll give you its head to replenish it?

The origin has left, the body has been abandoned, and within ten days, all the spiritual energy in the Nine Nether Spring will dissipate, and even the spring water will dry up.

In the past, Jiuyou Spring was the place with the most spiritual energy in Qingyue Sect, but if the spring spirit cannot be found, it will become the place with the poorest spiritual energy in the entire sect!

By then, let alone not replenishing you for half a day, even if I really replenish you, I'm afraid you won't come!

But this cannot be said, because this is the worst case scenario where Quan Ling cannot be found, and the real situation will never develop into this -

Everyone has a mysterious confidence that the spring spirit will be found and will come back to Jiuyouquan obediently!

Even if Quan Ling really cannot be found, this matter cannot be announced now, otherwise it will cause panic among all the disciples in the sect, leading to people being in a state of panic, having no time to practice, and causing chaos in the sect.

Even if you want to tell it, you have to postpone it as much as possible and keep it secret first.

"We'll discuss this matter later." Master Qi Yuan just said this perfunctorily.

Chen Lan gave him a strange look, as if he had some doubts. "Yes... But I don't think Qingyue Sect would take advantage of an outer sect disciple like me and break their promise to make money."

Junior Sister Jiuwei also said—

[By the way, we must not feel guilty, but also be justified, because we agreed to two days, why should we suddenly interrupt now? ]

[If it's interrupted, we have to make up for it! ]

[If time cannot be made up, then we have to make up for it with something else. Otherwise, it would be bullying outsiders and breaking one's promise! ]

When Chen Lan heard this, like the other brothers and sisters, she almost laughed out loud.

This is probably a case of the thief crying "stop thief" and putting the blame on someone else, right?

But what my junior sister said was right. I am from an outsider sect, and the two days of my cultivation were deliberately granted by Qingyue Sect for the sake of my reputation.

Since it was a favor, how could he take it back halfway through?

As someone who had nothing to do with Quan Ling's disappearance, Chen Lan could not only not feel guilty, but also actively asked for compensation. Even if the people of Qingyue Sect were disgusted, they would think it was a reasonable request and he had to show his appreciation.

On the contrary, if she slipped away first out of guilt, that would be suspicious.

"It's natural."

Liu Wuhan said calmly, but a hint of annoyance flashed through his mind.

Small sects are really like this, short-sighted and petty!

They always focus on the tiny benefits in front of them, and have no vision or sense of the overall situation. No wonder the Xianlai Sect they belong to is becoming increasingly decadent.

Haha, this means there is no one to take over, and the disciple is not doing well!

When Chen Lan heard him say this, he knew that the compensation must be in place, and he showed a relaxed expression.

At this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded, and then Manager Hu and a few others appeared outside the door -

"Master Liu!"

"What's the matter?" Liu Wuhan turned around.

"Lin Zhaofeng was brought here, but Zhao Ning has already left the sect and is not with us now." Manager Hu looked anxious.

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Wuhan and the other garden masters' expressions suddenly changed.

"You guys wait here for now."

After saying something to his disciples, Liu Wuhan took everyone out for a talk.

"What's going on? How did she leave the sect?" Liu Wuhan asked Hu Yu in a cold voice.

Hu Yu was sweating on his forehead. "She went through the main gate normally. I asked the gatekeeper, and it was probably around the time we noticed something was wrong."

(End of this chapter)