Evil Master and Disciple

Chapter 1524 Rely on Yourself!

Tianyun Mountains, Saintess Sect.

Deep inside the cave.

The closed patriarch's stone chamber was opened.

Ye Feng and Luo Feiyun's private conversation didn't last long, only about an hour.

When they came out, Ye Feng was all smiles, and Luo Feiyun's expression was no longer as solemn as before.

The two seemed to be having a pleasant private chat.

The two chatted and laughed as they walked along the passage, and soon arrived at the cave ahead.

Seeing the two of them looking like a long-lost father and son, everyone in the cave looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Sect Leader Luo, please visit the Holy Maiden Sect whenever you have time. All the unpleasant things that happened between our two sects in the past were misunderstandings, so there's no need to bring them up again. What we just discussed is settled."

"It's settled, it's settled, of course it's settled. In a few days I will be traveling the world again, and at that time Sect Master Luo will send someone to contact the Holy Maiden Sect directly."

"Yes, it's good to travel around more in the world when you're young, to gain more experience and broaden your horizons. Then Sect Leader Ye, please continue with your work. I'll take my leave now."

"It's almost noon, let's have lunch together."

"No rush. After this matter is over, I, Luo, will invite Sect Leader Ye for a drink."

After saying this, Luo Feiyun called his disciples to leave.

Ye Feng personally came out of the cave to see him off.

The way Ye Feng stood at the entrance of the valley, bidding farewell to Luo Feiyun, left the disciples of the Holy Maiden Sect looking at each other in bewilderment.

Most disciples felt a poor relationship with the Luoying Sect, so they couldn't understand why the sect leader and Luo Feiyun were so close.

Just then, Ling Yunzhi, carrying Sanzhi'er, and Lingyin emerged from the dense forest to the north. Seeing that Luo Feiyun and his men had flown far away, the two approached each other.

Ling Yunzhi said, "Old Ye, it seems you and Luo Feiyun had a good talk."

Ye Feng said, "Let's talk inside the cave."

So the group followed Ye Feng back to the cave.

Luan Xiong asked impatiently, "Brother Feng, what's going on? What did you and Sect Leader Luo talk about? He seems very happy."

Ye Feng laughed and said, "How could he not be happy to be able to solve a matter that affects the life and death of the sect with money?"

Luan Xiong asked, "How much is he willing to pay?"

Ye Feng said triumphantly, "After some bargaining between him and me, Luo Feiyun finally agreed to pay 2,000 catties of amethyst, 6,000 catties of red crystal, 10,000 catties of black crystal, plus 500,000 taels of silver."

Upon hearing this, the group of young women all showed expressions of shock and ecstasy.

However, Ling Yunzhi, Ling Yin, and Chu Liunian, who had seen much of the world, were not shocked or frightened by this number.

Ling Yunzhi said, "Old Ye, didn't I tell you last night to ask for a lot of money? Why did you only ask for so little?"

Ye Feng was taken aback and said, "Young Master, you still think this is too little? I've done a rough calculation. Not counting the silver, the various spirit crystals alone are enough to allow the Holy Maiden Sect's more than three hundred disciples to develop peacefully for more than ten years, or even several decades!"

"Decades? How is that possible! Do you know how many spirit stones and spirit crystals your Holy Maiden Sect consumes every day?"

Their identities are special; they can't leave the Tianyun Mountains to search for spirit mines... You only want this much? No wonder Luo Feiyun was so happy when he left.

"Young Master, I know what you mean, but I think it's good to leave room for maneuver in the future. Besides, our Holy Maiden Sect cannot obtain all the cultivation resources it needs in the future from other sects. Otherwise, the Holy Maiden Sect's development will not be sustainable. We must have our own spirit stone mines."

"We've amassed so many spirit stones from the Falling Blossom Sect, plus what I gave them before. They should be able to sustain themselves for fifty or sixty years without much trouble. By then, the rumors will have died down, and our sect leader won't be keeping such a close watch on the Holy Maiden Sect anymore. At that point, the Holy Maiden Sect can send people to the Southern Frontier or other places to search for spirit stone veins."

Ye Feng is a person who likes to be independent.

The main reason for this extortion of Luo Yingzong was that Luo Feiyun had brought so many people to forcibly expel the Holy Maiden Sect last time, and this fee was intended as a form of compensation for the spiritual distress of the Holy Maiden Sect's disciples.

If it weren't for that incident last time, Ye Feng wouldn't have bothered to extort Luo Yingzong.

For a sect to develop healthily and sustainably, cultivation resources are of paramount importance. Cultivation is all about money, specifically spirit stones.

Therefore, any sect of any caliber will send its disciples to secretly search for spirit stone veins in the mortal realm, and at the same time, they will engage in various businesses in the mortal realm to make money, in order to maintain the operation of a sect for a long time.

In fact, there are countless spirit stone veins underground in the Tianyun Mountains.

Unfortunately, over the years, countless cultivation sects have emerged here, and after countless years of excavation, much of the underground spiritual mineral deposits in the Tianyun Mountains have been mined.

After establishing itself here, the Yunhai Sect issued a strict order to any sect in the Tianyun Mountains that was allowed to mine spirit stone veins in any way. Anyone found doing so would be met with a thunderous crackdown from the Yunhai Sect.

The Yunhai Sect's approach is correct. Spiritual energy comes from spirit mines. If the spirit mines are depleted, the Tianyun Mountain Range will be ruined.

Not only the Yunhai Sect has this rule, but other major sects also have this rule. No major sect will mine spirit stones in its own mountain range. They all search for spirit stone veins in remote and harsh mountain ranges such as the Southern Frontier and Lingnan.

For example, the Jade Maiden Sect's several large spirit mines are located in the mountains of Lingnan, far from the Jade Maiden Sect's main altar.

The major large-scale mineral veins controlled by the Yunhai Sect are mostly located in the Hundred Thousand Mountains of Southern Xinjiang.

Lingyin said, "Sect Master Ye is absolutely right. If we rely on the heavens, the heavens will collapse; if we rely on the earth, the earth will sink; if we rely on trees, the trees will fall; if we rely on people, the people will run away. If a sect wants to continue its lineage for hundreds or thousands of years, it cannot rely on others; it can only rely on itself."

The girls inside the cave all nodded silently.

They were all delicate young girls from different places and different families.

In this patriarchal society, these girls had very low social status.

But in recent months, they have learned to be self-reliant and have even learned to carve caves.

They no longer want to rely on anyone.

Ye Feng laughed and said, "That's right. Alright, my negotiations with Luo Feiyun are over. Next, we need to find a new foothold for our Holy Maiden Sect. Lunch should be ready soon. I'll set off after we eat. Young Master, Xingyun, you two come with me. Xiong Ge, you stay here and watch the house. Although my talks with Luo Feiyun went well, we still need to be careful before we leave."

Luan Xiong hummed in agreement and smiled, "Brother Feng, leave this to me, so don't worry about it."

"Brother Xiong, what's the situation with Godfather lately? When is he coming over?"

"My godfather has been dreaming of coming here, but we still need his help with the sealing of the dragon vein. It will probably take another two or three months before he can come here to enjoy his old age!"