Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess
Chapter 428: Internal Strife

Chapter 428: 428: Internal Strife

While those fools who were kicked out of the Crimson Cloud Pavilion planned to do their stealing that night, some sects still could decide whether to do the same thing. Even though they knew that the scion of their sect informed them about the strength of this young lady named Yue Xuexia, they hadn’t witnessed it for themselves.

In the Heavenly Flame Sect...

Hou Wen was hugging his master’s waist, trying to stop him from going over to the Heavenly Manor, where Yue Xuexia is staying.

Hou Wen said, "Old man, it was given away already. You cannot take it back. Moreover, that girl had helped this disciple of yours gain a new way to control fire and an opportunity to get a mount. If you go there, you will just get beaten up! Even the Sword God was beaten by her!"

"Let go, you damn brat! Who the hell told you I’m going there to cause chaos? I’m going to just ask a few questions. If she can recognize a material we can’t, it means that her knowledge in Armament Refinement is above ours. You fool! A master appeared before you, and all you gave was a small rock!" Armament Master Hou Yuwen shouted at his disciple.

It was only at this moment that Hou Wen understood what his master planned to do. He wanted to impart some knowledge to the young miss and ask a few more questions about creating artifacts. While he thought that the old man was there to steal treasures.

Hou Wen asked, "Master, you aren’t going there to steal treasures?"

Bonk!

The head of Hou Wen was hit in the head, and he was heard complaining while holding the bump on his head.

"That hurts! Why did you hit me, old man!?" Hou Wen complains.

Hou Yuwen spoke, "The treasure you are talking about is those two sentient plant spirits, aren’t they? We are blacksmiths! What use will a plant be in our possession!? Are you stupid, brat!?"

"Really? But they said those two plant spirits are worldly treasures, and they can even turn humans," said Hou Wen.

Hou Yuwen said, "You already know that they can turn humans. That means their strength is at least Nascent Soul Realm. How many are capable of stealing beings at such a level? Yuanying Cultivators are rare even in this city, but that little one already has two by her side. This means her realm is even higher than her plant spirits. Only idiots with no brains will attack her!"

"S-Stronger than Yuanying Realm? Does that mean she... she is a Huashen cultivator!?" Hou Wen exclaims.

Hou Yuwen picked up his hammer and continued refining the ore in his hand, and said, "If what you said about the owner of the Inheritance Altar being a Sword God is true, she who was able to fight back is definitely a Goddess."

"With the beast riot looming in this city, having more gods around is safer for us. Piss her off, and this city will be gone before the beast riot even arrives."

"Forget about visiting her now. I still haven’t decided on the gift yet. You damn brat, help your master ask around what a little girl will want as a gift. Go ask your martial aunts for me," Hou Yuwen said as he was kicked out of the workshop by his master.

Hou Wen can only stand up holding his kicked butt and whisper some complaints, "Why kick me? I can leave on my own. Hmp!"

As for the rest of his sect members, including the sect master, they had longed to run towards the Fantasy Forest to find some beast to sign a contract with. Hou Wen explained the process of how he was able to kidnap the Flame Wolf into signing with him. He promised to feed him a high-quality meal in exchange for becoming his mount. Upon hearing it, the sect master, elders, and disciples of the Heavenly Flame Sect brought pans and pots with them and started cooking in the forest. As for the success rate of signing a contract, no one would know until these people return. Hou Wen’s master doesn’t seem interested in this event and stays in his workshop, continuing to hit something with his hammer.

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On the other hand, at the Heavenly Medicine Sect.

Their scion, Di Lou, was called by their sect master. Obviously, he wasn’t called here because of his sentient little Mimosa, but for something else. Di Lou’s father, Di Luya, was one of the greatest pill refiners in the Heavenly Medicine Sect. It is just that the sect doesn’t like him much, as he chose a Dao companion who was only a mortal in the beginning and shared his resources with her, making his own cultivation progress stagnant for years.

Di Luya was at the Peak Innateness Realm when he first left the sect for a mission in the North, and he came back with a mortal wife. His wife had now reached the Early Innateness Realm and gave birth to Di Lou. However, he was still stuck at the Early Innateness Realm. The whole sect was disappointed. After all, Di Luya is one of the most talented seeds of their sect, but wasted his talent because of his wife and son.

On their way to the main hall of the sect, Di Lou spoke to his father.

Di Lou asked, "Father, why are we being called by the sect master and elders again? I have told them everything I know already."

Di Luya frowned as he felt that things weren’t simple with how the sect was trying to make a move. This is especially true when he heard from his son how a young lady who was living alone possessed two worldly treasures that their sect desired the most. He felt that the sect was seeking something they shouldn’t have. Then he noticed the little sentient plant on his son’s shoulder and frowned. Only then did he realize what was happening and halt his movements.

The elders who were escorting them had also stopped walking. Clearly, their actions were being closely watched. Most of these elders were all in the Innateness Realm like him. What they didn’t know is that he had longed to reach the late stage of the Innateness realm and was about to break through to the Jindan realm. The sect master of the Heavenly Medicine Sect is at the early Jindan realm, while most elders were either mid- or peak Innateness Realm.

Before Di Lou could hear his father’s response, he saw him attacking the elders and subduing them. White-purple branches of his father’s wisteria tree spirit had captured and bound all elders in the vicinity.

Di Luya shouted, "Run. Go to the Heavenly Manor and tell the owner that the Heavenly Medicine Sect wants to steal her sentient flower spirits! I will go and protect your mother!" He pasted a teleportation talisman on his son, who disappeared on the spot.

But as if some elders had longed to expect this, they had sent some to chase Di Lou while most of them kept Di Luya busy. Even the Sect Master of the Heavenly Medicine Sect, Gui Ren, appeared before him. Di Luya didn’t look surprised, as he already expected that the Sect Master was here.

"It is truly hard to do something with you looking around, Luya. Just because I invited your son and you to see me, you guessed that I plan to take your son’s plant spirit. I hate how smart you are!" Sect Master Gui Ren said.

Di Luya looked at Gui Ren coldly and said, "Shixiong, the master already gave you the position as the sect master. Why won’t you let me and my family be!?"

"Why? You ask, Shidi. You know the reason why. If not for you indulging yourself with your woman, you would have been the sect master instead of me. Master is so disappointed in you. To suddenly bring a mortal as your wife, aren’t you insane? Well, thanks to that, I have become the sect master, and the Master has entered seclusion and become one of the Supreme Elders who would only come out when the sect is in danger. He no longer cares about you!" Sect Master Gui Ren said.

Di Luya controlled his plant spirit and controlled the elders who tried to sneak an attack on him. He looked at Gui Ren with an unfriendly look.

He said, "I promised Master. In exchange for his accepting Fuya, I made sure that you would become the Sect Master and support you as long as you don’t touch my family. However, if you target them, all promises will be void."

"Heh~ What can you even do? Your realm is stuck at Innateness Realm, and I am already at Early Jindan Realm!" Sect Master Gui Ren shouted.

Poison Ivy appeared on the insignia on his hand. Almost all of the members of the Heavenly Medicine Sect were tasked to sign a contract with a sentient plant spirit. However, plant spirits are rare and would rather pretend to be an ordinary plant than be captured. That’s why not all disciples of the Heavenly Medicine Sect had one, and not all elders possessed a plant spirit. That’s why when they heard about a young lady possessing two plant spirits and Di Lou having one, it made those who are greedy unable to hold back anymore.

"Early Jindan Realm? You are so proud of wasting decades only to reach that realm. How funny! I can reach it anytime I want, and since all promises are void with you attacking my family, there is no need for me to hold back!" Di Luya said.

Rumbles~

Di Luya, who is overprotective by nature, fought back and even allowed his breakthrough to happen on the spot. Now, everyone in the vicinity will be killed by his tribulation. Even if there is a risk, he can still have the chance to survive as long as he blocks the lightning from going for him.