The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 317 Meeting

In the back garden of the Hua family, Tang Tong led Ming Xue to the pavilion. After they both sat down, Tang Tong poured wine for them. After they drank a glass, Tang Tong said, "Actually, I invited Sect Master Ming to meet today..." Ming Xue interrupted, "Fellow Daoist Tang, don't call me Sect Master, it's really awkward. Just call me concubine Xue'er~" Ming Xue finished speaking, her face flushed a little. Even a fool knew what Ming Xue meant, but Tang Tong seemed ignorant and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "How can this be done? It's really rude~"

Seeing Tang Tong's nervous look, Mingxue smiled and said, "Don't you consider Xue'er your friend, Tang Daoyou?" Tang Tong said hurriedly, "Of course we are friends, but you are now the leader of a sect, your status and position..." Mingxue interrupted Tang Tong again and said, "Since we are friends, don't care about these things. We are equals, what's wrong with that?" Pan Chengfeng shook his head secretly and muttered, "Apart from promising to marry you, I guess you don't understand anything else."

Tang Tong felt that Ming Xue's words made sense. Friends should not care about status and should address each other as equals. So he bowed and said, "Then I am going too far and call Master Ming the Snow Fairy~" Ming Xue was a little disappointed. After all, between the Snow Fairy and Xue'er, Xue'er is definitely more intimate. But it was not easy to make this piece of wood change his words. Ming Xue smiled and said, "Okay, then I will still call you Brother Tang~" This brother not only startled Tang Tong, but even Pan Chengfeng, who was hiding nearby, almost felt his whole body softened~

Tang Tong quickly stood up and said, "No, no~" Ming Xue said, "In the past, in Ziwei Sect, I have been calling you like this for more than ten years. Why can't I do it now?" Tang Tong thought to himself, "Before there was no one else, you could call me whatever you wanted, but now there is a guy hiding nearby!" After calling her, Tang Tong had no choice but to get things done quickly. He quickly said, "In fact, I invited Fairy Xue to come here today, firstly to thank you for taking care of me in the past, and secondly... secondly... Hey, Brother Chengfeng, you should speak up yourself."

Mingxue's face darkened, and she thought to herself, "It's not that simple!" Hearing that Tang Tong had called someone else, Mingxue was obviously very unhappy, but she didn't get angry on the spot, just quietly watching Pan Chengfeng coming out of the corner. Mingxue looked Pan Chengfeng up and down and muttered to herself, "With only the Jindan cultivation, he was able to avoid my perception and hide for so long. No wonder Brother Tang looks uncomfortable!"

Pan Chengfeng walked to the pavilion with a smile and said, "I didn't mean to disturb Master Ming, but I do have something to discuss with you." Mingxue said calmly, "Master Pan is so kind that he actually used Brother Tang to ask me out~" Hearing Mingxue calling him Brother Tang again, Tang Tong hurriedly bowed and said, "You two can talk slowly. I have something else to do. Goodbye~" After saying that, he ran away, and Mingxue couldn't stop him. Mingxue looked at the direction where Tang Tong left, opened her mouth, and finally sat down helplessly.

Seeing this, Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "Brother Tang can't run away, why should Sect Master Ming rush?" Ming Xue said self-deprecatingly: "Even others can see it, but Brother Tang still doesn't feel anything. Tell me, what do you want from me?" Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "Sect Master Ming, do you think Brother Tang doesn't know your feelings for him? Brother Tang is a Divine Transformation cultivator who has lived for hundreds of years. How could he not feel it?" Ming Xue seemed to think so after being reminded by Pan Chengfeng, and asked: "How did Brother Pan know?"

Pan Chengfeng did not tell his purpose right away, but talked about someone Mingxue was more interested in, Tang Tong! Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "Although I have not known Brother Tang for a long time, I am still quite clear about his character. Master Mingxue, don't you know what kind of person Brother Tang is?" Mingxue said calmly: "Of course I know, otherwise I wouldn't fall in love with him!" "You actually admitted it directly, it seems that you are also a man who dares to love and hate~" Pan Chengfeng said: "How did you meet, Master Mingxue will not forget it?"

Ming Xue recalled, "How could I forget? He came to Ziwei Sect to find a woman, and I looked a bit like the woman he was looking for, so he mistook her for someone else." Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "Then do you know that Brother Tang has found that woman?" Ming Xue stood up quickly, then sat down slowly. After thinking for a long time, she slowly said, "Are they together?" Pan Chengfeng shook his head and said, "No, but Brother Tang swore to marry her because that woman saved his life."

Mingxue slowly opened her eyes, then burst out laughing, and said: "This is exactly what Brother Tang is like. He actually wants to repay his life-saving grace by marrying himself. Where is that woman? I will give her enough wealth and resources and let her leave Brother Tang on her own~" Pan Chengfeng shook his head and said: "You will only get the opposite result by doing this. Besides, do you think the Zhong family is short of these things now?" Mingxue understood immediately and nodded: "So it was the woman of the Zhong family. Thank you for telling me~"

Pan Chengfeng smiled and poured himself a glass of wine, raising the glass to signal. Mingxue picked up the glass, but found that there was no wine in it, so she put it down and said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Pan spent so much effort to ask me out, could it be that you want to tell me about this?" Pan Chengfeng quickly filled Mingxue's glass and said with a smile: "Master Ming is really smart. This time I made an appointment with you, in fact, it is a win-win situation, and I want to discuss it with Master Ming." Looking at the full glass, Mingxue thought to herself: "If I don't give in, I guess I won't even have wine to drink~"

Ming Xue sighed and said, "If it's a question of the affiliation of the Great Zhou Kingdom, I'm sorry I can't do anything about it~" Pan Chengfeng was not surprised. The three sects of the Great Zhou Kingdom basically had a love-hate relationship. It would be impossible for the Ziwei Sect to betray the other two sects if there was no great benefit. Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "Master Ming, what difficulties do you have? You might as well tell me. I may have a way to help you solve it?"

Ming Xue pondered for a while and said, "In fact, I am not very interested in fighting for the ownership of the Great Zhou Kingdom, but I can't disobey my master's order. Ziwei Sect is different from the other two sects. They have many people and many mouths, so they naturally need huge resources to maintain. If you don't count the menial servants, Ziwei Sect only has a few thousand people. As long as they manage the existing livelihoods well, Ziwei Sect can still live a very comfortable life, but..."

Pan Chengfeng interrupted, "It's just that the opportunity is right in front of us. With hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every year, Ziwei Sect is of course jealous." Mingxue said, "In fact, our sect's practice emphasizes purity of mind and few desires, but this opportunity is rare. Master wants to develop and expand the sect, and resources are indispensable, so Ziwei Sect cannot give up this opportunity." Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "Okay, since you have something to ask for, it's easy to do. As far as I know, your three sects are united and plan to squeeze out the Zhong family first, and then divide it equally among the three of you, right?"

Ming Xue smiled and said, "This is no secret. The three sects of the Great Zhou Kingdom have always been united in these years, otherwise they would have been bullied to death by the cultivators of neighboring countries. Now that the ancestor of the Qianyuan Sect has passed away, those people have begun to stir these days. If it weren't for our three sects joining forces, the borders of the Great Zhou Kingdom would have shrunk by half." Pan Chengfeng was slightly surprised. He really didn't know about these things. He asked in confusion, "Don't cultivators not interfere in the affairs of mortals?" Ming Xue sneered, "It's just that they don't interfere on the surface. With such a huge benefit, who doesn't want to take more and get more? The more land, the more people can be fed. With more people, the output of crystal beads will naturally be more."

Pan Chengfeng slapped his head and thought to himself, "I should have thought of it earlier. Who will tell you the rules when it comes to interests?" Pan Chengfeng didn't know which cultivators from neighboring countries were on good terms with the Great Zhou Kingdom and which were on bad terms, so he asked, "Then which countries' cultivators are eyeing us covetously? Are there any with whom we have a good relationship?" Ming Xue shook her head and said, "There are no eternal allies, but there is no conflict of interest now. The ones with the worst relationship with us are naturally the cultivators from the Chu Kingdom. The Emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom launched a war a few years ago and seized several cities in the Chu Kingdom. The Chu Kingdom's Seven Mysterious Sects, the Heavenly Demon Sect, and the Flying Star Valley Sect all came to demand that the three sects of the Great Zhou Kingdom return the cities."

Pan Chengfeng knew without asking that it was definitely not returned. But he still had to be a good supporting actor, so he asked, "What was the result?" Mingxue said, "Both sides suffered losses. The ancestor of the Wuqing Sect and my master were injured, and the three sects of Chu State were not much better." Pan Chengfeng asked in confusion, "The Qianyuan Sect should have been in charge at that time, right? Did the Qianyuan Sect have any objections?" Mingxue said, "The Qianyuan Sect stopped asking about these things a hundred years ago, and it has always been us three sects who have been dealing with them. So, do you think it is reasonable for us to take over the ownership of the Great Zhou State?"