“So your family business is being emperors?”
Lu Ming looked at Huang Tianbao with curiosity. This was his first time meeting a second-generation royal.
Incredible! He had really made it, actually becoming the senior brother to a royal.
If this had happened in his past life, he could have bragged about it for the rest of his days...
Huang Tianbao looked at Lu Ming and said, somewhat embarrassed:
“Well... it's a family trade. But I didn't expect that by my generation, well... I'd be the only one left doing it.”
Seeing Huang Tianbao's somewhat dejected expression, Lu Ming patted him on the shoulder, sighed softly, and brought up his own past life:
“You're much better off than me. I didn't even have a home. I was an orphan...”
“Woof woof!!”
Big Yellow looked at Lu Ming, utterly speechless.
Boss, you're going too far. To comfort your junior brother, you actually made up a story about losing your dad...
Hearing Big Yellow's reminder, Lu Ming realized his slip and quickly changed his tune:
“You know what I mean. I was really miserable too, but there's nothing to fear now. I'm doing great, and things will definitely get even better in the future...”
“Same goes for you. Now that you've met me, you're bound to rise to great heights...”
Huang Tianbao looked at Lu Ming with deep emotion. He had also noticed Big Yellow's barking.
In his mind, his eldest senior brother had clearly made up such a pitiful background just to comfort him.
“Come, come... let's talk about your experiences over the years.”
As he spoke, Lu Ming grabbed a handful of melon seeds and handed them to Huang Tianbao.
He was truly curious about Huang Tianbao's past.
“Come, come... give this old man some too.”
Looking at the hand the old man stretched out, Lu Ming froze for a moment before realizing what was happening and grabbing a handful for him as well...
Afterward, the three people and one dog leaned against the massive stone engraved with the Qingshan Sect's name and began to shoot the breeze.
As Huang Tianbao told his story, Lu Ming finally realized just how formidable he was.
It turned out that after a plague swept through Huang Tianbao's country, he was the only survivor. Left with no choice, he had to travel abroad to make a living.
First, in a neighboring country, he joined a faction called the Tiger Head Gang.
As a result, on the very next day after he joined, the Tiger Head Gang got into a turf war with another gang and was completely wiped out...
Later, he joined the Black Tiger Gang, the Great Blade Sect, the Gray Wolf Stronghold...
Without fail, disaster struck every single time. All of these factions were completely wiped out due to various accidents.
Hearing this, Lu Ming was completely dumbfounded, utterly at a loss for words to express his shock.
“Crack... Ptooey...”
The old man spat out a melon seed shell. “What happened next?”
Huang Tianbao looked at the two of them and the dog, then swallowed hard:
“After that, I planned to join a sect, but because I have trash spiritual roots, none of them wanted me.”
Saying this, Huang Tianbao looked at the old man with some concern.
Seeing that the old man didn't say anything, he finally felt relieved.
Lu Ming's eyes flickered as he muttered to himself:
It's highly likely that those sects' spirit testing stones were broken. They even said I didn't have any spiritual roots.
And yet, aren't I cultivating just fine?
However, since he didn't understand Huang Tianbao's situation, he didn't speak up lightly.
Just then, Huang Tianbao's voice continued:
“Later, I managed to buy a spot as an odd-job worker in a small sect called the Tiger Roar Sect using spirit stones. Who would have thought that in the brief time it took me to go down the mountain to buy some groceries, a passing powerhouse would slap the Tiger Roar Sect out of existence with a single palm?”
The moment Huang Tianbao finished speaking, Lu Ming froze right where he was, a melon seed shell still stuck to his lip.
Once he snapped out of it, he couldn't help but look back at the Qingshan Sect:
“Senior, do you think any passing powerhouses might drop by our Qingshan Sect?”
Big Yellow and Huang Tianbao also turned to look at the old man.
The old man closed his eyes and began to calculate with his fingers:
“To seek the dragon and divide the gold, look to the surrounding mountains; each ring of mountains is a barrier. If there are eight dangers at the gate, they will not escape the form of the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams...”
Once the old man finished chanting, Lu Ming asked nervously, “Senior, how is it?”
Big Yellow and Huang Tianbao also looked at the old man with hope.
“Rest assured, our Qingshan Sect is definitely an auspicious burial site. If you're buried here, your descendants will surely enjoy immense wealth and prosperity...”
“Senior...”
“Woof~!”
“Ah!!”
The old man's words completely threw Lu Ming and the others for a loop. Please, they had asked him to divine their fortune, but he ended up surveying a burial site.
Seeing the shocked expressions of the three, the old man brushed the melon seed shells off his clothes:
“Alright, what are you all so nervous about? Given our sect's location, how could any big shot possibly come here?”
Lu Ming opened his mouth, completely at a loss for words.
Forget it. He wouldn't die anyway, and Big Yellow was tough to kill.
If everyone in the Qingshan Sect ended up dead, he would just collect their corpses and bury them right here...
Just then, the old man's voice rang out:
“Alright, let's process your sect registration...”
As he spoke, the old man packed up his divination banner. With a wave of his hand, the table and chair flew inside the mountain gate.
At the same time, the aura around the old man shifted dramatically.
The gentle, smiling old man from moments ago now exuded a majestic, imposing pressure, making him seem like an entirely different person.
Lu Ming's mouth fell open. What was going on? A quick-change act?
Big Yellow, whose tail had been wagging rhythmically just a moment ago, immediately tucked its tail between its legs, terrified by the old man's aura.
Huang Tianbao turned pale, not daring to make a single move.
“Name,” the old man asked, casting a profound gaze at Lu Ming.
Slap.
Just as Lu Ming was about to answer, Huang Tianbao took a swift step forward from behind him and slammed ten spirit stones onto the table.
“Senior, I think I preferred the way you were just now...”
Seeing this, Lu Ming's eyes flashed. What a boss!
Throwing down ten spirit stones in one go...
As expected of the man who inherited an entire country.
Big Yellow also stared wide-eyed at the spirit stones on the table.
Is this the legendary fat cat Boss was talking about?
Whoosh...
The spirit stones on the table vanished instantly.
The majestic expression on the old man's face vanished just as quickly, returning to his previous approachable demeanor.
“Hehe, let's get started on your sect registration, shall we?”
Lu Ming's mouth twitched. “Senior, aren't you being a bit too pragmatic?”
“Woof!!”
Big Yellow also looked up at the old man.
The old man chuckled:
“Earlier, it was a private service, so of course it required a good service attitude. Right now, this is official business, so I must display the majesty of the sect's Grand Elder.”
“However, since you've combined official and private matters, I can still offer you some conveniences.”
Indeed, the poor only complain about their environment, while the rich can use money to change it.
Lu Ming was still surprised; he hadn't expected the old man to be the sect's Grand Elder.
“Name?” the old man looked at Huang Tianbao and asked with a smile.
Huang Tianbao turned and said, “Senior Brother, you go first.”
Lu Ming hadn't expected Huang Tianbao to be so polite.
He didn't stand on ceremony either and said directly:
“Lu Ming.”
“Why do you want to join the Qingshan Sect?”
“To build up the Qingshan Sect, to contribute my worth to the sect...”
The Grand Elder's eyelid twitched. “Speak like a human.”
“Heh... I wanted to find a strong backer to lean on.”
The Grand Elder nodded and pulled an azure token from his storage bag.
“Drip some blood on it.”
After Lu Ming dripped his blood onto it, the Grand Elder refined it for a moment before handing it over.
Lu Ming took the token. It felt warm to the touch. On one side, the characters for "Qingshan Sect" were written, while the other side bore the name "Lu Ming" along with the title "Inner Sect Eldest Senior Brother."
Lu Ming was stunned. He had actually become the Eldest Senior Brother, and of the inner sect to boot.
In truth, he had only been acting shameless to show off in front of Big Yellow and Huang Tianbao.
Could it be that the sect didn't have an eldest senior brother yet?
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