Chapter 139: Pulling and Tugging
“Can’t I just make it easier for the world to practice martial arts?” Shi Feizhe said, angered by his words.
“I understand!” Pi Cha said, using a simpleton’s tone but looking at Shi Feizhe with bright eyes:
“If you want to practice martial arts in the Jianghu, you must learn! And to learn martial arts, it’s Qing Shan Martial Academy!”
“Learn martial arts, roam the Jianghu, come to Qing Shan Martial Academy!”
“Once you enter the Jianghu, it’s as deep as the sea, Qing Shan Martial Academy solves your worries!”
“These are all such good slogans! The more you want to cultivate Grand Medicine, the more important it is to do a good job on the surface!”
Pi Cha, looking like a seasoned Jianghu veteran, finished speaking and gave Shi Feizhe an “I get it” look.
We’re all Jianghu people, who are you trying to fool?!
“……”
You understand jack shit!
This was why Shi Feizhe felt out of place in the Jianghu. For the same thing, others had completely opposite views!
Could he, a modern man who had received nine years of compulsory education, be wrong?
Could he be wrong?
It must be the fault of this oppressive Jianghu!
Shi Feizhe didn’t even know what tone he was using as he said, “Although I really want to split 80% of Pi Mountain with friends, I will definitely be losing money every year!”
“Academy Head Shi! Let’s not talk about the trick of losing money every year without making any profit!” Pi Cha said earnestly, “The most taboo thing in the Jianghu is to eat alone!”
“If you become friends with our Pi Mountain, we can provide Academy Head Shi with some channels to make your business bigger and stronger!”
“Money, after all, isn’t earned by just one person!” Pi Cha added, raising the stakes.
Channels?
What channels?
What upstream and downstream channels are needed for cultivating Grand Medicine?
“Heh…” Shi Feizhe kept Pi Mountain in mind, shaking his head as he said, “I don’t cultivate Grand Medicine here!”
“If there are other businesses, we can also cooperate!” Pi Cha was not giving up, continuing to speak.
However, his patience was gradually wearing thin. He felt that Shi Feizhe was a bit clueless, always thinking about eating alone!
How can you get rich by eating alone?
Isn’t it better for everyone to make the pie bigger and share a larger cake?
“No! I have nothing here! I just want to open a simple martial arts academy!” Shi Feizhe was no longer angry.
He felt it wasn’t worth getting angry with this kind of person.
If it weren’t for the True Realm expert behind him, and the fact that he now had a martial arts academy, Shi Feizhe would have already sent a sword Qi to kill him!
What kind of bullshit!
“Oh?” Pi Cha’s voice also turned cold, and his aura suddenly changed, becoming filled with killing intent. He said, “Academy Head Shi doesn’t want to be friends with me, then!”
“Academy Head Shi, it’s better to leave some leeway for future encounters! The manor isn’t that easy to keep! If the Demon Sect comes to trouble you, Pi Mountain will also…”
A sword Qi suddenly appeared in front of him with a “Swish.” He quickly dodged, and the sword Qi swerved, cutting off one of his horns with a “Ding.”
The broken horn fell onto the round table in front of them with a “Clang.”
“What about Pi Mountain? What about a True Realm expert?” Shi Feizhe pressed his hands on the table, staring at Pi Cha as he said, “In this place, Jing Province, Yu Province, and Liang Province all have forces involved!”
“Without your Pi Mountain, there’s still the Yu Province Demon Sect, and the Liang Province Longevity Temple!”
“Are you trying to push me to their side?”
Of course, Shi Feizhe wouldn’t seek refuge with the Demon Sect or the Longevity Temple, but he could find a balance among these forces.
It was too difficult to survive in the Jianghu without someone backing you.
Even Zhoutian experts were nothing more than high-level thugs, followers and lackeys of True Realm experts.
If he wanted to find a place to establish his martial arts academy peacefully and maintain independence without being a dog for a True Realm expert, he needed to exploit the gaps between those forces to survive.
This was the reason he chose the intersection of the three provinces in the first place!
For the various forces, it would be best if Qing Shan Martial Academy pledged allegiance to them, but at worst, it couldn’t pledge allegiance to their opponents.
The only one he couldn’t accept was the Demon Sect, because Ghostly Manor was originally part of the Demon Sect!
Losing a profitable manor for no reason, the Demon Sect wouldn’t tolerate it, but Shi Feizhe had already prepared a strategy to deal with them.
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With Supreme Wisdom, Shi Feizhe was truly formidable.
“You…” Pi Cha was furious after having one of his horns cut off, but the faint sword fog surrounding him and the immense sword Qi around Shi Feizhe quickly calmed him down.
He had confirmed with a glance, this was someone he couldn’t defeat.
There were also differences among Zhoutian martial artists, especially those like him who traveled around, gave up on pursuing the True Realm, and focused their energy on their mountain businesses and management.
The True Realm was simply too difficult to break through!
“You can leave! Qing Shan Martial Academy didn’t prepare lunch!” Shi Feizhe waved his hand, and the sword Qi disappeared.
He needed to maneuver among the various forces, so naturally, he couldn’t kill someone and completely offend one side.
That would leave him with much less room to maneuver.
What else could Pi Cha say? Since he had been given the order to leave, he naturally couldn’t stay shamelessly.
Shi Feizhe escorted him out of the reception hall, deliberately taking him on a detour, passing by Jiang Ning’s room, and said, “Miss Jiang Ning of the Jiang family is in there.”
Then, arriving at the training ground, he pointed at Xiong Ba and said, “That is Young Master Xiong Ba of the Xiong family, also Miss Jiang Ning’s husband!”
Pi Cha’s eyelids twitched as he looked at Xiong Ba, who was smiling foolishly as he smeared mud on the wall.
With this silly and foolish appearance, coupled with Zhoutian cultivation, it could only be the young master of the Xiong family.
“You understand now! I don’t really care about Pi Mountain’s attitude!” Shi Feizhe said, seeing Pi Cha off at the gate of Qing Shan Martial Academy.
“I understand! I was arrogant!” Pi Cha scratched his head and pretended to be carefree as he said, “Academy Head Shi should have told me earlier about this relationship with the Demon Sect, what else is there to say!”
Even the young master of the Xiong family was here doing manual labor, it meant that Qing Shan Martial Academy was just Ghostly Manor with a new coat of paint!
Even a seasoned Jianghu veteran like him had been fooled!
The Demon Sect was truly playing a cunning game.
“Hmm!” Shi Feizhe hummed, neither admitting nor denying!
Not taking the initiative, not rejecting, not acknowledging!
Everything was just speculation by others, leaving him in a position to maneuver.
This was the charm of… maneuvering!
After sending off Pi Cha, who came to try and fool him, Shi Feizhe went to the room where Jiang Ning was staying and said, “Miss Jiang, are you available?”
To keep an eye on Jiang Ning, Shi Feizhe’s study was not far from where Jiang Ning and Xiong Ba were staying.
“Not available!” Jiang Ning said angrily.
She had eaten the breakfast brought back by Xiong Ba this morning, and her slightly improved injuries had worsened.
Obviously, the breakfast was poisoned!
With Xiong Ba’s foolishness, it was naturally Shi Feizhe who poisoned it.
“Then I’ll take the liberty of coming in!” Shi Feizhe pushed open the door.
“…” Jiang Ning, lying on the bed, looked at Shi Feizhe. She hadn’t expected the ant she saw a few years ago to have grown into this.
The Jianghu was truly unpredictable.
“Hmph~ I shouldn’t have saved you back then!” Jiang Ning snorted coldly.
“So Miss Jiang remembers me! Thank you for saving my life back then!” Shi Feizhe didn’t go to Jiang Ning’s bedside. He sat down on the other side of the room, poured himself a cup of water, and said, “I didn’t expect Ghostly Manor to belong to your Jiang family, nor did I expect to see you again, Miss Jiang.”
“It can only be said that fate is truly wondrous!”
“The Jianghu is all about fate!” （Yesterday, someone pointed out a typo, so I’ve added another AI-based typo detection method. With double the methods… it should reduce errors, right? I’m really trying hard to correct typos! But I can’t tell… I can’t tell!）
