Chapter 443 - 261: Fifty Years on Evergreen Peak (Long - )_3

"How was it, wasn’t that sword of mine amazing? Hahaha... That unreliable Peak Master pushed over your grave, forcing me to duel with him for three days and nights. Only after I made a bit of a breakthrough did he tell me the truth. Damn it, I’ve really missed you..."

Xiang Yuntian sheathed his long sword, grinned, his eyes glistening.

"Greetings, Uncle Li An!"

An Li had also stepped forward, his eyes quite excited.

"Brother Li played the Dao Sect like a fiddle, truly extraordinary, let’s drink to that!"

Gu Canye chuckled, spat out the grass root in his mouth, and said, "I’ll host. I brought two thousand jin of good wine today. We won’t leave until we’re drunk, how about that?"

Li An laughed and said, "Alright, we won’t leave until we’re drunk!"

After speaking, he looked at the three of Long Lu and said, "Sorry, you three, I’m still recovering from my injuries. I want to drink now, not duel with you."

Long Lu and his companions looked very upset. With Xiang Yuntian and Gu Canye there, how could they dare to make any noise?

Over the years among the true disciples, Xiang Yuntian and Gu Canye were among the fiercest. It’s said they had even challenged Dao Level disciples, being quite renowned.

They hurriedly slinked away.

"Stop!"

But Xiang Yuntian shouted, pointing his sword at the three: "If you come to disturb me again, I’ll take my sword to Evergreen Peak and challenge your other true disciples and your Peak Master, got it?"

The Dao Sect doesn’t allow bullying, so Xiang Yuntian couldn’t attack the three of Long Lu, but hearing him say this frightened them greatly. If this troublemaker really went to challenge Senior Brother Song Qingsong, it seemed that Song Qingsong might not withstand a few of his chops. They had only made things worse for themselves.

After they left.

"Come on, let’s get really drunk, today we must get really drunk! If you don’t drink a thousand jin of wine, you see if I don’t chop at you..."

Xiang Yuntian pulled Li An towards his cave mansion.

"Junior Sister Chen Ning, want to have a few drinks together?" Li An smiled at Chen Ning.

"No, no, I won’t disturb your fun, Senior Brother... I’ll take my leave first."

She left in a hurry, but as she walked, she thought, who said Senior Brother Li An had no connections in the sect? His network... seems much stronger than Senior Brother Song Qingsong’s!

Her thoughts became even more resolute.

...

Cups clinked and exchanged.

Drinking heartily, drinking heartily, and drinking heartily again.

Xiang Yuntian was particularly in high spirits. He had guarded Li An’s tomb for hundreds of years. Li An’s death had been a constant burden on him, and now that Li An was alive, he was truly open-heartedly happy.

Gu Canye was also quite delighted. With Li An not dead, Xiang Yuntian’s burden was lifted, and he would surely advance further in the Sword Dao...

The four chatted merrily.

Gu Canye had broken through to the Void Refinement Realm a hundred years ago, while Xiang Yuntian was only at the late stage of Divinity Transformation, and even An Li was already late-stage Nascent Soul.

Li An hadn’t fallen too far behind Xiang Yuntian.

"After you died, we slashed at Luo Zijie and Dai Xiongtian. Originally, we intended to slash Li Yunxiao too, but unfortunately, that heartless woman Tan Qingxue stopped us, couldn’t beat her..."

Xiang Yuntian, a bit tipsy, recounted: "That heartless one, that cunning fox, don’t bother with him. She’s also Refining Void now, but Li Yunxiao failed to awaken his bloodline, haha..."

Li An simply smiled. Tan Qingxue, Li Yunxiao... he didn’t really mind them.

If there’s a chance, he’ll seek revenge, if not, so be it.

What Li An was thinking about now were the three unfathomable great changes, that enormous calamity; specific people around him were hard to move his heart anymore.

No matter how talented or powerful, they all seemed quite insignificant.

After a long while, An Li helped the drunken Xiang Yuntian and Gu Canye as they prepared to leave.

"And this, this..."

Before leaving, Xiang Yuntian stuffed a storage bag into Li An’s hand.

Li An said: "No need, my monthly stipend is enough..."

"Take it, just take it!"

"I was planning to burn this for you this month... Four hundred years, for four hundred years, do you know how many good things I burned for you, damn it, it pained me to no end!"

Xiang Yuntian cursed and finally left.

Li An opened the storage bag to find some Spirit Stones and a few rare Spirit Medicines for nourishing the Dantian, not many in number, but there were also many beautiful paper women, paper cave mansions and such, all exquisitely made, seemingly crafted by a Talisman Dao master, remarkably stunning...

"Damn..."

Li An couldn’t help but feel a bit annoyed, but with so many paper women, did this guy think he was some sort of lecher?

Yet he soon smiled.

A pure smile.

...

"I asked you to find out about his background, did I ask you to provoke him?"

At this moment, in a cultivation cave mansion on Evergreen Peak.

Song Qingsong’s face was grim as he said: "I’m a true disciple, Evergreen Peak’s leading disciple, and now it’s spread that I bullied Li An. Isn’t my reputation in ruins because of you?!"

He was quite displeased!

"Senior Brother, we meant well..."

Long Lu spoke up: "But that Li An was truly too arrogant, he really ignored you. On your birthday, he was only willing to give fifty pieces of top-grade Spirit Stone... isn’t that an insult?"

Xie Yang said: "Moreover, he even dared to slap Senior Brother Long Lu... really too arrogant!"

The two looked at Song Qingsong, hoping he would teach Li An a lesson.

But Song Qingsong just shook his head:

"The Peak Master has left me to manage the peak affairs. If I target him, it’ll be easy for others to accuse me of abusing authority, it’s inappropriate..."

Being a true disciple of the Dao Sect, he did have this bit of integrity.

"Senior Brother is right..."