Chapter 1391: Mere Scoundrel
The Department of Heavenly Dwellings was a grand place with towering buildings, but it was not a blessed land of cultivation.
Climbing up the steps, Li Qingshan stated his name and intentions. The attendant in black glanced at him, and his smile eased up slightly, bringing him in front of a room. “Senior brother Wang is currently busy, so please wait here for a moment!”
That wait lasted for most of the day. Only he stood in the empty corridor. It did not seem busy at all. Instead, it was very quiet.
However, he was in no rush either. He tidied through his thoughts regarding cultivation before taking out the black rabbit from his sleeve to play around with it. Unfortunately, it was not particularly cooperative. When he agitated it, it even bit his hand viciously.
Rip! Li Qingshan gasped. His hand was covered in blood with a bone-deep wound, which left him surprised.
Exactly how powerful his physique was went without saying. He was endowed with a powerful innate ability like the Ox Demon Forges its Hide too, so he finally noticed that maybe something was off. Just what breed was this rabbit?
Right when he was about to take a proper look, a man’s cold voice rang out from behind the door, “Is anyone still there?”
“Yes!” Li Qingshan could not bother with bickering with a rabbit. He would be releasing it once he left the city anyway, so who cared what breed it was.
“Come in.”
Li Qingshan entered through the door. The arrangements of the large room were quite tasteful. A calligraphy that read “An Absolute Difficulty” hung on the wall.
A slightly-chubby man with a round face sat in front of a tea table, sipping on some tea. He glanced over. “Are you Li Qingshan?”
“I am.”
Li Qingshan was displeased. How’s this damned fatty busy? Even if the concept of time to cultivators is different from regular people, wasn’t that just too long. The quality of service from the Department of Heavenly Dwellings comes nowhere close to the Spiritual Beast garden and the Spiritual Treasure workshop. No wonder the senior brother who received me back then told me to save my bookmarks for bribing the people here.
“Have some respect. I’m your senior brother!” Senior brother Wang’s face sank.
Li Qingshan raised his eyebrows. This damned fatty was just like him, a formal disciple, so what was he being arrogant for?
However, when he thought of Xiao An and the others in the Dragon’s Pool dwelling, he remembered he was in desperate need of a dwelling right now, so he decided to let this slide. “Senior brother Wang, I’ve come to collect my dwelling…”
“Wait a moment! Can’t you see I’m busy?”
He was interrupted by this fair, plump man before he could even finish, who took another slow sip of his tea.
Li Qingshan furrowed his brows. He was clearly making things difficult intentionally, but he had not offended him before! Even if it was for the sake of a bribery, there was no need for him to be so obnoxious!
“Ah, I see. You’re busy eating shit.”
The tea sprayed out of senior brother Wang’s mouth. He flew into a rage. “What did you say?”
“I’ll make you eat shit!” Li Qingshan lamented over his bad luck and turned around to leave. He wondered whether there were any systems for filing complaints in Myriad city.
“How dare you openly insult a senior brother! I’ll teach you a lesson today!”
Senior brother Wang sneered. Everything was going according to plan.
Just recently, Shen Yushu visited him and came up with a plan to have him make things difficult for Li Qingshan. As long as he was infuriated and an intense conflict occurred between the two of them, they could get an officer from the Department of Law and Punishment involved.
This place belonged to the Department of Heavenly Dwellings. As an inner disciple and the head caretaker of the Hundred Herbs garden, Shen Yushu had an extremely vast network. As long as Li Qingshan entered the Department of Law and Punishment, there would be plenty of ways to deal with him.
Senior brother Wang slapped towards Li Qingshan viciously. He felt extremely delighted inside. Shen Yushu had promised him a ten-thousand-year-old lingzhi ganoderma once he completed the task.
Hmph, a new formal disciple that’s actually bold enough to offend an inner disciple? You have no idea what you’re doing. Even if there was nothing in return, I’d still teach you the rules of respecting your seniors. There’ll be plenty of fun awaiting you once you get to the Department of Law and Punishment.
Li Qingshan became even more certain about his guess. He even had an inkling about who was behind all of this. He only had a total of two enemies in the Myriad sect, Le Tian and Shen Yushu. Right now, his gamble with Le Tian had only just begun, so there was no reason for him to pull anything under-handed, so it must have been that mere scoundrel Shen Yushu.
Without even looking back, he casually grabbed the fair, chubby incoming hand. With a twist of his body, he pressed down on his head gently.
Clatter! Before senior brother Wang could even respond, his head had been pressed against the tea table, disturbing the tea set and splashing his head with tea. He was alarmed. How was this possible? They were clearly both Soul Nascence cultivators, so why were they so different?
Li Qingshan said, “Tell me, who told you to mess with me?”
Senior brother Wang said, “Li Qingshan, how dare you disrespect and lay your hands on your senior brother!! I will take you to the Department of Law and Punishment!”
Li Qingshan sneered. “So that’s what you had in mind. Let me ask you again. Who is it?”
Unable to break free, senior brother Wang cursed aloud, wanting to alarm the people outside.
Li Qingshan had been ill at ease the entire time. Right now, he was furious enough to do anything, so he sneered again and said, “You’re not telling me, are you? Senior brother Wang, please have some tea and calm down!”
He grabbed a cup and shoved it into his mouth, followed by a second, a third… Once he was done with all the tea cups, he moved onto the various utensils, such as the small cups and the wooden tongs. In the end, only a small tea cup remained on the table, which was also crushed and shoved in forcefully.
The black rabbit had leapt out of his sleeve before he knew it. Its ruby-like eyes watched this unfold, glistening with bright, red light.
A certain first senior sister smiled. “Heh, how satisfying, but just which part of such a violent guy like him caught the eye of Yaozhu?”
Li Qingshan said, “Senior brother Wang, have you finished with your business now? It’s time for you to say who. If you still don’t tell me, I’ll invite you to have a taste of every single object in this room.”
Senior brother Wang bled from the mouth as he glared at Li Qingshan with bloodshot eyes. He slurred, “Li Qingshan, if you think you’re so capable, why don’t you kill me? I will definitely butcher you!”
“Alright, you have some backbone. I admire that!” Li Qingshan smiled and brought his head over to the calligraphy. “Oh, an absolute difficulty. Did you write this? Nice calligraphy. It must taste quite nice too.” He licked his lips. “You look quite tasty too. You’re a little fatty, but you’ll go well with some alcohol.”
A while later, the attendant in black who brought Li Qingshan here arrived outside in a hurry. He knocked on the door a few times and called for senior brother Wang, but he heard no reply, only a strange “mmph, mmph” sound. Making up his mind, he entered through the door and what he saw left him astounded.
Li Qingshan grabbed senior brother Wang’s neck in one hand and the calligraphy scroll in the other, trying to force down the random assortment of objects into his mouth.
Senior brother Wang’s face was strewn with tears and filled with fear. He communicated with his soul sense, “Save me… Go get help!”
Li Qingshan glanced over, and the attendant in black staggered backwards before falling on his bottom. He trembled as he said, “S- senior brother Li, senior brother Pi has asked me to fetch you.”
Li Qingshan said in surprise, “Senior brother Pi… Pi Yangqiu?”
“Y- yes.”
“Alright, I’ll head over right now.” Having vented his feelings, Li Qingshan felt much better. He took the black rabbit with him and left senior brother Wang where he was.
The attendant in black glanced at Li Qingshan fearfully. “Senior brother Wang, erm… senior brother Pi wants you to piss off from the Department of Heavenly Dwellings so that you stop making a fool of yourself here.”
Senior brother Wang gasped for air on the ground. When he heard that, his face changed drastically. The vicious lesson that Li Qingshan had taught him only caused some flesh wounds. He seemed miserable, but he could recover from it very quickly. Being expelled from the Department of Heavenly Dwellings was truly what hurt.
“Shen Yushu, you’ve screwed me over good!”
