Chapter 954: Acknowledging Smiling San Sheng as a Master

Within two days, Lian Qin arrived with three hundred high-grade spirit herbs.

She said that she had some high-grade spirit herb seeds and hoped Jiang Hao could help grow them.

However, they were all useless

Jiang Hao checked them. It would take him more than ten days to appraise them all.

Bai Ye had a lot of influence. He could gather so many spirit herb seeds so quickly.

There were a lot of bottles of spirit liquid and spirit stones with the seeds.

From the looks of it, Bai Ye was trying really hard. He must have given up on his grudges against Jiang Hao.

That was good.

After all, it was very troublesome to get rid of someone like Bai Ye who had made great contributions to the sect.

The other party was a great disciple.

He wouldn’t have used the Spirit Sealing Technique if it was that easy.

“Thank you, Senior Sister. I will try my best to plant them well,” Jiang Hao said seriously.

“Junior Brother, there’s no need to feel pressured. Moreover, your cultivation has already surpassed mine. There’s no need to be so polite,” Lian Qin said.

Jiang Hao’s cultivation realm was rising too fast. She couldn’t understand it.

Only the top disciples progressed this fast.

The ones ranking high were extraordinary.

Lian Qin could understand why Senior Brother Bai Ye was so fearful.

This person advanced too quickly.

If everything went smoothly, he would soon be in the Primordial Spirit Realm.

How many years had it been?

“You must be joking, Senior Sister.” Jiang Hao shook his head.

He would address her as a senior no matter what cultivation realm she was.

She had always addressed her as a senior. He couldn’t suddenly change now.

If his junior asked him to address him as a senior after rising in the cultivation realm, he would do so.

After all, it was a demonic sect. A higher cultivation realm meant a higher status.

“Junior Brother, if you need spirit herbs in the future, you can tell me. Our Hundred Bones Forest has many spirit herbs that need to be planted,” said Lian Qin with a smile.

Jiang Hao was kind of hard to understand. His cultivation realm rose rapidly, but there was no change in his attitude.

Many people couldn’t do that.

After seeing her off, Jiang Hao appraised the spirit herb seeds.

Half a month later, around early November, he had divided the seeds into three categories.

One batch could sprout in four months, another in five months, and the last batch would take six months.

Each batch had almost a hundred spirit herbs.

The time it would take for them to germinate was different.

However, these spirit herb seeds cost a lot of spirit stones. Even though Senior Sister Lian had given him enough, he still needed fifty thousand spirit stones more.

After using the rest from his stash, he only had 210,000 spirit stones left.

That was still too much.

Two months later, around early January, Shangguan Qingsu arrived overseas. She walked into the great hall.

She had been back for two months and wanted to contact Smiling San Sheng, but he never showed up.

She had to discuss it with her clan first.

This matter was very big. It was so big that it concerned the fate of an entire clan.

At that moment, Shangguan Qicheng was sitting at the top of the hall. He looked at the person who came in with some doubt.

“Do you still suspect me?” Shangguan Qingsu asked.

“You said that you have a way to contact the person. But the only one I see here is you. How can we believe you?” Shangguan Qicheng asked.

He was old and had to be careful.

The Shangguan Clan was no longer strong, and slight recklessness could endanger them all.

Everyone was treading on thin ice.

“Do you want to cooperate with him?” Shangguan Qingsu asked.

Before she came back, she had told him everything. She had found Smiling San Sheng and the way to suppress the curse.

However, the conditions he had set were quite high.

“Cooperate?” Shangguan Qicheng chuckled. “You haven’t made it clear yet. How are we supposed to cooperate with him?”

“We will have to follow his orders.” Shangguan Qingsu looked at the person at the top. “As long as we agree, he will suppress the curse forever. But if we betray him…”

“Shut up!” Before Shangguan Qingsu could finish speaking, several auras erupted from above.

Shangguan Qingsu sneered. There were many people hiding in the dark.

“Shangguan Qingsu, do you know what you are saying?” Shangguan Qicheng asked angrily.

“What’s wrong? Are you angry because of your low self-esteem?” Shangguan Qingsu chuckled. “Then, why don’t you attack me directly? If the Shangguan Clan is exterminated by the curse, we would have no one left no matter who we follow. Do you want to negotiate the conditions? Don’t you want to survive?”

Shangguan Qingsu’s voice got louder.

Shangguan Qicheng looked at the woman standing below.

Finally, he said, “Why? Why do you want to disrespect your clan?”

“Hahaha!” Shangguan Qingsu laughed. “You’re one to talk about respect! Where was this ‘respect’ when my parents begged you? Why did you humiliate them? Was it not enough that they were already at death’s door? Did you have to humiliate them?”

Shangguan Qicheng was silent. “We’ll not be his slaves. You tell him that.”

“Then, we agree to follow his orders from now on,” said Shangguang Qingsu.

She looked as if she didn’t care if he didn’t want to.

“Follow his orders? What’s the difference between that and being his slave?”

“The difference is that he will suppress your curse. If you are unwilling, you can always refuse and go back to how you were,” said Shangguan Qingsu.

“That is…”

“What do you have that you can offer him instead? He is a person who can rid our whole clan of our curse. What do you have that you can offer him? Will you offer him some useless spirit beasts? Or maybe some low-quality mines? Are you going to throw away this opportunity for your worthless pride?”

Shangguan Qingsu’s words left everyone shaken. They didn’t know what to say.

“We can’t ever disobey him?” someone asked from the dark.

“Yes. We have to do what he tells us,” said Shangguan Qingsu.

“What’s the difference between that and acknowledging him as our master?” asked an old man.

“Well, you have three choices. One, we become slaves. Two, we negotiate to live as a clan but obey his orders. Three, live as we are with the curse,” said Shangguan Qingsu. “You don’t want to endure the Hundred Nights Curse forever, but you are also unwilling to pay the price to get rid of it. Will you get another opportunity like this? Who do you think we are?”

“You…” The old man was furious.

However, no one cared about him.

“If we agree to cooperate with him, can we still question his orders if they are unreasonable?” Shangguan Qicheng asked.

“Yes. But he might not respond immediately,” said Shangguan Qingsu.

“If we refuse him even once, does that mean our agreement will be over?”

“Yes.”

“I want three chances to refuse.”

“We haven’t even agreed, and you already want a loophole?”

“After every three tasks, we will be given a choice to refuse.”

“Ten. Also, he has the right to end the cooperation if we refuse.”

“Alright. But I hope that he can have an open conversation with us before he refuses cooperation,” said Shangguan Qicheng. “We need to discuss everything before we agree to work together.”