Don't Cause Trouble Chapter 66: Rumors

"It’s just a Heavenly Dao blessing," Ye Su said calmly. She didn’t care much about such random occurrences, receiving one didn’t mean her refining skills had improved. "But it should sell for a good price."

Huang Erqian was still in shock. The phrase "just a Heavenly Dao blessing" kept echoing in his ears. He stared at Ye Su with wide eyes, his skinny face flushing with excitement. "Should?! Do you know how valuable a tool blessed by the Heavenly Dao is? I’m telling you, we’ve struck gold this time!"

"A good tool refined by your own skill is what’s reliable. There’s no need to pin your hopes on some vague Heavenly Dao," Ye Su said lightly. "Anyway, I’ll leave it to you to sell it at a good price."

"Of course!" Huang Erqian was nearly moved to tears. "Back then I even doubted whether you had the skills. Thank heavens I agreed when Wen Dong suggested joining Qianji Sect."

An artifact made of cold crystal mud and blessed by the Heavenly Dao, he’d clearly backed the right person!

"Don’t worry, I’ll sell it well!" Huang Erqian quickly let go of Ye Su’s hand with great care. "You’ve got to protect these hands. These are the hands that created a Heavenly Dao-blessed artifact."

Ye Su: "…"

When she returned to the inn, Ye Su saw Xu Chengyu in the lobby talking to a stranger. She paused briefly, then headed back to her room.

She later found out that someone had witnessed the Heavenly Dao phenomenon, but fortunately, they couldn’t tell exactly what it was. Xu Chengyu stepped in to block suspicion, saying that he had experienced a sudden moment of enlightenment, which caused the strange vision.

"You didn’t want anyone to know, so I made that call on my own," Xu Chengyu explained when he came back.

"Thank you, Brother Xu," Ye Su said with gratitude. She glanced at Ma Congqiu, who was standing behind him. "Zhou Yun hasn’t returned yet?"

"She’s still at the Wuxing Sect," Xu Chengyu replied. "We don’t know yet whether Lian Lian will succeed in forming her nascent soul."

The process of forming a nascent soul had no fixed timeline, it depended entirely on the individual.

A few days later, a monk's spade blessed by the Heavenly Dao and covered in talisman runes made a grand debut. It was crafted by none other than Master Mu Ji himself and was to be auctioned publicly, quickly stirring up a storm across the cultivation world.

Huang Erqian was a master at hyping things up. He used years of accumulated connections to secretly hire someone to record a cultivator using the monk's spade, capturing it with a Recollection Image, then released the footage on a public channel. The auction was set to be held three days later—the highest bidder would win.

He also brought "Master Mu Ji" back into the public eye, claiming that the master wasn’t doing it for money, but simply wanted to give everyone a chance to obtain a good magic tool.

Even though some people scoffed at it, many others were intrigued and eager to bid on the monk's spade.

Three days later, the communication channel was nearly overwhelmed, everyone was trying to get in to participate in the auction.

Ye Su had wanted to log in and take a look but was squeezed out of the system.

Her message jade was too cheap and weak.

In the end, she had to borrow Xu Chengyu’s message jade to watch the full auction. The starting bid was 10,000 high-grade spirit stones.

At first, many people thought that was way too high. It was just a monk's spade, after all. Sure, it had decent power, tons of strange talismans, and even a Heavenly Dao blessing but 10,000 high-grade spirit stones?

But the moment the bidding began, the price shot up wildly, jumping higher and higher with each bid.

In the end, someone with the username "Ugly Freaks Not Allowed in Hehuan Sect" won the auction with a final bid of 50,000 high-grade spirit stones.

When Huang Erqian saw that name, his face turned green. A name that blatant, combined with that much money? No doubt, it was definitely someone from the Hehuan Sect.

Still, he wasn’t about to turn down money. He accepted the auction price, and in the end, the contract was successfully sealed.

The person from Hehuan Sect was very quick after asking for the address, he immediately used a teleportation scroll and arrived on the spot. As soon as he saw Huang Erqian, he covered his eyes in disgust. "Ugh, you again?"

"...Fifty thousand spirit stones," Huang Erqian said, holding out his hand.

The other party tossed over a pouch of spirit stones. "Fifty thousand spirit stones. Where’s my monk's spade?"

Huang Erqian used his spiritual sense to check the contents and confirmed that it was indeed fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones. He then handed the monk's spade to the buyer.

"This monk's spade looks nice. It’s my first time seeing a tool blessed by the Heavenly Dao." The buyer said this one line while holding it, and then disappeared on the spot.

Huang Erqian: "..."

Whatever. When you’ve got money, you call the shots.

He opened the pouch and looked at the spirit stones inside. He couldn’t help but swallow hard. These spirit stones were probably mined directly from Hehuan Sect’s own spirit veins, each one was uniform in shape and beautifully clear, clearly brimming with spiritual energy.

He rushed back to the inn to find Ye Su and handed her the spirit stones. "Fifty thousand spirit stones. It was bought by a direct disciple of the Hehuan Sect."

Ye Su hadn’t expected to receive the spirit stones so soon. She took out twenty thousand high-grade spirit stones and handed them to Huang Erqian. "Ten thousand to be sent to Qianji Sect, and the other ten thousand are for you."

Huang Erqian was just about to take them when he paused, hearing that. He tried to refuse. "I didn’t do much…"

"In the future, Wen Dong Materials will also be part of Qianji Sect," Ye Su looked at him. "Didn’t your scroll get stolen? You’ll still need spirit stones to buy materials while staying at the shop. Take this ten thousand to use for now. Once Wen Dong grows, it’ll be easier for all of us to work."

Huang Erqian was silent for a long time, then solemnly accepted the spirit stones with a bow. "I won’t let you down, Master Ye."

Ye Su frowned and stepped aside to help him up. "That’s not necessary. You and I are both members of Qianji Sect."

Huang Erqian’s eyes spun mischievously, and with a silly grin, he shamelessly called out, "Senior Sister Ye is absolutely right."

Ye Su: "…"

"All right, go handle your business. We’re heading to the Sword Sect soon," she said, waving him off.

"Got it." With renewed energy, Huang Erqian left the inn full of spirit.

Ye Su still had thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones left in her hands. She glanced down at them, feeling like they had come a little too easily.

She herself didn’t think the monk's spade was worth that much. She’d watched the auction and the final price soared only because that "Ugly Freaks Not Allowed in Hehuan Sect" account kept bidding against another anonymous user.

Ye Su had originally thought that anonymous bidder was someone Huang Erqian had planted to drive up the price, but she had just asked him, and it wasn’t.

The teleportation array fee had already been covered, and Ye Su even took out ten thousand spirit stones to return to Ma Congqiu.

"You artifact refiners really rake in money when you make a good magic tool," Ma Congqiu sighed. "Those twenty thousand high-grade spirit stones of mine took years of mission work to save up."

Ye Su just smiled. This was the first time she had ever earned so many spirit stones. In previous years, their Qianji Sect didn’t even have the opportunity to post missions—mainly because their sect leader master didn’t have any spirit stones to pay out.

But the matter of the monk's spade wasn’t over yet.

The very night after the auction, a rumor swept across the cultivation world: Master Mu Ji was from the Zhanjin Sect.

The next morning, as soon as Ye Su came downstairs in the inn, she heard many people discussing the news.

"I just knew it had to be someone from Zhanjin Sect. Honestly, at first, I suspected it was those two disciples from the sect."

"You were already suspicious that early? That’s sharp of you."

"Of course! Think about it, what artifact refiner these days doesn’t chase fame? Only the refiners from Zhanjin Sect would quietly do good deeds without revealing their names."

"The Heavenly Dao’s blessing hasn’t it only happened once in the past few hundred years, and that was with the Zhanjin Sect’s head?"

"Not just that. I heard Zhanjin Sect actually has a few powerful artifact refiners who’ve created tools blessed by the Heavenly Dao. Some even say that monk's spade was a practice piece co-refined by those two geniuses from Zhanjin Sect."

"Is that true?"

"Didn’t Hehuan Sect end up winning the bid for that artifact? They spent fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones! They must’ve gotten some inside scoop ahead of time."

Ye Su stood on the stairway, listening to the chatter downstairs. Her expression—rarely seen, had turned cold.