Don't Cause Trouble Chapter 86: Suhui Jade Disk

The three people from Hehuan Sect: "……"

They had always been the ones judging others for being ugly yet today, someone actually disliked their looks?

Sect Master Wu Yue of Hehuan Sect wanted to argue back, but when she looked again at You Fushi’s face, she silently swallowed her words. He was too good-looking; anything he said was probably right.

The great sects did not stay here for long. Kunlun had already sent people to greet them and guide the three main sects to their resting areas.

The group from Qianji Sect also got ready to follow the flow of people to check in and register. They hadn’t gone far when a commotion rose behind them.

"Ten Thousand Buddha Sect has arrived."

"Is that their new Buddha Child on the left?"

"Yes, that’s Guliang Tian."

Hearing this, Ye Su suddenly stopped walking, and Ming Liu Sha and the others also halted by her side.

Thump, thump, thump…

The staff striking the stone platform made a deep, muffled sound. Each time the staff hit the ground, it seemed to stir the surrounding spiritual energy, making everyone fall silent without realizing it.

Ye Su raised her eyes to look behind her. Two hundred Ten Thousand Buddha Sect disciples, men and women alike, wore gray-blue robes. Their heads were not shaved, but their hair was tied up under matching gray-blue hats. Each held a staff in one hand and prayer beads in the other, walking forward barefoot at a slow, steady pace.

At the front stood Ten Thousand Buddha Sect’s master, Le Ji, who looked about forty years old, his features dignified and imposing. The fingers that held his prayer beads were visibly cracked.

—Le Ji, late-stage Mahayana cultivation, over a thousand years old, had led Ten Thousand Buddha Sect for seven hundred years. Rumor said he also practiced physical cultivation, and those cracked fingers were the result of body refinement.

Ye Su glanced at him only briefly before turning her gaze to the younger Buddhist cultivator on the right, Ten Thousand Buddha Sect’s new Buddha Child, Guliang Tian.

He was a young monk in his early twenties, tall and lean, with a calm and composed expression. A faint mist seemed to surround him, carrying a subtle Buddhist aura.

Just by appearance alone, the title of Buddha Child fit him perfectly at least more so than the big-built, thick-browed, fierce-eyed Senior Tu.

"Guliang Tian reached mid-stage Nascent Soul a while ago too."

"With these top sect disciples, there’s no chance for anyone else. They all broke through to mid-stage Nascent Soul. We can’t possibly beat them."

"As if we could win even if they weren’t mid-stage Nascent Soul."

"……It would still feel a little better than this."

Ye Su listened to the chatter rising around her, then turned to her junior brothers and sisters and said, "Let’s go."

A new Buddha Child had already been established, who would still remember the old one?

But in her opinion, apart from Tu Shi, no one else was truly worthy of the title of Buddha Child.

……

Kunlun was vast enough to easily accommodate everyone coming to take part in the sect tournament. At the same time, there were also other sects who came just to observe the tournament; as long as they paid for a spot, they could enter, and there were lodgings available around the outer areas too.

As for the people actually participating in the tournament, they could use their travel passes to check in at designated Kunlun checkpoints, where staff would help them arrange accommodations.

"Are you all together?" A Kunlun steward looked up at Ye Su and the others and asked.

"Yes, from the same sect." Ye Su handed over their travel passes.

"Do you want separate rooms, or a courtyard to yourselves?" The steward lowered his head to note down the pass details. "You came a bit late, so if you want a courtyard, the location is a bit off to the side."

"A courtyard," Ye Su replied.

"Alright." The Kunlun steward nodded, then infused the pass with spiritual power. With a snap of his fingers, a butterfly appeared out of thin air. "Follow it."

Just as the steward had warned, the courtyard’s location was indeed quite far off. Ye Su’s group kept walking through the bustling crowds, passed a bamboo grove, and then went around a small rocky hill before they finally reached the courtyard.

There were four or five large courtyards over there, and their neighboring courtyard already had cultivators staying in it.

As soon as they pushed the door open, the butterfly that had been flying ahead vanished in an instant.

"Senior Sister, the spiritual energy here…" Xia Er was the first to step inside and sense it. "It’s really dense!"

It wasn’t much worse than the spiritual energy chambers of the Sword Sect.

"Kunlun being the number one cultivation sect isn’t just because of their swordsmanship their spiritual energy far exceeds other sects too." Lu Jiu stood in the courtyard and said, "I’ve been to Kunlun twice, hoping to get accepted as a disciple."

Hearing that, Ming Liu Sha and Xiyu immediately crowded around her, gossiping with interest.

Lu Jiu grew a bit embarrassed. "Kunlun only takes highly talented disciples. I’m just too average, I failed the tests both times."

"Now you can match them head-on," Ye Su said calmly, sitting down on a stone bench in the courtyard.

Lu Jiu froze for a second, then smiled. "Right. I still made it into Kunlun, and I can even compete against their disciples."

Back then, she would have never dreamed of this. She never imagined she could reach late-stage Golden Core, or receive the personal guidance of Sword Sect elders, or even spar with their disciples.

Lu Jiu’s gaze landed on Ye Su. If she hadn’t gritted her teeth and bought those talismans back then, maybe they would never have had much contact, and there wouldn’t have been that experience training in the secret realm, nor would she have advanced so quickly.

"Later, go over to the Sword Sect." Ye Su glanced at the communication jade plate, then said to Yi Xuan, "The joint-disciples have two rooms reserved, so you’ll still need to check in there."

"Mm." Yi Xuan nodded, then suddenly remembered something. "Junior Sister is also taking part in the preliminary rounds."

Ye Su showed no reaction. She had been so busy working on the small flying boat these days that she hadn’t looked through the lists of other division preliminaries, but she didn’t think the plot from the original story would have changed much.

"Junior Sister?" Xiyu was fixing her hairpins in the mirror, and only after a moment realized who he meant. "She got a travel pass too?"

"She didn’t get a pass, so she probably wouldn’t have let us know she was in the preliminaries," Ming Liu Sha said slowly.

If their junior sister had heard that, she’d probably be mad.

Xia Er, on the other hand, wasn’t overthinking. Excited, she asked, "Which division is Junior Sister in, and what’s her ranking? That means Qianji Sect has gained another disciple, our group is growing!"

Yi Xuan: "……I don’t know." He had been focused on his training, with nothing on his mind except how to break down other people’s sword moves and sharpen his own blade techniques.

"What’s your junior sister’s name?" Lu Jiu took four name lists out from her sleeve. "I have the rosters here."

Xiyu immediately put away her mirror and pulled Lu Jiu toward the stone table.

A whole bunch of them didn’t even bother picking out their own rooms, but sat straight down at the stone table in the courtyard, spreading out the four preliminary selection lists.

"Other than the Eastern Division, I don’t think there are any Qianji Sect disciples on the lists," Lu Jiu said in surprise.

"This one."

Just as Lu Jiu set the papers down, Ming Liu Sha reached out and pointed to a name on the sheet in front of her. "Ning Qianyao, from Wuming Sect."

The courtyard fell completely silent at those words.

As expected.

Ye Su raised her eyebrows slightly. They had been training in the eastern regions, completely missing the heroine’s route, so they hadn’t affected the storyline of the original novel at all.

Lu Jiu subtly sensed something was off and quietly put away all the lists.

In the end, no one said more about this, and everyone chose their rooms to rest. Yi Xuan turned to go report to the Sword Sect.

Ye Su took the room on the far end. Next door was You Fushi. As she pushed the door open, the communication jade disk at her waist began to light up.

She thought it was from the Sword Sect, but when she picked it up and opened it, she saw it was Quan Jiaying.

"Ye Su, I heard you all arrived at Kunlun." He hadn’t been seen for a while, but Quan Jiaying looked the same as before, only with a bit more determination on his face. "We stayed outside for a while, and today, as soon as we came out, we heard people talking about Qianji Sect."

At first he thought something had happened to Qianji Sect, but after asking around, he found out it was because Qianji Sect had made a weird little flying boat that caused a huge commotion at Kunlun Xiantai.

The moment he heard that, Quan Jiaying knew Ye Su must have arrived.

Sects visiting to watch the tournament weren’t allowed to go to the contestant living areas on their own, so he could only contact her right away through the communication jade disk.

"I heard you’re even going to sell magical artifacts on the tournament stage." Quan Jiaying said, "Word travels fast, Zhanjin Sect will probably hear of it too."

"They’re here?" Ye Su asked.

Quan Jiaying nodded. "They’re of slightly higher status, so they live close to the Five Great Sects."

Any sect that had won first place in anything was arranged by Kunlun to stay closer to the competition area, while weaker sects like Poyuan Sect had to pay to stay in the outer area.

Ye Su narrowed her eyes and tilted her head slightly. Why did it feel like Quan Jiaying was holding back excitement, hoping to watch a good show?

"I brought ten thousand copies of the Suhui Jade Disks with me," Quan Jiaying said the next moment, pulling out a handful of jade disks from his qiankun bag. "Ye Su, when do you want to distribute them to the sects?"

Ye Su: "……"

She vaguely remembered the first time she met Quan Jiaying, he had still been a by-the-book, upright disciple.

"Distribute them in a couple of days," Ye Su said.

Since Qianji Sect had gotten so much attention for flying at Kunlun Xiantai, they might as well strike while the iron was hot and once again bombard everyone’s eyes and ears.

"Okay, just give me the word, and I’ll send them all out," Quan Jiaying said, putting the Suhui Jade Disks away again.

After closing the communication disk, Ye Su thought for a moment and then sent a message to Huang Erqian, telling him to publicly start selling the leftover magical artifacts under Master Muji’s name, and at the same time spread the news that Master Muji was from Qianji Sect.

Originally, this kind of gossip, right before the sect tournament started, wouldn’t have spread so widely or so quickly.

But Huang Erqian had been holding onto the Cold Crystal Mud, refusing to sell it, just to tie this bit of news to it under the name of Wendong Materials Shop.

What was Cold Crystal Mud?

It was a material from before the Divine Extinction stage, capable of repairing divine artifacts. Even though there was only a single drop, it was enough to draw the attention of the entire cultivation world.

For the first time, Wendong Materials Shop, Qianji Sect, and Master Muji would openly appear in public view.

At first, some cultivators sneered, thinking Qianji Sect was just shamelessly trying to ride on Zhanjin Sect’s fame.

"A sect on the verge of collapse, and they claim they can refine an artifact blessed by Heaven’s Will? Ridiculous!"

"Where did Wendong Materials Shop get Cold Crystal Mud? Probably from shady means, huh?"

"Look at the Qianji Sect disciples on the Baiqing rankings with skills like that, what decent artifact could they possibly refine? Heaven’s blessing, my foot."

Some people did wonder: "If you put Mu and Ji together, doesn’t that spell ‘Ji’. So it might relate to Qianji Sect after all. But as for Zhanjin Sect, if it was really them, why wouldn’t they use Master Chejin’s name?"

Ye Su waited two days, but the people from Zhanjin Sect never stepped forward, neither admitting nor denying anything.

Privately, though, the rumors about Heaven’s Will blessing only grew worse, all pointing at Qianji Sect as being unable to refine such a blessed artifact.

"Brother Quan, it’s time to send out the Suhui Jade Disks," Ye Su messaged Quan Jiaying.

The ten thousand jade disks weren’t just distributed inside Kunlun; every city in every direction received them at the same time.

"Poyuan Sect has branches in every city, so I already sent the jade disks out. As soon as you say the word, they’ll spread," Quan Jiaying said, feeling a rush like he was participating in something big more exciting than artifact refining itself.

The Suhui Jade Disks spread everywhere, all showing Ye Su refining the Crescent Spade. Any discerning person could tell at a glance that the artifact with Heaven’s blessing was precisely this modified Crescent Spade.

All the cultivators who had been so confident that it was Zhanjin Sect’s work shut their mouths immediately.

At this moment, Qianji Sect was once again the hottest topic in all of Kunlun, a level of attention even the Five Great Sects couldn’t match.