Family Cultivation: I Become a Mirror-Chapter 256 - 235: Assigning the Shanyue (Double - )

Xiao Chuting paused for a moment, then spoke softly:

"Since I have reached Zifu and mastered Divine Skills, made my name in Yin Si, there are many matters I can no longer interfere in. Yuansi wants me to act, but he is too naive. Four Perfected Persons of the Green Pond Sect are watching—moving pieces with Divine Skills to steer the situation is permissible, but if I personally stepped in to kill Yu Yufeng, it would break the rules."

Li Tongya hurriedly cupped his hands in response and replied:

"Everything will be done according to the Perfected Person's instructions. My family awaits your arrangements."

Seeing his respectful attitude, Xiao Chuting nodded slightly and answered:

"I have read the Jade Slip Yuansi brought back. Indeed, it records the movement technique of the Perfected Person Xian You, which is of great significance to us. The relations between our two families are good, and now that your Li Family is bullied by the Yu Family, it is only right that we help. Although I cannot act directly in this matter, I can easily handle him."

Now, Xiao Chuting was a Zifu Perfected Person. In fact, just a word from him could make the Yu Family panic and apologize, and Yu Xiaogui would have to personally come to make amends. How would they dare to insult the Li Family covertly? This remark was merely seeking an excuse to suppress the Yu Family and support the Li Family at Wangyue Lake. Li Tongya, of course, eagerly awaited this, listening with utmost respect.

"My Xiao Family is now independent as an Immortal Clan and no longer under Green Pond's jurisdiction, so we cannot freely send Foundation Establishment cultivators to kill members of Green Pond's clans. Fortunately, though our Xiao Family is not powerful, we still have several Foundation Establishment Guest Elders. Soon, I will summon a few of them to take a trip and deal with Yu Yufeng."

Xiao Chuting's tone was flat. Li Tongya responded and asked suspiciously:

"Only, Yu Yufeng is very cautious and practices in seclusion in the Mountain Gate, never leaving his abode. To surround and kill him will not be easy…"

"Hmm."

Xiao Chuting smiled faintly, gently raising the white jade fishing rod in his hand, drawing the baitless jade hook from the deep pool and sending ripples across the surface. He answered with a bright smile:

"Yu Yufeng will come out. Not only will he come out, he will follow the ancient Lidao eastward to a nameless little hill on Mushroom Forest Plain, secluded and deserted, where he will wait for us."

Li Tongya felt his spine chill and his pores stand on end, inwardly pondering:

"Could it be… the power of the Zifu Divine Skills is truly this formidable…"

On the surface, he nodded solemnly. Then Xiao Chuting's tone shifted, becoming more earnest and heartfelt, as he began:

"As for your Li Family, you must also consider your future path. When the Yu Family falls, there will be no more heads sticking out at Wangyue Lake. Where to go next must be carefully weighed."

"I understand!"

Li Tongya nodded with gravity. Xiao Chuting paused, then said in a low voice:

"The Li Family must also send someone to enter the Green Pond Sect."

Li Tongya's expression did not change, but a storm raged in his heart; he was profoundly alarmed, yet replied without hesitation:

"According to the Perfected Person, who is suitable?"

Li Tongya could hear that Xiao Chuting's tone was not soliciting nor negotiating, but simply giving an ordinary instruction, so not a hint of question or argument emerged—he answered directly.

Xiao Chuting paused for a moment at Li Tongya's decisiveness, let out a light laugh, and said:

"You are a clever man; you should understand this matter. The case of Li Chijin is only because he is Moonlight Immortal Foundation and exceptionally talented. Ordinary disciples would not end up so. The purpose here is not to offer your child for the Green Pond Sect to consume, but a strategy that achieves three outcomes with one move."

"First, your family still remains under Green Pond's jurisdiction. If you have a child practicing within the peak, news will be close at hand, making matters easier, and with a powerful patron and life-preserving talisman, it could not be better."

"Second, the child sent to the Immortal Sect does not need to be outrageously gifted; moderate talent is enough to avoid disaster and to contribute to the family, and with high cultivation, gain some power within the Sect."

Xiao Chuting's tone was still polite and continued:

"My family has separated from Green Pond. Several disciples were withdrawn, and most scouts lost contact. We know little of internal affairs. If your family can send in a disciple, it benefits us both. As to whom you send, you may decide for yourselves."

Xiao Chuting—now a dignified Zifu cultivator—was willing to explain at such length, putting Li Tongya in a position of honored surprise, who answered:

"It's just… It isn't easy to enter as a Green Pond disciple…"

Xiao Chuting had already arranged matters and replied lightly:

"Qing Sui Peak has few people. Si Yuanbai left the Sect, Yuansi has also departed Qing Sui Peak, leaving only his junior sister Yuan Tuan in the peak. It is exactly the time to provide support. If you send someone to become her disciple, Yuan Tuan definitely will not refuse."

"I have been taught."

Li Tongya nodded. Xiao Chuting also grew silent, looked him over up and down before continuing: 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Then go on. I hope you will live up to expectations and lead the Li Family forward."

Li Tongya bowed and withdrew, drifting lightly from the broken cliff down the mountain on foot. By the pond, Xiao Yuansi nodded gently at him, watching him vanish into the distance, then soared into the air and landed at Xiao Chuting's side, speaking in a low voice:

"Ancestor, you summoned me?"

Xiao Chuting nodded and asked:

"Is the matter with Guiluan settled? Does she have any discontent or grievances?"

"Everything is ready."

Xiao Yuansi replied respectfully:

"Guiluan has learned all the accounts of Li Yuanjiao and looked them over carefully. She said she is willing to marry."

Xiao Chuting lightly flicked the white jade fishing rod with two fingers and said softly:

"Her age is just right. Back then, she met all the promising young men of the county, but never spoke a word. I suspected she wished to marry out; the Li Family is certainly weighty enough."

This remark made the whole reasoning clear—after all, for a loose cultivator from the county to enter the family by marriage and quietly spend their days on a small cold peak as an in-law was a very different fate than marrying into another family as a Xiao daughter, becoming the principal wife with ten miles of bridal procession. Xiao Yuansi understood this, and only replied quietly: