Sorry, master, my junior sister has surrendered to the enemy!

Chapter 245: Allies are giving you this kind of trouble

The sunlight penetrates the shade of the trees, and strands of golden threads add to the tranquility of the courtyard. It is the best time of the day when the sun shines.

Chu Yu and the Seventh Prince sat on the ground facing each other.

"You two, God is watching what we do. The eyes of the sacred tree cannot tolerate filth and dirt. Please don't do anything that goes against your will. Be careful of Lady Chunling's divine punishment." The village chief stood beside the two and warned them solemnly.

"Of course. I'm not the kind of person who doesn't keep his word. Village chief, let's get started." The seventh prince couldn't wait any longer.

Yue Ling and Ming stood behind the two of them, each with a vigilant look on their faces. Yue Ling even took out some strange little bottles and quietly hid them under her sleeves.

Such a small action was too obvious and was seen by the village chief.

"But this fairy and this immortal are so diametrically opposed to each other, which clearly shows a lack of trust in each other. This is a manifestation of their distrust of Madam Chunling..."

The village chief glanced back and forth at Yue Ling and Ming, as if hinting at something.

Ming's brows furrowed, and just as he was about to retort, he heard the village chief say, "The fairy and the immortal are both Madam Chunling's emissaries. Madam Chunling would certainly not want to see you fighting among yourselves."

"Why are you so long-winded..." The Seventh Prince was about to open his mouth to refute, but Chu Yu interrupted with a chuckle:

"This village chief is such a wonderful person. Just listen to him."

Chu Yu smiled behind him, his eyes slightly bright: "A Ling, let's put the things away."

Yue Ling snorted lightly, and for some reason suddenly became angry. She raised her chin slightly, pointed at Ming opposite her and said dissatisfiedly: "Tell him to stop glaring at me."

Ming was stunned and immediately responded: "How could I glare at you?"

Yue Ling: "You did, you just glared at me!"

"I've been staring at her, okay!" Ming pointed at Chu Yu.

"Okay," Chu Yu suddenly realized and complained to the village chief: "Village chief, he has personally admitted that he is wary of me. He does not trust or respect Madam Chunling."

Perhaps the words "distrust" and "disrespect" were too harsh, and the village chief was so scared that he knelt down immediately.

"Madam Chunling, please forgive me. I am sorry for meddling in other people's affairs and letting you see such a terrible thing..." The village chief ignored the quarrel between the two parties and began to apologize.

"Village chief, village chief?" Chu Yu called the village chief twice, but the other party completely ignored him and kept bowing to the cypress tree.

Chu Yu couldn't help laughing again: "This village chief is really a wonderful person."

"He's a wonderful man, almost a god. You are a god like him. It's outrageous enough to let a mortal preside over our transaction. And you can't mess with this mortal." The Seventh Prince complained to Chu Yu in a bad mood.

"Ah, Madam Chunling is kind and generous. Don't vent your anger on this ignorant person..." When the village chief heard the words of the seventh prince, he kowtowed even harder.

Chu Yu raised an eyebrow, said nothing, folded his arms across his chest, and looked at the Seventh Prince with an attitude of non-cooperation.

"Alright, stop wasting time talking about this and that," the Seventh Prince flicked his sleeves and turned around to order Ming to close his eyes.

"Don't look at anything, just look at how they can find fault with you."

Ming closed his eyes in dissatisfaction.

"Are you satisfied?"

Chu Yu looked up at the sky and the sun, and after a long while, he slowly responded, "Just barely satisfied."

"Ah, thank you Madam Chunling for your kindness. I am willing to continue to host the transaction for the two of you."

Hearing Chu Yu's response, the village chief finally stood up and smiled again, "The two of you being united is in line with Madam Chunling's vision of blessing the immortal mountain."

"I will tolerate you guys for the time being, just as a good deed." The seventh prince shook his sleeves and sat down again, taking a deep breath.

Chu Yu also sat down and waited for the village chief to speak.

"You two, God is watching what we do. Within the Immortal Mountain, no one can resist Madam Chunling's will. You must each promise to carry out the transaction as agreed upon. Otherwise, the consequences of Madam Chunling's divine punishment will be unbearable for any of you."

Chu Yu and the Seventh Prince then each made a promise.

The Seventh Prince was extremely eager for the fairy fruit. Although his eyes were lowered in thought, they still retained their charm, and his exquisite and handsome face looked as cunning as a fox.

It's like he's going to turn his back on you.

He only cared about the fairy fruit and obviously didn't take the tree seriously.

Yue Ling was also focused on the Purple Rhythm Dragon King Ginseng that her seventh brother had not yet taken out.

He listened attentively and his nerves were tense, because he found that under the shade of the tree, he could not release his spiritual sense at all and could not guard against Chu Yu at all.

Chu Yu had the same feeling, but she saw more.

For example, the fluctuations of the mysterious energy above the alchemy furnace were weak, which did not seem like something a powerful alchemist should have.

For example, the veins of this tree seem to be glowing slightly, and getting brighter and brighter, but no one seems to notice.

Is this going to "appear"?

Before she could see more, suddenly, a quiet force covered the entire place, as if it was emanating from the center of the Chinese toon tree. Chu Yu felt a little tinnitus for a moment.

The Seventh Prince and Yue Ling did not catch this subtle change, but Chu Yu and Ming felt it for real. They both looked towards the toon tree at the same time.

"You two can now exchange herbs. You have one stick of incense to enjoy this fair moment."

There was no emotion in the village chief's voice.

Chu Yu frowned. When the quiet force field opened, she felt that she was the only one in the whole place. The Seventh Prince opposite her was just a blurry figure. He stretched out a hand and handed over a ginseng with lush, winding roots that looked like a dragon. The aura of this Dragon King Ginseng was extremely strong and it was an excellent treasure.

Chu Yu only felt that she had taken the Dragon King Ginseng in a daze, and before she could react, the quiet force field disappeared instantly.

"Eh? What happened?" The seventh prince was the first to express his doubts. When he came to his senses, he was already holding a fairy fruit in his hand.

Almost at the same time, a bell suddenly rang in everyone's mind.

"Boom~~"

Even though Chu Yu was still somewhat shocked by the power just now, she remained calm and put away the Purple Rhythm Dragon King Ginseng. While the bell was still ringing, she pulled Yue Ling out of the yard.

At this moment, the angry voices of the Seventh Prince and Ming were heard in the courtyard at the same time, and they finally reacted belatedly.

"Damn it! I was wondering why they were dawdling, but it turns out they were stalling for time!"

"Hurry up and eat it. It should still be in time."

"Your Highness, I've finished eating. It seems I'm still at the sixth level of Spirit King."

"This fairy fruit only offset today's suppression, not yesterday's. She timed it perfectly to trick us."

After a while, the seventh prince's curses were heard from the courtyard without caring about his image. It seemed that he was really angry.

Chu Yu ate a fairy fruit slowly to offset the suppression of the next day, and turned a deaf ear to the scolding in the yard.

"Seventh brother, don't blame me, your younger sister. We are allies."

Yue Ling explained loudly to the courtyard. It would have been fine if she hadn't said anything, as saying it would have only added fuel to the fire: "I'm doing this to maintain our fragile alliance. Don't worry, we won't break our promise, but you might not. I'm taking precautions."

"My action hurts the relationship between us, and it also damages the fragile brother-sister relationship, but it does not hurt the friendship between us!"

The seventh prince stood with his hands on his hips, pacing back and forth in the courtyard in anger.

He wanted the Immortal Fruit in order to restore Ming to the sixth level of Spirit Emperor. Then the offense and defense would switch, and Yue Ling would become the one trying to survive under his hands.

But now, after paying the price of the Purple Rhythm Dragon King Ginseng, all he got in return was Ming's cultivation remaining unchanged.

"Your Highness, they didn't choose to attack us. This is a good thing. Perhaps we still have a chance."

The Seventh Prince was stunned. He had forgotten that he was no longer of any use to Chu Yu. Why did she choose to keep him?

Are they truly keeping their oath of alliance? Or...

The Seventh Prince looked up at Chun Shu.

In front of Madam Chunling, they were "allies" and killing each other was a violation of the alliance oath. Thinking of the power that had just manipulated his transaction, the Seventh Prince felt a little scared.

After leaving the courtyard, the Seventh Prince caught a glimpse of the village chief still standing nearby. He instantly became furious: "No wonder Chu Yu said you were a wonderful person. You, Old Deng, must have colluded with her to delay me."

The village chief was horrified and retorted, "Madam Chunling is watching, how dare I do something unfair? It's obvious that you don't trust Madam Chunling and your words are disrespectful. You're trying to disrupt a good matter and make it impossible to proceed..."

Speaking of Madam Chunling, even though the Seventh Prince was very angry, he kept quiet.

The power that made him exchange the herbs without knowing it just now was even more terrifying than his charm. This fairy mountain really has masters hidden in it.

The Seventh Prince calmed down instantly and walked out of the yard.

Chu Yu looked at the Chinese toon tree and recalled the feeling she had just experienced. She was sure that she was being manipulated.

This feeling is like... a field?

This flash of inspiration made Chu Yu suddenly realize.

"Could it be that Madam Chunling is backed by a certain medical immortal?"

For some reason, Chu Yu felt relieved when he knew that the other party was from the fairyland. It was better to guess it than to know nothing.

After all, Chu Yu himself did not want to admit that although the villagers of Xianshan were very enthusiastic, their worship of the Chinese toon tree was a bit crazy.

Given the villagers’ extreme worship of the Chinese toon tree and the mystery of the tree itself, it would be a lie for Chu Yu to say that he didn’t find it weird.

……

In the rear hall of the imperial palace.

Ji Xiu, the medical immortal, returned to his spiritual state and opened his eyes with satisfaction.

"That girl probably guessed it was me. She's quite perceptive and wasn't intimidated by my field. She's quite knowledgeable."

"Ah..." Yao Lao yawned, "Did she guess that you arranged a group of ignorant villagers just to enjoy the feeling of being worshipped?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ji Xiu retorted, "I didn't expect the villagers to admire me so much. I didn't arrange the villagers, it was Di Ming who did."

Master Di Ming explained: "This is the choice made by the people in the small world. You can regard them as sentient beings, not illusions."

"In a place completely isolated from the outside world, people have witnessed Lady Chunling perform miracles since they can remember, so it's not surprising that they worship her to this extent."

"Then you should let the villagers read more books." Yao Lao was not forgiving. After criticizing Ji Xiu and then Di Ming, he yawned, looked at the pictures boredly, and continued to speak venomously:

"Xiao Si is careful, but she overthinks things. If she had been more decisive, she might have found the stone lantern on the top of the North Territory Mountain before Xiao Jiu. Who knew she would choose to take the valley path first?"

"Now that the entrance to the Immortal Mountain in the Northern Territory has been closed, they only have one way to go, the Land of Evil. Even though the warning was so obvious, she still hesitated and didn't dare to light the stone lamp. She just waited there, wasting an entire night."

"Now Ah Zhong's realm has been suppressed to the Spiritual Master realm, but Xiao Si is lucky enough to have reunited with her third brother. The physical cultivator that the third brother brought with him is not subject to the suppression of the Buddhist beads, so he is enough to protect them. But now they must make a choice. I hope this child can learn something from this lesson."

"As for Xiao Qi..." Yao Lao's sleepy eyes revealed a hint of difficulty in evaluation. "This brat is used to relying on his charm to bully others. Everything he does exudes a mysterious confidence, like a silly son of a landlord. I think he's about to be fooled by that girl for the second time."

"And Xiaojiu, what kind of luck did she have to find such a wonderful person to help her?"

Ji Xiu tsk-tsk-tsked and complained, "Can you even utter a good word from your mouth? You don't let anyone go."

"No."

……

Chu Yu led the seventh prince to the space crack leading to the south of the fairy mountain.

"This is the entrance I came from. How do I close it?"

"Just destroy that stone lantern."

"that's it?"

"that's it."

The seventh prince was skeptical and asked Chu Yu why he did this.

"In response to your promise to Madam Chunling, if you close this entrance, you should be able to gain Madam Chunling's approval."

The Seventh Prince keenly grasped this point: "Did you gain Madam Chunling's approval because you closed other rifts?"

"I saved a child as soon as I arrived at the fairy mountain, and because of this I gained the recognition of Madam Chunling." Chu Yu asked herself if she was lying.

The seventh prince brought Ming and entered the crack with doubts.

The Seventh Prince is a very confident man, but he is not stupid. Once he crosses the space gap, he should understand the purpose of these cracks.

The Seventh Prince came in from the south entrance. Chu Yu deliberately asked him to close the entrance he came in from because he knew that the south had been searched by him and his chances of finding new medicinal herbs were slim.

Coincidentally, he also sent Chu Yu the only medicinal ingredient that could only be found in the south.

Chu Yu came in from the southwest entrance. Now the entrances to the south and southwest can be closed at any time for Chu Yu and Yue Ling.

Thinking of this, Chu Yu went straight to close the entrances to the west and northwest.

Yue Ling asked why the southwest direction was not closed first.

"Because we first encountered the Seventh Prince in the southwest. Since he headed south without looking back, it means that the southwest doesn't have what the Seventh Prince wants."

"So the southwest entrance is dispensable to them. It doesn't matter whether it's closed or not. We might as well close the other entrances that won't be used in advance."

There are no medicinal herbs that Chu Yu and the others need in the west and northwest, but it may be possible for others.

Standing in front of the western spatial crack, Yue Ling sighed, "Oh, when Brother Seven realizes this, he'll be furious."

"After all, we are the first ones to arrive at the Immortal Mountain. If we don't take advantage of the information gap between us, it would be a wasted trip."