Chapter 19: Seven Ghost Chasers
Ding Hai stood aside and narrowed his eyes slightly after listening.

After pondering for a moment, he decided not to compete with Shi Jian and directly took on the second task.

The task of exorcising ghosts in the Liangjiang Governor-General's Office seemed easy, well-paid, and close to home.

But Ding Hai, who owed the sect three great merits, had no interest in this mission.

Don’t mistakenly think that the sect’s achievements are worthless just because the sect’s actions are a combination of two major merits and one minor merit.

In fact, if it weren't for the faction's high-ranking officials such as Qinghai Zhenren who wanted to get a good start and enhance the reputation of the Five Heroes of Maoshan, these three things combined would not be enough to exchange for a great achievement.

The sect has supported you for many years. Not only have they treated you well and provided you with good food and drink, they have also devoted their efforts to teaching you real skills.

Now I am just arranging some tasks that are not risky but a little tedious, and I want to reward you with great achievements. How is this possible?

Qinghai Zhenren and other high-level officials are not stupid. They understand the principle of repaying kindness with gratitude and resentment with hatred.

Strictly speaking, the above three things combined are only enough to exchange for a small merit.

This is still the most ideal situation.

Usually, you will only receive some material rewards issued by the sect.

Unless you take on three things at the same time and complete them all in a short period of time.

By then, the sect will see that you are so dedicated and may give you a small merit as a reward at its discretion.

Therefore, if there is a chance to achieve great success, Ding Hai will definitely go for it first.

As for why not snatch Shi Jian's mission and show off in front of the people of Shu?
One reason is that he is too old. His two lives combined are almost fifty years younger than he used to be. Compared to being a high-profile person, he prefers to make a fortune quietly.

The second reason is that he is professionally suitable. Although Ding Hai has never conducted in-depth research on Feng Shui techniques such as finding dragons and locating acupoints, he has accumulated a lot of experience in this area unknowingly since he mastered the art of the third eye.

When others learn the art of finding dragons and locating acupoints in Feng Shui, they need to hold a compass and a dragon-finding ruler, travel through mountains and rivers, and measure the mountains and rivers for thousands of miles with their feet before they can achieve some success.

Dante Crab only needs to use the skill of divine eye, climb up high and look far away, and he can clearly see the terrain and features within a hundred miles.

With complete answers, and the help of the knowledge reverse deduction process recorded in the book, he learned these things effortlessly and his progress was far beyond that of ordinary people.

"Disciple is willing to travel to Lingnan to help master solve problems." After some thought, Ding Hai stepped forward and took on the second task.

Seeing that Ding Hai and Shi Jian did not have a conflict, Lin Jiu and the other two were inevitably disappointed. Among them, Lou Nanguang showed it without any concealment.

To Lo Nam-kwong, both Ding Hai and Shek Kin are not good people.

Ding Hai once made him lose all face, and he is still laughed at by Maoshan disciples.

Shi Jian was not much better off. Without the restraint of the ring, he could not cope with Ding Hai's incredible speed.

If he can't restrain Ding Hai's speed, it will be impossible to defeat Ding Hai head-on. If he can't beat Ding Hai, Shi Jian will have no way to prove that he is the rightful senior brother of Maoshan.

How could someone as proud as him tolerate someone of the same generation standing shoulder to shoulder with him?

As time went on, a burning jealousy built up in his heart.

In order to vent his jealousy, Shi Jian often vented his anger on the three of them in the name of sparring.

Lin Jiu is very powerful and has many tricks up his sleeve. After each sparring match, he would be back to normal in a day or two after getting bruised and swollen.

Siyan is under the protection of an elder in the sect who works as a judge in the underworld, so Shi Jian does not dare to force him too much.

Therefore, Lou Nanguang became the unlucky man, having to live with a pig's head for ten days every month.

When Shi Jian heard that Ding Hai chose to go to Lingnan instead of competing with him for going to Shuzhong, his mood instantly brightened. It seemed that Ding Hai finally understood what it meant to respect the strong.

"Very good. Our sect needs a responsible disciple like you." The sect leader, Qinghai Zhenren, nodded and gave Ding Hai the task of going to Lingnan to investigate the source of the abnormal earth veins.

The first two tasks had been taken on by two men as big as fists, so Lin Jiu and others turned their attention to the third task - to exorcise the ghost at the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion.

Although this task only gives a small reward, it is better than getting nothing.

However, before Lin Jiu and others could ask for permission, True Man Qingsong had already made arrangements.

"The Wuhou family in Shu is a thousand-year-old family. It may seem a little strange for Junior Brother Shi to go alone to watch the ceremony.

Junior-junior brother Chen, you will serve as the deputy envoy and go with us to gain more experience.

Junior Brother Ding has been making a living in the north in recent years and is not very familiar with Lingnan.

Junior Brother Lin, you are from Yuezhou and have a deep understanding of local customs. You should come with us on this trip to Lingnan.

When you two return, the sect will have its own rewards." True Man Qingsong arranged auxiliary tasks for Lin Jiu and Qian He.

As a result, the task of going to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion to exorcise the evil spirit naturally fell on Lou Nanguang.

Lou Nanguang suddenly got this task and felt it was a little unreal.

In fact, he also vaguely sensed that the older generation in the sect didn't like him very much.

He had been prepared to gain nothing this time, but unexpectedly, there was a silver lining.

Ding Hai, who was standing on the left, glanced at Lou Nanguang, who was secretly happy, with a hint of disdain in his eyes, as if he was looking at a fool. This fool probably didn't realize that he had actually been abandoned by the sect.

If there had not been a disciple who could replace him, he would have been expelled from the list of the Five Heroes long ago.

Although the Liangjiang Governor's Office is located in Jinling City, not far from Maoshan, Maoshan would not have interfered in such trivial matters if the people from the Governor's Office had not come to ask for help in person.

The spiritual forces such as Chaotianque, which are on good terms with Maoshan, have their headquarters in Jinling City, so it is not impossible for them to deal with ordinary weird creatures.

Unless necessary, Maoshan will not easily reach out to the lairs of these friendly forces, because it is very taboo.

If the boss has no sense of boundaries, the younger brothers under him will not be able to sleep well at night.

This time, since the Governor's Office has asked Maoshan for help, Maoshan cannot stand idly by and must send someone to help.

Although the Qing court no longer had its former glory and began to decline, as long as it stood, Maoshan had to respect power.

Considering the existence of many friendly forces in Jinling City, the correct approach is to unite all friendly forces that can be united and initiate a massive alliance in the Jinling spiritual world.

Then everyone worked together to make the scene bigger, and finally "difficultly" solved the weird creature in the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion.

It would be even better if someone vomited blood or got injured during the process. Then they wouldn't have to find too many excuses to ask for a generous reward from the Governor's Office.

After receiving the reward, the Maoshan disciple who presided over the meeting took out 30% of the silver and distributed it to each force in turn according to their closeness and contribution.

Then, with the gratitude of various forces, you can return to Maoshan with plenty of money and spend a prosperous New Year.

But this is a game that only the smartest of people can play.

Those forces need to be treated with courtesy and respect, and those forces need to be treated like dogs even if they receive a bone when they are thrown to them. This is a great test of one's vision.

How to cleverly get people from the Liangjiang Governor's Office to pay large sums of money is also a big deal.

If you are not careful, you might end up losing everything and offend everyone.

Maoshan was not afraid of offending people, and there were only a handful of forces in Jiangnan that could compete with it. Maoshan was already showing its rare tolerance by not showing its edge to them.

However, if the disciples who go to do the work mess up, it will not be so easy to get away with it.

The spiritual world of Jiangnan is very deep, and even the Yinshen Zhenren may not be able to explore its bottom.

If you really offend someone you shouldn't, your identity as one of the Five Heroes of Maoshan can ensure that you will not die or become disabled, but as for more, don't even think about it.

Given Lou Nanguang's lively personality, he would be lucky not to get hurt after this trip.

Although he saw the hidden meaning of the sect's top leaders, Ding Hai did not speak it out.

As a high-ranking member of the sect, True Man Qinghai and his men had their own intentions in making such arrangements, and it was not his turn to question it.

Maybe Qinghai Zhenren and the others wanted to make Lou Nanguang suffer a great loss through this incident, so as to temper Lou Nanguang's restless temper.

After arranging the three tasks, Master Qinghai left. Seeing this, Master Qingsong, who didn't want to come to Chongshou Temple to be a mouthpiece, also left immediately.

The five people standing together in the temple looked at each other and went back home.

A few days later, at the edge of Zhejiang, two figures in ordinary clothes walked one after the other along a mountain path across the mountains.

These two people were not others but Ding Hai and Lin Jiu, who were tasked with going to Lingnan to investigate the abnormalities of the earth's veins.

As the two were walking, Ding Hai, who was walking in front, looked relaxed as if he was out for an outing, while Lin Jiu, who was following behind, had a frown on his face and looked like he had a lot on his mind.

The southern part of Zhejiang is mountainous, with deep mountains and old forests rising and falling, and you can't see the end at a glance.

The forest is big, and naturally there are all kinds of birds.

Along the way, there are snakes, insects, rats and ants, tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves, wandering ghosts, and obscene and evil sacrifices every day.

But Ding Hai seemed to be blind, turning a blind eye to all these things. He just walked on his own every day, and only stopped from time to time to catch some wild animals and roast them to fill his stomach. He had no intention of intervening to solve these chaos.

On this day, as they were about to enter Fujian after leaving Zhejiang, Lin Jiu could no longer hold back and said, "Brother Ding, have you forgotten the rules of our Maoshan? Why don't you care about the many wandering ghosts and evil spirits on the road?
When I wanted to take care of things, it would be fine if you didn't help me, but why did you hold me back and keep walking away without even looking back? "

Ding Hai did not take Lin Jiu's doubts too seriously: "Junior brother, I know you have justice in your heart, but the world is corrupt and injustice is everywhere.

You can take care of one thing, but not ten; you can take care of ten things, but not a hundred.

In this case, it is better to clean up the snow in front of your own door first, and then take care of the frost on other people's tiles when you have enough energy."

After listening to Ding Hai's advice, Lin Jiu felt it was incredible. How could such a person be worthy of being a Maoshan disciple and even develop such powerful skills?

God is so blind!

Just as Lin Jiu was about to refute Ding Hai's words and denounce them as unorthodox, a group of figures jumped and chased after them on the mountain path behind them.

"Yin people go on the road, Yang people stay away"

　There's another chapter tonight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)