Chapter 128: The Dispute Over the Spiritual Eye

  "...with Lake Heart as the center, all within 200 meters are blessed lands, I want one-third of it!" It's only natural, no room for refusal... This is the attitude of Lei Di.

  "What...!" Li Mang was shocked, his eyes flashing with anger. Geniuses are always arrogant, and Li Mang didn't need to bother with him, but the other party didn't say a word and wanted to divide up his territory, and it was still one-third of the area. This wasn't just overbearing, but also looked down on Li Mang's existence, which was something that no one could accept.

  Suppressing the anger in his heart, Li Meng made an effort to speak calmly: "Lei Di, according to modern law, I have already contracted all the mountains and fields of Taohu Village. I have absolute control over this land. And according to the rules of Yan Huang Academy, this spiritual eye was discovered by me, it was unsealed by me, so it should naturally belong to me personally."

  The entire Ghost Lake was silent, probably no one thought that Li Meng would dare to provoke Lei Di so much. Zhu Bajie was also anxious and busy winking at Li Meng, but was ignored.

  "...The Thunder Emperor stared at Li Meng, his eyes flashing with lightning, clearly enraged. Not getting the blessing was secondary, but having his dignity challenged was what he truly could not accept. Since he had obtained the name of the Thunder Emperor, who had ever dared to provoke him like this?"

  Li Meng suddenly felt like he was being stared down by a ferocious beast, his body frozen on the water's surface unable to move, his heart filled with terror. The title of 'Divine Emperor' was truly not undeserved.

  "What is this thing?" Lei Di looked at Li Mang and asked, overbearing, barbaric!

  "Rules are constraints on checks and balances, so that some overconfident people won't act recklessly and plunder at will!" Li Mang responded calmly, he really couldn't stand Lei Di's arrogant attitude.

  "Whoosh..."

  As soon as Li Meng's words fell, the originally calm lake surface suddenly rose with waves, swaying under the night light, stirring people's hearts.

  "Hey, we're all fellow disciples, it's not worth quarreling over such a small matter. Can't we think of a compromise? Snow God, what do you say?" Pigsy intervened, standing between the two and pulling in Snow God, who had been keeping an attitude of being uninvolved.

  "This place is not for you to enjoy alone." The Snow God spoke few words, his expression remained unchanged, and Li Mang, five meters away, felt a chill run down his spine.

  The woman's icy demeanor had a calming effect on Li Mang. Indeed, from the moment his spiritual eye burst forth, this place was no longer something he could monopolize alone, after all, his strength was insufficient. As the saying goes, "it's hard to get fat by eating alone", if he were to monopolize this land of good fortune alone, it would likely make many people jealous, not to mention the distant ones, but even the Thunder Emperor and Snow Goddess in front of him probably wouldn't let him off easily!

  Taking a deep breath, Li Mang said: "I will build some antique courtyards in these four weeks. The grade won't be low. Those near Gui Hu are first-rate, and the ones behind are second-rate and third-rate. Xue Shen and Lei Di, you each choose a set of first-rate courtyard, and the rest of you fellow disciples choose a set of second-rate ones. What do you think?"

  Although the loss is not great, Li Mang is not happy. This has nothing to do with the loss of welfare or the small profit of the flies, what really makes Li Mang uncomfortable is compromise. Now he is like a stinky insect holding gifts to flatter the big shots, pitiful but has no choice.

  Is he a god? One day, Li Mang wants them to look up at him with respect. With the Shan Hai Jing in hand, he has absolute confidence. Li Mang's inner turmoil is churning. Unfortunately, it's not now. If only he could slap their faces hard right now, how refreshing that would be! But Li Mang knows he really can't, and still needs to endure.

  "Alright, after it's completed, I'll choose one set first." The Snow God nodded proudly, but didn't show any reserve at all, and was about to give gifts without any politeness.

  The Thunder Emperor frowned, in fact he was not satisfied with this, but seeing the Snow God had already made a statement, he couldn't say much more, so he just coldly snorted to show that he had no opinion.

  The people behind were also dissatisfied with only getting a "second-rate courtyard", but the Snow God and the Thunder Emperor had first-rate courtyards. They chose second-rate, which was not bad, nor did they dare to ask for the same as them, so they could only reluctantly give up.

  "Whoosh..."

  There were several more waves of people arriving, but they were all some mid-to-low level cultivators. Seeing the Thunder Emperor and Snow Goddess floating in the middle of the lake, none of them dared to approach again, at most just peeking from the shore.

  More and more people came, dozens of people with different dresses gathered on the shore, staring at the lake surface that was emitting rolling spiritual mist, but the few people in the middle of the lake were what made them very apprehensive.

  "Hey, everyone! This is the Lingyan that Huang and I found. Disperse! Disperse!" Zhu Bajie waved his thick arms on the water surface to prevent too many people from gathering and causing unnecessary chaos.

  "The Flame Yellow..." Some people who had ideas on the shore originally heard this name and were shocked, hesitated for a few moments and then disappointedly decided to leave. The spiritual eye discovered by Flame Yellow was not something they could take advantage of, although reluctantly they could only leave.

  But just as they were about to reluctantly turn and leave, a sudden voice came out of nowhere: "This spiritual eye suddenly burst forth, you say it's Yan Huang's and it's Yan Huang's? Then Yan Huang is being too overbearing, isn't he?"

  Everyone's footsteps came to an abrupt halt, and they unknowingly stopped in their tracks, turning their gaze towards the speaker. However, they found that it was a person wearing a bamboo hat and dressed in black, making it impossible to discern their features, but judging from the voice, they seemed to be still very young.

  Challenging the authority of the Yellow Emperor? Who is this person, with such great audacity? Everyone looks at each other in dismay, yet still dares not to utter a word.

  Li Mang and others in the middle of the lake suddenly turned cold, simultaneously casting their eyes over, they could have internal conflicts, but outsiders were not allowed to point fingers at Yan Huang, this was a strange mentality.

  However, this person was not afraid and instead stirred up the emotions of the crowd with a smile: "In recent years, Yan Huang has been arrogant enough. They intervene in every trivial matter that concerns us, taking away all good things. Now that they have the spiritual vein at home, they won't even let go of a single spiritual eye. Are you going to monopolize everything and not give us any way out?"

  This person is very cunning, using one-sided words to force the truth and bring a false impression of "this is how it is" to the masses, stirring up dissatisfaction and hostility towards the Han Chinese.

  "Not bad, Yan Huang occupies our dragon vein, now even a spiritual eye is reluctant to let go, it's too overbearing!"

  "It's just that Yan Huang might really want all the cultivators in the world to die out, leaving only themselves to dominate the world, with ulterior motives!"

  "These years of Yan and Huang have been really too much!"

  As the first person spoke out, more and more people joined in condemning Yan Huang, and the more they spoke, the more indignant they became. The dissatisfaction of these years towards Yan Huang and even the cultivation resources suddenly burst forth at this moment, with everyone shouting until their faces were red and their necks thick. Under such emotions, it's not impossible that even if the helmeted person told them to attack Yan Huang.

  "Fellow practitioners, the Yan Huang are not benevolent, and we are not righteous. We don't need to follow their ridiculous rules. If a few dozen of us can't beat them, then let's call in more people! I don't believe that Yan Huang can cover the sky with one hand!" The straw hat man shouted loudly, instantly pushing the crowd's discontent to its peak.

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