Chapter 91

Mu Shui Shui really took out his laptop on the spot, opened PowerPoint, and quickly wrote down a title:

"Taking the Xianyao Sect as an Example: A Brief Discussion on the Business Model that Evil Sects Should Adopt in Today's Society."

His hand speed was incredibly fast, with dozens of tentacles each doing their part. He even searched online for a suitable template, applied it to the PowerPoint, and at the same time, made himself a perfectly shaped ice cream.

Zhu Chu: "Wow."

Huang Mao: "Wow!!"

Everyone: "..."

It was reasonable to suspect that the materials on these nine-headed dragons were also something Mu Shui Shui had gathered right in front of the evil sect members, talking business while backstabbing them and forcing them out.

Out of curiosity, Assistant Liu leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

I have to say, Mu Shui Shui's level was impressive, at least much more professional than the interns he used to have.

For a moment, he couldn't help but look at this jellyfish spirit, who seemed to have no professional ethics, with new admiration. He even thought about recruiting him to join his company—so many tentacles, all working together, it would save so much on intern salaries.

But then, thinking about Mu Shui Shui leading a group of kind ghosts to spy on the boss's privacy and selling it off, he quickly dismissed the thought.

With his many years of experience in reading people, Assistant Liu was certain that Mu Shui Shui would definitely do such a thing.

Xiang Ting and the Taoists went to study the materials Mu Shui Shui provided, while Ke Xingzhou kept staring at Mu Shui Shui for a while.

Nie Chen had been by his side the whole time and, seeing this, quietly asked him, "Is he interesting?"

Ke Xingzhou nodded.

The atmosphere beside him suddenly became dangerous, and the dazzling golden light of merit fluctuated noticeably. Ke Xingzhou looked back at Nie Chen inexplicably: "He’s really good at making money. Do you think if I lure him to the Xianyao Sect, would he make more money, or would I make more?"

Nie Chen: "..."

Ke Xingzhou: "?"

Nie Chen silently stared at him for a moment, then raised his hand to cover his head, forcefully turning him to face him: "Don’t you realize? The one who makes the most money is far away, but also right in front of you."

Ke Xingzhou blinked at him: "You mean you?"

Nie Chen didn’t speak, his silence was his answer.

Ke Xingzhou was quiet for a moment, then showed an awkward expression, his gaze shifting away: "How can that be? You’re my disciple, how can a master exploit the labor of his disciple?"Not far away, Zhu Chu seemed to hear his master talking about him and looked up.

Ke Xingzhou: "…"

Luckily, at this moment, the Taoists seemed to have encountered an unsolvable problem and turned their heads toward him with pleading looks.

Ke Xingzhou took the opportunity to change the topic, not looking at Nie Chen's expression, and walked over to the Taoists: "Is there a problem?"

The Taoists silently looked at him, shook their heads, then nodded, and finally, under Ke Xingzhou's confused gaze, handed him the tablet containing the Nine-Headed Dragon's materials.

Ke Xingzhou took it and looked at it. He could only say that it was no surprise it was made by the same person, the PowerPoint style was exactly the same, even the title was similarly phrased:

"Taking the Nine-Headed Dragon as an Example: A Brief Discussion on How Evil Sects Are Formed."

Ke Xingzhou: "…"

The Taoists began looking through it. Ke Xingzhou swiped down a few pages and saw the content that left them in silence:

[The Nine-Headed Dragon, a very evil evil sect organization. It originated in a small country in the southwest, entered the country in the past decade, with the main development area in the southwest, and a large group of followers.

…

They raise many ghost soldiers, animals, spirits, and humans, using deceptive tactics, offering high-paying, high-benefit jobs as bait, tempting victims to obey them, and then oppressing them, making them lose themselves and become tools for the evil sect.

…

The sect leader is very fond of taking disciples, especially those who are wealthy, powerful, and good-looking. These disciples usually don’t have to do much, just take care of the sect leader, and they are favored by him.

Meanwhile, some other disciples who are powerless, without influence, and lack intelligence, need to have extraordinary abilities to even get a glance from the sect leader.

However, correspondingly, the latter receive more respect from the followers.]

Ke Xingzhou: "?"

He didn't quite understand why the Taoists were silent. Isn't this information quite simple and easy to understand? Could there be some hidden meaning he couldn't grasp in these materials?

Ke Xingzhou even used his heavenly eye but still couldn’t understand why the Taoists were silent. He looked up, innocently meeting their gazes.

On his side, his second disciple, "wealthy, powerful, and good-looking," followed him aimlessly, his gaze lingering on him for a long time, leaving no room for anyone else.

Simply pulling out Ke Xingzhou's chair, the two of them locked eyes, and their gaze seemed to stretch like threads.

Meanwhile, his "powerless, brainless" eldest disciple had not yet realized that the master and younger brother had left and was still surrounding a jellyfish spirit they had never seen before, continuously exclaiming "Wow."

There was also an evil sect member nearby who greatly admired the Xianyao Sect and had expressed several times that they wanted to learn from them.

The Taoists: "………"

Faced with this very familiar material, not only the Taoists but even Xiang Ting, who had been mentally prepared, closed his eyes for a moment, feeling like he aged several years in an instant.

At this moment, Mu Shui Shui seemed to remember something, waved a tentacle at them: "Oh right, there’s still one more document I didn’t get to include. It’s in the next room. You can go get it yourselves."

Everyone: "…"

With this kind of service attitude, if it were anyone or any ghost, they'd definitely be filing a complaint!But because Mu Shui Shui is a demon, and the Demon King is extremely protective, the Taoists dared not express their anger and could only drag their weary bodies to the next room.

When the door was opened, the Taoists were stunned: "Master Wang? How did you end up here?!"

They had thought it was a room for storing materials, but when they opened it, it turned out to be a bedroom. The injured person lying on the bed was none other than Wang Hui, the president of the Mountain City Daoist Association and the head of the largest Taoist temple in the area.

Many of those present recognized Master Wang and immediately gathered around him.

At this moment, Master Wang was in a miserable state, his entire body covered in charred lightning strike wounds, and the exposed skin was a horrific red, looking as if he had been thrown into a thunderpool and boiled.

Master Wang had woken up when they opened the door, and seeing them, he wept bitterly, tremblingly extending his hand: "I finally... waited for you..."

The Taoists were examining his injuries, shocked by the wounds that were clearly inflicted by heavenly lightning: "How... how did this happen?"

Master Wang’s expression darkened: "It was the Nine-Headed Dragon... This morning, they sent ghost soldiers to besiege all the local Taoist temples. We were caught off guard..."

"The Nine-Headed Dragon?" The Taoists from Jiangcheng exchanged glances, some of them incredulous, "The Nine-Headed Dragon has only been in our country for ten years, and they've been severely suppressed, so their scale couldn't have developed much. How could they have such power?"

Master Wang shook his head, his expression filled with sorrow and indignation: "We were also caught off guard. But the truth is, that group of evil sects somehow recruited a bunch of benevolent ghosts, who mixed in with the malevolent ghosts they were refining, luring us to attack the benevolent ghosts..."

As mentioned earlier, benevolent ghosts who have not harmed anyone are protected by the heavenly laws.

Taoists are also a special kind of existence, frequently walking between the realms of the living and the dead, making it easier for them to attract the attention of the heavenly laws.

"But isn't this punishment too severe?" One Taoist couldn't accept it, "Even if they are benevolent ghosts, they helped evil, shouldn’t they face divine retribution?"

In the past, there were cases of benevolent ghosts being accidentally killed, but those were dealt with afterward. Some even found out at the Underworld Court that they had once killed a benevolent ghost.

However, Master Wang's injuries were so severe, clearly not a normal case.

Moreover, the benevolent ghosts of the Nine-Headed Dragon weren’t they all temporary workers?! Could temporary workers even self-destruct while on duty??

Master Wang's face grew somber as he shook his head: "Those benevolent ghosts were probably refined by the Nine-Headed Dragon through special means, their strength not inferior to that of malevolent ghosts. Attacking them caused the heavenly thunder to strike; it’s truly bizarre."

If this unexpected situation hadn’t occurred, they wouldn’t have been wiped out and left with only him, who was rescued by Mu Shui Shui and placed here.

After hearing Master Wang's account, the group was deeply shaken, realizing they had underestimated the Nine-Headed Dragon earlier.

According to the timeline given by Master Wang, just as they were setting out, the Nine-Headed Dragon had attacked the local Taoist temples.

So, before they boarded the plane, they were still able to contact the local Taoist temples, but after landing, all their messages vanished without a trace, and there was no news at all.

They had initially thought that the Nine-Headed Dragon's influence was firmly rooted in the southwestern cities, and only became cautious once they entered the southwest. But now it seemed that besides the southwest, the other cities where the Nine-Headed Dragon's traces had been discovered were probably already under their surveillance.

The leak of their plans may have happened earlier than they imagined!

Looking at the severely injured Master Wang, the group felt a sudden sense of fear, unable to say a word.

One Taoist questioned: "The Nine-Headed Dragon still has so many benevolent ghosts, so why would they come to Mu Shui Shui to introduce benevolent ghosts?"

"Probably to besiege the local Taoist temples. The remaining number of ghosts wasn't enough, so they needed help from that jellyfish spirit," the old Taoist with a goat's beard said in a deep voice.

Master Wang insisted on telling them all about the situation at the local Taoist temples before finally passing out from exhaustion.The Taoists stepped out of the room and returned to the study, only to see Mu Shui Shui had already prepared the PPT and was bargaining with the Nine-Headed Dragon's people.

Their emotions were complicated.

To be honest, from the very first time they met Mu Shui Shui, they didn’t like the jellyfish spirit at all.

Matters of life and death were treated as trivial transactions by him. He could even think of selling things to the Nine-Headed Dragon while negotiating with them. It was simply infuriating.

But now, it seemed that if Mu Shui Shui hadn’t controlled a group of benevolent ghosts and spirits—most of whom were temporary workers, content with doing occasional jobs—the entire southwest, and all its ghosts and spirits, would have already been under the Nine-Headed Dragon's control.

At that point, when they arrived, they wouldn't even need to land the plane; they’d be caught in a net.

Not to mention how much detailed information they had obtained.

Speaking of which, Master Wang also mentioned that he was saved by Mu Shui Shui...

The Taoists' feelings became even more complicated, and thinking about how they had looked down on him before, they felt very sorry for Mu Shui Shui.

Mu Shui Shui seemed to have agreed on a price with the Nine-Headed Dragon. Turning to meet their gaze, his face, once full of shrewd calculations, now appeared normal.

Upon closer inspection, this jellyfish spirit actually looked quite friendly...

Mu Shui Shui said, "Have you all seen Master Wang? It took quite a bit of effort to treat him. Who will cover his medical expenses?"

The Taoists: "…"

Zhu Chu, standing aside, suddenly felt like this scene seemed familiar and couldn’t help but glance over at his master.

Ke Xingzhou: "?"