Successful Golden Basin Hand-Washing, Part Two

When Yue Buqun played the gentleman, he was truly impeccable in his dealings with others.

In the original timeline, when Master Tianmen and Abbess Dingyi had refused to appear because they disliked Liu Zhengfeng's friends—though some were renowned heroes of considerable standing, more were obscure figures with dubious reputations, and they feared tarnishing the name of the Five Peaks Sword Sects—

Yue Buqun, whose status was even higher, had not put on any airs as the head of the Mount Hua Sect or acted superior to them. He chatted and laughed with them all.

It was the same this time. While waiting outside, Yue Buqun had already cleared out the martial artists who might cause trouble. Though he had merely spoken a few gentle words and drawn neither blade nor sword, those people had left of their own accord.

Those who had been persuaded to leave did not feel in the slightest that he had looked down on them.

It showed that his methods were far from ordinary.

The reason he had repeatedly failed and embarrassed himself in the original timeline was entirely because his targets had either been lunatics like the Six Immortals of Peach Valley, so-called heroes driven by Ren Yingying, or Songshan men who had come specifically for his life.

But now, even by Li Lin's senses, he found only three or four people among the crowd who showed signs of martial training. Yet they had merely practiced martial arts; they looked more like the former Lin Pingzhi—ordinary people who knew kung fu.

As for the rest, they were genuine common folk, true believers who simply wanted to bask in Sage Aura.

Li Lin was actually quite surprised that Yue Buqun had not gotten carried away because of this.

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