You Two, Don't Push Your Luck!

Seeing this, Meng Jingzhou stopped pretending to be sick and started wailing, and suddenly got up from the stretcher.

Instead of their greasy barbecue restaurant uniforms, Master Liu and Master Gao no longer had the warm smiles they wore when greeting customers. They were dressed in formal attire, their faces solemn, as if recalling the glorious years of the Immortal Cult.

When they looked at Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, they felt a chill run down their spines.

"Gentlemen, please come with us. We need your help with something."

Master Liu and Master Gao have already investigated and found out that after Lu Yang and Yun Zhi returned, Yun Zhi left the Ask Dao Sect again for some unknown reason. Now is a golden opportunity to take action against Lu Yang!

If not now, when?

There are too many people and too many eyes around here, so it's inconvenient to do things here. We need to invite Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou to their Immortal Cult's headquarters—the barbecue restaurant again!

Previously, the barbecue restaurant was just a small shop barely managing to gain a foothold on the commercial street, surrounded by enemies, with powerful cultivators in the Body Integration Realm watching them intently, putting them in a very dangerous situation.

However, under the guidance of the cult leader and the Immortal Immortal, and with the meticulous planning and step-by-step winning strategy of the Immortal Cult's higher-ups, the barbecue restaurant has become a den of iniquity for the Immortal Cult.

The Ask Dao Sect was completely unaware that the barbecue restaurant had once again taken over the commercial street and was secretly expanding its influence...

"Then let's go." Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou didn't lose their momentum.

Being sandwiched between two Body Integration Realm, the two had no strength to resist. Even if they didn't want to leave, they would probably be carried along. Rather than that, they might as well walk on their own.

"This way, please." Master Gao gestured, inviting the two into the barbecue restaurant.

Lu Yang stood at the entrance of the barbecue restaurant and found that the interior was completely dark, with only two figures vaguely visible swaying in the darkness.

As the two entered the barbecue restaurant, Master Liu and Master Gao stood quietly at the entrance, like two iron statues guarding the entrance.

Upon entering the barbecue restaurant, Lu Yang felt completely isolated from the outside world; he couldn't hear any sounds from outside, nor could he see what the outside world looked like.

What he didn't know was that, not only the sound and the scene, but the cult leader had already set up an unparalleled array in the barbecue restaurant, even blocking out Divine Sense.

The light, whose source was unknown, gradually filled the barbecue restaurant, revealing the true faces of the two dark figures: a cult leader and an immortal immortal. Both were dressed in formal attire, seemingly determined to do something big.

"Please have a seat, both of you." The cult leader invited the two to sit down.

"Speak, what is it?" Lu Yang asked coldly, somewhat unsure of the cult leader's approach.

However, Lu Yang wasn't afraid of him, since the Immortal Immortal was sitting right next to him.

As the controller of the Immortal lineage, the Immortal Fairy can completely control the Immortal Immortal, the source of the Immortal Cult. With this relationship, the cult leader can't cause any trouble.

"It's nothing serious, I just wanted to ask Fellow Daoist Lu Yang for a small favor. With Fellow Daoist Lu Yang's status in the Ask Dao Sect, it's just a matter of a word from him."

"Well, I learned that you two have just reached the Core Formation stage, so I specially prepared a small gift as a token of my appreciation. I hope you will accept it." The sect leader silently pushed the two gift boxes toward Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou.

The sect leader casually opened the gift box, revealing its contents: a priceless Foundation Strengthening Pill, capable of consolidating Golden Core cultivation. The remaining medicinal power would transform into a foundation, aiding future breakthroughs without leaving any residual medicinal effects in the body, thus preventing any impact on future breakthroughs.

A protective magic Law Artifact can withstand a full-force attack from the Body Integration Realm.

A book titled "Insights into Cultivation at the Golden Core Stage".

Five small bottles, each containing one of the five elements, including true fire, pure water, and breathing soil, which can be refined into long-lasting five-element magical Law Artifact.

In addition, there are various precious items, each of which is beyond the reach of ordinary Golden Core cultivators.

The two refused the "small gift," and Lu Yang went straight to the point. "Master, we're old acquaintances, let's not beat around the bush, just say it."

The sect leader slowly revealed the plan he had been scheming for a long time. "Specifically, it is to recruit Rogue Cultivator into our ranks, expand our territory, increase our influence over the Great Xia Dynasty, and make it impossible for the world to leave us!"

"Once this is done, we will not treat you two unfairly; we will present you with generous gifts!"

"You two may not know this, but our influence is spreading silently, already reaching the entire commercial street, Ask Dao Sect is completely unaware of it."

Lu Yang frowned. The sect leader's words were tantamount to saying that the entire commercial street belonged to their people, and if they didn't agree, they might not be able to leave the street.

But he remained unmoved. "What if we don't help you with your little favors?"

"Not going to help?" The cult leader slowly rose, like a long-dormant mountain god awakening, putting immense pressure on the two of them.

The cult leader squinted at the two men and threatened them menacingly, "I've been very polite to you both. We just want to open a branch of our barbecue restaurant outside the city. If you two push your luck, don't blame me for kneeling down and begging you!"

The cult leader felt he had done enough, so he told Master Liu and Master Gao not to wear their shop assistant uniforms, but to dress more formally, and to invite the two men over with smiles on their faces.

Considering it's June and the sweltering summer heat, they specifically instructed Master Liu and Master Gao to cast cooling Law Technique on Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou so as not to overheat them.

For safety's sake, to prevent competitors from eavesdropping, he also set up an unparalleled array to isolate himself from outside detection.

The barbecue restaurant was cleaned spotlessly, without a trace of grease.

The two protective magical Law Artifact were crafted by him using all his spare time while running the slaughterhouse.

The cultivation experience at the Golden Core stage was summarized by the Immortal Immortal based on the memories of all the followers of the Immortal Cult and written down in his own hand.

He bought the five items by visiting each shop owner on the commercial street and persuading them.

Opening a branch store outside is just a matter of a word; aren't these two satisfied?

The cult leader steeled his heart. A true man can bend and stretch. For the sake of the barbecue restaurant's long-term success, he would kneel down if necessary!

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou quickly stopped the cult leader, completely bewildered by this turn of events. "You're opening a branch of your barbecue restaurant?"

"Yes."

"So you just said you'd recruit Rogue Cultivator as part of your group?"

"We're hiring shop assistants."

None of them could leave the Ask Dao Sect to open branch stores elsewhere; they had to recruit employees.

"Then how about expanding the scope of our operations?"

"Open a barbecue restaurant outside the Ask Dao Sect Temple."

"To increase our influence over the Great Xia Dynasty?"

"Become a major taxpayer."

"To make the world unable to leave you?"

"Let people come to our store more often."

Meng Jingzhou looked at the sect leader suspiciously. "You just said that your influence has spread to the entire commercial street, Ask Dao Sect knew nothing about it?"

"We overstated our profits and underpaid management fees."

The Immortal Immortal added from the side, "There's another layer of meaning, which is that our barbecue restaurant's profits from the Ask Dao Sect have reached saturation, and we need to open branches outside to expand into new markets."

Lu Yang: "..."

Meng Jingzhou: "..."

Do you really need to make opening a branch of a barbecue restaurant so complicated?!