Had Little Mountain Peak issued many IOUs?
A great many...
Every peak held a thick stack. Eighty percent had been written by Hu Yun over the years, some dating back more than a thousand years, while the remaining twenty percent had been written by Ouyang in recent years.
Everyone knew perfectly well that these IOUs were little different from blank sheets of paper. Hu Yun and his disciple Ouyang seemed to have been cast from the same mold.
The other peaks had long since grown used to the pair freeloading. The Sect Master footed the bill in the end anyway.
Was it off-putting? Thoroughly.
But there were benefits too. Hu Yun's Daoist name was Shenjing Zi, and his divination and interpretation of hexagrams were unfathomable even to gods and ghosts. In the past, whenever Hu Yun returned to the sect, he would help directly if the other peaks needed anything, never asking for payment.
And now, Little Mountain Peak's little monsters were growing at a tremendous pace. As long as no accident killed them and extinguished their Dao, they would become pillars of the Azure Cloud Sect in the future.
These IOUs would then become bonds and favors linking them to Little Mountain Peak's little monsters.
Of the Peak Masters, Elders, and Attendants present, who had not become shrewd as could be after cultivating to the Mahayana Realm and grasping the direction of their own Dao?
Casting a long line to catch a big fish was something they could do with effortless ease.
These IOUs were merely a dash of seasoning in their long lives. And although that brat Ouyang was infuriating, he was also unexpectedly likable.
Apart from the brainless Questioning Sword Peak, which liked making trouble out of nothing, the Peak Masters and Elders of the other peaks