My brow furrowed deeper. My return from Northwater Town was thirty percent luck, thirty percent Hua Lianqing's mercy, and only forty percent my own skill.

The Reincarnation Division and Wu Sheng were already stirring up the martial world. Could Liangjie Hall really avoid this vortex?

Chen Shuyu continued, "Currently, according to the information I have, Wu Sheng has been avoiding conflict with Liangjie Hall."

"If you need me to investigate the secrets of Wu Sheng, I can find a way."

"Not for now!" I waved my hand. "Right now, I don't want to clash with Wu Sheng. I need a relatively stable environment to focus on development for a while."

Chen Shuyu asked, "What are the Hall Master's plans?"

"I really haven't figured it out yet!" I shook my head and looked at Ling, "Ling, what's your opinion?"

Ling said, "What Liangjie Hall lacks now is time and strength."

"I discussed with Accountant Liu how to improve the strength of Liangjie Hall in a short period of time."

"Winning over practitioners of术道 (shu dao, esoteric arts), building a force, is not realistic for the current Liangjie Hall. So, Accountant Liu and I agree that Liangjie Hall needs to proceed in two steps."

"First, accept a large number of Yin Division secret orders and exchange them for enough lifespans in the shortest possible time, to prevent the civil officials from restricting Liangjie Hall in terms of lifespan."

Ling said, "If you want to accept secret orders, the civil officials will definitely try to obstruct you. You can only accept flying posts. That depends on Sister Shuyu's abilities."

Chen Shuyu nodded, "I have many flying posts. If the Hall Master takes these flying posts, lifespan will definitely not be a problem, and maybe even the grade of Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren can be improved."

Ling shook her head, "For Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren above the fourth grade, an assessment is required to improve one grade. The civil officials can easily strike at this time. This time, we only borrow life, we don't raise the grade."

"What Liangjie Hall needs to do now is to get rid of all constraints and concentrate on dealing with the enemy."

Ling's gaze swept across our faces one by one before saying, "Borrowing life is only the first step. We still have to take the second step."

"That is to remove the shackles on everyone in Liangjie Hall."

"Now, everyone in Liangjie Hall has secrets hidden in their hearts. This secret is your biggest shackle."

"You are unwilling to reveal your secrets because too many people and things are involved, and also because you don't want to put Liangjie Hall in danger because of yourselves."

"But, have you ever thought about it? Once these entanglements are removed, the strength of Liangjie Hall will skyrocket. This is the most effective and fundamental way to solve the crisis of Liangjie Hall."

No one present spoke.

Because Ling had spoken our minds.

Ling continued, "My second proposal requires you to decide for yourselves! But the first proposal is imminent. You must complete the borrowing of life in a short period of time."

"At least, we have to get the rewards back before the civil officials react. When they react and persuade Yan Jun, our weakness will fall into their hands again."

I nodded slightly, "That's right. The only true Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren in Liangjie Hall are me, Ye Yang, and Feng Ruoxing."

"We have to get at least thirty years of life at once. It takes too long to do tasks one by one, we have to move out separately."

Chen Shuyu said, "I have a Di-level (Earth-level) mission here, with a reward of twenty years of life. There is also a Xuan-level (Mysterious-level) mission, with a reward of ten years of life."

"If you can take on two missions at the same time, we will have broken the first barrier."

I thought for a moment and said, "Ye Yang, Lin Zhao, the three of us will take the twenty-year mission. Feng Ruoxing, you take Wang Xiaohuan to take the other mission. Senior Sister is responsible for taking care of Liangjie Hall."

"Chen Shuyu, you stay and cooperate with Old Liu, don't let anyone cause us trouble."

"We'll pack up and set off tomorrow."

Ling said, "I'll set off with you tomorrow. I'm going to find trouble for others."

"You..." I looked at Ling, "Is your injury healed?"

Ling smiled and said, "Am I the kind of person who stops because I'm injured? You don't have to worry about me. There are really not many people in Jianghu who can beat me. As long as I'm careful."

I knew I couldn't persuade Ling, so I prepared a pot of wine for her.

I specially prepared that pot of wine, adding Yun Shang's wound medicine to the wine without affecting the wine's aroma.

Ling didn't even stay for an extra night, and left with that pot of wine that night.

Old Liu watched Ling's departing figure and said, "I really don't know who can keep Ling's footsteps. Hall Master, your wine is not strong enough! If you can't get Ling drunk, she won't stay!"

I gritted my teeth and said, "Are you relapsing with your old illness?"

Old Liu smiled without saying a word and walked away, shaking his fan.

When I returned to the living room, Chen Shuyu had already placed the tasks on the two flying posts on the table: "I'll talk about Ye Yang's flying post first. This task gives a reward of twenty years."

"Usually, tasks that are more than ten years long are not completed by only one Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren. Generally, several Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren join forces to take on the task, and then divide the reward equally."

"A twenty-year lifespan secret order requires at least five people to take action. Are you sure you don't want to bring more people?"