Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit Chapter 136 – Teacher

Lu Ping’s return to Huang Li Island didn’t cause any ripples other than some discussions amongst the Zhen Ling Sect Blood Condensation Realm cultivators.

After all, it was quite an impressive feat to challenge ten Blood Condensation Realm cultivators and easily dominate them.

The disciples had long heard that Lu Ping was at odds with Li Zi-Ming and the others. But now it seemed like they had completely fallen out.

Shortly after, a rumor was spread that Lu Ping was ambushed whilst on his undercover mission to investigate the sea pirates. The sea pirates themselves admitted that they only learned about Lu Ping's whereabouts after the information was leaked to them.

There were only a handful of cultivators who knew about Lu Ping's secret mission. Among them, Li Zi-Ming was the one who came up with the idea and actively proposed that Lu Ping should undertake the mission. As a result, this deepened everyone’s suspicions, and Li Zi-Ming couldn't even clarify his innocence clearly.

While everyone was looking forward to further developments, Lu Ping spent his days either in his three stores or in his own cave-dwelling.

Li Yu and the others also made fewer appearances and took time off from their normal sea patrol duties. Both sides seemed to have coincidentally ceased to elevate the matter further.

Lu Ping was very busy these days.

Hu Lili had been helping to take care of the stores he opened in the market while he was away. During the last few years, the Charms and Pellets Store's profits had dropped quite a bit, with the absence of Lu Ping’s charms and pellets.

Fortunately, Hu Lili was there to help out with the situation. She instructed Fang Tao to purchase large quantities of charms and pellets from Di Kun Island and sold them in the Charms and Pellets Store.

Hence, the stores were still able to make tens of thousands of spirit stones in the past five years.

Lu Ping naturally didn’t take this amount of spirit stones seriously. Other than giving half of them to Hu Lili, Lu Ping instructed Fang Tao to use the rest to buy

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