Although Wang Dahai was at the Fourth Layer of Body Tempering, his cultivation was even higher than Chen Qingshan's.
Yet, when facing Chen Qingshan, he was all the more respectful.
This left Chen Qingshan unable to find any good excuse to beat him up even if he wanted to.
"Boss, our Blood Qi Pills are used up, but the date for the new distribution of Blood Qi Pills is almost here. When the time comes, we can go out and shake down another batch!"
Chen Qingshan was quite looking forward to this as well.
Right now, the disciples in the Servant Quarters were all very poor and didn't have many Blood Qi Pills on hand.
Many people were waiting for the once-a-month distribution of Blood Qi Pills.
Chen Qingshan felt quite helpless as well.
Now that he had grown accustomed to the training speed boosted by Blood Qi Pills, cultivating without medicinal pills for assistance was simply too slow.
Ask Chen Qingshan to practice through sheer grueling effort?
Impossible!
Chen Qingshan would rather rack his brain over how to rob Ma Youcai than choose to endure bitter toil.
"Let's go, to the mess hall!"
Chen Qingshan took the lead and headed toward the mess hall!
"Boss, you aren't setting your sights on Ma Youcai, are you? He's a formal disciple!"
Wang Dahai cried out in alarm, terrified that Chen Qingshan might actually go and rob Ma Youcai.
He wasn't worried that Chen Qingshan couldn't beat Ma Youcai.
However, Ma Youcai was a formal disciple.
No one knew what the consequences would be for robbing a formal disciple, but Wang Dahai could imagine it without even using his brain.
The outcome would definitely be miserable.
Without looking back, Chen Qingshan said, "Are you out of your mind? Of course I'm not going to proactively rob him, I'm going to eat!"
Hearing that they were going to eat, Wang Dahai trotted up to catch up, following right behind Chen Qingshan with an ingratiating look on his face.
The duo of Chen Qingshan and Wang Dahai was now notorious throughout the Servant Quarters.
The disciples in the Servant Quarters would stay far away the moment they saw Chen Qingshan coming.
They didn't even dare to appear within Chen Qingshan's line of sight.
They were even more terrified of him than when they saw Ma Youcai.
When Chen Qingshan arrived at the entrance of the mess hall, he saw at a glance that Ma Youcai was there as well.
Right now, the relationship between these two was rather delicate.
Ma Youcai knew what Chen Qingshan had been up to in the Servant Quarters.
There were also many people who had asked Ma Youcai to step in, hoping he would teach Chen Qingshan a lesson.
However, Ma Youcai had always ignored them; even when he saw Chen Qingshan, he acted as if he didn't see him at all, completely paying him no mind.
Chen Qingshan was also wary of Ma Youcai's status as a formal disciple, so he simply ignored him too.
During this period, even when Chen Qingshan came to the mess hall to eat and the two happened to run into each other, they always kept out of each other's way.
This time, Chen Qingshan thought it would be just like before and nothing would happen.
To his surprise, the moment he walked up to the entrance of the mess hall, he saw Ma Youcai walking up to meet him.
Seeing this, Chen Qingshan stopped and waited for Ma Youcai to approach.
The surrounding servant disciples who had come to eat caught sight of this scene and quickly scattered far away.
If Chen Qingshan and Ma Youcai were to fight, they certainly didn't want to get mixed up in it.
However, Ma Youcai didn't make a move directly. Instead, he came right up to Chen Qingshan and asked in a low voice:
"I heard you know Senior Sister Ye?"
Chen Qingshan was momentarily stunned, not expecting that Ma Youcai's initiative to seek him out this time was actually because of this matter.
Chen Qingshan nodded and said, "That's right, I was the one she brought into the Xuanyang Sect!"
Chen Qingshan wasn't lying about this matter; he said it quite righteously and with full confidence.
Ma Youcai looked at Chen Qingshan in astonishment, somewhat surprised.
When he first heard about this, he had assumed Chen Qingshan was just talking nonsense.
After all, if word of such a thing reached Ye Qingxuan's ears, she would definitely come to settle accounts with Chen Qingshan.
Since Chen Qingshan dared to claim this, there was a high probability it was true.
The way Ma Youcai looked at Chen Qingshan completely changed, and he unexpectedly flashed a rare, ingratiating smile at Chen Qingshan.
"Junior Brother Chen, a while ago, Liu An's older brother Liu Quan went out on a mission and wasn't inside the sect, which was why Liu An didn't find you to retaliate even after being bullied!"
"Now that Liu Quan's older brother is back, you'd better watch out!"
Chen Qingshan looked at Ma Youcai with surprise, wondering why he would tell him such important news.
Chen Qingshan figured this most likely had to do with the fact that he was brought into the Xuanyang Sect by Ye Qingxuan.
Chen Qingshan smiled at Ma Youcai and said, "Many thanks, Senior Brother Ma!"
Believing that Chen Qingshan had felt his goodwill, Ma Youcai nodded with satisfaction, turned around, and walked back to his spot, continuing to guard the entrance of the mess hall.
As if he couldn't see Chen Qingshan again.
Chen Qingshan paid him no more mind and directly led Wang Dahai into the mess hall to eat.
At the dining table, Wang Dahai asked with some puzzlement, "Boss, what's going on with this Ma Youcai? Why is he suddenly so nice to us and even passing us information?"
Chen Qingshan smiled dismissively and explained, "He probably thinks we're people connected to Ye Qingxuan and wants to latch onto Ye Qingxuan's coattails through us!"
A look of even greater worry appeared on Wang Dahai's face.
"Boss, we're not Ye Qingxuan's people at all. We're the targets of her crusade to punish evil and promote good—it's already a blessing if she doesn't kill us!"
Chen Qingshan glanced around and glared at Wang Dahai, telling him to shut up.
"We were brought into the mountain by Ye Qingxuan; that's a fact, aren't we telling the truth?"
Wang Dahai nodded. "Uh, yes!"
"That settles it then. No need to pay them any mind; we never claimed Ye Qingxuan would shield us!"
Wang Dahai grasped Chen Qingshan's meaning. Just as he was about to lower his head to eat, he suddenly raised it again.
"That's not right though. Since Liu An's older brother is back, he's probably going to make a move against us very soon. What do we do about this?"
Regarding this, Chen Qingshan cared even less.
"Just someone at the Fifth Layer of Body Tempering. If he really dares to show up looking for trouble, then he can't blame me for not being polite and taking all of his Blood Qi Pills!"
Seeing Chen Qingshan's confident demeanor, Wang Dahai knew that Chen Qingshan was already confident in his ability to defeat someone at the Fifth Layer of Body Tempering.
"Boss, it has to be you!" Wang Dahai said with a flattering smile.
Although Wang Dahai's face was plastered with a brilliant smile, a flash of anxiety crossed his eyes.
His cultivation level was now even higher than Chen Qingshan's, yet he still couldn't beat Chen Qingshan.
This left him feeling rather depressed.
After finishing their meal, Chen Qingshan and Wang Dahai returned to their respective quarters to make some preparations, waiting for Liu An and his older brother to come looking for them.
As it happened, they didn't have any Blood Qi Pills on hand right now anyway, so they didn't need to rush into cultivation.
It was the perfect time to set up some traps.
Back when they were in the mountain stronghold, they had faced government troops trying to suppress bandits many times.
If they hadn't set up traps according to the terrain of the mountains, they would have been wiped out by the government forces long ago.
Now that they knew Liu An was coming after them, they naturally had to prepare a proper reception for him.