The Fourth Financial Crisis

Butler Zhou looked at the high-spirited Yang Lu and said nothing more. In the Jiuzhou cultivation world, mortals are just mortals no matter how powerful they are and cannot pose a threat to cultivators at all.

Any cultivator who officially steps into the Immortal Sect will be protected by a protective aura all over his body. Even if he stands there and is beaten by mortals, it is impossible for a mortal to harm the cultivator at all. Although Li Qingning has not been practicing for a long time, he is by no means a mere mortal. What can be done to harm.

Although he didn't know Yang Lu's background, he was sure that Yang Lu could never be an assassin, because there was no reason for mortals to assassinate cultivators in this world!

As for whether Yang Lu came to help the Qingning Chamber of Commerce develop or to destroy the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, Butler Zhou actually didn't care.

If he can help the Qingning Chamber of Commerce prosper, the eldest lady will naturally be very happy; if he destroys the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, he can also make the eldest lady give up on the path of "cultivating merit" as soon as possible. This is not necessarily a bad thing. .

What he was most worried about was that Yang Lu would carry Li Qingning's banner and ruin the reputation of the eldest daughter of the Li family everywhere.

Now that Yang Lu has made a promise, he will be the steward of Zhou. If Yang Lu dares to go back on his words, it will not be too late for him to kill him. Even Li Qingning will not blame him for this.

After making up his mind, Butler Zhou concentrated on guarding Yang Lu.

Being able to become the servant of Li Qingyang and Li Qingning, Butler Zhou is obviously not an ordinary cultivator.

In the world of cultivation, there is a unique and dangerous place called [Outside the battlefield], which is the legendary intersection of the demon world and the world of cultivation. Killing people in the outside battlefield will not only not lose merit, but will increase merit. It can be said that cultivators kill people and seize treasures. The ultimate shortcut to change your destiny.

But because of the extremely high death rate in the battlefield outside the territory, almost all cultivators have changed their expressions after hearing this.

When he was young, Butler Zhou took the initiative to enter foreign battlefields three times and successfully escaped unscathed. He has extremely rich practical experience.

But it is a pity that due to his poor spiritual root qualifications, Butler Zhou was ultimately unable to change his destiny through the battlefield outside the territory.

After realizing that there was no hope for him to make a breakthrough in this life, he accepted Li Qingyang's recruitment and became the chief steward of the Li Qingyang family. While responsible for the family's daily chores, he also assumed the responsibility of bodyguard, which he did for decades.

After Li Qingyang took over as the president of Lingshi Reserve Bank, his security work was completely taken over by the Wuliang Sword Sect. Butler Zhou then took charge of Li Qingning's daily security work.

As a senior expert in the field of security, Butler Zhou seemed to be just following Yang Lu quietly, but he had secretly activated a variety of different reconnaissance techniques. Not to mention ordinary people, most cultivators cannot hide from his fiery eyes!

With the help of his magical guidance, Butler Zhou quickly noticed that there seemed to be two roebuck-headed guys following him in the distance. He could even hear the conversation between the two thieves clearly from a distance of dozens of meters.

"Boss, I just saw that the female newsboy named Murong followed this man into the Qingning Chamber of Commerce."

"But why is this businessman the only one who came out? Where is the newsgirl?"

"Uh... I guess he stayed in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce."

"Fart! Why does the Qingning Chamber of Commerce keep a newsboy? Do you want to treat the newsboy to dinner?"

"But I could see clearly that when the two of them walked in, the newsboy disappeared and an old man followed them."

"The Qingning Chamber of Commerce only has such a gate, can the newsboy still fly?"

"How about we teach this businessman a lesson for Mr. Zhu!"

"What are you thinking? The most important thing in Haiya City is commercial trade. Beating foreign merchants in broad daylight, isn't this adding trouble to City Master Jiang? Mr. Zhu specially ordered that this time he is going to teach the newspaper girl a lesson. I think he is most likely to be I’ve fallen in love with that little girl!”

"Hiss... I didn't see it! Mr. Zhu is usually so gentle and gentle, but he actually wants to use force on such a half-grown girl?"

"As the saying goes, a wife is worse than a concubine, a concubine is worse than a thief, and a thief is worse than not being able to steal. I saw the way Mr. Zhu gritted his teeth when he mentioned this female newsboy. I'm afraid he was humiliated instead of trying to force her."

"Then let's train her to be honest later, and then send her to Mr. Zhu!"

"You know nothing! What these rich kids like most is to conquer those chaste and fierce women. We only need to knock her out with a sap and then send her to the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Zhu can do it himself and train her slowly."

"The boss is still wise!"

"It's useless! Now that everyone has lost track of me, is there any use in flattering me?"

After hearing this, Butler Zhou no longer planned to listen any more.

He didn't understand why Li Qingning angrily called the young master of the Zhu family a "shameless person" after meeting Yang Lu. Now that he heard the conversation between these two street gangsters, he felt that the "shameless people" were looking up to Mr. Zhu.

This beast not only doesn't let go of female newsboys who are fifteen or sixteen years old, but also likes to play heavy games such as torture and humiliation. He is simply a fighter among scum!

Butler Zhou already had a good impression of Murong, but when he heard two street gangsters making rude remarks to Murong, he had already recorded all the debts on Zhu Ziming's head. While he was following Yang Lu step by step, he secretly picked up an immortal technique with his left hand.

As a faint red light flashed past, two shrill screams sounded from behind Yang Lu.

"It hurts so much, my leg seems to be broken!"

"Who! Who is attacking me?"

Yang Lu heard the strange movement and quickly turned his head to look. Only two men in Tsing Yi rolled to the ground without any image, wailing in their mouths. This made him frown: "Steward Zhou, what just happened?"

Butler Zhou chuckled: "It seems that two passers-by accidentally tripped and broke their legs. It's not a big deal!"

How come two good people suddenly fell and broke their bones?

Although Yang Lu was a little confused, he was not a nosy person. Since Butler Zhou said that nothing happened, he just pretended that nothing happened. Anyway, even if the sky fell, there would still be a cultivator named Butler Zhou to hold him up. He feels safe now!

After Yang Lu turned around as if nothing had happened, Butler Zhou sighed softly, his expression a little complicated.

For a cultivator to attack mortals maliciously, it is definitely an act that damages his merits. The reason why he took action against these two ruffians was definitely not because of his deep feelings for Murong.

The real reason is simple:

He doesn't have much life left!

Heavenly merit can accelerate a cultivator's progress in cultivation without any side effects. It can be called the most precious cultivation resource in the world of cultivation. However, for elderly monks like Butler Zhou who have no hope of breakthrough, the marginal utility of merit is infinitely close to zero.

As long as he doesn't go on a killing spree, causing too much loss of merit and falling into the devil's path, teaching a few mortals a lesson will have no real consequences at all.

It was precisely because he was approaching the end of his life and had less scruples when taking action that he was personally selected by Li Qingyang to become Li Qingning's personal butler.

Although it feels very satisfying to shoot whoever is unhappy, for cultivators pursuing the path of immortality, it is also an out-and-out sadness to be reduced to this situation: after seeing the broader world, Who wants to fight with ants?

Now he only hopes that Li Qingning, whom he brought up since childhood, can go further on the road to immortality than he does.