I Am Loaded with Passive Skills-Chapter 3409 - 1693: Heavenly Sky and Distant Daughter Shadows Mistaken, Swallows Amidst Flowers Ask the Servant of the Qin_2

Chapter 3409 -1693: Heavenly Sky and Distant Daughter Shadows Mistaken, Swallows Amidst Flowers Ask the Servant of the Qin_2

“Right, right, we’re useless, completely useless! All we can do is massage Young Master Li’s shoulders, hit on his back. We’ve got no skills whatsoever!”

Wow…

Yuegong Hui, after all his years, was at a loss for words.

Is this the world of young people nowadays? He decided that once Young Master Li came back, he’d scold all these maidservants thoroughly.

What’s the point of keeping them around?

Just to please the eyes?

“This line…”

Hui’s old eyes fixated on the line drawn on the ground.

The wind and sand in the desolate mountain were fierce, so the line was already faint.

But the maidservants quickly blocked him when they saw him approach, setting up a sign that read “No entry beyond this point” and issuing him warnings.

Before Yuegong Hui could even ask, this clever group of maidservants already seemed to know what he wanted to inquire about and answered:

“If you want to go in, Hui Elder, you can go in yourself. We wouldn’t dare.”

“Exactly! The penalty for breaking the rules is death. We only earn three thousand spirit crystals a month; this isn’t worth it.”

“The main reason we’re here is because Tingyu Pavilion has high spiritual energy concentration. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even want to leave home. I miss my mother.”

“Right, right, speaking of home…”

“Shut up!” Yuegong Hui roared in anger, his tiger eyes sweeping over them.

The maidservants immediately hung their heads low, some fiddling with their dresses, others gazing at their chests, or stepping on the stones beneath them, all appearing extremely busy.

But not one looked even slightly frightened.

What kind of witches are these… Yuegong Hui couldn’t take it anymore. If this weren’t such an urgent matter, he’d already have left this godforsaken mountain.

“Is Hui Elder’s matter serious? If you say someone in Tingyu Pavilion dares to disregard Young Master Li’s orders, then it must be Fourth Elder.”

“Ah, yes, yes! Hui Elder, you should go find Fourth Elder. If he shows up, he’ll definitely break the rules and take you inside the mountain to see Young Master Li.”

“But the one who’s in trouble is Ah Si!” Yuegong Hui roared again, on the verge of losing it entirely.

He rarely gets angry, actually. As the Guardian Spirit Hall’s Hall Order, he tends to the Blood Soul Tokens of all high-level cultivators in the Cold Palace Emperor Realm and requires utmost emotional balance.

If he’s constantly enraged, someone might perish somewhere, the sound of the token breaking will occur, and he might miss it completely.

Before this, Ah Si’s Blood Soul Token in the Guardian Spirit Hall registered an anomaly, indicating that something had happened to him.

But he wasn’t dead yet—there was still hope to rescue him.

Yuegong Hui had performed an initial investigation into the matter, finding out that Ah Si had taken on a mission and traveled to Shengshen Continent.

Looking at this situation…

It involved Shengshen Continent…

In short, it was a massive issue.

But when it came time to find someone who could make key decisions on the matter, at the critical moment, the Cold Palace Emperor Realm was leaderless.

Moreover!

The leader had self-destructed!

What kind of mess is this?

Yuegong Hui wasn’t collapsing because of the maidservants; it was today’s sequence of events—one inexplicable issue after another—that was driving him nuts.

He quickly cut off his distracted thoughts, realizing his mind had been in a muddle recently, with emotions fluctuating far too wildly—probably due to poor sleep.

“Do you have any thoughts or ideas?”

Yuegong Hui turned to the maidservants, humbling himself to solicit their opinions.

Truthfully, it wasn’t hard to see that the maidservants of Tingyu Pavilion were intelligent, merely playing dumb.

Following Young Master Li day in and day out, their exposure and observation couldn’t only have taught them bad habits.

Surely, they must’ve picked up some good ones as well?

There might even be one among them who could mimic Young Master Li’s usual way of analyzing issues, offering useful advice to enlighten him.

That would be enough!

“Huh? Fourth Elder is in trouble…”

But upon hearing this, the maidservants yet again fiddled with their skirts, gazed at their chests, or stepped on the stones, feigning busyness.

No one here was a fool.

Fourth Elder was Young Master Li’s shadow—a significant person. If he was in trouble, it surely involved something monumental.

This was for the higher-ups to ponder; what good could come from us lowly maidservants speaking out?

And besides, what’s the purpose?

To risk being dragged out later to take the blame with a knife to the throat?

“Anyone who can offer useful advice, even if it’s just half a sentence that proves helpful, will get this spirit gem.” Yuegong Hui produced a spirit gem overflowing with spiritual energy, his expression solemn and serious.

The spirit gem was of great value. Aside from assisting cultivation, it was primarily worth a billion spirit crystals.

For maidservants earning a mere three thousand spirit crystals a month, wouldn’t this make them jump at the offer, sharpening their wits to provide useful advice?

Yet after spinning the gem around his fingers for a long time, the maidservants only glanced up momentarily before withdrawing their gazes.

You must be kidding. A single spirit gem to buy our lives? Who’d fall for that?

Among those present, who was really here just for the three thousand spirit crystals a month, working as a Tingyu Pavilion maidservant?

Who didn’t initially dream of flying up the social ladder to become a phoenix, only to wilt when they realized that Young Master Li wasn’t particularly interested in them?

Besides, without some modest spirit gem savings to fall back on at home, did you truly think you could openly compete for a maidservant position at Tingyu Pavilion?

A single spirit gem?

Go bribe a spiritual cultivator of Shengshen Continent instead!

Yuegong Hui couldn’t keep up with the younger generation’s rhythm. Unable to sway them with the spirit gem, he took out an unclaimed command token:

“Speaking of which, the Guardian Spirit Hall happens to be short-staffed lately…”

The maidservants once again glanced up only to lower their gazes, with a faint snicker echoing from somewhere but quickly suppressed.

Yuegong Hui knew who had laughed but, as the dignified Hall Order of the Guardian Spirit Hall, refrained from bickering with a little maidservant.

His elderly face flushed red, forcing him to awkwardly stash the token away.

Right, working at the Guardian Spirit Hall doesn’t compare to the comfort at Tingyu Pavilion.

The Guardian Spirit Hall is aged; Tingyu Pavilion is youthful.

The Guardian Spirit Hall is task-heavy; Tingyu Pavilion is leisurely.

These maidservants, at the peak of their beauty, had landed the best positions, clearly achieving the “pinnacle of life.” Inner wealth, outer allure—nothing could tempt them anymore.

What could be done!

These people… they were far too unambitious!