I want to be innocent, but they don't allow me

Hearing this, Li Mu frowned and asked, "Why?"

"Because Ling'er... wuwu..."

Yin Huanping had only said half of her words when Li Mu covered her mouth with his hand.

Li Mu made a gesture to keep quiet, his ears moved, and he frowned and said, "Someone is setting up a ladder, let's go up first!"

He immediately reached out and hugged Yin Huanping's slender waist and jumped to the top of the cliff.

...

"Chuyi, have you thought about how to explain this to your father? If you really want to..."

On the cliff, the queen slowly walked to Zhao Chuyi's side and asked in a low voice.

"Mother, I have my own considerations on this matter."

Zhao Chuyi's face was determined. If it was something else it would be fine, but since this matter concerned Li Mu, she had to harden her heart.

Hu Qingyao's huge snake body is truly horrifying.

Li Mu's previous reckless behavior made Zhao Chuyi clear that no matter what the relationship between Li Mu and the giant snake was, this matter must not be known to a third person.

The so-called tenfold compensation means that those who are going to look for Li Mu will never be able to return safely even if they fail to find Li Mu.

At this moment, two figures suddenly appeared on the edge of the cliff, shocking everyone.

"You guys are going to look for me, right? Forget it. Put away the ladder and you can go home now."

Li Mu held Yin Huanping in his arms, looking heartless as he greeted everyone.

Yin Huanping calmly pushed Li Mu's hand away, took a few steps back naturally, and stood behind Li Mu.

"Son!"

At this time, Zhao Chuyi, who discovered the situation here, exclaimed, and threw herself into Li Mu's arms, tears flowing like pearls from a broken string, unable to stop.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm fine."

Li Mu gently stroked Zhao Chuyi's back and whispered comfortingly.

"Um... cough cough cough."

At this time, the queen walked over here quickly, saw the two of them hugging each other, coughed twice and said,

"It's good that you're alright, it's good that you're alright, Qingyi, didn't you come to Tianzong to heal your wounds? Why did you run down that cliff?"

Hearing this voice, Zhao Chuyi's body stiffened slightly, and she quickly withdrew from Li Mu's arms, lowered her head, and hid behind the queen.

Seeing this, Li Mu took two steps forward without blushing or beating his heart, bowed and said:

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. Why did you come to Tianzong? Are you here to look for the princess?"

Seeing that Li Mu did not answer, the Queen did not ask any more questions. She looked at Zhao Chuyi strangely and said:

"Why are you looking for her? His Majesty learned that you came to Tianzong and that there are only women here. He was afraid that it would be difficult for you to talk alone, so he asked me to come and take a look."

"Since you are fine, come back with me. Your clothes look like they have been torn by someone."

When the queen saw Li Mu's appearance, her mood seemed to improve a lot and she even started to joke.

Li Mu subconsciously turned around to look at Yin Huanping, but saw that she was glaring at him, as if warning Li Mu to be careful.

Li Mu raised his eyebrows and without saying anything else, he prepared to follow the queen's carriage back to Jing'an City.

At this time, Zhao Chuyi, who had been keeping her head down and not speaking, suddenly said:

"Mother, I cannot go back for the time being. I hope you will allow me to do so."

Hearing this, the Queen looked at Li Mu in surprise, frowned and asked:

"Qing Yi has left, and you are still..."

However, halfway through his words, he felt that it was inappropriate to say so, so he stopped talking and just frowned at Zhao Chuyi, waiting for her explanation.

Unexpectedly, Die Meng appeared from nowhere and stood in front of Zhao Chuyi. She looked at the queen and said coldly:

"Chuyi is now my junior sister of Tianzong, she can do whatever she wants, even if you are the queen..."

"Senior sister!"

Hearing Die Meng's tone of disregard for the royal family, Zhao Chuyi hurriedly pulled her sleeve from behind to stop her from speaking.

Li Mu had felt something was wrong before, but he never had the chance to ask.

He took a step forward and stood beside the Queen, looking as if he was going to support her. He tilted his head to look at Die Meng and said slowly:

"Little Junior Sister of Tianzong?"

Seeing Li Mu standing up, Die Meng's eyes flashed with panic, and after thinking for a while, she said:

"I, I am accepting a disciple on behalf of my master, a lay junior sister! Yes, a lay junior sister. On the first day of the first month, you don't have to abide by the rules of the Tianzong and can marry freely. You are just my Tianzong's junior sister in name only."

All the disciples of Tianzong looked at their leader in surprise. They had no idea where this little junior sister from a secular family got the result.

Tianzong has never had such a rule.

Li Mu suppressed his smile and gave Die Meng an appreciative look, then looked at Zhao Chuyi with a questioning look.

"Mother, I have two things to do in Tianzong. I will return to the palace after I finish them. One..."

As Zhao Chuyi was speaking, she saw the Queen waving her hand and saying:

"Forget it. Tianzong is made up of women anyway, and no one else can say anything. Your mother will speak to your father for you. Just do whatever you want."

"Thank you, mother!" Zhao Chuyi bowed quickly, then secretly glanced at Li Mu and said,

"Please stay, my lord. I have something to say to you."

Li Mu glanced at Zhao Chuyi unhappily, and just as he was about to speak, he heard the queen say:

"Go ahead. I'll be waiting for you outside the valley."

...

Diemeng led Zhao Chuyi and Li Mu to the yard where they lived.

Only then did Li Mu know that Zhao Chuyi had joined the Tian Sect.

He had felt something was strange before. Why did Zhao Chuyi jump off the Cliff of the Immortal Realm when she came to find him?

Now that it is like this, it can be explained.

What Li Mu didn't expect was that the queen was not looking for Zhao Chuyi.

But to lobby for yourself.

Emperor Hongwen issued an edict to confer the title of Royal Taoist Temple on Tianzong.

From then on, Tianzong was able to eat the emperor's food.

However, what Tianzong had to do was to open it to the royal family and allow concubines and wives of officials to come and burn incense and worship.

Of course, rescuing Li Mu was also one of the conditions, but it was not written in the imperial edict.

Li Mu also had some understanding of Tianzong.

Although the Tianzong is a Taoist sect, there is no Taoist temple in this Mingxi Valley.

Not to mention burning incense and worshiping.

In Li Mu's opinion, Emperor Hongwen's move was indeed a good one.

These women in Tianzong are not ordinary Taoist nuns who are powerless. Each of them has terrifyingly high fighting power.

Not to mention anything else, just the Taoist leader Diemeng and her other five senior sisters are all at the first level.

In the entire Xing Dynasty, apart from the royal family and Confucianism, no other force has so many top combat forces.

Li Mu looked at Zhao Chuyi and wondered if she wanted to stay here to keep the power of Tianzong firmly in her hands for Emperor Hongwen.

At this time, Zhao Chuyi sneaked close to Li Mu's ear and whispered:

"Senior sister admires you very much, you should have a good chat with me."

Li Mu was stunned. Just as he was about to ask, he heard Die Meng say calmly without even turning her head: "I can hear it!"

Zhao Chuyi blinked her eyes, stretched her head slightly and stuck out her tongue, then ran to Die Meng and took her arm:

"Senior Sister, the young master is very capable. All those ideas I had before were taught by the young master."

Only then did Li Mu realize that what the queen brought was a blank imperial edict with a seal on it.

Those previous conditions were actually proposed by Tianzong himself. Obviously, this matter is closely related to Zhao Chuyi.

Li Mu exclaimed, "Wow, this guy has the temperament of a domineering boss."

He also secretly praised Emperor Hongwen's courage and his trust in the Queen. After all, such a thing as a blank imperial edict was absolutely impossible to exist in the history that Li Mu knew.

"Then please, Your Highness, I will not teach you any more."

Diemeng looked at Li Mu with a smile and spoke softly.

Li Mu glanced at Zhao Chuyi. Although he had talked to Zhao Chuyi about the ins and outs of doing business when he was setting up a stall to tell fortunes before, he didn't mention a word about the Taoist temple.

Zhao Chuyi obviously wanted to give the credit to him.

Although he was not clear about Zhao Chuyi's intention in doing this, Die Meng was now one of his own.

With his experience before traveling through time, even though he didn't know how the Taoist temple was run, he had heard a little about how the Taoist temple... made money.

The conversation lasted for nearly half an hour. Die Meng changed from being disdainful at the beginning to having stars in her eyes now. She even had the urge to keep Li Mu in Tianzong.

Zhao Chuyi looked proud of it.

At this moment, a woman's voice suddenly came from outside the house:

"Master, there is a woman outside the valley, who said she came to treat the prince's injuries, and now she is..."

"Just bring her here."

Die Meng frowned, obviously unhappy about being interrupted, and turned to look at Li Mu and said,

"Your wife must be back. How about you stay for two more days? Stay here. This is the best place in the valley..."

Unexpectedly, before Diemeng finished her words of persuasion, she heard the woman outside the house say:

"Master, that woman must have been injured. She fainted after she finished speaking. I'm afraid she can't come..."