Chapter 209: Dominant
Fatty Ren balanced awkwardly on the flying sword—his flying sword—as he made his way straight toward Sixth Flawless Flowing City, thanking his lucky stars that Sect Leader Chao Su had sought a consultation for a favor before simply departing to the city on his own.
That would have been a disaster.
When he had mentioned going there to, of all things, buy furniture, Fatty Ren had nearly choked. For a sect leader to do such a menial task on his own would be a huge loss of face. The new sect, like any sect trying to get started, began on shaky ground, and while it was okay for a leader to be a bit eccentric, it was not alright for him to act like a servant.
Sure, fly to the city to destroy something, to deliver vengeance, and while you’re there, casually do some shopping. That was fine. It showed strength, like laying waste to an entire sect branch was just another thing to tick off a list.
But to go to the city for the sole purpose of shopping? Such a mission was beneath the dignity of a sect leader.
Upon hearing the plan, Fatty Ren had had to think fast, which was not one of his strengths. Luckily, the sect leader bought the story about not further upsetting the Jade Chameleon Sect by showing his face near the spot of their defeat.
The best untruths were the ones that had the benefit of being partially true. That lesson was one of the first ones Fatty Ren had learned in his old sect.
Of course, telling the truth was even better as it left no lie to be found out, but there was no way to give the sect leader the actual reason without sounding insulting. Maybe even without actually being insulting.
Things had turned out fine, though. Even better than Fatty Ren could have hoped. For one, sending a Golden Core cultivator, even a newly minted one, to run such an errand showed strength. For another, it allowed him to begin showing his usefulness as a sect member. The resources expended on him, from the cultivation method to the techniques to the flying sword to the opportunity to take the trial, were priceless, so the sooner he could demonstrate his value, the better.
He may not be as talented as Chao Su’s top disciples, but none of them were Golden Core. None of them could make the trip so quickly.
Honestly, hearing the sect leader’s plan to perform such menial task himself had shaken Fatty Ren’s confidence in his new sect for a moment. But only for a brief moment. Between a Trials Pagoda that could push a cultivator past a bottleneck and top heaven grade cultivation methods and techniques, he definitely wanted to be a part of whatever Chao Su was building.
Still, the complete disregard the sect leader showed to decorum was cause for some concern, and Fatty Ren had to spend quite some time thinking about the reasons behind the move.