Shen Jiu goes back to the beginning and decides to change his fate in the pettiest way possible.
He spreads rumors that both he and Liu Qingge will be in the caves so there are actually Qian Cao disciples there to help them with their qi deviations. He offers the emperor some fancy relic or art piece in exchange for just moving the conference to a week later so Yue Qingyuan is actually at the sect during the demon invasion and it makes him look better too.
He gets on all his students asses for daring to think they could pick his peak just to coast by. That the arts were the 'easy' option on the mountain. Berates all of them for not having a head for strategy and threatens to throw them all out and just start over with better disciples, or worst sent them to An Ding since they just want to be lazy and do nothing as cultivators. He calls out Lou Binghe for winning the fight, saying that he was surprised when it seemed all he was good for was crying after getting bullied and never reporting the fake manual. He then turns on Ming Fan and calls him out on going through with giving Binghe the false manual and being a pathetic sycophant instead of having the spine of a future peak lord.
He goes to the Warm Red Pavilion publicly and enjoys several performances there. And when people start scoffing at him the girls there all say 'well he is a master of the arts, of course he comes to see us perform' and then begin tacking on how the actual shame lies in the fact a righteous sect allows themselves to be caught in such baseless rumors. How the supposed oh so honorable war god dragged his martial sibling from a music recital, calling him all those horrible things for doing his job. The girls on their own time also go after QQQ, calling her out for being the women's rights peak but now it's noble women only.
Also new wards are set up that catch a demon portalling in and Qinghua gets booted out for being a traitor. The rumor mongering gets called out as does the fact that Huan Hua is using this schism to gather intel and attempt to make people lose faith in the sect so they can reap the benefits. Shen Jiu is already working on digging up reports of his lechery and finding out some things about TLJ in the process.














