In the quiet cabin, a bright spirit stone lamp stood above a table piled with scrolls and jade slips.
Liang Zhu was wearing the uniform of a Hundred Lotus Sect Elder and holding a brand new jade slip in his hand with a solemn expression, as if he was worried about something. After pondering for a long time, he used his spiritual consciousness to engrave on the jade slip:
—I followed Miss Pei and Young Miss Xiao to fight north and south, destroy demonic cultivators, and gain merits as an immortal. Don't worry about me. I wonder how you are doing these days? Is there any trouble in the Hundred Lotus Sect? Is Ating obedient?
Having written this, Liang Zhu suddenly retracted his spiritual consciousness, shook his head, and threw the jade slip aside, lamenting, "Not good... Sigh--"
He took out a scroll with a portrait from his storage bag, opened it carefully, and looked at it in the light of the lamp.
As he looked at it, his face, which was usually as cold as ice, was finally melted by the appearance of the woman in the painting and reddened slightly.
Liang Zhu smiled unconsciously, touched the face of the woman in the painting with his fingertips, and chuckled. "Hehe..."
But the next moment, two knocks on the door broke the smile on his face.
Liang Zhu quickly rolled up the scroll and put it into his storage bag. Putting back on his icy face, he took out a file from the side and spread it out in front of him.
"Come in."
Squeak—
The door opened, and Ye Anping walked in with half a steaming roasted chicken.
Seeing Liang Zhu sitting alone at the desk dealing with the pile of files, he felt quite sorry for him.
After the victory in the Moonfall Gorge, there were a lot of things to deal with.
Before, Xiao Yunluo and Pei Lianxue would basically help him share some of the work, but these three days, the matters of the seven Black Star Sect immortal ships were all thrown to him.
When Ye Anping used Xiao Yunluo's erotic book to roast a chicken for Feng Yu Die, he heard her words and decided to bring half of the roasted chicken to his diligent brother Liang.
However, seeing Ye Anping carrying the roasted chicken into the room, Liang Zhu's face turned a little sour.
Before Ye Anping could speak, Liang Zhu asked with a grimace, "What? Sixth brother, after you have favored your four wives, you finally remembered me?"
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Ye Anping could hear that Liang Zhu was full of resentment at the moment. Smiling awkwardly, he moved a stool with his spiritual energy, sat on the other side of the table, and put down the roasted chicken. "Brother Liang, how am I not thinking of you? I specially made half a roasted chicken for you. I used the books that my wife has collected for many years as firewood and cooked it slowly over a low fire... Why don't you try it?"
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Liang Zhu didn't understand what he was saying, and he rolled his eyes at him. "What's the reason for being nice to me?..."
"Your Sixth Brother is not that wicked..." Ye Anping smiled. "I just wanted to reward you for your hard work."
Liang Zhu sneered, then looked at the half roasted chicken with a snort. "Heh, you want to get rid of me with half a roasted chicken?"
"How can that be? Brother Liang, you must have taken a lot of kickbacks when you followed my sister and Yunluo. But I promise not to report you to the Black Star Sect's storage department..."
"..."
Buzzz...
Liang Zhu's eyelids twitched, but he just shook his head slightly to admit defeat. Propping his chin with both hands, he looked at Ye Anping. "Sixth brother..."
"Hmm?"
"I asked before, and I want to ask again... Where do you get so much information?"
The thing was, when Ye Anping left the Black Star Sect with Feng Yu Die, he left him a jade slip.
The jade slip contained many places and names of demonic cultivators in the Eastern Region and asked Liang Zhu to follow the Black Star Sect into the Eastern Region and serve as an advisor to Pei Lianxue and Xiao Yunluo to help them avoid those dangerous places.
For example, the "Hundred Grass Cave" located about twelve hundred miles away from Brilliance City after entering the Eastern Region, had a demonic spiritual grass in it, which could be used as a breeding bed for cultivators. Elder Qiu from the Spirit Beast Sect, who weighed two hundred pounds, took a dozen of his disciples on a trip, but when they came back, they were all skin and bones...
Pei Lianxue and Xiao Yunluo actually planned to go there, but when he saw that Ye Anping's jade slip mentioned it was best not to, he replanned the route, which allowed them to kill their way through almost effortlessly...
Ye Anping raised his eyebrows slightly, then smiled and raised his index finger. "How can the secret of heaven be revealed?"
"Heh..."
Liang Zhu shook his head slightly, thinking that he had made the right choice to become a sworn brother to Ye Anping. He had become rich after following his Sixth Brother for so many years...
—In the end, Second Brother and the others did not die in vain.
Ye Anping shrugged, then saw a corner of a red jade slip under the file on the desk, and he raised his eyebrows. "Wow..."
"Hmm?"
Liang Zhu followed his line of sight and suddenly seemed a little flustered. He hurriedly hid the red jade slip under the file.
The color of the jade slip explained a lot of things. Red jade slips were generally used for sending letters between men and women whose relationship was unclear.
The alias of Tong Zilan's personal maid also came from this.
Ye Anping raised his eyebrows slightly. "Elder Tong sent it?"
Liang Zhu had a blank expression. "...If you have something to say, tell me. If not, take your roasted chicken and go away. I have things to deal with."
"Okay, okay..."
Ye Anping smiled. He had no intention of gossiping about his elder brother and Tong Zilan. He became serious and asked solemnly, "Where are the immortal sects from the three regions currently?"
Liang Zhu glanced at the Eastern Region map on the wall, took out three daggers from his sleeve, and stabbed them in three places on the map. "The Southern Region, led by Yun Tianchong, crossed the Inkstick Valley at the lower reaches of the Blood River five days ago. They should now occupy Inkstick City, only thirteen thousand miles from the Heavenly Demon Sect.
"The Black Star Sect, led by Elder Lei, is two thousand and five hundred miles north of our current location. Yesterday, he sent a jade slip saying that the remaining demonic cultivators that had escaped from the Magical Poison Sect had been killed, and they are stationed in Slaying Immortals City now...
"As for the Northern Region Cold Country, they entered the region from the Misty Mountain where the upper reaches of the Blood River intersect with the Northern Region, and then went straight to the Ghost Spirit Sect. It is said that Sun Juehu fought with Seven Ghost Tomb for about a month, and all the disciples of the Ghost Spirit Sect were killed, but Seven Ghost Tomb himself escaped. I haven't received any news about where he is now..."
Ye Anping looked at the map of the Eastern Region in silence before saying, "There is no need to worry about Seven Ghost Tomb. He already had some old injuries, and now has faced a Physical cultivator like Sun Juehu. Even if he escaped, he is probably half dead. He is most likely hiding in a mountain to cultivate. After dealing with the Heavenly Demon Sect, we can slowly find him... Sigh–"
"So, what are you going to do now? Destroy the Void Returning cultivators with your Nascent Soul cultivation?"
"Brother Liang, you think too highly of me." Ye Anping shook his head helplessly. "King against king, general against general, soldier against soldier. At most, I can be considered a general... who is devoted to the immortal Red Moon of the Black Star Sect."
"Oh?" Liang Zhu raised his eyebrows slightly. "I thought you were aiming for the throne of the Holy Emperor, wanting to unify the four regions and become the king or the emperor. I was looking forward to being named an Immortal Noble... What a pity."
"Don't flatter me, I know myself well..."
Ye Anping lowered his head and was silent for a while, then suddenly remembered the words he often said when he was young, and he smiled. "I am just a cannon fodder from a third-rate sect..."
Liang Zhu rolled his eyes at him and continued in a cold tone. "Cannon fodder? Cannon King, maybe."
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Ye Anping was stunned, his eyes twitching slightly, and he waved his hand, bringing the topic back. "Brother Liang, I will go to the Heavenly Demon Sect in a few days. You, with my sister and Yunluo, will go to meet Elder Lei, and then we will besiege the Heavenly Demon Sect."
"A frontal attack?"
"It can only be done this way. The victory or defeat of this battle depends on Yu Yan and Red Moon Matriarch. In other words, no matter how many demonic cultivators are killed, it will be useless. The Heavenly Demon Sect is Yu Yan's hometown. If the Matriarch loses, then all the remaining immortal cultivators will be defeated. They will be fish on a board in front of him."
"Heh..." Liang Zhu sneered. "Why not let Immortal Matriarch go and fight Yu Yan alone to avoid casualties among the immortal disciples?"
"Foundation Building cultivators use their lives to pave the way for the Core Formation cultivators, and Core Formation cultivators also use their own lives to pave the way for Nascent Soul cultivators. Victory or defeat is always decided by the top-level Void Returning cultivators... We little cultivators are chess pieces in their hands, but Void Returning cultivators are actually chess pieces for the Heavenly Dao and the Demonic Dao."
Liang Zhu frowned when he heard this.
Ye Anping did not say anything more. He had explained what he needed to say anyway, so he stood up and picked up the half roasted chicken. "My sister will probably wake up soon. I should go back."
However, just as Ye Anping took two steps toward the door with the roasted chicken, Liang Zhu suddenly looked up and called him. "Sixth Brother."
"Hmm?"
"Put the roasted chicken down."
Ye Anping froze for a moment. With a sly smile on his face, he raised his eyebrows and said, "...Didn't you say you don't want it?"
"Hehe, Sixth Brother's kindness, how can I, as the eldest brother, not appreciate it?"
Ye Anping smiled and walked back, put the half roasted chicken back on the table, and then left the room before going up to the deck and flying to the ship where his sister and Xiao Yunluo were.
Because he was afraid that his sister would wake up, find that he was gone, and then look for him everywhere, he landed on the deck of the ship and trotted to the cabin, rushing like a husband returning home in the middle of the night. Arriving at the room, he tiptoed, pushed the door open a crack, and squeezed in sideways.
However...
As soon as he entered the room, Ye Anping was stunned by the two people on the bed.
Xiao Yunluo had thrown herself into his sister's arms with snot and tears as if she was complaining to her, and the dragon horns on her forehead poked Pei Lianxue's face directly.
"Wuwuwu... Lianxue, Anping... Anping, he... not only didn't sleep with me but also burned the books I had collected for several years..."
Ye Anping was at a loss. He looked at Xiao Yunluo's red eyes and then looked at his sister's expressionless face with two dimples poked by the dragon horns. His mouth opened and closed for a while, but he couldn't squeeze out a word.
After a while, Pei Lianxue patted the back of Xiao Yunluo's head, frowned, and asked, "Brother..."
"Hmm..."
"Why are you bullying Yunluo?"
"I..." Ye Anping took a deep breath, walked to the bed, reached out, and touched Xiao Yunluo's head. "I just want her to read less of those erotic books..."
However, before he finished speaking, Pei Lianxue reached out and grabbed his wrist, turned around, and pressed him on the bed.
"Yunluo, I caught him! You can come..."
"???"
A row of question marks popped on Ye Anping's head. If it wasn't fundamentally impossible, he would have suspected that Xiao Yunluo had brainwashed his sister. He tilted his head and looked at Xiao Yunluo, whose eyes were red from crying just now.
However, Xiao Yunluo seemed to have planned this with Pei Lianxue. In just a moment, she dropped her clothes at her bare feet and hopped onto the bed with a small jump.
"Anping… Lianxue just agreed… Anping, don't blame me! Woo..."
Ye Anping took a deep breath and clamped his legs together.
"Hiss--"
Pei Lianxue turned her head to look at him, pursed her lips, and continued, "Brother, I think what Yunluo said makes sense..."
"What did she say?"
"You have so much yang energy, I can't handle it alone. It's better if there are two people..."
Ye Anping took a deep breath before shouting, "Yunluo, what did you say to my sister... Woo--"
However, before he finished speaking, his mouth was blocked by Pei Lianxue's mouth...
After all, it was hard for one person to row against a huge wave, but two could conquer the waves together...