I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 288 Broken Heart
Zhang Chen was not a fool. If the Great Sage Master's will had paid attention to this place, the Great Hall must have been under his attention. If he walked around the Great Hall for no reason, he would definitely be discovered by the Great Sage Master. The Great Sage Master's level was unknown, and he was not easy to fool. Facing such an existence, he had to be alert.

Zhang Chen thought for a moment and turned back. The best thing for him to do was to wait and see. If the Great Sage Master was really that powerful, he would naturally be able to discover Zhang Xiaohua's methods. If the Great Sage Master was a fake and couldn't even discover Zhang Xiaohua's back-up plan, then that was all.

Zhang Chen returned to the courtyard and lay dormant, but he didn't dare to continue stealing points. Compared with the mantra after refining Qi, the points could be stolen a little later.

In the afternoon, Li Donglai walked out of the room bored and dragged Zhang Chen to visit Huangli Temple. The two of them walked and stopped along the way to look at the scenery of Huangli Temple. At this time, Li Donglai's eyes fell on the snow-white hair on Zhang Chen's head: "Brother Zhang, your hair on the top of your head is quite unique. It looks very handsome."

Zhang Chen turned his head and glanced at Li Donglai. This kid was really bad at talking. If he had a choice, Zhang Chen would rather have a head full of black hair. This head full of white hair was earned at the cost of his life.

Just as they were talking, Cheng Yu, who was in the pavilion on the top of a mountain in the distance, ran into trouble.

In the pavilion on the top of the mountain, more than a dozen figures sat together, drinking and having fun, and constantly playing with and passing around the luminous cup. Chu Mingyue described its magical properties: "This moonlight cup is a supreme divine object, and it contains mysterious power. No matter whether it is water or other liquids, as long as they are poured into the cup, they will immediately turn into fine wine and delicacies. The most important thing is that this wine can actually nourish the soul and beautify the skin. It is very magical."

"Oh? There are such magical things in the world? Doesn't it involve mysterious power?" Zhang Xiaohua became interested immediately after hearing this. Ever since he came into contact with the mysterious power, he has been interested in everything about mystery.

Seeing Zhang Xiaohua's interest, Chu Mingyue quickly shouted, "Bring a cup of water, and let the prince experience the magic of this cup."

Upon hearing this, the little kid ran to get the clean water that had been prepared long ago, just like a little servant. Zhang Xiaohua poured it into the moonlight cup for an experiment. Seeing that the clean water actually turned into wine, she immediately praised it highly.

"If the prince likes it, I will give it to him." Chu Mingyue said hurriedly after hearing this.

Zhang Xiaohua knew what the other party meant, knowing that he wanted to get close to her, so she nodded and said, "If I don't appreciate your kindness, it would seem that I am unkind."

Zhang Xiaohua played with the cup for a while. The cup was related to mysterious power, and he was really moved. So he held the cup and was about to turn around to find a jade box to put it in. But when he turned around, he happened to bump into a little kid who was leaning over to watch the fun. Then the cup fell to the ground and broke into eight petals in an instant. The atmosphere in the field suddenly froze.

Chu Mingyue's mind was filled with a thousand thoughts. This cup was her capital for getting promoted to the Pingbian Palace. How could it be broken just like that? She had to find someone to take the blame.

Zhang Xiaohua need not say anything, although the cup slipped from Zhang Xiaohua's hand, but he dared to make trouble for Zhang Xiaohua? Dare to say that Zhang Xiaohua was at fault?

So his eyes turned and fell on Cheng Yu. He knew this little girl. She was his little fangirl, but so what? He had to find someone to take the blame and let him perform to let Zhang Xiaohua know how valuable this cup was. So he said angrily: "Where did you come from, bitch? This is a gathering of our fellows, and no one invited you. Who asked you to sneak in?"

As he spoke, he slapped out with his hand.

Zhang Chen and Li Donglai were strolling in the mountains when suddenly a loud noise came from the top of the mountain, accompanied by the cries of wolves and ghosts, echoing among the mountains and forests.

Li Donglai looked curiously in the direction of the noisy sound. After listening carefully to the crying, his heart tightened: "Is this Cheng Yu's voice? But the key is that Cheng Yu went to chase the star Chu Mingyue, right? Why is he crying in this deep mountain forest?"

"It seems to be the voice of that little thing?" Li Donglai turned his head and glanced at Zhang Chen, with some uncertainty in his voice.

Zhang Chen ran quickly into the mountain without saying a word. Li Donglai followed closely behind him. The two quickly climbed up the steps to the top of the mountain. Li Donglai followed behind Zhang Chen and saw that Zhang Chen climbed the steps as fast as the wind. He, a dark energy expert, could not keep up. He could not help but be secretly shocked:

"This Junior Brother Zhang doesn't look simple either."

The two of them climbed all the way to the top of the mountain, and they saw a pavilion in the distance. There were more than a dozen figures sitting in the pavilion, and all kinds of wine and food were laid out. The young prince Zhang Xiaohua, Chu Mingyue and other core disciples of Wu Changming gathered together.

However, the atmosphere in the pavilion was tense at this time. The little boy stood there with red and swollen cheeks and disheveled hair, crying loudly and apologizing. However, Chu Mingyue had a cold face, stood up and glared at the little boy, with murderous eyes.

Zhang Xiaohua, who was standing by, watched coldly and drank her wine slowly.

"Brother, I didn't! I really didn't." The little kid stood outside the pavilion and begged for apology.

However, Chu Mingyue's voice was cold, and her eyes were full of cruelty: "Shut up! Everyone saw this with their own eyes, how can they wrongly accuse you? Do you know how much the Moonlight Cup is worth? Even if I sell you, a slut, you can't afford to pay for it. This is a supreme treasure that I specially purchased from the Sea Country, and it is worth 8,000 taels of gold. You said something wrong and let my 8,000 taels of gold go to waste?"

Upon hearing this, the little kid started to cry and sob, his voice full of grievance: "Brother, don't be angry, it's really not my fault..."

"Bang~"

Before the little bean could finish his words, Chu Mingyue kicked him. The little bean didn't dare to dodge and rolled down the stairs. His head was bleeding and his face was swollen. However, he didn't care about the injuries and got up and continued to apologize.

"Brother, it really wasn't me, it really wasn't me!" The little kid cried and kept repeating these two sentences over and over again, but he didn't know how to defend himself.

"stop!"

At this moment, Zhang Chen came from a distance and saw Chu Mingyue kicking the little kid down the stairs. He was so angry that his face turned red and his voice was filled with uncontrollable anger.

"Who do you think you are to meddle in my business?" Chu Mingyue stood in the pavilion, looking down at Zhang Chen and Cheng Yu.

Zhang Chen ignored Chu Mingyue and looked at Cheng Yu. When the little kid saw Zhang Chen, he seemed to have found his backbone. He threw himself into Zhang Chen's arms and shouted with grievance, "Junior Brother!"

As he shouted, blood spurted out of his mouth and two white little teeth fell out, which made Zhang Chen's heart ache.

"Junior brother, I didn't! I didn't break it! I was just watching from the side. Zhang Xiaohua turned around and knocked me down, and the cup fell to the ground and broke." The little bean's voice was full of grievance.

Zhang Chen took a look at the little kid who was missing two front teeth and was immediately furious. Such a cute child, how could he be abused like this?
"Who am I?" Zhang Chen's gaze shifted away from the little kid and stared at Chu Mingyue above him: "How can you have the heart to hurt a child?" "Child? I don't care what child. I only know that it was this bitch who broke my Moonlight Cup. Since you want to stand up for her, then compensate me for the Moonlight Cup first." Chu Mingyue's voice was full of coldness as she looked down at Zhang Chen.

"Junior brother, I didn't! It was Zhang Xiaohua who bumped into me..." The little kid carefully explained the whole story to Zhang Chen's ear.

Zhang Chen heard the whole story and looked at Zhang Xiaohua: "Sir, what do you think about this matter? A man should take responsibility for his own actions. You can't push all the responsibilities onto a child, right?"

Zhang Xiaohua was watching the fun with a gloating look on her face: "Zhang Chen, I drank too much today and I forgot what happened just now. But just now, all the disciples said that it was this girl who broke the moonlight cup. Since everyone said so, I can't distort the facts."

Zhang Xiaohua acted like a rogue and simply stayed out of it and watched the show from the side.

"Pay compensation! Return my Moonlight Cup to me, otherwise today's matter will not be over." Chu Mingyue's voice was full of coldness.

Before Zhang Chen could say anything, Li Donglai had already caught up with him. Hearing this, he shouted from a distance, "It's fine if you want to pay me back, but you kicked my junior sister, causing her to tumble down the stairs, and you also hit her on the head. How do you want to settle this?"

Li Donglai's voice was filled with indignation: "If you want us to compensate you, you can ask me to slap you twice on the head and kick you in the chest first, and then I will come forward to take charge and return your moonlight cup. Isn't it just a broken cup? What's the big deal? I will return you both then."

Li Donglai's voice was full of coldness and his expression was ferocious.

As he spoke, his palm turned bronze and slapped the bluestone beside him, causing the entire bluestone to shatter.

If Chu Mingyue received this slap, she would definitely die!
Chu Mingyue was furious when he saw this. Who could survive this slap? By then, I'm afraid my whole head would become a rotten watermelon. Of course, he refused: "Return my moonlight cup first, and then I will naturally apologize to my junior sister."

"Haha, apologize? How can you just apologize for knocking out two teeth? Either you ask us to return it today, or don't mention the Moonlight Cup again." Li Donglai's voice was full of sneers: "Even if you take the case to the elders of the sect, we will still have the same attitude. As long as you ask us to return two slaps and a kick, we will compensate you with eight thousand taels of gold."

Chu Mingyue's face looked ugly. He was also very troubled by meeting such a unreasonable person like Li Donglai.

The most important thing is that eight thousand taels of gold is by no means a small amount for him. In order to buy the Moonlight Cup to please the prince of Pingbian Palace and seek a future, he has already gone to the extent of selling everything he has.

Having lost the Moonlight Cup and unable to please the Prince of Pingbian Palace, it will be difficult for him to make a name for himself in the future.

But if he were asked to take two slaps, he would probably lose his life.

"Haha, make your own choice." Li Donglai's voice was full of pride: "If you don't make a choice, we will leave."

As he spoke, Li Donglai tried to pull Zhang Chen away.

"You are playing rogue. Compensate me for the Moonlight Cup. If you don't give me an explanation today, you can't leave." Seeing this, Chu Mingyue suddenly became anxious. He took a step forward to grab Li Donglai, and saw Li Donglai's body turned into copper skin. He slapped Chu Mingyue opposite him.

"Bang~"

After the attack, Li Donglai took a step back, and Chu Mingyue took three steps back, staring at Li Donglai with an unpleasant expression.

"What? You want to be unreasonable? If you are unreasonable, we will be excited." Li Donglai was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, and his voice was full of excitement.

Zhang Chen, who was standing next to him, carried the little kid in his arms and left with Li Donglai. He felt that his side was in the wrong today, and it was only Li Donglai who was being unreasonable and was only three-tenths right.

Everyone present is the other party's people. As long as the other party insists that it was the little kid who did it, it will be useless even if the king of heaven comes.

Li Donglai glanced at Chu Mingyue and said jokingly, "Come back to me when you've made up your mind. I'm leaving first!"

After the words were spoken, the person had gone far away, leaving Chu Mingyue standing in the pavilion in silence.

Li Donglai caught up with Zhang Chen and whispered to him, "Don't worry. I will personally kill this guy for you on the stage and vent your anger. Now that the Prince of Pingbian is in front of us, we can't have an argument. If we make a big fuss, the elders of the sect will punish us. If we delay the competition tomorrow, we will miss the opportunity. The other side has the Prince of Pingbian Palace on their side. If we have a big conflict, the Taoist temple will definitely side with the Pingbian Palace, and even punish us to please Zhang Xiaohua. It's not worth it to argue at this time. What we have to do now is to delay time. When the competition comes, I will kill that guy by accident, and this mess will be settled naturally."

The sect does not allow private fighting. If they do, they will be punished. Then there will be no need to compete. The two of them will most likely be put in solitary confinement, thus missing out on a great opportunity.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen looked at Li Donglai with admiration. The three of them had only known each other for a few days, but this guy was willing to stand up for a little kid. He was truly a friend worth making.

At this time, Li Donglai patted the little boy on the shoulder and said, "Three-inch nail, do you think I am kind enough to stand up for you? Do you still worship Chu Mingyue? You should worship me from now on. Who is Chu Mingyue? How can she compare to even a hair of mine? You don't know what is good for you, you are just looking down on others."

Cheng Yu was originally grimacing in pain, but after hearing what Liu Donglai said and looking at Liu Donglai's smug expression as if he was about to praise me, he couldn't help but chuckle, revealing the gap between his front teeth. He was not annoyed by what the other party said about looking down on others.

Li Donglai looked at the little boy's two missing front teeth and couldn't help but sigh softly: "Fortunately, you are still in the period of replacing teeth, so it's not a big deal if you lose two front teeth. If you have grown up and lost two front teeth, I'm afraid you will never be able to find a husband in your life."

The little boy was touched by what Li Donglai said before, but when he heard the other party making fun of him with his teeth again, his face suddenly fell, he rolled his eyes in anger, and turned his head away without looking at him.

Since he stood up for me, I won't argue with him.

"Why didn't you fight back?" Zhang Chen hugged Cheng Yu and asked.

(End of this chapter)