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"...Who is that person?"

Even after returning to his original position, Feng Yu couldn't stop thinking about those eyes. He stroked his chin and asked with narrowed eyes.

"Which one?"

Liu Huangli had no interest in paying attention to him. Yuan Qingshui leaned closer to inquire.

Feng Yu pointed with his large hand. Yuan Qingshui asked in surprise, "Didn't you see? That person is made of jade, and her name is something like Xia Wuliao? Why would a girl have such a strange name?"

"Xia... this surname suits her quite well." Feng Yu touched his lips and said with a smile.

"No way..." Yuan Qingshui looked at him with disgust. "That person is an evil cultivator. Are you getting all horny again?"

"Be careful not to get burned to ashes; there are few jade stones that are easy to mess with."

Yuan Qingshui couldn't help but advise, "If all else fails, take a look at the two girls next to her. Aren't they much more well-behaved than her?"

"Too obedient, no challenge at all. The arrogant kind is much more interesting." Feng Yu glanced at Xia Wu, who had already looked away, and smiled.

Yuan Qingshui knew Feng Yu's playboy nature all too well. From the moment they met, he was surrounded by a group of beautiful women, changing girlfriends like clothes. On some days, he could change several in a month. She didn't know how he could still manage to cultivate despite being so "busy".

Initially, Yuan Qingshui disapproved of his character and fought with him several times, but eventually gave up due to the interference of his group of ex-girlfriends. Feng Yu was fond of beautiful women and possessed naturally amorous eyes; he could even see affection in a stone, making it difficult for anyone to resist his pursuit. Moreover, Feng Yu was wealthy and willing to spend money, showering his pursuers with gifts. He also maintained a perfectly appropriate physical distance before establishing a relationship, making it hard for anyone to dislike him.

But the problem is that this person seems to be inherently fickle. Once they win someone's heart, they quickly lose interest, hastily break up, and then turn their attention to other people. The longest relationship lasts only a few months, and the shortest doesn't even last a day.

Yuan Qingshui couldn't help but roll her eyes as she thought about it.

“What could that possibly mean?” Yuan Qingshui muttered.

"Think about it, he's always contemptuous and arrogant to everyone else, acting like he's untouched by worldly affairs, but in front of you he's as docile as a kitten, letting you pet and play with him. Isn't that interesting?" Feng Yu said, seemingly imagining that scene, and smiled with his eyes narrowed.

"..."

"According to you, isn't Hua Wujian even more challenging?" Yuan Qingshui said after a moment of silence.

Feng Yu: ...

Yu Fengchan: "Go."

Feng Yu: "Please don't make me imagine such terrible scenes, okay?"

Yuan Qingshui was horrified: "You actually dare to think that?"

Feng Yu was about to say something when Liu Huangli, who had been silent beside him, suddenly spoke up: "Shut up and watch the game."

Yuan Qingshui and Feng Yu exchanged a glance and then both shut their mouths.

"What, are you angry?"

Shen Youge turned her head slightly and asked Xia Wule.

Xia Wule's gaze was icy: "Some."

"Why bother? There will be other opportunities in the future." Shen Youge looked at the huge fragment of mustard seed and said softly, "If I advance smoothly, I will eventually meet them again."

Xia Wu was silent for a moment, then gave a soft "hmm".

Seeing Liu Huangli and the others disappear, Hua Wujian slowly withdrew his hand, turned to look at Qin Xiao, and stretched out his hand.

"take it out."

"What?" Qin Xiao was taken aback.

Hua Wujian asked expressionlessly, "What did you just receive?"

Qin Xiao hesitated: "It shouldn't... have anything to do with it, right?"

"Take it out." Hua Wujian's voice was tinged with impatience.

Qin Xiao hesitated for a moment, then touched his storage ring. A flash of light appeared, and a dirty ape lay limply on the ground, its eyes closed, looking as if it didn't have much time left.

"Take it easy."

Seeing that he had picked up the gun, Qin Xiao thought for a moment and said, "It took a lot of effort to save him."

Hua Wujian scoffed, "You think it's laborious to just administer some pills?"

Qin Xiao: "...It will cost a lot of money."

Hua Wujian: "Did you spend money on those pills?"

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao remained silent.

Chen Mo and Miao Kaijie exchanged a glance. Chen Mo saw a deep shadow in the latter's eyes and paused, a hint of concern appearing in his gaze.

Miao Kaijie did not respond to him. His gaze swept heavily over Qin Xiao and Hua Wujian, then he glanced at the silent Mo Hanyu and narrowed his eyes.

Mo Hanyu frowned, glanced at the monkey lying on the ground, its life hanging in the balance, and pursed his lips.

"You really dare to bring anything." Hua Wujian glanced at Qin Xiao and slightly raised his right hand. A long, icy blue snake, as thick as a wrist, suddenly appeared, slowly climbing up his arm, flicking its scarlet tongue, and then opened its mouth, from which water flowed.

Clear "water" fell from above, splashing onto the monkeys, and white mist gradually formed around them. The monkeys' murky fur became clean and shiny, revealing their original colors.

"Don't you know how special it is?"

"I only saw him once when I was a child." Qin Xiao really didn't know much about him.

The ape had a white head and bare feet, a large mouth with ferocious fangs. After being washed clean, its fur was shiny. Its eyes were closed, and it lay quietly on the ground, undisturbed by the noise. Even though it hadn't done anything, looking at it always made me feel a strange sense of ferocity and stirred up a restless feeling in my heart.

Hua Wujian, seeing that the cleaning was almost complete, lightly raised his hand to make the snake water gu disappear, then turned the tip of his spear and stabbed it fiercely into the ape's chest!

The spear tip pierced the chest, blood splattered out, and then black mist emerged from the spear tip. The ape suddenly opened its eyes and let out a sharp cry.

"Shut up." Hua Wujian, annoyed by the noise, pinned it firmly to the ground and stared at it coldly.

Hua Wujian was not speaking the language of this world. Qin Xiao frowned slightly as he looked at the stunned ape.

"Zhu Yan, why are you here?" Hua Wujian looked down at it and said coldly.

The monkey strangely stopped wriggling, tilted its head to look at Hua Wujian, and suddenly spoke in human language.

"You, you are—" Zhu Yan's previous frenzy vanished, and as black energy seeped from his chest, his eyes gradually cleared. "Qing Gu—"

"—Qingyi!" Zhu Yan suddenly sat up, about to do something, when a black knife was pointed at its throat, forcibly stopping its movements.

Taking advantage of Zhu Yan's momentary pause, Qingyi stepped on its shoulder and then stomped it back down.

"What's the excitement?" Qingyi looked at it coldly. "I'm asking you a question."

“…I forgot.” Zhu Yan blinked innocently.

"Then you're useless, die." The man in green said indifferently.

The words had barely left his mouth when the blade was about to pierce his throat—

"Eh eh eh—" Zhu Yan tucked his chin in, seemingly terrified of being hurt by the knife, but didn't seem to care much about the gun still stuck in his chest. "I really don't know, I just regained consciousness! I... I have no memory of what happened before."

Qin Xiao hesitated for a moment, then told Qingyi about the scene when he first saw it.

"Yes, yes, that's it, look at me—"

"Shut up," the woman in green said coldly.

Zhu Yan blinked innocently, looking pitiful, trying to win over the two people in front of him.

Unfortunately, Qingyi was naturally cold-hearted, and Qin Xiao ignored her.

"How long have you lost your memories?" Qingyi asked it.

Zhu Yan hesitated for a moment, then tremblingly extended two fingers.

Qin Xiao: "Two years?"

Zhu Yan shook his head.

Zhu Yan: "Two hundred years."

Qin Xiao: ...

"The last memory?" The woman in green remained calm.

"It seems I was caught by a group of humans, they fed me something... and that's it." Zhu Yan scratched his head, his eyes narrowing.

The woman in green lowered her eyes and said nothing more.

"Have we met before?" Zhu Yan suddenly turned his head and asked Qin Xiao.

"...Hmm." Qin Xiao didn't know what it was going to do, so he paused for a moment and nodded.

Zhu Yan's eyes lit up: "Then look how distant this is—"

"You're still alive because he fed you handfuls of pills just now," the man in green sneered. "If you don't cooperate, I wouldn't be ashamed to kill you."

"..."

Zhu Yan asked incredulously, "Are you human?"

"Even if you can't use your eyes, I can still help you remove them," the woman in green said coldly.

Zhu Yan: ...

Zhu Yan was dejected.

"No, then what do you want to know?" Zhu Yan couldn't understand. "I'm very weak right now, and I can't help you with anything."

The man in green tapped the gun handle twice, pondered for a moment, and then drew the gun. Qin Xiao also released his restraints and took two steps back.

"Go somewhere else, somewhere with lots of people." The man in green put away his gun and dusted off his sleeves.

Zhu Yan raised an eyebrow, looked at Qin Xiao, and instantly realized: "You're that kid from before!"

Qin Xiao hadn't spoken yet. Zhu Yan's gaze shifted to Mo Hanyu.

Zhu Yan sensed a familiar aura emanating from the human in front of him, but unfortunately, he was currently in a weak state, and something was obscuring the human's body, so he couldn't see clearly. He only glanced at the human a couple more times before looking back at the man in green.

"What do you not want me to do?" Zhu Yan probed.

"Just let them fight it out." The man in blue said expressionlessly. "It's getting a bit annoying."

Zhu Yan's eyes darted around, and he smiled and agreed.

"You know me," Qingyi said suddenly, watching Zhu Yan stand up. "Right?"

Zhu Yan turned around, and the boy in front of her looked very unfamiliar, but she could see his cold eyes, which were no different from before.

Zhu Yan paused for a moment.

The wound on my chest has healed, leaving only dark red bloodstains, but my heart still aches faintly.

Zhu Yan looked at the man in green and nodded.

"Go."

"What's that? Did you pick it up here?" Miao Kaijie asked Qin Xiao as he moved closer.

"No." Qin Xiao took out a short shirt and put it on, covering the scar. "That...some sect brought him in. I've seen him before."

"So that thing was originally wild?"

"You could say that." Qin Xiao nodded, glanced around, and looked at Qingyi. "When you arrived just now—"

“Those who fainted have been eliminated.” Hua Wujian glanced at Tian Zhixia, who had been hiding in the back since the beginning, and gestured for her to come over. “You’re a bit slow.”

"There's no way around it, these kinds of competitions usually last for several days, and the venue isn't small either." Qin Xiao felt that it wasn't a good place to stay any longer and wanted to leave.

"You've destroyed several mountains," Hua Wujian said, his voice devoid of emotion. "You certainly have the strength."

Qin Xiao: "...What are you trying to say?"

"Can't you guys hurry up? Useless." Hua Wujian said coldly.

"Didn't you send Zhu Yan?"

“He’s so weak right now, what can he do?” Hua Wujian clearly had no hope for the ape. “You guys hurry up.”

Qin Xiao: "...So what's so special about it?"

Mo Hanyu suddenly leaned close to Qin Xiao's ear and whispered a few words.

Qin Xiao said "Oh," and then replied, "I understand."

Turning to Hua Wujian, he asked, "So you're not going to help?"

“Yes,” Hua Wujian said without any shame, “I was watching from the side.”

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao: "On what grounds?"

"I'd be happy to." Hua Wujian replied expressionlessly.

Helpless, Qin Xiao rubbed his temples, glanced at Miao Kaijie and Chen Mo a few times, and decided to say as he walked, "I was injured just now and I'm a little weak."

"Aren't you fully recovered? It's all scabbed over." Hua Wujian looked at Tian Zhixia beside him and handed her a flower. "Here you go."

"Brother Wujian... are you going to fight with them?" Tian Zhixia took the seemingly innocent-looking little flower, glanced at Qin Xiao and his group not far away, and asked in a low voice.

“No,” Hua Wujian said, “I’ll just watch from the side.”

Tian Zhixia:...?

"Go find your senior, he's awake." Hua Wujian said to Tian Zhixia, glancing at a beetle crawling on his fingertip.

Tian Zhixia hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Then, Brother Wujian, be careful."

Tian Zhixia and Hua Wujian grew up together. Even after Hua Wujian was selected for the Royal Academy, she would still go back to him from time to time. But even after spending so much time with him, she still couldn't understand him and was even a little afraid of him.

Hua Wujian was aloof and indifferent to people, rarely responding to conversations. Tian Zhixia, who shared a similar personality with Tian Miao, was used to Hua Wujian's coldness, and was somewhat flattered that he suddenly took the initiative to talk to her and give her something.

Tian Zhixia withdrew her gaze from Hua Wujian's retreating figure, looked at the flowers in her hand, and became troubled again.

So... what is this flower used for?