Brother Xie, he is too popular. What should I do?

Xie Yunhe saw the white-clothed swordsman next to him also turned his head to look at him, and then he turned his head away as if nothing had happened.

But his heart was heavy.

It's over. There's an 80% chance that the photo stone is the one that records him in women's clothing.

Recalling those poses that Senior Sister Hua asked him to take pictures of...

Xie Yunhe suddenly felt a black screen in front of his eyes.

No!

We absolutely cannot let him leave the secret realm with the photo stone like this!

Even if the white-robed swordsman doesn't look at it now, he might take out the photo stone and check it later.

By then, his deeds of cross-dressing will be exposed.

Xie Yunhe only felt that everything in front of him was getting darker and darker.

The future is truly dark.

Senior Sister Hua, Senior Sister Hua, how could such an important thing fall into the hands of others!

Xie Yunhe wanted to shake Hua Qinglian's shoulders hard.

At this time, Hua Qinglian, who had already left the secret realm, was also feeling very aggrieved.

She doesn't know why this happened.

Her storage ring is filled with precious natural treasures and various elixirs.

But I don’t know what the selection criteria of the realm spirit are.

It actually picked out this inconspicuous photo stone!

That is the top-secret photo stone of Junior Brother Xie when he was dressed as a woman!

Damn it, she hadn’t even looked at it a few times and it was lost just like that!

She is so heartbroken!

Hua Qinglian bit her handkerchief in pain.

Her sinister look scared away many of the monks around her.

"Whoa, who is this person? He looks so bright and beautiful, but why does he have such a ferocious face?"

"Another cultivator who lost in the special stone chamber? Feeling ashamed?"

Hua Qinglian was crying in her heart, what do you know? Losing the fight is nothing, the point is that she just lost Junior Brother Xie’s moral integrity!

Thank you, Junior Brother. I’m sorry!

Her gaze shifted back to the light curtain on the mountain wall.

See two familiar figures above.

Some light returned to her eyes.

Yes, Sang Qing and Chu Yuanzhou are still inside!

There is hope!

Hua Qinglian clasped her hands together and began to pray to the gods and Buddha.

Hopefully, her two teammates can match up to her recent opponent.

Win back Junior Brother Xie’s photo stone!

Regarding the tragedy that Hua Qinglian and Xie Yunhe encountered.

If the realm spirit knew, it would definitely have something to say.

It selects loot from the storage space mainly based on the value of the items.

The value of an item is given by two aspects: one is the value of the item itself, and the other is the value given to the item by the owner.

In Hua Qinglian's mind, the importance of the photo stone is no less than those treasures from heaven and earth, and it can even be said to be more important.

This is certainly an item of high value.

Just like that, the photo stone left Hua Qinglian's storage ring, flew out, and became someone else's spoils.

In terms of the judgment criteria, Jing Ling felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

You can only blame yourself for your lack of strength. Who told you to lose to others? You can only give away your beloved things. Isn't this normal law of the jungle?

It’s good enough that I didn’t take your life, hehe.

……

As time went by, more and more monks lost.

At the exit of the secret realm’s mountain wall, monks who were eliminated from other stone chambers in the secret realm continued to come out.

Mixed in the crowd, a low-key, round-faced boy also walked out.

A carriage approached the light curtain on the mountain wall.

The middle-aged man in the carriage looked over with sharp eyes, and when he saw that the visitor was someone he knew, his eyes immediately became kind.

"It's Tangyuan. How did he get out? Ouch, he looks injured."

Uncle Xiao took out a few bottles of pills and handed them to the round-faced boy Tangyuan, and took a look at his injuries.

"Thank you, Uncle Xiao. I was just unlucky and ran into the territory of a thunder monster."

Tangyuan, with a little lightning still on his body, scratched his head and answered Uncle Xiao's question honestly.

Before the other party could ask in detail, Tangyuan spoke first.

"I'm going up to find the eldest master first. Uncle Xiao, we can talk later!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he lifted the curtain and got into the carriage.

"Oh, so irritable!"

Uncle Xiao sighed.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.

But soon, after a few breaths, the carriage curtain was lifted again.

Tangyuan crawled out and jumped off the carriage lightly.

"Uncle Xiao, the young master said there's something urgent going on in Zhaixing Tower and he needs to go back first!"

Uncle Xiao was a little surprised and asked:

"What should I do? Shall I take you back first? Then I'll come back and wait for the Second Young Master."

A gentle voice came from the carriage.

"No need to trouble Uncle Xiao, we can just use the flying boat ourselves."

It was Wen Lingze's voice.

He opened the carriage curtain while talking to Uncle Xiao.

"Uncle Xiao, just wait for Fuman here. Tangyuan and I will go back to Zhaixing Tower first."

After getting off the carriage, Wen Lingze took out the flying boat from his sleeve and threw it to the ground.

The palm-sized flying boat immediately grew larger and became a small flying boat as soon as it landed.

Now that things have come to this, the flying boat has been taken out, and Wen Lingze is already a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage. Normally, nothing will go wrong, and Uncle Xiao has no reason to stop it.

So he nodded and readily agreed to Wen Lingze's suggestion.

Wen Lingze and his servant said goodbye briefly to Uncle Xiao and boarded the flying boat.

Uncle Xiao stood beside the carriage, watching the flying boat rise, gradually go farther and farther, and disappear into the clouds.

Uncle Xiao touched his chin. Why did he feel like the young master was on the run?

Illusion...

……

"Master, it's a good thing we ran fast. If the Langyu Master up there found out that I was the one controlling the insects, I would be in big trouble."

Seeing that the flying boat was already far away from the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, Tangyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and spoke with lingering fear.

"However, I still failed. Young Master Li's skills are really amazing. My poisonous insects can't get close to him at all."

Speaking of this, Tangyuan's face became noticeably darker.

It would be fine if I failed the first time, but why did I fail every time after that?

After waiting for a great opportunity, Tang Yuan was so excited when Jing Ling arranged for him to fight against Li Ye.

This means that he can kill the other party openly without causing controversy.

But I didn't expect Li Ye to be so strong.

Tangyuan had used every possible means, and with the help of the mechanism of the special stone chamber, he wanted to poison the opponent silently during the battle.

Unexpectedly, based on the reaction of the poison-avoiding beads on his body, Li Ye guessed that he should be an insect-controlling cultivator, so he used the thunder sword to protect himself tightly.

Tangyuan couldn't find anywhere to attack.

After fighting for a long time, Tangyuan was defeated in the end.

Compared to real sword and knife cultivators, cultivators like him who rely on external objects are still relatively weak.

After Li Ye kills a lot of poisonous insects, its strength will decrease.

In the end, I didn’t complete the mission.

Tangyuan sighed and looked at Wen Lingze beside him.

"This mission is difficult to begin with. Let's go back to the pavilion first."

Wen Lingze played with the stone in his hand and spoke lightly.

Young Master is right. The task of assassinating Li Ye is difficult.

Tangyuan looked a little dejected.

He raised his head again, not knowing what he was thinking of.

"But that time in the stone chamber, we were almost successful. If it weren't for that sword cultivator from the Heavenly Sword Sect, we would have succeeded long ago..."

Tangyuan felt sorry when he thought of the incident in the stone chamber.

Everything was ready, but why did we just miss a step in the end?

If successful, they would not only complete the mission but also escape unscathed since there would be no clear evidence.

What a pity.

Speaking of that sword cultivator, Wen Lingze also recalled some unpleasant experiences in the training room.

Wen Fuman's voice seemed to echo in his mind.

He rubbed his temples and decided to forget these memories for the time being.

"You don't know it in there, but the sword cultivator named Xie Yunhe has already comprehended the sword intent."

Wen Ling briefly described the battle situation he saw through the light screen.

"What? He even defeated Xuan Zhen from the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect? Xuan Zhen is a very prestigious figure among the younger generation of the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect. This Xie Yunhe..."

Tangyuan was not stupid either. He carefully recalled the scene when he met the swordsman.

I seemed to have met him once in Baihua City at first. At that time, he was following Hua Qinglian of the Hua family, and they seemed to have a very good relationship.

When they met again, he was following Miss Ling from the Tianjian Sect, and Li Ye acted like a brother to him.

He has a good talent for swordsmanship, having comprehended the sword intent in the foundation-building stage, and the people he associates with are all second-generation immortals...

This Xie Yunhe must be from a very important background!

"Sir, when I get back, I'll go get some information about this person."

Tangyuan clenched his fist, looking as if he wanted to find out everything about the other person.

Wen Lingze said nothing.

But he remembered that he seemed to have seen Xie Yunhe in Baihua Tower at that time.

Wen Lingze pondered for a moment and took out a copy of the Qianli Newspaper that he had treasured.

I turned to one of the pages and looked carefully:

"Young Master Li's Fanhua Tower was attacked, and a friend named Xie came to his rescue. Young Master Li said that this person is his lifelong brother..."

A friend named Xie...it turned out to be him!

That day he was only focused on the assassination and didn't pay much attention to who was near Li Ye.

Now that I think about it, it was Xie Yunhe who first discovered something was wrong, which led to Tangyuan's butterfly failing to successfully approach Li Ye.

Could this guy named Xie really be his nemesis?

Wen Lingze looked expressionlessly at the gossip in the newspaper about the young man whose sleeve was grabbed by Li Ye.

A hint of confusion appeared on his usually calm face.

……

Xie Yunhe was worried about the photo stone.

But now there is nothing we can do.

There's no use worrying.

He could only remember the number of the man in the white hat and the bamboo hat: No. 52.

I hope I’ll have the chance to meet each other in the future.

It has been quite a while since he finished the battle.

Winners appeared one after another on the twenty floating platforms.

No, it seems like the winner appeared on nineteen floating platforms?

Xie Yunhe saw something happened on a platform and two monks fell off the platform at the same time!

It seemed that one of the monks was about to be defeated and grabbed the other one's foot when he was about to fall.

He successfully dragged the two people down one by one.

Xie Yunhe: ...

Before long, the platform became quiet and the battles on all the small platforms were over.

The voice of the realm spirit was also heard from the sky.

"Okay, twenty...how come there are only nineteen left?"

Jing Ling probably hadn't paid attention to the competition before, and only then did he realize that there were only nineteen cultivators left.

Jing Ling was shocked and counted again in disbelief.

There are still nineteen monks.

There was not one more person.

This requires another one-on-one battle, but there is no way to divide the people equally.

Its little head started to work again.

"Well...something unexpected happened, so let's pick someone to have a bye."

The spirit of the realm decided on a method.

It's very simple, let one person have a bye and the others can compete.

So how do we choose the byes? It has to be fair.

"Then let's play the game of passing the flower to the beat of the drum. There's no drum here, so let's change the rules. Whoever holds the flower that wakes up gets a bye!"

Jing Ling finished explaining the rules clearly and swiftly, then threw something down from the air.

The thing floated down from the sky, it was tender pink and looked like a flower, and it floated towards one of the monks.

The monk understood. Isn't this just about choosing one person to enter the next round?

This is a good thing. You can advance directly without the fighting process.

But what Jing Ling meant by waking Xiaohua up was...

The flower spun and floated down from the sky, and in the narrow sight of everyone, it floated to the platform of the monk and was grabbed by the monk who jumped up.

This pink flower looks small in the air, but when you hold it in your hand you realize it is huge.

It's about the size of a washbasin.

When the monk grabbed the flower, its back was facing him. He turned it over and looked at it curiously.

"oops!"

The monk suddenly screamed.

It turns out that there is a human face on the front of the flower. The face looks like a young boy whose gender is difficult to distinguish, embedded in the flower.

The monk was suddenly startled by the human face in the flower.

He calmed down a little and looked at the flower with a human face carefully again.

The human face had its eyes closed at this moment, looking like it was sleeping soundly.

If you get close enough, you can even hear a little snoring.

Xie Yunhe, who saw this scene nearby, was speechless.

This is really a sound sleep.

[Host, this is a ghost-faced flower, a very dangerous spiritual plant! ]

The system reminded Xie Yunhe in his mind.

Xie Yunhe didn't know much about these.

[What kind of spiritual plant is the Ghost Face Flower? ]

[Host, the Ghost Face Flower mostly grows in caves. It is highly poisonous, with petals mostly pink with a hint of transparency. The flower is enormous, with a ghostly face resembling a human face at its center. It usually keeps its eyes closed, but opens them when feeding, quickly catching its prey.]

As he listened, Xie Yunhe felt something was wrong.

Highly poisonous, opens its eyes, and hunts prey quickly?

[When it opens its eyes, does that mean it eats? ]

Xie Yunhe couldn't help but ask.

【Yes host. 】

The system looked through the information in its head and answered in the affirmative.

Xie Yunhe turned his head to look at the monk who was holding the ghost face flower in his hand and trying to make the other person open his eyes, and silently lit a candle for him in his heart.

This realm spirit is too evil.