My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

"What you said is not entirely reasonable. We cultivators take it upon ourselves to care for all living beings."

Everyone in the world suffers; how can one alone enjoy peace and tranquility?

Luo Hanying frowned slightly and continued, "When the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact. We rogue cultivators should also do our part for the Canglan Realm."

If all the cultivators in the Canglan Realm thought like Su Xiaochun, how would they survive? Wouldn't the Canghai Realm and Taibai Pavilion be wiped out one by one?

Do not impose on others what you would have them do to you.

Su Xiaochun smiled nonchalantly, "Besides, all you're good at is saying nice things. Otherwise, why don't you go to the north to participate in the campaign against Taibai Pavilion?"

Luo Hanying choked, thinking to herself, "Where is she now to call the shots?" If it weren't for the mission, she might have gone. But the mission required them to come to Lianpo City to gather intelligence. Where did they have any choice?

Seeing that Luo Hanying had fallen silent, Ruan Chayan spoke up to smooth things over, saying, "Those are things for later. Let's deal with the immediate issue while we're sitting here."

Su Xiaochun readily agreed, "Speaking of the matter at hand, are the two fairies planning to go to the Light Ruins Secret Realm? If you are interested, why don't we team up and look after each other?"

"Wow, does this person really like to look out for others?"

Luo Hanying was speechless. "To be honest, I remember he seemed to be intentionally going to the Desolate God Mountain back then. How come he ended up in Lianpo City right after us?"

Now that we've run into each other again by such coincidence, could there be something wrong with him?

Ruan Chayan shook her head, her attitude resolute: "My sister and I have no intention of going."

So many cultivators are flocking to the Guangxu Secret Realm even before it has opened. With our limited cultivation levels, it's best if my sister and I don't go and join the fun. If a conflict breaks out in the secret realm, our lives might be in danger.

If you wish to find companions, fellow Daoist, you should seek out others.

Ruan Chayan: [“I’m also wondering, what kind of fate could bring us together twice?”]

Su Xiaochun rested her arms on the table and said with a smile, "Hey~ that's not how it works."

The secret realm is all about chance; high cultivation doesn't guarantee you'll receive ancient inheritances.

Fellow cultivators as striking as these two fairies might be more favored by the lineage.

Luo Hanying was about to vomit at the man's pretentious act, but she politely responded, "Uh... haha."

What kind of descriptive phrase is that? And "eye-catching"? She and Ruan Chayan were described with birthmarks and freckles on their faces. Is this person really mocking them?

"My name is Su Xiaochun, a rogue cultivator."

Su Xiaochun looked Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying up and down, and asked, "May I ask how you two fairies are addressed? And how many years have you been practicing Taoism?"

Luo Hanying casually replied, "Ah, my name is Zhang San."

Ruan Chayan continued cooperatively, "My name is Li Si."

Su Xiaochun: ...It would be strange to believe your nonsense.

"The names of the two fairies are not worthy of their celestial appearance. I wonder if the fairies would be interested in changing them?"

Su Xiaochun flipped her wrist and spread a tattered cloth, which looked like it had been used for ages, onto the table.

As he pulled out a sign from his storage bag that read "Divine Calculation, Miraculous Healing" and set it up, he smashed a divination stick container onto the rag.

"Each person only needs five low-grade spirit stones. Since we've just met, I'd like to make friends, so I'll only charge the two fairies eight low-grade spirit stones. How about that?"

Su Xiaochun raised an eyebrow and looked at the two girls.

Ruan Chayan glanced disdainfully at the dirty square cloth with the Tai Chi symbol drawn on it, then leaned back.

Luo Hanying awkwardly shifted her position away from Su Xiaochun: "No need, I think the name my mother gave me is quite nice, so I won't trouble Fellow Daoist Su."

Su Xiaochun didn't take the setback seriously and quickly pulled back his fortune-telling set.

Su Xiaochun turned to Luo Hanying and said, "This fairy Zhang, I find you very familiar. Have we met somewhere before?"

Luo Hanying forced a smile: "Really? But I don't remember such a thing."

"Meeting is fate. Fellow Daoist Su feels I am familiar; perhaps it is fate."

She thought to herself that Su Xiaochun was quite perceptive.

Su Xiaochun immediately said excitedly, "Oh~ Fairy Zhang, a thousand-mile marriage is tied by a single thread. I wonder if Fairy Zhang has a partner? I think we are a perfect match."

Luo Hanying pretended not to hear and exaggeratedly said, "My God, Li Si, so much time has passed. Time is money. Shouldn't we have gone to find out what we want to know sooner?"

Su Xiaochun glanced at Luo Hanying, who was avoiding his gaze, and continued to ask with a smile, "I wonder what Fairy Zhang's decision is?"

Luo Hanying simply couldn't understand why this person would make such a fool of themselves. Wasn't her attitude obvious enough?

Who wants to become a Daoist partner the moment they meet? Is he that desperate for a Daoist partner?

Luo Hanying feigned ignorance: "Consider? Consider what?"

Su Xiaochun said sadly, "As for the matter of a Daoist partner, is Fairy Zhang willing?"

Luo Hanying: "Daoist partner? Whose Daoist partner?"

Su Xiaochun: "Of course it's me~"

Luo Hanying: "This humble one? What do you mean, 'this humble one'?"

"You're really something! You've really mastered this kind of nonsensical literature!" Ruan Chayan mentally applauded Luo Hanying like a seal.

Ruan Chayan stepped forward with a smile and began to spout nonsense: "Fellow Daoist Su, my elder sister was kicked in the head by a donkey when she was a child, although it looks..."

However, there are actually some issues here, so I hope you will forgive me and not make things difficult for my younger sister.

She pointed to her head and shook her head.

"Elder sister? Aren't you surnamed Li? Why are you saying this is your younger sister?"

Ruan Chayan continued to fabricate her story without blinking: "Oh, she became stupid because she was kicked by a donkey. My father thought she had disgraced the family, so he didn't want to acknowledge me, his poor sister. So Zhang San took my mother's surname."

Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying immediately began to sob and wail in sorrow.

Su Xiaochun: ...

"So, the two young ladies' backgrounds are quite pitiful," he said with a sneer through gritted teeth.

Ruan Chayan wiped away non-existent tears with her sleeve and said, "It's not that my background is pitiful, it's just that every family has its own troubles."

Luo Hanying made a funny face with her eyes crossed, which made her look rather silly.

"In that case, I am destined to be apart from Miss Li Si." Su Xiaochun relented and did not bring up the matter again.

With the mission on her mind, Ruan Chayan waved to the waiter, signaling him to bring two of her signature dishes.

As she placed two low-grade spirit stones into the waiter's hand, she asked in a low voice, "You run around here every day, so you must be well-informed. There's something I want to ask you."

"You've come to the right person. Please feel free to ask me any questions. I, with my mustache, am known as a know-it-all."

The man with the mustache put away the spirit stones and patted his chest.

Ruan Chayan lowered her voice and said, "I want to ask if there have been any recent movements by the demon race and the monster race."

Do you know anything about them?