The Sect Leader Has Taken in a New Female Disciple

Chapter 1257 - 375: Wait, Why Did the Yin-Yang Harvesting Reverse?

..."Zhou, you’re back!"

Lu Yaoyao had just pushed the door open when she saw a stream of light descend from the sky, and Zhou Qing landed somewhat disheveled in the courtyard.

"Where’s our senior brother and sister?" Zhou Qing asked urgently, only to see Lu Yaoyao suddenly cover her nose and step back two paces with disdain: "Why does it smell so bad?"

Zhou Qing finally realized, and with a tremor of spiritual power around him, he dispersed the foul odor in waves of water.

He was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when his expression changed, and he once again turned into a stream of light, soaring skyward.

"Huh?" Lu Yaoyao was still caught off guard when another dung-yellow light closely followed.

Shen Yunzhou appeared angrily, holding a ball of filthy substance in each hand, spinning them around in his palms.

"What are you guys doing..." Lu Yaoyao was dumbfounded.

"Don’t worry about it!" Shen Yunzhou gritted his teeth, "Today I’m going to make him into a mud person with this stuff!"

With that, he chased after Zhou Qing again.

Lu Yaoyao was about to follow when she realized the two had already disappeared, stamping her foot on the ground in frustration: "What the heck!"

...

High above the clouds, Shen Yunzhou suddenly transmitted a message: "Zhou... no, brother-in-law, the play is about done."

"The Imaging Stone has recorded enough time, my sister definitely won’t watch such a long chase scene, I should be fine."

Zhou Qing finally stopped, turning angrily.

He wanted to grab Shen Yunzhou by the collar but thought better of it because it was dirty, so he let it go: "Stop calling me that!"

Shen Yunzhou leaned in with a cheeky grin, putting away the Imaging Stone: "No, what’s really going on? I’m so curious!"

"Only heaven and earth, you and I know about this," Zhou Qing warned with a serious face, "If it gets out, don’t blame me for being rude..."

"Wrong, my sister is also involved," Shen Yunzhou blinked, "Speaking of which, you took advantage of my sister and made me cover for you, who’s really losing out?"

Zhou Qing sighed: "If you hadn’t insisted on dragging me along, would that have happened?"

"I know you saved my sister." Shen Yunzhou suddenly looked serious, "As her little brother, please tell me the truth."

"If you really care about our brotherhood, help me convince your sister to spare me, let this incident be forgotten."

Zhou Qing pressed his hands together earnestly.

Shen Yunzhou patted his shoulder: "My sister’s got a sharp tongue but a soft heart. If she really wanted you dead, would we have made it out of the space rift together?"

Then he lowered his voice secretly: "Besides, one day my sister’s going to get married, and keeping it in the family is better, right? If I have to pick someone to be my brother-in-law, I think you’d be pretty good."

Zhou Qing rolled his eyes, his figure swayed and landed on the rooftop of a tavern’s top floor.

The blue tiles were poking painfully into his back, but he was too lazy to move: "Got any wine?"

"Hey!" Shen Yunzhou conjured a dung-yellow wine jug from his storage bag like magic.

On the jug was a crooked "Immortal" character painted in cinnabar.

"I remember you told me you’d quit drinking after getting backstabbed by your own brother, so what’s this? Drowning your sorrows in wine?"

Zhou Qing looked at the dung-yellow wine jug offered to him, his mouth twitched slightly, he suddenly didn’t want to drink anymore: "Don’t you have any other favorite color?"

Shen Yunzhou proudly shook his own head of yellow hair and tugged at his similarly colored robe: "This is my favorite color! Look how bright and right this yellow is!"

Then, he proudly shook the wine jug, and from inside came a suspicious gurgling sound, "Exclusive recipe, using eighty-one..."

"Hold it!" Zhou Qing pushed away the wine jug that was almost in his face, collapsed hopelessly on the rooftop.

Looking afar at the Royal Family’s nine-tiered palace shrouded in mist, faintly came the melodious sound of bells.

He gazed at those jade towered palaces, only feeling a bitterness in his mouth: "My first time, and it’s over... so brutally?"

But just then, the space in front of them suddenly twisted and rippled with eerie waves.

Zhou Qing and Shen Yunzhou stood up alertly, a pitch-black gap cracked open in the void, its edges flickered with unstable space currents.

"Crack—"

The gap suddenly widened, and a figure in a purple-gold python robe stepped out.

Xuanyuan Shuo looked at Zhou Qing and smiled slightly, saying: "Perfect timing, I heard someone saw you coming this way."

There’s no striking a smiling person, so Zhou Qing had to salute: "Greetings, Prince!"

Shen Yunzhou followed suit in saluting.

At their level, in front of someone from the Spirit Severing Realm, it’s just a matter of a flick of a finger.

Xuanyuan Shuo waved his hand: "I won’t call you Master Zhou, you’re someone second uncle thinks highly of, so I’ll just call you a friend like usual."

Zhou Qing looked at him, this initial attempt to get close, it seems the request is not small.

He maintained a calm demeanor, smiling: "You flatter me, what’s your guidance?"

Xuanyuan Shuo sighed: "I suppose you’ve heard of the recent theft from our Royal Family treasure vault. I want to ask if you could help repair it, there will be great rewards."

After listening, Zhou Qing inwardly thought it was indeed the case.

Ever since returning from the royal ancestral land with Sikong Yan, Lu Yaoyao and others said the Xuanyuan Family was looking for him.

But the key point is... he was the one who stole that treasure vault.

Not to mention if misfortune strikes again, he’d be the prime suspect.

He pondered for a moment, bowing: "It’s an honor, Prince. But I’m currently exploring a new restriction, at a critical stage, it’s hard to find time. Moreover..."

He deliberately showed difficulty, "Such a sensitive royal location, if I carelessly intervene, it might not be appropriate."

Xuanyuan Shuo’s eyes glinted faintly, yet he dared not push too hard.

Because their relationship had just improved after he lied about killing Nangong Xiongba.

Then he turned to Shen Yunzhou: "This friend, you must be familiar with the silver-haired, veiled Spirit Severing Realm expert?"