Chapter 112: Senior Brother, is this gravity?
Warm sunlight streamed in through the window. The summer heat was scorching. Many servants in the Jiang Mansion had brought in cool water and were soaking their feet in it to relieve the heat.
Ye Anping also felt that the Extreme Flame Spiritual Energy in the earth had increased by at least thirty percent today.
Although in the past, due to their rigorous cultivation, he and Pei Lianxue would not fall ill from the summer heat, they would still feel irritable due to it. Coupled with his naturally yang constitution, he felt restless after waking up in the morning.
Thus, to calm his mind and feel cool, Ye Anping found something he needed to focus on.
— Helping his junior sister trim her nails.
Now, he was sitting on the wide couch in the main hall, holding Pei Lianxue’s two jade-like feet on his lap, with a giant woodworking file in his hand, gently filing her right toenails.
*Scrape—Scrape, scrape—*
“*Sigh—*”
Although this didn’t quite fit his image, Ye Anping couldn’t help but sigh. His junior sister’s delicate feet were truly more beautiful the more he looked at them. They were snow-white, and her toes were like tender lotus buds. There were no calluses at all, and they felt smooth to the touch.
Moreover, with his junior sister’s extreme yin physique, her body temperature was much lower than that of ordinary people.
On such a sweltering summer day, holding them in his hands felt like holding two ice hand warmers for summer.
Feeling that the nails were almost trimmed, Ye Anping put down the woodworking file in his hand and lightly traced her sole with his index finger.
!
Because the force was indeed very light, Pei Lianxue, who was leaning on the couch reading, suddenly had her hair stand on end and looked up at him abruptly.
Seeing that she had reacted, Ye Anping smirked and asked:
“Are you ticklish?”
“Yes.” Pei Lianxue didn’t know why he was doing this, and nodded in confusion. “I am.”
Ye Anping’s eyebrows shot up. Without another word, he used the same amount of force, grabbed her ankle, and started tickling her sole.
“Wuuu!! Wuwuwuwu~~~”
Pei Lianxue bit her lips and twisted her body. After a while, she couldn’t take it anymore and lifted her other foot, kicking him in the face.
“Husband!!!”
“Ahaha…”
Ye Anping quickly dodged, then moved back slightly, holding up his hands in surrender.
Seeing him like this, Pei Lianxue pouted, quickly withdrew her feet, covered them with her skirt, and looked at him with puffed-out cheeks.
“Why did you suddenly tickle my feet?”
“It was just a sudden impulse.”
Ye Anping shrugged slightly, delighting in his little prank for a moment before relaxing and leaning back against the couch.
“Wife, how about you rub my shoulders for me?”
“…”
Pei Lianxue frowned slightly but did not refuse. She put down the storybook in her hand, crawled behind him, and gently placed her hands on his shoulders.
The next moment, her two small hands suddenly slid down, landing directly in Ye Anping’s armpits, and began to attack them.
However, Ye Anping looked at her with a playful smile, seemingly unfazed.
He knew this girl held grudges, and she would definitely find a chance to get back at him after he tickled her.
Unfortunately, he wasn’t ticklish.
After scratching for a while and seeing that Ye Anping had no reaction, Pei Lianxue tilted her head.
“Hmm? Not ticklish?”
“Your husband is not ticklish.”
“…”
Pei Lianxue was silent for a moment, then clenched her fists and jabbed at his armpits with her index fingers.
Ye Anping instantly gasped and opened his mouth wide.
“Ouch!!!”
“Hmph!!”
“Stop, stop, stop, stop!!!”
“No!”
“Hiss—Senior Brother was wrong!! Senior Brother was wrong! Ah—”
Ye Anping was in so much pain that he lost his balance and tumbled off the cool couch, his head hitting the ground with a thud. Pei Lianxue, who had been grabbing his chest, was also pulled off the couch with him, landing on his chest.
“Hiss—”
Ye Anping took a breath, touched the back of his head, and looked at his junior sister lying on his chest. He was full of helplessness and said:
“I apologized, and you still jabbed me.”
“You tickled me first!”
Ye Anping raised his hands in surrender. “Can you let me get up first?”
Pei Lianxue, who was straddling Ye Anping, was about to agree but then looked at her “husband” beneath her. A strange sense of pleasure inexplicably arose, and she narrowed her eyes and said with a frown:
“…No!”
“Ah? Why not?”
“Just because.”
“…”
Ye Anping was a bit speechless. Since his junior sister wasn’t heavy, he decided to let her straddle him.
However, at this moment, Liang Zhu happened to walk in through the main hall door.
“Sixth…”
After calling out to Ye Anping, Liang Zhu looked at the position of the “couple” in the main hall and immediately regretted not knocking before entering.
“Tsk…”
He clicked his tongue and turned to leave.
Ye Anping quickly looked up towards the door and called out with a smile, “Hey~ Brother Liang, I was just looking for you.”
Hearing this, Liang Zhu was even more determined to leave. However, after hearing Ye Anping’s next sentence, he turned a full three hundred and sixty degrees at the main hall entrance and walked in.
— “You helped me with a task last time, and I haven’t paid you the reward yet.”
“…”
Liang Zhu ignored their “couple” pose and walked up to the two of them. He looked up at Ye Anping, who was on the ground, and nodded.
“Give it here.”
Ye Anping closed his eyes and took a deep breath, held it, and then with a surge of his waist and abdomen, he directly performed a “carp jump” with Pei Lianxue on his body, standing up from the ground with her.
Seeing his movement, Liang Zhu’s face had the expression of an “old man.”
Ye Anping took out a small storage bag containing ten thousand spirit stones, which he had already prepared, from his storage bag and handed it over.
Liang Zhu quickly reached out to take it, but found that Ye Anping had no intention of letting go. Instead, he looked at him with a smile.
For a moment, a series of dark lines appeared on his forehead.
“One thing is one thing. This is what I’m owed. If you have other matters, we’ll discuss them separately.”
“After we discuss, I’ll give it to you together.”
Liang Zhu was speechless, but then he nodded helplessly and asked, “What matter?”
“Brother Liang, besides the Seven Star Suffocating Spirit Array, do you know any other useful formations? You should have a lot of formations in your bag, right?”
“A few. I got them when I was working before. What, you want to buy them?”
“Give me a list.”
“Yin Yang Fierce Fiend Array, Heavenly Palace Nine Palaces Array, Spirit Heaven Sun Flame Array, Four Beasts Spirit Taming Array…”
Liang Zhu rattled off over twenty formations like reciting a menu, leaving Ye Anping bewildered.
He could sense that the guy had a lot of things hidden in his storage bag, but he really didn’t expect him to list over twenty formations, all of them different.
“Brother Liang, are you perhaps a runaway young master from a great clan?”
Liang Zhu rolled his eyes at him. “No.”
Ye Anping gave him a thumbs-up and praised:
“Then you’re truly amazing. A rogue cultivator with so many formations.”
“So, which one do you want to buy?”
“A formation that isolates external spiritual energy and a formation of the Water element, to deal with demonic cultivators in the Core Formation Stage. Can you recommend two?”
Hearing that he was going up against Core Formation Stage demonic cultivators again, Liang Zhu’s brow furrowed. He replied:
“Formations are useless. You can’t set up a formation inside Chi Long Mansion. Before you even set it up, the Mansion Guards would send you to jail.”
“Of course, I’m not going to use it inside Chi Long Mansion. I’ll use it in the mountains outside Du Chun City.”
Liang Zhu’s brow furrowed slightly. He countered, “You’re planning to lure the demonic cultivators out?”
“The bait has been set,” Ye Anping smiled slightly. “Yao Yuanhua, who died at the hands of the Mansion Guards, had a female demonic cultivator who was very close to him, like a cultivation partner, named ‘Wu Yue.’ She is the Right Protector of the Prison Hall of the Tian Mo Sect. She is a Ghost Cultivator, and she must be looking for us now.”
“How many demonic cultivators are there in total?”
“Five.”
“Then aren’t you afraid of luring the remaining three over? They’ll definitely want revenge.”
“If there are too many, we’ll just slip away. Do you think the eyes I planted in Chi Long Mansion were for nothing?”
Liang Zhu was silent for a moment and asked:
“I wanted to ask before, can’t you have your powerful backer send some more helpers? Why do you two Foundation Establishment cultivators have to deal with so many Core Formation Stage demonic cultivators?”
Ye Anping was silent for a moment. Although he didn’t have a powerful backer, if he had to say, Si Xuanji could probably be considered the influential figure supporting him in this matter.
“The influential figure behind me… she’ll probably send a parrot with a sharp tongue to help out with a few squawks.”
?
Liang Zhu’s brow twitched. “Metaphor?”
“No, she’ll really send a parrot.”
Liang Zhu was silent for a moment, then formed a sword finger and flicked his wrist, taking out a book titled “Compendium of a Thousand Formations” from his storage bag and handing it to Ye Anping.
“Find what you need yourself. A cultivator from a sect that specialized in formations gave this to me back then. It contains the methods for setting up over twenty formations and the earthly treasures required.”
“How much?”
“One thousand spirit stones. Remember to return it after you’re done.”
“This book rental is really expensive, but… deal!”
Ye Anping shrugged slightly, handing over the spirit stones with one hand and taking the book with the other.
After receiving the spirit stones, Liang Zhu was about to slip away. However, as soon as he turned to take a step, a Jiang Mansion guard suddenly ran in.
“Young Master!”
Seeing the man’s flustered appearance, Ye Anping was slightly puzzled.
“What is it?”
“Someone impersonating you has charged in with a Foundation Establishment cultivator and injured our guards.”
Ye Anping thought for a moment and immediately realized that the real Jiang Yu had probably returned.
This did not surprise him. What surprised him was that Jiang Yu had actually brought a Foundation Establishment cultivator with him?
Logically, he was penniless and couldn’t possibly hire any henchmen.
He didn’t know who this idle person was, willing to help him kick down the door.
Idle person…
Could it be…
A white-haired lesbian flashed through Ye Anping’s mind.
He paused and asked with a furrowed brow:
“What does that Foundation Establishment cultivator look like?”
“A female cultivator, with very long, white hair.”
“Oh.”
Ye Anping pinched the bridge of his nose, inexplicably feeling a herd of alpacas stampeding through his mind, and muttered to himself, “This must be gravity.”
Pei Lianxue, standing beside him, seemed to realize who it was when the guard mentioned “white hair.” Her brow furrowed, and she immediately took out her spirit sword from her storage bag.
—The white-haired fox spirit has caught up!!!
*Swish—*
“Husband, I’m going!”
?
Ye Anping had a question mark above his head.
However, before he could speak, his junior sister had already flown out like a black shadow.
