Chapter Seventy-Five: Protagonist, Triumphant Return
The next day, at Chen Shi.
A ray of sunlight cut through the morning mist of Chen Shi, illuminating the Xuan Xing Sect marketplace.
Ye Anping, as usual, opened the door to his Physiotherapy Center early in the morning. After the Xuan Xing Sect’s morning class, Bai Yuexin came to help with the accounting. Following her were over thirty Xuan Xing Sect disciples, all there to support his business.
Consequently, Ye Anping was busy the entire morning without taking a single moment to sit. Just like yesterday, by noon he was exhausted. However, having promised to teach Bai Yuexin physiotherapy, he didn’t go back on his word. He went to the marketplace on the east side and bought two live chickens, letting Bai Yuexin try her hand at it.
As he expected.
Bai Yuexin couldn’t control her spiritual energy with the same precision as him, and directly blew up the two live chickens.
Literally exploded, making them unsalvageable even for roasted chicken.
Now, the walls and the ground of the physiotherapy center’s backyard were splattered with chicken blood and feathers everywhere.
Ye Anping had already dodged, avoiding the splatter. However, Bai Yuexin had become a bloody mess. She then borrowed his bedroom to use, heated some water with water stones and fire stones, and went to take a bath.
At this moment, Ye Anping had just finished cleaning up the tragic scene in the backyard and was preparing to take a nap on the lounge chair. He also planned to ponder how to bring up the issue of “excess yang energy” with his junior sister without sounding awkward.
A’ying had returned with Si Xuanji yesterday, so no one should be here to disturb him today…
“Young Master Ye! We’re back!!”
“…”
Ye Anping had just settled down when this voice reached his ears.
He instinctively prepared to get up, but then immediately reacted and pretended not to hear, continuing to sleep.
Seeing his lack of response, Xiao Tian’s voice suddenly sounded wronged.
“Young Master Ye~ I won’t do anything to you even if you can see me. Why are you so stubborn? Can you really not hear me? I really want to talk to someone more, boo hoo hoo…”
“…”
Ye Anping figured it was a ruse and ignored it.
However, judging from its tone, Feng Yu Die should have reaped a substantial harvest.
He wondered how many spirit stones she had brought back from the Heavenly Mystery Fortress…
Ye Anping only opened his eyes when he heard footsteps, and then watched Xiao Tian float in front of him, feigning tears with a smile.
He ignored it and stood up, passing his head through Xiao Tian’s body.
This was the first time he had passed through Xiao Tian’s body. Usually, it would deliberately avoid people’s heads and rarely pass through someone’s body.
As his head entered Xiao Tian’s belly, a golden light shot out, almost burning his retina. But even so, he vaguely saw a golden dragon holding a Heavenly Scroll of the Dao and reading it carefully.
The golden dragon was completely disproportionate to the scroll in its hand; the scroll was smaller than its dragon eye.
Did this thing hold Feng Yu Die’s Saint Emperor Dragon Body in its belly?
Of course, the scene only remained in Ye Anping’s vision for a moment. After his head passed through Xiao Tian, the vision disappeared.
Xiao Tian seemed to react a beat slower. After he passed through, it covered its chest with a shy expression: “Ah! I’ve been seen!”
“…”
Ye Anping ignored it and looked towards the entrance of the physiotherapy center.
Feng Yu Die, dressed in a snow-white sheer robe, stepped over the threshold and walked in.
Upon seeing Ye Anping, Feng Yu Die’s eyebrows rose slightly, and she greeted him with a cheerful smile:
“Young Master Ye, how have you been lately? Have you missed me?”
“…”
Ye Anping stared at her quietly for a moment, then pointed with his chin towards the room and led her to the inner room, using talismans and latches as usual to prevent eavesdropping.
“Smoothly?”
“Of course! It was basically exactly as you said. I was blindfolded and taken into the Heavenly Mystery Fortress. Following the map and route you gave me, I easily reached the central hub. When I heard thunder outside, I opened the outer gate of the Heavenly Mystery Fortress. Then a fierce Xuan Xing Sect Elder led a group of people rushing in… It was a mess inside, very stimulating.”
Feng Yu Die seemed eager to recount the entire story to Ye Anping, detailing all her great achievements in the Seven Kill Gate. However, Ye Anping wasn’t particularly interested. He had already considered everything he could think of to help her.
Ye Anping nodded slightly: “Mm, you’ve worked hard.”
“It wasn’t hard,” Feng Yu Die shrugged slightly, propped her chin on her hand, and looked at Ye Anping. “By the way, your spirit stones and…”
Then, Feng Yu Die made a sword finger with one hand, took out another dirty storage bag and a wooden box from her storage bag, and placed them on the table.
“Cold Sky Sand.”
Ye Anping was silent for a moment, picked up the storage bag, and scanned it with his spiritual sense. His eyebrows rose slightly:
“A little over forty thousand spirit stones? Is this the total, or have you already taken your share?”
Feng Yu Die paused upon hearing this, her brow furrowing. “Forty-three thousand and twenty-one. I’ve already divided it for you. It’s a fifty-fifty split, right? I’m quite trustworthy, are you afraid I’ll shortchange you?”
“No need, I trust you.”
“Actually, there were quite a lot of spirit stones there. If my own storage bag hadn’t been confiscated, I would have definitely emptied all the spirit stones inside. The stolen storage bag was too small.”
“It’s good you managed to get this much. The rest was likely confiscated by the Xuan Xing Sect.”
“Ugh— I was the one who contributed, and that fierce elder didn’t even give me any rewards or magical artifacts…” Feng Yu Die complained, her cheeks puffed out.
Ye Anping shrugged slightly and then picked up the other box she had taken out, opening it to take a look.
Inside was a pearl-like jade sand, about the size of a thumbnail.
Feng Yu Die explained, “Young Master Ye, when I returned this morning, the Xuan Xing Sect Elder asked me to choose. I followed your instructions and chose the box with the word ‘Empty’ on it. This is… Is this the correct item?”
“Mm.”
Ye Anping nodded. With a sword finger, the storage bag and the Cold Sky Sand flew into the storage bag at his waist.
Feng Yu Die asked with a hint of curiosity:
“By the way, what are you using this for? When the elder saw me taking this, he looked helpless. I asked, and he said it’s an extremely cold item. You have water and wood spirit roots, and Junior Sister Pei has water, wood, and earth spirit roots. It seems like this is used for cultivating extremely cold techniques, right?”
Of course, it’s for my junior sister to establish her foundation… Ye Anping shrugged slightly: “You won’t be using it, so don’t ask.”
“Is there anything else? If not, I’ll head back. I haven’t seen Junior Sister Pei and Senior Sister Xiao for half a month, I miss them.”
Saying this, Feng Yu Die stood up, ready to leave.
Ye Anping pondered for a moment and asked her to stay briefly:
“Could you help me pass a message to my junior sister?”
“Hmm? What is it?”
“Ask her to come here tonight after sunset. I have something very important to tell her.”
“What is it?”
“A private matter.”
“Got it.”
Feng Yu Die pouted upon hearing this, then agreed.
After seeing Feng Yu Die off, Ye Anping let out a sigh of relief.
