"Fake? You stinky Junior Brother, is what Sister Yourong said true?" Wu Pianpian's eyes widened.
Ning Xuan gave Qian Yourong a gentle smile before turning to Wu Pianpian and nodding. "Yes, the real one is still here," he said with a smile. "You can relax, Senior Sister."
But instead of feeling relieved, Wu Pianpian felt a pang of disappointnt.
That rascal's soul is about to be stolen away.
Wu Pianpian, who had never known the aning of crisis, thought for a mont before blurting out, "Junior Brother, you've changed."
Her tone was filled with grievance.
Ning Xuan was taken aback.
Qian Yourong's heart skipped a beat.
"You were never this obedient before. Now you even call Senior Sister," Wu Pianpian's voice grew even more mournful. "I thought I could stand it, but I realize now that I just can't."
"Holy shit, Wu Pianpian, are you insane? You don't want to call you Senior Sister? You prefer 'big-chest bro' from before?!" Ning Xuan genuinely wanted to crack open her little head and see what it was made of.
Wu Pianpian's face imdiately lit up with a brilliant smile. "You really are my Junior Brother after all! I worried for days over nothing. I really thought you'd been possessed!"
"Your way of thinking isn't normal, 'big-chest bro'!" Ning Xuan said, throwing an arm around Wu Pianpian's shoulders as they walked side by side.
Now it was Qian Yourong's turn to envy Wu Pianpian.
「Ahead.」
On a mountain peak dozens of miles from the gorge, four enforcers stared intently at the canyon, their eyes gleaming. After a long mont, the corners of their mouths twitched. From their vantage point, they could see Zhang Qiang and the others far behind, fighting for their lives with everything they had.
And what about Ning Xuan himself? After bypassing the battle, he hadn't even gone far. Instead of hurrying to escape, he was casually strolling with his arm around one of the won. To make matters worse, not only did the bastard have his arm around a woman, but the other three were also following his every move.
Damn it! We're still single! Why do we have to see this?!
One of the enforcers was grinding his teeth in hatred. "Damn it, I can't take it anymore! How about we snatch the won first?"
"Sounds like a plan! There are four of us and four of them! Perfect, one for each!"
"Snatch them? Are you kidding ?! Have you never seen a woman before? Don't forget, he has the Earth Spring Spirit Milk! That's a celestial treasure. With the Earth Spring Spirit Milk, even the most powerful female cultivators might compete to throw themselves at us!"
"You're right, you're right. Big Brother, your foresight is truly admirable! I'm impressed!"
The man who had first spoken fell silent. His big brother did make a good point. However, another man couldn't help but add, "I get the logic, I just can't stand the sight of it!"
"Third Brother, how about this," the leader said. "Once we get the Earth Spring Spirit Milk, if there's still ti, you can take whichever one you like."
"Thank you for indulging , Big Brother!" The third brother bead with joy.
The other two looked at him expectantly.
"The sa goes for both of you."
They were both equally delighted. In an instant, the three of them were buzzing with anticipation. As they waited anxiously, the battle with Zhang Qiang was about to conclude. The four enforcers exchanged a look and vanished on the spot.
「At the entrance to the gorge.」
"Damn it, a bunch of ungrateful bastards, daring to rob !" Covered in blood, Zhang Qiang lay spread-eagled on the ground. His giant axe had been tossed aside, its once-sharp blade curled.
Suddenly, his eyes narrowed. As he reached for his giant axe and tried to get up, a foot ca down, pinning both his chest and the axe to the ground. Four heads lood over him.
"The four Xiang brothers—Mu, Lin, Sen, and Chen!" Zhang Qiang snarled upon seeing them. "What do you think you're doing?!"
"We're here for your life, of course!" an eerie voice replied.
As the sound faded, a foot stomped down.
BANG!
Zhang Qiang's head burst open like a waterlon.
"Huh, Big Brother, could this Earth Spring Spirit Milk actually be real?" one of the brothers asked, bending down to retrieve the item from Zhang Qiang's hand, his voice laced with shock.
"What do you know about the Earth Spring Spirit Milk? Give it here. Let your Big Brother take a look." Xiang Chen, the leader, took the item and examined it for a mont before shaking his head. "It's a fake. But strangely, it contains so energy. I wonder how that kid managed it?"
"That's simple enough. We just have to ask him," another brother said. As soon as he finished speaking, the third Xiang brother was about to give chase.
"Wait. We must plan for every contingency."
Xiang Chen's words stopped the other three in their tracks. They stared at him, bewildered. The next mont, they saw Xiang Chen point his finger and begin tracing characters in the empty air. A mont later, several large, forceful words appeared carved into the nearby rock face:
*The murderer is Ning Yang!*
"Big Brother is brilliant! That guy is so arrogant, this is totally his style!"
"Big Brother, what did you an by 'plan for every contingency'? Surely the four of us can handle him?"
"We don't know where the news about Ning Xuan having the Earth Spring Spirit Milk ca from, but it's clearly been circulating for so ti. Yet, he's still unhard. We must be on guard," Xiang Chen warned, his expression more serious than ever. "And when we confront him, we absolutely cannot afford to be careless!"
A chill ran down the spines of the other three, and they nodded in unison.
"Let's go!"
With a low command from Xiang Chen, the four of them disappeared.
「Thirty minutes later.」
After chasing for over thirty miles, the four were dumbfounded. Where were they?! They had lost all trace of Ning Xuan and his group!
"Big Brother, what's going on?"
"Don't tell he can fly through the heavens and tunnel through the earth?"
"How bizarre."
The three brothers, Mu, Lin, and Sen, were utterly baffled. Xiang Chen's brows were also furrowed in a deep frown.
After a mont, he commanded, "Let's go! We're heading back!"
Xiang Chen led the way, and they sped back. Soon, the four of them reappeared at the spot where they had killed Zhang Qiang. Xiang Chen's eyes imdiately shot to the words he had carved. The characters were still there on the rock wall.
Did I guess wrong? he murmured to himself, completely unable to make sense of the situation.
The three brothers—Mu, Lin, and Sen—began to search the area.
"Big Brother, there are more words over there!"
WHOOSH!
Xiang Chen flew over in an instant. When he got a clear look, he was so furious he could feel smoke coming out of his nostrils.
It read: *Your writing is too ugly!*
He might have been able to stomach that, but the sentence itself was written in a crooked, sloppy scrawl that a child just learning to write could have done better. It took him a great deal of effort, combining guesswork with inference, just to piece the sentence together. And soone with *this* level of penmanship dared to criticize *his* calligraphy?!
Damn it all! The absolute audacity!
"Big Brother, there's more over here!"
Xiang Chen moved to the new spot. After struggling to decipher the words for a long ti, he completely snapped and began to curse aloud.
"Ning Yang, you son of a bitch! Bastard! You good-for-nothing cur! Get the hell out here if you have any guts!"
After all his painstaking effort to read the words, he had found another incomplete sentence:
*I just took another look, and I realize I was wrong. Your calligraphy isn't…*
A long arrow pointed to another spot where three words were scrawled in a large space:
*…worthy of being called ugly!*
The flicker of hope in his heart was instantly extinguished, replaced by utter shock. It was no wonder he finally broke down.
Mu, Lin, and Sen exchanged a look, then screwed up their courage to console him together. "Big Brother, he must have run off long ago. We should focus on figuring out where he went now."
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