Chapter 59: Chapter 59: The Excited Little Junior Sister

Ye Xingming said worriedly, "How could this happen? Before we left, weren’t you perfectly fine, senior sister?"

Chu Xuan was quite calm, "It’s a long story..."

After he recounted the events, everyone was very surprised. Xiao Yue said angrily, "Those Loose Cultivators are really bold, selling information to several parties."

"Another group was even worse, wanting to kill and rob, achieving both goals without any moral baseline."

Ye Xingming clenched his fists and said, "So that’s how it is, senior sister, you shouldn’t have sent us away. If we had stayed to help, maybe you wouldn’t have..."

Qin Mengyao shook her head, "You all were too weak, I wasn’t reassured. That was the best choice at the time."

Ye Xingming became more depressed and angry at his own incompetence. He was supposed to be the Child of Destiny, so how could he not protect the people around him?

He secretly resolved to become stronger, he must become stronger!

Jiang Yiyi said nonchalantly, "Just some petty thieves, not worth mentioning. If it were me, I’d handle it with ease."

Chu Xuan looked forward, "Anyway, let’s return to the sect first. Senior sister needs a good period of recuperation."

"Why not lie on my cloud? It’s big, soft, and comfortable," Jiang Yiyi warmly suggested with a wave of her hand.

Chu Xuan instinctively wanted to refuse, but when the words reached his mouth, he didn’t know what reason to use...

In every sense, lying down is more comfortable than lying on someone else’s back, right?

"No need." Surprisingly, it was Qin Mengyao herself who refused.

"The patriarch’s cloud is naturally the best choice, but I’m not feeling well and don’t want to move around for now."

Evidently, Qin Mengyao knew well; the more you questioned Jiang Yiyi, the more she would try to prove herself, so she just went along with it.

Sure enough, Jiang Yiyi just shrugged at her words without much objection.

However, Xiao Yue looked at the two with some excitement, making Chu Xuan’s heart race. It seemed after returning, he had to seriously warn this little girl, or he feared tomorrow’s front page of the Cyan Lotus Daoist Palace news would be:

Shocking, that man truly worthy of Hehuan Sect, suspected of climbing onto a certain female senior of the Daoist Palace’s bed again.

...

Soon after, Qin Mengyao seemed to fall asleep again, her eyes closed and breathing steady.

Ye Xingming, meanwhile, sat on the cloud to cultivate, not wasting even a bit of time.

Taking this opportunity, Xiao Yue secretly controlled her sword to approach Chu Xuan and softly asked, "Senior brother, it seems like you and senior sister have gotten a bit closer."

Chu Xuan didn’t respond, so Yue’er asked again, "Senior brother, do you like senior sister?"

Chu Xuan was speechless, turned his head to look at her, "Asking this kind of question again, do you want a spanking?"

Yue’er quickly ran away, still unwillingly making a face.

After a while, Xiao Yue couldn’t resist boredom anymore and secretly flew to the other side to see if Qin Mengyao was really asleep.

Once confirmed, she leaned close to the other’s ear and softly asked, "Senior sister, do you like senior brother?"

Not to mention Chu Xuan, even Jiang Yiyi was at a loss with her, "She’s asleep, what’s the point of asking this?"

Yue’er mysteriously shook her head, "You don’t understand, sometimes people talk in their sleep, and what’s said in dreams is even more reliable."

Jiang Yiyi saw right through it, "You’re clearly afraid of senior sister, not daring to ask while she’s awake."

Xiao Yue stubbornly refused to admit it and asked again, only to be met with a "Ah~!" scream.

Because Qin Mengyao had given her a hard slap on the butt, Yue’er was half in pain, half scared, scrambling and nearly falling from the sky.

"Boo hoo, senior sister bullied me~" Xiao Yue tearfully ran back to the patriarch to complain.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yiyi held her stomach and laughed heartily, infuriating Yue’er.

The group, amidst such jokes and trifles, began their journey back.

...

Near the Clouds Mountain border, Chu Xuan deliberately detoured to Feixian Temple.

He hadn’t forgotten the kindness of being taken in by the temple master He Musheng back then, and the attentive care from little He Yao.

But to Chu Xuan’s surprise, there was a young Taoist presiding over the temple now, claiming to be He Yao’s senior brother, saying the master had gone traveling with the junior brother.

With no alternative, he could only leave a little gift to express his gratitude.

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Upon returning to the mountain, the first thing was to distribute the gains from this action.

Xiao Yue naturally didn’t dare to take any, and the junior brother wanted to decline too, but Qin Mengyao still allocated a portion of the materials harvested from the Poison Blood Profound Crocodile to them, according to their contributions in the battle.

Although they couldn’t directly use them, they could submit them to the sect in exchange for contributions, which could then be used in the storehouse to exchange for Five Elements Essence, magical artifacts, pills, and other items.

Chu Xuan and Jiang Yiyi received a portion too, and even the dissected carcass could be handed over to the sect for processing, ensuring no waste at all.

The most valuable part of the crocodile was naturally its Profound Nether Poison Pill, equivalent to a human cultivator’s Golden Core. Not only could it be used medicinally, it could also be used to craft precious magical artifacts.

In fact, Golden Cores could also be used this way, but only demonic cultivators engaged in such practices, some even consuming them whole. Orthodox sects always strictly forbade this, preferring to let the Golden Core dissolve into energy and return to the world.

Qin Mengyao, as the main force of the hunt, naturally took the demon beast Inner Core, and that’s all she wanted.

This was actually somewhat of a loss, as the Demon Pill seemed damaged, or more accurately, its quality had declined.

Under normal circumstances, even if the body dies, the Demon Pill, hidden within the demon beast, shouldn’t dissolve or degrade in quality immediately.

But upon returning to the sect, they found that the deep black toxic mist that should have emanated from the Demon Pill was absent, and even the pill itself showed fine hairline cracks.

Seeing this, everyone turned their gaze to Jiang Yiyi.

She replied innocently, "Why are you looking at me? You were the ones who asked me to cut it."

Qin Mengyao shook her head, not blaming the patriarch but surprised by the small lightning’s power. After all, the lightning struck the Demon Pill only a few times.

Chu Xuan even suspected that the lightning was indeed "Heaven’s Punishment Thunder," its power merely reduced a thousandfold, but even so, some of its fundamental properties remained. He thought this trait should be utilized more in the future.

In short, the distribution of the demon beast ended there; next was what was looted from those five Loose Cultivators.

In this battle, it was mostly Qin Mengyao exerting effort, with Chu Xuan assisting, so he was too embarrassed to ask for much. He intended to casually pick a magical artifact, but the senior sister handed him a yellowish book instead.