Chapter 630: It Must Have Been Something I Did While Drunk!

Xu Xing nodded and smiled. "Sure."

"Then I'll—!" Yue Ling stopped mid-sentence, frowning slightly, and glanced at Bie Xuening.

"Then I'll send it to the Sovereign later, and the Sovereign can forward it to you, Sword Ancestor."

With that, she turned and ran out of the training ground.

Xu Xing: "..."

He gave a helpless little laugh and turned his head to look at Bie Xuening beside him.

Ding-dong~

A crisp message notification chimed.

And the source of that message...

was naturally Yue Ling, who had just run out.

She had moved fast, mainly because she was worried that later, when she was testing her "new equipment" in-game, she might accidentally forget about this.

Bie Xuening took out her phone, opened the video Yue Ling had sent, and glanced at it briefly.

Then she turned to look at Xu Xing:

"How are Ling Zu's disciple and the junior from the Righteous Alliance?"

The question came a little suddenly.

Xu Xing was taken aback for a moment, then replied:

"The Immortal Net node in the Second Domain has been set up, but they didn't find Yuan, so they've applied to continue into unknown domains of the Chaotic Sea to build more nodes."

"However, since the situation in unfamiliar domains is unknown and they don't have the controllability of the domains around Taiping Domain, they'll need some preparation before setting out."

"Once Ning Ruo has arranged things on her end, we should be notified."

This task needed to be assigned to someone anyway, and it happened that the two of them had reasons of their own that made them have to go.

In a way, it was the best of both worlds.

Bie Xuening nodded slightly after hearing this.

"I see."

She had known the Immortal Net node in the Second Domain had been completed, but she wasn't clear on the arrangements after that.

Emm...

Actually, from the past until now, it had always been like this.

Although nominally Bie Xuening was the senior sister, along the way it had generally been Xu Xing who called the shots.

After all, he was the Boundless Lord of Slaughter.

All he needed to think about was raising his sword and cutting people down—what was the point of overthinking anything else!

"Then, Junior Brother, do you think they'll find the person they're looking for in the next domain?"

"It's possible." Xu Xing paused. "But I don't have absolute certainty about the specifics."

Yuan himself was a Dongzhen who cultivated 'Space' and walked the 'Grand Void' Dao. Compared to other Dongzhen, because his foundation was lacking, his direct combat strength might be a bit weaker.

But traveling within the Chaotic Sea gave him no small advantage.

Ever since deciding to search for Yuan, Xu Xing had used the 'Spacetime Domain Coordinate Deduction Equation' to perform a simple calculation, and roughly figured out Yuan's current location in the Chaotic Sea.

Of course, now with the involvement of an outside factor like Yin Ling...

And he'd been traveling the Chaotic Sea for over fifty years, so his 'Spacetime Domain Coordinate Deduction Equation' might have become even more refined...

The calculated result wasn't necessarily accurate.

But then again, a single 'domain' covers a very vast range. Once the node in the next domain is set up, Yuan might well be inside it.

"In the end, it depends on them."

Best case they find him; if they don't, it's no big deal.

Some things were indeed suited for Yuan to handle, but they weren't strictly required to be done by him.

On the other hand, Yuan had come into being because of a single stray thought of his, and reaching Dongzhen in just over a thousand years was already his limit.

A single Dongzhen...

Saying it like that might sound a bit unkind.

But at the Dongzhen level, the role one could play in that final battle wasn't all that significant.

Bie Xuening didn't say anything more.

After a while.

Ding-dong~

Another message notification chimed.

"Sent it to you."

For a moment, Xu Xing's scattered thoughts settled.

He took out his phone and opened the video Bie Xuening had just forwarded.

In the footage, Chi Jiuyu was biting down on a spiritual-energy transmission line dangling from the ceiling, eyes gleaming, scrambling across the surrounding walls and ceiling like a spider, hands and feet all working at once.

Although he'd just witnessed it in person, the video version was somehow even more 'flashy-edited'.

He wondered what that girl's reaction would be when she woke up and found out about this video.

"Speaking of which, last time she gnawed on the coffee table while drunk—has she forgotten about that?" Xu Xing asked.

"Mm."

That unfilial disciple had begged her for a while, and once she realized Bie Xuening had no intention of deleting the video, she used a very strange method to voluntarily forget the whole thing.

Even when Bie Xuening sometimes posted the video to their three-person group chat, that unfilial disciple would pretend not to see it and chat about other topics as if nothing had happened.

……

One week later.

Early morning, the rising sun.

Inside Chi Jiuyu's cave abode.

Because this drinking contest was still within reason — everyone stuck to mixing the undiluted version with the diluted version.

So it only took a week for the three of them to wake up.

Living room.

On the not-long-ago replaced sofa, Chi Jiuyu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei each held a bucket of instant noodles.

Steam rose, and all three of them had somewhat dazed looks in their eyes.

"A whole week." Ye Zhiwei spoke first, breaking the silence.

In her heart, she was actually feeling a bit of regret.

How did she really let Chi Jiuyu and this Zhao Ruohan egg her on until she lost her head?!

She'd just wasted an entire week…

Some spark returned to Chi Jiuyu's eyes as she pulled her gaze back from an empty cabinet nearby.

Sure enough, Yue Ling had taken it all away again.

She took so many of my things — when the day of the Sect Master election comes, if you don't support me, I'll have to settle this properly with you!

She thought to herself.

Still, she shouldn't have done anything strange after getting drunk this time, right?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help feeling a little worried.

"Pfft! Just one week, that's all. Cultivation needs a balance of work and rest — grinding away nonstop makes it easy to hit a bottleneck."

Before her brain had even thought of anything, the words had already flown out of her mouth.

"Last time Little Zhao and I slept for over ten days straight!"

Zhao Ruohan: "…"

Is this something worth being proud of?

Besides, when have you ever balanced work and rest? Clearly you just sneakily grind by folding cultivation into your daily life.

Despicable Chi Jiuyu!

Zhao Ruohan slurped some noodles and said nothing.

That said, the instant noodles Chi Jiuyu bought tasted pretty good — the spiritual energy was gentle and abundant. She could ask her later where she bought them.

"Letting cultivation slide is never a good thing." Ye Zhiwei casually tossed a pill into her noodle soup. "And binge drinking isn't a good thing either — my head still hurts right now."

Clearly it was just a hangover headache…

But she felt as if someone had beaten her!

Chi Jiuyu had originally been curiously staring at the pill dissolving in Ye Zhiwei's noodle soup.

Hearing this, she froze abruptly and nodded rapidly:

"Yep, yep! The back of my head still hurts too!"

She reached back to touch the back of her head, and a trace of worry rose once more in her heart.