Chapter 35: Fortune turns, one box changes fate!

"Is it this hard to farm after reaching level three?" Zhou Qing frowned.

Or perhaps it needed to be refreshed in a tense environment with many people at a corresponding level, that is, the Golden Core realm?

Looking at the surrounding disciples who were mostly at Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment, Zhou Qing had his guesses.

"Fourth!"

Soon Yan Xiaohu came over, full of excitement.

"Sold?" Zhou Qing asked.

Yan Xiaohu shook his head: "The price offered was too low. I'm planning to find a wealthy tycoon and make a good profit."

"Who?" Zhou Qing was curious.

Yan Xiaohu chuckled: "Old Mo. He can at least give us this much."

Zhou Qing ignored the "six" gesture Yan Xiaohu made, but hurriedly asked: "Is Master's soul injured?"

Yan Xiaohu nodded slightly and said: "It's an old injury from many years ago, but it's not serious. You can rest assured."

Looking at Yan Xiaohu, who was constantly dreaming of getting rich, Zhou Qing understood in his heart that getting rich was just a small matter. The Third Shixiong's true purpose was actually to bring this piece of Ink Soul Jade back for Master. Don't look at how careless he was on weekdays; he was actually more delicate than anyone else.

"Good, let's sell it to Master!" Zhou Qing also smiled.

The next day!

Zhou Qing came to the chicken coop again to look, and checked around.

After all, this old hen had poor eyesight; maybe it laid eggs elsewhere, but after searching a circle, he still found nothing.

Zhou Qing wasn't in a hurry either, continuing to feed it a smashed spirit stone. Outside, the Third Shixiong's shouting sounded right on time.

As he opened the courtyard door, he held a storage bag and chuckled.

"Six thousand spirit stones in hand. According to the four-six split we agreed on, this is yours." Yan Xiaohu said.

Zhou Qing waved his hand: "Why split so finely between brothers? Five-five is fine!"

"I just like how straightforward you are, Fourth. Alright, Jade Meal Hall tonight, my treat!" Yan Xiaohu licked his lips.

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up immediately.

"You said it!"

"A gentleman's word is as good as gold. Let's go, down the mountain!"

Zhou Qing, who had just taken the spirit stones, immediately became alert: "Gambling again?"

"No, no, we have money now, let's see if there are any suitable good things at other stalls and try our luck!" Yan Xiaohu said hurriedly.

Only then did Zhou Qing breathe a sigh of relief; he was afraid his Senior Brother would become addicted to it.

Afterwards, the two went down the mountain together.

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Divine Peak!

Li Daoxuan and He Han came to Lu Yaoyao's residence and called out several times without response.

After looking at each other, the two hurriedly went in.

After pushing the door open, they saw the Lu Shimei sitting blankly by the stone table in the courtyard, holding a portrait, looking at it in a daze.

The two were puzzled and leaned forward gently.

Only then did they see that the person drawn on the paper was a middle-aged man with somewhat sloppy clothes. His face looked as if it had been ruthlessly beaten by the wind and sand of time, full of vicissitudes.

In those sunken eye sockets, his eyes were dim and lusterless, and on his back was a broken sword. The sword body was incomplete, yet it seemed to still retain the sharpness of the past.

And in his hand, he was tightly holding a five or six-year-old little girl. Although the little girl was wearing simple clothes, they were washed very clean, but her eyes were full of fear and unease, as if something unknown had been chasing and killing them behind them.

Such a strange portrait made the two frown, and they didn't understand it at all.

"Lu Shimei?" Li Daoxuan couldn't help but call out softly.

Lu Yaoyao was startled. When she saw it was the two Senior Brothers, she hurriedly put away the portrait.

"Wh-what's wrong?" Lu Yaoyao's eyes turned red, and she asked in a panic.

He Han hesitated: "We agreed to go down the mountain today to buy you a dharma robe. The First Senior Brother and I called you outside for a long time and thought something had happened to you, so we rushed in. Are you... are you okay?"

Lu Yaoyao looked embarrassed: "I-I forgot about this. Sorry, two Senior Brothers."

Li Daoxuan said: "It's fine, it's fine. Just now that was..."

"Oh, it's nothing. I had a dream last night and couldn't help but draw the scene from the dream. You wait a moment, I'll go in and tidy up."

After Lu Yaoyao finished speaking, she wiped her eyes and hurried into the room.

Before long, Lu Yaoyao, wearing new clothes, seemed to have become the Lu Shimei they were familiar with again, and the three of them went down the mountain.

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Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu were shopping casually, while Yan Xiaohu looked toward a certain direction from time to time.

Zhou Qing turned his head and saw Second Grandpa smiling and waving the cloth bag in his hand at Yan Xiaohu, his demeanor full of temptation.

Zhou Qing hurriedly pulled him and said: "That old man is doing it on purpose. Don't forget, you've lost more than seven hundred spirit stones in total."

Yan Xiaohu took back his gaze and said earnestly: "My Yan Xiaohu's words have always been as good as gold. If I say I won't gamble, I won't gamble. You can rest assured. Let's go, let's go over there and look around."

"Returning customers get half off today. For the original price of one thousand spirit stones, you have a chance to win good things worth five thousand spirit stones. Now it's only five hundred spirit stones."

A faint voice quietly reached Yan Xiaohu's ears, which made his original forward pace stall.

Five hundred becomes five thousand, ten times!

But soon, his eyes were full of determination, and he continued to walk forward.

"Today, there is a supreme-grade fire-attribute spirit stone in these blind boxes!"

When the seductive voice came again, Yan Xiaohu's eyes lit up, and he soon became conflicted, unable to help but look back at the stall where Second Grandpa was.

A supreme-grade spirit stone—that was one hundred superior-grade spirit stones, ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones, a full one million inferior-grade spirit stones.

This was too crazy!

"Hurry up and go!"

Looking at Yan Xiaohu's longing eyes, Zhou Qing hurriedly turned his head.

"There's a supreme-grade spirit stone," Yan Xiaohu said with a dry mouth.

Zhou Qing looked at Second Grandpa's stall and said: "He's lying to you. If he had a supreme-grade spirit stone, would he be running here to set up a stall?"

Yan Xiaohu was stunned and soon reacted.

That's right, almost got tricked!

This damn old man is rotten to the core.

Seeing the two walking further and further away, Second Grandpa scratched his head and couldn't help but smile, then looked at the other disciples around him with unkind faces.

Yesterday, this group of people spent a lot of money and didn't open anything, and now they were all staring here, seeing if anyone else would come to buy, preferably losing even their underwear, so they could feel a bit more balanced.

"New goods today. Fortune turns, one box changes fate. Want to try?" Second Grandpa smiled.

Everyone snorted coldly in unison.

Until evening, Zhou Qing, who had barely farmed an ignore point, used 【Daily Appraisal】 to buy some rare spirit rice for the old hen. According to the appraisal, it was of great help to its egg-laying.

"Senior Brother Zhou!" Just as Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu were preparing to return, they ran into Lu Yaoyao and her two Senior Brothers.

Before Zhou Qing could dodge, Lu Yaoyao hurried forward and started apologizing directly.

It was her willfulness; she shouldn't have meddled in other people's business, especially other people's private lives. She already knew she was wrong and wouldn't dare to do it again, and so on.

Seeing her looking so pitiful, could Zhou Qing really hold it against her?

After all, a good man doesn't fight with a woman.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 36 =====