Chapter 440

The quality of the second batch is still not good enough; continue swapping.

The sincerity of the third batch remains insufficient; next batch.

The fourth batch is still trying to fool me; reload.

This is being selected for Brother Runsheng, and Li Zhuiyuan's requirements are very high.

It would be best if it could be a one-step solution with potential for subsequent development; but even if that's not possible, it must be sufficient to handle the short-term choices of the next stage.

However, the proportion of evil spirits that meet the matching conditions for Runsheng's characteristics is already very low, and Li Zhuiyuan is unwilling to lower his standards—after all, he is looking for a substitute, not a disposable plastic item.

Li Zhuiyuan began to reflect on whether his method of selection was wrong, causing the environment here to misunderstand his attitude and thus dare to be perfunctory.

The next moment,

The red threads on the youth's body were no longer subdivided individually; instead, they converged into a rope after being bundled together, binding upward.

This time, the traces of being "dragged" out were on a significantly higher level, and the top-tier ones that had previously been hiding and refusing to show themselves were all forced to come in and present themselves.

Some figures that had once appeared here were now ones that even the current Li Zhuiyuan had to face squarely.

They were all big shots in the true sense of the word—not the small fries dealt with during the Long Wang's river-walking period, but terrifying opponents he had personally eliminated after officially becoming the Long Wang.

The improvement in quality brought about a decrease in quantity.

Fortunately, thanks to the ancestors of the Qin and Liu families who had broken through thorns and brambles and forged ahead generation after generation to suppress evil spirits, the samples in A Li's dreams were extremely rich.

Li Zhuiyuan found it.

The youth's gaze landed on it.

Its whole body radiated flames of yin and yang colors; through the light and shadow, one could see that its true form resembled a goat.

It had four ears on its head, and its eyes grew on its back.

Most importantly, it had nine tails.

This could be used to evolve nine "evil flood dragons" to fill Runsheng's qi gates.

Li Zhuiyuan searched the literature he had read for records similar to it and found one.

"Classic of Mountains and Seas: Classic of the Southern Mountains": There is a beast here, its shape is like a goat, with nine tails and four ears, its eyes are on its back, its name is Bo-yi, and wearing it prevents fear.

"Wearing it prevents fear" can be understood as wearing its fur, which can make you brave and fearless.

This characteristic happened to echo the "Qin Family Flood Dragon Observation Method" that Runsheng practiced.

It really was a treasure from head to toe; it satisfied the feasibility conditions, came with an amplification effect, and its initial quality was very high.

Good, I've decided it's you.

At the moment, whether this evil spirit is truly a Bo-yi is hard to say.

But even if it were a real Bo-yi, a monster from myths and legends, it wouldn't be so surprising that it had appeared here.

Li Zhuiyuan had seen Bodhisattvas dragged into hell and had seen the true form of the Emperor of Fengdu; the filters of mythological stories had long since been torn to shreds by him.

Behind him, A Li sat on the threshold of the bungalow, resting her chin on her hand, watching the youth in front.

Old people would sigh that it is best not to meet someone too stunning when you are young, otherwise, you might spend the rest of your life in regret.

And A Li had witnessed the entire transformation of the boy into a youth, accompanied by the evil spirits that had invaded her dreams for so many years going from arrogant and domineering to silent, from covering the sky and sun to clear skies and ten thousand miles, and now it had simply become—I am the butcher, the evil is the fish.

The future he once promised has now become the present.

She had been persisting in working hard silently, trying to walk out, but she never felt aggrieved or troubled, because the road for her to walk out of the house had already been paved by him personally.

The girl's gaze moved upward, looking at the Bo-yi.

She suddenly felt a little happy, and even a little fortunate—fortunate that he found what he wanted here and that it didn't disappoint him.

The youth frowned slightly.

He had encountered a multiple-choice question; it wasn't difficult, but it was a bit troublesome.

Zhao Yi had not yet returned from Ji'an, and Chen Xiyuan had already returned to Hainan.

Originally, by using the "Zhuiyuan Secret Scroll" and adopting the path of walking the river on land, he could have them run this errand for him.

He believed that these two had the ability to complete the task.

After all, even if this evil spirit were a real Bo-yi, it was only a defeated opponent in the history of the Qin and Liu families and no longer possessed its peak strength.

But as it happened, neither of them was here.

At present, one wave had just ended, and if he were to go on a long journey again to complete this matter, the implications would indeed be lighter, but he still had to be careful not to trigger other mechanisms and inexplicably push another wave toward himself.

The youth was very clear about his own positioning; although his strength was still far from that of the Great Emperor, the attention from the Heavenly Dao that he matched was not much lower than that of the Great Emperor's level.

He could also be considered to understand why existences of the Great Emperor's level would not move easily—this really was a case of pulling one hair and moving the whole body.

Moreover, even if he went out on this trip and could smoothly resolve the remnants of this evil spirit and obtain what he wanted, it would only solve the problem for Runsheng alone.

He had made a relevant improvement schedule for everyone in the team, including A Li.

If he did everything himself, the efficiency would be too low; completing one project in the gap between each wave could be called a success, and completing two could be called a surprise... but what Li Zhuiyuan wanted was for the collective to complete them during this gap.

In fact, the reason Li Zhuiyuan dared to tell A Li over the phone on the return trip that he would take her with him in the next wave was because, after obtaining a qualitative improvement, the youth already had the conditions to bring about a qualitative change for the entire team.

On this basis, the team possessed the composure to accept and accommodate A Li's joining.

However, the results A Li had shown had already exceeded Li Zhuiyuan's expectations—that is to say, the girl's joining had a positive value far higher than he had anticipated.

And this further strengthened Li Zhuiyuan's goal of achieving a full-team leap during this gap.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the plan for this round could be fully implemented, his river-walking team would officially pull a generational gap away from all competitors on the river.

That is to say, he had deliberately not made a name for himself; if this were a normal period in history, it would be equivalent to the appearance of a dazzling figure surrounded by stars, and even if he hadn't finished walking this river and hadn't achieved the Long Wang status, the entire world of martial arts would have already made preparations in advance for the arrival of his era.

This point was particularly obvious when the next generation of Dragon Kings was about to be born to the families of past Dragon Kings.

The competition and confrontation in many aspects such as territory, resources, and the right to speak all had to bow down in advance because of the Long Wang about to be born to the other family.

At this time, the Bo-yi bound by the red rope was slowly turning its body, the eyes on its back rotating; it must have sensed something and was projecting its attention here, wanting to capture who exactly dared to disturb it.

"Snap."

Li Zhuiyuan snapped his fingers.

All the red threads broke, causing the Bo-yi's purpose to go unfulfilled.

There was no need to alert the enemy before deciding exactly who would solve it.

After the traces in the sky all faded away, the red threads spreading from Li Zhuiyuan's body turned back into individual strands, and soon, the evil spirits on the shelves were once again dazzling.

Li Zhuiyuan picked and swiped, calm and peaceful, without any impatience.

Each time one was decided upon, that red thread would become more vivid, making the trace gradually solidify, but the red thread would break before the evil spirit discovered it.

In this round, Li Zhuiyuan selected four.

The youth knew that A Li, sitting behind him, must have already memorized their appearances and would present them on the scroll next.

The inventory check ended, and all the red threads disappeared.

Li Zhuiyuan turned and walked back, his gait composed.

A Li looked at him, a smile appearing at the corners of her mouth.

The two tacitly closed their eyes again.

In reality, the two on the rattan chairs welcomed the warm breeze of the autumn afternoon.

Li Zhuiyuan entered the room, poured hot water into a basin, washed a hot towel for himself, and wiped the sweat beads oozing from his forehead.

Just now in A Li's dream, the scene of red threads filling the sky was indeed shocking, but it also meant huge consumption.

His current level could afford the consumption, but he hadn't reached the point of being without scruples.

The girl went to get a drink, her gaze falling on the opened box of Jianlibao.

One can was missing.

Every can of Jianlibao in the youth's room had been marked with a serial number by the girl in her heart, and those that were finished would be taken by her for collection.

Li Zhuiyuan hung the towel back on the rack and comforted her:

"A guest has come to the house."

A guest who could be entertained by Grandma Liu on the second-floor terrace must be extraordinary.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't ask who had come.

Because, since Grandma Liu hadn't told him the identity of this distinguished guest, it meant the distinguished guest might have become a "kneeling guest."

A Li picked up a can of Jianlibao, opened it, inserted a straw, and handed it to Li Zhuiyuan.

This time, she didn't drink it herself; she was filling the gap.

Li Zhuiyuan smiled and bit the straw; he knew the girl had always had obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A Li walked to the youth's desk and opened the notebook.

"Thank you for your hard work; let's draw them all together. I've already planned it out, along with the appearances of the five evil spirits selected in the dream."

The girl nodded, picked up the notebook, walked to the drawing table, and began to read.

The one for Runsheng had already been drawn; what A Li was looking at now was Lin Shu You's.

The improvement method for Lin Shu You's next stage was not to let him continue to pursue narrowing the distance and improving fusion with the Master Tongzi; continuing to focus on this direction had a very low cost-performance ratio.

Now, A-You could obtain replenishment from the Master Tongzi mentally, and the Master Tongzi could also obtain compensation from A-You's body, which provided the conditions for absorbing increments from the outside.

The positioning of the Master Tongzi had to change from a giver of constant power to a transit station for power.

Specifically, it had to start from the Guarding Zhenjun system and the Ghost Commander system.

In short, it was either to let the Master Tongzi, in the capacity of a Guarding Zhenjun, borrow power from the Lin family members who were currently following the Guarding Zhenjun system and transfer it to Lin Shu You; or to let the Master Tongzi, in the capacity of a Ghost Commander, borrow the power of ghosts from the Yin Hell.

The former involved ethical and moral issues; although Li Zhuiyuan had the ability to help him walk through it, when Lin Shu You was there, that was naturally mutual help within a large family;

When Lin Shu You was no longer there, and the next family head took over, the Lin family might very well turn into the whole clan offering sacrifices to raise gu, leading to tragedy. This was a rule of extermination; even if Lin Shu You himself didn't realize this point, Li Zhuiyuan wouldn't help him design it that way.

Moreover, the Lin family members didn't include the Lin family temple; it was limited to Lin Shu You's modern blood relatives, and the power that could be borrowed was actually very limited. If he wasn't careful and extracted too much, Lin Shu You would have to rush home to attend a funeral after a fierce battle.

Therefore, Li Zhuiyuan prepared to choose the latter.

The Master Tongzi's Ghost Commander identity had never been well developed and utilized; in fact, this was much broader and more valuable than the Guarding Zhenjun identity.

In the Fengdu Underworld, one could lack anything, but one would never lack wandering souls; if the forest was big enough, any kind of bird could grow out for you.

Those who committed many evils in their lifetime and had to suffer torture after death in hell might as well be used as consumables for himself; it was both waste utilization and atonement.

Moreover, even if Lin Shu You fought fierce battles every day, there was no need to worry about draining the pond to catch the fish; it was absolutely enough.

Only this kind of improvement method that could maintain long-term effectiveness could really be counted into the strength score.

However, there was also a problem here.

This kind of unauthorized alteration of the rules of the Fengdu Yin Office belonged to a serious taboo, countless times more serious than Zhao Yi sending dog testicles to the Great Emperor.

The former was an insult to the Great Emperor's face, while the latter was digging into the Great Emperor's foundation.

If A-You were allowed to take his letter and return to Fengdu alone, then in all likelihood, A-You's lifespan would end prematurely.

The outcome would be that he could end up ahead of others by more than half a lifetime, taking up a post in the Yin Office early and grinding out seniority by rank.

For this line, only if Li Zhuiyuan went to Fengdu personally, and even risked the danger of a falling out between master and disciple, letting the Great Emperor weigh the pros and cons himself, would it be possible to let Him swallow this breath.

Furthermore, the specific operation also had to be handled by Li Zhuiyuan personally; others didn't have this ability, and even less did they have his identity as the Young Lord of Fengdu to stage a drama of the Crown Prince seizing power.

In addition, Yin Meng, who was originally one of his own but had been detained in Fengdu by the Great Emperor, could be responsible for after-sales maintenance after his own affairs were completed.

Therefore, to say it a thousand or ten thousand times, he still had to walk this road personally and couldn't borrow the hands of others.

After finishing Lin Shu You's, A Li then took the opportunity to flip through Tan Wenbin's.

Tan Wenbin's improvement plan was easier, yet more complex.

At the current stage, Tan Wenbin was using the "Five Senses Map" to suppress resentment and control the rusty sword.

To further improve, he had to "feed" those four spirit beasts.

Previously, he was afraid that after they were fed fat, their wings would harden and Tan Wenbin wouldn't be able to control them; now that there was the main contradiction of collectively suppressing resentment, it was possible to loosen their bonds.

The value of the feed didn't need to be too high; A Li could find four relatively suitable evil spirits in her dreams and catch them to use as sacrifices. After the four spirit beasts grew stronger by swallowing them, Li Zhuiyuan could proceed to trigger a tsunami of resentment, letting the four of them be submerged by resentment and forming a pattern of "you have me, I have you," so that internal friction and contradictions could be transformed into unity against the outside.

But these four evil spirits, although not difficult, belonged to different parts of the country, so a team with guaranteed strength had to be sent to travel quickly and complete the task efficiently within a reasonable time.

After everyone else had been looked at, A Li saw her own.

A Li's improvement plan was very simple.

Blood Porcelain.

Li Zhuiyuan had once obtained a small piece of blood porcelain in Lijiang; by relying on the integration of that piece of blood porcelain, Li Zhuiyuan had found a faster way to set up formations and cast spells.

However, after possessing the Flood Dragon Spirit, this advantage of blood porcelain was no longer there.

In Jiujiang, after completing a fierce battle with that powerful team, Li Zhuiyuan had obtained a larger quantity of blood porcelain from the team leader, and this was also the prototype of the current Increase-Decrease Two Generals Talisman Armor.

But this quantity was still too small.

The current amount was only enough to make three decks of playing cards, providing a carrier for the arrival of the Increase-Decrease Two Generals.

Yesterday in the factory building of the cotton mill, after witnessing the abilities A Li displayed to him, Li Zhuiyuan immediately had a new plan in his heart.

Since A Li could "summon" the evil spirits he had resolved in each previous wave through the combination of Qin and Liu secret methods, what would the effect be if she were given a carrier that could fully adhere to them?

The most suitable carrier for this was blood porcelain.

And the place where blood porcelain was truly found, Li Zhuiyuan had long known—near the Yumen Pass.

It was because he had been busy recently, and there were always waves actively pushed over to cause him trouble, disrupting his rhythm; plus, before A Li officially joined, the urgency of blood porcelain had not been at the forefront, which was why he hadn't set off for Gansu.

Now, he had to go find this raw material; it would be best if he could take back the entire porcelain bottle held by the woman in the river of blood from the scene he had once witnessed.

This way, when A Li held it in her hand, she could better display and exert her abilities.

The scene was really quite beautiful: the girl holding a bottle, with one "old face" after another from the past crawling out from the mouth of the bottle.

He had suppressed and killed them, yet they still had to work for him.

In fact, Li Zhuiyuan had observed this secret technique of A Li's; he understood the principle and could also replicate it, but he didn't possess A Li's innate conditions, including the fact that the dream could now also be considered one of the innate conditions.

The youth could exert ten parts of effort and successfully achieve five parts of effect, while A Li could exert ten parts of effort and achieve one hundred parts of effect.

In the room, it became quiet.

A Li began to focus on drawing.

Li Zhuiyuan sat behind his desk, considering the specific implementation of the plan.

Given the current manpower conditions, if he wanted to improve efficiency as much as possible, then the team had to be split up.

He had to go to Fengdu personally; at present, he would not have a formal conflict with the Great Emperor, and with the Increase-Decrease Two Generals present, the safety of his journey could also be basically guaranteed.

But the problem was, even if he didn't take his partners with him, the team would suffer a huge collapse in strength without him.

Although Tan Wenbin was there, it wouldn't be like when Zhao Yi and the others were in Dandong, foolishly trapped by the local immortal-inviting practitioners for several days, but they would also lose the ability to stand alone and deal with high-difficulty problems.

Led by Tan Wenbin, they could only execute the lowest-difficulty tasks on the plan list, which was the collection of the four evil spirits used to feed the four spirit beasts.

For the Bo-yi and the Yumen Pass blood porcelain, at least Chen Xiyuan and Zhao Yi had to be involved.

Blood porcelain involved searching and exploring, which had high complexity, so Zhao Yi had to lead the team.

The Bo-yi was simpler: find it, trap it, beat it up—the three-step process Sister Chen was most accustomed to.

At this time, the big brother phone on Li Zhuiyuan's desk rang.

Tan Wenbin was responsible for the team's main communications; not many people could call his number directly.

Not wanting to affect A Li's drawing, Li Zhuiyuan took the big brother phone and walked out to the terrace to answer it.

The call connected, and the clamor of drinking and celebrating came from the other side.

Deep breath, then exhale.

It should be Zhao Yi exhaling a puff of smoke.

Li Zhuiyuan could imagine Zhao Yi's faintly lonely appearance.

"Li, my work here is finished, and the guys pooled money to treat me to a farewell banquet."

Calling it a banquet, it was actually just setting up a table in the work shed, with the fellow workers pooling money to buy ingredients and someone with cooking skills responsible for making it, which was much cheaper than eating outside.

Li Zhuiyuan: "The project finished so quickly?"

Zhao Yi: "Hehe, the project didn't finish; it's just that I performed too well, and the higher-ups mean they want me to become a regular employee. I don't know the specifics, but it's a good opportunity, and there is this quota.

But I know I can't do it for long, so I didn't want to waste this quota and gave it to someone else.

Since it's like this, I can only leave first."

One could hear the reluctance in Zhao Yi's words; this was his true expression, because he knew there was no need to act in front of the youth.

Li Zhuiyuan: "That's good; you can rest."

Zhao Yi: "I'll return tomorrow and come to Nantong to visit my god-grandmother."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I'm going on a long journey soon."

Zhao Yi: "To Hainan? Wait for me; I'll go with you."

Li Zhuiyuan: "To Fengdu."

Zhao Yi: "Sorry to bother you."

After a pause, Zhao Yi continued to ask: "Li, when are you leaving?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Not sure."

Zhao Yi: "Then I'll set off back to Nantong after finishing this meal; I really miss my god-grandmother."

Li Zhuiyuan saw Tan Wenbin sitting on the dam reading a feng shui book and said:

"Brother Binbin, help me set up an offering table; I want to offer sacrifices to the Great Emperor of Fengdu."

"Okay, Brother Xiaoyuan."

Zhao Yi's voice came again from the other end of the phone:

"I'll return after I finish this table of wine; I really miss my god-grandmother too much!"

The call hung up.

Zhao Yi's early return was a major benefit.

He hadn't told Zhao Yi his arrangements for him in advance.

Because Zhao Yi was too "fat" now; two rounds of thick merit had not yet been fully used, and he had obtained a knife, and next he still had to get secret manuals from him. At this moment, Zhao Yi was at his weakest in terms of initiative and urgently craved a comfortable digestion time.

Just like Xiao Hei at home—if you let it eat until it's full, with its mouth full of oil, and then take a bone to tease it, even if there's a lot of meat left on the bone, it won't bother with you.

Better to wait for Zhao Yi to come over and first blindly draw three sets of secret manuals in the basement.

After drawing them, a huge sense of disparity would strike, and he should have new motivation.

"A-You."

"Brother Xiaoyuan?" Lin Shu You had just been helping Brother Bin carry the offering table.

The dojo was destroyed and hadn't been rebuilt yet, so to do this kind of sacrifice again, it had to be rearranged.

"We checked the basement book inventory last time and made a catalog; now you follow the catalog and put labels on the books in the basement."

"Understood!"

After giving these instructions, Li Zhuiyuan sat down on the rattan chair.

The youth had insights into how to handle Zhao Yi.

However, with Chen Xiyuan, it involved a knot.

It was mainly the bolt of lightning that Old Chen Laoyezi had once cast down to suppress Xiao Hei when he sneaked into Nantong.

It was because of this knot that Chen Xiyuan had left Nantong.

Although he had told her back then that she was her, and the Chen family was the Chen family.

But if he were to ask her to come and help him do things again, then in that matter, he would have to take another step back, becoming: she is her, the Chen family is the Chen family, and Old Chen Laoyezi is Old Chen Laoyezi.

Li Zhuiyuan was unwilling to narrow the scope of retaliation.

This would make his hands and feet even more restricted when he went to Hainan to settle accounts with Old Chen Laoyezi in the future.

But through the matter of walking the river on land with the "Zhuiyuan Secret Scroll," it was impossible for him to temporarily "bribe" another group of people on the river to do it for him.

The implications of this kind of matter that went straight for taboos were really too great.

Chen Xiyuan, whether in terms of character or her experience of having participated in walking the river on land, was the only candidate.

The youth's fingers rubbed on the big brother phone.

He was considering whether he needed to make a concession here in exchange for the resolution of the current main contradiction.

In fact, the youth knew that when he started considering it, the answer had already come out.

Li Zhuiyuan dialed a number in Hainan.

Back then, Chen Xiyuan had dialed it in front of him, and he had remembered it.

After the beeping sound in the receiver, it was hung up by someone.

Zhao Yi also had such an arrangement in Lushan; there was no signal where he lived in the mountains, and it wasn't suitable to move telephone lines in, so he left a contact point at the foot of the mountain, and when needed, a notification would be sent, and he would go down the mountain to answer the phone.

Li Zhuiyuan began to wait.

Chen Xiyuan's status in the Qiongya Chen family was unique; there were very few people qualified to answer the call at the contact point she could dial.

The big brother phone rang; the other side had called back.

Li Zhuiyuan answered the phone.

From the other end of the phone came a kind old grandmother's voice:

"Hehe, is this a friend of my Xiyuan from the world of martial arts? That's really good; my Xiyuan has also made a true friend."

It seemed that this phone was indeed set up specifically for Chen Xiyuan to contact her family.

And the fact that Grandma Chen could conclude it was a friend calling meant that Chen Xiyuan herself was currently in the Chen family ancestral home.

Moreover, she was not allowed to go out.

However, this shouldn't be house arrest.

The price of putting someone who was walking the river under house arrest was to let that wave accumulate continuously, and after it accumulated to a certain degree, it would press directly onto the Chen family.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Hello."

"Hmm?"

There seemed to be doubt on the other end of the phone.

Whoever could call this phone couldn't possibly not know the identity of the person answering the phone; the other party's cold response was clearly problematic.

To put it more seriously, it was despising the Long Wang family.

However, Grandma Chen wasn't angry; instead, she let out a gentle laugh and said:

"Hehehe, child, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm looking for Chen Xiyuan."

"Okay, wait a moment; I'll go call her for you."

The call hung up.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't continue to sit and wait for the phone; instead, he went downstairs.

Tan Wenbin had already set up the offering table, on which was placed a portrait of the Great Emperor of Fengdu—hmm, with a beard.

Li Zhuiyuan went through the normal sacrificial process.

There was no prayer, nothing out of the ordinary, but Li Zhuiyuan believed that this master-disciple bond, going through this normal process, was enough to make the Great Emperor vigilant in his heart.

This could be considered informing him in advance that he was going to bargain, so Master, please be prepared.

"Okay, Brother Binbin, take it down."

"Hmm, okay."

"Brother Runsheng hasn't returned yet?"

"I called the village where Shan Shan Daye is this morning, and Runsheng answered the phone. He said Shan Shan Daye had contracted land to grow vegetables, but he was growing them wrong, so Runsheng was doing temporary remedial work for Shan Shan Daye, so that at least there would be some harvest before winter.

I said let me and A-You go help him, but Runsheng said no need; the output from this field wasn't enough to cover this year's contracting fee, and filling in other manpower would only lead to more losses.

However, Runsheng will definitely be back before tonight."

"Then let's have a meeting tonight."

"Okay, Brother Xiaoyuan."

After Tan Wenbin took down the offering table, he went to the basement to help A-You put on labels.

Lin Shu You: "Brother Bin, why did Brother Xiaoyuan ask me to stick these?"

Tan Wenbin: "This is a lucky draw session prepared for the external team."

Lin Shu You: "Three-Eyes will be happy to death."

Tan Wenbin looked at the list of secret manual names on the catalog and shook his head: "I'm afraid he'll cry to death after drawing them."

Lin Shu You: "How could that be?"

Tan Wenbin: "These aren't Brother Xiaoyuan's things; they are Old Man Li's things. Old Man Li's things aren't things you can get for free."

Lin Shu You: "So, our Brother Xiaoyuan gave Three-Eyes this back then, just counting on Three-Eyes to keep grinding the mill?"

Tan Wenbin: "Brother Xiaoyuan shouldn't have thought so; this was a reward requirement proposed by the external team itself; he put the mill-grinding rope on himself."

After sacrificing to the Great Emperor, Li Zhuiyuan went to the bearded man's house alone and walked into the peach forest.

Qing'an was playing the zither, the sound melodious.

After Li Zhuiyuan entered, the zither sound stopped abruptly.

Qing'an: "How was the zither sound just now?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "It ended as soon as I arrived, which shows you weren't playing with enough enthusiasm."

Qing'an: "Why?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Missing that flute."

Qing'an smiled slightly: "I see, it's you who are missing that flute player."

Li Zhuiyuan didn't deny it.

Qing'an pushed with his fingertips, and the ancient zither flew out and landed in the wooden house; then with another hook, the tea table and tea set flew out and were placed in front of him.

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the opposite side of the tea table, sat down, and prepared to make tea.

"I'll do it; you're the same as him—the tea you make has no taste."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I have a bit more taste than him now, at least."

Qing'an: "That's also wasting my good tea leaves."

Li Zhuiyuan: "You're really pretentious."

When others drink tea, they drink the tea fragrance; Qing'an drinks the mood. ===== CHAPTER 441 =====