Chapter 335 - Brother, Serve Me

Ye Anping recalled some things and realized that Xiao Yunluo had misunderstood. As he held her, he pushed open the door of his room, entered, and explained at the same time. "That time, I just asked Sister Feng to use her true energy to help me dispel my yang excess. For this, I gave her thirty thousand spirit stones..."

At this point, Ye Anping was pretty certain. He suddenly realized that Feng Yu Die's stagnation in her cultivation seemed to have something to do with him.

---First, after he built his foundation and Xiao Yunluo returned to the Black Star Sect, Feng Yu Die had just come out of the stone room after building her foundation too.

---After the Dragon House events, he reached the middle stage of the Foundation Building, and Feng Yu Die also reached the middle stage of the Foundation Building one step behind him.

---Just now, due to settlement, his cultivation broke through the mid-stage bottleneck and entered the late stage. At the same time, Feng Yu Die, whose cultivation was sluggish lately, also made a breakthrough and cultivated the Black Moon Routine to the third level.

For several hours, Feng Yu Die's progress was extremely slow, but after his own yang energy settled and he broke through, she also broke through.

This couldn't possibly be a coincidence.

Si Xuanji once told him that he and Feng Yu Die were bound by fate.

Thinking about it this way, he was now dragging down Feng Yu Die, and this was even on the premise that he had a golden finger.

Without the golden finger of the yang energy settlement, Feng Yu Die would probably only be in the early stage of the Foundation Building now.

This wasn't much of a problem before, but it was different now.

Now, Feng Yu Die and Gu Mingxin had encountered each other, and they were already mortal enemies.Thê source of this content n/o/v/(el)bi((n))

Originally, there wasn't much of a difference in qualifications and training between the two of them, but now that Feng Yu Die was linked to him, the difference between them and Gu Mingxin would only widen.

For now, he could use his foresight and strategy to make up for this gap, but sooner or later, the gap would be so big that he wouldn't be able to make up for it anymore.

Ye Anping had the confidence to let a Foundation Building cultivator kill one Core Formation cultivator and not sustain any damage, by relying on their weaknesses. But even if he calculated without fail, he would never be able to make a Foundation Building cultivator kill a Nascent Soul cultivator.

When the power gap reached a certain level, tactics and strategies would no longer be effective.

In a nutshell, he needed to find a way to raise his cultivation level. At the very least, he needed his cultivation to be on Gu Mingxin's tail, or else in the future, he and Feng Yu Die would inevitably die under her sword.

However, how could a dual spirit root cultivator catch up with a peerless genius like Gu Mingxin?

---Could he use a demonic cultivator's technique to rapidly improve his cultivation level?

But although the demonic cultivators' techniques were fast, they were contrary to the way of heaven. Almost all used the inner essence of other people to promote their cultivation. It was easy to encounter inner demonic tribulation and fall, so it was definitely not a good idea.

That left a method that did not violate the immortal way...

---Dual Cultivation.

In other words, practicing dual cultivation with someone whose level and qualifications were higher than his, and merging yin and yang to boost his own cultivation, was probably the only shortcut he could take at the moment.

Thinking of this, Ye Anping suddenly remembered how Si Xuanji flirted with him.

He was actually wondering why a powerful person like Si Xuanji would be so interested in a young cultivator with two spiritual roots like him, and even tried various ways to seduce him, offering to help him resolve his yang excess issue.

But now, he finally understood the meaning of Si Xuanji's move.

Apart from the main reason that he was indeed very handsome.

Si Xuanji must have already expected his spiritual root qualifications to become a drawback, so she had already prepared to help him compensate for this weakness with dual cultivation, right?

The engagement between him and Xiao Yunluo was probably for this reason.

Just as he cultivated his younger sister in order to survive Wu Yu's destruction of the sect.

In the game, Si Xuanji raised Feng Yu Die to become one of her capable subordinates.

Perhaps, ever since Si Xuanji came to him and handed him the Yin-Yang Pendant for his and Yunluo's engagement, he already had no way to escape his destiny in this world.

Just as Ye Anping was thinking about his destiny with mixed feelings, a small hand suddenly rose up and gently smoothed his brow.

Xiao Yunluo, who was held in Ye Anping's arms like a princess, looked at him frozen in thought with a serious expression and did not disturb him. Then, she saw him frowning deeper and deeper, and unable to hold back, she stretched her hand to smooth his frown.

"Ye Anping, what's bothering you?"

Looking down at Xiao Yunluo, Ye Anping opened his mouth slightly. After hesitating for a while, he just shook his head without saying anything. He carried her to the bedside, sat down, and let her lean on his chest.

?!

Xiao Yunluo was caught off guard, and her eyes suddenly showed a hint of panic. She wanted to struggle, but on the other hand, she was unwilling to get away. Her heart was so confused that she could only protest in a small voice. "You... What are you doing?"

Ye Anping closed his eyes and remained silent for a while. His hand slowly slid down into her neckline, pressed against her skin, and twisted gently.

"!!"

Xiao Yunluo instantly stiffened and bit her lip lightly, but she did not resist. She just looked away with blushing cheeks and asked, "Weren't you with Lianxue just now..."

"I am your study companion and one of my duties also includes serving you in bed."

Hearing this, Xiao Yunluo's hair stood on end, and her eyes were slightly aggrieved. She looked at Ye Anping's calm face.

"Hehe~ Sorry! I never knock anywhere I enter."

A smile appeared on Su Waner's face under the mask as she pulled a chair and sat down. Taking out a scroll from her storage bag, she sent it to Ye Anping.

Xiao Yunluo caught the scroll, hesitantly opened it, and her eyes widened slightly. "This... is the map of Heavenly Gate City's Imperial Palace?"

Ye Anping glanced at the map over Xiao Yunluo's shoulder and asked in surprise, "When did you get it?"

"Just now, but don't worry, no one noticed." Su Waner shrugged as she spread her hands. "Although I am no longer an Immortal Thief, I used to be one. Stealing a map is no problem."

Ye Anping looked at Su Waner's foxy face with raised eyebrows. "I haven't told you yet what kind of help I was going to ask for, but you already know?"

"Hehe... I'm not a fool. The only two things I'm good at are the Heavenly Picking Technique and the Escape Technique. Since you want my help, it naturally must be related to stealing something, right? And within this Heavenly Gate City, the only thing that can arouse Young Master Ye's interest is most likely the secret vault of the Imperial Sect, so consider this as my job application."

"Well, since you have already guessed it, I don't need to explain too much."

Ye Anping took the map from Xiao Yunluo's hand, spread it out, and held it in mid-air with his spiritual power. Then, he threw the holy water that had not yet dried on his fingertips to the center of the map, staining it with a little wet mark.

"It's here."

Su Waner turned to look and paused. "Heavenly Harmony Palace?"

"Well, directly underneath the Heavenly Harmony Palace Hall, there is a Five Elements Prohibition. I would like to ask Miss Su to bring my sister along and get in, break the restriction, and take out a statue weighing a thousand pounds. I will wait at the Southern Gate outside the Heavenly Harmony Palace Hall. You just bring the statue over and then go on your way. When the matter is settled, we will meet outside the city."

"Understood. What about the payment?"

"Fifteen percent."

"Deal."

"Miss Su is so decisive, don't you want to negotiate the price with me?"

Su Waner shrugged. She stood up, took out the jade token that Liang Zhu had given her, and said, "No need. By the way, my last name has changed to Ye."

"I see... Well, we will act after the Demon King comes to the city. At that time, Brother Liang will take you to the palace first, and a maid named Hongyu, who serves the Empress, will pick you up."

"Understood. Then, I won't disturb you from taking care of Miss Xiao, but I still want to say, Mr. Ye, you are still young, so it is better to exercise some restraint."

Ye Anping replied with a dark look. "Don't trouble yourself with that."

With a wave, Ye Waner turned around and walked to the shadow in the corner of the room.

The dim candlelight flickered slightly, and her figure disappeared from the room in a flash.

After Ye Waner left, Xiao Yunluo stood frozen for a while before finally coming back to her senses. Her shameless posture just now was seen by the Immortal Thief...

For a moment, she was fuming in shame and anger so much, that she just wanted to bite her tongue and kill herself.

However, very quickly, she got over her sense of shame and turned to look at Ye Anping. "Ye Anping, you want to hit the Imperial Sect's treasury? But it's the Emperor of the Central Region..."

"Sister Xiao, you don't have to worry. Everything is ready except for the Demon King." Ye Anping then looked down at her disheveled appearance. "Do you want to continue?"

"..."

How could she still be in the mood after what happened...

Xiao Yunluo shifted her gaze. "Is there anything I can help with? I..."

"When the time comes, and the Demon King and Sister Feng are fighting, you have to help Sister Feng."

"Ah? Demon... Demon King?"

"Well, the Demon King wants something from Sister Feng. However, her cultivation has just reached the late stage of Foundation Building, and I'm worried that she won't be able to withstand it. It doesn't matter if she gets some bumps, just don't let the Demon King kill her."

She might not stand it...

Hearing Ye Anping speak so lightly, Xiao Yunluo didn't know what to say.

The Demon King, Hu Mu, was a powerful cultivator in the Void Returning stage in terms of human cultivation.

What was the second idiot's level of cultivation now?

Fighting that guy, wasn't that asking for trouble?

Xiao Yunluo didn't understand, but it was Ye Anping who said it after all. She trusted Ye Anping, so she stopped thinking about it and nodded in agreement. "Okay."

Then, she pursed her lips, held Ye Anping's hand in her little hand, and placed it in front of her moist crescent moon.

"Then... then, you go ahead and serve me..."

Ye Anping sighed slightly. "Well... after today, the next time will be a month later. Sister Xiao, you must remember it clearly."

"I... I know! Hurry up... it will be dawn soon, and second idiot and Lianxue will get up."

"Sigh--"