Chapter 0173

Chapter 173: Junior Brother and Senior Sister: Eat and Take

“Senior Sister, stop teasing,” said Zhou Tong, forcing down the heat in his chest.

“You useless blockhead,” she snapped.

She straightened up. The Power of the Primordial One sharpened like a blade and sliced the golden rope with ease. The rope was no common thing. It was a Life-and-Death-grade tool forged by a Half Saint, able to bind even Reincarnation experts. Too bad it met a Yin Yang Dao Physique that played by no one’s rules.

Zhang Chu Qiao stored the rope away and shot Zhou Tong a wounded look that made his scalp prickle. Senior Sister was truly angry. The situation was tricky, the stakes were high, and the consequences serious. If he didn’t coax her now, she would bring this up forever later.

Zhou Tong wasn’t great at soothing girls, but Little White was.

“Houla!” Little White, in tiny form, landed in front of Senior Sister with a pitiful face that begged for mercy. Zhang Chu Qiao couldn’t help smiling.

She said with a sideways glance: “Little White knows how to care for his mom. Not like someone who doesn’t know romance. Tell me, does that heartless one look down on me?”

Zhou Tong shook his head like crazy, and Little White shook so hard he left afterimages.

“Heh,” she breathed.

The great beauty cast Zhou Tong a sly glance and smiled. She said: “So it isn’t dislike. Little White, if he makes me angry again, how should I teach him a lesson?”

“Houla!” Little White punched, the air popping.

“Right, like that. If he angers me again, I will… I will bite him to death,” she said.

“Pfft,” Zhou Tong laughed, and Senior Sister laughed too. The tense air melted away.

“Houla…” Little White slunk back, drained. With parents like these, the bumpy days were still ahead.

Zhou Tong studied the gourd’s insides. It was time to leave.

Boom. The yin and yang qi slammed into them, heavy and scorching, trying to refine them into nothing.

“Fiery, aren’t you?” said Zhou Tong.

“Fiery just means dinner for your sister,” said Zhang Chu Qiao with pride.

Using yin and yang against a Yin Yang Dao Physique? She truly appreciated their “wisdom.”

She pinched a seal. In an instant, endless yin-yang qi congealed into a black-and-white pearl, and she swallowed it. Her aura climbed fast, popping up two small steps to Reincarnation Third Layer.

“In that case, I’ll take the gourd,” said Zhou Tong, eyes gleaming.

His spirit sense swept the gourd and found two control imprints. One was the main mark, from the gourd’s true master. The other was an auxiliary mark from Li Gui.

To avoid spooking the owner, Zhou Tong shrouded the main mark with spirit force, crushed the auxiliary one, and stamped his own brand in. An Emperor Grade Spirit was just that domineering.

With the theft done, Junior Brother and Senior Sister had both eaten and taken.

Outside, Li Gui hummed a tune when the gourd bucked violently in his hands.

“Wh-what’s happening?”

Before he finished, smoke wafted out. Zhou Tong appeared, and the gourd fell into his hand.

“That’s impossible. You should have melted into liquid,” said Li Chang, stunned.

“That is my gourd. Give it back,” cried Li Gui, reaching for it.

“What yours and mine? What’s yours is mine,” said Zhou Tong with a cold smile.

A breath of force rolled out and crippled them both with ease.

“Senior Sister, don’t kill them yet,” said Zhou Tong. “They carry spirit brands. If we kill them, we’ll alert the Li Clan. And I still need them.”

He stopped Senior Sister, then lifted the gourd and aimed it at the two.

“Li Gui, Li Chang,” he called.

The two clamped their mouths shut and didn’t answer.

“Senior Sister, arrange them,” said Zhou Tong.

“This is my specialty,” said Zhang Chu Qiao with a wicked grin.

She gifted each of them a snap kick to the groin.

“Ahhh!”

Their screams started, and they were sucked into the gourd. Even a scream was still an answer.

“You two lapdogs should get a good taste too,” said Zhou Tong, shaking the gourd. The yin-yang qi inside had been refined away. Now it was just a treasure for imprisoning people.

“Careful. Those strange creatures are coming again,” said Zhang Chu Qiao.

Her brows tightened. She took a ready stance, cold energy pouring off her.

“Good timing,” said Zhou Tong.

Ripples dotted the air and formed bodies.

“Kill,” they said together.

They unleashed their power, pushing forward like chopping vegetables.

Zhou Tong had already found the path to the second layer ahead.

“Boom!”

After who knew how long of fighting, they stopped when they heard other sounds of battle.

“There are people ahead,” said Zhou Tong.

“Let’s go in slow,” said Zhang Chu Qiao.

They snapped the last strange creature’s neck, suppressed their auras, and crept forward.

“It’s the Upper Clarity Sect. They’re fighting the Beastmaster Sect,” whispered Zhang Chu Qiao.

Zhou Tong paused in surprise.

“The Beastmaster Sect is one of the five major sects. Do they have a grudge?”

The Upper Three Sects versus the Five Sects—he thought the fight would end fast. But it didn’t. The Upper Clarity Sect was on the back foot. Not because they were useless, but because the Beastmaster Sect had seized the terrain. They could control the strange creatures here and use them to surround the Upper Clarity Sect.

“Bullies,” growled the Upper Clarity captain, Chu Ran. He was also at the Life-and-Death Realm. He fought with one hand and shielded his disciples with the other.

He shouted: “Once we leave this place, can you bear the Upper Clarity Sect’s wrath?”

“Do you think you will leave alive?” the Beastmaster leader said with a cold smile. “This is debt you owe. When the Righteous Alliance attacked the Joyous Union Sect, you fled in the middle and dodged the Chief Enforcer’s punishment. Why should you get away with it?”

“Blame yourselves for being blind,” said Chu Ran, striking harder.

“Rubbish. We were one alliance. Why should you live while we die? Hand over your light specks and you get a quick end,” said the Beastmaster elder.

“In your dreams,” said Chu Ran, teeth clenched. He would rather die than give in.

A figure drifted out from the Beastmaster ranks and slapped toward Chu Ran’s head.

“Not good. They have another Life-and-Death expert,” said Chu Ran, face falling. The hidden one had tricked his senses completely.

In that instant, a light flashed in his mind. He glanced past the attacker’s shoulder and said suddenly: “Zhou Tong, you came!”

The two enemies jerked in shock, exposing flaws.

“Now,” thought Chu Ran. He stepped in without mercy and smashed each of them with a palm, sending them staggering and coughing blood.

“You tricked us!” roared the Beastmaster elder.

“All’s fair in war,” said Chu Ran with a mocking smile. “Didn’t think you were so scared of a teenager. Is the Joyous Union Sect that terrifying?”

That set them off at once.

“Nonsense. That brat is nothing. He is a bug. His master looks cheap and low. One day she’ll be our plaything,” the elder spat.

Zhang Chu Qiao sighed and touched her forehead. A razor-cold killing intent burned around her.

[These people really don’t know how to live.]