Chapter 422

Chapter 422: The Best Choice for a Pauper
“Impossible!” Su Ming stepped out to object: “If Yu Zhao wanted to go back to the Cultivation World, how would Dao Lord Tai Wei ever agree?”

They had all been there back then. Anyone with eyes could see how fond Dao Lord Tai Wei was of Yu Zhao.

After Yu Zhao agreed to go back with her, how could she possibly let Yu Zhao leave?

Unless something unexpected happened on the way…

Fang Cheng Lang clenched his fists tight, his eyes filled with bone-deep hatred.

“Ye Cong Xin!”

It was her!

It had to be her doing!

Fang Cheng Lang bitterly regretted that he had not been able to kill her with one sword strike back then.

If Little Six had really met with misfortune, how would he still have the face to keep living in this world?

Fang Cheng Lang’s expression grew darker and darker. His right hand slowly lifted and rested on his flying sword.

“First Senior Brother, Little Zhao not being in the Bei Ming Realm does not mean she has met with an accident.”

Cui Jue had keenly noticed Fang Cheng Lang’s movement and spoke in a cold voice.

Fang Cheng Lang’s hand trembled. He lowered his right hand and said: “You are right. Little Six is so smart, nothing will happen to her.”

The blessed are always protected by the heavens.

Little Six would definitely be safe and sound.

“What matters most for us now is to stay alive, grow stronger, and leave this place! Put everything else aside and do not think about it!”

At this moment, Cui Jue had no choice but to step forward.

There had once been friction between them as fellow disciples, but now that they were in this strange world, the four of them had to let go of their grudges, unite, and twist into a single rope.

Otherwise, sooner or later this cruel world would pick them off one by one, and they would never be able to return to their homeland.

Fang Cheng Lang and the other two looked at each other and nodded heavily.

No matter how hard it was, they had to endure it.

If they endured, there would be hope of going home.

…

“You want to ride a starship?”

“Is it inconvenient?”

A just-right hint of apology appeared on Yu Zhao’s face, as if she felt embarrassed for making such an unreasonable request.

Tu Xiao snapped back to his senses and hurriedly denied it: “No, it is not inconvenient at all. It would be my pleasure.”

He even felt a bit secretly pleased.

The Feng Clan and the Shui Clan both had starships, yet Yu Zhao had made this request only of him. How was that not special treatment?

In this round, he was still the one to gain the upper hand first.

“Traveling by starship needs some preparation. Where do you want to go? I will have people get things ready in advance.”

Yu Zhao tapped her forehead in distress: “I am not very familiar with the Southern Region.”

In truth, she did not have any place she especially wanted to visit. She only wanted to understand the whole process of traveling by starship to prepare for the future.

Tu Xiao pondered for a moment and came up with an idea.

“You have already been to the Wind Realm and the Water Realm. Why not come with me to the Earth Domain as a guest this time?”

Tu Xiao’s tone sounded like he was asking, but his expression already carried a certain unquestionable certainty.

Sure enough, Yu Zhao did not reject his suggestion and agreed with a smile.

As soon as she returned to her room, the news that she would go with Tu Xiao to the Earth Domain as a guest spread everywhere.

It was not hard to guess who had spread it.

Before long, three visitors arrived at Yu Zhao’s room.

By the time they set out the next day, Tu Xiao was glaring angrily at the three uninvited men.

Huo Shao Yan had a thick skin. He did not feel the least bit embarrassed. Grinning cheekily, he slung an arm over Tu Xiao’s shoulder and said: “I have not ridden a starship in a long time. This time I will mooch off Young Master Tu’s good fortune.”

Tu Xiao pulled his arm away in disgust, but he did not refuse.

They had already laid down some ground rules beforehand.

They would never interfere with the other competitors. Everyone would rely on their own abilities.

Yu Zhao watched the two of them bicker and, smiling, said to Feng Jiu Si beside her: “Their relationship is really good.”

Feng Jiu Si’s lips curved in a deep smile: “After all, they have the bond of growing up together.”

Yu Zhao sneered inwardly.

[To them, feelings are probably the least valuable thing. Only shared interests can tie them together.]

After exchanging a few more barbs with Huo Shao Yan, Tu Xiao finally took the starship out from his storage space.

Seen up close, the array patterns on the bright silver surface of the starship looked even more profound and mysterious.

Yu Zhao had been obsessed with arrays lately. She could not help glancing a few more times and suddenly had the illusion that even her soul was being sucked in. Her body swayed involuntarily.

“Cut!”

A low shout exploded by Yu Zhao’s ear. Her soul instantly snapped back, and a pinprick-like pain came from her sea of consciousness.

Tu Xiao frowned and said: “With your cultivation level, trying to understand the mysteries of those array patterns is still too much of a stretch. Do not be so reckless in the future.”

Yu Zhao’s face was pale as she forced a weak smile: “I am sorry. I will be more careful from now on.”

Seeing how miserable she felt, Feng Jiu Si immediately realized this was a chance to gain her favor.

He took out a pill that could soothe and nourish the soul and handed it to Yu Zhao, while saying to Tu Xiao with some displeasure: “Liu Yun has never dealt with starships before. It is one thing if you did not warn her earlier, but how could you still bear to blame her?”

Yu Zhao took the pill bottle and cast Feng Jiu Si a grateful look.

“I…” A trace of regret flashed through Tu Xiao’s eyes.

From the bottom of his heart he looked down on Yu Zhao, so of course he would not consider things from her perspective. He only felt that she had overestimated herself.

He had originally wanted to use the starship to increase Yu Zhao’s favorable impression of him, yet now Feng Jiu Si had seized the opportunity and stepped on him instead. Unwilling, he took out an even more precious bottle of pills and shoved it into Yu Zhao’s hands.

“Liu Yun, I only spoke harshly just now because I was worried about you. I apologize. Please do not be mad at me, all right?”

Yu Zhao of course would not be angry.

She accepted the apologetic pills and said a few soft words to coax Tu Xiao into a good mood, while secretly sighing in her heart.

[Ye Cong Xin really has pushed the art of reading people to the extreme.]

She had learned less than thirty percent from Ye Cong Xin, yet it was enough to have these few men wrapped around her finger.

If Ye Cong Xin’s true self descended, these people probably would not even be enough for her to toy with alone.

Speaking of which, she did not know whether Ye Cong Xin was currently dead or alive.

Back then, they had entered the spatial passage together. Since she herself had survived, Ye Cong Xin probably had not met with an accident either; after all, there was still a malevolent spirit with at least Divine Transformation cultivation inside her body.

“Liu Yun, you can board now.”

Yu Zhao came back to herself at Tu Xiao’s shout.

She pushed down her stray thoughts, smiled at Tu Xiao, and stepped onto the starship.

Yu Zhao did not know whether the inside of the starship had been specially decorated in advance by people of the Tu Clan or if it had always been arranged so properly and comfortably, but it was simple yet tasteful, and spacious enough to accommodate dozens of people.

Once Yu Zhao went in, she did not feel crowded at all.

After Tu Xiao and the other three entered one after another, Tu Xiao closed the entrance, walked to the front, placed three pieces of spirit jade into their corresponding slots, and then gave the starship the order to take off.

The starship quickly rose into the air. Only by deliberately heightening her senses could Yu Zhao sense the faint, almost undetectable feeling of weightlessness.

Tu Xiao found a place to sit and remarked casually: “The starship is good in every way, except that it consumes too much spirit jade.”

Huo Shao Yan curled his lip and said: “It is only three pieces of spirit jade for a round trip. You are Young Master Tu. Do you mean to say you cannot afford that?”

“I can afford it,” Tu Xiao said, “but taking a spatial transmission corridor only costs a hundred high-grade spirit stones. It is much more cost-effective than taking a starship.”

“That is true. A starship is just for the novelty.”

“…”

Hearing their discussion, Yu Zhao silently crossed out her plan to escape by starship.

[So much for escaping by starship.]

“Spatial transmission corridor.”

[The best choice for a pauper.]