Chapter 071

Chapter 71: True Intent

Rank in seniority is set by the Disciple Token. Ye Wan Wan had found the one thing that could pin Shen Nan Zhou down.

Shen Nan Zhou looked completely unbothered as he said coolly: “It’s just a title. If senior sister likes it, I can be the junior sister.”

Ye Wan Wan: “…”

Still so stubborn.

Fang He An and Li Wan Zhi squinted at Shen Nan Zhou and asked with fake seriousness: “Are you cross-dressing?”

Shen Nan Zhou: “…”

“How about we try it?”

They exchanged a look and lunged. Shen Nan Zhou dodged at once. After chasing him for a long while, they still had not even touched the corner of his robe.

Shen Nan Zhou shook his head, wanting to stop this foolish game.

Ye Wan Wan and Bai Jian shared a glance and moved in perfect sync. Bai Jian stepped lightly and appeared behind Shen Nan Zhou. Shen Nan Zhou spun around instantly, but Bai Jian had already reached out and gave him a little shove.

Li Wan Zhi and Fang He An, waiting behind Shen Nan Zhou, shouted together: “Got him!”

Li Wan Zhi crowed with delight: “Let’s see where you run this time!”

Shen Nan Zhou: “…”

Bai Jian looked at Shen Nan Zhou, now pinned left and right, and tilted her head as she said: “You keep dodging. That’s not fun.”

Shen Nan Zhou frowned. He seemed to want to say something, but he let Fang He An and Li Wan Zhi hook their arms through his. He did not struggle, though he looked a little unhappy.

Fang He An laughed and said: “Junior brother, we have been coming to Snow Mountain every day these days, and you have been coming every day too. Why don’t you come inside? Are you shy?”

Shen Nan Zhou answered flatly: “I am not.”

Li Wan Zhi clicked his tongue and said: “Look at that sour face. Even if you were shy, you would never admit it. Junior sister, after you passed out that day, my master chased after the Supreme Sect to settle accounts. During the chaos, he rushed forward and stabbed Ji Chang Huai once. He almost got seriously hurt, and Xun Yin senior uncle had to force him back.”

Ye Wan Wan froze and asked in surprise: “He stabbed Ji Chang Huai? Why?”

Fang He An and Li Wan Zhi tightened their grips and urged him: “Junior brother, say it. Why?”

All four looked at him. Shen Nan Zhou turned his face aside and said: “No reason. He annoyed me.”

Fang He An pushed his head close and groaned: “How can you be this awkward.”

Shen Nan Zhou had never been this close to anyone. He sprang up, bumping both of them away. Li Wan Zhi clutched his arm and yowled: “I have internal injuries.”

Shen Nan Zhou said coolly: “Keep pretending,” then turned and walked out.

Fang He An shook his head and sighed: “Still a kid.”

Ye Wan Wan watched Shen Nan Zhou’s back and fell into thought. In her last life, Shen Nan Zhou always had the final say. Seeing him held down by Li Wan Zhi and Fang He An and forced to listen was strangely new. Also, when he clearly noticed senior sister appear behind him just now, he did not strike back.

Ye Wan Wan rubbed her Disciple Token. [My guess should be right.]

She suddenly spoke up with a smile: “Senior sister, senior brother, want to split the spoils?”

All three pairs of eyes lit up. The “I’m injured” act vanished as Li Wan Zhi jumped up and sprinted out of the cave: “I’m going to drag fifth junior brother back.”

Fang He An called after him: “We will save him a share when we split. No need to call him.”

Without turning back, Li Wan Zhi shouted: “You don’t get it, senior brother. If he doesn’t come, how do we split his share to him?”

Fang He An paused, then muttered: “Curses, that actually makes sense.”

When Shen Nan Zhou returned and took out his Spatial Pouch, it was empty. The four faces fell at once. Li Wan Zhi voiced the thought in Ye Wan Wan’s heart as he asked in disbelief: “You didn’t take anything?”

Shen Nan Zhou frowned and said: “Isn’t it the same if you took it?”

Li Wan Zhi jabbed a finger at the ground and protested: “These are the spoils after the five of us joined up. Back when we were acting alone, how did you end up with not even one treasure?”

Shen Nan Zhou gave Ye Wan Wan a faint glance and said: “I didn’t make it in time, because someone pulled things up by the roots.”

Ye Wan Wan: “…”

She changed the topic briskly and said: “Then let’s start dividing now.”

Except for the Core Formation Fruit Tree, Ye Wan Wan took everything else out. The tree was rare, but Bai Jian and the others had already reached Core Formation and did not need it.

Seeing Ye Wan Wan’s pile of spoils, all four fell silent for a beat. Shen Nan Zhou did not look too surprised, but Li Wan Zhi and Fang He An stared with wide eyes.

Li Wan Zhi sputtered: “Did you empty the whole secret realm?”

Bai Jian touched her ring, a little sheepish. She had so few things. What should she do?

Fang He An scratched his head and said: “This split wouldn’t be fair. Junior sister, put your things away. We’ll start counting from after Cloud Mountain Cave. Those are the gains the five of us collected together, so we split them into five shares. The things from before that, whoever picked them up keeps them.”

Ye Wan Wan opened her mouth to speak, but Fang He An waved his hand and said with a grin: “I am the senior brother. That’s settled. You worked so hard to get those. We can’t steal your credit.”

Greediest by nature, Li Wan Zhi still nodded and said: “Right. I love money, but I still have a face. A senior brother shouldn’t take advantage of a junior sister. What’s yours is yours. I don’t want it.”

Fang He An added: “If anyone needs something, we can trade, but no one takes things for free.”

Bai Jian pointed at Fang He An and said: “Listen to him.”

So Ye Wan Wan did not argue. Fang He An sorted the ores and herbs from the last two places and split them into five shares. If something could not be divided exactly, he balanced the shares with other items. When he finished, every share was about the same.

Li Wan Zhi grinned so wide he could not close his mouth and crowed: “We’re rich. If we take these to the Spirit Market, we can trade for a lot of Spirit Stones.”

Fang He An smacked him lightly and scolded: “This Rainbow Stone can raise Primordial Spirit Power, and you want to sell it. Do you not want to improve your cultivation? These rare ores are for Artifact Refining. And this Flame Tempering Ganoderma was set aside for you on purpose. If you dare sell them, I’ll ask senior uncle to deal with you.”

Li Wan Zhi muttered: “…I was just talking.”

Fang He An said with a huff: “You can sell a few common ores, but the rest must not be sold. Use resources on yourself first.”

Li Wan Zhi grumbled: “Got it.”

Right then, Fang He An and Li Wan Zhi pushed half of the seven-colored stones from the pile over to Ye Wan Wan’s share. Ye Wan Wan blinked in surprise.

Fang He An explained: “We don’t really know your cultivation method. Before we set out, I asked the sect master, our senior uncle, what you might need. He said your number of Core Condensation is different from ours, and later, to control your Golden Core, you’ll spend a lot of Primordial Spirit Power. So anything that boosts Primordial Spirit Power is best for you.”

He paused and added: “Before we went in, we agreed that whenever we saw such treasures, we’d take them for you. We were lucky. The secret realm happened to have a whole Rainbow Stone mine, so the three of us went there together.”

It was because of that shared goal that Bai Jian and the others, who should have been scattered through the secret realm, finally gathered in the same mine area.