Chapter 137

Chapter 137: Fang Qing Yu!

Shen Yue froze. Without Luo Ming Yue, they would have died or fled in shame. Now she was even leaving them the hides and fangs. That was already a huge favor. If Sheng Yuan said this, wouldn’t it offend her outright? Seeing Luo Ming Yue’s face darken all at once, Shen Yue’s head started buzzing. [First Senior Brother, are you crazy?]

“First Senior Brother, don’t say that,” Shen Yue blurted. “Without Senior Sister Luo, how could we have killed these Wolf Demons? She only took three cores. That’s a massive favor.”

Sheng Yuan answered at once: “Senior Sister Luo, we’re of the same sect. Helping each other is how it should be. And you know our situation. We’re short on resources, and you don’t lack anything. Since that’s the case, why fight us over this?”

Then he looked at Li Shuang and said: “Senior Sister Li, when we did missions before, you often helped. You never took a single reward during the mission.”

He spoke as if it were only right. He saw nothing wrong. That had always been how they worked together. Li Shuang gave without conditions, and they took the benefits. She had never objected.

Now that they were in trouble, wasn’t it normal for her to help more?

Li Shuang gave him a baffled look, then said to Luo Ming Yue in a calm voice: “First Senior Sister, I don’t think we need to leave them the hides and fangs either.”

Luo Ming Yue had worried Li Shuang might go soft. Hearing this, she flashed a bright smile and said: “Exactly! Some people don’t deserve any face. Clean it all up. Leave them nothing.”

Li Shuang’s group answered at once. Working together, they cleared the Wolf Demon corpses until nothing of value remained.

Shen Yue’s face turned pale. They could have had at least a little to show for it. And it would have been a gift from Luo Ming Yue. Now they had nothing at all. He couldn’t even bring himself to feel angry, only weak and helpless.

“Senior Sister Li,” Sheng Yuan said, stunned, “are you really going to be this heartless?”

He staggered a few steps forward and said: “Do you know the confinement these last days left an injury in my legs that won’t heal? I might never walk normally again.”

He stared at Li Shuang, stubborn and pleading. He didn’t believe that she could truly not care.

Li Shuang looked at him evenly and said: “And then?”

And then? Those three light words shattered every expectation. Sheng Yuan’s lips trembled. So many years of feelings, and in front of those words they turned into a joke. Ye Zhao Zhao was already dead. He himself had become like this. Wasn’t that enough to repay what was owed?

Shen Yue steadied Sheng Yuan and looked at Li Shuang with a complicated expression: “Senior Sister Li, I’m sorry. First Senior Brother just hasn’t gotten past this bump in his heart.”

Li Shuang nodded and chose not to deal with them anymore. After clearing the Wolf Demons, the Emotionless Peak group prepared to leave.

Suddenly, Li Shuang sensed something. Her pupils tightened. She turned and looked into the distance.

A figure was walking slowly toward them.

Li Li’s voice rang in her mind: “So smelly, Sister Li Shuang. It’s so smelly!”

Li Shuang hurried to soothe Li Li. Her gaze grew colder. As Li Li reacted, the Supreme Unfeeling Art also stirred faintly. The woman coming toward them held a fierce, focused malice for her. This level of hatred, she had only ever felt from one person.

The answer was obvious. Other than Ye Zhao Zhao, who else could it be?

Expressionless, Li Shuang watched the newcomer. Ye Zhao Zhao had changed her face completely. Before, she had looked pitiful and fragile. Now her brows and eyes were clean and sharp. Without that bone-deep malice giving her away, Li Shuang would not have recognized her.

A chill rose in Li Shuang’s heart. Ye Zhao Zhao had not died. She had been hovering near the Sword Sect all along. She was desperate to strike again. So the moment Li Shuang left the Sword Sect, she appeared.

Ye Zhao Zhao’s gaze locked onto Li Shuang. Her body trembled with excitement. Fate and luck were strange things. In the future scenes she had seen, Li Shuang’s fate line tangled again and again with those of the people from Ling Xu Peak. Though the lines had shifted now, the entanglement was hard to cut. That meant if she followed Sheng Yuan and Shen Yue, there was a high chance she would run into Li Shuang.

As expected, under the inertia of fate, she met Li Shuang again.

“Miss Fang,” Shen Yue said with a cupped-fist salute, “didn’t you leave earlier on urgent business? Why did you come back?”

Li Shuang watched coldly. Miss Fang? It seemed Ye Zhao Zhao had changed her identity and already crossed paths with Sheng Yuan and Shen Yue.

Luo Ming Yue’s group had planned to leave at once, but since Li Shuang didn’t move, they stayed too.

Ye Zhao Zhao smiled gently and said: “I did have urgent business and meant to leave, but I kept worrying about you two, so I came to help. I didn’t expect you would meet fellow disciples here and all the Wolf Demons would be slain already, so I wasn’t needed.”

She looked a little embarrassed. Shen Yue nodded and said: “I see.” Then he introduced them: “This is Fang Qing Yu, Miss Fang. She was the one who pointed us to the Wolf Demons’ trail. Otherwise we would have wasted a lot of time. Miss Fang, these are several of my Sword Sect Senior Brother and Senior Sisters: Senior Sister Luo, Senior Sister Li, Senior Sister Jiang, and Senior Brother Liu.”

Ye Zhao Zhao’s eyes flickered as she said with a smile: “I thought there were only two Wolf Demons. I figured you two are Sword Sect Disciples with excellent sword skills, so dealing with them would be easy. I didn’t expect a whole pack. My intel was wrong. I nearly cost you your lives.”

A shadow passed through her gaze. She hated the people of Ling Xu Peak deeply. She had known a wolf pack hid in this mountain, but she wasn’t its match. Relying on the speed of her Wind Spiritual Root, she had left early. When Sheng Yuan and Shen Yue happened to take the mission, she pointed them straight here. If they died in the wolves’ jaws, that was on them. If fate pulled Li Shuang to them, then she could lock onto her target again.

Now it seemed the two still had some use. Following them had truly led her back to Li Shuang.

[In her mind, she called out: “System, parasitize Li Shuang!”] She had lost once. This was the second time. She refused to believe she would fail again. Li Shuang, laughing for a moment means nothing. The one who laughs last is the real winner. [You might be thinking: I even got a chance to start over?]