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Translator: Tamon
Translation Checker: Silavin
“Here I was expecting some bigshot but it’s just a puny mortal.” Li Batian snickered.
Qiu Qiantu eyed him, “A mortal through and through.”
Ling Bao’er complained, “Humph, Master is no mortal. He even killed Li Xiao, so get lost while you have the chance.”
Chen Changan smacked her again for that remark.
“Ow, why did you hit me again, Master?”
Chen Changan glared, “Stay quiet. No one would think that you are mute if you just stay silent!”
“Oh!”
[Those are my walking and breathing domain points! What will I do once you scare them off?]
Qiu Qiantu frowned, focusing on Chen Changan. [He’s completely average no matter how you look at it.]
“I don’t believe it. He couldn’t have killed Li Xiao, who has already developed his Golden Core!”
Chen Changan smiled, “Big guy, you’re right, there’s no way I could’ve done that. This kid only knows to run her mouth.”
Ling Bao’er pouted, [I’m not a kid. Master, you’re just lying through your teeth.]
“Ling Bao’er, where’s Li Xiao? Does he have the immortal treasure?” Li Batian disdained Chen Changan and asked Ling Bao’er.
She blinked in reply.
Chen Changan was the one to speak, “Li Xiao is resting in the temple. The immortal treasure is with him as well.”
Ling Bao’er grinned. [You’re so shrewd, Master. Li Xiao is dead and is doing a great job as fertilizer for the plants.]
Li Batian laughed. He didn’t believe Chen Changan would dare lie to him.
“Li Xiao did a good job!”
Qiu Qiantu’s face fell. [Damn it! I’m too late.]
“Sect Leader Qiu, better scram back to your Ghost Skull Sect. Ha-ha-ha, let’s go inside the temple!”
Li Batian waved his two Elders with him.
Chen Changan was watching Qiu Qiantu’s group a few meters out of Absolute Domain’s range, “Didn’t you come for the immortal treasure?”
Qiu Qiantu scowled in silence. He didn’t know Evil Dragon Den sent Li Xiao ahead. That meant he was dealing with four Golden Core cultivators. His side only had three, with the rest being in Foundation Establishment. It would take a miracle to pry the immortal treasure from Li Batian now.
Even with all that, Qiu Qiantu was still not ready to call it quits. The immortal treasure was within reach. Taking it once it got to the Evil Dragon Den was impossible. [Am I just going to give up?]
Chen Changan thought, [Shame, with the Ghost Skull Sect’s team not entering the Absolute Domain, I can’t reach them.]’
Qiu Qiantu shouted, “Get the immortal treasure at all costs!”
Spiritual power exploded and formed a dark wind as Qiu Qiantu led his men inside the temple.
Chen Changan grinned, “Fell for it hook, line and sinker.”
“Master, what hook?”
“Them, aren’t they hooked?” The saying went right over Ling Bao’er’s head.
Li Batian and Qiu Qiantu entered the Absolute Domain and Chen Changan could now rest easy. He walked over to the stove, smelled the meat stew and gulped.
“Bao’er, you’re a natural cook.”
Ling Bao’er giggled, acting spoiled as she hugged his hand, “Master, of course I am, and I’ll be sure to let you enjoy my cooking every day.”
Chen Changan found it cloyingly sappy, staring back at her. “Where are you getting at with the cute act?”
“Master, you’re so amazing, so I was thinking if maybe you could get your dear disciple revenge.”
Yesterday, Ling Bao’er and her fellow Nine Swords Sect disciples came in search of the immortal treasure, but only she survived, with Li Xiao killing the rest of them.
Li Xiao was dead, but it turned out that Li Batian gave the orders.
Ling Bao’er wanted to kill his group and avenge her fellow disciples, but with her minute strength, the only possibility of making that a reality was through Chen Changan.
“Revenge is something you have to get yourself.”
“Ah…” Ling Bao’er flinched, “Master, those are Golden Core experts. Who knows how many years it would take me to take revenge as I am.”
Li Batian and Qiu Qiantu had just entered the temple in the meantime. They grimaced as bloodthirst leaked from their every pore. They searched the immortal temple, but there was no sign of Li Xiao, not to mention the immortal treasure.
They knew Chen Changan fooled them.
[Damn it! A mortal dares to make a fool of us? I am going to snap his neck!]
Qiu Qiantu eased his breathing. With the immortal treasure not with Li Batian, he still had a chance of getting it.
Li Batian glared at Chen Changan, “You little cretin dare to mess with me? I’ll wring your neck and use your skull for a chamber pot!”
Ling Bao’er started, ducking behind Chen Changan, but the latter smiled at her. “Bao’er, don’t you want revenge?”
“Oh, Master, I do, but I can’t do it.” Ling Bao’er cried.
Going after them meant death.
“Don’t be so sure. Are you perhaps questioning your handsome and carefree Master?”
Ling Bao’er’s mouth twitched, “Master, I’m nothing but a measly Foundation Establishment cultivator.”
“Hardly a problem. If you’re a measly Foundation Establishment cultivator, then they’re insignificant Qi Refining cultivators.”
Chen Changan chuckled with a snap of his fingers.
“Ah! My cultivation!” Li Batian howled.
The other two Evil Dragon Den elders felt their cultivation drop all the way to the Qi Refining Stage.
Li Batian’s group was dumbstruck. Qiu Qiantu was stumped. Ling Bao’er was floored.
