Senior Brother Has You Covered

Qi Yuan looked into the distance and saw many brightly colored garments floating within the Attire Forbidden Area.

"These little monsters are designed pretty creatively."

There were brightly colored clothes of every kind: gauze skirts, short tunics, long robes, vests, nursing skirts, coats, overalls... ancient and modern attire alike, everything one could possibly want.

These garments floated through the air like living creatures.

Yet when Qi Yuan entered the Attire Forbidden Area, all those brightly colored clothes turned toward him in perfect unison.

The clothes had no heads. Their necks were hollow, yet Qi Yuan felt as if countless pairs of eyes were staring at him.

"Their backing is hard. Run!"

Qi Yuan immediately ran.

Although he was already level 82, there were simply too many Clothing Monsters in the Attire Forbidden Area.

There were over ten thousand of them before his eyes, and quite a few were above level fifty.

Most importantly, although the vicious beasts and monsters in the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area were powerful, they had no complete organizational structure and fought on their own.

But these clothes now clearly resembled an army.

If Qi Yuan made a move, these garments would probably swarm him at once.

Qi Yuan fled in the most shameful manner possible.

About a quarter of an hour later, Qi Yuan finally let out a breath.

"I finally got away."

He took out the Great Treasure Sword and stabbed it straight into the ground.

He immediately dug out a huge pit.

No one knew how many miles deep it was.

He dug with practiced ease.

After all, he was used to it.

He lay down inside the pit.

Only then did he notice the message Jin Li had sent through the chat interface.

He immediately replied, "I didn't lie to you. You can enter the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area if you carry a ladder on your back. There's no danger."

How could rules he had personally decreed possibly go wrong?

Of course, when he saw Jin Li say that she intended to make a trip to the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area herself, Qi Yuan still took a look at his game screen.

The game screen showed that the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area was in the controlled stage.

In other words, the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area was his item.

He sent another message. "Don't worry, it's fine. Go boldly."

Meanwhile, Qi Yuan on Seven Colors Peak looked at the moonlit sky and felt somewhat tired.

Perhaps he had played the game for too long and exhausted too much mental energy.

He said to Jin Li in the game, "There are too many Clothing Monsters in the Attire Forbidden Area. I'll farm monsters again tomorrow.

I dug a pit and buried myself in the dirt.

I'm logging off. Good night."

After Qi Yuan finished speaking, he put down the Game Jade Slip.

The Game Jade Slip then merged into his body.

Elsewhere, within a palace shrouded in pitch-black night, Jin Li, who had already fallen asleep, suddenly opened her eyes.

Her gaze fell upon the Exquisite Jade Tide. When she saw its contents, an indescribable emotion flashed through her eyes.

"Alright. Be careful and stay safe. Good night."

It was merely a simple greeting.

At the same time, at the Prime Minister's Residence.

Sima Ting had not yet gone to sleep.

A pile of official documents awaiting processing still sat on his desk.

Compared to Empress Jin Li, he was more like a capable politician who always placed profit above all else.

"Did the Empress make any unusual moves today?" Sima Ting put down an official document and asked slowly.

Beside him, a person entirely shrouded in shadow appeared and lowered his head. "The Empress met with the Minister of Revenue at noon today and mobilized disaster relief funds. In the afternoon, she went to see Old Madam Qin.

After returning to the palace, she spent all her time reviewing memorials and made no unusual moves.

However, during the night, she instructed a maid to retrieve information on the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area from the Library Pavilion."

"The Xuanyuan Forbidden Area?" Sima Ting smiled. "It seems she has no other methods left and can only place her hopes upon that ethereal Xuanyuan Forbidden Area."

Sima Ting knew that the battle appointment ten days later was extremely important to Empress Jin Li.

Once Empress Jin Li lost, the situation she was already struggling to sustain would come crashing down.

And now, Madam Qin had suffered grievous injuries and could not possibly be a match for Nanfeng Nation's National Teacher.

Therefore, Empress Jin Li had taken the risk and gone to the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area, hoping to enter it, obtain Spiritual Herbs, and heal Madam Qin.

That was Sima Ting's guess.

"Her Majesty has already reached the end of the road. There's no need to concern ourselves with her." Sima Ting did not take Jin Li seriously at all. What he truly needed to watch out for and worry about were the Northern Khan Royal Court's collaborators and the Heavenly Revelation General stationed at the border.

However, after picking up an official document, he added, "Take some people and follow her. See whether anything unexpected happens."

It was better to be cautious in all things.

A familiar tune sounded.

With a wave of Qi Yuan's hand, the Wooden Cat Puppet was sealed once more and could no longer make a sound.

But this time, Qi Yuan unusually opened his eyes.

"The sun's already shining on my backside.

As Seven Colors Peak's senior brother, I need to set an example for my junior sister. I can't sleep in."

Although the Shinguang Sect disciples had already finished their morning cultivation at this time,

for Qi Yuan, getting up this early was a rare occurrence.

After washing up, Qi Yuan stretched lazily. Sunlight shone upon his face, making him appear utterly indolent.

But because he was too handsome, even his laziness seemed exceptionally refined.

"Morning, Junior Sister." As soon as Qi Yuan stepped into the courtyard, he saw Jiang Lingsu, whose body was soaked in foul-smelling sweat.

He did not approach her and deliberately kept his distance.

Information about Jiang Lingsu also appeared within his field of vision.

This was an ordinary young girl. She possessed many Dao arts and cultivated diligently, hoping that one day she would gain the power to awe the world and prevent disasters from occurring again.

Seeing this, Qi Yuan's evaluation of Jiang Lingsu rose another notch.

Jiang Lingsu looked at Qi Yuan and frowned. "Senior Brother, why do you look so weak? It's like... you've indulged in excessive lust."

Qi Yuan froze for a moment.

He had merely played too many games and consumed too much mental energy.

At present, his strength was stuck at Qi Refining Completion, and he had yet to step into Foundation Establishment.

So wasn't it perfectly normal for playing games to consume too much energy?

Unfortunately, Qi Yuan still lacked two things if he wanted to enter Foundation Establishment.

One was a suitable technique.

The second was a suitable Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object.

As for a suitable technique, naturally, he would create one himself.

Although his cultivation was low, his eyes could see hidden information.

He could blindly create a technique, then continuously correct it through the hidden information.

By now, Qi Yuan had read through all the sect's techniques.

Unfortunately, he was still far from creating a technique.

Or rather, his accumulation was far too shallow.

However, when he had looked at Jiang Lingsu just now, he had seen that she possessed countless Dao arts.

He looked toward Jiang Lingsu and said, "Junior Sister, you need to save your senior brother."

He did not take Jiang Lingsu's verbal "attack" just now to heart.

"What is it?" Jiang Lingsu asked worriedly, afraid that something had gone wrong with her senior brother's cultivation.

"I can see that you come from an extraordinary background..."

"You want to borrow money?"

"Not at all. What I mean is, do you have any spare techniques? Regardless of grade, lend them to me so I can take a look," Qi Yuan said.

Jiang Lingsu sighed in relief. "How many techniques does Senior Brother want?"

"The more, the better, naturally," Qi Yuan said. "A few hundred would be best. A thousand would be even better."

Possessing many Dao arts meant the quantity certainly would not be small.

"Senior Brother, what do you need so many techniques for?" Jiang Lingsu asked.

Qi Yuan replied lazily, "Even if I told you, you wouldn't believe me.

Give me some techniques. Once my cultivation succeeds, the entire Shinguang Sect—no... the entire Azure Wave Realm—will have Senior Brother covering you!"

Jiang Lingsu burst into laughter at those words.

Covering her?

Did she need anyone to cover her?

Though Qi Yuan was taller than her and perhaps older as well, if they fought, Jiang Lingsu felt she could beat this senior brother one-handed.

"What do you need so many techniques for? Tell me," Jiang Lingsu asked again.

"To create my own technique." Qi Yuan did not hide it.

After all, no one in this world believed the truth.

For example, he had already exposed the fact that the sect master was a spy planted undercover, but unfortunately, no one believed him.

Jiang Lingsu was stunned.

Create his own technique?

This senior brother really dared to dream.

But after recalling something, she still took out a jade slip.

"Senior Brother, there are quite a few techniques in here. I'll lend them to you."

All these years, Ruan Yixi had accepted only one disciple: Senior Brother.

That showed Ruan Yixi certainly valued Qi Yuan greatly.

She needed to build a good relationship with Qi Yuan.

"I'm lending you the techniques, Senior Brother, but stop being addicted to games every day. Cultivate properly. In the future, you have to cover your junior sister," Jiang Lingsu said.

"Gaming is also a form of cultivation." Qi Yuan accepted the Technique Jade Slip.

As for the foul sweat smell on his junior sister's body, it no longer smelled foul to him now. Instead, it smelled sweet—after all, there were several hundred techniques inside her Technique Jade Slip.