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"Big Sister Ya Fei, do you think I have the ability to help you?"

Instead of answering, Chu Xiao asked a question. With a wave of his hand, he put away the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame and casually picked up his teacup.

"Of course you can." Ya Fei sat back down, propping both arms on the table and leaning forward slightly, allowing her cleavage to show faintly. Her eyes were filled with admiration. "An eighteen-year-old Grade 4 Alchemist—your talent surpasses even Pill King Gu He at the same age. Little brother, your future is boundless.

"If you reached this level through self-study, then your talent is beyond my imagination. If you have a teacher, then that teacher is very likely even more formidable than Pill King Gu He."

"Either way, helping me would be effortless for you. The question now is, what can I do for you?"

As she spoke, Ya Fei shifted a little closer to Chu Xiao, bringing a fragrant breeze with her.

"Big Sister Ya Fei, aren't you afraid that I might be lying to you?" Chu Xiao asked.

"Not at all." Ya Fei blinked playfully. "Setting everything else aside, your talent at reaching the Dou Master level at eighteen is certainly real. You are absolutely worth the investment of both me and the Mite'er Family. I only hope that when Little Brother Chu Xiao rises to prominence in the future, you won't forget to lend your sister a hand~"

Of course I'm not afraid, young man. You have no secrets before me.

Your thoughts are completely under my control.

"I like talking to clever people like you, Big Sister." Chu Xiao took a sip of tea and got straight to the point with Ya Fei. "The Mite Auction House does intelligence business, right?"

"What information does Little Brother Chu Xiao wish to investigate?" Ya Fei's beautiful eyes shimmered like a pool of spring water.

"No, I want you to find an opportunity to spread some information to the Jia Lie Family and the Oba Family." Chu Xiao's answer surprised Ya Fei.

"Tell them that I'm not a newly advanced Dou Master, but a seven-star Dou Master, and that I intend to accept Misty Cloud Sect Master Yun Yun's offer to take me as her disciple." A smile appeared on Chu Xiao's face. "With your abilities, Big Sister Ya Fei, it should be easy to make those two families fear me deeply and wish they could eliminate me as soon as possible, right?"

Ya Fei understood instantly.

Chu Xiao wanted her to stir up the Jia Lie and Oba Families' desire to kill him.

Dogs that had betrayed once would never have another chance to acknowledge a master. If they did not want the Xiao Family to rise again, they had to spare no effort in hunting down the Xiao Family's promising younger generation.

A threat like Chu Xiao had to be erased in the cradle.

"I understand." A smile bloomed on Ya Fei's face. "Once it's arranged, I'll come confirm the timing with you, then sell them your whereabouts at a high price so they can conveniently ambush you."

Talking to smart people really was worry-free. Chu Xiao smiled and nodded, then continued, "This is a small collaboration to deepen our relationship. Besides that, there's a major collaboration as well. I need a large quantity of medicinal ingredients for refining first-grade pills."

"After some time, I'll also need ingredients for refining second- and third-grade pills. We can cooperate long-term for a while."

Upon hearing this, a bewitching smile blossomed on Ya Fei's face. "Give me a list, Little Brother Chu Xiao. Your sister will definitely get it done for you."

Chu Xiao took out a list he had prepared long ago from his Storage Ring and handed it to Ya Fei.

Among the ten first-grade pill formulas he had inherited, several had excellent healing and Dou Qi recovery effects, far surpassing the few varieties circulating on the market, while costing less to produce.

Once large quantities of such pills were refined, the Xiao Family Marketplace could become the only family marketplace in Wutan City.

"Now that we've finished discussing business, I'll be leaving first. I still have quite a few matters to handle." Chu Xiao set down his empty teacup and slowly rose to his feet.

"Don't forget this." Ya Fei touched her chest and seemed to take a card from within it. "From now on, you are the highest-ranking guest of our Mite'er Family. With my current status in the family, I can only issue one such card. For any more, I would need to request approval from the family."

"I won't disappoint the importance you've placed on me, Big Sister Ya Fei." Chu Xiao accepted the card and stored it in his Storage Ring, his fingers casually brushing against Ya Fei's.

At the same time, he placed a damaged Dou Emperor Small World node on her body, sending it deep into her Sea of Consciousness.

Spatial nodes were a new ability he had gained through the Small World after breaking through to the Da Dou Shi level.

While inside the Small World, he could use those spatial nodes to leave it, provided he could sense them.

With his current Soul Power, he could only sense spatial nodes within a hundred zhang. Any farther away, he could only sense their general direction.

In other words, through the Small World and spatial nodes, he could teleport up to a hundred zhang away. This was a power only Dou Zongs could grasp, and once he broke through to the Dou Zong level, he would not face any hardware bottlenecks.

However, at his current soul level, aside from himself being a spatial node, he could only condense two additional spatial nodes.

Yet he still gave one to Ya Fei without hesitation. He planned to give the other to Xun Er.

After binding a Diary Copy, he could clearly sense the location of its owner.

If he visualized the Diary, he could even learn the situation within one zhang around the copy owner, similar to a radar view, including spatial nodes.

That meant that by combining the Diary with spatial nodes, he could instantly appear beside Xun Er or Ya Fei from anywhere on the Dou Qi Continent.

If he encountered danger or became trapped while exploring some ruins one day, or if he was hunted down by enemies, he could use the spatial nodes on them and the Diary's binding-sense ability to achieve long-distance teleportation.

Besides that, there was another reason: the owners of Diary Copies would become the protagonists of the stories he fabricated, so they would have rather substantial roles.

Giving them some protection would keep him from playing them into ruin.

"See you, Big Sister Ya Fei."

As his voice fell, Chu Xiao's figure vanished.

Ya Fei had originally wanted to say a few more words, but seeing this, she could only swallow them back and mutter, "So what if a Da Dou Shi knows a High-Level Mysterious Grade Dou Technique?"

Swaying her alluring hips, she entered the room next door and asked with a smile, "Big Sister, when do you plan to go see Little Brother Chu Xiao?"

"That depends on how efficiently you handle things." Yun Yun sat there with poise, every movement graceful and beautiful.

"He only just came out of seclusion. If I go looking for him immediately, it may arouse his suspicions."

"As the master of a sect, I cannot appear too cheap when taking in a disciple on behalf of my teacher. Making him wait for a while would better suit my status."

"Most importantly, before he deals with the Jia Lie Family and Oba Family, my appearance would make it harder for you to deceive people."

Chu Xiao and Ya Fei's conversation had been selectively recorded in the Diary by Ya Fei.

Therefore, all Diary Copy owners already knew the two's specific plans.

"To show how much I value him, I should go now." Ya Fei shook her head and sighed. "I really am fated to toil and run about for others."

"That's still much better than me." Yun Yun sighed as well. "The council of elders, the Mo Family, and Yan Ran's matters all need me to handle them. My teacher also seems to be somewhat off."

"Most importantly, Chu Xiao said that destroying the Misty Cloud Sect would be entirely justified, and he even accidentally did a good deed. It makes me feel as though a sword is hanging over my head, ready to fall at any moment."

If the Misty Cloud Sect was to be destroyed merely because it had become hostile toward the Xiao Family, she could act in advance to resolve the Mo Family, the council of elders, the three-year agreement, and the other issues.

But from what Chu Xiao had said, there seemed to be a reason the Misty Cloud Sect absolutely had to be destroyed.

"Once you meet him, he'll probably continue writing. Then we'll know." Ya Fei comforted Yun Yun.

Compared to her, Yun Yun was indeed in a far more difficult position now.

"What reason could make him disregard even you, his ambiguous first-kiss target, and still insist on dealing with the Misty Cloud Sect?"

Yun Yun: "."