Ao Lie Enters the Journey to the West, Throwing Everything into Chaos

Tongtian cut Xuanxiao off directly. "Xiao'er, enough. If you have time, just go visit Kong Xuan more often."

Xuanxiao nodded and looked at Ao Lie. "Is there anything you need to prepare?"

Ao Lie gave a simple-minded grin. "Of course there is. With Eldest Brother-in-Law away, shouldn't I completely empty his home?" As he spoke, he vanished and headed for Kong Xuan's Daoist Palace. With practiced ease, he swept away everything inside.

Xuanxiao stared at Ao Lie in bewilderment. "You... don't you think that's going a little too far?"

Ao Lie shook his head. "Isn't this perfectly normal? Master, tell me—Eldest Brother-in-Law probably won't be back anytime soon, right? Once he returns, with Golden Phoenix around, he won't do anything to me."

Golden Peng silently nodded. "Master, what Ao Lie said isn't wrong. But... brat, leave half of it for me. You aren't planning to keep it all for yourself, are you?" As he spoke, he went straight to Ao Lie's side, grabbed him, and vanished.

Not long afterward, Golden Peng returned with a delighted look, while Ao Lie looked as though his parents had died. (Ao Lie: Give me a break. Even if my father, Ao Run, had been stewed into loach soup, I wouldn't be this heartbroken. I finally robbed my brother-in-law's Daoist Palace clean, only for Second Brother Golden Peng to forcibly take half of it. What kind of nonsense is this?)

Xuanxiao looked at Ao Lie's pitiful expression and said to Golden Peng, "How about taking a little less? After all, Ao Lie did all the hard work of stealing it."

Golden Peng looked baffled. "Master, that isn't right. What do you mean, 'did all the hard work of stealing it'? This brat didn't work hard at all. He knows the weak points of the defensive