A Familiar Plot

"Heave-ho, heave-ho, heave-ho..."

Outside, the Divine Beast were discussing their knowledge, while inside, Ma Feifei was standing on a large pillar outside the Ice Crystal Palace, huffing and puffing as he cut around with a large cleaver, using the cleaver like a saw.

"My goodness, this pillar is incredibly Sturdy; even an eighth-tier spiritual weapon couldn't cut it." Ma Feifei, panting heavily, looked at the intact pillar after cutting for a while and exclaimed in amazement.

"I remember there's a ninth-tier axe I stole from Qingyang's ring. Let's see if that works." Ma Feifei sheathed his broadsword, used his divine sense to search through his spatial ring for a while, and finally found the ninth-tier axe.

The axe was huge; the axe head and handle together were twice the height of Ma Feifei. It was clearly not a weapon used by humans, and it weighed at least tens of thousands of kilograms. Ma Feifei would have to use his cultivation level to wield it.

"Hey ha!" Ma Feifei picked up the axe, spun it around 360 degrees, and swung it at the big pillar.

"Buzz~"

The axe made a buzzing sound as it struck the pillar, and a strong vibration was transmitted to Ma Feifei's hand, almost causing Ma Feifei to drop the ninth-tier axe.

"Holy crap... there's even a divine-level formation on this!" Ma Feifei, with his sharp eyes, spotted the fleeting patterns on the pillar and was speechless.

As expected of one of the Ten Ancient Divine Beast, not only is the palace built with Spirit Crystal, but even the divine-level array is so cheap that it's enchanted with a divine-level array on a single pillar.

"Never mind, let's leave the pillar for now and go inside to check out Qingyang's house." Ma Feifei gave up on chopping down the big pillar, put away his ninth-tier axe, and jogged all the way to the palace gate.

The door was also made of Spirit Crystal and was very tall, at least ten meters high, occupying one-third of the entire palace's height. This meant that the palace was over thirty meters tall, which was normal, since Yun Qingyang's true form was a dragon, and his height was about that when Transform.

The gate had no other decorations, just a crystal-clear color. It was only in the early morning; if it were daytime under the sun, it would probably blind Ma Feifei.

Even so, Ma Feifei's eyes were dazzled by the Illuminate door, and he placed his hands on it, pushing hard.

"Hmm..." Ma Feifei gathered his strength in his dantian and pushed hard with all his Niu Er. Ma Feifei's face turned red and the veins on his hands bulged, but the door still did not budge.

"Damn it, why does this feel like we're back in the first episode?" Ma Feifei exhaled, took a step back, looked at the ice crystal gate, and couldn't help but complain.

How familiar this scene is! It's just like when Ma Feifei first came into this world, working as a millstone for the young lady of the Wang family at Old Man Wang's house, which sells steamed buns diagonally across the street.

"Damn it, he was a piece of trash in the first episode, and he's still a piece of trash after hundreds of episodes. It's infuriating." The more Ma Feifei thought about it, the more indignant he became, and he kicked the door.

'Crunch~'

Just then, the door suddenly opened by itself.

Ma Feifei missed a step and half of his foot was pulled inside the door, leaving him in a split position with half his body outside and half inside.

"What are you doing?" Yun Qingyang looked at Ma Feifei on the ground, completely bewildered.

"Hehe, it's nothing, it's nothing." Ma Feifei awkwardly got up from the ground, then suddenly smiled and said excitedly, "Qingyang... I missed you so much! Come here and give me a hug!"

After saying that, Ma Feifei opened her arms and rubbed against Yun Qingyang.

"Stomp~"

The hilt of the Qingshuang Sword was pressed against Ma Feifei's chest, just enough to prevent Ma Feifei's hand from reaching Yun Qingyang.

"Why are you here?" Yun Qingyang asked, puzzled.

With Yun Qingyang holding the Qingshuang Sword at his throat, Ma Feifei had no choice but to abandon her plan to rub against Yun Qingyang. She pushed the Qingshuang Sword away with her hand and said, "I came to find you because I was worried you would be bullied."

"I'm not going back." After saying that, Yun Qingyang reached out and pushed Ma Feifei, trying to push Ma Feifei out the door.

"Hey hey hey~~~ Qingyang, listen to me first..." Ma Feifei grabbed the open door and refused to go out no matter how Yun Qingyang pushed her.

However, Yun Qingyang's power was far beyond what a mere mortal like Ma Feifei could contend with. Yun Qingyang sheathed her Qing Qingshuang Sword, used her other hand to pry Ma Feifei's hand off the door, and then prepared to throw Ma Feifei out.

Seeing that things were not going well, Ma Feifei grabbed Yun Qingyang's arm and stubbornly refused to leave.

"I'm getting angry!" Yun Qingyang said fiercely.

"Go ahead and have the baby..." Ma Feifei said nonchalantly.

"You're being unreasonable," Yun Qingyang said coldly.

Ma Feifei pouted and said, "I didn't act like a scoundrel. You're the one who's acting like a scoundrel! You just ran away from home for no reason, making me Norman the way to the dangerous Nine Heavens Mountain to find you. Aren't you afraid I'll get swallowed whole by that Divine Beast outside?"

Upon hearing this, Yun Qingyang's cold expression softened slightly, but her brows remained furrowed as she asked, "How did you know I was here?"

"Of course it was calculated! With my intelligence, I'm amazing," Ma Feifei said proudly.

"Heh." Yun Qingyang sneered.

Ma Feifei seemed to feel scorned by the foolish dragon, and immediately became unhappy. She released her arms from Yun Qingyang and said, "How about this, let's stick to our old rules. We'll decide the winner with an intelligence question. If you win, you come back with me; if you lose, you can do whatever you want."

"I..." Yun Qingyang was a little confused. She had originally wanted to agree, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that she had never beaten Ma Feifei in her past experiences, and she immediately lost her nerve.

"Look... even you admit your IQ isn't as high as mine," Ma Feifei said, spreading her hands in a provocative manner.

Yun Qingyang snorted coldly and said, "Propose the question."

"Clap!" Ma Feifei clapped his hands, intending to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak into the Ice Crystal Palace, but was stopped by Yun Qingyang: "You're not allowed in."

Ma Feifei glanced around the vast palace, shrugged, and didn't Sheer Force way in. Looking at Yun Qingyang, he asked, "Listen carefully. Imagine: you and your two friends check into an inn. The room rate is 450 Spirit Crystal per room, but you don't have Spirit Crystal, so you plan to share a room. Each of you pays the innkeeper 150 Spirit Crystal. Seeing your plight, the innkeeper gives you a discount of 50 Spirit Crystal and tells the waiter to return it to you. The waiter thinks: how can three people divide 50 Spirit Crystal? So he takes 20 for himself and returns the remaining 30 to you."

"So here's the problem: you each actually only paid 140 Spirit Crystal, totaling 420 Spirit Crystal. Adding the 20 spirit crystals the waiter pocketed, that makes 440. So where did the other 10 Spirit Crystal go?"

After listening carefully to Ma Feifei's question, Yun Qingyang replied seriously, "All 50 are mine."

"You don't understand math at all," Ma Feifei said helplessly, spreading his hands.

Yun Qingyang shook his head, raised the Qingshuang Sword in his hand, and said calmly, "You don't understand me at all."

"..."