When Fate Comes, Nothing Can Stop It

The moment Zhu Ping'an said that, everyone around immediately moved away from Ye Qingxian, afraid they couldn't avoid him fast enough.

Yan Shubing, who had originally been closest to Ye Qingxian, silently shifted two body lengths away as well. After all, athlete's foot could spread.

"What?!"

Ye Qingxian's expression changed drastically, and he roared in fury.

"Impossible! Zhu Ping'an, don't spout nonsense here! How could athlete's foot grow on someone's face?!"

"How is that impossible? Athlete's foot is a type of fungus. If you like rubbing other people's socks all over your face, Brother Ye, then getting athlete's foot on your face is perfectly normal!" Zhu Ping'an said with a straight face.

Ye Qingxian nearly spat blood from anger. It was clearly this damned Zhu Ping'an messing with him.

And he wasn't wrong. For all of this, he had Leng Tianyan, far away in the Leng Family, to thank. Zhu Ping'an had gotten Athlete's Foot Powder from him and had just sprinkled it onto the Black Sack.

Before one wave had settled, another rose. While Ye Qingxian was still scratching his face, Yan Shubing on the other side suddenly felt her own face begin to itch.

"Ping'an Ge, what's going on? Why is my face starting to itch too?" Yan Shubing asked in terror.

"Gasp!"

Zhu Ping'an's eyes widened, and he couldn't help sucking in a sharp breath. He then retreated three steps in a row.

"It's over! Bingbing! You must have been too close to Ye Qingxian just now, and the athlete's foot on his face infected you!"

"Ah? Then what do I do?!" Yan Shubing immediately panicked.

"Don't be afraid, Bingbing. Athlete's foot isn't some incurable disease. It can be treated." Zhu Ping'an nodded with a serious expression. "It's just that we're still inside the secret realm right now, so medicine for treating athlete's foot... may be hard to find."

Ye Qingxian and Yan Shubing's expressions instantly turned incomparably ugly.

That meant they would have to endure athlete's foot all over their faces until they finished exploring the secret realm.

"Pfft!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Qingxian directly spat out a mouthful of old blood. He stared fixedly at Zhu Ping'an, his eyes filled with resentment.

He was certain that Zhu Ping'an was behind this, yet he had no evidence.

"Zhu Ping'an! I'll remember this grudge!"

After saying that, Ye Qingxian couldn't help scratching his face again. Friends who often got athlete's foot all knew that once this thing flared up, its unbearable itch was hard to resist scratching.

Before long, Ye Qingxian and Yan Shubing had scratched their faces red.

The Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui he had worked so hard to obtain had been snatched away, and now he had even been saddled with athlete's foot. At this moment, Ye Qingxian had the urge to kill someone.

"Shubing, let's go! Zhu Ping'an, I'm warning you—don't follow us again, or don't blame me for being rude!" Ye Qingxian shouted harshly.

"Tch, fine, I won't follow you. If it weren't for protecting Bingbing, do you think I wanted to follow you?" Zhu Ping'an rolled his eyes disdainfully, though inwardly he was secretly delighted. Itch yourself to death, you bastard.

Ye Qingxian looked back every three steps. Once he had gone far enough to make sure Zhu Ping'an wasn't following, he grabbed Yan Shubing and took off running, avoiding Zhu Ping'an as though he were the plague.

Only after Ye Qingxian and Yan Shubing had gone far away did Leng Tianjiao reveal a strange expression.

"Zhu Ping'an, I can understand why you set up that Ye Qingxian, but why did you set up Yan Shubing too? Don't you like her?"

Zhu Ping'an merely smiled without speaking, offering no explanation. It was not yet time to explain. Whatever it was, it could wait until after he survived that death tribulation that was certain to kill him.

"I'll explain it to you later. Where's the Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui?" Zhu Ping'an's eyes grew heated.

The Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui was a good thing. It was a heavenly treasure born and nurtured by nature, and it provided enormous benefits for warriors refining their qi and blood.

No wonder Ye Qingxian's strength had increased so much after leaving Secret Realm Number Thirteen in the original plot. The Protagonist Halo really was something else—treasures practically delivered themselves to his door.

"Here." Leng Tianjiao took out the lump of white flesh Ye Qingxian had just been holding.

"Half each. Split it for us." Zhu Ping'an handed the Fifteenth Day Short Sword to Leng Tianjiao.

"Alright."

The Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui was greatly beneficial to First-Rank Warriors, so Leng Tianjiao did not stand on ceremony. With a single slash, she divided the Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui into two.

However, she deliberately cut slightly off-center, giving the larger half to Zhu Ping'an.

The two then each held a piece of Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui and began refining it under the protection of the Leng Family's eight warriors.

Zhu Ping'an circulated the Nine Revolutions Starry Sky Technique and began refining the Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui's power. Surging qi and blood poured continuously into his body along his meridians.

Zhu Ping'an could even clearly hear his heart cheering as it thumped, thumped, driving qi and blood throughout his entire body.

A little less than half an hour later, Zhu Ping'an opened his eyes. A sharp glint flashed through them and vanished, while that piece of Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui had already been completely refined by him.

He casually picked up a piece of Granite that had fallen to the ground and held it in his palm. Then, with a hard squeeze, the solid Granite was instantly crushed.

"Five thousand jun of force." Zhu Ping'an revealed a delighted expression. The Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui had increased his strength by a full thousand jun, and his Qi and Blood Value had reached five hundred. "Ye Qingxian, you truly are my lucky star."

After a while longer, Leng Tianjiao finally opened her eyes. The aura around her had become much more condensed; the Rainbow Surprise Tai Sui had clearly improved her greatly as well.

"Finished refining it? Then let's go. We'll look for Ye Qingxian and Yan Shubing." A gentle smile appeared on Zhu Ping'an's face. After so long, Ye Qingxian should have found a second fortuitous opportunity by now, right?

"They should have gone far away by now, shouldn't they? This secret realm is so vast—can we still find them?" Leng Tianjiao asked doubtfully.

"Of course we can."

Zhu Ping'an took a bottle of spray from his pocket and gave it a squirt into the air. Two pale green lines crookedly pointed in a certain direction.

"This is..." Leng Tianjiao looked somewhat surprised.

"This is the Athlete's Foot Visualization Spray your brother developed. Spray it into the air, and it makes athlete's foot visible." Zhu Ping'an urged, "Hurry and follow it. If the athlete's foot disperses later, it'll be hard to find them."

Leng Tianjiao parted her rosy lips slightly, clearly not expecting her sixth brother—whom the whole family had considered useless—to possess such an ability.

Following the trail of athlete's foot left behind by Ye Qingxian and the other person, the group hurried after them.

Elsewhere, Ye Qingxian was in the midst of a battle.

Dressed in white, Ye Qingxian wielded the black Breaking Dragon Spear, looking every bit the valiant hero as he fought a monster.

However, several footprints marred his white robes, and every so often in the middle of fighting, Ye Qingxian had to scratch his face. It made for a rather comical sight.

The monster's body was utterly smooth, its skin dark red. It had no eyes, no nose, no ears—only a huge mouth packed with fangs.

That great maw bit down on the Breaking Dragon Spear, throwing off a stream of sparks and ringing out with the clash of metal against metal.

"Damn beast!"

Ye Qingxian gritted his teeth, his heart brimming with indignation. Several times just now, he had had the chance to kill the monster in a single blow, yet each time his athlete's foot flared up, the itch becoming so unbearable that he couldn't help scratching. Just like that, the opportunity slipped away.

"Raging Lion Fury Spear!"

Suppressing the discomfort on his face, Ye Qingxian thrust out fiercely. A Golden Lion, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, clung to the spear tip and drove straight into the monster's mouth, piercing deep down its throat before bursting out through its tail. The monster fell silent at once.

"Qingxian Ge is amazing!" Yan Shubing looked at Ye Qingxian with worshipful eyes, while the itching on her face made her keep scratching at it.

"This beast dared block my path. Death was the only road waiting for it." Ye Qingxian scratched his face and said coldly.

Just then, a harmless, amiable voice rang out, making Ye Qingxian immediately clench his buttocks tight.

"Yo! Brother Ye! You're so strong! This secret realm is so huge, yet we still ran into each other! Fate, huh! Once fate comes knocking, you couldn't stop it even if you tried!"