Aboard the Star Ship.
Xia Ping swiftly captured Qiu Xue and Su Mei and brought them back. The two of them glared at him furiously, their faces flushed red as if they wished they could beat him to a pulp.
"Tell me, what exactly is going on? Why were you two swindling people aboard the ship? What mischief were you trying to pull?"
Xia Ping asked with a stern face.
"What swindling? Who could possibly swindle more people than you?"
Su Mei said disdainfully.
"Hehe, exactly. Who has done more bad things than you?" Qiu Xue gave a cold laugh.
Xia Ping's skin was so thick it had no limits—the kind even a Planet-Annihilating Cannon could not pierce. How could a few sarcastic remarks make him too ashamed to show his face? He remained utterly calm, even taking pride in it.
After questioning them for a while, he finally learned Qiu Xue and Su Mei's purpose.
It turned out that on Emerald Tree Planet, with the help of a little Treant girl named Ruth, the two of them had obtained a Purple Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng and encountered an enormous stroke of fortune.
Relying on that peerless hundred-thousand-year spiritual medicine, their cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking all the way through to the Golden Core Realm.
But not long after they left that planet, it was attacked by a pirate crew known as the Black Fox Pirate Crew. Several cities and countless villages had their inhabitants captured and enslaved.
That included the little Treant girl, Ruth.
Upon receiving the news, Su Mei and Qiu Xue had been frantic with worry. They immediately gave chase, hoping to rescue Ruth, since she had bestowed them with such a great favor.
Yet they had not expected the Black Fox Pirate Crew