You Two Are Talking About the Same Man?

The moonlight, like water, flowed over the rows of rooftops in Tianxin City, draping this bustling metropolis in a hazy veil.

Xiao Yan's figure moved silently through the shadows of the northern part of the city, like a ghost blending into the night.

The pavilion belonging to the Heavenly Snake Mansion that Hai Bodong pointed out was like a lighthouse in the night in Xiao Yan's soul perception, exuding a unique, chilling aura that made it easy to identify.

This is a large and exquisite architectural complex, with strange serpentine sculptures adorning the pavilions and towers. The air is filled with a faint fragrance of grass and trees, yet it also exudes a chilling aura, like that of a serpentine monster.

"Interesting."

Standing at the entrance, Xiao Yan discovered that the several auras tainted with his soul power were all here.

That means...

The person who stole my clue to the Heavenly Flames seems to be from the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

"Teacher, please help me cover it up."

Xiao Yan smiled and thought to himself.

Upon hearing this, Old Yao silently released his soul power, completely concealing Xiao Yan's aura.

Unless one is a powerhouse at the level of Five-Star Dou Zun or higher, no one can discover Xiao Yan's whereabouts while Old Yao is concealing him.

Xiao Yan felt his aura almost disappear from this world, and smiled with satisfaction. As expected of the once renowned Venerable Yao, even without fully recovering his strength, he still possessed remarkable abilities.

What a great teacher!

After a moment of reflection, he concealed his presence and cautiously slipped into the shadows.

Looking at the girl in the shadows, her clothes gleaming with a faint green light and dressed in a light blue dress, Si Ming's face was filled with helplessness.

Although the girl was only eleven years old, her shapely figure, which accentuated her curves in her fitted dress, was enough to make some eighteen-year-old girls feel ashamed.

Although she cannot compare to the three older sisters who are already Xiao Yan's fiancées, in terms of figure and appearance, she is more like a young girl in her prime.

Her face was as delicate as a porcelain doll's, and her soft, emerald-green hair cascaded down to her waist. What was most striking about her were her eyes—not ordinary pupils, but a pair of crystal-clear emerald-green pupils, in which three small dots would occasionally transform into blooming flowers.

An extremely terrifying aura still lingered around her, making Si Ming feel a chill run down his spine.

Although his saintess sister had only barely reached the Dou Wang level, her combat power was extremely impressive, because her magical Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils contained three snake-like magical beasts at the Dou Emperor level!

Over the past three years, Qing Lin's advancement speed has been extremely fast, and he has also been very diligent in his cultivation, making him arguably the most diligent person in the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

In just three short years, he went from being less than Dou Zhe to Dou Wang, a terrifying talent that is truly astonishing!

It's important to know that although Xiao Yan's cultivation speed was also incredibly fast, he hadn't reached the Dou Wang level when he was eleven years old.

All I can say is that the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils is still far too overpowered.

"Brother Si Ming is back? How did the auction go?"

Having just finished her cultivation, Qing Lin looked up at Si Ming with a sweet and lovely smile on her face. Her delicate features, with their oval shape, also carried a touch of the alluring charm unique to the Snake-Person Tribe.

In addition, the special ability of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils is such that ordinary people would lose their composure just by looking at her. Even Si Ming, who has reached the Dou Huang Realm, does not want to be stared at by those strange eyes.

"Qing Lin, I've really gone to great lengths this time. Just the information about a Heavenly Flames cost me over twenty million gold coins! Logically speaking, you don't even need that thing, do you?"

Si Ming avoided Qing Lin's direct gaze, then said with a wry smile.

"It is indeed a bit expensive. Qing Lin and I will chip in and make up the difference to you. This is a personal request of ours, and we won't let the sect pay for it."

As a soft voice rang out, a mature woman dressed in a green fitted robe gracefully emerged from the shadows behind Qing Lin. Under the lamplight, she revealed a fair and beautiful face. Three years seemed to have left no trace on her face; on the contrary, it made her already mature and charming temperament even more mellow.

"Aunt Man? This was also your idea?"

Si Ming asked, somewhat surprised.

He had always believed that this matter was merely Qing Lin's doing.

But judging from Lu Man's attitude, it's clear that she was also involved in this matter.

"Well, I got a share too. We do have some use for this information about the Heavenly Flames, but I don't have that much money on hand. I'll pay you back slowly later. You won't mind, will you?"

When Lu Man joined the Heavenly Snake Mansion, Si Ming was still young. His mother and Lu Man had a good relationship and addressed each other as sisters.

Therefore, to Si Ming, Lu Man was like an elder, so he didn't care much about Lu Man's excuse of repaying the money slowly. What he was more concerned about now was why Qing Lin and Lu Man were willing to spend such a high price to buy information about the Heavenly Flames.

Or rather, for whom?

Si Ming wasn't one for internal strife, and besides, both Lu Man and Qing Lin were trustworthy people to him, so he directly asked:

"Aunt Man, Sister Qing Lin, things have come to this point, you have to let me know what you're doing this for, or rather, who you're doing it for! I've offended a Seventh-Tier Alchemist just to get the clues to this Heavenly Flames!"

Upon hearing Lu Man was somewhat curious:

"Seventh-Tier Alchemist? That's a rare talent! Which faction does he belong to?"

Seeing this, Si Ming was somewhat helpless and said with a headache:

"I had Uncle Nan investigate. Apparently, it's a newly emerging force in the Jia Ma Empire called the Yan Alliance. Their leader is Seventh-Tier Alchemist, and supposedly Dou Zong powerhouse. He single-handedly subdued Yun Shan, Yun Shan Misty Cloud Sect Master of the Yunlan Sect who had already advanced to Dou Zong, as well as the leaders of all the forces in the Jia Ma Empire. Even the Snake-Person Tribe submitted. I heard that person isn't very old. Tsk tsk, truly a role model for our generation. I just don't know what his name is."

He didn't notice that Lu Man and Qing Lin in the shadows exchanged a glance after hearing this, and a look of excitement seemed to appear in their eyes.

Si Ming continued, still preoccupied with his own troubles, saying:

"Although my father has already reached the Peak Dou Zong and is only one step away from stepping into the Dou Zun Realm, the leader of that Yan Alliance is obviously not a kind person. If he holds a grudge against our Heavenly Snake Mansion, it will really be troublesome!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than he heard Qing Lin and Lu Man let out suppressed laughter. Although they quickly managed to suppress it, he could still hear it clearly.

What are you laughing at?

Si Ming was puzzled.

"I remembered something happy."

Qing Lin tightened her small face, and a cold and aloof temperament, like that of Queen Medusa, appeared on her delicate oval face.

"Pfft, hahaha!"

Seeing this, Lu Man couldn't hold back and couldn't help but laugh again.

"Aunt Man, what are you laughing at? Did you remember something happy?"

Si Ming looked completely bewildered.

"Ah, I'm thinking of my man."

Lu Man suppressed her smile and said seriously.

"Ha ha!"

Qing Lin couldn't help but chuckle upon hearing this.

"What are you laughing at Qing Lin sister?"

Si Ming felt that the two beautiful women, one tall and one short, were teasing him, but he had no proof.

"Ah, I was thinking about my man too."

Qing Lin straightened her expression, her face slightly flushed, and spoke using the same words as Lu Man.

"What? When did you two get men?"

Si Ming was greatly alarmed.

Although he wasn't with them all the time, he had never heard them mention such a thing in all the years they had known each other.

Besides... doesn't that sound rather strange?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but tentatively ask:

"Are you two talking about the same man?"

"Yes, yes."

Qing Lin nodded.

"No, no, it's not the same one."

Lu Man shook his head.

"Hey!!! You guys are clearly messing with me, aren't you? I've been putting up with you for ages!"

Seeing their behavior, Si Ming realized he had been tricked and immediately became angry.

He's all frowning and worried about this and that, how could these two troublemakers possibly be in the mood to tease him?

Is it a person?

"Haha, Xiaoming, don't be angry. It really isn't the same person. But we both know who this Yan Alliance leader you mentioned is."

Lu Man said with a smile.

"You two know each other?"

Upon hearing this, Si Ming calmed down a bit and asked curiously.

"Yes, in the Jia Ma Empire, there is only one person who can suppress all the major powers and even make the Snake-Person Tribe submit."

Lu Man's eyebrows curved into crescents as she smiled and said.

Who is it?

Si Ming couldn't help but lean forward slightly.

"Naturally, it's the Qing Lin Young Master Yan Maiden Qinglin has been longing for."

Lu Man said with a smile.

However, the reason for addressing Xiao Yan as Young Master Yan, omitting his surname, is because three years ago, Xiao Yan asked her to arrange a fake Xiao Family in the Heavenly Snake Empire as a cover.

This was something she and Qing Lin had discussed long ago. Even when they talked about Xiao Yan in private, they would deliberately avoid revealing Xiao Yan name and only refer to him as Young Master Yan.

"Young Master Yan?"

Si Ming was taken aback upon hearing this.

He did know that before Qing Lin came to the Heavenly Snake Mansion, she was in the Jia Ma Empire. At that time, she was a maidservant of a disciple of a Pill Tower Elder. It is said that the young master was traveling across the continent with his female companion when he encountered Qing Lin. After rescuing her, he took her with him.

Later, they were encountered by Lu Man. After some friendly negotiations, and with the consent and persuasion of the Danta disciple, Qing Lin finally joined the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

"So, that disciple of the Danta, Young Master Yan of Qing Lin, is the leader of the Yan Alliance?"

Si Ming found it hard to believe. With a powerful backer like the Danta, why would they need to consolidate their power in a place like the Jia Ma Empire?

Isn't that unnecessary?

"What? You think it's impossible?" Lu Man raised an eyebrow and curled her lip. "No wonder you haven't brought back a girl all these years. That Young Master Yan is quite the ladies' man. He has several lovers in the Jia Ma Empire, including Queen Medusa. He also has a close relationship with Yun Yun, the sect leader of the Misty Cloud Sect. With his status and power, he's doing all this simply for his women."

Lu Man's words were very blunt, causing Si Ming's face to darken.

How is this considered a personal attack?

It's not that he doesn't try hard enough, it's just that he hasn't met the right person!

"Wait!" Si Ming suddenly seemed to realize something, his face turning grim. He gritted his teeth and said, "If I'm not mistaken, you mean that Young Master Yan is Qing Lin's man?"

You beast!

Qing Lin was only eight years old when she came three years ago!

"Look at you, always in such a hurry!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Man scoffed, flicked her finger, and a gust of wind, not sharp but heavy enough, struck Si Ming on the forehead.

"Hey, what are you doing!"

Si Ming covered his head, a reproachful look, like that of a woman, appearing on his handsome face.

"Young Master Yan only took this little girl in and protected her because he felt sorry for her. If she hadn't been so meddlesome and insisted on serving others, even if it meant being a maid, do you think you would have gotten the chance to call her 'big brother'?"

Lu Man rolled her eyes dramatically and snapped without any mercy.

Seeing Si Ming's discomfiture, Qing Lin smiled happily. When she first met Si Ming, she called him "sister," which Si Ming so much that he deliberately raised his voice, shouting like an old water buffalo that he was a man, which greatly shocked her.

The key point is that although his voice is definitely male, it has a feminine charm when he's angry, which explains why no girl has been with him all these years.

It's so strange that my man is more like a woman than I am...

Although I sympathize with Si Ming's plight, Qing Lin's underlying logic boils down to two words: Xiao Yan!

She said in a gentle yet firm tone:

"Young Master will always be my Young Master, and I will always be his little maid."

Of course, becoming Young Master Yan's woman would be the happiest thing!

Qing Lin could only keep these words to herself; she would never say them aloud.

Just now, when Sister Lu Man and I said that Young Master Yan was our man, it was already quite embarrassing and a bit presumptuous of us.

A maid should do her duty!

As he watched the girl's emerald green eyes fill with tender longing as she spoke, Si Ming was speechless.

Oh well, it turns out I'm the outsider.

Caw, no!

How could someone have ruined my perfectly good sister like this!

Si Ming felt heartbroken.

Are the people of Danta so amazing?

Well, the Heavenly Snake Mansion is really no match for the Danta...

Tolerate!

After taking a few deep breaths, Si Ming temporarily ignored Qing Lin, who was young but had many worries, and turned to Lu Man, forcing a smile, and asked:

"Then, Aunt Man, when did you find me an uncle?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Man smiled, but her words caused Si Ming's vision to go black:

"Of course it's that Young Master Yan! Your Aunt Man here won't marry anyone else!"

Si Ming felt as if his worldview had been bombarded.

What does it mean that your aunt and your sister both want to marry the same man?

Moreover, this man has several other women.

It's a case of some people dying of drought while others are drowning in floods.

Look at them!

Look at yourself again!

After a long silence, he finally spoke, his voice trembling slightly:

"No way, just who the hell is this Young Master Yan?"