I May Be Cautious, but I'm Not a Dog, You Two Idiots

"Who is the traitor?"

Lu Chen stared at Liu Yan'er.

He was stunned by Liu Yan'er's words.

There was actually a traitor within the Joyful Union Sect.

And the Joyful Union Sect's Nascent Soul patriarch had actually died.

This was no small matter.

For the Joyful Union Sect, the sky had fallen.

Moreover, there were only five days left until the Joyful Union Sect's Sect Grand Tournament.

The Black Tortoise Sect would move to annex the Joyful Union Sect after its Sect Grand Tournament.

In other words, the Joyful Union Sect was about to be swallowed up by the Black Tortoise Sect.

His grand ambition of taking down everyone in the Joyful Union Sect, from the sect master to the inner sect senior sisters, had yet to be realized.

"This is the Black Tortoise Sect's highest secret. This servant merely happened to hear their holy son mention it. As for who the traitor is, this servant does not know."

Liu Yan'er carefully glanced at Lu Chen as she spoke.

"So that means the Black Tortoise Sect's holy son knows who the traitor is, right?"

Lu Chen said thoughtfully.

Liu Yan'er was terrified. This guy isn't planning to set his sights on the Black Tortoise Sect's holy son, is he?!

That was a Golden Core Realm powerhouse.

In her eyes, no matter how formidable Lu Chen was, he could never be a match for a Golden Core Realm powerhouse.

Liu Yan'er had actually guessed right.

In the cultivation world, besides fighting and killing, one also needed a brain.

If his cultivation was insufficient, then he would outwit them.

However, his most urgent task was still to raise his cultivation as quickly as possible.

As long as his body cultivation broke through to the Peak Copper Skin Realm, even a Golden Core Realm powerhouse would not find it easy to kill him.

"You should go back and continue lying low in the House of Ten Thousand Beauties. But you are not allowed to spy on me again, understand?"

Lu Chen was truly angry.

That female pervert had actually hidden nearby and watched him engage in Dual Cultivation with Bing'er and the others.

That made him extremely displeased.

"Yes, Master. This servant will return at once and remove the Mystic Light Mirror and sound-transmission talisman from Master's room."

Liu Yan'er hurriedly said.

"Mm, go!"

As Lu Chen spoke, he walked outside.

After passing through a hundred-zhang-long dim passageway, they emerged from it and returned to the cave.

Lu Chen stepped out of the cave and looked at the sky. It was already noon.

"Dammit!"

Lu Chen was startled. Only then did he remember that he still had the task of guarding the Waste Pill Repository.

If anyone found out that he had abandoned his post without permission, he would be in trouble.

There were countless waste pills in the Waste Pill Repository that he needed.

Those discarded pills no one wanted were all treasures in his eyes.

He could not bear to leave the Waste Pill Repository.

Lu Chen dashed out directly, vanishing into the woods in an instant.

Liu Yan'er watched the direction in which Lu Chen had left, her feelings complicated.

She too quickly departed afterward.

One had to know that this was the Joyful Union Sect's back mountain.

Yet Liu Yan'er encountered Yun Feiyan, the Joyful Union Sect's chief senior sister, and Jiang Yurou, who had just returned from the foot of the mountain, halfway up the slope.

"What demonic woman are you, daring to trespass into my Joyful Union Sect?"

Yun Feiyan blocked Liu Yan'er's path.

Liu Yan'er was already full of pent-up anger with nowhere to vent it.

Without saying a word, she attacked directly.

The two women began to battle.

Liu Yan'er's movement technique was like wind and lightning, fast to the extreme.

With a wave of her hand, invisible wind blades slashed toward Yun Feiyan.

She possessed a top-grade Wind Spiritual Root, and her wind-control art had reached a miraculous level, impossible to guard against.

Yun Feiyan was no pushover either. She possessed a Lunar Spiritual Root.

Once she activated it, the surrounding space seemed as though it would be frozen by lunar yin qi.

Yun Feiyan was also frustrated to the extreme at this moment.

Although she had obtained the Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill, she had also become Lu Chen's Furnace Tripod and lost her freedom.

Yun Feiyan did not know that Liu Yan'er, like herself, had also become Lu Chen's Furnace Tripod.

The two of them were birds of a feather, sharing the same affliction.

They were both Lu Chen's women.

Lu Chen could never have imagined that the two Furnace Tripods he had just taken in would be fighting fiercely halfway up the Joyful Union Sect's mountain.

For a time, invisible wind blades and lunar Sword Qi crisscrossed the mountainside.

The two fought to a standstill.

Their cultivation realms were evenly matched.

It would not be easy to determine victory or defeat.

In the end, Liu Yan'er feared alerting the Joyful Union Sect's Golden Core Realm powerhouses. She directly used a wind escape art, riding the wind into the air and disappearing below the mountain in the blink of an eye.

"Chief Senior Sister, what exactly is that demonic woman's background?"

Jiang Yurou stepped forward and asked.

Yun Feiyan said nothing.

She did not know the other woman's origins either.

"I need to enter seclusion immediately!"

Yun Feiyan no longer hesitated. Standing atop her flying sword, she shot into the sky and sped toward the mountain's secluded cultivation grounds.

Jiang Yurou also released her flying sword, becoming one with her sword as she gave chase.

Yun Feiyan was truly anxious.

She had to break through to the Golden Core Realm before the Sect Grand Tournament.

Then she could sweep aside every opponent.

She would still be the Joyful Union Sect's chief senior sister.

"Yun Feiyan truly deserves to be the Joyful Union Sect's chief senior sister. She does have some skill. She obtained the Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill—she is likely returning to the mountain to enter seclusion and charge at the Golden Core Realm. Mm, I need to have Master refine a Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill for me as well."

At the foot of the mountain, within a small grove, Liu Yan'er looked back toward the mountain.

The reason she had not continued fighting Yun Feiyan was because she discovered that the Blissful Gu pill Lu Chen had forcibly fed her earlier had acted up.

She hurriedly took out the antidote and swallowed it in one gulp.

After taking several deep breaths, she finally left.

Meanwhile, the corpses on the mountain path had been discovered.

However, no one knew that these corpses belonged to members of the Blissful Sect.

Earlier, Lin Shicai, the younger brother of the Lin Household's head, had died on that mountain path.

Now, more than ten mysterious cultivators had likewise died on the mountain path.

For a time, everyone in the Joyful Union Sect was on edge.

They all believed that an evil cultivator who murdered for treasure had appeared near the Joyful Union Sect.

Meanwhile, Lu Chen had returned to Waste-Pill Valley.

"Lu Chen, you have quite the nerve! You actually abandoned your post without permission."

The instant Lu Chen entered Waste-Pill Valley, an angry shout rang out.

He looked up and saw a woman in white standing before the small building. She was none other than Su Qingqing, the Outer Sect Law Enforcement Hall's manager. Standing beside Su Qingqing was Manager Pang.

"So it is Senior Sister Su. Senior Sister Su, please listen to my explanation..."

Lu Chen hurriedly stepped forward.

"Very well. I would like to see how you intend to argue your way out of this!"

Su Qingqing looked at Lu Chen indifferently, her tone icy.

"Senior Sister Su, I did not abandon my post. I went to the Spiritual Cuisine Hall to collect rice, beast bones, and this month's Spirit Stones."

Lu Chen explained.

"Then where are the things you collected?"

Su Qingqing stared at Lu Chen, her gaze sharp as a blade.

"Halfway there, I suddenly remembered that I had not left a message on the table informing the senior brothers and sisters delivering waste pills. So I turned back, intending to leave a message telling them to sign the ledger themselves and place the waste pills in the small building. Once I returned, I would store the waste pills in the Waste Pill Repository."

Lu Chen remained perfectly calm.

"Hehe, Lu Chen, Lu Chen, you actually dare to deceive Senior Sister Su."

Manager Pang sneered from the side.

"Every word I said is true!"

Lu Chen declared righteously.

"True, my ass! I've been looking for you for most of the day, and you weren't on the mountain at all. You must have sneaked down the mountain last night to have fun, and only returned now after playing all night. You simply do not take the sect rules seriously, nor do you take Senior Sister Su seriously!" Manager Pang said coldly. Lu Chen, Lu Chen, you're dead this time!

"Lu Chen, what else do you have to say?"

Su Qingqing stared at Lu Chen. She hated being deceived more than anything in her life, and she had already developed murderous intent toward him.

Lu Chen looked at Su Qingqing, then at Manager Pang, and suddenly sighed.

"Fine, I was lying to you. I did go down the mountain to have fun. So what?"

I may be cautious, but I'm not a dog, you two idiots.