Late at night.
Having finished scouting the route, Ren Ye and Lü Ji quietly returned to the Grand Preceptor Hall and met Brother Chun and Daoist Chu in Li Hu's room.
"Shh, keep it down."
Ren Ye gently pushed the wooden window shut and transmitted his voice. "The Super Grades here have all returned to the Grand Preceptor Hall to rest. Be careful. We'll leave through the window again."
"All done?"
Brother Chun asked urgently, "Are my brothers all right?"
"They're all fine. I gave Wu Dali some pills," Ren Ye reassured him. "They'll find opportunities to recover."
"Then let's hurry up and go. We need some rest too," Daoist Chu urged with a yawn.
"You go. I'll stay." Brother Chun thought it over and explained carefully, "Li Hu and I got drunk together. If he's this fucking wasted, I must have blacked out too. If I suddenly leave, he might get suspicious when he wakes up tomorrow. I'm not going. I'll stay here tonight."
After a moment's thought, Ren Ye handed over the Divine Temple Order Token. "All right. You stay, and the three of us will go."
"Mm."
After a brief discussion, Ren Ye and the other two prepared to leave through the window, while Brother Chun took the token to put it back inside Li Hu's robe.
"Ugh...!"
At that tense moment, Li Hu groaned on the bed. "Damn... that booze really packs a punch. I drank so much I even dreamed of the Grand Ancestor. I'm dying of thirst...!"
As he mumbled groggily, he had already sat up and was groping beside the bed.
The room was pitch-black. Ren Ye and his two companions stood gingerly beside the window, right in the moonlight, where Li Hu could see them at a glance.
"Fuck, he's awake?!" Lü