Anything Goes

The next day.

Li Rui took Tan Hu, Liu Tiezhu, and Wang Zhao back to the Eastern Governor-General's Mansion in Yunze Prefecture, one of Great Yu's six new provinces.

The moment they returned to the Prince's Mansion.

Tan Hu vividly recounted Li Rui's exploits at the Cloud Platform Immortal Gathering to Ning Zhongtian and the others.

Leaving Ning Zhongtian deeply envious.

After that.

Life returned to normal.

Cultivation took up most of Li Rui's time.

A month passed.

Pei Yao came to visit, and Ning Zhongtian personally led her into the rear courtyard.

"Mr. Pei, we meet again."

Li Rui looked at Pei Yao as she appeared in the Prince's Mansion's rear courtyard. His gaze unconsciously drifted down to her waist. Unlike last time, Pei Yao was wearing a cinched belt this time.

Clearly, she still bore a grudge over his words.

He had wanted to say.

Miss Pei, your waist is actually very slender.

And the path Pei Yao wished to walk was vastly different from that of the female cultivators of the Red Dust Sect.

But after thinking it over, he only found it even stranger, so he could only pretend not to notice.

Pei Yao said, "Fellow Daoist Li, if you can help me, I am willing to serve the Eastern Governor-General's Mansion for a hundred years."

She went straight to the point.

They were both old hands who had roamed the martial world for centuries. Naturally, she did not believe Li Rui's talk about Eight Section Brocade karma.

The one who had acted against her was a Spirit Severing old monster.

How could Li Rui possibly offend such a figure for the sake of an Eight Section Brocade?

After learning that Li Rui possessed immortal qi, Pei Yao immediately came looking for him. She knew Li