Su Yunlan was taken aback, and looked at Yang Zhen, asking, "Are you really not going?"
Yang Zhen waved his hand. "I'm not going. It's too much trouble to rush to someone's birthday party, and they'll just think we're not qualified. Anyone who wants to go can go, but this ' Sage of Saunter ' isn't going."
Tian Rou looked at Yang Zhen thoughtfully, and after a moment said seriously, "If Brother Yang Zhen isn't going, then I won't go either."
Yang Zhen laughed heartily, grabbed Tian Rou's hair, and said, "You're about to enter the Spirit Learning Palace, so it's good if you can go. After all, it's a good thing to show your face and become familiar with the place. I won't go. I'll leave after I find the Shameless Cat and the little girl. I'll go on a trip to the Forbidden Zone of Life with the little girl. Isn't that better than suffering humiliation here?"
Su Yunlan's expression froze, and she said dejectedly, "Alright, I'll go and inquire about how to get into the birthday celebration."
With that, Yang Zhen finally relaxed completely. However, having not heard from the Shameless Cat and the little girl for so long, he couldn't help but wonder if they had actually come to the Spirit Learning Palace. If they had just passed through and gone to the Forbidden Zone of Life, that wouldn't be so good.
"No, this Sage of Saunter has to make some noise, otherwise the girls will definitely not know I'm here, and it wouldn't be good if they missed me again."
Walking down the street, Yang Zhen muttered to himself, but then he was a little troubled. He wondered if it was because the Spirit Learning Palace was such an awesome sect that all the cultivators who came here were so polite and well-mannered. Even if someone accidentally bumped into him, they would just smile at each other. Some would even ask if the other person was hurt. In all the days he had been here, not a single person had caused any trouble.
Looking at the people coming and going, all with smiling faces, Yang Zhen muttered to himself, "Damn it, they're usually so good at causing trouble, but when it really comes down to it, Yang Zhen 'm a little lost. I can't just go up and kick anyone I don't like on the street, can I?"
Just then, Yang Zhen suddenly saw a furtive figure hurrying across the street, looking shifty and afraid of being noticed.
Something's up!
Yang Zhen chuckled and hurriedly followed, pretending to be casual as he walked beside the man.
The man was a young master-like cultivator with the cultivation level of the Spirit Wandering State. He seemed to be quite powerful, but in Yang Zhen's opinion, the more powerful a guy was, the more suspicious he was, and the more likely he was to do something heinous.
Following the winding path, Yang Zhen arrived at the back gate of a quiet courtyard with the young master. He knocked a few times on the door, and soon someone opened it. The two of them darted past and slammed the door shut.
Yang Zhen was thoroughly amused. No wonder so many people were willing to become paparazzi; the feeling of uncovering someone's conspiracy was incredibly exciting.
Looking around and seeing no one paying attention, Yang Zhen leaped onto the wall and peered inside. Sure enough, he saw the young master-looking cultivator following a young woman into a side room.
"Damn it, this is obviously no good. It's brightly lit inside, clearly someone is plotting something. What if it's an assassination attempt on the old palace maid? Wouldn't this 'Sage of Saunter ' have performed a great service? Wouldn't he be invited to that birthday celebration with eight sedan Sage of Saunter?"
Thinking of this, Yang Zhen tiptoed, held his breath, and walked towards that secluded spot. Sure enough, he heard rustling sounds coming from inside.
Yang Zhen was completely bewildered. Why was it a rustling sound?
Were the two of them merely engaging in illicit sexual acts?
Yang Zhen immediately looked bored. He didn't know why, but ever since he came to the Youzhou Continent, he seemed to always run into people cheating on him, which he tried to avoid at all costs.
After cursing a couple of times, Yang Zhen turned to leave when he suddenly heard a soft gasp from inside. It was the young woman's voice. "Wait... wait a minute, this is the kitchen of the Spirit Learning Palace, a very important place. What if someone comes?"
Kitchen is a key area?
Yang Zhen was taken aback, not expecting that following a young master would lead him to the important kitchen of the Spirit Learning Palace.
In order to maintain world peace... ugh, in order to see if he could catch these two guys poisoning people's food, Yang Zhen went back to the wall and squatted down under the window.
The young master's voice came from behind. "Don't worry, Xiao Ling. The kitchen of the Spirit Learning Palace is so big, it's even larger than the area of an ordinary sect, and it's a self-contained area. We've just finished eating, who would come to a place like this? Xiao Ling, what delicious food do you have this time?"
"You, all you know is eating!" the woman sneered, then giggled, "Look at this!"
Yang Zhen curled her lip in disappointment; they were just two gluttons.
The woman's voice came again, now broken and intermittent, clearly from eating something. "I... I heard that the old palace master has invited many powerful figures again because some kind of change has occurred in the Forbidden Zone of Life."
Forbidden Zone of Life?
Upon hearing the name, Yang Zhen took a deep breath and pressed his ear against the window, but it fell silent inside.
A moment later, the man also took a deep breath and snorted, saying, "What kind of place is the Forbidden Zone of Life? Let alone us, how many of the many cultivators in the entire Spirit Learning Palace dare to go in?"
"I heard that not only is the Spirit Learning Palace going to the Forbidden Zone of Life, but even the people from Ink Pool Peak are making some unusual moves. Do you remember that Ink Pool Peak disciple who came a few days ago, his name was... his name was..."
"Is that the successor of Ink Pool Peak named Mo Xueling?" The young master's tone was tinged with mockery.
"Yes, that's her!"
Yang Zhen's eyes lit up when he heard Mo Xueling's name, and he chuckled, "This eavesdropping wasn't for nothing; the girls really did come."
After listening for a long time, the two stopped talking about it, which angered Yang Zhen so much that he glared at them, pushed open the window, and jumped inside.
"Um... excuse me, gentlemen, I've wandered in here by accident and am now lost. May I ask you a question...?"
Yang Zhen, with two long swords tucked between his left and right arms, watched the two eating something that resembled watermelon and curled his lip in disapproval.
The woman gasped in surprise. Seeing that she couldn't kill Yang Zhen, she immediately shrank back and hurriedly hid the melon rinds on the ground.
"Who are you?" The young master breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Yang Zhen was just a cultivator in the Void Refinement Realm and that he didn't seem to recognize him. He stared at Yang Zhen with a gloomy expression and asked.
Yang Zhen shrugged and said, "Like I said, I just wanted to ask for directions and also wanted to inquire about Mo Xueling. How about... we sit down and talk?"
boom--!
A sudden surge of immense power erupted from the young master, but he forcefully contained it within the room, saying in a low voice, "Fine, after I kill you, we'll sit down and talk!"
Yang Zhen shook his head, sighed, and said, "Why bother? I really just wanted to gather some information. It would be much better if you two did it together, saving this ' Sage of Saunter ' from having to do it himself. Killing people is too much trouble."