Who Doesn't Know How Decent I, Ye Qingzhou, Am?

"Dou Di!"

"Xiao Yan can actually break through to the Dou Di realm!"

Xun'er gripped the copy of the diary tightly, her heart surging.

She had helped Xiao Yan a great deal. If Xiao Yan really repaid kindness as the diary's owner said, then surely she could ask him to help her take charge of her own life when the time came?

"The Age of Dharma Decline... Is that why no Dou Di has emerged in ten thousand years?"

"Perhaps I could find the right moment to tell Father about this tactfully."

Xun'er was pondering this to herself when, the next moment, she felt a terrifying force suddenly appear. It seemed to take the form of a solid hand and close around her heart.

The sensation vanished as quickly as it had come, but it left her drenched in sweat, soaking her dress.

"I'll die!" Xun'er immediately understood that this was a warning from the diary.

If she deliberately revealed its contents to anyone, she would be erased.

"This must be a Dou Di's doing, or even the work of someone beyond the Dou Di realm. It must be!"

The protective restriction her father had left inside her remained completely unresponsive, as though it had detected nothing at all. Seeing this, Xun'er was delighted rather than alarmed.

She felt that even if an ordinary Dou Di had made a move, her father could not possibly have failed to notice anything.

At the very least, the diary was the work of a relatively powerful Dou Di.

And the diary mentioned terms like Lower Plane and Great Thousand World.

A frog at the bottom of a well would never understand such information, but she was different.

She knew that Wutan City was in the northeastern province of the Jia Ma Empire, that the Jia Ma Empire was only a small country in the southwest of the Northwest Continent, and that beyond the Northwest Continent lay places such as the Central Plains, the Beast Region, the Northern Snow Academy, the Barbaric Ancient Region, and the chaotic islands in the far south.

Above these powers were the self-contained small worlds established by the various Emperor Clans, whose territories were even larger than the Central Plains.

The Dou Qi Continent was a Lower Plane of the Great Thousand World, and its standing in the Great Thousand World was very likely the same as Wutan City's standing on the Dou Qi Continent.

"The diary knows Xiao Yan's future and also knows about the Great Thousand World. Could its owner be a mighty figure from the Great Thousand World?"

"Even if he isn't such a mighty figure, he must be an extremely special existence. He said that only two people on the Dou Qi Continent can become Dou Di now."

"Xiao Yan is one of them. Perhaps he himself is the other."

All sorts of thoughts flashed through Xun'er's mind.

But she had made one thing clear to herself: she had to place her bet on Xiao Yan at the right time.

Then, the day Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou Di realm would be the day she, Gu Xun'er, reaped her harvest.

More importantly, she had to find the diary's owner.

"He knows Xiao Yan's future. Perhaps he knows mine too."

"If some of my actions and behavior differ from what he knows, will that expose the fact that I can see the diary's contents?"

"The diary's contents aren't the same as deliberately revealing them, but what if the diary's owner finds out?"

Xun'er silently warned herself that she must think thrice before acting.

There were plenty of people just as clever as Xun'er.

Yao Ling, Huo Zhi, Cao Ying, and others from major clans and powerful factions also realized these things in an instant.

And as soon as the thought of informing others arose, the diary gave them a lesson.

Where there were clever people, there were naturally also those whose horizons were limited for the time being, or whose thinking was constrained.

"Dou Di!?"

"Hehehe."

"This has to be a joke, doesn't it!?"

Yun Yun held the diary and stared blankly, sorely tempted to run over and ask Xiao Yan whether he and Nalan Yanran could settle their Three-Year Agreement behind closed doors and leave the Misty Cloud Sect out of it.

"Perhaps I could consult my teacher. He has seen much of the world and might have a better idea."

But the moment the thought arose, the diary warned Yun Yun, causing her to immediately abandon the idea of leaking the information.

She also abandoned the thought of seeking out Xiao Yan, afraid that this too would be judged as revealing information from the diary.

"Repays kindness?" Yun Yun felt this might be an opening.

She could use the Misty Cloud Sect's intelligence network to inquire into Xiao Yan's whereabouts with every justification.

If she did him a favor at the right time, surely keeping the Misty Cloud Sect safe would be no problem, at least?

"That's what I'll do!"

The other women holding copies on the Dou Qi Continent had similar thoughts.

A favor owed by the future Flame Emperor was worth obtaining.

Meanwhile, in the Ye Clan.

"My fellow countryman, I've already made amends. That's pretty decent of me."

Ye Qingzhou formed a hand seal, preparing to continue cultivating.

"As long as no one can see what I write in the diary, everything I write is just me entertaining myself."

"If someone can see it, though, then blessings and misfortunes come hand in hand for you."

"Most people will definitely want to befriend you early and invest in you. Your path ahead will be easier."

"But if someone from the Hun Clan gets a copy of the diary... all I can do is mourn you for three seconds. Wait for me to get stronger and avenge you."

Ye Qingzhou had written that book review today with a personal motive.

Giving Xiao Yan an extra layer of protection was his way of making up for writing Xiao Yan's story.

But at the same time, he wanted to go fishing.

After he wrote down Xiao Yan's future,

if anyone could see the diary's contents, they would definitely take action.

When the time came, he could stay hidden in the shadows and see everything with perfect clarity.

At the same time, he could try to gather intelligence and figure out the pattern behind the diary's random rewards.

The daily doubled rewards were already so good that the grand prizes he could obtain at random would surely be even more generous.

He might even get something as good as a Dou Di Origin!

If he had something like that, he could simply find a piece of Emperor Jade and hide it away, and the Hun Clan would be nothing to worry about.

"Blessing or misfortune, I've brought you investment, so naturally you'll bear the risks too."

Ye Qingzhou closed his eyes and immersed himself completely in cultivation.

The night passed without incident. The next morning, Ye Qingzhou left the secret chamber, washed up, and went to the courtyard, where he found Ye Xinlan already waiting.

"Cousin, you're out! Come and have breakfast. Xin Lan cooked it herself today." When Ye Xinlan saw Ye Qingzhou, she happily rose and waved him over.

"Cousin, you're a wonderful cook," Ye Qingzhou said with heartfelt admiration after eating his fill.

"If you like it, Cousin, I can cook for you often. You only need to give Xin Lan a little more guidance in cultivation." Ye Xinlan rubbed her hands together and looked at Ye Qingzhou expectantly, like a child asking for candy.

She wanted him to be her "old grandpa in the ring" just for cooking him meals?

"Cousin, it's not dark yet." Ye Qingzhou took a sip of warm congee.

"Hm?" Ye Xinlan blinked in confusion and looked up. "Of course it isn't dark. It only just got light."

"Exactly." Ye Qingzhou smiled and asked, "Then why have you started dreaming?"

Ye Xinlan: ?

Ye Xinlan: !

"Cousin." Ye Xinlan's cheeks flushed. "I cook for you, and all I ask is for you to guide me in cultivation. Can't you do that?"

"Definitely not. I charge a lot," Ye Qingzhou said with a serious nod. "That costs extra."

"I never expected you to be the kind of person whose eyes light up at the sight of money." Ye Xinlan puffed out her cheeks cutely and asked, "Then tell me, what price would you charge for Xin Lan to come to you for guidance for half a day every day?"

"One fourth-tier medicinal pill for a year. We can renegotiate once your strength improves. How about it?" Ye Qingzhou asked after a moment's thought.

A smile immediately appeared on Ye Xinlan's face. "All right, deal."

Ye Qingzhou: ?

Damn it, he'd asked for too little!