Brother and Sister

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

Back on the second floor of building six in the Xuanshi Building, Zhang Xuezhou watched the autumn sun rise outside the window and resumed counting aloud.

But to Zhang Xuezhou's embarrassment, he did not enter the other world after twelve hours as he usually did.

At the mere thought of the Kunlun hidden land and its bunch of mentally ill great cultivators, Zhang Xuezhou felt that his body was in grave danger.

There were obviously no hospitals over there, and there was unlikely to be anyone who would look after him attentively.

"How long will it take to get back? I won't starve to death over there, will I?"

Zhang Xuezhou felt a little anxious.

When he was in the Kunlun Ruins, he worried that something might go wrong in reality, and when he was in reality, he could not help feeling that he was no safer in the other world.

Ever since the Imperial Lord and that Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon had battled with their magic, everything in his life had been thrown into chaos, and his old, regular routine was gone.

Even now, Zhang Xuezhou could not be entirely sure whether he still had the ability to travel between the two worlds.

"Just one more drink of Nine Treasures Wine, and I can complete the fourth chapter of the Mental Strengthening Chapter..."

Zhang Xuezhou had placed all his hopes of winning at the Sequencer Grand Gathering on the Mental Strengthening Chapter, and the foremost prerequisite was that he drink the Nine Treasures Wine just before returning to reality.

That would free him from the effects of drunkenness while giving him a certain boost to his mental strength, thus giving him what he needed to cultivate the Mental Strengthening Chapter.

But his travel between worlds was now