Zhou Shengdian got up from the ground, his dark and bruised face slowly returning to normal.

His neck was a mix of blue and purple, with lips terribly blackened.

After getting up, Zhou Shengdian still looked at Tang Rao, his eyes not showing hatred, but confusion and puzzlement, even a bit of grievance.

Just like the sullen look of a child after being beaten.

Tang Rao frowned with some helplessness. If Zhou Shengdian had shown hatred, that would have been somewhat better. But from his eyes, there was no hint of malice at all, not even a little bit.

"Brother, if you want to kill me, I have no complaints, but then, I won't be able to run errands for you anymore," Zhou Shengdian said.

Tang Rao: "..."

You frickin' still have the guts...

"Zhou Shengdian, do you find this amusing?" Tang Rao asked, looking at Zhou Shengdian. Honestly speaking, his patience was truly running out.

"But brother, what exactly do you want me to do?" Zhou Shengdian asked, "You're not short of smart people around you, so whether there's one more or one less of me doesn't really matter. Just consider me a dimwit who knows nothing. Of course, I've already sworn a Heavenly Dao oath, I definitely won't harbor any ill will against you."

"Oh? Admitting that you're smart now?" Tang Rao chuckled with a snort.

"Actually, I just want to quietly be a foolish person," said Zhou Shengdian with a shrug, putting on a pretty pretentious act.

"I don't want to hear your nonsense," Tang Rao said sternly.

Zhou Shengdian pursed his lips, then inexplicably gave Tang Rao a glance.

"Tang Rao, you trash!" Zhou Shengdian suddenly started cursing, "You're definitely the dumbest person in this world, there's no one like you. Are you annoying? I'm asking if you're annoying? It was so hard for daddy here to get this identity, and you blabber non-stop every damn day, I truly bought into your evil sh*t!"

Tang Rao blinked in disbelief, looking at Zhou Shengdian with his mouth agape as wide as it could go.

"Idiot, don't open your mouth so wide, you look mentally handicapped. I must've been reborn under a bad star to have encountered you... such damn bad luck with a capital bitch," Zhou Shengdian continued.

If Tang Rao couldn't figure it out by now, he might as well not be alive.

"Spiritual wisdom..." Tang Rao muttered.

"That's right, it's daddy here!" Spiritual Wisdom huffed.

Tang Rao: "..."

No wonder Spiritual Wisdom had gone quiet, it had already left his body long ago.

"You..."

"Ask nothing, how I left your body and how I managed to get this flesh again involves some very complex stuff, even if I told you, you might not understand. You only need to know one thing, I am a part of you, and if you kill me, ho ho ho, then sorry, from then on you will never be able to reach the Great Perfection Realm," said Zhou Shengdian, who was Spiritual Wisdom.

Tang Rao furrowed his brow.

"Then why, when you as Zhou Shengdian swore the Heavenly Dao oath, did I feel constrained?" Tang Rao asked.

"Duh, the owner of this body is called Zhou Shengdian, being bound by the Heavenly Dao is very normal, alright?"

Tang Rao had a face of helplessness. He had always thought Zhou Shengdian had some earth-shattering secret. Well, there was indeed a secret, and it certainly was huge...

"So that makes it quite awkward now..." Tang Rao said with a face of resignation.

"Awkward my ass, because you are dumb," Spiritual Wisdom scolded. "By the way, from now on, just call me Zhou Shengdian, that's my name now."

"Isn't it Tang Rao Number Two?"

"Number Two!"

...

Several minutes later, Tang Rao and Zhou Shengdian appeared outside a courtyard.

"This is where Cui Baiyi lives, but I advise you not to seek death. Cui Baiyi's strength is not something you can shake right now. A mere breath from them and you'd be dead as a doornail," Zhou Shengdian said to Tang Rao.

"I'm not here to find Cui Baiyi, I'm looking for Dong Xia."

"Dong Xia is even tougher to mess with than Cui Baiyi, you beast, what kinds of people do you keep pissing off, damn it. One day you're going to get yourself killed, and what sucks is that if you die, I can't live either, truly disheartening." Zhou Shengdian rolled his eyes so hard they could have flown up to the heavens.

"What do you know about Dong Xia?" Tang Rao asked.

"How would I know? Completely unable to find anything."

"Then why do you say she's hard to provoke?" Tang Rao grimaced.

"It's an intuition, do you understand intuition?"

"All I know is, women's intuition tends to be more accurate."

"Then just think of me as a woman, I don't mind anyway. I'm genderless; can be male or female, a giver or a receiver. If you like, doing that thing to me is fine too. Maybe it could even make our relationship more harmonious," Zhou Shengdian said.

Tang Rao felt like he had ingested tons of crap, how big of a heart do I have to have to do that thing to you? I'd rather frolic with a young donkey.

"So, how exactly do you plan to meet Dong Xia?" Zhou Shengdian asked.

"Money makes the world go round," Tang Rao muttered and headed straight for the guard at the gate.

A few minutes later, Tang Rao came back with a smile on his face.

"One hundred Spirit Stones, done deal, let's go to Zuixian Building," Tang Rao waved his hand and said. He gave the guard one hundred Spirit Stones to inform Dong Xia.

This way, he wouldn't clash with Cui Baiyi.

Tang Rao and Zhou Shengdian waited in Zuixian Building for most of the day, from daylight till sunset, but Dong Xia still didn't show up.

"Do you think she just doesn't want to see you?" Zhou Shengdian asked.

"How would I know, maybe the guard didn't pass on the message."

"As for comforting oneself, you are the champ," Zhou Shengdian pursed his lips looking at Tang Rao, full of disdain.

"If you respect me so much, call me daddy. Go ahead, let me hear it, my good son," Tang Rao beckoned with his fingers.

Of course, Zhou Shengdian wouldn't call out. He only answered Tang Rao with a middle finger.

"Gentlemen, would you like to stay at the inn or have a meal?" At the entrance, a server called out.

"Neither staying nor dining, here for a killing!" A burly man charged in, followed by a group of about ten cultivators, all dressed in the garb of the Soul Capture Pavilion.

The patrons of Jiuxian Building were all startled.

Jiuxian Building was under the protection of Giant Merchant Star and was theoretically safe since the Soul Capture Pavilion had not gone crazy enough to confront Giant Merchant Star.

But what was the deal with this group? Judging by their attire, they were clearly from the Soul Capture Pavilion.

"Counterfeits are rampant..." Tang Rao muttered. Clearly, these cultivators were not actually from the Soul Capture Pavilion.

Whether they came up with this method to cause trouble on their own or someone else was behind it remained unknown.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it seems like someone wants to drag Giant Merchant Star into their games too," Zhou Shengdian lisped, it was clear that these people were manipulated by someone else.

Members of the Soul Capture Pavilion were very organized and disciplined. If they really wanted to make a move against Giant Merchant Star, they definitely would not just send these few nobodies to scout.

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