Zheng Qing and Zhou Ying stayed in Japan to handle upcoming work with representatives from Xia Country.

Beia and the Central King were sent back.

In Cangqiong World, there is a teleportation portal on a butterfly (the skill), and Four Seasons Star has a "human-shaped teleportation portal" (for players participating in the New Year event). Technically, it wasn't necessary to send the two back, but if Li Changzhou and his group were to encounter trouble in the instance, it was uncertain whether these two portals would continue to be usable for them.

It's said, "Out of sight, out of mind,"—a phrase that began as a fact before becoming an idiom.

"Brother," Li Qianxia's voice became soft after seeing Beia leave.

"What's wrong?"

"We haven't seen each other for a month." She pouted.

Li Changzhou couldn't help but laugh, opening his arms to hug his aggrieved sister.

Li Qianxia obediently leaned into his embrace, looking comfortable, as if she had finally stepped into hot water after a cold winter.

The two had never been apart for even a day since childhood.

"Seeing how you were just now, I thought you didn't miss me at all," Li Changzhou teased while comforting her with his embrace.

"I'm grown up now, so I act accordingly when there are others around."

"And that's what you call grown up?"

"Does not missing you count as being grown up?" Li Qianxia looked up.

"You dare." Li Changzhou playfully buried her face in his chest.

Li Qianxia didn't resist and suddenly started giggling, as if she thought of something funny.

"What's so funny?" asked Li Changzhou with a smile.

"During this trip to another world, at least twenty-something people chased after me! I was wondering what you'd do if I fell in love," Li Qianxia teased.

"...Looks like I went easy; I should have just shattered that landmass."

"You and your sister complex—" she teased without any real annoyance, actually quite amused.

"What do you know, isn't every brother like this?" Li Changzhou dismissed it, adding, "Plus, you're still so young, why think about romance now? You're due for the judicial examination soon, then graduate entrance exams, and after graduating, preparing for the civil service exam. Don't you want to be a judge?"

Li Qianxia chuckled softly, "I still have to take exams now?"

Her brother was exaggerating ad absurdum now.

But knowing he did this out of care for her, she even wished his illness would get more severe.

"Even without exams, just considering your cultivation, you're currently just an Immortal, able to live only three thousand years. Such a short time, what's the point of falling in love? You should reach Heavenly Immortal first, to live forever."

"Heavenly Immortal?! Then I couldn't even have kids!" Li Qianxia exclaimed softly.

"Have kids? You're also thinking of having kids?" Li Changzhou was incredulous, hard to imagine, "The prime age for a woman to have children starts at 25, how old are you now?"

"So when can I date?"

"An average person who lives to a hundred starts dating at 22, so after you gain longevity..."

Li Qianxia's face was against Li Changzhou's chest, not seeing his expression, but his voice revealed contemplation.

"...it'd have to be after two or thirty million years, at least."

Li Qianxia laughed until she trembled in his arms.

Li Changzhou also laughed, forcing seriousness as he hugged her tightly and threatened, "Hear that?"

Li Qianxia grabbed his neck with both hands, jumped up a bit, and wrapped her legs around his waist.

Li Changzhou laughed and swung her onto his back.

"You're so grown and yet acting like a little kid."

"Who was it that just called me little, huh?"

"Is being an adult the same as the right age to marry?"

"You always have a point, hmm."

Carrying Li Qianxia, Li Changzhou circled back to Earth's atmosphere, where they met with Yang Qinglan and Turquoise Pool.

Yang Qinglan looked at Li Qianxia and smiled, "It seems you had a lot of fun."

"It's just a pity I didn't dare register as an adventurer," Li Qianxia said with a tinge of regret.

"You really went to play?" Yang Qinglan asked again.

"...Qing Lan, you're too sly. I seriously suspect that the first time you met my brother, you deliberately dropped your pants in front of him."

"It was a skirt," Li Changzhou corrected.

"Looks like it made an impression," Turquoise Pool commented, her gaze somewhat warning, as if she were the chief wife alerting her husband.

"I didn't just play," Li Qianxia continued, "I fully figured out their combat style and level. If they pose a threat to my brother, I'll intervene abruptly during a fight. So you see, even though I didn't do much, you can't deny my necessity."

"You do have a point," Yang Qinglan acknowledged with a smile.

"Moreover," Li Qianxia took out the box given to her by the Japanese, "I got rewarded for being good!"

"Rewarded for being good?" Turquoise Pool expressed mild curiosity.

As Li Qianxia talked about what she had done, she opened the box.

The box held four stone slabs, each the size of Li Changzhou's palm and as thick as a cellphone. At first glance, they resembled Qi radiance solidified into glass bricks.

But while Qi radiance typically forms into glass bricks out of habit, beads, triangles, and cylinders are also possible, whereas these four slabs could only be rectangular.

[Name: Skill Stone Slab]

[Type: Item]

[Quality: F to A]

[Special Effect: Random skill]

[Minimum Use Conditions: Player]

[Introduction: 1. Random skill up to A level]

2. Random skill does not occupy the player's own skill slot

3. Must equip 'Skill Stone Slab' to use the random skill

4. Random skill cannot be changed, changing slabs won't help

5. Each player can only possess one 'Skill Stone Slab'

6. Higher skill level, lower chance of acquisition]

[Note: +1+1+1+1+1+1...repeating is futile]

"An extra skill, huh," Li Changzhou mused.

As a player tormented by insufficient skill slots, his sentiments regarding skill slots were difficult for ordinary people to understand.

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