Sword Shatters Stars

Chapter 132 Return
The willful and urgent shouts echoed within the body of the King of Snakes.

So that's how they were communicating just now.

"How about we all become deputy regimental commanders?" Zhao Youyue suggested.

Fang Yuan considered for a moment and said, "When the scale grows larger in the future, we will definitely have to differentiate the functions."

"Simple. They are all deputy regimental commanders. I will concurrently lead the personnel department, Lin Xiufeng will be in charge of the finance department, Fang Yuan will be in charge of the combat department, Ren Xing will be in charge of the external combat execution department, and Lin Qiru will be in charge of the logistics department and the new recruit training department."

"That sounds pretty impressive. I'm going to show off my authority and experience what it's like to be a parent and manage kids!"

The unconventional angle made everyone laugh.

After all, given their age, if they hadn't entered the Heavenly Martial Realm, they would still be in a stage where they were subject to supervision.

I have never personally experienced the power and control of a leader; all I have is the experience of being controlled by my parents.

The group chatted animatedly, looking forward to the future of the Youlin Feiyue Group.

Renxing observed the ground from the perspective of the King of Snakes and discovered several groups of mutated beasts being kept in captivity.

Fangyuan estimated the speed and approximate direction of the King of Snakes' flight and marked and recorded it.

"We'll plan our next move once we're settled."

Lin Xiufeng thought to himself that he would be busy for a while.

"The wild mutated beast herds have truly vanished without a trace. Everyone said that the area from the central to the northern part of the region had been swept clean by the Heavenly Martial Legion, but I didn't expect it to be swept so cleanly. Those we just saw were probably the Heavenly Martial Legion's breeding grounds, right?"

Zhao Youyue felt it necessary to pour cold water on things, lest she have too high hopes and then be too disappointed in the future.

"We'll talk about that later. Right now, we need to dig a large enough area in the Misty Forest Mountains to raise the mutant fish. How big do you estimate it to be?"

Lin Xiufeng guessed that Fang Yuan must have thought this through beforehand and was intentionally letting him speak, and sure enough, he listened to what he had to say:

"Perhaps there's no need to dig. The rainy year has lasted for quite a while, and the terrain of the Misty Forest Mountains and the surrounding abysses should have accumulated a lot of water."

Fang Yuan's idea coincided with Lin Xiufeng's, and the three women's eyes lit up when they heard this!
"It's practically a natural fish farm! We'll go back and check it out in the water. As long as the fish can't escape, we can raise way too many!"

As Zhao Youyue spoke, she called out again:
"You're going to be the deputy director of the logistics department from now on. For the foreseeable future, we'll be relying on you to fly into the sea to find schools of fish and fill your belly with them to float around the lake in the misty forest mountains."

"...Are you kidding me! I just kissed your man, I was just joking around, and you give me this boring and tedious job!"

A single, impulsive remark made Zhao Youyue blush.

Fang Yuan and Lin Qiru were both unaware of this and were completely dumbfounded.

Zhao Youyue exclaimed in embarrassment and annoyance:

"What nonsense! How dare you bring this up! Is this how you joke? What if you have a boyfriend in the future, and I joke with him too?"

"Sure, as long as Lin Xiufeng doesn't mind, you can do whatever you want."

Since I don't have a boyfriend right now, I can be as generous as I want with things I don't have.

"You're being willful and shameless!"

Zhao Youyue was furious, so Lin Xiufeng had to remind her:

"Weren't we talking about having her find fish?"

Zhao Youyue snapped out of her daze and immediately said:

"Anyway, you're in charge of finding the fish! That way, we don't need to take the resources from the Heavenly Martial Group, nor do we need to sign any gambling agreements. All the results will be credited to us according to the rules, and we won't have to work for nothing for the mutated fish."

"Then who will record my credit?"

He shouted it out in a willful, drawn-out voice.

What credit do you want?

Zhao Youyue pondered, but even being willful couldn't come up with a solution.

"Simple, I'll kiss Lin Xiufeng again next time, don't hold it against me."

"How dare you! Are you tired of living?!" Zhao Youyue was furious.

"Hehe, you can't bear to kill me, otherwise who will go find the fish?"

When he gets willful and mischievous, Zhao Youyue thinks he's much more deserving of a beating than Lin Xiufeng!
If Lin Xiufeng's troublemaking is deserving of a beating, then his willfulness is deserving of death.

Seeing that Zhao Youyue was quite angry, Lin Xiufeng had no choice but to say something:

"How reckless! Have you ever thought that if you were killed, wouldn't your soul bead become a trophy?"

Reminded, Zhao Youyue immediately perked up and exclaimed:
"I heard you! I heard you? I'll ask you one more time, are you tired of living?!"

"Oh dear, I have to run away with the King of Snails. The sky's the limit, and we'll be strangers from now on. If you want to kill me, you won't find me anywhere in the world!"

"I will search to the ends of the earth, to the eleventh realm of the Heavenly Martial Realm, and tear you to pieces! Not a single hair will remain!"

Zhao Youyue and Renxing bickered animatedly, but Lin Qiru's smile remained as restrained as ever.

Fang Yuan and Lin Xiufeng weren't worried at all; it was just that their antics with Lin Xiufeng had shifted to Zhao Youyue. The King of the Winning Fish landed as it flew past the Mirror Lake surrounding the mountain.

Thor's body was dumped in a concave rock beside Mirror Lake.

The capricious King of the Snake was filled with fish and couldn't undo its transformation, so it spat some fish out of its mouth. Fang Yuan caught one and threw it into the Mirror Lake.

After waiting for a while, the fish showed no signs of discomfort.

"How can fish from a sea of ​​blood survive in freshwater?"

This is what everyone is most worried about.

Upon hearing that everything was alright, Renxing immediately vomited all the fish in his stomach into Mirror Lake.

A massive amount of blood-red seawater, carrying an astonishing number of fish, fell into Mirror Lake.

However, it did not add any color to the water in Mirror Lake.

The blood-red water quickly diluted, diluted, and then disappeared without a trace.

Having relinquished his transformation, he grabbed Lin Qiru and headed towards the lake, saying impatiently:

"The first two times I passed by, I was thinking, 'It would be good if you knew about the secret base too!'"

"I'll take you diving to the bottom of the lake to see the real secret base. Don't be too surprised!"

As he said this, he looked at Lin Qiru's questioning expression and knew that she would be very surprised.

Zhao Youyue was also very curious and wanted to see how scared Lin Qiru would be by the clone, so she went into the water and swam to the deeper part of the pool with her.

Fang Yuan and Lin Xiufeng discovered that the water level of Mirror Lake had risen significantly, and the original shoreline had been submerged.

The water level is rising rapidly to the lowest point of what was originally a residential area – a cave.

"The cave needs to be redesigned. It is estimated that a downward passage needs to be dug in this area to prevent it from being flooded in the future."

Fang Yuan estimated that the water would only stabilize when it rose above the rocky peaks and overflowed.

Lin Xiufeng looked around and agreed:

“Let’s rest in Mirror Lake for a while and let the clones come out to dig.”

"I'll bring Thor's body inside."

After Fang Yuan finished speaking, he transformed into a purple light body, Thor, and dragged Thor's corpse into the water.

Lin Xiufeng, being lazy, hooked onto Thor's purple light scale armor and was pulled into the water along with it.

When Fangyuan emerges from the water, its replica in Mirror Lake plunges back into the water.

Immediately following was Lin Xiufeng's clone, which suddenly plunged into the water.

Fang Yuan dragged the Thunder Dragon's body ashore and deactivated its transformation.

Lin Xiufeng called out to him, looking up at the high cliff face, and said:
"look--"

Fang Yuan discovered that there was a disguised stone door on the rock wall. Wasn't that the height of the door? It was the same location that he and Lin Xiufeng had just discussed and envisioned.
Clearly, it was a multi-level stone cave facing downwards, and it was likely as they had imagined, or even better.

The rock faces between the peaks have been carved out with sloping, upward-facing banks, clearly intended to be reserved for when the water level rises to its highest point in the future.

"What we've thought of, the clones have already thought of and done."

"Yes, it truly lives up to its reputation as a clone."

Lin Xiufeng exclaimed sincerely, "What an ultimate utility player!"
Perfect guards, hardworking and dedicated, proactively transforming themselves, just as they had hoped.

There is no better tool in the world!
They left and returned much earlier than expected this time.

Fangyuan and Renxing merged with the clone once.

Lin Xiufeng and Zhao Youyue didn't originally need to do this, but the gains from this trip were so great that they merged with each other along the way.

Lin Qiru was amazed by the special abilities of Mirror Lake.

To Renhe and Zhao Youyue's disappointment, they did not see Lin Qiru scream in fright at the clone.

"Lin Qiru is too calm! She didn't even scream!"

I was extremely disappointed and didn't find it fun at all.

"I was so scared that I forgot to call out."

Lin Qiru explained it this way: being willful still isn't fun.

Seeing that Lin Qiru was familiar with the situation of Mirror Lake, he willfully jumped into the lake again, transformed into the King of Winning Fish, drove the fish to crowd together on the lake shore, and then opened his mouth and swallowed the lake water and the fish into his stomach.

So the group continued their journey, flying towards the Youlin Feiyue Base.

(End of this chapter)