Why did you provoke me?

The long-haired man was also a bit annoyed by Yu Meng's unyielding attitude.

Small favors won't work on her, and grand principles won't win her over.

The lame man standing to the side also wore a helpless expression.

Yu Meng chuckled inwardly. She wanted me to do the work but wouldn't tell me the truth. Was she really that stupid?

The long-haired man sighed. "Yu Meng, if I asked you for help, would you agree?"

Yu Meng quickly shook her head, "I can't help, I don't have that ability."

"I won't let you help for nothing. The transmission of the techniques doesn't end with reaching the Saint Master. I'll give you the complete technique for the rest of the cultivation method. What do you think?"

Yu Meng smiled inwardly, thinking, "See, this little bit of teasing has had some effect." But her face didn't show any surprise.

"A complete cultivation technique? Where did you get it? You didn't steal it, did you?"

The long-haired man was taken aback. "Never mind where it's from, just tell me if you want it or not?"

Yu Meng frowned. "You brought it with you?"

"Of course not." The long-haired man put down his teacup. "If you agree to help me, I'll bring it to you."

Yu Meng stole a glance at the cripple. The cripple's face was expressionless, but Yu Meng's right eye saw that his heart was beating very fast.

Yu Meng suppressed her urge to ask, "Is the source really legitimate? Won't someone come looking for us?"

"Hmm, no one will come looking for us here," the long-haired man said after thinking for a moment.

Yu Meng looked at him questioningly, "You mean here? Is there somewhere else?"

The long-haired man looked at Yu Meng earnestly, "We can all come here, and of course there will be other places too."

Yu Meng thought to herself, "If she can come, it's not surprising that people from other places can too."

"What will happen to me if people elsewhere find out? Will I be hunted down?"

"In Yu Meng, no matter where you are, only the strong have the right to speak." The long-haired man's words were very meaningful.

Yu Meng nodded. "I understand. I was offering real help, but you gave me an uncertain future."

The long-haired man's expression changed. After saying so much, it seemed like he had only made things worse.

The cripple couldn't stand it any longer. "Yu Meng, just tell me what you want to know?"

"Will you tell me everything I want to know?"

"Anything involving sect secrets is out of the question," the cripple said with a smile.

Yu Meng rolled her eyes. "Don't try to fool me with that nonsense. I also have a sect, and I know what's going on here."

The long-haired man glanced at the cripple, then hesitated, as if he wanted to say something.

The cripple waved his hand dismissively, "Given our current state, it's hard to say whether we can go back. What's there to hide?"

Yu Meng became interested. "If you really can talk about it, then tell me about your place."

The cripple nodded. "Before we talk, you have to promise us one thing."

Yu Meng smiled and said, "Your affairs are too far removed from my life. Perhaps I will never have the chance to learn about them in my entire life. If you are willing to talk about them, I will listen. If you are not willing to talk about them, I will not force you."

The cripple sighed, "You can't go on like this, you'll have no friends."

Yu Meng laughed, "Friends are people who treat each other with sincerity. I know nothing about you. But you probably know everything about me, even my ancestors."

"Sigh, really, even dealing with those old foxes up there isn't as difficult as you are," the cripple sighed again.

"How can you blame me? You want me to do the work, but you don't explain why. What if you make me take the blame? That would be so unfair!"

Yu Meng showed no intention of backing down. She responded to every word the cripple said, refusing to suffer any loss.

"Okay, then tell me."

The cripple pulled a small bag from his person. "See that? That's my skill—I can hide countless small bags on my person."

After saying this, he looked at Yu Meng, who was puzzled. "Is there a problem?"

The long-haired man covered his mouth with his left hand and coughed.

The cripple acted as if he hadn't seen their expressions. "It's nothing. I just mean I'm pretty good at storing things, so I shouldn't be lacking anything. But I'm too weak in combat, otherwise I wouldn't have been pulled into being a warehouse worker. And when something happened, I got dragged into it too."

Yu Meng nodded. "So you didn't really make a mistake, but were implicated by some people."

Although the cripple talked a lot, he still didn't get to the point.

Yu Meng was getting impatient. She felt that this was a waste of time. She would be more interested in studying the alien's parent crystal core.

Yu Meng tapped the table with her finger. "Is this all you wanted to say? Anything else?"

The long-haired man realized that Yu Meng's patience was about to run out, so he decided to take a gamble. "Yu Meng, we're doing this in the hope that we can go back someday. But now three of the five of us are gone, and we need outside help."

"Your foreign aid is quite special; it gives me influence and resources."

"Of course, we have our reasons for doing this." The long-haired man seemed indifferent to everything. "We need you to stabilize these four battlefields, and the Jing family's alien mother body also needs to be properly arranged; that's the most crucial thing."

Yu Meng looked at them with suspicion, "With your current power and funds, doing this shouldn't be difficult, right?"

The cripple shook his head, and the long-haired man also lowered his head.

Yu Meng leaned forward. "Is it difficult?"

The two of them nodded in unison.

Yu Meng leaned back in her chair. "You have people, you have money, what you lack are bone painters. But the Jing family has trained many bone painters, and the Jing family head is one of your people, so you shouldn't lack them, right?"

The long-haired man sat up straight. "You've been there, and you saw traces of celestial pets there too. She allied with that person at some point. The Jing family's bone-drawing masters have all been sent to the front lines, and very few of them ever return."

"So, you're completely helpless on the first and second battlefields now," Yu Meng concluded.

The long-haired man nodded. "Teacher Feng, do you remember her? She entered the second battlefield and found something unusual, but she couldn't handle it."

Yu Meng still didn't understand, "For something like this, it's not like you're giving me all your power, is it?"

"Of course not those," the cripple said. Since he had already said so much, there was nothing shameful about saying something else.

"We just want to follow you. I can see that if we follow you, at least we won't die in vain." After saying this, the crippled man looked at Yu Meng. "Doesn't it seem unbelievable? But it really is what we both think."

Yu Meng didn't laugh. "Just for this? You can just say so directly. Why go through all this trouble?"

"Would you agree if I just said so?"

"Yes, I would. You're giving people and money just to follow me, why wouldn't I agree?"

The long-haired man looked at her. "So, you agree now?"

Yu Meng shook her head. "You don't agree?"

The lame man and the long-haired man were both dumbfounded. "Didn't you say you agreed?"

"But you said first that I had to do things for you! I never agreed to do anything for you!"