It's clearly a crossover game, but the system insists it's a pirate game.

The deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Tan were not committed by anyone else, but by their own father, who was still alive, not for any other reason than to drag his own son down with him...

But those last words left the Murong family members on the other side feeling cold.

"The leader back then was actually Murong Bo. After the battle outside Yanmen Pass, his reputation had already plummeted. He had no choice but to pretend to be dead and then hid in the Shaolin Temple's Sutra Pavilion. Coincidentally, your father was also there, secretly learning the Seventy-Two Shaolin Arts."

"Nonsense!" Bao Butong couldn't hold back any longer. "How could you slander the old patriarch like this?"

"Slander?" Zhou Ye looked at them with disdain and said, "The Murong family's goal is to restore the Great Yan Kingdom. As a descendant, I fully agree with this ambition. If my ancestors had the throne, I would have done the same! But what did they do? To restore the kingdom, they wanted to provoke a war between the two countries, which is understandable. But what did they do afterward? Did they recruit a single soldier for the Murong family? Did they save a single grain of food for the restoration? No, they did nothing. Instead, they pretended to be dead, pushed the goal of restoring the kingdom onto their underage son, and then ran off to a Buddhist temple to secretly learn martial arts!"

"You...you are..."

"I slandered him?" Zhou Ye looked Bao Butong straight in the eye before he could finish speaking and said, "As retainers of the Murong family, what have you done all these years? How much grain, how much pay, how many weapons and armor have you stockpiled? How many warhorses have you acquired? How many soldiers have you recruited?"

Bao Butong, along with several other retainers, were all deathly pale.

"Alright, these are rather sensitive topics. Let me try a different approach. Over the years, how many members of the Murong family have entered the imperial court to learn how to govern a country? You don't actually think that restoring a kingdom is as simple as conquering the land, do you? And what about the ministers? Do you think just the four of you can govern a country?"

Bao Butong could no longer stand. He sat down on the ground, his face pale, his lips trembling, but he couldn't utter a single word.

"Actually, this isn't your fault. If anyone is to blame, it's the ancestors of the Murong family. They had the ambition to restore their kingdom, but lacked the talent. They couldn't even do these most basic things, yet they managed to turn the Murong family into a martial arts clan. You don't actually think that a martial arts master can fight against thousands of troops and withstand a rain of swords and arrows, do you?"

Their defenses crumbled; all four retainers were broken, and then they all slunk away.

After getting rid of the annoying fellow, Zhou Ye smiled and looked at Xiao Feng, saying, "So, how about we go to Shaolin and see if I was right?"

If he hadn't come, Xiao Feng could have found the killer in the end, but the process... wouldn't have been pleasant. It would have been a brutal massacre, with even his wife dying at his hands—a truly tragic end.

Therefore, there's really no need to go through this ineffective process again. Just skip the process and go straight to the result. Once he sees his own father and his enemy holding hands and becoming monks, he can return to his position as first mate with peace of mind.

He only acts this way with his own people; if they're not his people... he wouldn't bother with them at all!

Xiao Feng was going to Shaolin, but he couldn't fly, and his mind was in turmoil, so he really needed some time to calm down.

But when they set off, it wasn't just Zhou Ye and Xiao Feng; they also had to join the group of three men and one woman: Xiao Sepi, Wang Yuyan, A Zhu, and A Bi.

When Bao Butong and the others left, they did consider taking Miss Wang Yuyan with them, but Wang Yuyan did not go with them. She thought Zhou Ye was talking nonsense, so she also wanted to go to Shaolin Temple to personally expose Zhou Ye's lies!

Then A'Zhu and A'Bi naturally had to accompany her, since Miss Yu Yan had no martial arts skills, they had to protect her.

As for the little pervert, he naturally goes wherever Wang Yuyan goes.

However, Wang Yuyan's gaze was not on him at all, but on Zhou Ye. Most of the time, she looked at him with anger, as if she wanted to nail Zhou Ye to a tree with her eyes.

But Zhou Ye didn't care. Whenever he was bored, he would make eye contact with her, but when they did, he would either cross his eyes or make a face, and occasionally tease her with his gaze.

Wang Yuyan always lost, but this girl was also the kind of person who never gave up. Along the way, her eyes were wide open whenever she looked at Zhou Ye!

Halfway through their journey, as they passed through a mountain, the group simultaneously heard a noise. Xiao Feng instinctively gathered his inner strength, preparing to strike with his palm. However, when Zhou Ye saw what it was, his eyes widened in shock: "Spare the bear!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already reached the patch of grass, and with a single reach, he picked up a black and white animal.

Iron-eating beast, giant panda, Panda!!!

Judging from the size of this little guy, he should have just been weaned. But if the little beast is here, where is the mother beast?

Activating his Observation Haki, Zhou Ye quickly located the mother beast. Judging from her death, she must have encountered another ferocious beast...

"You're an orphan like me. From today onwards, you'll come with me!"

He'd always wanted to raise one, but never had the chance. Now that he'd come across one, he certainly couldn't miss it. He picked up the little guy and glanced at him, then burst out laughing: "It's actually a little boy! Okay, he'll stay with me from now on, and I'll find you a few wives, alright?"

Zhou Ye was so happy that he didn't even notice how everyone was looking at him from behind.

Putting everything else aside, just now he used the shave technique, which was naturally mistaken by others for a light-footed skill. Such a fast light-footed skill would make even a lecherous little lecher who had already learned the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique) feel a chill in his heart!

Seeing him return carrying the teddy bear, Xiao Feng exclaimed in admiration, "Ah Ye, what superb lightness skill!"

Zhou Ye chuckled and didn't say much. However, he wasn't exactly relaxed on the way. He had to take care of the newly weaned panda cubs, and Wang Yuyan, along with Azhu and Abi, helped out. But whenever she had a chance to make eye contact with Zhou Ye, she would widen her eyes, as if the bigger her eyes were, the stronger her murderous aura would be.

The lecherous man felt incredibly jealous... but he didn't have any good ideas.

"Ah Ye, I heard that some people are at Juxian Manor discussing how to deal with me. Do you think we should go and see?"

Zhou Ye paused, his hand resting on Xiao Bao's (the panda's) belly. He looked at him and said, "Brother Feng, you still don't believe what I said in the apricot grove back then?"

Xiao Feng was taken aback: "Why do you say that? I didn't say I didn't believe it."

Zhou Ye chuckled again: "The way messages are transmitted in the martial world has always been a mystery. It's so fast, faster than a carrier pigeon. Just think, if your enemy heard the news, would he still obediently stay where he is, waiting for you to come knocking?"

Xiao Feng was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously: "Ah Ye, you're right! I'll set off for Shaolin and Juxian Manor right now! Hmph! If they have the guts, let them come to Shaolin and ambush me!"