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

Zhou Ye did not go home, but instead secretly followed Jiang Wuque and Jiang Xiaoyu.

I promised them that once they had taken their revenge, I would take them to explore the new map. So I should protect them to avoid being tricked again and delaying our trip to the new map.

But when he caught up with the two dolls, he was left speechless, both amused and exasperated.

When they first entered the martial world, the two boys were at the height of their ambition. They wouldn't cause trouble, but once they decided to take action, they were extremely high-profile. However, after causing some trouble at the Divine Water Palace, the two brothers' style of doing things changed again.

They went from being two ambitious young men to... two cowardly little punks.

They remained completely still during the day and only acted at night, always dressed in black and moving as silently as possible. Even their meals and lodging along the way were kept as discreet as possible.

This is like... once bitten by a snake, twice shy of a rope?

Zhou Ye was both amused and exasperated, but he didn't intend to step in and correct him. In the world of martial arts, no one starts at the maximum level, and they're not reborn monsters. Even if they were, the martial arts world is constantly evolving, and old experience isn't always useful.

Some things, no matter how others teach you, are useless; but if you experience them yourself, you can remember them for a lifetime.

Although they have become cowardly, their pace of revenge is not slow at all. Although the Twelve Constellations have kept a low profile in recent years, they have committed too many bad deeds in their early years and are too unpopular. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion has no obligation to keep their secrets.

So one after another, the people of the twelve constellations died at the hands of the two brothers.

Of course, that's not all. For example, even the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion doesn't have the latest news about the Dragon in the Twelve Zodiacs; any news they have is from many years ago.

"What do we do now?" Jiang Xiaoyu spat out a chicken bone. "Go home? What if Dad says we haven't finished avenging ourselves and won't take us with him? But this dragon is really hard to find."

Jiang Wuque was also quite troubled. Logically speaking, the dragon had not participated in the pursuit of his parents, and by now, their revenge could be said to have been completed.

but!

The Zhou family talks about everything, except common sense...

Therefore, Jiang Wuque was not sure whether, in his father's mind, this counted as "settling the karmic debt" between the brothers.

"Let's look again. If we really can't find it, then we'll go home."

"Alright, that's the only way."

Zhou Ye smiled lightly, and just as he was about to appear, he suddenly frowned, turned his gaze in another direction, and disappeared from the spot.

……

Releasing his grip and tossing the corpse aside, Xiong Ba said with a look of dissatisfaction, "Too weak, really too weak. Why are the people here so weak?"

Having just completed his apprenticeship, Xiong Ba was still very curious about the "forbidden area" his master had mentioned.

At first, he did come with a learning attitude, but as he went deeper, the awe in Xiong Ba's heart lessened, until now, it was completely gone. So his goal changed from learning to conquering.

But at that moment, a man of similar height and build suddenly appeared in front of him, pinching his chin with one hand and looking him up and down.

"Your lightness skill is not bad..." Xiong Ba looked at the man in front of him with domineering eyes and said, "Submit to me, and I may spare your life."

Zhou Ye's lips twitched. He had a sense of familiarity with this face and was just about to ask the other person's name when he didn't expect the other person to say something like that.

If the person is a woman, then implementing an anti-addiction measure for her is understandable, but if the person is a man, then I'm sorry.

"Bang!!"

With a punch to the chest, Xiong Ba was sent flying. Zhou Ye didn't care whether he lived or died. If he died, it was just bad luck; if he didn't, it was good luck.

"Neuropathy!"

Zhou Ye cursed and was about to leave, but he stopped when he saw something on the ground: "Oh, did this drop equipment?"

He went over and saw three books on the ground.

"Wind God Leg? Cloud Dispelling Palm? Heavenly Frost Fist?" Upon seeing these book titles, Zhou Ye suddenly slapped his forehead: "No wonder that little mustache looked so familiar, it turns out it's this guy. But he looks quite young now."

After saying that, Zhou Ye put away the three manuals, then whistled as he went back. Today's harvest was really quite substantial; he could find three manuals just by going out for a stroll.

Xiong Ba didn't die, but he wasn't in much better shape either. When he struggled out of the chicken coop, his eyes became much clearer.

"I see... I'll be back."

As expected of a forbidden area, none of the people I encountered before were my match. It seems I was mistaken. The true masters in the forbidden area are all unassuming. How could such a young man have the strength to seriously injure me?

I should go back to seclusion and cultivate. At least I need to achieve the unity of the three elements and truly master the Three-Part Returning Qi before I can come back to the forbidden area to try my hand again.

What no one knew was that Xiong Ba and his master, the Three Wonders Elder, shared the same fate. However, when the Three Wonders Elder felt that he had mastered his divine skills and came to the Central Plains to challenge others, his first stop was Wudang Mountain, where he happened to encounter Zhang, who was preparing to go down the mountain to eliminate demons.

It was this defeat that led the Three Absolutes Elder to mistakenly believe that the Central Plains was a forbidden area, and that anyone could possess Zhang's strength...

Xiong Ba was a little luckier; at least he didn't run into Zhou Ye right away.

When he returned, the two brothers were still troubled. He laughed and appeared in the room in an instant, placing one hand on each of their heads and saying, "Alright, don't worry. You've gotten your revenge. Get a good night's sleep. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Okay!" Jiang Xiaoyu jumped up happily, then pulled her father to sit on the bed and started massaging his shoulders: "Dad, where do we go next?"

"Go to Jiangnan. Your father left behind quite a lot of property. Now that you brothers have grown up, it's time to take back all of that property."

Jiang Xiaoyu's face stiffened for a moment, then she quickly smiled again: "Dad, can I talk to you about something?"

"No way!"

Zhou Ye rolled his eyes in annoyance: "Your aunt and the others are already exhausted enough. Jiangnan is so far away. Asking them to manage the Jiang family's businesses for you brothers is just making them suffer."

Jiang Wuque's expression also changed: "Father, does the Jiang family have many businesses?"

Zhou Ye thought for a moment and replied uncertainly, "I can't say for sure, but your Jiang family used to be a well-known wealthy family in Jiangnan, so there must be quite a few."