Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Moreover, the fact that Fan Luokui returned here with such a calm expression suggests that she has a backup plan and the ability to leave this place immediately.

Making a move now might not be enough to save her.

Seeing Ye Yuchan and the others smiling wryly, Fan Luokui turned her gaze to her senior sister Ye. If she remembered correctly, Ye Yuchan was going to wait until Yun Ping returned before leaving Cangyue City.

Fan Luokui seemed to understand something and asked softly, "By the way, has the teacher been here?"

"He's here." Ye Yuchan answered decisively: "I don't know where he ran off to, he's probably busy with his own things again."

"I see." Fan Luo Kui's expression lowered slightly, then she couldn't help but ask, "Then... did Teacher mention the Northern Ice Palace?"

"It was mentioned."

The person who answered this time was Gu Xingzhuo: "However, the teacher's attitude toward the North Ice Palace seems somewhat ambiguous. We don't know what he wants to do. That's just his style of doing things, and there's nothing we can do about it."

Fan Luokui nodded in agreement: "That's true, after all, this time it involves a woman who has a close relationship with the teacher."

This statement came out.

Ye Yuchan was startled.

Even Fan Luokui knows about Ye Xuanqiu's affair?

Jiang Shaoguang looked troubled, hesitated for a few seconds, and then asked, "Junior Sister Luo Kui, since our teacher has also come here, with his supernatural powers and techniques, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to break the restrictions of the Northern Ice Palace."

"Everyone in the Northern Ice Palace will survive; no one will perish. Luo Kui, you shouldn't have to either..."

Before he could finish speaking...

Jiang Shaoguang's words were interrupted by Fan Luokui.

"Senior brother, what you're saying is only one possibility..."

Fan Luokui shook her head, her gaze fixed on the tea in front of her, her eyes filled with a hint of longing, unable to look away for a long time.

But in the end, the resolute look in her eyes forced her to look away, and she said coldly, "It's not that I don't trust you, teacher, but I can't gamble with everyone in the Northern Ice Palace. You should understand what I mean."

"Once a decision has been made, it cannot be reversed."

After speaking, Fan Luokui turned her head and looked at Jiang Shaoguang with a smile.

That smile was clearly like a warm sun, filling one's heart with warmth, a radiant smile like a sunflower.

"Besides, there are still a few days left, so I'll stay and keep my senior brother company a little longer."

……

What's the deal with this declaration of death?

What do you mean by "how many days left"?

Did he just decide to kill himself outright?

Jiang Shaoguang clenched his fists tightly, suddenly stood up, and stared at Fan Luokui: "Junior sister, the last victory doesn't count, let's try again."

Fan Luokui laughed upon hearing this.

A serene smile graced her brows, and her tone was calm yet slightly teasing: "In the past, I was always the one begging my senior brother to duel me; I never imagined things would turn out like this."

"But just like when my senior brother stood me up before, this time, it's my turn to stand him up."

Fan Luokui's smile gradually faded, and she said seriously, "Senior brother, you lost that match. Many things in life don't have a second chance."

Looking at the determination in Fan Luokui's golden eyes, Jiang Shaoguang knew that this was just his junior sister's personality.

Once a decision is made, not even nine oxen could pull it back.

He gasped for breath, about to say something when...

boom! boom! boom!

Suddenly, there was a loud knocking on the door.

The group exchanged glances, all seeing a strange look in each other's eyes.

Who would be here at this time?

"Teacher?" Gu Xingzhuo asked in a low voice.

“It can’t be him.” Ye Yuchan immediately rejected Gu Xingzhuo’s guess: “If it were that old rogue, he would have already started shouting—come out and greet your lovely and handsome master—like that.”

boom! boom! boom!

As if sensing that no one was inside, the knocking on the door grew increasingly heavy.

Uncle Chen glanced at Jiang Shaoguang somewhat timidly. He seemed to be traumatized by what had happened before, and at this moment he didn't even dare to open the door.

Fan Luokui slowly stood up, taking the opportunity to change the subject: "I'll go take a look."

She walked slowly forward to the gate of Luojiang Mansion and opened it from the inside.

Just as she opened the door, she saw a figure rushing forward. Fan Luo Kui frowned and took three steps back to the side.

He was a middle-aged man, wearing a simple, crumpled coat. His weathered face was stained with blood, and his complexion was extremely pale.

But the man was clearly not aggressive. He staggered and fell to the ground, his back bearing several knife wounds, and his body was almost completely unharmed.

Ye Yuchan immediately stepped forward, and was startled when she saw the person.

She recognized the bloodied figure lying unconscious on the ground.

He's an old acquaintance.

20. People are selfish.

The man appeared to be about forty years old, with a livid face and several deep knife wounds on his back, almost reaching the bone marrow. His internal organs had also been slashed several times.

Judging from his physical strength, this person's cultivation is truly extraordinary, but in terms of his inner spiritual energy, his cultivation is only around the Kaiyuan Realm.

Such cultivation level would have been considered quite good twenty years ago, before the rise of the Demon Dynasty and the Immortal Capital, but in today's world, it can only be described as ordinary and unremarkable.

The weak man was placed on the bed. He was still unconscious. It seemed that he had come to Luojiang Mansion with all his might. After knocking on the door with his last bit of strength, he collapsed from exhaustion.

This also explains why the knocking sound that Ye Yuchan and the others heard was so intense and urgent.

Looking at the man, whose wounds had been simply bandaged and who was lying on the bed still frowning and groaning in pain, Ye Yuchan and Fan Luokui both had rather complicated expressions.

They recognized this person.

They had met once before in the Far Eastern Snowfield, and Ye Yuchan, the Old Rogue, and others even had a past connection with this person.

Hu Xiaolin, or perhaps Hu Yingluan.

It was he who negotiated with Fan Luokui that allowed Yun Ping and the others to enter the inner three palaces of the Northern Ice Palace overnight.

His true identity is the former captain of the Snow Shadow Team, the assassination squad of the Judgment Palace. He has the blood of countless innocent people on his hands and is the veritable captain of the North Ice Palace's garbage disposal team.

If Ye Yuchan's memory is correct, Lao Hu seems to have some inexplicable relationship with a woman named Yu Bai Niao.

I remember it was on the day that the old rogue led Ye Yuchan and the others away that Yunping knocked the two of them unconscious and also put some drugs in their drinks.

Yes, it's an aphrodisiac.

Ye Yuchan didn't know what happened after that, but she could guess roughly what had happened.

Ye Yuchan was quite surprised to see Old Hu covered in blood.

Fan Luokui took a deep breath, glanced back at Jiang Shaoguang who was keeping the curious children out of the door, and said in a heavy tone, "I never thought that when I saw Lao Hu again, he would be like this."

Upon hearing this, Ye Yuchan subconsciously asked, "Luo Kui, has Lao Hu had any contact with you over the years?"

Fan Luokui nodded in agreement. She was already quite familiar with Lao Hu, and now that he was seriously injured, a chill involuntarily crept into Fan Luokui's eyes: "Ever since we moved to Hanyin City, Lao Hu often comes out of the North Ice Palace to see us, and occasionally he brings the children to play."

"A child?" Ye Yuchan raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

At this moment, Jiang Shaoguang, who had just chased the children away, scratched his face and walked over, saying as he walked, "About seven or eight years ago, Old Hu and that White Bird girl had three big, fat boys. A couple of years ago, they seemed to have a daughter. He also mentioned Junior Sister Yu Chan and Junior Sister Ruoxue to us."

Seeing Ye Yuchan's surprised expression, Fan Luokui frowned and asked curiously, "What? Senior Sister Ye, you didn't know?"

"Uh... well, you could say I knew... but things have been going much more smoothly than I expected."

Ye Yuchan's words were a heartfelt expression of emotion.

She had thought that Lao Hu had let go of his pain and was with Bai Niao, but she didn't expect that Lao Hu, at his age, would still be so capable and have a child so easily!

The thought of my former junior colleague now having thirty-six children, and my old friends all married to my daughter's best friend and had four kids, while I haven't even established a relationship with anyone yet...

Tears welled in Ye Yuchan's eyes. She felt a pang of sadness, like everyone else at a class reunion was talking about their children's studies with worried expressions, while she was the only one still single...

It's so real, so real it makes you want to cry.

But feelings of regret are just that.

Seeing Lao Hu's current miserable state, Ye Yuchan couldn't help but worry about the white bird girl: "Speaking of which, are Lao Hu and the others still living in the North Ice Palace?"

"Yes, I run a very simple craft shop in the outer palace, and the money I earn is enough to support my family."

"The Outer Three Palaces..." Gu Xingzhuo thought of the currently frozen Northern Ice Palace, his expression slightly strange: "So, his wife and children are...?"

Wouldn't they also be sealed inside that huge ice sculpture?

Fan Luokui's expression immediately darkened. Clearly, she could not deny Gu Xingzhuo's guess, but this also strengthened her determination to go to the bottom of Jingli Abyss.

Regardless of whether Yunping has the ability to save the Northern Ice Palace, it's not that Fan Luokui doesn't trust Yunping, but rather that she's afraid to take the gamble.

After all, this time the opponent is his teacher's ex-girlfriend... no, ex-wife.

Fan Luokui learned about Ye Xuanqiu's matter from one of her mentors, Yin Hanxuebing. She still remembers the fear and trepidation that Yin Hanxuebing tried so hard to hide in his eyes when he told her about it.

That was something that made even the Twenty-One Extremes feel a chill run down their spines.

She didn't dare to gamble.

Jiang Shaoguang could easily see through Fan Luokui's thoughts. He calmed himself down, about to say something, when—

"Well……!"

As if awakened from a demon, Lao Hu, lying on the bed, was covered in cold sweat. He was so frightened that he jumped up from the bed, looking panicked and pale.

"Birds...willows..."

He murmured to himself, his eyes inexplicably filled with a hint of frost. He shook his head with difficulty, and only then did the world before him become clear.

Hu Yingluan was startled to find herself seemingly moved into a house, where she was sitting on a soft bed, and the room was not bitterly cold.

He breathed heavily, his gaze falling on Ye Yuchan and the others beside him. He looked around and then suddenly let out a sigh of relief, as if a stone had been lifted from his heart.