Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

The raging thunder around them gradually subsided, but the damage to Chu Mingkong's buttocks had already been done, and he now harbored a great deal of resentment towards the white tiger.

The creatures residing in these scattered white tiger totem altars are not the real white tiger divine beasts, but merely a wisp of its will.

The powerful voice of the White Tiger Spirit resounded: "The totem jade you possess does not belong to this altar. I can only give you a fragment of the White Tiger inheritance, which is a secret technique."

Judging from the situation, Chu Mingkong guessed that it was probably some kind of thunder magic. It was better not to learn such things, since there was no one around him who could use them.

Fengying said earnestly, "Even though it is incomplete, it is still my honor to receive the White Tiger's inheritance."

Her coming is actually pointless; it's more of a matter of etiquette towards the totem, a blessing bestowed by the divine beast. Humbly and gratefully accepting it is the proper way to show respect, while refusing it would be a great disrespect.

"But there is something I would like to ask Lord White Tiger for guidance on: how to find the altar corresponding to this totem jade? The Moonlit Empire has been shattered, and this land has become a gathering place for various forces in exile. Those altars have all been controlled by others, making them difficult for us to find."

The spirit of the White Tiger remained silent for a long time before speaking:

"This is against the rules, but someone has already broken them. I can't pinpoint the exact location, but I can point you in a direction. Near the Thunder Pool close to Kunlun, there's an altar, larger than any other. The White Tiger spirit inside can tell you where this totem jade belongs!"

Chu Mingkong held onto Feng Ying's black-stockinged legs, wary of his surroundings to avoid being attacked again. He was distracted by what the White Tiger Spirit was saying, muttering to himself:

"Hmm? Kunlun? It seems that Daoist Qingqu Zheyan is there. I can take some time to visit Leichi later, find the altar, and return the two scriptures while I'm at it."

The spirit of the white tiger had no intention of chatting with the wind shadow. The lightning in the stone statue's eyes dimmed, and it spat out the totem jade from its mouth. A fragmented secret technique had been imprinted into the totem jade.

"You should leave now. This altar will soon be closed, and these scoundrels will no longer be allowed to enter."

After bowing, Feng Ying led Chu Mingkong out of the altar space. It can't be said that there was no gain, but the gain was not much, but it was better than nothing.

Just as they stepped out of the altar, two powerful and familiar auras approached, and Zuo Qiuchi and Xiao Yunhan appeared before them.

None of them spoke, but in Chu Mingkong's eyes, the forces had already formed several factions.

Feng Ying in black stockings, Xiao Yunhan in white stockings, and Zuo Qiuchi with bare legs—a true three-legged stance!

Xiao Yunhan stared at her little brother, but Chu Mingkong interrupted her, answering first:

"Alright, alright, I know what you want to ask, Yunhan. Don't ask where my pants are. I couldn't find my old pants, and my new pants were torn. Now I have no choice but to endure this humiliation by being naked. How did you find this place?"

Zuo Qiuchi took out a pair of white silk stockings and said:

"When I came down, I found my socks hanging on the tree branch, so I came to check. And you really were here."

So does this mean the white stockings were found, but the pants were completely left unfinished?

Xiao Yunhan didn't care about anything else. She took a step forward with her long, slender legs in white stockings beneath her snow-white dress and said directly:

"Mingkong, come here to your sister!"

Chapter 173 Boss: Three this time?

To be honest, when Chu Mingkong was in his normal physique, whether it was his master Zuo Qiuchi or anyone else, he felt that they were delicate and frail. This was not to say that they were sickly beauties, but rather the feeling when he actually hugged them.

Their cultivation levels are undoubtedly very high, but when you hold them in your arms, you will feel the softness of a woman.

But they were already giving Chu Mingkong a strong visual sense of pressure. They were tall and voluptuous, and he had to look up at them when he made eye contact with them. From a normal perspective, the first thing that caught his eye was their beautiful legs. Their legs had perfect lines, were long and straight, but were not thin like stick insects. Instead, they were plump and firm to the naked eye.

Hearing Yunhan call him over, Chu Mingkong walked to her side first to avoid any further trouble, but Xiao Yunhan immediately picked him up and put him in her arms.

"Yunhan, didn't you go into seclusion? Why did you come out?"

Xiao Yunhan wanted to settle accounts with him directly regarding the incident at the Viewing Stone, questioning him about his lack of male virtue and his inappropriate use of the term "brotherly" to address Zuo Qiuchi as "sister." However, with Feng Ying present, Xiao Yunhan decided to leave the matter for later.

"If you had something to do, you would have come out. You ran out and searched for your pants for a whole day and night? And you were with Feng Ying?"

When Zuo Qiuchi saw Feng Ying appear, he was equally curious. This elusive fellow had come and played with the Hehuan Dew all night, then ran away after serving as a nominal maid for a few days. Now, Chu Mingkong went out to look for his pants, but instead of finding them, he brought Feng Ying back.

As her master, she was already used to Chu Mingkong's outrageous behavior, but what Zuo Qiuchi found hard to adapt to was that every time he went out of his way, he would veer back onto the right path.

According to their original travel plan, the master and apprentice intended to spend about five days gathering information about Feng Ying's whereabouts after arriving at Baihu Plain, and then find her. Gathering clues was actually the most time-consuming part.

If they really can't get any clues about her, then they can only cause a ruckus here and make a commotion so that Fengying will know they've arrived and come looking for them.

As it turned out, this kid jumped off the boat and wandered around for a day before finding Fengying, which really surprised Zuo Qiuchi.

Zuo Qiuchi said meaningfully:

"Actually, Mingkong didn't exactly not find any pants. His pants were for his calves, and Fengying could fit his calves in them, so you could say he found some pants."

Feng Ying paused, then, realizing what Zuo Qiuchi meant, smiled and retorted:

"The young master's master is the same. Even if I'm not around, his master can still cover it up with his mouth, right?"

Xiao Yunhan: "???"

Chu Mingkong felt uneasy and nervous. He brushed a strand of hair from the white-haired woman's side to attract her attention, and pondered an explanation. He couldn't talk about experiencing the Yin-Yang harmony with Feng Ying, at least not openly to Xiao Yunhan.

"Actually, I just came out to look for my pants for a while, and then I accidentally stumbled into a branch of a force called the 'Rakshasa Society,' which is in those ruins behind here, but we can't get in now. After that, I became an informant and followed the Rakshasa Society members to find Feng Ying. Feng Ying is one of my people, and she has to help me investigate things, so don't be mean to her."

Xiao Yunhan looked suspiciously at the inexplicable strange behavior of Zuo Qiuchi and Feng Ying, choosing not to delve into it. She was more interested in taking her younger brother back to his room and disciplining him.

"Okay, we won't yell at her. Let's find a place to rest first. Where do you plan to go next? Is there anything else you want to do?"

Chu Mingkong recalled his itinerary and shook his head:

"That's all. Our main mission here was to find Fengying, and after losing a pair of pants, it's successfully completed. Now we can leisurely return to Xiling and find a place to stay in Tianya City."

"By the way, is the spaceship still around?"

Zuo Qiuchi said, "After Yunhan and I disembarked, the spaceship sped away in a flash. Yunhan blocked the ship and delayed them for a lot of time. They need to hurry up and get on their way now."

There's nothing I can do about that. Chu Mingkong wanted to go back to the ship to rest again.

This place is in the middle of nowhere, and the nearest inn or guesthouse is all back in Baihu Plain. Chu Mingkong was quite satisfied with the accommodations on the spaceship. Although the environment was just average, it was much better than the desert oasis style of Baihu Plain. Moreover, Chu Mingkong had been holding Zuo Qiuchi, who was dressed as a woman, in the spaceship for so long, and he had also transferred a lot of goodwill to the spaceship.

He glanced at Fengying furtively, realizing he needed to find a way to give her a mature woman's makeup look.

Xiao Yunhan, oblivious to her younger brother's wandering thoughts, asked:

"In that case, Mingkong, do you want to head straight back to Xiling, or leave this forest first and find an inn near Baihu Plain to stay at?"

Zuo Qiuchi, the lazy dog, said:

"I've been resting on the spaceship all day, and I'm a bit tired. It's still dark, so let's find a place to stay first. We can go to Xiling after it gets light."

Chu Mingkong was more inclined to agree with Zuo Qiuchi's suggestion, and nodded, saying:

"Let's do as Master says. It's not too late to set off at dawn. Otherwise, if we rush to Tianya City in the middle of the night, the curfew won't be over yet, and we won't be able to enter the city."

Inside the inn, the owner and his wife were chatting, recounting the strange things they had witnessed that day.

The boss sighed, "Madam, you don't know, but today has truly opened my eyes. The world has really changed. A very beautiful woman is doing lewd things with a little demon boy."

She was really indecent; she even forgot to set up a soundproof barrier at first, only doing so halfway through. The noise she made was real... She didn't leave until midnight, leaving me feeling quite unwell."

The landlady looked down on him, wondering if he was having a nightmare.

"It can't be that bad. Even if he's a demon, what kind of feeling could a little boy have? He might as well use his fingers; at least they're more flexible."

The proprietress quickly fell silent; in the early hours of the morning, only the howling sand and wind could be heard outside the shop.

Three women entered the inn. One of them, a woman with white hair, was carrying a large, well-endowed little boy. The three mature women were all stunningly beautiful, each with their own unique charm. Any one of them could be an unparalleled beauty. Yet, they were now crowding around the handsome boy who wasn't wearing pants.

Xiao Yunhan asked casually, "Are there any vacant rooms? We need three."

The proprietress began to suspect that her shop had been bewitched by a fox spirit, wondering how such a thing could happen in the middle of the night.

The boss looked surprised and uncertain. He recognized the boy and one of the women. Hadn't the two just left? How come they brought two more women back in the blink of an eye?

Sensing that these people were not to be trifled with, the boss put on a professional smile and asked:

"Our shop... can have only one empty room."

Xiao Yunhan was confused: "What do you mean? What do you mean by 'it can be just one room'?"

Chu Ming thought to himself that everyone in this line of work was a seasoned veteran. He took out a lump of gold, placed it on the counter, and explained on behalf of the shopkeeper:

"The owner means that if we want more rooms, they can clean them temporarily, but there's only one room available right now. I don't think we need to wait for them to clean it; let's just stay here for now. There's only one room, so we don't need to look for another one."

The boss's eyes turned golden: "Yes, yes, yes."

Chapter 174 Besieged on All Sides

The fact that the three of them were living in one house was unexpected for Xiao Yunhan. She had wanted to have a room alone with her brother so she could give him a good scolding about the viewing stone.

Indecent!

She even cooperated with Zuo Qiuchi, calling Zuo Qiuchi "Master Sister," deliberately trying to provoke her, the legitimate sister.

Zuo Qiuchi is really good at messing with her mindset. He might be taking advantage of the fact that she changed her surname and left the Chu royal family to annoy her. Xiao Yunhan felt that surnames and given names were just titles, not much different, and they couldn't change her relationship with her brother. But if people kept bringing it up, Xiao Yunhan would get very annoyed.

The pale moonlight streamed into the room through the window, falling on Xiao Yunhan's pretty face. She was feeling somewhat depressed.

Although Chu Mingkong was in her arms, Zuo Qiuchi and Feng Ying were lying on either side of her, so it was inconvenient for her to ask about the Viewing Stone.

"Yunhan, you've traveled for so long to get here, you must be very tired and want to rest. Let me hold Mingkong, so he won't move around and disturb you."

As soon as Zuo Qiuchi finished speaking, her hand reached for the boy lying on Xiao Yunhan's body. Xiao Yunhan slapped her away, preventing her from touching him.

"I'm not bothering you, you're bothering me even more!"

"This is still my disciple, and Mingkong has to call me stepmother now. She's much closer to me than you are. You're a generation below me in terms of seniority!"

Zuo Qiuchi always managed to stir up Xiao Yunhan's blood pressure. Even the most stable Dao heart would be stirred up by her. Chu Mingkong lay on Xiao Yunhan's body, trembling, afraid that it would affect him, which would really hurt innocent people.

"I have no opinion on the necessity of you and your apprentice disguising yourselves, but you're actually taking it seriously now. Don't you have any shame at all? You're just messing up the master-apprentice relationship!"

Xiao Yunhan scolded Chu Mingkong and moved him to her side, pulling the boy who was lying on her back into her arms, but closer to Feng Ying's side, using her body to block Zuo Qiuchi's advances.

Despite the seemingly distant conflict, Chu Mingkong felt even more uneasy. Feng Ying, with a swift and subtle move, grabbed him and gently manipulated him in her palm.

Chu Mingkong almost snorted. If his sister found out, it would be a real problem. Right now, their master, Zuo Qiuchi, was at odds with her, while Feng Ying was safe and sound, watching from the sidelines. But if Xiao Yunhan found out that Feng Ying was taking advantage of the situation, they would really fight until the roof was blown off.

For safety reasons, Chu Mingkong climbed back onto Xiao Yunhan and lay there, not giving Feng Ying a chance to play with the walnuts. Xiao Yunhan was puzzled by her brother's reaction, but what could she possibly object to if he was being so affectionate?

However... one of his legs was stiff and awkward.

Chu Mingkong assessed the current situation and realized that if Zuo Qiuchi and Xiao Yunhan were allowed to continue arguing, they would likely keep dredging up old grievances, which would inevitably drag him into the mess.

If Zuo Qiuchi were to accidentally reveal things like visiting brothels and using aphrodisiacs, he would be in big trouble.

He needs to take control of the conversation!