Fairy, help me cultivate.

"Yes! Just like the moment right now when my older brother is holding my hand."

"Yes!"

Lu Dan nodded, but instead of looking at the pillar of light in the sky, she stared intently at Chen Yao's back.

He is reliable, restrained, knowledgeable, and of high moral character; compared to those old monsters, he is normal and upright.

From the moment she saw the message Chen Yao had left for them on their way down the mountain, she felt that her previous decision was absolutely worthwhile...

Chen Yao turned around and smiled at her.

Lu Dan smiled brightly as well.

A vibration suddenly came from the ring. Chen Yao probed it with his divine sense, and the small silver gourd flew out automatically.

From within came the sound of two immortal swords scraping against the inner wall of the gourd.

"what!"

Lu Qing exclaimed softly, and the swords in her and Lu Dan's hands flew into the silver gourd on their own.

The sword energy within the gourd increased, and a silver light spread out, enveloping Chen Yao.

Bai Piao raised an eyebrow and looked over: "You're really lucky."

Before she finished speaking, a fragment of a thunder magic technique appeared in Chen Yao's mind.

It was clearly the blind Taoist's "thunder-blowing" method.

"What is it?"

The freeloader came over and asked curiously.

As the silver light faded, Chen Yao turned to look at Bai Piao's soft lips, which were so close to his own, and pursed his lips: "It was that old Taoist's lightning magic."

Bai Piao scoffed, his slightly fragrant breath brushing against Chen Yao's lips: "I thought it was something good, but it's just a fragment of a law. It's worthless."

She chuckled and looked at Chen Yao with amusement: "But I'm quite curious, it must be really funny to see you 'bang bang' at your own nose like that."

Chen Yao gave her a disapproving look and didn't want to talk to her.

I do know this Thunder Magic.

Yun Jiang finally spoke.

Chen Yao's eyes lit up, and he smiled.

Since Ling Hong was indeed tired, Bai Piao no longer insisted on walking, so the group finally rode their flying swords to continue their journey.

Although Chen Yao slowed down to take care of Lu Dan and her daughter, they still flew more than 6,000 li by dusk.

As they descended from the clouds, Lü Qing, unwilling to show weakness and demanding a slowdown, overexerted his spiritual power, leaving him pale-faced.

"Little sister, what's wrong? Are you tired? Do you want me to give you a massage?" Bai Piao leaned closer.

Lu Qing gave her a disgusted look, staggered away, and her legs gave way, causing her to fall into Chen Yao's arms.

"Be careful."

Chen Yao grasped her soft hand, and Lü Qing felt a warm current that could wash away fatigue enter her body, then flow through her limbs and fill her entire body.

She trembled and blushed.

"Thank you... young master..."

Bai Piao scoffed, winked at Chen Yao, and teased, "He's your elder now, why call him 'Young Master'?"

Lu Qing turned around and glared at her: "None of your business!"

Bai Piao chuckled: "So you don't want to acknowledge him as your elder. Oh my, little girl, you have quite the heart. You want to be your mother's enemy."

"White Fairy!"

Lu Dan cried out in embarrassment and anger.

Bai Piao laughed heartily and strode towards the cliff, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.

On the cliff, a person sat with a maid standing behind him.

The person had loose, flowing hair, and a teardrop-shaped pearl adorned their smooth forehead.

Wearing a wide robe and flowing sleeves, dressed entirely in white, her slender fingers held a white chess piece, deep in thought about the unfinished game before her.

Her pair of fair, pinkish-white feet kicked out from under the snow-white robe, and the deep folds of her feet made them appear even more delicate and fair.

What are you doing here?

The tone of the "freebie seeker" was strange, and he seemed somewhat at a loss and embarrassed.

This was something new for Chen Yao and the others.

The woman, lost in thought about the chess game, ignored her. The maid standing behind her turned around and bowed to the woman who was offering herself up.

"Uncle Bai, Master has come to take you home."

Bai Piao pursed his lips: "I'll have her answer?"

The maid laughed like a silver bell: "You've been away for less than a year, how many fellow cultivators have you disturbed, Uncle-Master?"

Bai Piao scoffed, "I can kill whoever I want! Besides, there's never anyone I haven't killed with my sword."

The maid glanced to the upper right and chuckled, "That's true."

She looked at Chen Yao and the others and said generously, "These gentlemen must be the distinguished guests that my martial uncle will be receiving on Qiongya."

Bai Piao narrowed his eyes, ignoring the maid, and said to the woman who was pondering the chess game, "You lowly servant, do you want to cause trouble for the market!"

The woman ignored her.

Bai Piao unleashed a sword aura, which cleanly severed rocks and vegetation across a horizontal area spanning several miles.

Chen Yao and Lu Dan were astonished. How could the martial arts sisters fight so fiercely?

The sword energy reached the woman in the blink of an eye, but she simply flicked out the white piece.

The sword energy atop Bai Zi Peak shattered into fragments, exploding into a chaotic mass of sword energy. The cliff was reduced to a grid of fragments that plunged into the abyss.

The woman and her maid remained unaffected, floating in mid-air.

"You've had enough fun, it's time to go back and take over the Sword Manual."

The first words the woman spoke.

The sound was like ice striking the sword, crisp and sharp.

"Don't try to intimidate me with that! These people are my men!"

Bai Piao stood in front of Chen Yao and the others.

Chapter 241 A Shameless Servant

Chen Yao, noticing the freebie, got a little excited and asked, "What do you mean by 'yours' and 'mine'? What does that mean?"

Bai Piao glared angrily at the beauty in white: "Sword Cliff Academy has a rule that disciples who leave Qiongya have an unwritten mission: to find geniuses for the academy. Once they are brought into the academy, they will have the opportunity to receive personal answers from the headmaster. I... I have some questions to ask her."

Chen Yao nodded; that made sense.

If recruiting talented disciples for the academy only brings some material rewards, then encountering a situation where someone tries to poach a student isn't necessarily something to get too worked up about, especially for someone who's getting something for free.

However, if it's an opportunity for a high-level expert to answer your questions, that's a different story.

"Don't worry, you've spent more time with us than she has, so I naturally trust you a little more."

Chen Yao offered words of comfort to the freeloader.

Hearing this from someone who was trying to get freebies felt strange. What did he mean by "somewhat trusting"?

But faced with the lowly maid in front of her, she couldn't bring herself to argue with Chen Yao, lest she push them into the maid's hands.

"Oh?"

The woman in white listened to Chen Yao's words, her gaze remaining fixed on the chessboard, but she still glanced at Chen Yao.

Chen Yao looked at her.

The woman sighed in frustration, then swept the chessboard and chess pot into her sleeve and slowly stood up.

She was very tall, even half a head taller than Chen Yao.

Her gaze shifted, revealing a hint of annoyance, while her exquisitely beautiful face retained a touch of innocence.

"Little Blackie, why didn't you wake me up! I almost forgot about your important person because I was so engrossed in the game!"

She stomped her fair feet in mid-air and said angrily to the maid standing beside her.

Xiao Heizi glanced at Chen Yao and the others, his face turning red: "Master, with so many people here, why are you calling me by my nickname..."

With a flick of her scallion finger, the woman then tossed aside her wide robe and ran toward Chen Yao, her posture resembling that of a large white goose chasing a child.

Bai Piao reached out to stop her, but she easily bypassed him and stopped right in front of Chen Yao.

A faint, pleasant fragrance wafted over, which Chen Yao found very comforting.

The woman smiled brightly, looking Chen Yao up and down: "Young master, from now on, I am yours! If you are not willing, then I will strip naked right now and go out into the world to make a living, and proclaim that 'I, Yu Yun, am the woman Chen Yao seduced and abandoned, who raped and then threw away, and I even gave birth to a daughter named Ling Hong for you. Chen Yao has been impotent ever since he slept with me!'"

!

Chen Yao, Lu Dan, and Lü Qing looked at each other in astonishment. They had never seen such a woman before... One moment she was playing chess like a hermit, and the next she had gone mad.

Chen Yao glanced at Bai Piao, whose face was ashen and who could barely control his sword, and thought that he and Bai Piao would make a perfect pair of Zhuge Liang and Feng Chiu.

"If you're not afraid of being jointly annihilated by the righteous and the demonic paths, I don't care."

Chen Yao shrugged and turned to face forward.

Bai Piao glanced at Yu Yun, who was frozen in place, raised an eyebrow at her smugly, and strode away.

Yu Yun stood there blankly for a while, then pouted and started to sob, soon bursting into loud wails.

"Chen Yao raped me..."

Chen Yao took a few steps, then turned back and covered her mouth.

What exactly are your intentions?

He had just survived a deadly situation and was unwilling to cause any further trouble, so he waited angrily for the aftermath.