103: Chapter 103 This bastard is bullying us too much!

Two blows had caused him to never believe in love again.

"Time has taught us many things. Some things we once thought didn't exist at all, we later discovered actually do exist. And some things we believed in deeply, we later realized didn't exist at all."

"For example?" the servant asked cautiously.

"Love."

Boom. Under the weight of Zhang Pao's words about love, the sky suddenly began to drizzle. Droplets of rain hit his body, splashing up tiny, blue crystal flowers.

In the instant these petals bloomed, all the surrounding spiritual energy was sucked in.

Such a massive disturbance naturally attracted the attention of many old monsters in Yuanchu City.

"Which fellow Daoist is undergoing their tribulation here?"

"An epiphany of the Heavenly Dao? Could it be attaining sainthood in a single moment?"

"Who exactly are you, Your Excellency? Why are you sucking up the spiritual energy around me?"

Watching the scene behind them, Bai Xuaner, who was walking in the lead, asked curiously:

"Kang Dalei, what exactly did you say to him? How did he manage to break through? Looking at his aura, it's at least the Dark Star Realm."

"Dark Star Realm? In my eyes, it's just the Simp Realm."

Crack. Zhang Pao, who had still been continuously absorbing the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, suddenly heard this sentence. His Dao heart instantly became unstable, and he fell directly from the Dark Star Realm back to his original level.

"I, I..."

Pfft. His Dao heart shattered for the third time, and Zhang Pao fainted on the spot.

"Huh? Why did he faint?"

Bai Xuaner simply expanded her primordial spirit and immediately realized something was wrong.

Kang Dalei was also very curious. "How did he just faint?"

"Right, we have to wait a moment. My child bride hasn't arrived yet."

"You can wait if you want, but I'm leaving first."

Hearing the words "child bride," Bai Xuaner felt uncomfortable.

Seeing that she was about to leave on her own, Kang Dalei said again:

"Do you even know the way? You're just going to walk off alone? Stay put. If you don't behave, believe it or not, I'll hit you."

"You—hmph!" Bai Xuaner crossed her arms and angrily turned her head away.

Not long after, Kang Dalei saw the girl walking over, holding two children in her arms.

Seeing that she had arrived, Kang Dalei first had her change into the new, clean clothes he had bought. After everything was ready, he set off with the large group.

An honor guard, a thousand-person procession, sedan chairs, gongs and drums, and guards—they marched out of Yuanchu City in such a swaggering, high-profile manner that even the commoners in the city couldn't stand to watch.

"Whose spoiled brat is this again, wasting money like this?"

"It's completely useless, they only know how to do these flashy, showy things. Are you rich people all sick in the head?"

"Riding in a sedan chair like you're going to war—if you're so capable, try actually fighting a demonic beast."

"You stinking hags, shut your mouths! Do you know who is sitting in that carriage? That is the Inspection Envoy from Yuanchu Mountain."

Inside the carriage, Bai Xuaner was very confused.

"Kang Dalei, don't you think what we're doing is very strange?"

"Strange?" Kang Dalei countered.

"Isn't it?" Bai Xuaner widened her eyes. Who does things like this, terrified that people won't know your identity?

Kang Dalei just laughed. "If we didn't do this, how would we lure out the people from the Heavenly Demon Sect?"

"What do you mean?"

Bai Xuaner seemed somewhat confused.

At this moment, Kang Dalei patted her head earnestly. "You've been silly since you were little, so in the future, you must listen to me when doing things."

"Screw you!" Bai Xuaner used her head to bump Kang Dalei's hand off her head and said defiantly:

"You don't tell me anything, and now you say I'm silly? If it were my business and I didn't tell you, you wouldn't be able to guess it either."

Kang Dalei said, "Then tell me, what business of yours could I not guess?"

Bai Xuaner thought for a moment and said, "Guess why I'm following you?"

"Because you admire me, adore me, respect me, like me, and want to marry me, right?"

"How can you be so shameless? I do like you, adore you, respect you, and want to marry you, but none of those things you said are the point!"

"So, why are you following me?"

Kang Dalei's expression suddenly changed. He grabbed Bai Xuaner's small hand and began to interrogate her. It scared her so much that her face turned pale, and without even thinking, she blurted everything out.

"Because Great-Grandfather asked me to see how exactly you cultivate and why your growth speed is so fast."

"Oh, so that's how it is."

Kang Dalei looked down at Bai Xuaner, who was curled up inside the carriage. He gave her a look, and she lowered her head before calling out, looking aggrieved:

"Good brother."

"Good girl."

"Report!"

At this moment, a soldier came to report.

"Speak."

"It's time for dinner."

"Alright, then serve the meal."

Kang Dalei waved his hand and was about to get out of the carriage.

Bai Xuaner rolled her eyes. She knew Kang Dalei was unreliable, but she hadn't expected him to be this unreliable.

After getting off the carriage, the sky was already pitch black.

They didn't even set up tents; the group just started a fire to cook.

This made a black line appear on Bai Xuaner's forehead.

"Kang Dalei, if you do this, what will you do if we are attacked by demonic beasts at night?"

Kang Dalei waved his hand dismissively. "With me here, which demon would dare to be so blind?"

Before his voice had even faded, a roar came from the nearby forest. A squad of soldiers who had gone into the mountains to gather firewood came running out in a panic, shouting:

"There are demonic beasts! There are demonic beasts!"

"Awkward, isn't it?" Bai Xuaner poked Kang Dalei's arm, unable to keep a straight face.

Kang Dalei didn't care. He was hoping for demonic beasts to come; without them, where would he get demonic beast cores?

Pulling Bai Xuaner's small hand, Kang Dalei simply threw her, and she went flying out.

"Kill the demon, hand over the beast core, otherwise don't eat dinner tonight."

"You bastard."

Bai Xuaner was thrown out, and in less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, she came running back, fuming.

"Kang Dalei, you—you're shameless, you're a degenerate, you're unreliable."

"How am I shameless, how am I a degenerate, and how am I unreliable?"

"You just are! Shameless, a degenerate, and unreliable!"

"Oh, so asking you to kill a demon makes me shameless, a degenerate, and unreliable? Fine, you win."

"You, you..."

Bai Xuaner talked for a long time but couldn't think of anything to condemn this bastard, because Kang Dalei was standing on the moral high ground.

"Nothing left to say? Hand over the beast core."

Bai Xuaner reluctantly threw down a few beast cores and walked to the side, fuming. As she passed by Kang Dalei, her body was trembling.

"This bastard is too much of a bully."

Kang Dalei picked up the beast cores, wiped them off, and tossed them into his system storage.

The night passed without incident.

Over the next few days, nothing major happened.

However, the fact that Kang Dalei was taking a thousand-person honor guard and traveling through provinces under the identity of The Worlds No. 1 Inspection Envoy once again made him the focus of many forces, especially the enfeoffed noble families who had united to prepare to take him out.

Luzhou, the Marquis's Mansion.

"What exactly is going on with Xu An and the others? When did this kid become The Worlds No. 1 Inspection Envoy, and why are we only finding out now?"

"We don't know, My Lord. Logically, Xibai Pass is at least a five-day journey from Yuanchu Mountain, yet not only did he arrive at Yuanchu Mountain ahead of schedule, but he also successfully became The Worlds No. 1 Inspection Envoy. This is very suspicious."

An old man dressed as a secretary, sporting a goat goatee, said sinisterly:

"Could it be that the White Elephant King is secretly helping him?"

"Impossible." Before the goat-bearded old man could finish speaking, the middle-aged man interrupted his speculation.

"The White Elephant King is being watched by someone. If he had made a move, we would have known about his whereabouts when Kang Dalei arrived at Yuanchu Mountain. But now there is no news at all, so it clearly isn't him."