329: Seeing off the three women, carrying a lantern to collect debts.

"You can even grow rice here?"

"Of course. As long as you plant it, it will grow. Even the Flame Lingzhi in your arms can thrive just as well."

Xu Le's Divine Soul could cover the entire Oasis; after a sweep, he discovered there were surprisingly only The three women.

"How come you only have those three people here?"

The Sea God shrugged. "I'd like more too, but unfortunately, they don't have friends as powerful as you."

Clearly, others had come to this place before, but they had all been killed.

The reason The three women survived was that someone among them had calculated that an expert of the same level would come knocking.

Xu Le thought of the Hidden Immortal Society and suddenly said, "Why don't you recruit more people? The success rate would be higher."

The Sea God shook his head. "Anyone below the Peak of the Divine-Grade is just cannon fodder, which I can cultivate myself. Once they reach the Middle Stage of the Divine-Grade, they catch its eye. If we show ourselves then, we'll be exposed and, at the very least, have to endure the Chaos Divine Thunder."

Xu Le realized that he had felt the Heavenly Dao's naked killing intent back then. Especially after he entered the Peak of the Divine-Grade, the Heavenly Dao even seemed prepared to destroy the real world just to strike him dead with lightning.

Had he stayed for two more years, tens of billions of people in the real world would likely have been buried with him.

Xu Le walked over to The three women. "Do you want to go back?"

"No!" The three women said in unison.

"Why?" Xu Le asked curiously.

"Because there's no point in wanting to; that old pervert won't let us leave."

The three women made no effort to lower their voices; clearly, the Sea God didn't care about such details either.

Xu Le looked at the Sea God, whose mouth twitched. "Suit yourselves."

"What about now?"

Wang Xueting and Liu Yilin: "Yes!"

Xu Huan: "No."

The two women and Xu Le stared at Xu Huan in shock. Xu Huan waved the rice in her hand and pointed to the nearby vegetable patch.

"These are all the fruits of my labor; I can't let them go to waste."

Xu Le's face darkened. Why hadn't he noticed this trait of hers before?

Xu Huan circled Xu Le and asked fiercely, "Who are you? Acting all familiar like that. Let me tell you, both of them are my sisters-in-law and are already taken. You're just a pretty-boy Bald Donkey; don't go getting any ideas you shouldn't have."

Xu Le: "..."

He was touched, but he had no intention of revealing his identity.

"If you want to leave, come with me; if not, do as you please."

"Fine, let's go! As if I'm afraid of you!" Xu Huan pulled the other two along boisterously. If not for how smoothly she dropped the rice, one might have thought she was unwilling.

"You're just leaving like that?" the Sea God said displeasedly.

Seeing Xu Le's puzzled look, the Sea God explained, "This place can shield us from it, but once you leave, it will discover you instantly, and my location will be exposed too."

The consequences of being exposed to the Heavenly Dao went without saying—they would be dire.

The Sea God's place would take at least one lightning strike, and everything would be reduced to nothing.

Xu Le waved his hand. "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

The Sea God's gaze was skeptical; he didn't say anything, but he didn't move his body from blocking them. He needed proof.

Xu Le hid the Karma lines of the Lantern-Carrying Monk and revealed his own Karma lines.

It was empty; there was nothing at all.

The three women looked at each other, expecting a fight to break out, but the two just stood there.

Then they saw the old pervert's expression suddenly change, his eyes nearly bulging out.

What happened?

The three women looked at one another, completely clueless.

"You, you, you..."

The Sea God stuttered; despite having weathered countless storms, seeing someone without a shred of Karma with his own eyes still left him dumbfounded.

As long as a person is alive, they have Karma. Even if they live in seclusion in the mountains, as long as they eat, breathe, and excrete, they will inevitably have a connection to the world; it's just a matter of the scale of that Karma.

Having no Karma at all—only a dead person could achieve that!

"Impressive skill!"

The Sea God gave a thumbs-up and stepped aside to make way.

Xu Le smiled, and carrying his lantern, he led The three women out.

"Once you're out, it's best if you stay in the real world."

"Why should we listen to you?" Xu Huan asked.

Although she felt the Bald Donkey before her was no less powerful than the old pervert, she had her brother to protect her, so she wasn't afraid.

"If you stay on this side for too long, bad things will happen."

Xu Le could transfer the Karma of creatures outside the Oasis onto The three women, but over time, their own Karma would manifest, which would certainly draw the hostility of the Heavenly Dao.

"Are you threatening us?" Xu Huan said angrily.

Xu Le shook his head. "Not at all. Once we're out, we'll part ways immediately and never meet again. Why would I threaten you?"

Wang Xueting frowned. "What do you mean by 'bad things'?"

"You've been missing for two years, and in a place like this; naturally, countless people will come looking for you."

Xu Le didn't mention the Heavenly Dao; the more one knew, the more dangerous it became.

The edge of the Oasis.

Xu Le caught three Spiritual Scorpions in the desert, transferred their Karma lines to The three women, and then led them out of the Oasis.

"What were you just doing?" Xu Huan asked.

"Making voodoo dolls!"

"Humph! If you won't say, then forget it. Who cares!" Xu Huan huffed.

Xu Le didn't mind and instead asked, "Have you made up your minds?"

The three women looked at each other and said in unison, "We'll go to the real world."

It wasn't that The three women were afraid; during their two years in the Oasis, their strength had improved rapidly. Although they hadn't yet achieved a Breakthrough into the Blazing Sun Realm, they were already on the verge of it.

They were going back because they missed someone.

They also wanted to see if that black-hearted man had forgotten about them.

"Follow me, there's a node right here."

Xu Le led The three women forward, walking for eight days before finally reaching the rift leading to the real world.

Along the way, Xu Le killed more than a dozen Evil Spirits. With the supply of abundant Spiritual Qi, The three women were only a hair's breadth away from the Blazing Sun Realm; it was estimated that it wouldn't be long before they achieved a complete Breakthrough.

"I wish you a safe journey!"

"Why are you helping us?" Xu Huan looked at Xu Le expectantly, wanting an answer from him.

There is no hatred without reason, nor is there love without cause.

At first, they thought he was a lecherous monk who had his eye on one of them. However, he had looked after them silently throughout the journey without making any attempt to take advantage, making The three women inevitably think of a certain black-hearted person.

Xu Le smiled like an eminent monk of boundless Dharma. "Fated to meet, fated to part. I came when our fates converged, and now that they diverge, it is naturally time for me to leave."

"Is it really that simple?"

"It's just that simple!"

The three women were somewhat skeptical. In a moment of distraction, they looked again to find Xu Le had already disappeared into the distance, leaving only his back visible.

Soon, even his back vanished.

The three women felt a sense of loss, vaguely remembering a monk carrying a lantern who had come with a smile and left with a smile.

Xu Huan waved her small hand. "Sisters-in-law, let's go find that black-hearted playboy of a brother of mine!"

"Mhm!" The two women's faces flushed as they quietly agreed... Xu Le carried his lantern, traveling via the Lantern-Carrying Monk's Spiritual Domain. It took him two full days to finally reach White Tiger City.

A debt overdue by two years; if he didn't go to collect it now, even the creditor might forget about it.