193: A warm invitation

After a bout of face-reddening struggle...

Shen Yueyao finally let go of the hand she had been using to tightly cover Lu Yuan's mouth, her face flushed red.

She straightened her somewhat disheveled collar, took a deep breath, and like a worried old mother, lectured earnestly:

"A girl must be reserved! Do you understand what reserved means?"

Shen Yueyao explained with a serious face:

"Outside, words like 'Dual Cultivation' cannot be said recklessly! It easily makes people have strange and bad associations!"

"Mmph..."

Lu Yuan rubbed her mouth, which had been turned red from being covered, and pouted with a look of grievance.

She blinked her big eyes, and although she obediently agreed with her mouth:

"Oh... I understand. I won't say it next time."

But in her simple head, she still hadn't figured it out:

"Strange, two people with complementary Physiques building a Qi circulation together to Cultivate efficiently—this is clearly a proper Great Dao written in the textbooks. What exactly is there to misunderstand?"

Although she was complaining in her heart, she decided that discretion was the better part of valor and temporarily shut up to avoid being "physically silenced" by Shen Yueyao again.

However, with Lu Yuan's hyperactive and peculiar personality, she clearly couldn't stay idle.

She was quiet for less than three seconds.

"Oh, right!"

She clapped her hands, as if the previous embarrassment didn't exist at all, remembering the main business.

She leaned in front of Lu Yi, tilted her head up, and asked with sparkling eyes:

"Don't you have a Jade Slip?"

*Thump!*

Hearing these words.

Chu Qianqian, who had been watching the show with her arms crossed, felt her heart tighten suddenly.

Her eyes instantly became a bit panicked, and she subconsciously looked at Lu Yi.

"It's over!"

Chu Qianqian wailed in her heart:

"The thing I was most worried about happened! This girl has such a big mouth!"

Facing Lu Yuan's question, Lu Yi was not surprised.

Since Lu Yuan had mentioned Gu Changsheng just now, it wasn't strange for her to know about the Jade Slip's existence.

"You mean this, right?"

Lu Yi was very frank.

*Hum.*

With a flick of his wrist, he took out that simple and ancient Jade Slip from his Storage Ring, which he had always left in a corner to gather dust, emitting a faint, vast aura.

He shook it casually in his hand:

"It is indeed a 'meeting gift' from Gu Changsheng. He also said this thing is related to some Opportunity and told me to check it out when I have time."

Seeing that Jade Slip, Lu Yuan's eyes lit up for a moment, but then she wrinkled her small nose suspiciously and whispered:

"Strange... that guy Gu Changsheng, who is full of bad ideas and never blinks when plotting against people, when did he become so kind? There must be a trap in this..."

But soon, an optimist like Lu Yuan threw her doubts to the back of her mind.

"Oh, whatever!"

She grabbed Lu Yi's sleeve and said excitedly:

"Since the key is in your hand, then it's easy!"

"Let's go, let's go!"

Lu Yuan pointed outside the city and said impatiently:

"I just found a broken stone door outside the city that wouldn't open no matter what, and it even discharges electricity!"

"This Jade Slip must be the key!"

"Let's go try it now! If it opens and there are treasures inside, we'll go thirty-seventy... no, fifty-fifty!"

Seeing Lu Yuan spill the secret she had tried so hard to keep, like beans falling out of a bag, in less than fifteen minutes.

Chu Qianqian stamped her feet in anxiety, wishing she could go up and sew Lu Yuan's mouth shut.

"This big mouth!!"

She was going crazy in her heart:

"Now it's great! Lu Yi definitely knows I need something from him! All my leverage is gone!"

However, in her Sea of Consciousness, the lazy and somewhat playful laughter of Ancestor Chu Yaohua sounded faintly:

"Hehehe... silly girl, isn't this quite good?"

Ancestor Chu Yaohua teased:

"You don't have to lower your face and humbly beg that Lu Yi, nor do you have to owe him a favor. Now that this girl has said it for you, Lu Yi will definitely go. This is called 'getting it without any effort.' You should just be secretly happy."

Chu Qianqian froze for a moment.

Although she admitted in her heart that the Old Ancestor was right and this indeed saved her from huge embarrassment.

But verbally, she was absolutely unwilling to back down.

"Hmph!"

Chu Qianqian snorted coldly, adjusted her expression, and put on a cold and aloof look as if saying, 'Since you want to go, I will reluctantly lead the way.'

"Since Miss Lu has said so."

Chu Qianqian walked out first with her hands behind her back:

"Then I'll take you there to have a look, lest you get lost."

The group of people had just reached the grand gate of the Chu Family and were about to leave the city for the Snowfields.

*Clatter, clatter.*

They ran headlong into Chu Siyao and Li Xiu, who had just returned from outside.

At this time, Li Xiu.

After the previous life-and-death pursuit in the wilderness and that exhausting round of "negotiations."

Although he still looked well-dressed on the surface and maintained his poise.

But if one looked closely, one could see a deep trace of fatigue and gloom between his brows that was hard to hide.

Seeing Lu Yi's group in such a hurry, and with an unfathomable Purple-Clad Young Girl added to the team.

Alarm bells instantly rang in Li Xiu's heart.

His intuition as a "Child of Luck" told him—these people were definitely going to do something! And something big!

"Are they looking for an Opportunity?!"

Li Xiu stopped, blocked the middle of the road with a fake smile, and tested them:

"Oh, isn't this Brother Lu and the Old Ancestor?"

His gaze swept over everyone and finally landed on Lu Yi:

"Where are you all going? In such a hurry. Could it be... you've discovered some good place?"

Shen Yueyao directly ignored him and turned her face away, clearly still holding a grudge about him slandering Lu Yi for stalking before.

Chu Qianqian was even less bothered to deal with this "guest brought by a Junior." She didn't stop her pace, intending to walk right past him.

Just as Chu Qianqian and Lu Yuan were both prepared to ignore Li Xiu and leave the city.

*Step.*

Lu Yi, walking in the middle, suddenly stopped.

He looked at the vigilant and probing Li Xiu.

Suddenly, an extremely bright, warm, and completely unfathomable smile appeared on Lu Yi's face.

He walked up to Li Xiu very warmly, reached out his hand as if meeting an old friend he hadn't seen in years, and even helped Li Xiu straighten his collar:

"Haha! Ex-husband Brother asks a good question!"

Lu Yi said loudly, without any evasion:

"To be honest, we have indeed discovered a treasure land and are preparing to go on an adventure to dig for treasure. Since we happened to run into each other..."

A glint flashed in Lu Yi's eyes as he issued that scalp-tingling invitation:

"Then don't be a stranger, Ex-husband Brother. Are you interested in... going to play together? The more people, the merrier!"

Hearing these words.

Not only was Li Xiu stunned and full of bewilderment.

Even Chu Qianqian, Shen Yueyao, and even Lu Yuan behind him were dumbfounded.

Is this Lu Yi crazy? Why would he take the initiative to bring a competitor to share the spoils? Isn't this just looking for trouble?

Only Lu Yi, looking at Li Xiu's bewildered face, laughed secretly in his heart:

"Are you kidding? If I don't bring you, a 'Child of Luck' with such a tough life, to scout ahead and block disasters... wouldn't that be a waste?"