CHAPTER 440: CHAPTER 285: RUNNING AWAY IS SHAMEFUL, BUT USEFUL

Zhang Ze looked at Li Yueqi, blinked, and pointed to himself, "Me?"

"Yeah." Li Yueqi nodded.

"Why?"

Zhang Ze was confused. He had clearly done nothing, at most occasionally sent some silly pictures of Li to Female Hero Li.

How did he become the heart demon?

Seeing Zhang Ze’s confusion, Li Yueqi sighed and shook her head.

On the viewing platform.

"Huh? Why is there no sound again? Am I deaf?" Spectator number one on the viewing platform asked.

He craned his neck to look into the arena, hoping to hear some secrets to satisfy his burning gossip soul.

"Deaf, my foot, they must be whispering, quick, who can lip-read, I’ll pay fifty spirit stones!" Spectator number two shouted.

"I can, but pay me first." Spectator number three raised his hand.

"Here you go." Spectator number two waved a pouch over.

And then, there was nothing more.

"Aren’t you going to translate?" Number two asked.

"Translate what? They’re doing sound transmission with divine sense, it doesn’t use lips, who knows what they’re saying?" Spectator number three said honestly.

"Then why did you take my money?"

"You said knowing lip-reading earns fifty spirit stones, why wouldn’t I take free money?"

"You damn...!"

The two of them started to fight.

The Thousand Mechanism Magical Artifact floating in mid-air, due to their commotion, glanced over, then aimed back at the arena.

It gave Zhang Ze’s face a close-up.

Lily, holding the control artifact, wished she could shove the camera right into Zhang Ze’s face.

While controlling the shooting angle of the flying magical artifact, she took out a small notebook and started writing in it.

It was a draft book, tentatively titled "Six Sects Small Ascender Chronicles."

"Hey, Chen Qin, why are you acting like nothing’s wrong? Aren’t you worried about the boss?" Lily fanned the flames without hesitating.

"Worried about what?" Chen Qin turned to Lily, sincerely asking.

This made Lily embarrassed; she opened her mouth but couldn’t figure out what to say.

"Don’t worry, Senior Brother will definitely solve Sister Qi’s problem."

Chen Qin patted Lily’s shoulder, then held the already dozing Li, continuing to watch the field.

Inside the resting room.

Xia Yan hugged Li Jue, squeezing his shoulder.

"Quick, tell me, what exactly is going on with those two? What’s wrong, exactly what is wrong? Is there something, or that something?"

Xia Yan wore an excited expression; as a part-time writer with no end, she was best at imagining explosive plots without caring about consequences.

She was thinking way more things than Lily right now.

"It’s not what you think." Li Jue frowned, pushing away Xia Yan’s restless hands.

"Then what is it, stop being mysterious!" Xia Yan put her hand back on.

Li Jue, "Actually, you’re not the only one who thought wrong, I thought wrong before too. I also believed Big Sis was interested in Brother Zhang, so I began matchmaking them."

"And then?" Xia Yan asked, looking at the small walnut in Li Jue’s hand, picturing the two of them confronting each other.

"Things weren’t that way. Apart from getting beaten up several times, what else could I do? Later, I discovered Big Sis might have a slight interest in Brother Zhang, but it’s just a tiny bit at best."

Li Jue frowned slightly, "It’s not like there’s a little fawn running wild in her heart, Big Sis was just obsessed."

Xia Yan shook her head, not understanding.

Li Jue continued, "I’ve been hit by her since I was little, Big Sis is actually a very stubborn person, not only stubborn but also very obstinate."

Xia Yan thought, it did seem like that; since childhood, Li Yueqi was always the ringleader, the one leading and never yielding.

"Big Sis never lost, until she encountered Brother Zhang." Li Jue sighed.

"At first, it was fine since Brother Zhang was still weak, so Big Sis acted normal. But then the matters of the village and Spirit Deer Valley happened.

"Brother Zhang was the one who saved me from the Secret Realm, and the proposal for Spirit Deer Valley was also put forward by him. In Big Sis’s wooden head, these were supposed to be her responsibilities.

"That’s when Big Sis started acting weird; she probably felt Brother Zhang replaced her." Li Jue said.

Li Jue’s guess was reasonable, but Xia Yan’s intuition told her that things might not be that simple.

However, reminded by Li Jue, she recalled the little stories about Zhang Ze that Chen Qin had told them recently.

Thinking carefully, Zhang Ze indeed seemed outrageous.

His cultivation was as easy as drinking soup, where others walked the immortal path alone, he was fed by the heavens, and no matter the situation, he was always there.

Busybody basically described him.

Xia Yan smacked her lips, stopped thinking about Zhang Ze, and continued holding Li Jue while focusing on the little walnut’s scene.

For Xia Yan, the affairs of Zhang Ze were just stories to listen to.

But some people couldn’t treat these things as mere stories, especially when they were part of many of them.

Like Li Yueqi.

However, Li Jue was only half right; Zhang Ze was just a trigger, the root of the heart demon lay within Li Yueqi herself, and with the Li family.

As a second-generation immortal, she enjoyed everything from the Li family of the Beast Taming Sect, while also bearing the family’s responsibilities and expectations.

In this somewhat problematic family, where her parents ran away and her brother was lazy, her grandfather, Old Sect Leader Li, placed almost all his hopes on this little granddaughter.