Chapter 85

Chapter 85: Call Me Dad, I’ll Give You My Life

The little pufferfish, a possible true male lead of this book, continued to rummage through the box.

Seeing Chu Yao staring at something, he picked it up and handed it to her:

“Here you go.”

It was a delicate emerald green pouch.

The space inside was ten times larger than a traditional storage bag, almost the size of a city.

Chu Yao hesitated for a moment, but still accepted it, and asked the little pufferfish:

“How many spirit stones do you want?”

Little Pufferfish: “What’s that?”

Chu Yao took out a spirit stone and showed it to him.

He wasn’t interested at all:

“Do you have any snacks?”

Chu Yao: “I only have wine.”

Little Pufferfish: “What’s wine?”

Chu Yao took out two jars of fine wine, wrapped them in bubbles.

The little pufferfish dived into the wine jar.

Soon, he raised his head:

“It smells fragrant, I want this!”

Chu Yao took out all the wine in her storage bag, neatly stacking them against the wall.

She happily put away the pouch.

Seeing this, Shen Mingchao also quickly took out all the food he was carrying, as an exchange.

Everyone was satisfied.

“What about you?” Finally, the little pufferfish asked Sang Nian, “What do you want?”

Sang Nian still shook her head:

“No need, I don’t want anything.”

The little pufferfish stuck half his body into the box, rummaging around, and found a rusty key from the bottom.

“The big sister who gave us the house also said she didn’t want anything.”

He handed the key to Sang Nian:

“But in the end, she took a key just like this one.”

Sang Nian examined the key, curious:

“What does this open?”

“I don’t know, I haven’t seen that big sister again.”

The little pufferfish said:

“I picked up two keys in total, this is the last one, take it.”

Sang Nian thought this was quite interesting, there was a sense of excitement like opening a blind box.

She took the key and casually asked:

“What was that big sister’s name?”

The little pufferfish thought for a long time but couldn’t remember.

The woman came over carrying a bag of jade crystals.

Sang Nian: “This wasn’t picked up while you were out for a walk, was it?”

The woman looked surprised:

“How did you know?”

Sang Nian facepalmed.

From top-grade magic tools to mission jade crystals.

What in this family wasn’t picked up while they were out for a walk?

Don’t tell me they even pick up people.

The three of them counted the jade crystals in their bags.

A hundred in total, all low-grade.

The jade crystals they got from the Lingxiao Sect were also a hundred, but they were mid-grade.

“Let’s each have thirty of each,” Sang Nian said, “We’ll keep the remaining twenty and find some more, make it a whole number and redistribute them.”

The other two didn’t have any objections.

After dividing the spoils, Shen Mingchao couldn’t wait to check his ranking on the spirit stone.

Sang Nian leaned over to take a look.

On the Changsheng’s homepage, the Heroes’ Gathering leaderboard was hanging high, the names were constantly scrolling.

The only thing that hadn’t changed was the top three.

First place was naturally Xiao Zhuochen.

Out of the fifteen hundred jade crystals in the Heroes’ Gathering, there were three hundred high-grade, four hundred mid-grade, and eight hundred low-grade.

Two mid-grade were equivalent to one high-grade, four low-grade were equivalent to one mid-grade.

The value decreased accordingly, and the ranking weight also decreased accordingly.

So far, Xiao Zhuochen had fifty high-grade jade crystals and ten mid-grade jade crystals.

On the first day of the competition, to have such results, anyone would have to praise him as a prodigy.

Sang Nian continued to look down.

The second name was…

Xie Chenzhou?

She was startled, she snatched the spirit stone from Shen Mingchao, and looked carefully.

On the second place of the leaderboard, a row of large characters shone brightly:

Xiaoyao  Sect· Xie Chenzhou

Below, another row of smaller characters:

Fifty high-grade jade crystals, eight mid-grade jade crystals

He was only two mid-grade jade crystals behind Xiao Zhuochen, he could easily overtake him at any time.

The cultivators from other sects were shocked beyond words, they all started to inquire about who this Xie Chenzhou was.

Sang Nian was amazed:

“Our Little Xie Boat is really making us proud.”

Shen Mingchao also sighed in admiration:

“Third place is Wen Buyu, two out of the top three are from the Xiaoyao  Sect, our Xiaoyao  Sect is really making a name for itself.”

Third place was indeed Wen Buyu.

He had forty high-grade jade crystals and five mid-grade jade crystals.

Chu Yao was puzzled:

“How did that pretty boy suddenly become so powerful? He’s actually ranked higher than Senior Brother.”

Sang Nian awkwardly laughed:

“Maybe the feng shui here is good for cultivation?”

Chu Yao’s competitive spirit was successfully ignited:

“When we get out, I’m going to have a competition with him, I want to see how powerful he really is.”

Sang Nian was about to reply, when a man shouted from outside the door:

“Wife, come and see what treasure I picked up while I was out for a walk!”

She stopped talking and curiously leaned her head out to look.

In the courtyard, a similarly round middle-aged man was standing, nonchalantly, with a young man in white on his left shoulder.

Sang Nian: …

He really picked up a person.

The back view was strangely familiar.

The woman and the little pufferfish both went out to greet him.

The man put the person on his shoulder down, and proudly said:

“My eye for talent is never wrong, he’s definitely handsome, let’s lock him up and let him play with our son, hehe.”

Sang Nian: “?”

She hurried forward, squatted down, brushed aside the young man’s messy hair, wiped away the blood, and looked closely.

This handsome man who was unconscious and seriously injured was none other than Xiao Zhuochen.

So, the demonic beast in the original book that imprisoned Xiao Zhuochen until the end of the Heroes’ Gathering, preventing him from winning, was this pufferfish couple?

Sang Nian was shocked.

Shen Mingchao also came over, his face full of disbelief:

“Isn’t this Xiao Zhuochen, who’s first on the entire leaderboard? How did he become like this?”

The man had already learned their origins from his wife, he was still friendly to them, and explained:

“He was already seriously injured when I picked him up, I smelled the lingering aura, it seemed like he was injured by the poisonous snake from the south.”

Sang Nian: “Snake?”

The little pufferfish said:

“That poisonous snake is called Naga, it’s the strongest demonic beast in our area, no one can beat it, I don’t even dare to go south when I’m out for a walk.”

Shen Mingchao asked fearfully:

“Is that poisonous snake venomous?”

Little Pufferfish: “Highly venomous.”

Hearing this, Shen Mingchao weakly supported his forehead, he wanted to cry but couldn’t:

“Damn it, did Xiao Zhuochen get poisoned? I think I’ve been infected, my head is spinning.”

The little pufferfish said: “Don’t worry, he didn’t get poisoned.”

Shen Mingchao had just breathed a sigh of relief, when he heard the little pufferfish say apologetically:

“But, your head is probably spinning because when you touched my head just now… I accidentally forgot to put away the little thorn, and it pricked you.”

Shen Mingchao: “?”

He stiffened his neck and lowered his head, and sure enough, he saw a very small wound on his right thumb.

Shen Mingchao was silent for two seconds:

“…Are you venomous?”

The little pufferfish was even more embarrassed:

“Highly venomous.”

“Bang”

Shen Mingchao’s eyes rolled, and he fell straight to the ground.

Chu Yao asked Sang Nian: “…What should we do with him now?”

Sang Nian sighed: “Give him a grand funeral.”