“A sign of great fortune, is that it?”
Ye Qiu stared in disbelief, glancing down at Master Longbrow.
Master Longbrow lay on the ground, his body stiff and immobile, his face turning blue, foaming at the mouth.
Ye Qiu could tell at a glance that Master Longbrow had been poisoned by miasma.
Master Longbrow said in agony, “Little brat, save me, save me…”
Ye Qiu didn’t immediately help Master Longbrow, instead chuckling, “Old thing, didn’t your divination say we’d turn danger into safety? You’ll be fine in a bit.”
Master Longbrow, both anxious and angry, said, “Little brat, stop with the sarcasm, save me quick, this Taoist doesn’t want to die yet.”
Ye Qiu held up one finger.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Master Longbrow asked, puzzled.
Ye Qiu said, “Give me a hundred million, and I’ll save your life.”
Damn it!
Master Longbrow was so angry he wanted to curse.
“Don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You sold me ten sword talismans and made quite a bit from me,” Ye Qiu said.
Master Longbrow snapped, “Save me now, and once the poison’s gone, I’ll give you the money.”
“Are you planning to renege after I cure you?” Ye Qiu said with a grin, “Money first.”
“You—” Master Longbrow was about to curse Ye Qiu, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a spray of white foam came out.
Ye Qiu said leisurely, “The miasma here is colourless and odourless, even my senses didn’t pick it up, so it’s clearly no ordinary poison.”
“Old thing, in your current state, if you don’t get immediate treatment, you’ll be meeting the past masters of Dragon Tiger Mountain in just a few minutes.”
“But that’s not bad, right? Ascending to immortality, isn’t that the goal?”
Cursing me to death, you little bastard.
Master Longbrow glared at Ye Qiu furiously, then said, “Transfer it yourself, the phone’s in my pocket.”
“As you wish.” Ye Qiu fished the phone out of Master Longbrow’s pocket and opened the banking app.
“Password?”
“Six eights!”
Ye Qiu logged in and saw that Master Longbrow’s bank account had a whopping ten billion.
“Bloody hell, you old thing, so rich and you still cry poor to me? Shameless.”
Ye Qiu transferred a hundred million to his own account, then dragged Master Longbrow out of the woods, pulled out a golden needle, and quickly inserted it into several points on Master Longbrow’s body.
Soon, Master Longbrow recovered.
“Phew—”
Master Longbrow let out a long breath and cursed at Ye Qiu, “You little bastard, extorting me when I’m at death’s door, you heartless wolf.”
Ye Qiu laughed, “Forgot who just saved you? If it wasn’t for me, you’d be long gone.”
Master Longbrow said, “If I hadn’t given you a hundred million, would you have saved me?”
“I would!” Ye Qiu’s smile didn’t fade as he said, “You know my character, I wouldn’t stand by when a friend’s in trouble.”
Master Longbrow was stunned, then said, “So, even if I didn’t give you the money, you’d have saved me?”
Ye Qiu smiled, “Of course.”
Master Longbrow’s face turned blue again, this time from anger at Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu said, “I was just messing with you, who knew you’d actually give me the money? But speaking of which, if I hadn’t logged into your bank account, how would I have known you were that rich?”
Master Longbrow fumed, “This Taoist worked hard half my life to save that much, and you extorted a tenth of it. I really want to kill you.”
Ye Qiu asked, puzzled, “Old thing, you’re a man of the cloth, what do you need all that money for?”
Master Longbrow said, “I want to rebuild Dragon Tiger Mountain.”
“Do you know how much it costs to rebuild Dragon Tiger Mountain? At least ten billion!”
“You little bastard, extorting a hundred million from me, I’ll hate you forever!”
“It’s just a hundred million, is it that serious?” Ye Qiu said, “Old thing, how about I give it back?”
Master Longbrow immediately beamed, “Yes, yes, great.”
Ye Qiu said, “See, I mess with you, and you take it seriously.”
You bastard!
Master Longbrow’s cheeks puffed up with anger, silently cursing, “You little bastard, just you wait. Once this Taoist cultivates nine streams of true qi, I’ll beat the crap out of you!”
Then.
Ye Qiu looked up at the solitary mountain and said, “This mountain is a thousand metres high, and the woods are full of miasma. Old thing, can you make it up?”
“Mere miasma can’t stop me,” Master Longbrow said, pulling a talisman from his pocket and placing it under his tongue before striding into the woods.
This time, Master Longbrow didn’t get poisoned, clearly thanks to the talisman’s effect.
Ye Qiu, immune to all poisons, had no worries and followed Master Longbrow into the woods, climbing the mountain.
The journey was smooth.
No further dangers appeared.
Ten minutes later.
Ye Qiu and Master Longbrow reached the mountain’s summit.
All was silent.
They looked around and saw the summit covered about a hundred mu, with gentle slopes rising around the edges and a depression in the centre, like a wok.
In the centre of the depression was a circular lake.
The lake was only the size of a house, like a mirror.
The water was very calm, occasionally rippling with a slight breeze, and gradually, a faint mist appeared, shrouded in moonlight, like a beautiful maiden veiled in gauze.
Though the scenery here was beautiful, compared to the famous Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, it seemed a bit underwhelming.
“Tianchi! This Taoist has finally found Tianchi!”
Master Longbrow was overwhelmed with emotion, pointing at the lake and saying, “Little brat, I didn’t lie to you, did I?”
“Now that we’ve found Tianchi, we’ll soon see the Golden City.”
“Once we enter the Golden City, this Taoist can claim the great treasure.”
“With that treasure, the revival of Dragon Tiger Mountain’s glory is just around the corner! Just around the corner!”
“Hahaha…”
Master Longbrow laughed to the sky, so excited he nearly wept with joy.
Ye Qiu, on the other hand, was very calm and asked, “Old thing, are you sure the Golden City is beneath this Tianchi?”
“Absolutely! Master Cave Mystic was an enlightened sage, he wouldn’t deceive his descendants,” Master Longbrow said, then eagerly sprinted toward Tianchi.
Ye Qiu followed.
When they reached Tianchi, they both noticed the temperature here was higher than elsewhere, their bodies feeling warm.
“This temperature…”
Before Ye Qiu could finish, Master Longbrow laughed, “A place where dragon veins converge is naturally different from ordinary places.”
“Little brat, haven’t you noticed? The water in Tianchi is warm.”
Oh?
Curious, Ye Qiu bent down to test the water’s temperature.
As Master Longbrow said, the water in Tianchi was warm, probably around forty or fifty degrees.
“This place has nice scenery and a natural hot spring. If developed for tourism, the prospects would be great.”
Just as Ye Qiu finished speaking, his eyelids suddenly twitched violently, and a strong sense of unease surged in his heart.
