Chapter 24: Theft (Part 2)

  I caught a cold today and my body doesn't feel very well. I slept for the whole afternoon, so the update is a bit late, but I finally made it.

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  Yang Chen was startled and hastily looked up at the roof, only to find that Xiaoxue had vanished without a trace. He felt a sudden relief in his heart and immediately turned around to head back into the room.

  Now Yang Chen doesn't even bother with these two people. In his eyes, they are just two mad dogs that bite anyone they see.

  Zhao Qian saw Yang Chen from afar and found that after Yang Chen saw him, he hastily turned around to leave. Thinking that Yang Chen was afraid of him, Zhao Qian burst out laughing and shouted at Yang Chen in an extremely arrogant tone: "Yang Chen, you're just a turtle hiding its head! From now on, whenever you see me, it's best if you take a detour every time!"

  Wang Rui burst out laughing on the side too.

  Yang Chen's mouth cornered a cold smile, and he didn't pay attention to the two of them. He pushed open his own door, turned around and walked in, and then closed the door tightly behind him.

  Zhao Qian looked at Yang Chen and returned to his room, laughing, and said to Wang Rui: "Wang Rui, I won't go to practice anymore, you go by yourself! Now I want to rest well and prepare to take the Jiqi Dan, so that I can become an inner disciple as soon as possible!"

  Wang Rui nodded reluctantly, filled with jealousy, and said: "Fine, I'll leave first! But don't forget what you promised me, you have to find a way to get me an Energy Gathering Pill too, so I can become an inner disciple!"

  Nowadays, as long as they are nominal disciples, no matter who they are, they have long abandoned the idea of cultivating their own spiritual energy and placed their hopes of refining spiritual energy on the Gathering Spirit Pill.

  Zhao Qian patted his own chest, revealing a domineering expression, and said confidently: "Don't worry! Who are we to each other? I will absolutely not forget you in the future!"

  Wang Rui looked at Zhao Qian with gratitude, thanked him and then turned around and walked away into the distance.

  But just as Wang Rui turned around, the smile on his face instantly disappeared without a trace, replaced by a cold and gloomy expression, filled with resentment. He thought to himself: Zhao Qian, do you think I'm an idiot? Humph, don't you know who I am? You're such an ungrateful and treacherous person, would you give me the Qi-gathering pill? If it weren't for your older cousin protecting you, I'd really like to kill you!

  Zhao Qian gazed at Wang Rui's receding back, a cold smile spreading across his face, identical to the one Wang Rui had worn earlier. He muttered to himself with disdain: "What are you, thinking of getting the Jizhen Dan? Dream on! In the past, I still had to give you some face, after all, I needed partners outside the sect. But now that I'm about to enter the inner sect, from now on, you'll be nothing but an ant in my eyes. You think you can ask me for the Jizhen Dan? Ha! Foolish nonsense!"

  After finishing speaking, Zhao Qian directly turned around and entered his own room.

  It has to be said that those who are close to vermilion become red, and those who are close to ink become black. What kind of people are friends with what kind of people, this saying is not wrong at all. The Zhao Qian and Wang Rui in front of us are a living example.

  Both of them are the kind of people with bad water in their bellies, seemingly having a very good relationship on the surface, but actually scolding each other behind their backs and wishing the other would come to no good.

  Yang Chen returned to his room and saw that Xiao Xue had not come back yet. He furrowed his brow slightly and muttered to himself, "Why hasn't she come back yet?"

  As soon as the words fell, a white figure flashed in from outside the window and landed directly on the bed. The newcomer was none other than Xiao Xue the white fox.

  Xiaoxue saw Yangchen and her mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a row of clean white teeth, saying: "Hehe, Yangchen, wait for tonight! I'll definitely help you get the Jiqi Dan!"

  Yang's eyebrows furrowed slightly as a hint of concern crept onto his face: "Are you sure?"

  Xiaoxue nodded confidently, using her fluffy paws to pat her chest: "Don't worry, I used to go hungry and would sneak into other people's homes to steal some food. This is a piece of cake for me, no problem at all."

  "Touch?" Yang Chen couldn't help but smile and said: "It's stealing!"

  Xiao Xue's face suddenly turned bright red, and she said somewhat awkwardly: "About...".

  Yang Chen thought for a moment and still had some worries: "Are you sure there's no problem? If you're exposed, you'll be in trouble!"

  Xiaoxue smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, there's no exposure at all, so there's no problem with not exposing!"

  Yang Chen looked at Xiaoxue's confident appearance and nodded slightly. If he said he didn't want this Gathering Spirit Dan, that would be a lie. After all, the Gathering Spirit Dan originally belonged to him.

  "Do you know where things are hidden?" Yang Chen was silent for a moment and asked in a low voice: "When do you plan to take action?"

  Xiao Xue smiled and said: "To be honest, this Zhao Qian is really cautious. If I don't tell you, you'll definitely guess where he put the thing!"

  Yang Chen furrowed his brow and guessed: "Is it on him? Or under his bed? Or in some corner of his room?"

  Xiaoxue smiled and shook her head, saying: "You're all wrong, let me tell you, the Jiqi Dan was hidden in the window gap by him!"

  "In the window gap?" Yang Chen was taken aback, glanced at the window of his own room, and then burst out laughing, saying: "Indeed, you are clever to hide such a precious thing in the window gap!"

  Xiao Xue said: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, and you asked me to find it, I really wouldn't have been able to find it!"

  Ye Chen smiled and said, "Then when are you planning to take action?"

  Xiaoxue smiled slightly and said mysteriously: "I'll wait for that person to come back, when the two of them are asleep in the room, I'll make my move!"

  Yang Chen asked in puzzlement: "Why wait until both of them are present before making a move? Wouldn't it be safer when there's only one person?"

  Xiao Xue gave a mysterious smile and said: "I'll take revenge for you!"

  "Give me revenge? What kind of revenge method is this?" Yang Chen was filled with doubts in his heart, he didn't understand why waiting for both people to be present and then stealing the thing would allow him to avenge himself.

  "I'm not telling you now, wait till I've stolen it and then you'll know!"

  After finishing speaking, Xiaoxue didn't care about Yangchen anymore and directly lay on the bed to start breathing exercises.

  Yang Chen smiled helplessly, thought for a moment, still didn't understand Xiaoxue's meaning, and directly lay down on the bed to rest.

  He has been busy sweeping the inner gate for two days, and he didn't have a good rest. He fell asleep soon after lying on the bed.

  Yang Chen does not intend to retrieve the painting for now, he wants to wait until Xiaoxue steals back the Gathering Spirit Pill and then find a time to retrieve the painting, after all, to be honest, keeping it here is not safe either.

  He slept straight through until deep in the night before slowly waking up.

  Yang Chen opened his eyes and saw that Xiao Xue was no longer there, so he quickly sat up, furrowed his brow, and thought to himself: Has Xiao Xue already left?

  Thinking of this, Yang Chen hastily got up from bed, perked up his ears and listened carefully towards the outside.

  Now there are only three people here, him, Zhao Qian and Wang Rui. If there is any noise outside, it can only be made by the two of them, which also means that Xiaoxue has been exposed.

  Half a minute passed, Yang Chen had been carefully listening to the movement outside, constantly praying in his heart that Xiaoxue would not be discovered.

  Suddenly, he saw a white shadow rushing in from outside the window in front of him. Without thinking, he knew it was Xiaoxue who had returned!

  Xiao Xue walked into the house and saw that Yang Chen was already awake, with a smiling face making a victorious gesture towards him, but of course, ordinary people couldn't understand what it meant.