The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Tang Rao quickly returned to the Tumen Courtyard with Lu Jun, and the courtyard was as tranquil as ever.

The fool spends every day in a daze, sitting in the courtyard, blankly staring at the sky, no one knows what he's thinking about; as for the madman, since he promised Tang Rao to only pick fights every once in a while, he's become a lot quieter, at most just pounding on his own chest; and then there's the chef, who under normal circumstances hides in the kitchen, cooking all sorts of strange and bizarre dishes.

Of course, the dishes prepared by the chef are enticing to look at without exception, but they are unbearable to eat.

Tang Rao can't be bothered to tell the chef to use less salt or sugar because the chef would say: That's art...

Art, dumping heaps of salt, and you tell me those are snowflakes... Have you ever considered the eater's feelings?

"Hey, we're going to have a barbecue later, bring over a few stools," Tang Rao shouted.

Whoosh!

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the fool and the madman rushed over, each with two stone stools in hand; as for the chef, he directly carried a table out charging over.

In the blink of an eye, all the tables and chairs were ready.

At the same time, the fool and the madman were already sitting up straight, looking at Tang Rao expectantly.

Tang Rao: "..."

Tang Rao and the chef grilled a lot of stuff, all sorts of meats, shrimp, roast chicken, roast duck, and so on, and there was also a table full of beer.

They would start eating as soon as Niu Ben came back.

The scene was quite lively.

"Elder Niu, what rewards did Lu Jun get?" Tang Rao asked while eating a skewer of grilled meat.

"I didn't look closely, it's all in this Space Ring." Niu Ben took out a Space Ring and placed it on the table, then continued to quickly grab skewers and stuff them into his mouth.

Looking at the fool and the madman, gobbling it up as if they hadn't eaten for years, if you're not quick, you wouldn't even get the scraps.

Tang Rao held the Space Ring, and glanced at it casually.

"Wow, not bad stuff," Tang Rao muttered.

"Brother Tang, you can have all these, I don't want them," Lu Jun immediately said.

Tang Rao looked at Lu Jun: "Don't you want to take a look at what it is?"

Lu Jun shook his head.

Seeing Lu Jun's expression, Tang Rao generally knew what he meant: Who cares what's inside, I'm not interested anyway...

Kao Shan Sect, the least impressive sect, what good things can they give?

"Are you sure you don't want it?"

"Really don't want it." Lu Jun shook his head firmly.

"Alright, if you don't want it, I want it." Tang Rao directly pocketed the Space Ring. That kid Lu Jun probably has a super luxurious family, a bigwig like him wouldn't care about these things.

But Tang Rao cares, to be honest, he hasn't acquired any resources since arriving in the Land of Immortals.

The currency in circulation in the Land of Immortals is the Immortal Stone, which doesn't have any function in itself, but you can buy a lot of things with it.

A hundred Immortal Stones can be exchanged for one cultivation-enhancing Immortal Stone.

Of course, Immortal Stones can also be used for trading.

The Kao Shan Sect's reward for Lu Jun was roughly ten thousand Immortal Stones, which is a hundred cultivation-enhancing Immortal Stones. This is quite impressive already, considering that Kao Shan Sect disciples only receive two Immortal Stones as a monthly subsidy.

Besides the ten thousand Immortal Stones, there was also a strange-looking shield, dull and pitch-black in color. However, Tang Rao could feel a weird force within the shield, a force that seemed slightly savage and bloody, unclear what it actually was.

The last item was a Token, a core disciple's identity token.

It seems to be made of very good material.

"Tang Rao, this shield is so strange." Not long after Tang Rao put the thing away in his portable palace, Li Shengxuan's voice came through.

"Yeah, it feels very bloody." Tang Rao responded.

"It seems like... it seems like... I feel I know what it is..." Li Shengxuan was furrowing her brow, trying to remember. Her memory hadn't fully recovered yet, and many things were still blurry.

"Forget it if you can't remember." Tang Rao chuckled, "We'll study it later. For now, let's just call it the Kao Shan Shield."

"Kao Shan Shield!" Li Shengxuan screamed, "Right, this is the Kao Shan Shield!!"

What?

Dang, Tang Rao, I was just saying something random, and it really is called the Kao Shan Shield?

"I remember now, this shield is indeed the Kao Shan Shield, I've read about it in some book!" Li Shengxuan said excitedly, "Tang Rao, give me a drop of your Essence Blood."

"Uh, okay then." Tang Rao nodded and gathered a drop of Essence Blood, put it in a bottle, and then placed it straight into the portable palace.

After receiving the Essence Blood, Li Shengxuan quieted down, touching the Kao Shan Shield and mumbling to herself, not sure what she was saying.

Tang Rao didn't pay more attention and continued to drink with the Chef and others.

...

"Xiao Jun, let me ask you something." By evening, everyone was a bit tipsy, and Tang Rao nudged Lu Jun, squinting his eyes.

"Brother Tang... what... what is it?" Lu Jun's speech was already a bit slurred.

"Do you know about Qi Yun Taoist?" Tang Rao asked.

"Qi Yun Taoist? Who is that... what ghost... I don't know... Brother Tang, let's drink more, keep drinking." Lu Jun was holding a bottle, swaying back and forth.

Tang Rao ignored Lu Jun, his expression becoming a bit solemn. If the Chef didn't know the Qi Yun Taoist, and neither did Lu Jun,

then who exactly is Qi Yun Taoist?

According to Cui Baiyi and Tao Muyun, Chen Ajiu was taken away by Qi Yun Taoist.

Tang Rao had thought that Qi Yun Taoist must be very famous in the Land of Immortals, after all, even Zhou Shengdian had heard of Qi Yun Taoist's name. But upon asking around, he found this wasn't the case. Nobody had ever heard of him.

If Qi Yun Taoist was so awesome, he should have a loud reputation.

But that's not right; Qi Yun Taoist can't be some bottom-tier person, Zhou Shengdian knew about Qi Yun Taoist, which means that many years ago, Qi Yun Taoist was already a master.

Now, his power must have increased even further.

It doesn't make sense…

Or is it that Qi Yun Taoist has gone into hiding, which is why hardly anyone knows about him? That's also a possibility.

"It's troublesome..." Tang Rao had a headache, how am I supposed to find him?

"Looks like I can only take it one step at a time." Tang Rao felt a bit helpless, his movements were currently limited to the Kao Shan Sect area only, hoping that once he goes outside, he'll be able to find out about Qi Yun Taoist.

Right now, the only thing connecting him to Ajiu is Qi Yun Taoist. If he can't find Qi Yun Taoist, then he surely won't be able to find Ajiu either.

His biggest reason for coming to the Land of Immortals was to find Chen Ajiu.

...

At this moment, in the main hall of the Sect Master of the Kao Shan Sect, He Kaoshan was sitting quietly, his eyes somewhat icy.

"This Tang Rao kid is going to be trouble in the future," suddenly, He Kaoshan muttered to himself.

Logically speaking, Tang Rao was just an ordinary disciple; he shouldn't be so worried. But he just couldn't help it, he always had this feeling, every time he saw Tang Rao, his heart would be filled with unease.