Baihua Xiu then quietly urged Ye Fan and the others, "I'll hold them off, you guys hurry and leave."
Unfortunately, her words had little effect.
Ye Fan was so thoroughly zapped that he barely registered what she said.
Xiao Monü and Shān Jī were still stifling their laughter, desperately telling themselves they were civilized people and shouldn't laugh at something so funny, no matter how amusing it was.
Unless…
They absolutely couldn't hold it in anymore…
The next second.
"Hahahahahaha!"
Xiao Monü and Shān Jī finally couldn't hold back.
"Baihua Xiu, hahahahaha!"
"I'm laughing so hard my chicken feathers are about to grow out, hahahahaha!"
Baihua Xiu's face flushed with embarrassment, but she still resolutely protected them.
"Do you think you're in any position to negotiate with me now?" Yan Qingyun calmly raised his right index finger. "Whether they're with you or not doesn't matter. We can just kill them all together."
Green true energy madly gathered at his fingertip.
However, before Yan Qingyun could finish charging, he found himself enveloped in an endless black mist without him knowing when it happened.
"What's going on…"
His voice cut off abruptly. The black mist dispersed.
The three figures had vanished from the air, leaving no corpses behind.
Three groups of glowing lights floated up and sank into Ye Fan's chest.
Although Xiao Monü didn't understand who was right or wrong, since the other party was intent on killing them, there was no need to be polite.
After a long while, Baihua Xiu finally snapped out of her shock.
She slowly turned around, looking at Ye Fan and the others with disbelief.
The next moment, Baihua Xiu felt incredibly awkward.
"So you're this powerful… I was being nosy before…"
She suddenly felt like she had been acting like a clown just now.
"Sister Baihua Xiu, you're overthinking it," Xiao Monü quickly comforted her. "We're actually very grateful for your righteousness just now."
Baihua Xiu knew Xiao Monü was just being polite. She lowered her head and scuffed the ground with her foot, drawing a three-room, one-hall apartment.
"Right," Xiao Monü asked curiously, "why were they chasing you just now?"
Upon hearing this, Baihua Xiu's head shot up, her expression immediately changing!
"Our gang has a feud with them… They found me alone, so they naturally tried to kill me," Baihua Xiu replied evasively, her eyes darting around. Her right hand subconsciously covered the ring on her left hand.
As if realizing this might be inappropriate, Baihua Xiu quickly moved her right hand away.
However, this only made her seem more like she was trying to hide something.
Ye Fan and Xiao Monü exchanged a glance, instantly understanding what was going on.
It was likely about some kind of treasure dispute, a situation far too common in the cultivation world.
As for the specific details, they weren't interested in knowing.
"Um… I have something to do, so I'll be going now." Baihua Xiu was clearly nervous. With those words, she fled.
By the time Ye Fan and the others returned home, it was almost two in the afternoon.
After a quick lunch, Ye Fan asked Xiao Monü to bring out the Soul Devouring Meteorite.
"What exactly is this thing?" Xiao Monü asked curiously. "You definitely know, right?"
"Yes," Ye Fan took the Soul Devouring Meteorite. "Soul Devouring Meteorite, a metal very useful to you. Since you haven't had a suitable weapon, I was planning to make one for you with this."
"So, you're doing all this for me?" Xiao Monü became incredibly excited, grabbing Ye Fan and pulling him into her embrace. "Wuwuwu, I'm so touched…"
Ye Fan, a weakling with no cultivation, immediately found himself in a dangerous situation.
Perhaps Xiao Monü was too excited and didn't control her strength, but Ye Fan felt a searing pain in his neck and spine where she was holding him.
Damn it!
I'm going to break…
My back…
Ye Fan struggled, managing to gasp out, "Let go… you're suffocating me…"
"Ah! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry…" Xiao Monü awkwardly let go. "I got too excited and didn't control my strength… Are you… alright…"
"What do you think?" Ye Fan shot her a huge eye roll, grimacing as he rubbed his neck.
Xiao Monü, being sensible, went behind Ye Fan and obediently began massaging his neck and back.
Meanwhile, Ye Fan picked up the Soul Devouring Meteorite and began to ponder.
While he had a general idea, the detailed processing method still needed careful consideration.
"By the way, Xiao Monü," Ye Fan asked after thinking for a while, "do you have a preferred weapon type?"
"Type, you say…" Xiao Monü tilted her head in thought. "A whip, perhaps."
"A whip, hmm…" Ye Fan muttered, extending his mental power into his ring.
He vaguely remembered that the system had previously signed in a whip-type weapon.
Found it!
With a thought from Ye Fan, a black whip appeared on the table.
This was a whip crafted from the hide of an eighth-tier python lizard, with a quality of Heaven-grade high.
Although there was an even better quality Iron-backed Silver Rhinoceros hide whip in his ring, this one was clearly the most suitable at the moment.
Despite its lower grade, the python lizard hide had far greater accommodative properties than the Iron-backed Silver Rhinoceros hide.
Since the Soul Devouring Meteorite was inherently dark-attributed, embedding it into the python lizard hide would not result in any explosions.
The only challenge was creating the hole.
The handle of the whip was made of Scarlet Abyss Secret Gold, something Ye Fan currently lacked the ability to work with.
However, luckily, Shān Jī was nearby.
To be safe, Ye Fan had Shān Jī practice with other materials first.
If this guy couldn't control himself and messed it up, they'd have nowhere else to get it done.
"Big Brother, you mean you want me to drill a hole in this?" Shān Jī, bewildered, took the ore Ye Fan handed him. "And the size and dimensions need to be according to that black bean's specifications?"
"Let me correct that," Ye Fan said with a slight smile. "The shape is correct, but it needs to be scaled down ten times proportionally."
Shān Jī's face immediately fell…
He usually fought with all his might; doing such delicate work now was torture for him.
In his opinion, this was more difficult than going three days without seeing a woman…
The messy shape of that black bean was already enough to give him a headache, and now Big Brother actually wanted him to shrink it ten times!
And not a single bit of error could be tolerated…
It was like cutting tofu.
An ordinary person could cut tofu with one stroke; it was simple and posed no difficulty.
But to ask someone with no training to cut tofu into uniform millimeter-thin strands, without the slightest deviation…
This couldn't just be described as difficult…
"Of course, I'm not unreasonable. If you're unwilling, I won't force you," Ye Fan said with a kind smile. "However, I must remind you that this weapon is for your Big Sister, you understand."
"Oh?" Xiao Monü immediately looked at Shān Jī meaningfully. "Little Jī, are you finding something difficult?"
"Not at all!" Shān Jī decisively capitulated under Xiao Monü's intimidating gaze.
Seriously!
If I dare to say no, won't I be served on a platter tonight…
So, Shān Jī begrudgingly picked up the materials and went to practice on the side.
Ye Fan didn't actually want to make things difficult for Shān Jī, but among them, he was the only one who played with fire…
It was fortunate that drilling an inlay hole was a task with no technical difficulty, so Shān Jī could barely manage.