I am a full-level celestial master, you let me enter the strange talk of rules?

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes felt the warmth of that hand and felt a chill run down her spine, but she still maintained a smile on her face.

She recalled what Zhang Yangqing had said: In this cannibalistic world, sometimes playing dumb is more useful than pretending to be smart.

The more foolish you are, the more others will think you are easy to control; the more stupid you are, the more trusting others will be of you.

The servant led them to the guest room, which was small but very clean. The bedding on the bed had been changed, and there was a pot of hot tea and several plates of snacks on the table.

After the servant left, the beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes closed the door and let out a long sigh.

She leaned against the door, just like when she last visited the Yin Kui family, and made sure there were no 'spies' around. She whispered, "Big brother, when do we make our move?"

Zhang Yangqing sat at the table, picked up his teacup, took a sip, and said calmly, "No rush, let them treat us to a meal first."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes was puzzled. How could someone still be in the mood to eat at a time like this?

She thought to herself, "Although that clan chief Tianli is warm on the surface, who knows what he's really up to behind the scenes?"

Having just broken through to the initial Saint Realm, his position was not yet fully stable. Although the Holy Sword and Holy Armor were useful, in this kind of place, if a Saint Realm expert made a move, he wouldn't even have a chance to fight back.

My brother, on the other hand, still has the appetite to eat.

She didn't ask, but the expression on her face betrayed her.

Zhang Yangqing noticed her confusion, put down his teacup, and said calmly, "That guy is not simple; he's testing us."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes became alert, her body tensing slightly. She asked, "Could it be that when he patted my shoulder just now, he was marking me in some way?"

She recalled the moment Tianli's hand lingered on her shoulder; the chill still lingered on her skin, making her feel uncomfortable all over.

Zhang Yangqing nodded, then shook his head: "You could say that, but this mark isn't for monitoring you. It's a sign of friendliness. In other words, as long as you stay in Xinggutian's territory, their people will sense this mark and take care of you."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense body relaxed.

She genuinely thought that Tianli had done something to her, like a tracking talisman or a location spell.

It turned out to be a friendly force marker, but then she thought, how come the Xing Gu Tian clan treated her as "one of their own" so quickly?

Just because of that flower?

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes asked again, "Then what are you referring to as a test, brother?"

Zhang Yangqing picked up his teacup and took another sip, his gaze becoming profound: "He may doubt the authenticity of that flower, that is, whether it is really effective. He has lived for so many years and has seen far more things than we have. It is impossible for him not to doubt the origin of a treasure of the Four-Colored Resurrection Flower level."

He put down his teacup: "While we're waiting for dinner, whatever he brings up, just make up something, say you found it by chance. Don't go into too much detail, the more vague the better, because the more detailed you are, the easier it is to give yourself away."

The beautiful woman with peach blossom eyes nodded; she could do that.

When she used to hang out in the Undying Mountain, she made up a lot of lies to deceive people.

She has some experience in making up stories.

In fact, Zhang Yangqing underestimated himself.

He wondered if the four-colored resurrection flower he had "made" was of poor quality, since he had never seen what a real four-colored resurrection flower looked like. He had simply used his own understanding to forcibly synthesize it using three-colored resurrection flowers and strange energy. If the synthesis was not effective, the colors were wrong, or the energy was unbalanced, and Tianli saw through it at a glance, then the two of them would have to consider how to escape.

Unbeknownst to him, at this very moment, a completely different scene was unfolding in a council room within the Xinggu Tian clan.

The room wasn't large, but it was decorated very tastefully.

Several oil lamps hung on the wall, their light dim but enough to illuminate the entire room.

The floor was covered with a dark red carpet, embroidered with the clan emblem of the Xinggutian clan.

A twisted spatial rift, with a bone in the middle of the rift.

A rectangular stone table sits in the center of the room, its surface covered with intricate runes that emit a faint glow, as if some kind of power is slowly flowing through it.

Seven people sat around a stone table.

Tianli sat in the main seat, with three elderly men sitting on each of his left and right sides.

These six elders were all highly skilled, with the lowest being at the early stage of the Half-Saint Realm and the highest being sitting in the first seat to Tian Li's left, whose aura was already close to that of a Saint.

They are the core high-ranking members of the Xinggu Tian clan, and each of them holds a portion of the family's power.

In the center of the stone table, there was a wooden box.

The box was opened, and the four-colored resurrection flower lay quietly inside. The four colors of light—blue, white, gold, and black—intertwined on the petals, illuminating the entire room.

"Good! Good! Good!"

The old man on the left, who was first in the row, said "good" three times in a row. His voice was so loud that it made the flame of the oil lamp flicker.

He is Tian Jin, the eldest elder of the Xinggu Tian clan, with the highest cultivation level and the most straightforward temper.

He stared at the four-colored resurrection flower without blinking. "This flower is of better quality than any I've ever seen. Look at this black, how pure and deep it is, without a single impurity."

The second old man on the right came over, examined it carefully for a while, and nodded in admiration: "That's right. Ordinary four-colored resurrection flowers often have black petals with a hint of gray-white, because the strange energy is not pure enough. But the black of this flower is pure and without any impurities. This quality would be the best of the best in the main clan."

Another elder pushed up his reading glasses, gently touched a petal with his finger, then smelled it under his nose, a look of rapture on his face: "And have you noticed that the fusion of these four colors of energy is extremely high? In general, in a four-colored resurrection flower, the four types of energy each occupy their own corner and do not interfere with each other. But in this flower, the four types of energy are intertwined, each containing the other. I have only seen this kind of fusion in ancient books."

Tianli listened to the elders' praise and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

He reached out and picked up the wooden box, turned it around in the light, and his gaze fell on the flower, as if he were admiring a fine work of art.

Tianli put down the box, his tone carrying a profound meaning: "This corpse buryer is no ordinary person. She said she found it by chance, but can one find a four-colored resurrection flower of this quality by chance? I don't believe it."

Elder Tian Jin waved his hand dismissively, "Who cares how she found it? We just need to spend it. What bad intentions could a little girl in the initial Saint Realm possibly have? Even if she did, she couldn't cause any trouble on our turf."

His tone carried a condescending confidence; in his eyes, a cultivator at the initial Saint Realm was nothing more than an ant.

Another elder chimed in, "Moreover, she said she can continue to find more. If she can find another one, even if it's of slightly lower quality, our branch will have the leverage to challenge the main clan." (End of Chapter)