Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

If smiles could kill, the third brother would have been chopped into pigeon meat mince by now.

"Okay... okay, teacher..."

Yunping nodded in satisfaction, then gave Jiang Shaoguang a look: "Go out and call Lao Si over."

Not long after.

Yunping sat on the wooden chair, staring intently at the boy...girl? in front of him, lost in thought.

At this moment.

Gu Xingzhuo sat upright in front of Yunping, his expression indifferent and serious: "What's wrong, teacher?"

Yunping's gaze shifted to Gu Xingzhuo's hair...

After achieving sainthood, the fourth brother's neat short hair suddenly grew long for some reason, transforming him from a short-haired boy into a handsome long-haired man. To Yun Ping, this change seemed fine at first glance, and even gave the fourth brother a more ethereal air.

but--

At this moment, Gu Xingzhuo's long hair had been tied into pigtails, and he seemed completely unaware of it, wearing black-rimmed glasses with an unchanged expression.

"Fourth brother, you..."

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4. It's impossible to make Ye Yuchan stop.

"what is that?"

Gu Xingzhu tilted his head, completely unaware of this.

Yunping smirked and said, "...A vampire, it's nothing, just pretend you don't know anything."

Gu Xingzhuo nodded knowingly and then explained, "Junior Sister Yuan'er seems to be very interested in my hair. Before I came in, she said she would give me a brand new hairstyle, so she did this for me."

Yun Ping saw Gu Xingzhuo's cold face reflected in his eyes, clasped his hands together, and said seriously, "The twin-tailed pretty boy, to be honest, is a heretic."

Gu Xingzhuo: "..."

Gu Xingzhuo himself was a little unaccustomed to his suddenly long hair. He stroked the strands at his temples, feeling somewhat strange, and said to Yun Ping in a helpless tone, "There's nothing I can do, teacher. I've tried cutting my hair, but for some reason, no matter how much I cut, it grows back the same amount..."

"Even the path to sainthood has side effects now?"

“Maybe it’s because of the impermanence of life and death,” Yunping said lightly. “Perhaps you had too many past lives with impermanence of life and death, so much so that the hair from your past lives has gathered here.”

Gu Xingzhu shook his head: "What a useless trait."

Yunping glanced at Gu Xingzhuo with a smile: "It's better than your senior brother who lost all his hair from practicing martial arts."

Gu Xingzhuo couldn't refute this statement.

To be honest, his physique and facial features aren't really suited to being bald.

"So—" Gu Xingzhuo quickly got to the point: "What did the teacher call me here to tell me?"

"Your words are much more convenient than those of the silly people and the pigeon spirits. Besides, now that you've reached the Saintly Realm, theoretically speaking, I really have nothing more to teach you."

Yunping was not being overly modest in saying this.

He had nothing left to teach Gu Xingzhuo; in a sense, the boy was already old enough to graduate.

Although Yunping could beat up saints and demigods as easily as playing around, it didn't mean he could keep teaching Gu Xingzhuo to his level.

He had taught everything he could, and Gu Xingzhuo had passed the exam. Now, Yunping's choice was to let the kid walk his own path. If he continued down that path, it would have nothing to do with the old rogue anymore.

So, he called the fourth brother over to discuss something else.

"I called you here to talk about the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace."

"Blue Feather Heavenly Palace..."

Gu Xingzhuo couldn't help but think of that strangely shaped ice crystal.

When the young Forging Saint handed that thing to Yun Ping, he felt a sense of familiarity. At the same time, he could also vaguely sense the damage that the thing had suffered.

Yun Ping glanced at Gu Xingzhuo casually and said, "There is a high probability that Lan Yu Tian Palace will be the target of Ye Xuanqiu's next attack."

Gu Xingzhu frowned: "For Lan Yutianbing?"

"She probably doesn't know yet that Lan Yutianbing is in my hands, but she will definitely cause trouble at Lan Yutian Palace, and if I'm not mistaken, she might send Xiandu there first."

"That's why I asked you, Yuan'er, and Xiao Jiang to go together."

Yunping crossed his legs, sipped his wine, and said in a calm tone, "Given her personality, after losing to me last time, she'll definitely be looking to get revenge this time. But she's not a reckless girl like Ruoxue. She'll definitely send Xiandu to investigate first."

"I will give each of you three a treasure at that time. Your cultivation level is currently the highest among the three, so it is safest for you to carry that treasure."

"My task for you is simple: protect the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace without revealing its inner workings."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xingzhuo took a deep breath and nodded, "I understand."

"I will give you that treasure after I come out of quarantine in a few days. That's all I wanted to say."

After speaking, Yunping looked at Gu Xingzhuo deeply again, smiled, and said, "Alright, go out. There's no need to call Yuan'er over. That girl only knows how to act cute all day long. I don't have anything to tell her. Just call that idiot in."

Gu Xingzhu chuckled bitterly. Indeed, when Lin Yuan saw Yun Ping, her first reaction was to run into his arms and act coquettishly. Moreover, she rarely managed to complete the tasks assigned to her well.

After all, it incorporates a part of that queen's personality.

However, Gu Xingzhuo remained cautious. He was very curious to know what exactly the treasure Yunping was going to give him.

Filled with doubt and curiosity, Gu Xingzhuo stepped out of the room.

Not long after—

A silver-haired maid appeared before the cloud.

stare--

stare--

Their gazes met in mid-air, sparking a burst of passion.

Yunping stared at Ye Yuchan, and Ye Yuchan stared back at Yunping.

Their gazes met and converged into one.

This awkward silence lasted for about half a minute before Yunping finally couldn't help but speak first.

But before the first word could even be uttered, Ye Yuchan adopted a defensive stance.

"Let's get this straight! I absolutely must cultivate the Money Path, you can't confiscate my gold bricks!"

"Who confiscated your gold bricks? Are you out of your mind again?" The old rogue rolled his eyes at Ye Yuchan. "I have so much money that it's almost a mountain. Why would I care about your few bricks?"

Ye Yuchan smiled sheepishly, then stared curiously at the old rogue: "So why did you call me over? I'm just like my second senior brother, I won't sell my body."

"Really?" Yun Ping glanced at Ye Yuchan with interest.

Ye Yuchan's pretty face flushed red, and she quickly coughed, "Really... right?"

"Bar?"

Ye Yuchan corrected him, blushing and angry: "No! It's true! I would never sell my body!"

"Alright, alright, I'm too lazy to argue with you."

Yunping took a sip of light wine, pushed the glass aside, and said, "I called you over mainly to talk about money matters."

The silly man's face suddenly turned pale with shock, and he quickly took several steps back: "Didn't you say you wouldn't mention money?!"

“This concerns your path to sainthood.” Yun Ping smacked his lips, savoring the light fragrance of the wine, and then said, “If you really want to walk this path, you need to understand one thing.”

"what's up?"

"The essence of money."

Yun Ping stared at Ye Yuchan, uttering words that were difficult to decipher: "Money, to put it bluntly, is currency. If you think about it using the mindset of your previous world, it's just a measure used to exchange goods."

"But sometimes, money isn't always money. If you really want to go down this path, you have to learn from other paths."

“Take swordsmanship for example. They can turn anything into a sword. Maybe you can also walk down that path.”

Upon hearing this, Ye Yuchan seemed to understand something and nodded thoughtfully: "Old rogue, do you mean I should try to make money from everything?"

"Pretty much."

"Oh!" Ye Yuchan's eyes lit up suddenly. "Isn't that alchemy? Turning lead into gold and stuff like that?"

"Is it that once I've mastered the Way of Money, I'll go out into the streets, snap my fingers at those scrap metal pieces, and they'll turn into gold? Then I'll go to a mass grave, snap my fingers, and the tombstones will turn into jade? Or maybe I can just snap my fingers and turn people into golden people?"

Yunping simply snapped his fingers silently at Ye Yuchan, who had suddenly started having delusions.

"Get out of here."

……

……

Ye Yuchan was thrown out.

Everyone else left on their own, but this girl was thrown out of the house by the old rogue and rolled on the ground several times before she could barely stop.

As luck would have it, the girl's head happened to land right in front of Zhang Ruoxue.

With her complexion improving, Zhang Ruoxue felt more emboldened and playfully patted Ye Yuchan's head, saying with a grin, "What's up? It's been so long, why are you being so polite right away?"

"Go away, stop fooling around!"

Ye Yuchan quickly scrambled to her feet, pouted, and glared back at the tightly closed door: "That old rogue really doesn't know how to cherish a woman..."

"With your figure, where's the fragrance or the jade?" Zhang Ruoxue chuckled, "I think you look more like a taro."

Ye Yuchan was so angry that she almost punched Zhang Ruoxue in the head and smashed it.

Of course, upon closer reflection, she is no match for Ruoxue at all.

Upon seeing Ye Yuchan emerge, Zhang Ruoxue slowly stood up and stretched, saying, "So I'm next, right?"

"Um...no."