Chapter 1949 - 1950: Ye Xuan’s Moments

Chapter 1949: Chapter 1950: Ye Xuan’s Moments

"Take pictures of you?" Ye Xuan froze for a second, looking puzzled. "What kind of pictures am I supposed to take of you?"

"What pictures do you think?"

Xiahou Yudie’s apricot eyes widened as she subconsciously straightened her clothes. The girl who was usually fierce and barbaric actually had a shy flush creeping over her pretty face at this moment. "Of course... of course when you were detoxifying me..."

"Damn!"

Hearing that, Ye Xuan jolted up in shock. "Xiahou Candie, what do you take me for? Sure, I, Ye Xuan, may be a bit of a flirt, but your whole body was green at the time. You really think I’d take photos of you as a keepsake? You think I’m that much of a pervert?"

"You..."

Xiahou Yudie was choked speechless, but after thinking it over, she felt Ye Xuan really wouldn’t go that far.

If she hadn’t been poisoned, maybe Ye Xuan would’ve done something shady, but when her entire body was ink-green like that, just remembering the image made even her feel disgusted...

"Hmph, it’s best if you didn’t take any!"

Coming back to her senses, Xiahou Yudie curled her lips, then turned and continued deeper into the Hidden Dragon Mountain range. "Let’s go. It’s still quite a distance from here to the Xiahou Family. If we keep dawdling, we won’t get there until dawn."

Ye Xuan shrugged. "And whose fault is it you got poisoned? Going back and forth like this, you’ve wasted three or four hours. If something happens to your grandma later, don’t you dare pin it on me."

Xiahou Yudie felt a wave of shame. She knew Ye Xuan would definitely use this to mock her!

But what could she do?

The one who collapsed was indeed her, not Ye Xuan!

After pondering for a moment, Xiahou Yudie frowned, voicing her confusion. "The Superpower Association has always feared Hidden Dragon. For them to dare make a move in the Hidden Dragon Mountain range this time, there’s definitely a Hidden Dragon family secretly backing them. Who do you think it is?"

"You even need to ask?" Ye Xuan shrugged. "Who else could it be besides the Qiao Family?"

"The Qiao Family?" Xiahou Yudie was stunned for a second, then looked at Ye Xuan with open disdain. "The Qiao Family may want to get rid of you, but with no evidence, you don’t have to smear them like this, do you? Secretly colluding with an external faction—within Hidden Dragon, that’s a capital offense that gets your entire clan wiped out!"

Clearly, Xiahou Yudie didn’t think the Qiao Family had that kind of guts.

Hidden Dragon and the Superpower Association had always been mortal enemies, and the Qiao Family was only a second-rate family in the Hidden Dragon World. If they secretly colluded with the Superpower Association, that would basically be suicide.

You have to understand, once this kind of thing is discovered, not to mention the Qiao Family—even a power like their Xiahou Family would face annihilation!

Ye Xuan didn’t bother explaining much about Xiahou Yudie’s distrust.

He really wasn’t deliberately smearing the Qiao Family.

Back then, when the Zhao Family secretly colluded with the Holy Mansion, weren’t they also violating the laws of the entire Martial Arts world? The Qiao Family was the Zhao Family’s backing, and the Superpower Association was the Holy Mansion’s backing. If you say they never knew their underlings were joining hands with an external faction, Ye Xuan absolutely didn’t believe it.

He could even directly conclude that the reason the Zhao Family started working with the Holy Mansion in the first place was because there was already a connection between the Qiao Family and the Superpower Association.

As for why the Superpower Association cooperated with the Qiao Family, the reason was actually very simple.

In the end, it was because they shared the same goal... the Source Stone!

Of course, they might have other ambitions, but for now, the only point Ye Xuan could be absolutely sure of was this Source Stone...

"Looks like the Hidden Dragon inheritance has lasted for thousands of years, maybe even longer, and the internal competition’s always been intense..."

Ye Xuan narrowed his eyes, then as if thinking of something, took out his phone, opened WeChat, and posted a Moments update.

The content was two photos.

They were exactly the photos Ye Xuan had taken of Xiahou Yudie not long ago. In the pictures, the originally wild and sexy great beauty was ink-green all over, lying unconscious.

Caption: "If you want life to go smoothly, you gotta be green from head to toe!"

What’s that? Ye Xuan lied to Xiahou Yudie?

This doesn’t count as lying!

Xiahou Yudie only asked whether he’d taken photos of her without clothes on; she never asked whether he took any while she still had clothes on... When he was doing acupuncture on her, Ye Xuan really didn’t take any!

...

Qiao Family manor.

Night deepened, yet Qiu Qianqiu was still teasing the ferocious white tiger in the cage, looking every bit like a playboy drunk on his own amusement.

A pitch-black figure appeared silently in the small courtyard.

Qiu Qianqiu’s brows twitched, but he didn’t turn around. He spoke lightly, "How did it go?"

"It failed," the subordinate said in a low voice. "After all, it’s the Hidden Dragon Mountain range. The Superpower Association didn’t dare send too many experts. The two Mutants who took part in this operation are both dead."

Qiu Qianqiu froze for a moment at that, the surprise on his face flashing by in an instant.

He narrowed his eyes, then smiled with interest. "Who did the Superpower Association send?"

"They really gave Young Master a lot of face and followed your request, sending the Green Poison Man and a Mutant with an Invisibility Superpower," the subordinate replied.

"Oh..."

Qiu Qianqiu stood up, taking a deep breath. He stayed silent for a long while before letting out a helpless sigh. "Even with the Green Poison Man making a move, they still failed. That kid Ye Xuan really does have some skill..."

The subordinate was stunned. "Why not Xiahou Yudie?"

"Xiahou Yudie?" Qiu Qianqiu shook his head. "That woman is indeed very strong, but she’s too reckless. Facing a monster like the Green Poison Man, she’d definitely get poisoned because of her recklessness. No matter how strong she is, in the end it’d all be for nothing."

The subordinate nodded blankly. He felt Qiu Qianqiu made sense.

"So, the main reason this operation failed must be that Ye Xuan," Qiu Qianqiu said with a light sigh. "For a young brat from the Mortal World to pull this off—it’s impressive."

"Now that the operation has failed, does Young Master have any new orders?" the subordinate asked.

"No," Qiu Qianqiu said.

"No?"

The subordinate was taken aback. Young Master had basically never failed once he made a move. Yet after this failure, he actually had no desire to quickly secure a victory and wash away the shame?

He didn’t even seem the least bit upset, as if the whole incident had nothing to do with him!

"No," Qiu Qianqiu said with a smile. "Leaving aside that they’ll raise their guard after this failure and another move from us would easily expose us, even if those factors didn’t exist, we still can’t make another move in the short term."

The subordinate was confused. "This subordinate is dull and doesn’t quite understand what Young Master means."

"It’s very simple," Qiu Qianqiu said patiently. "More haste, less speed. The more anxious you are to win, the easier it is to fail. One wrong move and the entire board collapses; if we’re not careful, we’ll end up just like You Zhengqing."

The subordinate: "..."

All of a sudden, he felt a chill.

Qiu Qianqiu was terrifying. Truly terrifying!!