Chapter 4681 — Caught in the Act

The sun had set and dusk was deepening. With their meager strength, whatever they ran into—a vicious beast or another trial participant—could prove a lethal threat, so it was hardly surprising that the two of them crept along so furtively.

Every step was taken with utmost care. The pair inched forward bit by bit, grumbling to each other all the while: "Ugh, who knows what Brother Ren and Brother Yi were thinking, bringing the two of us hangers-on to West Island on purpose, only to dump us at the most critical moment and leave us to act on our own. In a dangerous place like this, one misstep and we're done for!"

"Heh, Sun Baolu, are you an idiot? This trial is a rare chance for Brother Ren and Brother Yi to be alone with their ladies—why would they bring the two of us along to spoil the mood?" one of the men, wearing a bamboo hat, said with a curl of his lip.

"Still, there was no need to dump us like that. Worst case, we could've just followed at a distance—we wouldn't have gotten in the way of their fun, and we could've helped carry their things. Wasn't that how it always was when we went out before?" Sun Baolu shook his head helplessly, then lowered his voice: "My guess is, Brother Ren and Brother Yi didn't leave us behind for that at all—they're off looking for some extremely rare heavenly treasure. What do you think, Li Yuzhou?"

"Hiss—now that you mention it, it does ring a bell. Before we set out for West Island, I overheard a few snatches of Brother Yi and Sister Yao's conversation. Seems they really were after some heavenly treasure, and they'd been preparing for a long time. They just kept it secret from the two of us..." Li Yuzhou couldn't help sounding a little bitter as he said this.

"Hmph, I figured that much long ago. Such is the fate of hangers-on like us. The good things never come our way, but the bad always does. Heh!" Sun Baolu laughed at himself. There was no help for it—who among them had any backing to speak of?

To gain a foothold in a den of dragons and tigers like the Eastern Continent Academy, one needed either formidable strength or deep connections; without one or the other, you'd be devoured hide and bone. People like them could only attach themselves to young masters like Ren Zhongyuan and Yi Xiaotian—there was no second way out.

The two of them explored cautiously ahead while grumbling under their breath, when suddenly Li Yuzhou's steps halted. His eyes fixed straight on something not far ahead, and his mouth fell open, hanging there for a long while without closing.

"What's with you? Possessed by a ghost?" Sun Baolu grew nervous at the sight, thinking some unknown monster had its eye on them. At their Golden Core consummation strength, if that were indeed the case, their fate would be truly grim.

"N-no... it's not... Look... look over there..." Li Yuzhou stammered, twitching like he was having a fit, unable to string together a whole sentence for the longest time, pointing blankly ahead.

Following the direction of his finger, Li Yuzhou looked—and at a single glance his whole body froze along with it, and it was quite a while before he came back to his senses. Only after a long moment did he draw in a sharp, incredulous breath and whisper: "Oh my god! Truly the world is vast and full of wonders—to think we'd run into people having a quick roll in the wilds in a place like this. Damn it all to hell. That woman's figure looks absolutely smoking!"

"Smoking isn't the half of it—doesn't that woman look familiar to you?!" Li Yuzhou said, his gaze still fixed straight ahead.

"Hiss, now that you mention it, you're right... Oh my god, isn't that Huo Yudie, one of the Twin Beauties of Morning Pride! Why isn't she with Brother Ren? To think she's out here rolling in the wilds with another man—I never would've guessed she was such a wanton one!" Sun Baolu exclaimed in shock.

"Wanton isn't the half of it—she's downright shameless beyond all bounds! I always took her for an ice mountain snow lotus, always putting on that pure and holy, sacred-and-inviolable air. Who'd have thought she'd turn so slutty the moment she set foot on West Island. She's actually got that man down under her skirt sucking away—damn, it's blinding my poor eyes!" Li Yuzhou's eyes gleamed as he rubbed his hands together again and again. A scene like this was simply too arousing—no man alive could keep his composure.

"Tsk tsk. I'd like to kneel down and lick too—I dream about it..." Sun Baolu couldn't help swallowing hard again and again.

"Hmph, you think I don't?" Li Yuzhou shot him a glare, his face full of regret: "The best cabbage always gets rooted up by pigs! Pity that little slut—no matter how wanton she is, she's destined never to be ours. Dare to entertain such crooked thoughts, and aren't you afraid Brother Ren will come back and do you in?"

"I was only saying it, I don't have the guts..." Sun Baolu shrank his neck, then greedily gulped down several more mouthfuls of saliva before saying: "But this Huo Snow Lotus is actually out here rolling in the wilds with another man—doesn't that put a big green hat on our Brother Ren's head? Should we go up and intervene?"

At those words, Li Yuzhou couldn't help feeling tempted too. To go up and intervene at a time like this—wouldn't that be the perfect chance to cop a feel? Even if he couldn't touch, at least he could see more clearly. After all, this was one of the Twin Beauties of Morning Pride, a being like a goddess from heaven in the eyes of ordinary disciples like them!

But Li Yuzhou promptly suppressed this tempting thought, irritably swatting Sun Baolu on the head and curling his lip: "You dare go up? That thing down there is a Nascent Soul expert!"

At this moment, to cure Huo Yudie's poison, Wei Zhao had to circulate his true qi at every instant to keep the toxin from invading his body. His own body might be impervious to a hundred poisons, but there is always a taller mountain beyond the highest—what if the Eight-Legged Kache Insect's venom proved fiercer than expected?

There would be no second chance at such a thing; once something went wrong, death was certain. So at this moment the aura of a peak early-stage Nascent Soul expert was on full display, and even at a distance, Li Yuzhou and Sun Baolu could see it clearly.

The two of them were only at Golden Core consummation themselves, so naturally they didn't dare jump out at such a time to spoil another's pleasure. Put themselves in those shoes—if they were the ones rolling in the wilds and someone ruined the mood, in a fit of rage they'd surely kill to keep it quiet!

This man was a peak early-stage Nascent Soul expert; the two of them together were no match for him, and that was without counting Huo Yudie, a Nascent Soul consummation expert—they didn't dare move a muscle.

"So what do we do? Just squat here and watch?" Sun Baolu frowned somewhat unwillingly. Since they couldn't get any advantage, they could only enjoy the show from afar.

"Are you asking for death! What if they finish and find us? Can you get away, or can I?" Li Yuzhou looked at him as if he were an idiot. (To be continued) R466