The two spent several cozy hours together when finally, the first guest Ning Yanlan had mentioned knocked on the door.

"Hurry up and open the door, or they'll climb over the wall and come in!" Ning Yanlan urged.

In this world where everyone has powerful abilities, doors are practically useless. People can climb over walls to get across courtyards and jump out of windows to get through closed doors; they're only good for a matter of etiquette.

"Are the guests this wild today?" Jiang Yuan complained, but still went to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, a long, narrow object wrapped in black cloth was pointed directly at Jiang Yuan's forehead, while a very pretty girl stood outside the door.

"It's you!" Jiang Yuan turned his body in an instant. The person outside the door looked somewhat familiar to him. Although he couldn't recognize her at first glance, the thing wrapped in black cloth had already given away the girl's identity.

Cold Moon! That woman who used a sniper rifle and got shot to a pulp by them.

When the door opened, Leng Yue didn't say anything and just squeezed in. She didn't care that the sniper rifle barrel was pointed at Jiang Yuan's body, and just walked away arrogantly.

"Oh my god, this is the guest!" Jiang Yuan realized, but how did this woman find this place? Ning Yanlan had been with him the whole time and hadn't told him where she lived!

Just as Jiang Yuan was about to close the door, a long sword slipped through the crack in the door.

"Holy crap, who is it?! Trying to murder me so openly!" Jiang Yuan looked at the exposed sword tip and suddenly felt that the patterns on the sword looked somewhat familiar.

"Hey, isn't this the third-tier longsword I sold last time?"

Before Jiang Yuan could confirm, the door was pushed open, and a person dressed in casual clothes and wearing a baseball cap walked in.

"Who are you?" Jiang Yuan thought it was the same female customer from last time, but this person was clearly not the same as the female customer from last time.

"Brother, don't you recognize me?"

A very familiar neutral voice.

"Holy crap!" Jiang Yuan was startled. This person might make a mistake, but that magnetic voice was definitely not wrong.

He called someone "big brother" because of that voice last time, but he never expected that this time it would become the other person's way of teasing him.

"It's just a little disguise, nothing to be too surprised about!" the female customer said calmly.

"You know her?" Jiang Yuan didn't mention Ning Yanlan's name.

"Does not knowing someone preclude me from visiting?" the female guest retorted.

"Uh!" Jiang Yuan was taken aback. "The last transaction was too rushed, and I haven't had a chance to ask your name yet."

"Zhong Litong!" The female customer smiled. "Can I go in now?"

“Yes!” Jiang Yuan nodded.

Zhong Litong had just lifted her foot to leave when she turned back to look at Jiang Yuan, "Your name is Jiang Yuan, right!"

"How do you know?" Jiang Yuan frowned. Zhong Litong didn't seem to be a simple person.

“Some things aren’t secrets, and names certainly aren’t!” Zhong Litong pulled down her hat brim and said as she walked, “Don’t worry, I mean you no harm. I’m investigating you just to confirm someone else!”

"Ning Yanlan?" Jiang Yuan wasn't stupid; he knew this without even having to guess.

"I didn't say that!" Zhong Litong shrugged and slipped into the kitchen.

"What's going on? What are these people doing here?" Jiang Yuan was full of questions. "Could it be that Yanlan notified them?"

He wouldn't get an answer to this kind of thing even if Ning Yanlan didn't tell him, so he could only wait until evening to ask Ning Yanlan.

When he entered, several women were sitting around the table. Only then did Jiang Yuan realize that he was the only man in the room, no, there were two pigs too.

"What are you still standing there for? Wash your hands and eat!" Ning Yanlan had already served the food and was now waiting for Jiang Yuan.

“Your man isn’t a martial arts practitioner!” Zhong Litong suddenly spoke up. She smiled and said, “Twenty-three is a bit late to try and break the nine shackles on the physical body. I suggest you focus on strength-based cultivation!”

Jiang Yuan was somewhat intrigued by these words, as the other party was clearly involved in the field of ancient martial arts. He asked, "What are the nine shackles on the physical body?"

"Since you two are here for dinner, you should at least introduce yourselves!" Ning Yanlan spoke first. After all, this was Li Xiang's home, and it would be awkward for them to take the lead.

"Auntie, just call me Leng Yue!" Leng Yue stood up, nodded to Li Xiang, and then started eating her meal by herself.

Zhong Litong also stood up. She took off her hat and pressed a few acupoints. Her facial muscles immediately changed, and a very delicate face appeared in front of them.

"Zhong Litong, it's nice to meet everyone!"

“You are all Yanlan’s friends, so there’s no need for so much formality. Just make yourselves at home!” Li Xiang said with a sincere smile.

"Sister-in-law, our two friends' arrival was a bit unexpected, please don't mind!" Ning Yanlan said awkwardly.

"How could I mind? This house hasn't been this lively in a long time. I'm overjoyed!" Li Xiang quickly explained.

Jiang Yuan could only bury his head in his food during this unusual dinner, while Zhong Litong clearly didn't want it to be so mundane. She smiled and said, "I heard that you killed the seventh-tier Holy Spirit Beast that escaped from the Holy Spirit Pavilion in the South City. Don't you plan to share some of the meat with us?"

Jiang Yuan paused in his eating, and Ning Yanlan looked helpless upon seeing this.

Zhong Litong smiled slightly and said, "It really is you!"

"Are you testing me?" Jiang Yuan realized that his subconscious pause had given him away, while Ning Yanlan clearly knew that Zhong Litong was asking this on purpose.

"No, I'm just confirming!"

"Yanlan, let's eat together! Otherwise, Brother Zhongli might think we're stingy!" Jiang Yuan deliberately emphasized the word "brothers."

Ning Yanlan took out a large plate of meat that had been grilled long ago and casually tossed two fireballs onto the meat.

"Brother?" Zhong Litong's eyes flickered slightly, and her magnetic voice slowly changed. "Are you talking about me?"

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