The afternoon was leisurely.

The salty sea breeze is gentle.

The little ones chased and frolicked on the beach, playing happily.

When they got tired of playing, they lay sprawled on the beach, listening to the mermaids show off their beautiful singing voices.

"Little Dragon Girl, your singing voice is so beautiful!"

Da Mei lay on the beach, propping her head up with her little hands, swinging her little legs, looking at Xiao Long Nu with a face full of admiration and envy.

"Da Mei, if you like it, I can teach you to sing."

"Okay, okay."

Da Mei was very happy. She held Xiao Long Nu's hand, and the two sat by the sea, swaying their little heads and singing happily.

As the sun began to set, half of the azure ocean was tinged with orange-red.

Yi Cheng and his friends waved goodbye to Xiao Longnv on the beach, reluctant to part.

Goodbye, my friends.

The Little Dragon Girl leaped into the sea and swam away into the distance. Her gradient, seven-colored fish scales shimmered in the sunset, radiating a dreamlike quality.

Goodbye, Little Dragon Girl!

Yi Cheng and the others shouted.

The sound of the waves crashing against the shore seemed to freeze time into an eternal scene. On the coastline in the scene, several little ones faced the sea, their backs to the setting sun, waving their little hands with great effort.

"Yi Cheng, let's go back to the mountain with Master."

Qin Shou walked over and stroked Yi Cheng's head.

"Master, pat my head too."

Seeing this, Little Fatty stuck out his little bottom and put his little head under Qin Beast's palm.

"Haha, okay, let's pat Little Fatty's head too, so he can grow taller."

Qin Shou laughed loudly and gently rubbed the little fat boy's head with his big hand.

"Hehehe, will touching your head make you grow taller?"

"Perhaps."

"Then touch it more often, I want to grow taller than Yi Cheng."

......

Not everything will go as you wish.

Yi Cheng didn't want to go back to the mountain and wanted to stay with her senior sister. Xiao Pang followed Yi Cheng, Da Mei followed Xiao Pang, and Hei Tu followed Da Mei. Da Bao grumbled and wanted to go back to the mountain to eat bamboo.

"Da Bao, you're so disloyal."

Under Yi Cheng's overwhelmingly reasonable aura, Da Bao hummed and wriggled his big butt behind Yi Cheng.

"You, you."

Qin Shou poked Yi Cheng's little head, unable to do anything about it.

So he cast a spell, leaving a sword intent to protect each of the little ones.

"You can stay with your senior sister, but you must promise Master that you won't cause her any more trouble."

"Otherwise, your master won't talk to you anymore, understand?"

Qin Shou put on a stern face and said in a serious tone.

"Yes, yes, yes, the goose understands."

Yi Cheng opened her round little eyes and nodded her little head repeatedly with a silly and cute expression.

"Little darling, let her stay with you for a while longer. I'll come back to take them home in two years."

Qin Shou turned to Wen Qing and smiled, "If you think these little ones are too noisy, just give them a beating."

"Master, won't you stay here for a while?"

Hearing that Qin Shou was leaving, Wen Qing felt a little reluctant and tried to persuade him to stay.

"No."

Qin Shou shook his head.

Sleeping on the mountain makes me feel safe, and there are elderly ladies cuddling me.

"All right. "

It's a bit of a shame that it's so heartwarming.

However, she knew that her master was able to come down the mountain this time because he knew that her junior sister was in danger.

"By the way, Master, I heard from Junior Sister that you also found us a mistress?"

Wen Qing composed herself and asked with a smile.

"Oh, what teacher's wife? She's just a nominal one."

"Pah, Master, you're such a scumbag."

"Hahaha..... "

Qin Shou laughed loudly and left with a flick of his sleeve.

Before leaving, he left Wen Qing two soul puppets and the demon core of the dark demon shark.

The soul puppets were the soul shadows of those two soul domains, crafted with the help of the Yin-Yang Mirror. Although their cultivation was not as high as it was in life, they had still reached the first level of the Void Realm.

Importantly, these two soul puppets have lost their own thoughts and will only obey their master's commands.

The demon core of that dark demon shark in the Void Realm is of the water attribute, which is also suitable for Wen Qing to supplement her cultivation.

"Sister Wen, our Master is really good at this."

Zhang Duan murmured as he watched Qin Shou's departing figure.

"What do you mean? "

Wen Qing turned her head and rolled her eyes, saying, "You little snotty-nosed brat, looking at you like that, are you planning to take a few more concubines?"

"Huh? No, no, no, absolutely not."

Zhang Duan shook his head vigorously, raising his palm and swearing firmly:

"In his entire life, Zhang Duan only loves Sister Wen, only marries Sister Wen, and will only marry Sister Wen..."

"Hmph, what if those ministers still risk their lives to remonstrate?"

"No, it won't."

Zhang Duan chuckled indulgently, because those who had such thoughts would not be able to attend the morning court session the next day.

I, Zhang Duan, don't want the throne, all I've ever wanted is... Sister Wen.

......

Yunzhou, a vast wilderness.

The moment Qin Beast appeared, it sensed something was wrong and its mind instantly became alert.

The image of the setting sun hanging upside down at the edge of the world vanished instantly, transforming into a dark, gloomy space with massive, dark green eyes, each as large as a mountain, hanging overhead.

They gleamed with an evil light, staring intently at the Qin beast, giving off a chilling feeling.

"Domain, space, dual coverage."

"Hehe, I wonder which senior is going to such lengths to deal with this junior?"

Qin Shou smiled on the outside, but in his heart he was already cursing.

Holy crap, I was careless.

The system's detection function must be kept running at all times.

Fortunately, the enemy's cultivation level was found to be within a controllable range after testing.

Therefore, Qin Shou breathed a sigh of relief.

Snap!

At that moment, a green will-o'-the-wisp ignited in the dark space.

Two figures appeared beneath the flames.

One was an old man wearing a green robe, with deep-set eyes, narrow and long cheekbones, whose face looked lewd and ugly.

You can't call him sleazy, but he is definitely ugly.

This made Qin Shou, who was used to seeing "beauty," very unhappy.

What is this person doing? Why are they insulting my eyes?

Qin Shou was depressed.

However, things looked slightly better when his eyes fell on the beautiful figure beside the old man.

Her black hair cascaded down her shoulders, her face was as smooth as jade, shimmering with a brilliant light, and her figure was tall and exceptionally fiery, almost bursting out of the tight-fitting dark green Taoist robe she wore.

The only flaw was that such a beautiful woman had a thin, green chain shackled on her foot.

"Hehehe, little brat, is it you who killed my worthless disciples?"

The old man in green robes opened his eerie green eyes and stared at the Qin beast with a smile.

Qin Shou also learned about the other party's information through the system.

[Evil Spirit Taoist: First level of the Integration Realm, master of Evil Path Mountain in Qingzhou... After emerging from seclusion, he learned that you had killed his five disciples who were guarding Evil Path Mountain, thus developing a deep hatred for you. Currently, his hatred level is 90, and he is determined to fight to the death.]