◎“Butler Huang has slept with every woman in the entire Lin Estate!”◎
Huang Hu’s courtyard was in the southeast corner. Aside from newcomers like Nangong Yu, nearly everyone knew where it was. She grabbed a random servant and quickly got the exact location.
She slipped into the courtyard and found that Huang Hu wasn’t there, which didn’t surprise her. After scattering a few small stones around without making a sound, she sprinkled another handful of Screaming Bone Powder.
It was an item she had obtained in the Abandoned Hospital instance. As long as someone stepped on it, the bone powder—fine as dust—would let out a shrill, ear-piercing scream.
That way, no one could sneak in without her noticing and give her a fright.
“What is that smell!?”
The moment Nangong Yu entered the central room, she recoiled, feeling as though her nose had taken a direct hit.
She hurriedly pulled out a gas mask and fastened it over her face before venturing farther inside.
The walls were covered in tiger skins: black and yellow stripes, pure white fur, yellow-green patterns—every variety imaginable. The skins gave off an overpowering stench.
“What a criminal!” Nangong Yu exclaimed.
In the cultivation world, this sort of thing was apparently allowed. Anywhere else, he’d have been executed eight hundred times over.
“This place is way too messy, isn’t it?” Nangong Yu muttered helplessly as she looked down at her feet, unable to move forward.
The entire room was cluttered with junk, leaving nowhere to step!
Overturned stools, clothes thrown everywhere, coral ornaments, glazed bottles, luminous pearls, jade boxes…
As the head steward of the estate, Huang Hu’s courtyard was by no means small. Yet in the spacious rooms, he had tossed his belongings all over the place!
“No wonder he has to fool around outside,” Nangong Yu grumbled.
What female NPC would be willing to come back here with him? The moment she saw this mess, she’d lose all interest!
He looked like such a respectable NPC, yet he was actually this slovenly. Nangong Yu was deeply annoyed. How was she supposed to search for the token?
Forget it. She’d look for the token another day.
Today, she would clean up the trash first.
As a professional scavenger, Nangong Yu immediately summoned her occupational dedication and diligently began picking up the luminous pearls, jade boxes, coral trees, and other treasures scattered across the floor.
Huang Hu was worthy of being the steward. Many of the boxes on the floor were gifts people had offered him as bribes. One look at the packaging was enough to tell that they were worth a fortune.
Nangong Yu wasn’t familiar with the cultivation world and didn’t know what was valuable, but she wasn’t picky. As long as it wasn’t the token, she stuffed everything into her storage space.
She soon finished tidying one room and hurried to the others.
They were just as chaotic, though the new room had a bed and looked like the place where Huang Hu rested.
Nangong Yu perked up. Leaving no corner unchecked, she began searching thoroughly.
“Huh? A letter?” Nangong Yu’s spirits lifted as she opened it.
Under normal circumstances, an NPC’s letters contained important clues. What could be written in a letter that even messy, careless Huang Hu had kept in a drawer?
“Chicken scratch!?”
The moment she unfolded the paper, she saw it covered in characters that looked like tadpoles crawling across the page. Nangong Yu became dizzy just looking at them; she couldn’t recognize a single one.
She didn’t force herself to decipher it. Instead, she decisively stuffed it back into the envelope and tossed the whole thing into her storage space.
“Ugh…” Why were there also women’s undergarments in here? And an entire drawer full of them! She promptly put them back where they had been.
Shaking her hand, Nangong Yu continued rummaging.
She was having the time of her life scavenging, completely lost in the moment. In an infinite-flow game, scavenging was the greatest joy of all!
You could stab an enemy, but that didn’t necessarily mean they would die.
You could save a passerby’s life, but that didn’t necessarily mean they would be grateful.
A friend in one instance might become an enemy in the next.
Nothing was stable. Only scavenging was reliable! Once you picked something up, it was yours. Solid, dependable, and reassuring.
Nangong Yu loved scavenging. Nothing could replace the meaning it held for her. She devoted her entire heart to it.
Whoosh—
The wind began to blow outside. Nangong Yu heard the roof tiles being swept along, rattling noisily.
Her scalp felt a little cold. She reached up and touched the top of her head, but paid it no attention.
Outside, figures emerged one after another from the guest rooms of the Lin Estate, all looking in the same direction.
Under the cover of night, a vortex of spiritual energy was taking shape. It grew larger and larger as the spiritual energy in more than half of the Lin Estate was drawn away and converged toward it.
“Who’s breaking through?”
“Could it be Miss Lin Qi?”
“No, that’s not Miss Lin Qi’s courtyard.”
Huang Hu had not spent the night fooling around with women. Instead, he had been conducting checks for tomorrow’s Foundation Establishment banquet and had been kept awake by the stewards’ reports. At this moment, his expression was filled with impatience.
“Isn’t that Butler Huang’s courtyard?” one of the junior stewards noticed the strange fluctuations in spiritual energy and pointed toward the vortex.
“It seems to be,” the others said, nodding in agreement.
The Lin Family was one of the four great clans of Luoxia City. None of the estate’s stewards were ordinary mortals; they were all cultivators.
They had all noticed the anomaly. Huang Hu turned his gaze toward it, and his expression immediately tightened.
“How dare you!” he roared grimly. His body shot into the air like an arrow, flying toward his courtyard.
He never liked having people in his courtyard. If there was activity there now, a thief must have broken in!
Nangong Yu also sensed that something was wrong.
The wind was clearly blowing outside, so why did the top of her head feel so cold? Her instincts blared a warning. She swiftly pulled out a mirror and held it over her head.
There was nothing there, but she still flew into a rage. “Damn game!”
This was how shameless infinite-flow games were. They frequently gave NPCs unfair advantages, such as marking a player in bright red even when the player had hidden perfectly well.
Angrily, she took out a stack of Concealment Talismans and Breath-Hiding Talismans and plastered them all over herself.
She also equipped a title.
[Why Did You Mess With Her?: When this title is equipped, characters within a five-hundred-meter radius have a certain chance of avoiding you.]
Almost immediately after she equipped the title, a piercing scream rang out from the courtyard.
The Screaming Bone Powder had been triggered!
“Come out!” Huang Hu’s grim shout came with a blast of force that slammed into the room.
Although Nangong Yu had covered herself with Concealment Talismans, they only made her invisible. The gust of air Huang Hu sent out would not go around her.
She consumed a Defensive Talisman in the blink of an eye, quickly stuck three more onto herself, and ducked behind the door.
At that moment, several more figures landed in the courtyard, triggering another wave of shrill screams from the bone powder.
“Eeeeee!”
“What was that sound?” The cultivators who had rushed over were startled. Disgust appeared on their faces.
Cultivators prized refinement and elegance. A sound so vulgar and unrefined was truly beneath their dignity.
“Come out!” Huang Hu shouted again, paying no attention to the others. He struck out with his palm, blasting apart most of the building.
Nangong Yu was nearly crushed by the collapsing wall. She cursed as she scrambled away. “Damn game!”
She had been happily scavenging! Why did it have to mark her as a target!?
The chill above her scalp told Nangong Yu that she was being deliberately targeted.
“This person seems to have some sort of invisibility treasure,” one cultivator observed.
More and more people approached. Rather than landing in the courtyard, they stopped in midair at a distance.
They had initially assumed that some fellow cultivator was breaking through, but the situation clearly wasn’t that simple. Apart from those who were exceptionally fond of solitude, nearly everyone was now watching from near or far.
“Hmph. Cheap tricks!” Huang Hu had also seen through it. He looked at the vortex of spiritual energy above the courtyard and shouted, “Die!”
How dare someone attempt a breakthrough in his courtyard!
What treasure of his had they stolen?!
Guided by the spiritual power vortex, Huang Hu didn't even need to see anyone. He punched out again and again. The fierce power broke the trees, sent the strange rocks flying, and shattered the courtyard wall.
Nangong Yu's defensive talismans were being consumed one by one. While replenishing them, she took out envelopes from her spatial storage. "Butler Huang has colluded with outsiders and intends to ruin the family head's important event at the Foundation - Building Banquet tomorrow!"
She wore a voice changer, so the voice she emitted was very strange and was not recognized by Huang Hu.
As the envelopes flew out one by one, Huang Hu recognized what they were from his glowing eyes in the night. "How dare you!"
He quickly sent out his spiritual qi to destroy the envelopes. However, the cultivators beside him used various means, and most of the envelopes were snatched away.
"Eh?"
"Why are they in the demon - race script?"
"Could it be that Butler Huang has colluded with the demon race?"
Hearing this, Huang Hu's ferocious expression froze slightly, and then he let out a low laugh. "You're really courting death..."
Suddenly, his attack became ten times more ferocious and rushed towards Nangong Yu.
Nangong Yu ran away after throwing out the letters.
She originally planned to create a moment of chaos and seize the opportunity to escape. However, the cultivators outside didn't confront Huang Hu at all.
"It may not be that Butler Huang colluded with the demon race."
"That little thief in the dark, hiding his true identity, must not be a good person."
"He must be framing Butler Huang."
Amidst the discussions, Huang Hu's figure was unhindered and he chased directly after Nangong Yu!
Nangong Yu couldn't escape and felt annoyed. Relying on her memory, she came to a place and accurately fished out a drawer full of undergarments.
" Butler Huang has slept with all the women in the Lin Mansion!"
The sky - full of undergarments rained down from above.
Everyone was immediately stunned.
"What?!"
" Butler Huang—"
"Is it true or false?"
"I don't believe it. How could it be possible? The women in the Lin Mansion include—"
Amidst the whispering, a young girl's voice sounded like a clear spring flowing. "Qin? Isn't this the name of the Third Madam?"
The scene suddenly fell silent.
Somehow, several young masters and young ladies of the Lin family had also come.
The large - scale spiritual power vortex had alerted all the cultivators in the mansion, and several young masters and young ladies of the Lin family had been attracted here.
At this moment, an undergarment landed beside Fourth Miss Lin's feet. Looking at the words embroidered on the corner of the undergarment, she blurted it out subconsciously.
"Mine seems to be the Second Madam's," said Third Young Master Lin beside her.
There was also an undergarment on the ground in front of him.
Hearing this, Fourth Miss Lin immediately glared at him. "What are you talking nonsense about?!"
The Second Madam was her biological mother.
"If you don't believe me, take a look," Third Young Master Lin waved his hand, and suddenly a gust of wind blew the undergarment towards her.
The Head of the Lin Family had several concubines, all of whom were cultivators. They served him, gave birth to his children, and also shared the Lin family's cultivation resources. Just like in the mortal world, the family was not united. At this moment, the seemingly innocent remarks of Third Young Master Lin and Fourth Miss Lin might not be truly innocent.
These words reached the ears of many cultivators. Some of the sensible ones quietly retreated, but there were still some who loved to watch the excitement. They shouted, "Head of the Lin Family! You've been cuckolded!"
The entire Lin Mansion was in chaos in an instant.
Nangong Yu, who had caused all this, scolded the system loudly. "Useless! Stupid dog! Shameless! Can't take it! Is your developer an idiot? Are you the disgrace of the gaming world?..."
Although her scolding was vulgar, it was effective. Gradually, it wasn't cold above her head anymore.
"Scum!" She quickly changed her position. "I won't feel comfortable if I don't scold you!"
Without the guidance of the spiritual power vortex, Huang Hu couldn't find anyone and went crazy with anger. "Come out! Get out here!"
Under his madness, no part of the entire courtyard was spared. It gradually collapsed and turned into a pile of ruins.
"No good!!"
After the entire yard was flattened, Huang Hu realized it too late—
Such a flat ground was so convenient for running!
No matter which direction one ran in, it would be impossible to catch up!
"Ah—" Huang Hu went crazy with anger and roared towards the sky.
