Cross yawned and scooped up the girls into his inner world before following the group to the inner courtyard. He was sitting on a boat with the rest, looking out into the sky, watching the scenery change.
Suddenly, a huge flock of Cranes appeared and surrounded the boat, Yuanyuan said "Waaah! Big birds! Daddy can we go see the birds?!" Cross smiled and disappeared, Long Chen followed him outside, they both ignored the warning of whoever was yelling at them.
Cross held Yuanyuan in his arms and looked at the cranes, Yuanyuan clapped happily. Long Chen stood outside and a crane came down, turning into a 7-8 year old girl. Yuanyuan struggled in Cross' arms and Cross put her down.
The girl looked at Long Chen and said "You're very kind, can you play with me?" Long Chen laughed and Yuanyuan ran over before poking the girl with her finger. The little girl looked at Yuanyuan and Yuanyuan looked at her before saying "Big sister is the bird!" The little girl said "Can you be my friend?"
Yuanyuan hugged the girl and said "En!" the little girl cheered and the two did a little dance, ignoring everyone else. Long Chen and Cross looked at each other, amused. The rest were stunned. Yuanyuan and the little Crane girl ran around on the boat until a loud chirp was heard.
The little girl pouted and said "Little sister, you must come to play with me again!" Yuanyuan nodded and they hugged before waving goodbye. Long Chen handed the little girl a pill and the little girl jumped in excitement before flying away happily.
Yuanyuan ran back to Cross and pulled his clothes saying "Daddy! Daddy! I made a friend!" Cross smiled and picked her up saying "Who doesn't want to be friends with Yuanyuan?" Yuanyuan giggled and snuggled into Cross' chest happily.
The Cranes looked at Cross and Long Chen before flapping their wings and flying away. The boat started flying again but quickly stopped as another boat cut off their path.
4 men jumped to the boat Long Chen and Cross was on, one shouted "How dare you ignore us! Come along! Bring that girl with you, you'll all be punished!" the disciples gasped and Long Chen sighed saying "Goodbye."
The man was confused but he wasn't for long, he suddenly saw his body and was confused as to why it was getting further and further away. Then he realized his head had been chopped off.
The other 3 shivered and Cross turned to them saying "You're very tough, eh? You want to punish my little girl? A shame that my fist is bigger than yours." he threw out his scythe and it spun in the air, making a curve through the 3 other men's necks before coming back to Cross.
The scythe turned into a lotus and he said "Oh right, silly me. How could I forget? You need a boat to cross the Yellow River!" before throwing the lotus at the boat and blowing it to smithereens. He kicked the headless corpses off the ship into the hungry jaws of some beast and elders showed up. They saw the bodies flying down and sighed.
One said "Too late." the rest agreed and left.
Cross already forgot about them and teased Yuanyuan saying "Is my Yuanyuan hungry?" Yuanyuan cheered and Cross chuckled before taking out a milk bottle, she was still 3 years old, milk was fine. Makes for strong bones! Of course this was Ultra-Mega-Super milk with heavenly resources in it.
Yuanyuan was probably the strongest 3 year old in existence. Cross smirked and thought 'Heh. My 3 year old can beat everyone else's 3 year old. Aren't I great?'
A while later
They landed and a man said coldly "Who are you? Where are you from?" Long Chen almost slapped the man and Mu Qingyun, knew that her teachers weren't good people so she said quickly "We're from the Outer court. We won the Shinto Even to become elite disciples." as she handed him a plaque.
The man took the plaque and said "Why aren't these two and the little girl wearing outer disciple clothes?" Mu Qingyun said quickly "They're teachers, they don't have to wear the clothes." The man sneered "Outer yard teachers are all a group of worthless bastards who cheat money. I can't believe such teachers can enter the Inner court."
Long Chen and Cross both slapped him, but because they both slapped opposite sides of his head, the man's head exploded like a watermelon. The rest of the men said "Take them down!" as they charged at the two.
Cross put Yuanyuan on his shoulders and punched a man so hard he went flying into a building. Long Chen and Cross replayed the scene of a few months ago outside the gate of the Alchemy Hall. All the people were getting beat up.
The disciples behind Cross and Long Chen joined in and started kicking the guards on the ground. Lily started beat up a guard before stealing his money.
Another group of guards showed up and shouted "Bastards!" before joining in, Cross was beating up guards left and right while Yuanyuan cheered "Go Daddy Go!" Cross smiled slightly and kept beating people up, throwing them into a pile.
He grabbed a guard by the ankle and swung him around like a sword, using him as a human weapon. Beanpole and the elite disciples were enlightened and did the same, the rest of the Carefree alliance went to the pile of guards and picked the ones they liked before using them as weapons as well.
The strange scene of a group of people beating guards with guards appeared. The Inner yard disciples watching clapped and cheered, when they got here they had no choice to swallow their anger in front of these guards but unexpectedly someone beat them up today. It was very satisfying.
Cross threw the guard in his hand across the entire sect before dusting off his hands as if he had just done a job. Yuanyuan cheered "Daddy's the best! Wooooooooo!" Long Chen smiled at Luo Bing and Luo Ning saying "Let's go register, yeah?"
Mu Qingyun said "Sorry Third Brother, I-" Long Chen smiled and said "This is for men. Don't worry about it." Lily shook her fist at the fleeing guards as she shouted "Next time I see you, you better have more money!" Long Chen corrected "Most of the men."
Cross smacked Lily's head and chided "What did I say about extortion!" Lily said "Only take 90%..." Cross nodded and said "If you take it all then they won't come back with more!" everyone's face turned black, what kind of advice was this?
They left the area and registered for inner disciples positions. Cross registered the girls as well under him as a Teacher he had this right. Everybody become Elite Inner Disciples and left the building, they were immediately surrounded by people trying to invite them to their guilds and such.
Cross refused them all and they could only sigh in regret as Cross' family did the same. Actually almost everyone denied. Mu Qingyun asked "Are you two going to make a guild yourselves?" Long Chen shook his head and Cross said "Why? Is there benefits? Can you make a guild full of women and sleep with them all?" he was immediately pinched by 4 pairs of hands.
Cross yelped and jumped into Long Chen's arms, Long Chen laughed and Cross joked "Ah! My hero!" Long Chen threw him away in disgust and Cross did a flip in the air, landing perfectly. The disciples clapped and Long Chen rolled his eyes.
Suddenly a group of people arrived with the letters for 'Luo' on their robes. The leader was a handsome man, maybe a little too handsome, he looked like a girl really. A strange looking girl. Cross said "Aiyo! Another gigolo?" Everybody choked and Long Chen said "How does he look like a gigolo?"
Cross pointed at the guy's face and said "Look at him, you can tell he wears make up! What kind of man wears make up? Gigolos that's who. Plus he looks more like a woman than a man, maybe he's a male gigolo?" The male disciples all shivered and backed off a step, looking at the strange looking wom- man in disgust.
The man, who was named Luo Qingyang, almost spit out blood and shouted "What did you say?!" Cross shrugged and said "Are you deaf too? I said you're a gigolo." he looked at Long Chen and asked "Is everybody deaf here? They keep asking over and over." Long Chen said seriously "This should be the case."
Cross nodded sagely and said "En. This is a problem. It seems his gigolo lifestyle has made him deaf." Luo Qingyang spat out a mouthful of blood, Luo Bing said quickly "Senior Brother Qingyang, this is Long Chen." she turned to Long Chen and said "This is Luo Qingyang. The leader of the Luo League, in the future we'll take care of each other!" she was little a happy little flower, pulling on Long Chen's sleeve.
Luo Qingyang forgot that he was called a gigolo looking at this scene. Long Chen shook Luo Bing off and said "Long Che, nice to meet you." Luo Qingyang squeezed out a smile and shook his hand saying "Likewise."
Luo Bing was confused and looked at Long Chen and Luo Qingyang unable to comprehend why they weren't becoming friends. Cross patted her head and said "Stupid girl. The gigolo already considers you his property, naturally he won't like other men around you. For him, if you're not his your better off dead." he clicked his tongue and added "These kinds of people, it's better to kill them. You know, a long time ago, the brother of my wife was lusting after her, I killed all of her brothers."
Feng Xue'er sighed, remembering that event. Luo Bing made an 'O' shape with her mouth and Luo Qingyang froze. Long Chen laughed and said "Well then I won't bother you anymore! Bye!" Cross passed Luo Qingyang and patted his shoulder saying "En. You come after me and I'll make you wish you were a real woman. See ya~!" before leaving with Long Chen, whistling a happy tune.
The rest scrambled after the two, leaving Luo whatever to their own devices.
Before they could get anywhere, another group of people blocked their path, they all had the letters for 'Chu' on their clothes. Cross put Yuanyuan in Jie Yuan's arms and walked towards them, his armor appeared, his crown came out, and a scythe appeared in his hands.
He disappeared like a ghost and reappeared before reverting to his normal form with a smile as he picked up Yuanyuan again. The leader blinked and everyone he came with had a neat red line on their necks. Their heads rolled off and their bodies stood still.
Only the leader had a glass shattering sound come from his body as he said "I will leave you an intact corpse, how about it?" but then he went silent as his face turned white. His protection barrier had been shattered!
Cross threw the rings in his hand behind him, falling in Lily's hands. She greedily looked through them all before pouting "So poor?" Long Chen sighed at the man and said "You speak like this, it makes things very difficult for me. Mainly because I'm not sure I can leave you a full corpse." he shook his head in regret.
The man was named Chu Yang and you guessed it! He's Chu Kuang's brother! Wow! Unfortunately he was destined to meet his brother in hell. Cross said lightly "I was gracious enough to let you live and you haven't scrammed?" Chu Yang snorted coldly, keeping up his appearance as he left with quick steps.
Long Chen looked at Cross, who sighed and said "I didn't know he had a protection barrier..." Mu Qingyun said "It's that strong?" Cross shook his head and added "No, just making another move would destroy the cool image..." Long Chen laughed and the rest of the disciples' faces turned pitch black.
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