As the saying goes, “a spell of autumn rain, a bout of frost”; after that night of autumn rain at Dongting, the weather was close to freezing. Yet at the present moment, the Huashan Sect Leader could still waft his fan in hand, interrogating Zhou Zishu on the streets with clearly-enunciated words, giving off the slight air of someone independent of worldly affairs--it was most probably that the people around him could not stand such a cool breeze, and fled from his iron fan[16].

Zhou Zishu paused, dipped his head, and chuckled suddenly, asking, “Why, does everyone here feel that other than kidnapping Zhang Chengling and obtaining the Zhang family’s Lapis Armour, I also took him hostage and ransomed him for the other two pieces from the Gao Family Manor?”

Huang Daoren said, “Isn’t that the case?”

Zhou Zishu raised his head to look at the sky and sighed lightly all of a sudden, shaking his head. “I was wrong. Why did I ever think that a pig’s brain could come up with human ideas…”

Wen Kexing supplemented sagely, "Nothing surpasses learning from your mistakes; it is the greatest blessing of all to change in your misguided ways."

“You…” Huang Daoren was just about to go up to him, only for Yu Qiufeng to snap his folding fan shut and stop him with an arm in front of him, addressing Zhou Zishu, “Master Zhou, may I ask this then? We, together with Young Hero Ye, were chasing a scumbag that had been loitering suspiciously at the Gao Family Manor. Why did this scumbag disappear at this spot, as we run into you two instead, and…”

He cast his eyes downwards and met Liu Qianqiao’s gaze by chance. Like she had been doused with cold water, Liu Qianqiao shivered lightly, but Yu Qiufeng chuckled, and dragged his tone out as he said, “Oh? This lady can’t be the legendary Green Vixen Liu Qianqiao, can she? With her thousand variations unpredictable by even god or ghost, to what does this humble Yu owe the pleasure, to be able to witness this individual’s...true face--it is truly the luck of three lifetimes.”

Once the words “Green Vixen Liu Qianqiao” left his mouth, surprise, disgust, and scorn flitted past on the faces of the crowd behind Yu Qiufeng; it seemed like this woman’s reputation was already rotten to a certain degree. Her acupuncture points had been sealed by Ye Baiyi, and she could not flush them clear even with her full might. Laying on the ground like that, her face flushed red, the scar on her left cheek seemed to throb vividly, appearing even more terrifying and repulsive.