“Couplet Coupler, eh? Let’s see if he can still call himself that after his innards are all coupled up from sheer regret!” 2

The Riddler let out a satisfied cackle after he tossed Ye Qing out of the Mountain of Riddles and listened to the young man’s frantic screams. It had been a while since he felt this gleeful.0

Meanwhile, Ye Qing found himself standing at the edge of Redstone Forest with none of the rewards he was promised. He even went through his Nature’s Shells hoping against hope that the Riddler had somehow stuffed his rewards into the storage artifacts to no avail.0

“I was wrong, elder one, big brother, ancestor! Please forgive me!” Ye Qing screamed as he stared at the fog-shrouded mountain. Heavens know he was moments away from breaking into tears. If he knew the Riddler was such a humorless person, he would never have dared to tease him until he quite literally blew his top. Now, he hadn’t just lost his additional rewards, he didn’t even have his Astral Refinement stage cultivation art!0

Ahhhh! Why did I do that? Ahhhhhhhhh!0

“Elder one, I can give up the additional rewards, but please, at least give me the Astral Refinement stage cultivation art you promised!”0

“You’re the bigger person here, elder one! Surely you can find it in yourself to forgive a petty little shit like me!”1

“Elder one…”0

For a time, Ye Qing kept launching spit attack after spit attack at the floating mountain in the sky. Maybe his sincerity finally reached the Riddler, or maybe the old man simply had had enough of Ye Qing screeching like a banshee and disturbing his peace, but a couple of items suddenly fell from the sky and hit Ye Qing squarely in the head.0

“Heavens, just...0