Chapter 11: The Further, The Better

Jun Wen was nearly furious! This little good-for-nothing didn’t even mention lodging a complaint in words; even the punctuation marks seemed to be complaining! How utterly devious!

Xiao Baidao said with a stern face, “Jun Wen, how have I instructed you? Your junior sister is young and physically weak; you must take good care of her. Is this how you take care of her? Get to the Ten Thousand Swords Cave immediately. Don’t come out without my order!”

Jun Wen dared not talk back to his master. He shot a glare at Feng Xi and prepared to accept his punishment. Unexpectedly, Feng Xi chuckled softly, “Master, Fifth Senior Brother was just teasing me. Why are you so angry? If you punish him, then punish me too!”

Xiao Baidao looked at them with pity, “Do you think I don’t know if he was only teasing? You’re just too kind-hearted! Fine, since you’re pleading for him this time, I’ll let it slide. But if there’s a next time, just wait and see how I deal with him!”

Jun Wen was speechless. Master, perhaps you should get your eyes checked! That girl? Does she even come close to the word ‘kind-hearted’?

As the two left Xiao Baidao’s courtyard, Jun Wen sneered, “Don’t think I’m grateful for your fake tears and false pity earlier. Stay away from me from now on, don’t obstruct my view!”

Feng Xi glanced at him and curled her lips, “You think I want to see you? I only said that to spare Master’s feelings. With your stupidity, you don’t even deserve to be my senior brother. The farther you stay away, the better.”

Jun Wen was both angry and amused. “You, a useless creature, call me stupid as a pig? You’ve got some nerve!”

Feng Xi blinked innocently, “Don’t you admit you’re stupid? Dare to make a bet with me?”

“What do I have to be afraid of? What’s the bet? How do we do it?”

Feng Xi pointed toward the beast stable, “I can make the sect’s divine beast kneel before me. Can you do that?”

Jun Wen was speechless. This little good-for-nothing must be crazy. The sect’s divine beast was like a living ancestor of the Xuantian Sect. It’s already a blessing not to be trampled on by it, let alone have it kneel. How could it ever bow to her?

He sneered, “I admit I can’t do it. If you can, I’ll let you do whatever you want to me. But if you can’t, you’ll obediently become invisible to me and stay far away.”

Feng Xi nodded, “Alright, it’s a deal!”

They immediately went to the beast stable. The golden-maned Suanni howled wildly the moment it saw Feng Xi, tugging at its eternal black iron chain with a clanging sound.

Feng Xi said to Jun Wen, “See? Look how happy this little thing is to see me!”

Jun Wen: …Little thing? Even if the golden Suanni were shrunk now, it’s still as big as three cows. You call that a little thing? Besides, its eyes are red. Are you sure it’s happy?

He now had every reason to suspect that the so-called junior sister his master took in cheaply was not only a little good-for-nothing but also probably not very bright.

Feng Xi ignored him and spoke to the golden Suanni, “Look at you, heartless as ever. You’re limping, yet you still have the energy to shout so loudly?”

The golden Suanni’s howling stopped abruptly. Limping? Since when? I didn’t know about that.

Feng Xi smirked, “Looks like you really don’t know! Well, everyone’s afraid your fragile little heart can’t handle it, so no one dares to tell you. Only I’m straightforward enough to tell the truth. Your leg has a problem, a big problem! It won’t be long before you’re lame. Don’t believe me? Try bending your knee widely. It’ll hurt like hell!”

The golden Suanni looked at her seriously and, somewhat skeptical but willing to try since it didn’t hurt, tested the knee bend.

Bend knee. No pain!

Maybe the range wasn’t wide enough?

Trying again with a larger movement, it collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Still no pain.

That brat must be talking nonsense!

Then Feng Xi said, “Ah, little thing, such good manners, bowing so deeply right when we meet! Alright, you may rise!”

The golden Suanni was speechless. Ahhh! That brat, we’re sworn enemies now. I’ll tear you to pieces!

Feng Xi paid no mind to its protests. She had already offended it over the Purple Qiao Linglong Fruit; one more time wouldn’t matter.

Ignoring the furious golden Suanni, she turned to the dumbfounded Jun Wen and said, “You lost! Since we’re siblings and I’m kind-hearted, I won’t be too harsh. When the Heavenly Scar Secret Realm opens, you will run a hundred laps naked around the arena!”

Jun Wen: …You might as well just kill me!

He gritted his teeth. “Feng Xi, don’t go too far!”

Feng Xi sneered, “Me? Go too far? You and I were strangers until now. Why do you have the right to call me a little good-for-nothing and an ugly freak on our first meeting? Just because you’re wearing a green headband?”

Jun Wen: …You’re the one wearing green!

He then thought of the emerald hair ribbon he used to tie his hair...

Feng Xi continued, “Since arriving at Xuantian Sect, everyone has shown me kindness. Don’t they know my dantian was severely injured and I can’t cultivate? Of course they know! But they’re well-mannered, unlike you, who insults a weak and pitiful young girl based on personal bias! Judging someone by appearance and being shortsighted, what right does a fool like you have to critique me? Feng Xi puts it here: one day, you’ll admit with your own mouth that you’re the real useless one! Don’t worry, the punishment I mentioned earlier was just to tease you. I still need you around, shameless as you are!”

Having said that, Feng Xi turned and walked away without looking back.

Her shoulders trembled slightly, and she occasionally raised a hand to wipe her face.

Jun Wen looked at her slender back, feeling a twinge of unease. That little good-for-nothing was definitely crying. Had he really been too harsh?

Unbeknownst to him, Feng Xi was smiling with crescent-shaped eyes, not taking any of it to heart.

It was all just an act for him!

Life is a stage, and all rely on their acting skills!

For a tsundere fool like him, one must use both softness and hardness.

Feng Xi returned to the courtyard and began meditating to cultivate.

Though Jun Wen didn’t speak human words, she was indeed very weak now.

Only the strong had the right to speak.

She absolutely could not slack off.

In the following days, Feng Xi rarely left the courtyard, spending most of her time cultivating, except for greeting Xiao Baidao in the mornings.

Xiao Baidao thought she was still resting quietly indoors, so he paid little attention.

One day, when Feng Xi woke from another fainting spell, she was delighted to discover a small red spiritual root growing in her dantian.

Could it be a fire spiritual root?

Feng Xi felt like a genius. After just a few days of cultivation, she had already “grown” a new spiritual root. At this rate, she might complete the five meridians in less than a month!

Once her five meridians were complete, her dantian would be healed!

From then on, Feng Xi would rampage across the lands, unmatched by any!