Chapter 67: Where the Hell Did This Foolish Bird Come From?

The little plump bird flew and flew. Failing to find Feng Xi, it ran into Shen Zhilan instead.

The little plump bird glared with its tiny, bean-like green eyes and thought to itself:

Is this the arrangement of fate, or a debt from a past life?!

I insist on going against it! I refuse to choose you!

I weigh one and a half catties, but I've got two catties of rebellious spirit!

Shen Zhilan indeed noticed the little plump bird squatting on the tree, but she didn't pay it any mind at all—just a low-tier fire-spitting crow.

A piece of trash, just like Feng Xi!

After glaring with its tiny bean-like green eyes as Shen Zhilan and the others walked away, the little plump bird set out once again on its quest to find its mother!

On the other side, after Jiang Ji finished meditating and regulating his breathing, Feng Xi asked:

"Eldest Senior Brother, how did you enter this mystic realm?"

Jiang Ji replied: "Two months ago, I went to the Boulder Wasteland to catch inkstone rats. These spirit beasts are worth more alive, so I didn't kill them; I just knocked them unconscious and put them in cages.

After catching enough, I prepared to return to the sect.

Unexpectedly, I stumbled into a large array. Knowing very little about formations, I tried several times to break through and escape, all to no avail.

Later, a flash of inspiration hit me, and I let those inkstone rats out. To my surprise, they actually dug out a passage.

Using all the strength I had, I finally managed to escape the array following them.

Before I even had time to rejoice, I was teleported here and wounded by the poisonous stinger of a horned stone centipede."

At this point, Jiang Ji sighed: "What a pity. All those inkstone rats ran off, resulting in a loss of at least one hundred thousand spirit stones.

I originally wanted to help Master patch up the sect's financial deficit, but I ended up returning empty-handed."

Feng Xi smiled and said: "Eldest Senior Brother, mere one hundred thousand spirit stones are nothing at all. As long as you return safe and sound, that's better than anything else!"

Jiang Ji: "..."

Mere one hundred thousand?

Master's newly accepted Junior Sister apparently knows nothing of the hardships of the mortal world!

However, she cared about him at least—that alone was enough.

How sharp-witted Feng Xi was; she could tell what he was thinking just by looking at his expression, so she glanced at Jun Wen.

Jun Wen understood in a second.

You want me to sing your praises for you, right?

"Eldest Senior Brother, since you just got back, you don't know our Junior Sister's glorious achievements yet..."

Feng Xi was quite satisfied.

She could shoulder the blame and brag with the best of them!

Fifth Senior Brother was a reliable guy!

However, her mind wasn't on this; she was pondering another matter.

The Boulder Wasteland was tens of thousands of miles away from Turtle-Back Mountain. How could Jiang Ji have been teleported here?

And what was the deal with the teleportation array at the bottom of the pool?

She inexplicably felt that this Turtle-Back Mountain mystic realm carried an indescribable sense of eeriness.

Yet in the book, Shen Zhilan hadn't encountered any danger and had exited safely.

Could she be overthinking it?

While she was thinking this, Jun Wen was talking so much he was practically foaming at the mouth!

While boasting about Feng Xi, he didn't forget to gild his own face a little as well!

Jiang Ji looked as though he had had astonishment permanently welded onto his face.

Junior Sister is truly a rare talent of our generation!

As for Fifth Junior Brother, well, he'll do.

Right at that moment, Xing Wu came running over, shouting and gesticulating.

"Feng Xi, it's so great that you guys are fine! I was worried to death!

I originally wanted to go back and save you, but my Eldest Senior Brother..."

"Ahem! Ahem!" Qin Shifeng coughed twice, swallowing the rest of Xing Wu's words back down.

What Xing Wu said was the truth. After running a certain distance and realizing Feng Xi and the others hadn't followed, he wanted to go back and help.

Only to be stopped by Qin Shifeng!

"What time is it?! It's already fortunate enough if we can look after our own fellow sect members. You still want to go save outsiders?! Hurry up and leave!

Besides, that Feng Xi is full of sneaky tricks; do you even need to save her?! If you went back, you'd just be dead weight!"

One had to admit that as long as Shen Zhilan wasn't present, Qin Shifeng's intelligence remained online.

That was how Xing Wu had followed Qin Shifeng and the others away, looking back three times with every step.

However, after running for a stretch, he still felt uneasy inside and insisted on turning back.

Seeing that the horned stone centipede hadn't given chase, Qin Shifeng reluctantly agreed.

As a result, when they returned, they hadn't found Feng Xi and the others, never expecting to run into them here.

Xing Wu felt somewhat embarrassed, his gaze darting about evasively.

Feng Xi didn't take it to heart. It was true that she and Xing Wu had a friendship, but it hadn't reached the point where she expected someone to risk their life to save her.

She smiled and said: "They were just a couple of little bugs, of course they couldn't do anything to us.

You came just in time. Does your Beast Taming Sect buy bugs?

Look and see how much these two are worth?"

With that, she tossed the corpses of the two horned stone centipedes right in front of them.

Xing Wu and the others nearly popped their eyeballs out!

Even if Jiang Ji hadn't been poisoned—let alone the fact that he was—the strength of the three people from the Profable Sky Sect shouldn't have been enough to pull this off!

When they inspected the fatal wounds, their expressions grew even more complicated.

These two horned stone centipedes must have suffered quite a bit before dying!

Their wounds were practically roasted through!

When they learned from Jun Wen's mouth that Feng Xi had killed both horned stone centipedes all by herself, their expressions became even more shocked.

Feng Xi, how on earth did she pull that off?

Feng Xi said with imposing grandiosity:

"As I was saying, at the time I fought three hundred rounds with them, battling until the heavens and earth turned dark, the sun and moon lost their light, and sand and stones flew through the air..."

Xing Wu and the others: "..."

Suddenly, we don't want to hear the process anymore.

After blabbering on for a while, Feng Xi smiled and asked: "After all this talking, are you buying these things or not?"

Qin Shifeng thought for a moment and said: "I certainly want to buy them, but the question is, what's the price?"

Feng Xi held up a palm. Fifty thousand each should be about right.

Qin Shifeng frowned: "Fifty thousand each? Too expensive! If it's fifty thousand for the pair, I can apply to the sect for it."

Horned stone centipedes were exotic bugs unrecorded in any ancient texts; fifty thousand for a pair wasn't expensive.

Feng Xi: (✧◡✧)

These crappy bugs were worth this much?

If she'd known, she would have killed a few more!

However, Feng Xi only sold one to Qin Shifeng, keeping the other one for herself.

Once the Beast Taming Sect spread the word about this, she would drive up the price and sell the remaining one.

Qin Shifeng didn't have that much cash on hand, so he paid a deposit of ten thousand spirit stones first.

Jiang Ji: "..."

Suddenly, I don't want to talk anymore.

I worked hard catching rats in the Boulder Wasteland for two months and ended up empty-handed.

Now Junior Sister casually makes twenty-five thousand just like that!

No wonder she calls one hundred thousand mere pocket change!

She has the backing to say so!

Having made money, Feng Xi was in a good mood and invited everyone to drink seafood porridge.

Before returning from the realm, she had had people simmer plenty of seafood porridge and put it into her storage ring.

Now the sky was gradually darkening, and everyone was indeed hungry.

Jiang Ji took a sip and almost cried with happiness.

Turns out there was such delicious porridge in this world!

Jun Wen curled his lip. Look at that inexperienced country bumpkin look!

I'm already sick of drinking it!

Which is why, from now on, he was going to follow Junior Sister step for step.

Wherever Junior Sister went, he would go; he was going to be Junior Sister's shadow!

He completely forgot how he had despised Feng Xi in the beginning.

The people from the Beast Taming Sect were somewhat restrained at first, or rather, a bit guilty, considering they hadn't helped Feng Xi and the others earlier.

But Feng Xi was great at regulating the atmosphere, and the things she said made people feel very comfortable inside.

So they let go of their reservations, and their impressions of Feng Xi improved even further.

Even Qin Shifeng felt sincerely that Feng Xi's character was beyond reproach.

As they chatted, Xing Wu said: "Why haven't the people from the Myriad Sword Sect made a peep this whole time? Where on earth did they run off to?"

Jun Wen, who was always at odds with him, immediately curled his lip: "The mystic realm is so huge, isn't it normal not to run into them?! Who knows, maybe they went off to make a fortune!"

Though Xing Wu knew he was right, he still started bickering with him, and the two of them argued fiercely.

Jiang Ji and Qin Shifeng both saw the exact same expression of fatherly worry and helplessness on each other's faces!

Feng Xi was resting her chin in her hand, watching the fun, when she heard birds chirping: "Chirp! Chirp!"

Feng Xi looked up and saw a chubby, grayish little bird squatting on a nearby tree.

Jun Wen saw it too and wondered aloud: "Where'd this stupid bird come from?"

Stupid • Little Phoenix • Bird: "..."

You're the stupid bird!

Your whole family is a flock of stupid birds!

The little plump bird flapped its wings and flew forward a short distance, then turned back toward Feng Xi:

"Chirp! Chirp!"