Chapter 307: Heroine, your father is here!
Boom~~
The distant sound of the morning bell rang from the Drum Tower, and the morning sun illuminated the streets and alleys of Tainan City. The streets in the Eastern District bustled with pedestrians, with shops on both sides calling out to attract customers. This was Tianan City’s market, similar in scale to the Xuanxing Sect’s.
Xiao Yunluo walked alone on the street, holding an oil-paper umbrella to shield herself from the sun. The parrot perched on her right shoulder, peering ahead and flapping her wings towards a stall selling bird food.
“Hungry, hungry, rice! Hungry, hungry, rice!!”
“I’ll buy it for you, eh——”
Xiao Yunluo felt somewhat resigned as she sighed softly and spent some spiritual stones to purchase bird food. She then glanced across the street, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
There she saw the little girl, taking advantage of her petite stature, darting back and forth among the passing pedestrians. That was her mother.
Her lively, adorable, and obedient mother…
Xiao Yunluo couldn’t understand it at all!
Why would the esteemed leader of the Xuanxing Sect, known throughout the Four Realms as the “Dan Yue Immortal,” a formidable cultivator in the Void Realm, behave like a sheltered young lady who had never stepped out of her home, frolicking on the streets?
“Your mom is so cute! Your mom is so cute!”
“Cute…”
Hearing the parrot’s voice, Xiao Yunluo pursed her lips and silently observed her mother’s figure.
Meanwhile, Si Xuanji was poking her head around a shadow puppet show stall. She had to admit, her mother did look quite cute now in both figure and behavior…
“Assuming she is not my mother…” Xiao Yunluo continued the parrot’s remark, then whispered, “The parrot, do you know why my mother brought me to the Central Domain?”
“Pretending to be your sister!! Seducing your father!!”
“…”
This wasn’t the first time Xiao Yunluo had heard this from the parrot, but she still couldn’t understand what it meant.
In fact, she didn’t even know what the word “father” meant.
After hesitating for a while, she asked in a low voice, “The parrot, do you know who my father is?”
The parrot tilted her head ninety degrees and asked, “Which daddy?”
Xiao Yunluo blinked blankly and simply closed her mouth. She didn’t think the parrot would know about her father. The only thing Xiao Yunluo knew about her father was that his surname was Xiao.
As for other information, such as cultivation, appearance, etc., was like a blank piece of paper. She could only roughly guess based on her appearance. For example, her hair was lavender…
She remembered Mr. Qi’s answer when she asked him about her life experience.
“The sect master has been in seclusion in the back mountain of Xuanxing Sect for several years. When she came out of seclusion, she carried you into the hall and said you were her daughter. Your surname was Xiao. She hadn’t chosen a name yet. She let us give you a name. I picked the word Yunluo for you after reading several ancient books…”
In other words, no one in Xuanxing Sect had ever seen her father. Her mother stayed in seclusion in the back mountain of Xuanxing Sect for five years before giving birth to her.
But was this possible?
Cultivators all had a gestation period of ten months, and even if it was longer, it was only twelve months. The same went for cultivators in the Returning Void Realm.
Her mother became pregnant with her during her fourth year of retreat. However, the back mountain of Xuanxing Sect was a forbidden area, and no one could enter except her mother. No one could be with her mother at that time.
And if she was adopted or picked up, then why does she look similar to her mother?
In particular…
Xiao Yunluo looked at the flat chest she inherited from Si Xuanji and her short legs and sighed silently,
“Hey – does my dad also have purple hair? Mom didn’t tell me anything about Dad at all…”
—”Dare I ask, who is Young Master Xiao of Xuanxing Sect?”
Just as Xiao Yunluo was murmuring, a rough male voice suddenly came from behind, making her tremble slightly.BTurning around, she saw three cultivators in golden robes standing behind her.
The cultivation level of these three people was not low, and the lowest was a cultivator in the middle and late stages of core formation. Their robes were all embroidered with the emblem of Heavenly Execution Court’s “Heavenly Dog Breaking the Moon.”
Xiao Yunluo briefly looked at the three of them, then nodded and said,
“It’s me, what’s wrong?”
The leader took a brief look at Xiao Yunluo’s clothes, then saluted respectfully,
“We are Inspectors of Heavenly Execution Court under the deputy commander of Heavenly Execution Court. We are here to take Young Master Xiao to Heavenly Execution Pavilion because of Thief Immortal.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yunluo immediately understood their purpose.
Xiao Yunluo and Si Xuanji arrived in Tainan City about ten days ago.
Xiao Yunluo had nothing to do, so she went directly to the Heavenly Execution Court and informed them about her encounter with the Thief Immortal in Yu Guan City.
The person she met at the time was the deputy commander of the Heavenly Execution Court.
Although he promised to do his best to help her find the spiritual sword and catch the Thief Immortal, Xiao Yunluo knew it was just empty words.
The name “Thief Immortal” had been circulating in the Southwest and Central Three Regions for decades. Authorities in all regions had been trying to catch her, but so far, they didn’t even know what she looked like.
Now, looking at the person in front of her, Xiao Yunluo narrowed her eyes in distrust and asked, “Could it be that you have caught the Thief Immortal?”
“I’m not sure for the moment. This morning, a commander of the Heavenly Execution Court brought back a woman in the early stage of core formation, claiming that she was the Thief Immortal. Deputy Commander Yue asks you to go to Heavenly Execution Pavilion to identify her.”
Xiao Yunluo furrowed her brows. So, they had caught someone suspected of being the Thief Immortal!
“How did you catch her?” She inquired.
“It was encountered by the captain by chance when he was out on business… But things are a little strange. The captain was only in the late stage of foundation building, and he was a cultivator who only came to the Heavenly Execution Court at the beginning of this year… I’d like to ask for more details. Young Master Xiao, please come to Heavenly Execution Pavilion to discuss it later.”
She felt it might be a mistake to go, but she also thought that sitting in Heavenly Execution Pavilion was at least better than walking around the streets with her mother, so she nodded and agreed.
The man bowed, took a step sideways, and spread his hands.
“Um…”
“Young Master Xiao, please.”
Xiao Yunluo nodded, then turned around to call Si Xuanji, but when she turned back, she found that her mother was no longer in front of the shadow puppet show, nor was she seen at the stall selling candied haws and melon seeds next door.
“Huh! Where are the people?”
“Looking for your dad! Looking for your dad!”
Xiao Yunluo glanced at the parrot on her shoulder, sighed, picked her up, and said,
“The parrot, go and tell… Sister. Tell her that I was called to Heavenly Execution Pavilion. Let her go there to find me when she gets tired of playing.”
The parrot looked at her with an inexplicably wise look, hesitated for a moment, opened her beaks again, and shouted with a louder voice,
“Your father is here!! Your father is here!!”
“Why is my father here…” Xiao Yunluo curled her lips slightly in disgust, tapped its head lightly, and reprimanded, “What did you say? Go quickly!”
“Destroyed dog!! A lost dog!!”
After the parrot screamed, it spread its wings directly from Xiao Yunluo’s shoulders and flew towards the west of the city.
Seeing the direction it flew, Xiao Yunluo twisted her eyebrows and was a little confused for a moment. The parrot should be able to sense her mother’s position. If it flew to the west, it meant that her mother had gone to the west of the city…
“Why are you going to the west of the city?”
“Forget it… Just do whatever she wants.”
Xiao Yunluo waved her hand slightly and ignored it. Then she raised her hands to the several Heavenly Execution Court’s disciples before her and said, “Please lead the way.”
“Young Master Xiao, you’re welcome.”
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