The Cannon Fodder Turns His Sister Into A Soaring Phoenix C367

Chapter 367: Xi Yue, he keeps staring at me!

As dusk settled in, at Baiyue Town, roughly a hundred miles east of Tianfeng Immortal City, within a restaurant adorned with the Youren Pavilion sign, the lady proprietor stood behind the counter, swiftly manipulating the calculator in her grasp.

Beside her stood a petite girl, aged around twelve or thirteen, clutching a ledger and ink pen.

The little girl was wearing a long aqua dress and her blue eyes were clear and bright. She scribbled on the account book carefully as the female shopkeeper said, “The four guests at the second table in the East ordered one roast chicken and three pots of Wenchun wine, please mark them down.”

“Well, one roast chicken, three pots of Wenchun wine, a total of twenty-seven spiritual stones.”

“Two guests at the west third table, one plate of fried immortal beans, two pots of farewell to this life.”

“Well… Remember it…”

…

After finishing all the accounts in the restaurant, the female shopkeeper looked up at the dusk outside the window and saw that it was already dark. She suddenly remembered the rumors about the Flower picker that she had heard in the past few months.

In recent months, little girls aged 12 or 13 had repeatedly disappeared in the towns around Tianfeng Immortal City. The Royal Guards in the Immortal City investigated for a long time but failed to catch anyone.

After a moment of silence, the female shopkeeper looked at the little girl next to her holding the account book, “Girl, why don’t you stop coming here these days and go stay in Tianfeng Immortal City?”

“Ah…” Xu Xiyue was stunned for a moment, raised her eyebrows felt a little disappointed, and asked, “Is it something I didn’t do well or…”

“No…” The female shopkeeper felt a little helpless and patted her shoulder and said, “There have been rumors about the Flower picker recently. Baiyue Town is already a remote area. I’m worried that something will happen to you.”

“I’m not even worried. What are you worried about, shopkeeper?”

“Your sister is busy with official duties, so it’s rare for her to come back. There aren’t many powerful cultivators in this town. What if the flower-picking thief comes to our town?”

“It doesn’t matter…”

“Boss! Here’s another bottle of wine!”

The sound of shouting came, Xu Xiyue pursed her lips, quickly waved her hand, and shouted, “Coming!”

Then she put the account book in her hand on the counter, went to the backyard, and told the cook the names of the dishes. The female shopkeeper looked a little helpless. This girl had a sister who was the commander of the Royal Guards, but she had to come to her place to serve dishes and earn spiritual stones in exchange for spiritual pills to cultivate.

The female shopkeeper didn’t know whether to say that her sister was too picky, or that she was too house-oriented and didn’t want to rely on her sister. But then again, the flower-picking thief was perverted, and he targeted a girl of twelve or thirteen years old.

The key was, that after the attack was over, the little girl had to be kidnapped. In the past few months, she heard from drinkers that at least nearly twenty little girls had been murdered.

What were the Royal Guards in Tianfeng Immortal City doing? Not even a single flower-picking thief could be caught.

“Well…”

The female shopkeeper shook her head and didn’t think much more. She lowered her head and started calculating the accounts again.

Ta-ta-

Two unfamiliar footsteps came from the door of the restaurant. The female shopkeeper’s ears twitched, and she was a little confused for a moment.

Baiyue Town was a small town in the mountains, there were few specialties. Few outside cultivators were coming there. Most of them were regular customers.

“Should I stay in a hotel as a guest officer?”

After greeting them, the female shopkeeper looked up at the two people entering the room, only to see a young man in white with a sword on his back and a girl wearing a bamboo hat with a red bird on her shoulder.

Ye Anping raised his head and glanced at the interior decoration of the restaurant. It was the same as the Youren Pavilion in his memory. Even the wooden boxes piled in the corner and the names of the drinks were consistent.

He didn’t see Xu Xiyue busy in the store and was a little disappointed. After a pause, he walked to the counter and took out a small bag of spirit stones from the storage bag.

“Staying in a hotel, I need two rooms.” The female shopkeeper looked at the smile on his face that seemed to be returning home and was a little confused. She glanced at the bag of spiritual stones, then pretended to take a look at the account book from the side, shook her head, and said,

“I’m sorry, sir… Our room is full. How about I introduce you to an inn?”

Ye Anping was stunned for a moment and said quickly, “Can you add some spiritual stones and let the people staying in the hotel get two rooms?”

“No, our store’s rule is first come, first served.”

Ye Anping rarely had any requirements for where to live, but…

After a pause, he lowered his head and looked at the jade pendant on his waist. He picked it up with his sword finger and put it back into the storage bag. At the same time, he took out a small bag of spiritual stones.

“Shopkeeper, do you think this is okay?”

As the jade pendant was put into the storage bag, Ye Anping’s spiritual power at the core formation stage was instantly released from his body, causing all the cultivators on the first floor to close their mouths and quietly look toward him.

Li Longling was confused for a moment. After they came out of the Commander’s Mansion in Tianfeng Immortal City, Li Longling originally thought that Ye Anping would take her to find a place to stay in the Immortal City.

However, Ye Anping directly stepped on the flying sword and took her to this small town in the mountains. Forget it, to stay in the hotel, he removed the jade charms that concealed his cultivation along the way.

Was there anything special about this restaurant?

Could it be…

Li Longling quickly reached out and held down Ah Feng’s head, making her eyes stare at the female shopkeeper…

Under the rich makeup, there was a bulging figure. Although it was not ugly, it had the aura of fireworks, and there was a long-handled pipe hanging on the waist, which looked like a magic weapon…

Was she Xi Yue?

Li Longling twisted her eyebrows, raised her hand, and twisted Fire Phoenix’s head back.

The female shopkeeper was immediately shocked. She had opened her shop for almost 40 years. Except for Xu Xiyue’s sister who would come over from time to time, the customers with the highest level of cultivation in her restaurant were only in the middle stage of foundation building.

Now a cultivator in the core formation stage came, and she didn’t know how to receive him, “Senior… Junior, this restaurant doesn’t have a spirit-gathering formation. I’m afraid you won’t be able to get used to it.”

“It doesn’t matter. I’m not here to live comfortably. You have something you can’t find in other places.”

Ye Anping smiled, glanced at the first floor again, made an excuse, and said, “I heard that your secret roast chicken is very delicious, so I came here to try it.”

Do cultivators still need to eat during the core formation stage?

The female shopkeeper was stunned for a long time, but she no longer dared to neglect. She quickly walked out from behind the counter and wanted to lead them up to the private room on the third floor to sit down.

“Those two, please come with me. There is a private room on the third floor…”

However, Ye Anping shook his head, “It’s okay, we can just sit on the first floor.”

With that said, he led Li Longling and randomly found an empty table on the first floor to sit down. The two cultivators on the second and third levels of Qi Refining at the table next to him saw this and quickly moved their buttocks to pay and leave.

Ye Anping took out the jade pendant again and hung it on his waist, “Shopkeeper, two roast chickens, and a pot of Wangchun wine.”

Li Longling curled her lips, as if she was a little dissatisfied that Ye Anping had to take Xi Yue with her when he came to see her, and immediately denied it, “Mr. Ye, I won’t eat it.”

“…Then I’ll eat two.”

“Oh -” Li Longling sighed softly, held up her cheeks, tilted her head, and asked, “So that female shopkeeper is your sweetheart?”

?

Ye Anping looked embarrassed and said, “No…”

“Then why do we have to live here?” When Li Longling asked this, the curtain leading to the backyard of the restaurant was opened by a pair of small hands. Xu Xiyue walked in from the backyard with a plate of roast chicken in her left hand and placed the roast chicken on the table where she had just ordered.

“The newly baked roast chicken, please enjoy it~” She squinted her eyes and smiled, but suddenly she realized that the originally noisy restaurant seemed to have been swept by a gust of cold wind, and became much deserted. Several loud drinkers no longer dared to fight over drinks.

Xu Xiyue turned her head and glanced around the room, and saw Ye Anping and the others at a glance, but saw the handsome young man in white looking at her tenderly.

She pursed her lips slightly and ran to the counter in small steps without daring to make any eye contact with Ye Anping.

“Shopkeeper… Who are those two?”

The female shopkeeper also had a cold sweat on her face and whispered, “A cultivator who is in the core formation stage came to stay at our hotel and ordered a roast chicken by the way. Please don’t lose your etiquette for a while.”

“A cultivator in the core formation stage?” Xu Xiyue also twisted her eyebrows for a moment, wondering what the cultivators in the core formation stage were doing in their small mountain town, but she didn’t ask too much.

Seeing Ye Anping looking at her, she smiled shyly, nodded slightly bowed to Ye Anping, and then quickly ran back to the kitchen to take the dishes.

After watching her run back to the backyard, Ye Anping came back to his senses, as if Li Longling had just asked some question…

“Long Ling, what did you just ask me?”

“…Well–” Li Longling was a little helpless and sighed softly. This was the first time she saw Ye Anping being distracted, and she felt inexplicably unwilling. She curled her lips and said, “It’s nothing. This is the first time I’ve seen Mr. Ye like this.”

“…”

Ye Anping only reacted when he heard the words. He seemed to be a little obsessed. The girl Xi Yue, whom he had been thinking about for so many years, just passed by his eyes. How could he not take a few more glances?

After being silent for a while, he pinched his nose, suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and said,

“I’m sorry, after all… After so many years, people will always feel sad, and I am no exception. I used to always think that I would die at the hands of a demon cultivator named Wu You, but now looking back, I have already come a long way.”

Li Longling raised the corners of her mouth slightly. Although she didn’t know what Ye Anping had experienced before, she understood and nodded, “How about that demon cultivator Wu You talk to me?”

“Well, the Grand Master of the Gu Poison Sect was met by my junior sister and me when we were traveling in the Western Domain. Later, we met Senior Sister Feng, and the three of us teamed up to kill him in Longxi Town.”

“So…” Ye Anping nodded, recalling the original plot of the game in his mind.

In fact, according to the original game plot, after Wu You was severely injured by Feng Yudie, he slaughtered the Hundred Lotus Sect to recuperate and fled the Western Domain. His second encounter with Feng Yudie was in the main plot of Han Tian Kingdom.

Wu You would secretly capture boys and girls over ten years old near Tianfeng Immortal City and use them to refine insects and happened to be bumped into by Feng Yudie who came there.

Feng Yudie relied on the help of the Heavenly Dao Scroll to catch clues and cooperated with Xu Mulan from Tianfeng Immortal City to break into Wu You’s lair here. She avenged her shame and got the Mysterious Yin Fragment from his storage bag. However, this was the plot of the game. There was no such person as Wu You in this world, so his mission of catching boys and girls would never exist at all.

For this reason, Ye Anping’s original plan was not to come to Tianfeng Immortal City, but to go directly to Han Yue City, the capital of Han Tian Kingdom.

“In short, he was burned to death by my junior sister with a stack of fire talismans, along with the insects in the storage bag.”

Li Longling thought for a while, held up her cheeks, tilted her head, and praised, “Young Master Ye was still refining his Qi at that time! Three cultivators in the Qi refining stage killed a cultivator in the core formation stage. This is impressive. Sure enough, Mr. Ye has been very powerful since he was a child.”

“…I got lucky.” Ye Anping smiled, “It was just a gamble. I was not very sure that I could kill him.”

When Ye Anping said this, his voice stopped abruptly.

Xu Xiyue was carrying roast chicken and wine. She opened the curtain of the kitchen with her shoulder, looked at them, took a deep breath, raised her chest, raised her head, and walked over to the plate.

“Seniors, please use it slowly~”

“Um…” Xu Xiyue pursed her lips and nodded to Ye Anping, but when she raised her head, she saw Ye Anping staring at her and felt a little scared for a moment.

Why did he keep staring at her?

Was there something on her face?

Xu Xiyue was a little nervous, but she didn’t dare to ask. She thought about it for a while and whispered, “Senior, if you need anything, just call me.”

“…Hmm.” Ye Anping nodded slightly, and when he saw her turning around and preparing to continue serving the dishes, he said, “Speaking of which, I think you look familiar…”

“Huh!” Xu Xiyue tilted her head and looked back, cupping her hands and answering, “Junior thinks that senior may have remembered it wrong. Junior has been living in Baiyue Town since he was a child, and senior, you don’t look like a monk nearby… …”

Li Longling, who was across the table, slightly twisted her eyebrows as she listened to Ye Anping’s conversation. She raised her hand and pinched Ah Feng’s head again, turning it to the side with a Click to the little girl holding the plate.

?

She was quite a pretty little girl, but her cultivation level was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining, and her hair was tied into two buns, which meant she had not yet had hairpins…

Hiss–

Could it be that she was Xi Yue?

Li Longling didn’t speak, she just twisted her eyebrows. She didn’t want to believe it, but the next moment, she heard Ye Anping ask, “Is your surname Xu?”

Xu Xiyue was slightly surprised, stayed for a while, tilted her head, and asked, “You don’t know my mother, do you?”

?

“Ah…” Ye Anping was stunned for a moment. Could it be that she regarded herself as a cultivator who had lived for eighty or ninety years? She felt a little depressed and argued, “It’s true. Earlier today, I met Commander Xu of Tianfeng Immortal City. When I first saw you, I felt that you and Commander Xu were very familiar. Are you her daughter?”

“Do I look like my sister?” Xu Xiyue twisted her eyebrows and murmured in a low voice, but quickly came to her senses, cupped her hands, and replied, “Returning to the senior, the junior’s name is Xu Xiyue. Commander Xu of the Royal Guard of Tianfeng Immortal City is the junior’s biological sister.”

“So that’s it…” Xu Xiyue’s uneasiness eased a little. Since he was someone her sister knew, he couldn’t be a bad person.

Might be…

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