Chapter 39: The heroine grew up in a greenhouse
Pei Lianxue didn’t know how long it had been, but the sound of Feng Yudie’s voice came from the direction of the cave entrance.
“I’m back!!”
The two people leaning on each other looked towards the door and saw an exquisite figure carrying a snow deer into the cave, a deer that was seven or eight times larger than her.
Feng Yudie’s body was covered in snow and mud, and her clothes had several tears. Her silver hair, originally tied in a ponytail, was now loose. She appeared as though she had been through a tough battle, but her expression remained lively. However, when she entered the cave and saw Pei Lianxue and Xiao Yunluo squeezed together, she was momentarily stunned.
How did they end up so close together? Feng Yudie furrowed her brows, walked to the bonfire, threw the snow deer on the ground, and asked, “Senior Sister Xiao, what did you do to Junior Sister Pei just now?”
“What do you mean?” Xiao Yunluo asked in confusion.
“It’s just… when I was so close to Junior Sister Pei, she slapped me away. If you got closer, why didn’t she slap you away?”
“…”
Xiao Yunluo was at a loss for words, choosing to ignore Feng Yudie’s question and instead looking at the snow deer on the ground.
“This deer…”
“It took me a while to find it,” Feng Yudie stretched lazily, smiling as she patted the deer’s backside, “This fellow is fast. I had to put in some effort to catch it.”
Pei Lianxue glanced at the giant deer, showing a hint of disdain. “I asked you to find something to eat. Didn’t you know to find a smaller one? This deer is enough to feed dozens of cultivators.”
“Oh, I’ve seen these things before,” Feng Yudie scratched the back of her head, grinning, “I wanted to see how powerful it was. Anyway, I caught it.”
“I’ll do the dissection.”
Pei Lianxue sighed, leaving her coat with Xiao Yunluo. She stood up, took a skinning knife from her storage bag, and walked over to the snow deer.
Only the shadow of the knife was visible, not the knife itself. Bleeding, skinning, and cleaning were done seamlessly.
In no time, the snow deer was dissected by Pei Lianxue, leaving only the skeleton and internal organs. Xiao Yunluo and Feng Yudie watched her study without a sense of fear. They had never seen a woman examine a monster so skillfully and perfectly. The process was often bloody, and many male cultivators couldn’t handle it.
Xiao Yunluo swallowed her saliva and asked, “Junior Sister Pei, did you often dissect monsters before?”
Pei Lianxue turned around, “I lived in a monster cave for a few months. I had to eat monster meat every day, so I practised. Hehe…”
Thinking of her past senior brother, she couldn’t help but smile sweetly. However, Xiao Yunluo, watching, felt a subtle sense of horror. This pretty girl, holding a knife, covered in blood on her hands and face, smiling at people…
She dared not compliment her!
In this way, Pei Lianxue skillfully used branches to string up several skewers of deer meat.
After the three of them finished eating the meat, they quickly calmed down and passed the time by meditating and concentrating their energy.
A few hours later, the snow outside stopped, so they simply packed up and continued walking towards the main peak of Xuanxing Sect. After coming down from Lingxue Peak, they came to a swamp.
Because of the earth’s spirit energy, it was now filled with miasma, and the visible distance was less than ten feet. According to Xiao Yunluo, this swamp was called “Mistaken Tan”. Many alchemy cultivators from the Xuanxing Sect would come here to catch poisonous insects and research, and there were also monsters like crocodiles and pythons inside. Therefore, the three of them had no choice but to slow down and move forward step by step.
Feng Yudie walked in the front, slashing the sword in her hand and cleaning the vines and weeds in front of her to prevent insects and scorpions from hiding inside. However, she kept thinking about how to please Junior Sister Pei.
So far, she had tried more than ten of the “Methods to Please Others” taught by her master, but none of them worked.
And let alone trying to please her. She felt that Junior Sister Pei seemed to hate her more and more. Showing off her aggressive side, she was treated as an idiot by Junior Sister Pei.
When Junior Sister Pei almost killed the dog with a sword. The flattery was ignored by Junior Sister Pei.
Let others feel the superiority of having conquered her. Junior Sister Pei beat her.
Asking for help, Junior Sister Pei suspected that she had evil intentions.
…
“Why–”
“Yudie, what are you thinking about?” Xiao Tian floated out of her head, hugged her chest, and sat on her shoulders, crossing her legs. “Every time you sigh, you are definitely thinking about something inappropriate.”
Feng Yudie glanced at it and asked in a low voice, “Xiao Tian, why can’t Junior Sister Pei smile at me?”
“Ha…” Xiao Tian snorted coldly and rolled his eyes at her, “Don’t ask me about this. If you fall in love with a certain male cultivator, I can give you some advice and help you.” But… female? No way! Snort!”
After cursing, Xiao Tian kicked her in the head vigorously and then returned to Feng Yudie’s soul realm.
At this moment, Feng Yudie was slightly certain and quickly raised her hand.
“Stop!!”
“Huh? Is there a monster?”
Xiao Yunluo, who was walking behind her, was startled and quickly looked around, but everything she could see was filled with fog.
Pei Lianxue, who was at the back, seemed to have noticed something and drew her sword directly, alerting her surroundings.
“It’s not a monster, it’s a human being.” Pei Lianxue replied.
“People?”
Xiao Yunluo was even more confused.
If it was a person, it should be the other people who came to participate in the selection. Disciples were not allowed to fight with each other in this trial.
After the meeting, everyone would basically choose to form a team to deal with monsters and other obstacles on the road together.
But…
She looked at the serious expressions of the two people and asked, “Who is it?”
Feng Yudie explained, “Someone just used their spiritual consciousness to find us, and they had bad intentions.”
“With bad intentions?”
At this moment, Pei Lianxue suddenly turned around and placed the sword in her hand directly behind Xiao Yunluo.
Ding— A clear sword cry echoed through the swamp.
As sparks flew, Xiao Yunluo suddenly looked behind her. The masked cultivator in black was very close, only two steps away from her.
The short thorn in the man’s hand was heading straight for her neck. If Pei Lianxue hadn’t blocked her with his sword, she would have stabbed her neck and died in an instant.
Xiao Yunluo didn’t realise when this person came up to her. Her eyes widened, and she hurriedly took out her sword forged from black stone from her storage bag. However, she was too nervous.
When the sword flew out of her storage bag, she failed to catch it, causing the sword to fly directly into the sky. The cultivator in black looked at Xiao Yunluo’s reaction, and for a moment, there was a look of ridicule in his eyes. At this time, Pei Lianxue also took the opportunity to swing the sword towards his neck, but he used his strength to jump back into the thick air.
When the surrounding thick fog hid the figure of the black-clothed cultivator, a man’s laughter suddenly came from another direction.
“This sword is really good, but the person who wields it has nothing to show for it… ah hahaha——”
Hearing this sentence, Xiao Yunluo remembered the sword she had just held, but when she looked up, her sword had disappeared.
“…”
For a moment, she was stunned. Feng Yudie also retreated to her side at this time, sandwiching her with Pei Lianxue in tandem, and said seriously,
“Senior Sister Xiao, stay with me and Junior Sister Pei. There are at least four of them, and the person just now is at least in the middle stage of foundation building.”
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