The little chubby bird flew and flew. It didn't find Feng Xi, but instead ran into Shen Zhilan.
The little chubby bird stared with its tiny mung-bean eyes and thought: Is this fate's arrangement, or karmic debt from a past life?!
I'm going to do the opposite! I refuse to choose you!
I weigh one and a half jin, but I've got two jin of rebellious bones!
Shen Zhilan actually did see the little chubby bird squatting on a tree, but she didn't take it seriously at all. It's just a low-tier Fire-Spitting Crow, that's all.
A useless thing, just like Feng Xi!
After glaring with its mung-bean eyes and watching Shen Zhilan's group walk far away, the little chubby bird set off once more on its journey to find its mom!
On the other side, after Jiang Ji finished sitting in meditation to regulate his breathing, Feng Xi asked, "Eldest Senior Brother, how did you enter this secret realm?"
Jiang Ji replied, "Two months ago, I went to the Rockstone Wasteland to catch Inkstone Rats. This kind of demonic beast is more valuable alive, so I didn't kill them and only stunned them and put them into cages.
Once I had caught about enough, I prepared to return to the sect.
But unexpectedly, I wandered into a massive formation. I know very little about formations, and after several attempts, I still couldn't break out.
Later, I had a sudden inspiration and released the Inkstone Rats. To my surprise, they actually dug out a passage.
I exhausted every bit of strength I had and finally escaped the formation by following them.
I hadn't even had time to be happy when I was teleported here and injured by the poison spines of the One-Horned Stone Salamander."
At this point, Jiang Ji sighed, "What a pity. All those Inkstone Rats escaped, that's a loss of at least one hundred thousand spirit stones.
I had wanted to help Master fill the deficit a little, but in the end I came back empty-handed."
Feng Xi said with a smile, "Eldest Senior Brother, a mere hundred thousand spirit stones is nothing at all. As long as you come back safe and sound, that's more important than anything!"
Jiang Ji: "..."
A mere hundred thousand?
It seemed Master's newly accepted little junior sister didn't know the hardships of mortal life!
But at least she cared about him, this alone was enough.
Feng Xi was sharp enough to tell what he was thinking just by his expression, so she glanced at Jun Wen.
Jun Wen understood instantly.
Let me help hype you up!
"Eldest Senior Brother, you've just come back and don't yet know little junior sister's glorious achievements…"
Feng Xi was very satisfied.
Able to take the blame, able to boast!
Fifth Senior Brother was someone worth keeping around!
However, her mind wasn't actually on that. Instead, she was pondering something else.
The Rockstone Wasteland was tens of thousands of kilometers away from Turtleback Mountain. How did Jiang Ji teleport here?
And what about the teleportation array at the bottom of the pool?
She vaguely felt like this Turtleback Mountain Secret Realm had an inexplicable sense of eeriness.
But in the book, Shen Zhilan hadn't encountered any danger here and had safely exited.
Was she overthinking things?
While she was lost in thought, Jun Wen was practically foaming at the mouth from talking!
While bragging about Feng Xi, he didn't forget to polish his own halo a little too.
Jiang Ji's expression was almost permanently welded into one of dumbfounded shock.
Little junior sister is a heaven-defying genius!
As for Fifth Junior Brother, well, he's passable.
Just then, Xing Wu came running over, shouting loudly.
"Feng Xi! It's great that you're all right! I was worried sick!
I wanted to go back and save you, but my Eldest Senior Brother..."
"Ahem!" Qin Shifeng coughed twice, and Xing Wu swallowed the rest of his words.
He wasn't lying. After running some distance and realizing Feng Xi's group hadn't followed, he'd wanted to go back and help.
But he'd been stopped by Qin Shifeng!
"This isn't the time for that. It's already good enough if we can take care of our own fellow disciples, and you still want to save outsiders?! Hurry up and leave!
Besides, that Feng Xi is full of tricks. Does she really need you to save her?! You'd just be a burden!"
It had to be said that when Shen Zhilan wasn't present, Qin Shifeng's intelligence was actually online.
Xing Wu had reluctantly followed them, glancing back every few steps.
But after running a bit farther, he still felt uneasy and insisted on returning.
Seeing that the One-Horned Stone Salamanders hadn't chased after them, Qin Shifeng reluctantly agreed.
As a result, they hadn't found Feng Xi's group when they returned, and only happened to run into them here.
Xing Wu felt somewhat embarrassed, his gaze a little evasive.
Feng Xi didn't take it to heart. It was true she had a friendship with Xing Wu, but it wasn't to the point where he should risk his life to save her.
She smiled and said, "They were just a bunch of little bugs anyway. Of course they couldn't do anything to us.
You came at just the right time, does your Beast-Taming Sect accept bugs?
Take a look at how much these two are worth?"
As she spoke, she tossed the two One-Horned Stone Salamander corpses in front of them.
Xing Wu and the others' eyes nearly popped out of their sockets!
Even if Jiang Ji hadn't been poisoned, with the strength of the three from Xuantian Sect, this shouldn't have been possible!
After examining the fatal wounds, their expressions grew even more complicated.
These two One-Horned Stone Salamanders had suffered quite a bit before dying!
The wounds were all roasted through!
When they learned from Jun Wen that these two One-Horned Stone Salamanders had been killed by Feng Xi alone, their shock deepened even further.
How on earth did Feng Xi do it?
Feng Xi boasted arrogantly, "Back then, I fought them for three hundred rounds, heaven and earth turned dark, sun and moon lost their light, sand flew and stones shattered…"
Xing Wu and the others: "..."
We suddenly don't want to hear the process anymore.
After babbling on for a while, Feng Xi smiled brightly, "So, are you buying these things or not?"
Qin Shifeng thought for a moment and said, "We want to buy them, of course. The key is the price."
Feng Xi held up one hand, fifty thousand per piece should be fine.
Qin Shifeng frowned, "Five hundred thousand per piece? That's too expensive! If it's five hundred thousand for both, I can apply to the sect."
One-Horned Stone Salamanders were strange insects not even recorded in ancient texts. Five hundred thousand for two wasn't expensive.
Feng Xi: (✧◡✧)
These lousy bugs are worth that much?
If I'd known, I would've killed a few more!
In the end, Feng Xi only sold one to Qin Shifeng and kept the other for herself.
Once Beast-Taming Sect spread the news, she'd raise the price on the spot and sell the other one.
Qin Shifeng didn't have that much money on hand, so he paid ten thousand spirit stones as a deposit.
Jiang Ji: "..."
Suddenly didn't want to speak anymore.
I worked myself to the bone in the Rockstone Wasteland for two months catching rats, and came back empty-handed.
Meanwhile, little junior sister casually earned two hundred and fifty thousand!
No wonder she said a mere hundred thousand!
She really did have the confidence!
Feng Xi was in a good mood after making money and called everyone over for seafood porridge.
Before leaving the border city, she'd had people cook a lot of seafood porridge and stored it in her storage ring.
Now that night was gradually falling, everyone was really hungry.
After Jiang Ji took one sip, he nearly cried tears of happiness.
So this was what truly delicious porridge tasted like!
Jun Wen curled his lip. Look at you, so uncultured!
I'm already sick of drinking it!
That's why, from now on, he's going to stick to little junior sister like glue.
Wherever little junior sister went, he would go. He is little junior sister's shadow!
He had completely forgotten how much he'd disliked Feng Xi at the beginning.
The people from Beast-Taming Sect were initially a bit reserved, or rather, a bit guilty. After all, they hadn't helped Feng Xi earlier.
But Feng Xi was very good at setting the mood. What she said made people feel comfortable.
They gradually relaxed, and their impression of Feng Xi improved even more.
Even Qin Shifeng sincerely felt that Feng Xi's character was beyond reproach.
As they chatted, Xing Wu suddenly said, "Why hasn't there been any movement from Wan Jian Sect? Who knows where they ran off to?"
Jun Wen, who never got along with him, immediately scoffed, "The secret realm is so big, what's strange about not running into each other?! Maybe they've already made a fortune!"
Xing Wu knew he was right, but still started bickering with him. The two were locked in a heated argument.
Jiang Ji and Qin Shifeng exchanged looks, both saw the same old-father-style worry and helplessness on the other's face!
Feng Xi was resting her chin in her hand, watching the show, when she heard chirping, "Jiji! Jiji!"
She looked up and saw a gray, stubby little chubby bird squatting on a nearby tree.
Jun Wen saw it too and said in confusion, "Where did this stupid bird come from?"
Stupid (little phoenix) Bird: "..."
You're the stupid bird!
Your whole family are stupid birds!
The little chubby bird flapped its wings and flew forward a short distance, then turned back toward Feng Xi, "Jiji! Jiji!"