The Cannon Fodder Turns His Sister Into A Soaring Phoenix – Chapter 233

Chapter 233 The Protagonist, the Spirit of Spring Aspect

In the Hundred Mile Snow Forest, after a spiritual wind blew past, signs of early spring appeared one after another.

Leaning against a tree trunk, Yun Yiyi, with her disheveled hair, looked at the golden spiritual energy emanating from “Feng Yu” with disbelief.

Spiritual energy is born from all things, and all things begin with the spring of the four seasons, and “his” spiritual energy is this pure spirit of spring aspect.

Yun Yiyi had seen a sentence in a Taoist book before.

Only cultivators who are as calm as a tranquil ancient well, and who regard external things as nothing, can refine a spirit of spring aspect within their bodies. Such cultivators can imbue life with greenness wherever they tread, and where they go, there will be no more scorching summer, withered autumn, or cold winter; all things will bloom and grow.

However, throughout ancient and modern times, there have been many cultivators called saints, yet none have truly achieved this realm.

To exist in the world is to be unavoidably disturbed by the karma of the world, whether it be power, wealth, lust, fame, or desires. Only infants, newly born from their mother’s womb, can remain completely outside the cycle of worldly karma.

The person named “Feng Yu” before her was like a blank slate, as pure as an infant.

And her second sister, who was foul-mouthed and covered in wine stains, had actually met such a person.

It was no wonder that her second sister was willing to abandon her identity as a Sword Sect young lady and become a pair of immortal partners with this person, selling wine for a living.

At that time, she had suspected that “Feng Yu” was after something from her second sister, but now, it was just like what her second sister had said: “You don’t understand my brother Yu.”

Now, Feng Yu had come to save her second sister.

However, Ye Anping…

Thinking of this, Yun Yiyi felt a pang of sadness, and a hint of jealousy appeared in her eyes. But as she looked at “Feng Yu” holding her second sister, she wondered if it was her own jealousy, or if her subconscious was cursing those in love to end up as sisters, or something else.

She suddenly felt, for no reason, that this person was not a man but more like a young lady.

“…”

Yun Yiyi’s gaze involuntarily shifted to Yun Jiujiu’s face.

From her understanding of her second sister, if “Feng Yu” was actually a woman disguised as a man, her second sister would probably lose her mind completely…

In any case, their affairs, or rather, “their” affairs, had nothing to do with her, Yun Yiyi.

At this moment, three streaks of spiritual light passed through the sky. Noticing the patch of verdant green amidst the expanse of white below, they descended on their swords.

Yun Xi, Pei Lianxue, and Zhang Yihe landed in front of them.

Yun Xi, seeing that her two troublesome sisters were still alive, frowned and let out a sigh of relief. She walked up to Yun Yiyi, hesitated for a moment, then sneered and asked, “Heh, are you alright?”

“…I’m fine.”

“That’s good.” Yun Xi pouted, then took out two high-grade healing pills from her storage bag and threw them into Yun Yiyi’s hand. “Take these and quickly recover your Qi cultivation. We’ll guard you. In a while, the other elders will likely be here.”

“Mmm…”

After watching Yun Yiyi take the pills and begin her Qi cultivation in meditation, Yun Xi looked at Feng Yudie and Yun Jiujiu again. She thought that since Feng Yu had caught up, Ye Anping, who was with Yun Yiyi, should also be here. Not seeing him, she asked, “Where is Young Master Ye? Where is he?”

Pei Lianxue, who was following behind her, also shifted her gaze to Feng Yudie. Since she didn’t recognize “Feng Yu,” she could only ask with her eyes: Where is my Senior Brother?

“Mmm, mmm, mmm?”

Feng Yudie thought for a moment. Since Ye Anping hadn’t come out just now, he probably didn’t want to show himself in front of Yun Yiyi and the others. She found it difficult to speak, so she pouted her lips and glanced in the direction Ye Anping was, using her facial expression to guide Pei Lianxue:

“Puck, puck, puck—”

?

Seeing her pouting her lips and making kissing motions towards her, Pei Lianxue tilted her head, completely unable to understand.

However, at this moment, Yun Yiyi spoke, “…Young Master Ye has perished.”

Upon hearing this, Yun Xi and Pei Lianxue were stunned.

Yun Xi stared blankly for a while, then asked for confirmation, “Ah? No way? Did he really…”

“Mmm…”

Yun Xi swallowed and looked at Pei Lianxue beside her with concern, whispering, “Sister Pei…”

Yun Yiyi also looked at her with a guilty expression, lowered her head apologetically, and said, “Young Master Ye’s matter is my responsibility, so…”

However, Pei Lianxue’s expression remained unchanged. She stared silently at Yun Yiyi for a while, then her ears twitched. She immediately turned and rushed into the depths of the nearby snow forest.

“Ah?! Sister Pei…”

Seeing her like this, Yun Xi quickly reached out to stop her, but she was a moment too slow and didn’t grab her shoulder. Watching Pei Lianxue run into the forest, she was about to chase after her when Zhang Yihe, who had remained silent until now, stopped her and said, “Third Miss, let Miss Pei have some time alone.”

“Ah…”

Yun Xi slowly lowered her outstretched hand, watching Pei Lianxue’s retreating figure gradually disappear into the depths of the snow forest. She didn’t say anything more. After all, if the other Sword Sect elders arrived soon, they could go look for her then.

Just as Feng Yudie was about to follow, a loud explosion suddenly echoed from the sky.

Boom—

A figure bathed in golden light fell vertically from above, crashing directly onto Yun Xi, gouging a ten-zhang-long ravine in the ground amidst the forest.

Feng Yudie, Zhang Yihe, and the others took a long time to react before turning to look.

Hu Tianyue lay in a deep pit, her face contorted, glaring up at the sky and muttering, “Tsk, that old bastard… is really difficult to deal with. Spit—”

She instinctively reached behind to push herself up from the pit, but her hand touched a soft, small butt. Turning her head, she saw Yun Xi, who she was sitting on, with her face buried in the ground.

Hu Tianyue blinked: “Third Miss, there’s no need for you to catch me from below… What is your cultivation level?”

Zhang Yihe finally came back to his senses and quickly extended his hand, warning, “Third Miss! Be careful of Elder Hu!!”

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Deep within the snow forest, on a snow pine branch, Ye Anping held the iron whistle he had used to signal his junior sister with his left hand, waiting for her to find him. At the same time, he gazed at the situation on Yun Yiyi’s side.

Upon seeing Hu Tianyue fall from the sky and crash onto Yun Xi, he seemed to feel the pain, his body trembled, and his features converged in the center of his face. He murmured, “Hiss— Is she that unlucky?”

Ye Anping sighed lightly and didn’t dwell on it for too long. It seemed Hu Tianyue hadn’t managed to keep Zhuang Yan, which didn’t surprise him.

Rather, if Hu Tianyue had managed to keep Zhuang Yan, it would have been quite troublesome, and he would have had to find a way to get Zhuang Yan out.

Although he hadn’t seen it, he could guess with his toes that when the furnace exploded, Zhuang Yan must have sacrificed one of his arms to forcibly retrieve the unfinished煞丹 (sha dan – malevolent pill) from the pill furnace.

Although that 煞丹 was broken, it wasn’t entirely unusable.

He would definitely find an opportunity later to sneak into the Sword Sect’s forbidden area and use that incomplete 煞丹 to create a 煞体 (sha ti – malevolent body) for his personal disciple, Yun Kunwu.

Once Yun Kunwu possessed that incomplete 煞体, he would inevitably be consumed by resentment, leading to a loss of his senses.

Ye Anping definitively predicted that the first person Yun Kunwu would kill would be his direct master, Zhuang Yan.

But that was a matter for later.

For now, he had to take his junior sister to the hidden cave dwelling at the summit of Qiong Peak to obtain the first reward for the Sword Sect incident—the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword.

Ye Anping lowered his head and looked down at the snow pine he was on.

His junior sister had already arrived at the base of the tree trunk, her head tilted back, her large, watery orange eyes staring at him expectantly.

She didn’t call out to him, nor did she try to jump up into the tree.

She just stood beneath the tree, gazing at him blankly, waiting for him to jump down.

Swish—

Ye Anping calmly descended from the tree, smoothly moving behind his junior sister, wrapping his arm around her waist, lifting her from the ground in a princess carry, and giving her a little jiggle.

When he had princess carried Feng Yudie before, he had felt she was feather-light, as if an unknown force was supporting her. But his junior sister was considerably heavier.

He could feel every muscle and chunk of flesh on Pei Lianxue through his arm.

But this weight was not cumbersome; rather, it felt like a refined density, similar to two spirit swords of the same length. A good spirit sword felt heavy in the hand but perfectly so, while a bad one felt unstable when swung, as if it were about to fly away.

Ye Anping jokingly asked, “Junior Sister, have you gained weight? Have you been eating a lot with Yun Xi?”

Pei Lianxue hugged her Senior Brother’s neck, looked down at her waist, and asked, “I have eaten a lot. Does Senior Brother prefer me to be thinner?”

“It’s good to be a little heavier. Before, I told you to eat more, but you wouldn’t.”

“Then I’ll eat more from now on.”

Seeing the smile in his junior sister’s eyes, Ye Anping then put her down. He looked back at Yun Yiyi’s side, saw that Hu Tianyue seemed to be helping Yun Xi and Yun Yiyi with their injuries, and said, “Junior Sister, let’s go see someone with Senior Brother.”

“Mmm.”

Saying this, Ye Anping summoned his flying sword, stepped onto it, and pulled his junior sister into his embrace. They flew out of the snow forest, found a spot where Hu Tianyue wouldn’t notice, and ascended into the sky, riding their swords towards the highest peak of Qiong Peak.

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