Chapter 307: The Great Female Protagonist, Your Father Has Arrived!
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The deep morning bell sound rang out from the drum tower, and the dawn sunlight scattered across the streets and alleys of Tianan City.
The streets in the East City district had continuous traffic, with shops on both sides hawking to customers. This was Tianan City’s marketplace, similar in scale to Xuan Xing Sect’s marketplace.
Xiao Yunluo, carrying an oil-paper umbrella for shade, was walking alone on the street at this moment. A’ying stood on her right shoulder, peeking out and flapping its wings towards a small stall selling bird food ahead.
“Hungry hungry eat eat!! Hungry hungry eat eat!!”
“I’ll buy it for you, Ai—”
Xiao Yunluo sighed a little helplessly and then took the bird food bought with some spirit stones. She then looked across the street, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
She saw a young girl, relying on her small stature, darting through the passing pedestrians on the road.
That was her mother.
A lively, cute, and well-behaved mother…
Xiao Yunluo couldn’t understand it now!
Why would the Sect Master of Xuan Xing Sect, the “Dan Yue Shang Xian” known throughout the Four Domains, a cultivator of the Void Realm with the power to cover the sky with one hand, act like a sheltered young lady who had never left home, frolicking on the street.
“Your mom is so cute! Your mom is so cute!”
“Cute…”
Hearing A’ying’s voice, Xiao Yunluo pouted, then quietly observed her mother’s figure again.
Si Xuanji was currently standing in front of a shadow puppet show stall, peeking.
She had to admit, her mother’s figure and actions did look quite cute now…
“Provided she isn’t my mother…” Xiao Yunluo finished A’ying’s sentence, then quietly asked, “A’ying, do you know why my mother brought me to the Central Domain?”
“To pretend to be your sister!! To seduce your father!!”
“… …”
This wasn’t the first time Xiao Yunluo had heard this from A’ying, but she still didn’t understand what it meant.
Rather, she didn’t even know the meaning of the word “father.”
After hesitating for a while, she asked in a low voice:
“A’ying, do you know who my father is?”
A’ying tilted its head ninety degrees upon hearing this:
“Which father?”
?
Xiao Yunluo blinked blankly and simply closed her mouth. She didn’t think A’ying would know anything 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 level or appearance, it was like a blank sheet of paper. She could only roughly guess from her own appearance, such as having light purple hair…
She remembered what Mr. Qi had told her when she asked about her origins.
“The Sect Master was in seclusion in the back mountain of Xuan Xing Sect for several years. When she came out, she entered the main hall with you, who had just been born, saying you were her daughter, named Xiao, and that her name hadn’t been decided yet, asking us to name you. It was I who picked the two characters ‘Yunluo’ after consulting several ancient books…”
In other words, no one in Xuan Xing Sect had ever seen her father. Her mother had been in seclusion in the back mountain of Xuan Xing Sect for five years and then gave birth to her.
However, was this possible?
All cultivators were pregnant for ten months, at most twelve months. Void Realm cultivators were the same.
Her mother became pregnant with her in the fourth year of her seclusion.
But the back mountain of Xuan Xing Sect was a forbidden area; no one could enter except her mother. It was impossible for anyone to have been with her mother at that time.
And if she was adopted or found, why did she resemble her mother so much?
Especially…
Xiao Yunluo looked at her flat chest inherited from Si Xuanji, and her short, not fully grown legs, sighing quietly:
“Sigh— did my father also have purple hair? Mother never tells me anything about Father…”
—”May I ask, are you the young master Xiao of Xuan Xing Sect?”
Just as Xiao Yunluo was murmuring, a rough male voice suddenly came from behind her, startling her slightly.
Turning around, she saw three cultivators wearing golden Daoist robes standing behind her.
The cultivation of these three was not low. The lowest was a cultivator in the late Core Formation stage. Their robes were embroidered with the “Heavenly Dog Breaking the Moon” emblem of the Xing Tian Division.
Xiao Yunluo briefly sized them up and replied:
“It’s me, is there anything?”
The person in the lead briefly scanned Xiao Yunluo’s attire and then respectfully bowed:
“We are constables of the Xing Tian Division under the Deputy Commander of the Xing Tian Division. We are here to escort Young Master Xiao to the Tian Ge, regarding the matter of the Immortal Thief.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yunluo immediately understood their intention.
About ten days earlier, Xiao Yunluo and Si Xuanji had arrived in Tianan City.
Xiao Yunluo, having nothing else to do, went directly to the Xing Tian Division and reported her encounter with the Immortal Thief in Jade Pass City.
The person who saw her at that time was the Deputy Commander of the Xing Tian Division.
Although that person said he would do his best to help her retrieve her Spirit Sword and catch the Immortal Thief to give her an explanation, Xiao Yunluo knew that was just polite talk.
The title “Immortal Thief” had been circulating in the Southwest Central Domain for decades. The criminal divisions of each domain had been trying to catch them, but they didn’t even know their appearance.
Looking at the person in front of her now, Xiao Yunluo narrowed her eyes suspiciously and asked:
“Could it be… you’ve caught the Immortal Thief?”
“We dare not assert for now. This morning, a constable of the Xing Tian Division brought a woman in the early Core Formation stage back to the Tian Ge, claiming she was the Immortal Thief. Deputy Commander Yue wishes to invite you to the Tian Ge to identify her.”
Xiao Yunluo frowned. So they had caught someone suspected of being the Immortal Thief?
“How did you catch her?”
“The constable happened to encounter her while out on business… but the matter is somewhat peculiar. The constable is only at the Late Foundation Establishment stage and only arrived at the Xing Tian Division at the beginning of this year… For detailed information, please discuss it after you accompany us to the Tian Ge, Young Master Xiao.”
She felt that it would likely be a misunderstanding if she went, but she also felt that sitting in the Tian Ge was better than accompanying her mother as a street bum. Thus, she nodded in agreement.
“Mhm…”
The person cupped his hands in a salute, stepped aside, and extended his hand.
“Young Master Xiao, please.”
Xiao Yunluo nodded, then turned around to call Si Xuanji. However, when she turned back, her mother was no longer in front of the shadow puppet show stall. She couldn’t see her at the neighboring stalls selling sugar-coated haws and melon seeds either.
“Hm? Where did she go?”
“Went to find her father! Went to find her father!”
“… …”
Xiao Yunluo glanced at A’ying on her shoulder, sighed, picked her up, and said:
“A’ying, go tell… Sister, I’ve been summoned to the Tian Ge. Tell her to find me there when she’s done playing.”
A’ying looked at her with an incomprehensible wise gaze, hesitated for a moment, then opened its beak and shouted louder:
“Your father has arrived!! Your father has arrived!!”
“What do you mean my father has arrived…” Xiao Yunluo pouted with a hint of disdain, gently tapped its head, and reprimanded, “What are you saying? Hurry up!”
“Loser!! Loser!!”
“… …”
After shouting, A’ying directly spread its wings and flew from Xiao Yunluo’s shoulder towards the west of the city.
Seeing the direction it flew, Xiao Yunluo twisted her eyebrows, feeling a little confused. A’ying should be able to sense her mother’s location. Since it flew west, it meant her mother had gone to the west of the city…
What was she going to the west of the city for?
“Forget it… let her do whatever she wants.”
Xiao Yunluo waved her hand slightly, not bothering to care, and then said with cupped hands to the disciples of the Xing Tian Division in front of her: “Please lead the way.”
“Young Master Xiao is too polite.”
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