The Cannon Fodder Turns His Sister Into A Soaring Phoenix – Chapter 286

Chapter 287: ???, Annoyed the Old Woman

Jade Pass was at the border of the Imperial Sect, a lawless land. Most people coming to Jade Pass, to avoid trouble, dressed in plain cloth, posing as rogue cultivators with no oil to skim.

This is what is commonly known as not flaunting one’s wealth.

In a place like Jade Pass, the only people who dared to show off their wealth or walk around in fancy clothes were of two types.

Either they were powerful cultivators of Nascent Soul stage or above, or they were fools who had just embarked on the path of immortality and feared no one.

The masked woman felt that these two were clearly the latter.

From the moment the two stepped through the city gate of Jade Pass with their right foot, she had been eyeing them. One at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage and one at the Early Foundation Establishment Stage, yet they were dressed so vibrantly. The shorter one even wore an expensive anklet.

“Tsk tsk tsk…”

The masked woman tutted softly and walked to the bed. Her finger moved to the Storage Bag at Xiao Yunluo’s waist, and with a flick of her index finger, an Identity Token flew out of the Storage Bag and into her hand.

“Consider it a lesson for you. You’re lucky to have run into this fairy. At least this fairy only takes money, not lives. Let me see… Xuan Xing Sect…”

She murmured softly, seemingly unafraid that her muttering would wake the two up.

“What?!”

The Young Master of the Xuan Xing Sect?!

Upon seeing the information on the Identity Token, an expression of surprise appeared on the masked woman’s face beneath her mask. She immediately looked at Xiao Yunluo on the bed, who was sleeping like a pig, with disbelief.

“Is she the daughter of that old woman from the Xuan Xing Sect?”

The masked woman couldn’t help but murmur, feeling that she had stumbled upon a Big Fat Fish, but she hesitated whether to take her Storage Bag.

“If I steal her Storage Bag, won’t that old woman come after me herself? They say she’s quite petty… Tsk, but this fish is too big. If I steal it, I won’t have to work for the rest of the year. Hmm…”

She propped her chin on her hand and muttered to herself, as if truly troubled. Then she glanced at Si Xuanji, who had her face covered with her quilt.

“Then this little one is that old woman’s second daughter? She’s so old, and she can still have children? Who was the father… No, she was quite old when she had her first one, wasn’t she? Who has such a strange taste?”

— “Little brother admires you!! Little brother admires you!!”

Suddenly, a voice like a croaking duck came from outside the window, startling the masked woman. She turned to look, but seeing that it was a Golden Crown Parrot, she simply ignored it.

Xiao Yunluo also woke up groggily at this time.

“Ah Ying…”

She squinted towards the window. After uttering two words, she saw the masked woman standing by her bed. After a moment of stunned silence, her eyes widened slowly.

The masked woman watched Xiao Yunluo sit up and even greet her proactively.

“You’re awake~”

Xiao Yunluo was stunned for a moment, then immediately formed a Sword Finger with her hand, took out her Spirit Sword from her Storage Bag, leaped over her mother who was lying beside her without moving, and swung her sword.

*Whoosh—*

Halfway through her swing, the masked woman slightly raised her hand.

The next moment, Xiao Yunluo’s Spirit Sword evaporated into thin air and appeared in the masked woman’s hand.

“Huh?”

After Xiao Yunluo completed her swing, she realized her sword was gone.

Terror flashed in her eyes, and her mind replayed the scene from the Sect Selection day: she had her Thousand Year Mysterious Stone Sword snatched away by the thief who broke into the back mountain of the Xuan Xing Sect.

However, that time, she had been too nervous and dropped the Spirit Sword, allowing it to be stolen. But this time, she was very sure she had held onto it tightly.

“How did you…”

“A secret~” The masked woman placed her index finger in front of her smiling fox mask and chuckled, “This sword is good. Sister will accept it. Hmph hmph~ Is there anything else you want to give me?”

Xiao Yunluo was utterly bewildered. She couldn’t understand how her tightly held sword had been snatched away. She quickly drew out two Talisman Scripts from her Storage Bag, held them between her middle and index fingers, and threw them at the masked woman.

However, just like before, the masked woman slightly raised her hand, and the three Talisman Scripts instantly disappeared and appeared at her fingertips.

The masked woman looked at the Talisman Scripts and said with a smile,

“Two seventh-grade Fire Element Talisman Scripts. Young Master Xiao is generous. Do you have anything else?”

“How could this be…”

Xiao Yunluo was beginning to doubt life itself. She had never heard of such a method of taking things from a distance. Even if her mother wanted to take something from someone else’s hand, it would be difficult to achieve this level.

This person… is extraordinary!!

Seeing Xiao Yunluo stunned, the masked woman shrugged slightly, then looked at the still unresponsive little one with confusion.

Logically, with such a commotion, that girl should have woken up by now.

Is she pretending to sleep?

“Second Miss, why don’t you also get up and give me a few things? Look, your sister has already given me so many things.”

The masked woman narrowed her eyes at Si Xuanji, who was lying on the bed with her face covered by a quilt, curious about what tricks she had up her sleeve. But the next moment, she heard a puff of air next to her ear.

“Hoo~”

“What?!”

The masked woman was slightly startled and immediately turned to look. Only then did she realize a Young Girl was clinging to her back.

“What?!”

“You must be that ‘Immortal Thief’, huh? So you’re a girl.”

She looked at the Young Girl clinging to her back, then glanced at the bed. To her surprise, in just an instant, the little one on the bed with her face covered by a quilt had disappeared.

Danger loomed.

The masked woman felt something was wrong. She quickly waved her hand to push the girl away, then formed a Sword Finger and transformed into a streak of white light, flying out of the slightly ajar window.

Si Xuanji, floating in mid-air, landed barefoot on the floor of the private room. She walked to the window and looked up at the stars, seeing a shooting star streak across the sky.

“She runs really fast.”

Xiao Yunluo finally came back to her senses. She tremblingly got out of bed and walked behind Si Xuanji, asking,

“Mother…”

“Hmm?”

“Sister Xuanji, aren’t we going to chase her?”

“She’s a perfectly good person, why chase her?” Si Xuanji turned her head, squinted her eyes, then reached out and pinched Xiao Yunluo’s face. “I gave you a lesson. Sleeping so soundly outside, and now you’ve lost your Spirit Sword and even lost two seventh-grade Talisman Scripts.”

“Ah… I’m… I’m sorry.”

Si Xuanji yawned and floated unsteadily back to bed.

“Let’s go back to sleep. We still have to travel tomorrow. Haaa~ Goodnight.”

Seeing her mother like this, Xiao Yunluo pursed her lips and peeked outside again. Although she was still a little scared, since her mother said so, she didn’t say anything more and lay down on the bed.

…

At the same time, on the Gobi Desert outside Jade Pass.

It was a dark moon and high wind night, with vultures circling overhead.

The masked woman’s head emerged from the sand, her face filled with nervousness as she looked around. After carefully surveying her surroundings and confirming no one was there, she crawled out of the sand and found a wind-worn rock to lean against.

“What was with that little one? How did she sneak up behind me just now?”

She recalled the slightly terrifying scene, thinking that she had been watching the second young lady lying on the bed the entire time, and considering that an Early Foundation Establishment cultivator wouldn’t have any means to deal with her. She never expected her to be able to sneak up behind her unnoticed.

“Whatever, whatever. I escaped anyway, and I didn’t come back empty-handed.”

The masked woman couldn’t figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it. She pulled out the Spirit Sword and two Talisman Scripts that Xiao Yunluo had given her from her Storage Bag.

“Heh heh, this should be worth tens of thousands of Spirit Stones, right? I’ve made a huge profit, heh heh heh…”

*Jingle bells~~*

Just as she was gloating, a clear bell sound interrupted her delight.

The masked woman thought the girl had caught up to her and looked at the direction of the sound in alarm. However, she saw a jade bell carved with “A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix” placed about fifteen feet away from her.

But when she had burrowed out, she hadn’t noticed any jade bell there at all.

“…”

Staring at the jade bell for a while, the masked woman felt something was wrong. Although the bell looked very valuable, it seemed eerie.

A perfectly clean jade bell placed on the Gobi Desert was definitely not normal.

After a moment of silence, the masked woman used her遁术 (escape technique) again. In the blink of an eye, she had escaped nearly a mile.

However, after she landed…

*Jingle bells~~*

A strange bell sound rang out from behind her.

“What?!”

The masked woman turned her head and saw the jade bell on the rock again.

“What?”

She refused to believe it and escaped a full ten miles away. However…

*Jingle bells~~~*

*Dong—*

This time, the jade bell landed directly on her forehead, causing her to stumble forward and fall to the ground. She rubbed her head.

“Ouch… What is this thing?!”

This time, she simply walked over, picked up the jade bell, shrugged her shoulders, and tossed it far away.

“Go away!!!”

Watching the jade bell arc through the air and fall into an oasis lake a hundred feet away, she breathed a sigh of relief.

“This time, you shouldn’t be able to…”

*Jingle bells~~*

Before she could finish speaking, the clear bell sound came from behind her again.

The masked woman pouted. Even without looking back, she knew what was behind her.

“Ouch! What are you doing~~~”

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