Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Greenhouse Grown Great Female Protagonist
After an unknown amount of time, Feng Yu Die’s voice echoed from the direction of the cave entrance.
“I’m back!!”
The two people leaning against each other looked towards the entrance and saw a petite figure carrying a snow deer, seven to eight times larger than herself, into the cave.
Feng Yu Die was covered in snow and mud, her clothes torn in several places. Her silver hair, originally tied in a ponytail, had come undone. She looked like she had been through a fierce battle, but her expression was still spirited.
However, upon entering the cave and seeing Pei Lian Xue and Xiao Yunluo huddled together, she froze.
Why were they so close?!
Feng Yu Die frowned, walked to the bonfire, and dropped the snow deer from her shoulder onto the ground. She asked, “Senior Sister Xiao, what did you do to Junior Sister Pei just now?”
“What did I do?” Xiao Yunluo asked in confusion.
“Well… when I leaned on Junior Sister Pei, she slapped me away. Why didn’t she slap you away when you leaned on her?”
“…”
Xiao Yunluo was speechless. She ignored Feng Yu Die’s question and looked at the snow deer on the ground.
“This deer…”
“I spent a long time looking for it,” Feng Yu Die stretched lazily, patted the deer’s backside, and said, “This guy runs really fast. It took a lot of effort to catch it.”
Pei Lian Xue glanced at the giant deer, her face filled with disdain. “I asked you to find food, didn’t you know to find something smaller? This deer is enough for dozens of cultivators to eat.”
“Oh, come on, it’s the first time I’ve seen this thing,” Feng Yu Die scratched the back of her head and grinned. “I wanted to test how strong it was. I caught it anyway.”
“…I’ll carve it.”
Pei Lian Xue sighed, then left her outer robe with Xiao Yunluo, stood up, took a small skinning knife from her storage bag, and walked to the snow deer.
There was only the shadow of the knife, not the knife itself.
Bleeding, skinning, and gutting were done in one swift motion.
In a short while, the snow deer was reduced to a skeleton and internal organs by Pei Lian Xue.
Xiao Yunluo and Feng Yu Die watched her dissection technique with fear.
They had never seen a woman dissect a demonic beast so skillfully and perfectly. After all, the process was mostly bloody, and many male cultivators couldn’t handle it.
Xiao Yunluo swallowed and asked,
“Junior Sister Pei, have you dissected demonic beasts often before?”
Pei Lian Xue turned her head when she heard the question. “I lived in the Demonic Beast Den for a few months. I could only eat demonic beast meat every day, so I learned how to do it, hehe…”
Thinking of her Senior Brother from before, she couldn’t help but purse her lips and smile, a very sweet smile.
However, Xiao Yunluo watched, feeling a trace of horror.
This beautiful girl, holding a knife, with blood on her hands and face, smiling at people…
She couldn’t compliment that!
Thus, Pei Lian Xue expertly skewered several pieces of venison on branches.
After the three of them finished the meat, they quickly calmed themselves down and spent the time meditating and cultivating to pass the time.
Several hours later, the snow outside stopped. They tidied up briefly and continued to walk towards the Main Peak of the Xuan Xing Sect.
After descending from Ling Xue Peak, they arrived at a swamp.
Due to the spiritual energy of the earth, the area was filled with miasma, and the visibility was less than ten feet. According to Xiao Yunluo, this swamp was called “Mi Mu Tan.” Many Alchemy Cultivators from the Xuan Xing Sect came here to catch poisonous insects for research, and there were also demonic beasts like crocodiles and pythons.
Therefore, the three of them could only slow down and step forward, one foot at a time.
Feng Yu Die walked at the front, swinging her sword to clear the vines and weeds, preventing any insects or scorpions from hiding within. However, her mind was preoccupied with how to please Junior Sister Pei.
So far, she had tried over a dozen methods from her Master’s “Methods of Pleasing Others,” but none had worked.
Furthermore, not only had she failed to please Pei Lianxue, but she felt like Pei Lianxue disliked her more and more.
Showing a fierce side… Pei Lianxue treated her like an idiot.
Playing the dog… Pei Lianxue almost killed her with a sword.
Flattery… Pei Lianxue ignored her.
Making others feel superior by conquering oneself… Pei Lianxue hit her.
Showing concern… Pei Lianxue suspected her of having ulterior motives.
…
“Sigh—”
“Yu Die, what nonsense are you thinking about again?” Xiao Tian floated out of her head, crossed its arms, and sat on her shoulder, crossing its legs. “Every time you sigh, you’re definitely thinking about improper things.”
Feng Yu Die glanced at it and whispered, “Xiao Tian, why can’t Junior Sister Pei just smile at me?”
“Heh…” Xiao Tian snorted, rolled its eyes at her, and said, “Don’t ask me about this. If you liked a ‘male’ cultivator, I could give you some advice and help you out. But… a female? No way! Hmph!”
After saying that, Xiao Tian angrily kicked her forehead and then retreated back into Feng Yu Die’s Soul Realm.
It was at this moment that Feng Yu Die suddenly stopped and quickly raised her hand.
“Stop!!”
“Huh? A demonic beast?”
Xiao Yunluo, walking behind her, was startled and quickly looked around. However, all she could see was mist.
Pei Lian Xue, at the very back, also seemed to sense something. She directly summoned her sword and became vigilant of her surroundings.
“It’s not a demonic beast, it’s a person,” Pei Lian Xue replied.
“A person?”
Xiao Yunluo was even more confused.
If it was a person, it should be others participating in the Sect Selection.
This trial did not allow disciples to fight each other.
When they met, they would usually choose to team up to deal with the demonic beasts and other obstacles on the road.
But…
She looked at their serious expressions and asked, “What person?”
Feng Yu Die explained, “Someone just used their Spiritual Sense to probe us, and with ill intentions.”
“Ill intentions?”
At that moment, Pei Lian Xue suddenly turned around and placed the sword in her hand behind Xiao Yunluo.
*Clang—*
A crisp sword ring echoed through the swamp.
With sparks flying, Xiao Yunluo flinched and quickly looked behind her.
A masked, black-clothed cultivator was within arm’s reach, only two steps away from her.
The short dagger in that person’s hand was aimed directly at her neck. If Pei Lian Xue hadn’t blocked it with her sword, she would have been pierced through the neck and died instantly.
Xiao Yunluo hadn’t realized how close the person had gotten.
Her eyes widened, and she hastily took out the sword forged from mysterious stones from her storage bag.
However, she was too nervous.
When the sword flew out of her storage bag, she failed to grab it, causing the sword to fly straight up into the sky.
The black-clothed cultivator looked at Xiao Yunluo’s reaction, a hint of mockery in his eyes. At this moment, Pei Lian Xue took the opportunity to swing her sword towards his neck, but he used the momentum to jump back into the thick fog.
As the black-clothed cultivator’s figure was hidden by the surrounding fog, a man’s laughter suddenly came from another direction.
“““This sword is truly good, but the person wielding it… all looks, no substance… Ahahaha—”””
Hearing this, Xiao Yunluo remembered her sword. When she looked up to find it, it was already gone.
“…”
For a moment, she was stunned.
Feng Yu Die retreated to her side, flanking her with Pei Lian Xue in front and behind. She said solemnly,
“Senior Sister Xiao, stay between Junior Sister Pei and me. There are at least four of them, and the cultivation of the person just now was at least Mid Foundation Establishment.”
