“Up ahead is the school.
From now on, you’ll be taking classes here with the other new kids.
It should be class time right now, so there’s no one outside…” Before Huaijing could finish, Wen Jiayin pointed at a wall and said, “But senior brother, there are people over there, and they’re kids!”
Just one look, and a wave of anger shot straight to Huaijing’s head, making him a little dizzy.
Over there, several kids were climbing down from the wall one after another, and the one who looked like the ringleader was none other than his little junior sister!
Wen Jiayin recognized that brat too—wasn’t that the little girl who’d thrown a Cleanliness Talisman in her face on the Xianzhou?
“Run! My dumb senior brother is here!” The kid spotted them and shouted.
You could just call him senior brother, but you had to add “dumb” in front.
Wen Jiayin could tell that the Huaijing next to her was about to blow a gasket.
“Heh heh heh…” Huaijing let out a few cold laughs.
“Junior sister Wen, can you look around the school by yourself for a bit? I have something to take care of, I’ll be back soon.”
“Go ahead, senior brother, I’ll just look around here!” The brat was finally about to get what she deserved—so satisfying!
“Then I’ll be off.” As soon as he finished, Huaijing disappeared.
“Ah… Cultivation is great.
Even if your butt gets beaten to a pulp, you’ll heal up fast.” Wen Jiayin sighed, then walked toward the school.
“Sha sha…” Ever since she’d started drawing qi into her body, Wen Jiayin’s senses had gotten sharper.
Suddenly, she heard a sound in the courtyard that definitely wasn’t just the wind rustling the leaves.
She quickly locked onto a bush as the source.
Let’s sneak up slowly, careful not to make a sound.
Hey! What did I catch? A kid… huh? A kid?
Wen Jiayin dragged a child out of the bushes—“dragged” was more accurate than “picked up,” since she was barely taller than the kid herself.
But this child looked a bit strange.
First, her hair wasn’t just black—it was streaked with red.
One eye was normal black, but the other was a golden vertical pupil like a beast’s.
There were faint orange-red downy feathers on her skin, like a baby bird.
One look and you could tell she wasn’t human, or at least not fully human.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please don’t hit me, wuwu…” The kid cried, shielding her head and covering her inhuman left eye.
“Uh…” Wen Jiayin froze.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry! I’m not going to hit you, don’t frame me! If someone sees this, I’ll never clear my name!”
“Wuwuwu…” The kid kept crying, no matter how much Wen Jiayin tried to comfort her.
“Gurgle…” Just as Wen Jiayin was about to lose her mind, a very untimely sound came from between them.
“Oh, you’re hungry?”
*Hic!* Maybe it was the mix of wanting to cry and feeling embarrassed, but the kid couldn’t hold it in and let out a sob-hiccup.
“Do you want something to eat? If you stop crying, I’ll get you something tasty.” That’s how you coax kids, right? No kid can resist food.
Though Wen Jiayin didn’t have anything to eat on her except the treasures the sect leader gave her…
“…” The kid didn’t say anything, just kept sniffling and looked at Wen Jiayin warily.
Wen Jiayin could tell the kid was tempted, but still on guard and not ready to trust her.
So troublesome.
Wen Jiayin squatted down to look her in the eye.
“What do you want to eat? I’ll take you.”
A sect this big must have somewhere to eat, right?
“Gurgle…” The kid’s stomach growled even louder.
“Fasting Pill…”
“What?” The kid’s voice was so soft Wen Jiayin didn’t catch it.
“Fasting Pill.”
This time it was louder, and Wen Jiayin heard it clearly.
She’d had Fasting Pills before—they kept you full for days, and she wasn’t even hungry now.
But they tasted a little bitter, what kid would want to eat that?
“Kid, I don’t have any Fasting Pills on me, but my master definitely does.
How about you wait with me, and when my master comes, I’ll ask her to give you one?”
The kid lowered her head and said nothing.
Wen Jiayin felt like the kid’s whole body was accusing her of being a liar…
“I’ll get it for you, really! I just got here and don’t have anything on me, I’m not lying!” Wen Jiayin tried to shake off the “liar” label.
“Damn wild chicken! Where did you go? Get out here now, or I’ll pluck every feather off you!” An angry, arrogant voice shouted from outside the wall.
“Wuu…” The kid on the ground was so scared she started crying again, but she didn’t dare make a sound, so she bit her own hand.
The cursing voice got closer.
Wen Jiayin started to worry—who knew what these powerful but immoral kids in a cultivation world might do?
“Kid, is she looking for you? How about you hide and I’ll draw her away? She’s almost here!”
The kid glanced at Wen Jiayin, then, urged by her, crawled back into the bushes.
“Don’t cry, and don’t shake, or she’ll definitely notice someone’s hiding here.” Wen Jiayin looked at the trembling bush and tried to cover her up a bit more.
The bush finally stopped moving, and just then, the owner of that voice appeared in Wen Jiayin’s line of sight.
Wen Jiayin immediately pretended to be nonchalant, looking up at the sky and down at the ground.
“Hey! Did you see that little monster?” A girl a few years older than Wen Jiayin put her hands on her hips and pointed at her.
“Little monster?” Wen Jiayin put on a confused face.
“You’re new here?” The girl looked Wen Jiayin up and down, confirming she was a stranger.
“Yeah, I just got here.
My senior brother had something to do and told me to wait here.” Wen Jiayin replied.
“No wonder you don’t know that half-demon.
Her hair is red and black, and she wraps her left eye with a cloth.
Have you seen her?” the girl asked.
“Oh! You mean her? I did see her—she just ran out, really fast.
I thought I was seeing things!” Wen Jiayin acted like she’d just realized.
“That little brat! She got little uncle in trouble with senior brother Huaijing and still wants to run? Hmph!” The girl stomped her foot angrily and turned to leave.
Just as she reached the door and Wen Jiayin was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the girl suddenly turned back.
“You! Come with me!” The girl pointed at Wen Jiayin.
Kids these days are so annoying.
Wen Jiayin reluctantly walked over to see what she was up to.
The girl, annoyed at her slow pace, grabbed her arm and dragged her along.
“Stop dawdling.
If you help me find that half-demon, little uncle will reward you.
Lead the way.”
“Lead the way? Lead where?”
“Duh, to find the half-demon!”
“…But I only saw her run out, I didn’t see where she went.
How am I supposed to lead the way?”
“I don’t care.
Since you saw her, you have to find her.
Because of her, little uncle got caught by her senior brother and is in a bad mood! If you can’t find her, you’d better think about how to explain it to little uncle.” The girl said bossily.
Wow, Wen Jiayin finally understood—this brat wanted to use her as a scapegoat! If they found the kid, she’d take the credit; if not, she’d blame Wen Jiayin.
This was just like those old foxes at her last job.
How old was this girl, and she already knew these tricks? She’d be a real piece of work in the future.
But this was a cultivation sect, not her old company.
Could someone like this really achieve anything here? No wonder Jingdao Sect declined so quickly after the great war between immortals and demons.
If all their future disciples were like this, what could they possibly accomplish?
How pitiful.
Jingdao Sect’s glory would end with her master’s generation.
“Haven’t you eaten? Can’t you walk faster? If little uncle gets impatient and angry, you’ll be in trouble.” Wen Jiayin’s slow pace was driving the girl crazy.
“I really haven’t eaten.
Is there anywhere to get food in our sect?”
“Eat? Eat and die! I’m telling you, if you can’t find that half-demon, you’ll never get another bite, just like her!”
When Xinyun came looking for Wen Jiayin, she happened to hear the girl’s threat.
“Brr… Why is it suddenly so cold?” The girl rubbed her arms, then looked back and almost collapsed in fear.
“M-m-master aunt… D-disciple greets master aunt!” The girl didn’t dare move, stammering as she spoke.
Xinyun glanced at her.
Just a hint of her spiritual pressure was enough to make the girl suffocate.
“Master!” My savior! Wen Jiayin happily ran to her golden thigh.
“Did she bully you?” Xinyun picked up her little disciple and asked in a low voice.
“No way, she couldn’t bully me even if she tried.
Master, you underestimate me!” Wen Jiayin giggled.
After making sure her precious darling didn’t have a single scratch on her, Xinyun finally withdrew that trace of spiritual pressure.
“Did Shizun and Shibo finish talking things out?”
“Yeah, it’s all settled.
Do you want to go back to Lingjian Peak now?”
It wasn’t until that pure white figure disappeared into the distance that the girl, who’d just been so arrogant and overbearing, finally couldn’t hold it in and collapsed to the ground.
That was… really scary…
The girl, who’d always relied on the power of others to throw her weight around, had finally run into someone she couldn’t mess with.
This lesson would probably keep her from causing trouble for a few days.
“Wait, Shizun, I want to go find a little kid first!” Once she was sure they were far enough away that the brat couldn’t hear, Wen Jiayin pointed toward the school and said to Xinyun, “I promised to give her a Bigu Pill!”
Of course Xinyun didn’t refuse, but when they got to the little half-demon’s hiding spot, the kid was already gone from the bushes.
“Looks like she’s already left.
I guess I’ll have to give it to her next time I see her.
Shizun, let’s go back, okay?” Wen Jiayin tugged at Xinyun’s hand, surprised when she didn’t budge.
“…Alright.” Why is her aura here? Xinyun glanced at the messy bushes, her eyes gradually darkening.
The person she’d envied even in death in her last life, the one she didn’t want to see at all this time around—had she really shown up this early?
