Chapter 166: The Troublemaker Approaches
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“Alright, now that the pleasantries are over, little fox, do you want to play together?”
As soon as the words fell, a pink figure bounced over cheerfully.
It was a girl dressed in a pink dress, the hem swaying gently with her steps. Her whole demeanor was as lively as a little deer hopping through the forest, extremely cute.
What drew even more attention were the girl’s eyes, her left eye was as clear and amber-yellow as topaz, while her right eye was as bright and vivid red as rouge. The pair of heterochromatic eyes was particularly striking under the sunlight, extremely beautiful.
“Play what?”
Xiao Bai instinctively took half a step back, assuming a defensive stance, her tone carrying a hint of caution.
She could clearly sense that the spiritual energy fluctuations from the girl before her were about the same as her own, but this was the other party’s territory after all. If it really came to a fight, she would most likely lose.
“Just play~”
The girl shook her head playfully, the pink ribbon tied in her hair fluttering lightly along with the movement. She deliberately kept them in suspense before pointing toward the distance.
There, a group of foxes were tucking their tails between their legs, trying to sneak away during the gap in their conversation.
But as soon as the girl’s words fell, those foxes’ footsteps instantly froze, their ears drooping down. They had been caught red-handed!
“With this group of foxes!”
Hearing this, the foxes immediately went stiff. The thought of escaping that had just crossed their minds was now completely scared away, and they all obediently stood in place, not even daring to breathe too loudly.
This sudden and erratic statement left Xiao Bai completely confused. She blinked, her face full of bewilderment:
“Huh?”
“Sigh…”
The girl let out a soft sigh, the originally bright look in her eyes dimming somewhat, her tone carrying a hint of grievance.
“I was tricked into coming back by the bad sect master and big senior brother. He won’t let me go out to play until I properly reform the lazy atmosphere of Beast Taming Peak…”
Xiao Bai didn’t respond, only staring intently at the girl’s expression, quietly activating the fox clan’s observation technique to carefully discern whether the other party was lying.
But after observing for a while, she could only come to one conclusion.
This girl before her was not lying, and her thoughts were frighteningly simple.
Yet such a simple person could actually become the Peak Master of Beast Taming Peak?
Xiao Bai’s heart suddenly skipped a beat as a thought emerged.
Could it be the legendary Pure Heart Physique?
People with this physique were born with pure natures, yet possessed talent for controlling spiritual energy that ordinary people could hardly match, and could often progress exceptionally smoothly on the path of cultivation.
“So how should we straighten things out?”
Xiao Bai suppressed the doubts in her heart and asked tentatively, wanting to see what ideas the girl actually had.
“How about… making them train for 11 hours every day, leaving only 1 hour for them to rest?”
As soon as the girl’s words fell, before Xiao Bai could even speak, a series of thumping sounds could be heard.
The fox clan members who had been standing in place just moments ago now all uniformly dropped to their knees at Xiao Bai’s feet, and cries immediately rang out.
“Boss, save us!”
The leading gray fox reacted the fastest, directly crawling over with hands and feet, hugging onto Xiao Bai’s leg and refusing to let go. Wiping tears and snot all over, it wailed:
“Sister Xiao Bai, please save us! Training for 11 hours a day will literally work us to death!”
Xiao Bai frowned and pointed at the girl standing to the side, who was watching this farce with a dazed and cute expression, somewhat puzzled:
“Wait, this doesn’t make sense, right? Weren’t you all seeking her help before?”
“This is different!”
The gray fox hurriedly shook its head, its voice carrying a hint of lingering fear.
“She normally doesn’t train us at all, but once she does decide to train us, she pushes us to death… The last time she trained us was 10 years ago. I was still a young fox back then and nearly didn’t survive!”
As it spoke, it even shuddered, clearly still vividly remembering that experience.
Xiao Bai looked at the fox clan members pitifully pleading at her feet, then at the girl with an innocent expression, and her heart ultimately softened.
She couldn’t bear to watch her own clanspeople endure this kind of training.
After hesitating for a moment, she looked up at the girl and said:
“How about… I train them instead? You go play?”
As she said this, Xiao Bai still felt somewhat uneasy, afraid the girl would refuse.
But unexpectedly, upon hearing this, the girl’s heterochromatic pupils instantly burst with dazzling light, her face full of delight, and she nodded quickly:
“Thank you! You’re such a good person, ah no, a good fox~”
As soon as the words fell, the girl somehow produced several figures from somewhere.
There was the wolf clan’s commander, the tiger clan’s leader, and the cat clan’s elder…
Xiao Bai took a closer look, weren’t these exactly the several demon clan commanders she had taught a lesson to last time when standing up for the fox clan?
“I’m leaving their clan training to you too! I’m going to play now!”
As the girl spoke, her figure flickered and disappeared from the spot in an instant, leaving only a trail of cheerful laughter.
And those beast clan commanders who had originally been on guard, seeing the girl leave, not only showed no fear whatsoever, but instead dropped to the ground with a thump, tearfully thanking Xiao Bai:
“Thank you for your life-saving grace, my lord!”
“…”
Xiao Bai looked at this dramatic scene before her, the corner of her mouth couldn’t help but twitch, silently complaining in her heart.
Was it really necessary to be this exaggerated?
……
High above Beast Taming Peak, a soft colorful cloud floated in the air.
The girl sat on the colorful cloud, looking down at Xiao Bai who had begun training the beast groups in an orderly manner below. She nodded with satisfaction, then propped her chin on her hand and began pondering.
Where should she go play next?
What she loved most was running around everywhere. Before she was grounded, she would often sneak out of Qinglan Sect to wander the mortal realm.
Although she would occasionally encounter people with ill intentions who thought she was an easy mark and a naive fool they could trick and sell off, in the end it was often those people who got sold off completely by her instead. Thinking about it still seemed quite interesting.
Especially the snacks in the mortal realm, sugar paintings, candied hawthorn, osmanthus cakes… each one was so delicious she couldn’t stop thinking about them.
But now that wouldn’t work. She was grounded to Qinglan Sect by the sect master and had to wait until the beast groups of Beast Taming Peak were all properly trained and the lazy atmosphere completely reformed before she could go out.
So for now, she could only find entertainment within the boundaries of Qinglan Sect.
“Where should I go play?”
The girl muttered quietly to the clouds in the air.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up, as if she had thought of a good idea.
‘That’s right! I heard Senior Sister took in a new disciple recently? I wonder if she’s fun to play with.’
‘That eldest disciple of hers is way too boring, all she knows is cultivation and sword practice every day, like a block of wood. Hopefully this younger disciple will be more interesting~’
As she spoke, the girl’s lips curved upward, her eyes full of anticipation. With a movement, she disappeared from the spot.
And at this moment, Lin Muyu, who had just barely managed to escape the entanglement of Xinlian and Su Wanqing and was planning to catch her breath, was completely unaware.
After she arrived at Qinglan Sect, the biggest troublemaker of all was flying toward her.