Chapter 294: If You Keep This Up, No Cake for You Anymore
“What’s that noise?”
Bai Feng set down his pen, hurried over to the window, and immediately spotted Fairy Tian Yan with golden twin tails stacking stones to build a house.
“…”
He fell silent. Seriously, was she planning to build herself a little house right next to his window?
It seemed she noticed his gaze. Tian Yan turned around, glanced at Bai Feng standing by the window, and showed zero signs of nervousness, fear, or even a tinge of embarrassment upon being caught.
She nodded at Bai Feng, then spun back around and continued building her tiny house out of stones.
“How can you be so shameless as to build a house right next to my window?”
Bai Feng flapped open the window, unable to resist complaining.
“Isn’t it because you said I could?” Tian Yan replied, controlling the stones with her spirit energy as she turned back to Bai Feng.
“I seriously doubt you either don’t understand what I said or you’re pretending to be clueless.” Bai Feng quipped, with a slight smirk. “By the way, did the Sect Master and my master agree to you building a house here?”
Keep in mind, disciples from other sects and holy lands visiting Tian Yan often have designated living areas. They can’t just move around and squat wherever they want. Though, occasionally, someone like Yun Yue Yao might crash at a friend’s place overnight.
“Hmm… this isn’t really a house,” Tian Yan shook her head and turned to stack stones into a tiny, pointed cottage. “I’m making a little nest for Little Jiu.”
Bai Feng fell silent. Not to mention other issues, Little Jiu often ran onto his bed to sleep, unwilling to curl on the ground. How could it possibly want to stay in a cold winter or hot summer stone hut?
“So I won’t see you in Little Jiu’s nest in the future, right?”
Tian Yan shook her head. “Not necessarily. Because Little Jiu is the last pure-bl**d Nine-Tailed Fox—I might use it to forecast fate someday.”
“……”
When had you ever asked Little Jiu for a destiny reading before?
Bai Feng was at a loss. He didn’t know whether to believe her lame excuse or not. But ignoring her isn’t an option—if other people caught her building a tiny house, they might think he’s abusing Tian Yan, or worse—if Zuo Qiu finds out, she might add another pet house near his door.
He finally sighed and made a small concession. “Don’t build Little Jiu a house. Come talk to the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect or my master and get permission for you to live on Green Bamboo Peak. Your cultivation method isn’t exactly a secret—I think my master would probably agree.”
“Alright… okay.”
Tian Yan nodded and, with a swift movement, packed away the stones she’d pulled out of her storage bag.
Seeing her confident and decisive attitude, Bai Feng felt like she was scheming him. Well, better to have her move onto Green Bamboo Peak than her wandering around his window every day.
“Oh, by the way, didn’t you notify the other holy lands earlier? How did it go?” Bai Feng suddenly remembered and asked Tian Yan outside the window.
“They already know. They’ll tighten their grip on Dongzhou and the Divine Monarch for now. Once they slip up, we’ll rush there immediately to stop the Divine Monarch,” Tian Yan said while coming to the window, stretching her hand onto the windowsill.
“Don’t climb through the window, walk through the door.”
Seeing Tian Yan about to jump through the window, Bai Feng quickly pointed at the door.
“And I also mentioned the new feature of your Image Retainer to them,” Tian Yan continued, seeming as if she hadn’t heard him at all, grabbing the windowsill with both hands. “They’re very interested. In a while, they’ll come to collaborate with you guys.”
As she spoke, she flipped over the windowsill into Bai Feng’s view.
“… If you keep doing this, there won’t be any cake for you anymore.”
Faced with Bai Feng’s threat, Tian Yan went silent. Then she turned around, placed her hand on the windowsill, and flipped out again. A few seconds later, a knocking sound came from outside the door.
Bai Feng: “……”
Is the cake’s threat more deadly or is her brain wiring just a little… odd?
He helplessly opened the door, watching Tian Yan stride in smoothly and sit at the dining table.
Bai Feng sighed, stood up, and headed to the kitchen to bring out a little cake for her.
For helping facilitate cooperation with the holy land, this time he wouldn’t bother being petty.
“By the way, you deal with the Divine Monarch quite often. What do you think they might do in Dongzhou?”
Bai Feng sat next to Tian Yan and casually asked. He wasn’t planning to just wait for the Divine Monarch to trip himself up while do nothing—he wanted to get some preparation ready in advance.
Tian Yan didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she started talking about the Divine Monarch: “Although the Divine Monarch leaves traces everywhere and seems to have many followers, there are really only seven of them. The others are simply controlled by those seven. Saying they’re just a bunch of disposable tools isn’t wrong. I think you’ve seen it too.”
“Mm.”
Bai Feng nodded. To this day, he still vividly remembered a scene where a bunch of Golden Core and Yuan Ying cultivators blew themselves up in front of him.
Tian Yan continued, “But those few rarely go to other regions, unless there’s enough benefit to shake them.”
“Benefit…”
Bai Feng looked thoughtful. The last time Black Lotus used a clone to come—because of Xiao Qi’s ‘calamity’—it showed they weren’t to be easily moved. Especially since they cut off Tian Yan Holy Land’s probing efforts in advance, meaning their gains were probably substantial.
And after experiencing Fairy Tian Yan’s secret realm, he began to suspect—could there be a remaining shard of the Black Lotus Fairy’s soul in Dongzhou too?
If that’s the case, it’s troubling.
Having fought the Black Lotus Fairy himself, he knew well that even a fragment of a residual soul could be tough to handle. He’d managed to destroy her residual soul mostly because the secret realm pinned her down in the mid-Transformation God stage, plus she was afflicted with a mental debuff.
“You’re right; we’re also suspecting that a similar remnant of the Black Lotus Fairy exists in Dongzhou,” Tian Yan revealed what she noticed in Bai Feng’s thoughts. “Although we can’t openly act, it doesn’t mean we can do nothing. I came back early to contact you and those two princesses in Dongzhou.”
“Then I guess Junior Sister Shui and the others will be pretty happy about that.”
Bai Feng chuckled. He knew the holy land had survived this long not by being a bunch of rule-abiding fuddy-duddies. They certainly wouldn’t just watch from the sidelines.
With the Divine Monarch and the holy land meddling, Dongzhou’s war probably won’t last much longer.
Then he asked Tian Yan, “When do you plan to contact Junior Sister Shui and the others?”
Tian Yan finished her last piece of cake, raised her head, and licked the remaining cream off her lips. “The sooner, the better.”
