Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Zhang Ze saw Xia Yan's vague explanation, and his intuition told him that this Senior Sister Xiaoxue was probably not normal either.

"She... she is a bit lazy."

Xia Yan pondered over her words for a long time, and finally gave up, resigning herself from defending her senior sister anymore.

"Being lazy is easy to handle; we'll just go pick her up," Zhang Ze said.

Xia Yan shook her head, "Senior Sister Xiaoxue is not only lazy, she doesn't like magical artifacts, doesn't like spirit talismans, doesn't like... In short, she doesn't like anything useful for cultivation."

"So..." Zhang Ze had a bad feeling.

"So, Senior Sister Xiaoxue doesn't have a Sound Transmission Jade, no Sound Transmission Spirit Talisman, nothing at all, I have no idea where she has gone now," Xia Yan spread her hands.

Alright, definitely not a normal person either, Zhang Ze sighed inwardly, "Then how do you usually find her?"

Xia Yan continued shaking her head, "We usually don't look for her at all; when she's free, she plants herself on a hill, basks in the sun, and chats with herself."

Listening to this description from the Harmonious Sect, Zhang Ze glanced at the little Fuji, and asked, "She's not a human?"

This time, Xia Yan nodded, "Yes, not a human, Senior Sister Xiaoxue is a Twin Sara, and our Master was fond of her when he saw her years ago and stole—uh, I mean borrowed her from the Buddhist Sect."

"A hundred years later, Senior Sister Xiaoxue was nourished with Spirit Charm from Medicine King Valley, gained sentience, and was accepted as a disciple by our Master."

"And since she's a tree, you know, in some aspects it's quite magical; she can merge her aura into the vegetation; if she doesn't want to be seen, finding her will be very troublesome."

"Anyway, that's the situation, I'll contact Master first, Master might be able to find Senior Sister Xiaoxue..."

Xia Yan's voice grew lower and lower.

"Then please trouble Senior Sister Xia Yan."

"Alright, alright." Although she didn't do anything wrong, Xia Yan felt very embarrassed.

However, after more detailed inquiries from everyone, they at least got some good news.

That is, although Xiaoxue doesn't bring any contact items when she goes out, she never gets lost, at most just late.

Unlike Tang, who disappears as he walks.

Helplessly, the people from Beast Taming Sect could only ask Xia Yan to use a spell to draw Xiaoxue's appearance, ready to spread it all over the Cang Mountain area's Yinhu Hall, to ask around, just in case they find her.

Meanwhile, the little Fuji, who had been listening with her head raised, had an idea, and she sank back into the ground and returned to a previously dug tunnel.

The tunnel was mouse-hole-sized, leading in every direction, and pale blue fungi grew on the ceiling, emitting a cool, faint glow, with many beautiful small stones arranged as furniture within the cave by little Fuji.

She rummaged for a long time beside the pile of stones, finally pulling out a mini version of a walnut.

Then turned on the Harmonious Sect's group chat.

[Searching for a person, searching for a person, finding a tree person! A white tree person!]

[Got it!] x99

Fuji was not the kind of person to keep things to herself; she knew well how to share with others. After she found out about the Spirit Deer Valley, she informed herself, and before inviting Tang over, Fuji had divided herself more than half, heading towards this place.

Calculating the time, she should have arrived in the Cang Mountain area by now.

...

In Cang Mountain, on a certain official road.

The night wind was still gently blowing, and the shadows of trees on both sides of the hill swayed lightly, with a rustling sound coming from the shadows.

"Big pot, did we come to the wrong place?" a somewhat silly voice asked.

"What do you know? As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place! The Beast Taming Sect just finished cracking down, so they won't know our brothers have returned," the man, addressed as big brother, said, giving the silly one a flick on the forehead.

"Besides, the two of us are nobodies, who will pay attention to us? Be honest in robbing and murdering, making it big and strong! Don't think of anything else." The big brother seemed a bit uneasy too, speaking only to reassure himself.

"Oh, it hurts; that's not what I meant. I meant, did we take the wrong path? I remember the client mentioned West Ridge Path, and here we are at West Mountain Path." The silly fellow felt very wronged.

"What are you whining about? This is the West Ridge Path! Stay put; they will definitely come!" The big brother insisted that his decision was always right.

"But you've never gone the right way before. Let's talk about last time; you said you were taking me to hijack a merchant ship. You took the wrong way, and we soaked in someone's fish pond all night! Not just that! You even took someone's cow at dawn!"

"And the time before last! You said we were going to steal from the Liu family in the south of the city, we..."

But before the silly could finish, he got another two flicks on the forehead, "Why do you talk so much, shut up, and stay put quietly!"

"I just have to say, big pot, you said when you took me out that we would make a name for ourselves, but after all these years, what have we done? Not a single sect wants us; you said good fortune comes from heaven, and those who fight will win! But what did you fight out?

"Seven or eight big and small deals, yet no spirit stone in sight, haven't even seen any gold; it was either the wrong path, late arrival, or running away because you couldn't win!

"Until now, not to mention real fights with real weapons; we haven't even fought at all! But we've stolen quite a few cows! I say we should go home, I'll slaughter cows, you grill skewers, start a small shop. That's also a business, better than freezing here in the northwest wind.

"And, big pot, I'll tell you, you took the wrong way again today; the job you took was to help that Tuberculosis Ghost rob Miss Fu's bridal procession, and they were taking West Ridge Path! Here is West Mountain Path!"

"Besides, big pot, think a bit; no good family would marry off their daughter in the dead of night!"