Di Xueyan unconsciously smiles at the bustling scene in front of her. The once tranquil place became noisy because of laughters and lively talks.
After Di Xueyan finished cooking, the yellow robed man, Wu Xian, immediately laid a long table in the vast shade under the huge ancient mystic tree. Together, they both arranged the dishes while the red robed man, Sima Liuwen, ordered them around like a boss, which earned the ire of the two, prompting another bouts of bickering and bullying as if they were bunch of little children.
After they were done setting up the table, Sima Liuwen whistled using a leaf, a signal in which all of the higher member of the highest order of the spirit beasts in night forest knew. Di Xueyan doesn't even knows that that type of whistle was only made for her.
The highest order of the higher spirit beasts is composed of ten strong spirit beasts guardians. They were all realm cultivators, the ones who maintain the order in the Night Forest.
Di Xueyan once ventured into the forest without even knowing anything about it. For her, what is more dangerous than her mother's little realm? The place she despised all throughout her training?
She was just too proud to belittle the whole continent when she first landed. She won't deny the fact that she was like a fish in a well, proud and arrogant, yet completely ignorant. Thus, when she proudly entered the forest like a peacock, she almost lost her life.
No matter how many spirit beasts her mother's little realm has, it multiplied by thousands in the vast terrain of the Night Forest, making her thoroughly exhausted to the point of collapsing. She never expressed a tired face though, so lots of spirit beasts are afraid of her, thus stayed out of her way.
The unfortunate thing was, the news that a cultivator is making chaos inside the forest circulated widely, reaching the ears of the spirit beasts in the higest order.
The spirit beasts, led by Sima Liuwen, were extremely angry as the balance has been conspicuously defied by a cultivator.
One of the rules set by the highest order and primordial cultivators is that they can venture only the level three of the forest. Some inconspicuously entered levels higher than the three before, but the proud guardians of the forest just shrugged and turned a blind eye, knowing that those stupid cultivators would die anyway.
But when Di Xueyan wrecked havoc for the sake of training and even went as far as the ninth level and killed the most spirit beasts in the history of Night Forest, the guardians were all in rage because someone dared to disrespect their authority.
Even Sima Liuwen, at that time, despised the little girl so much that all he wanted was to tear the impudent girl into tiny pieces.
For the hundreds of years that they interacted with humans secretly outside the Night Forest, the once pure and simple minds of the spirit beasts became mixed with a little bit of human nature, one of which, is hypocrisy.
How would they knew that the cultivator who they thought that never considered their power and authority, never knew that they existed in the first place?
While they were all fuming in rage, the suspect was just baking some cookies and cakes under the shades of the huge ancient mystic tree, while humming happily.
They scouted the whole forest and found out that the girl was under the ancient mystic tree. They immediately besieged her.
They can smell the mouth watering smell of the cookies and cakes, but disregarded it.
Both sides were extremely proud and cocky, they both despised their enemies.
Di Xueyan saw the approaching spirit beasts with majestic and extraordinary auras, led by Sima Liuwen. She stopped baking and faced the spirit beasts who were seeking death. She thought that they were just like those other beasts with intelligence who challenged her for the past few days while trying to look cool with their get up, but in the end, died or surrendered in her hands.
Sometimes, your expectation will only disappoint you. There are some circumstances in our life where the outcome is unexpected, you can only cry as to why do they have to not follow the script?
Di Xueyan proudly beaten the nine of them, black and blue, but her face was also swollen with patches of blacks and blues too. All of them have the same characteristic, they don't use cultivation in a fight, they do brute force.
The ten of them, including Di Xueyan, almost crawled in the ground because none of them wanted to surrender just yet. Sima Liuwen just stared at them amusely. He can't believe that there will come a day that his proud comrades would be beaten to the ground. His gazed wander towards the cute cultivator, who was just standing proudly when they arrived, swayed her body, trying to stabilized herself while her proud straight back turned ungracefully hunched. She is breathing ungracefully rugged, as if she doesn't care about her image anymore.
He can't help but to laugh. He didn't understand why they did not tried to use their cultivation, but used brute force instead, but all he knew was that neither of them all emitted murderous aura. He knows deep inside, his comrades kinda respected the cultivator a tweeny little bit, but their irritations just surfaced above all.
His laugh attracted Di Xueyan whos eyes widened in horror. She cursed in her head as to why this jerk did not joined the fight earlier and now, she seems to even has to defeat him. She can't even stabilized herself, how can she even dare to punch the ancestor in front of her. She was just enjoying their fight awhile ago instead of being annoyed, but the enjoyment vanished because she has another head ache. Would she lose her life for real now?
Sima Liuwen saw the horror in her face and laughed even more. He can't help but think she is very cute. He knows that she is devastatingly beautiful when they first saw her, but he thought that she looks cuter with a swollen face.
What a weird fetish.
" I will not fight, if you have something worthy of your life", he teased, intending to scam the little girl out of her treasures.
As a person who is weirdly fond of scamming people out of their artifacts, how would Di Xueyan give something really valuable?
" Sure", she timidly replied, as if the proud peacock awhile ago was not her but another person.
She went to her counter table and took her chocolate almond filled cookies that she made as a staple food for a week. Her heart was bleeding as she can't bear to part with her baby cookies but she had to for the sake of her life.
How petty.
She obediently held the baking tray in front of a blank faced Sima Liuwen. His lips is twitching lightly. Hr can't believe that this person in front of him is more frugal than him.
" What would I do with a food?", he helplessly asked.
" To eat?", she retorted innocently, as if she doesn't understand what he was talking about.
" Are you sure that you regarded your life as valueless as a food?", he mocked, disdain was visible in his eyes.
" Hey! don't you dare treat foods as if it is nothing! Why? Have you never eaten food all your life? Have you never enjoyed eating? What do you eat, rocks and pebles? Or grass? Don't you know that there are lots of people in the world who are dying of hunger, and then you'll just say that they hold no value? What are you? A god? Don't tell me you eat air?! If you are going to associate me with foods, I'll gladly and proudly declare myself so! ", she pointed Sima Liuwen with her left index finger while still holding the baking tray. Instead of being humiliated and embarrassed of him, being pointed disrespectfully like that, he is now even more amused.
The others were about to be touched, but her last words made their lips twitch as their imaginations ran wild.
' You thought yourself as a delicious food?', the boys can't help but to audibly gulp as they tried to remember what she looked like before her face was swollen.
Sima Liuwen smirks as he thought how tactless her little mouth is. He was about to talk and retort when the moment he opened his mouth, a strange object landed in.
" Here, tell me if it's not worth it! If it's not, spit it out!", she said proudly while forcefully putting a whole cookie in his mouth, her swollen face looked so smug and distorted, making Sima Liuwen almost vomited the cookie he was chewing, he just can't bear to.
And that was how, she became a chef of the highest order of the higher beasts.
She can't help but to smile widely as she remembers how broken hearted she was when her cookies and cakes disappeared in a flash.
" The forest is now very restless", Sima Liuwen wipes his mouth as he brought his chopstick down, making Di Xueyan woke up from her trance.
" What is happening?", she frowned, she doesn't know what is happening as she only focused herself about the matter of the kingdom these past few days.
" After your escapade in the Black Tortoise Kingdom, many powerful individuals went to the night forest", a blue robed man with a very manly and brutish physic gently answered, his gentle voice clearly did not match his face, but no one would bother about it as any woman would blush at his gentle stares. Don't mistake him for his gentleness and refined bearing though, as he is the most brutal killer among the guardians, Du Meng.
" And the most alarming is that, there are people from the Black realm", Wu Xian added with a deep frown.
The once loud noises vanished, leaving a tranquil but ominous vibes.
" Don't you think it was because of the ancient black dragon?", Di Xueyan guessed after many considerations.
If she knew that she would attract people from the black realm, she would not have agreed that easily. She can't help but to think that she was scammed by the ancient black dragon. She shouldn't have been swayed by those treasures at all! If she only knew, she would've had increased it a little.
The Black realm is where dark practitioners lived. There is a clean distinction between an ordinary cultivator and dark arts practitioner. Those dark arts practitioners once mingled with the cultivators hundreds of years ago, though not in harmony, but at least in balance. They only retreated when a certain important figure, namely the dark emperor, vanished into thin air, and their realm was never found again.
" I guess so, as only they moved when you unleashed the ancient black dragon. It maybe is very weak as of now, but the majestic ancient aura was very moving, thus lots of forces wanted it by themselves", a plainly white dressed and handsomely refined man wiped his mouth gracefully, as if he is more feminine than Di Xueyan who is eating bare handed, making her blush lightly and secretly shakes the rice in her hands in the ground.
The white robed man, Lin Yinfeng, saw this small action, and a very light smile emerge in his eyes and lips, as he thought how adorable she is. She secretly took the unused spoon in front of her and ate as if nothing happened.
" If that's so, I guess I should be more careful now", her face turned serious again, as she is contemplating the effect of her momentary foolishness.
' Since I already accepted the terms and conditions of the ancient black dragon, I should fulfil my part until the end', she nodded her head unconsciously with determination when she was about to be moved by the unnecessary trouble and enemies that the ancient black dragon incident thrown in her way.
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