The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

Tantai Ming still harbored resentment towards the Tianyan Sect group, and Shen Rufei had previously been associated with them. He was reluctant to bring him along.

Shen Rufei, aware of the awkwardness of his position, took the initiative to explain, “My relationship with those Tianyan Sect fellow Daoists was merely a collaboration assigned by our sects. Now that they have left the secret realm, our cooperation has also ended.”

“I have no bias towards either side. I came to the secret realm solely to search for phoenix relics. You need not worry about me betraying you.”

Tantai Ming and Mu Chihuai looked towards Chu Sang. After a moment of contemplation, she smiled gently, “Very well, let’s cooperate in searching for the lost phoenix relics.”

She indeed needed the help of a Beast Taming Sect disciple.

Shen Rufei had actually only asked out of politeness, not expecting them to agree.

His true purpose in coming to the secret realm was indeed to search for the legendary extinct phoenix. However, after wandering for half a month, exhausting all methods to divine and predict the phoenix’s place of demise, he had circled around like a headless fly and found nothing.

In these final hours, he didn’t hold much hope, merely seeking to console his disappointment.

An hour later.

The three arrived at the phoenix’s nest.

Shen Rufei’s mouth twitched, and he fell silent for a moment. How to put it… these three rookies’ luck was… truly absurdly good.

Although they successfully reached the phoenix’s nest, they didn’t see the legendary phoenix with its ancient divine beast bloodline. They only saw a phoenix egg with patterns of blazing red flames.

Several powerful Golden Core stage beast guardians surrounded the phoenix egg. With their current strength, obtaining the egg would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Moreover, with less than two hours left before the secret realm closed, they couldn’t afford a war of attrition. They had to act swiftly and decisively.

Tantai Ming and Mu Chihuai planned to lure away the beasts, allowing Chu Sang to seize the opportunity to grab the egg.

Chu Sang raised her hand to stop the two and turned to Shen Rufei with a light smile, “Since this is a cooperative relationship, and we’ve successfully led you to the phoenix’s nest, shouldn’t Fellow Daoist Shen show us some of his true capabilities?”

Shen Rufei shook his head and chuckled. This little girl was quite clever; nothing escaped her notice.

A jade flute, completely emerald green, appeared in his palm. A slightly eerie and jarring flute melody drifted on the wind.

The moment the beasts guarding the cave entrance heard the flute’s sound, they froze as if stunned. After a brief moment, they collapsed to the ground one after another.

“This is the Nightmare Curse, specially developed by our Beast Taming Sect elders for beasts. It can put them to sleep for about half an incense stick’s time.”

Tantai Ming quickly attached a Speed Talisman and a Concealment Talisman to himself. He carefully slipped past the deeply sleeping beasts at the cave entrance, went in and out, successfully retrieving the phoenix egg.

Before the beasts could awaken, the group hastily fled the scene of their egg theft.

“Roar—!!!”

Shortly after, angry roars from several beasts echoed from behind. Birds and beasts scattered in large flocks from the forest, and the ground trembled faintly.

However, the four culprits had long since made their escape, far beyond the beasts’ reach.

After fleeing the crime scene, it was time to divide the spoils.

Four people, but only one phoenix egg.

How to divide it?

Seeing Tantai Ming clutching the head-sized white egg vigilantly, Shen Rufei chuckled, “I won’t fight you for it.”

Beast Taming Sect disciples were generally not very strong. Even if he wanted to snatch it, he couldn’t defeat the three of them.

Shen Rufei summoned a mid Foundation Establishment stage adolescent qilin from his spirit beast pouch. It flew and landed on his shoulder, pecking at his hair. “This is my spirit pet, Qingyu.”

He already had his own life-bound spirit pet. From the beginning of his cooperation with Tianyan Sect, he had no intention of claiming this phoenix egg.

“You can take the Fire Phoenix egg, but I have one small request, if the three of you would oblige.” He cleared his throat. “When this Fire Phoenix matures, could I borrow it for breeding?”

Huh?

The three’s eyes widened.

Realizing his words might have been inappropriate, Shen Rufei hurriedly explained, “I mean… for breeding with my qilin!”

“The wind-attribute qilin and the fire-attribute phoenix both inherit a trace of the powerful ancient divine phoenix bloodline. They are closely related and have a high chance of producing an even more powerful mutated phoenix beast. The offspring might even possess both wind and fire dual attributes.”

The cultivation system for spirit beasts is opposite to that of human cultivators—they are born without spirit roots but with their own attributes. The more attributes a spirit beast possesses, the more precious and powerful it becomes.

If they could cultivate a dual-attribute mutated spirit beast with the ancient divine phoenix bloodline, it would be enough to shock the entire Spirit Abyss Continent.

“So, this is Shen’s only request. Would the three of you agree?”

Shen Rufei’s usually calm face showed rare traces of urgency and pleading. As the most talented head disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, having won multiple Beast Taming Competitions, he had been surpassed by a mysterious woman in last year’s competition, only securing second place.

This had become his mental obstacle, even affecting his cultivation progress, which had stagnated.

Therefore, he was determined to cultivate an even more outstanding spirit pet before the next competition to reclaim his glory.

“Alright.”

Chu Sang agreed readily, feeling it was no big deal. The goodwill of the Beast Taming Sect’s head disciple was valuable indeed. Perhaps they might even gift her a mutated spirit beast when the time came.

Her two senior brothers urged her to quickly form a contract with the egg to avoid any unforeseen circumstances.

Unexpectedly, Chu Sang turned and handed the phoenix egg to Mu Chihuai, “Sixth Senior Brother, you take it. This Fire Phoenix suits you well.”

“Give it to me?”

Mu Chihuai pointed at himself, stunned.

“Yes.” Chu Sang smiled at him, “This Fire Phoenix will have a better future with Sixth Senior Brother than with me.”

Mu Chihuai had dual fire and wood spirit roots. Although his spirit roots weren’t top-tier, they were naturally most suitable for alchemy.

Although Chu Sang had a top-grade fire spirit root, on one hand, her spirit root hadn’t been fully repaired yet, basically equivalent to half a waste spirit root. On the other hand, the phoenix’s flames could enhance the quality of pill-refining fire, most suitable for Sixth Senior Brother. It would be a waste of potential if she kept it.

In the original story, it was precisely because the female protagonist contracted with this Fire Phoenix and obtained the phoenix flame that she, someone completely ignorant of alchemy, mastered the ability to refine pills in a short time, even rivaling Mu Chihuai’s considerable alchemical attainments.

Mu Chihuai hesitated for a moment but didn’t refuse, “Then I’ll respectfully accept your kind offer.”

He usually wore a smile, but it often carried a hint of inscrutability, maintaining a sense of distance from others.

But at this moment, the young man’s smile carried traces of sincerity and gentleness. He reached out and lightly pinched her cheek, “Thank you for this great gift, Junior Sister. If you ever need the Mu family’s help in the future, you can always come to Senior Brother.”

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