The Legend of Fangren

"Junior Sister Yun!"

Now, this slender cloud rushed into the mountains and began searching among three or four peaks. Before long, it found three thieves guarding outside the mountain stream.

According to my junior brother, there were eight of them. Now that the number is wrong and Junior Sister Yun is seriously injured, it is likely that the other bandits have fallen into the mountain stream and been surrounded and killed.

Those thieves had such hateful looks, and Junior Sister Yun was so beautiful; if she fell into their hands…

Upon thinking of this, Qianshaoyun became enraged. She transformed into a cloud of smoke and fell to the head of a thief, striking him with her whip.

"Someone's here! Quickly notify the boss!"

Upon seeing this, the thieves on the opposite cliff quickly used their Xuan Qi to transmit their voices. However, this shout only fueled Qian Shaoyun's anger. She assumed that the missing thieves were indeed "doing business" down below. She immediately turned ruthless and forcefully pulled and flung the thief who was wrapped in her cloud whip, slitting his throat and throwing him off the cliff.

The remaining two thieves panicked. They had intelligence that their opponent was a fourth-level cultivator and an elder of the Dragon River Sect, whose profound energy and techniques far surpassed their own.

For some reason, the leader didn't react at all. The two thieves looked at each other, nodded, and jumped into the ravine together.

But Xianshaoyun wasn't about to let them get away with it. The white clouds around him turned into dark clouds and sank down. Instead of whipping out his cloud whip, he swung it and scattered dozens of curved cloud threads, which struck the back of the thieves like rain.

"Crack! Pop!"

The seemingly light wisps of cloud landed on him, but they cracked like iron whips. The thief screamed and lost his footing on the mountain wall, tumbling down to the bottom of the ravine, half-dead.

Instead of immediately killing them, Qian Shaoyun asked directly, "What did you do to that female cultivator?"

"Ha ha…"

One of the thieves seemed fearless; despite being in pain all over, he laughed loudly, "Of course, it's us who..."

Snapped!

A cloud of mist burst forth from the tip of the whip, and before the man could even get a word in edgewise, the slender cloud had already severed his head from his body.

"You have one more chance." Turning around, the murderous intent in Qianshaoyun's eyes was almost tangible.

The remaining terrified thief stammered for a long time without being able to utter a word. She then lashed out with her whip in the air, finally shattering his defenses.

"Fairy, have mercy! We...we were only ordered by our leader to keep watch up here. They've been down for quite some time now, and not a single one of them is to be seen. I truly had no idea!...Fairy, have mercy! Fairy, have mercy..."

"Snapped!"

Qianshao Yun Lengmian lashed out with her whip, showing no mercy whatsoever, for she knew that this gang of thieves would do the same when they harmed others.

"Yun Yue..."

There was a sense of worry in my heart, along with other implications.

She busied herself searching in the mountain stream. As the mist dispersed, carrying a mysterious energy, she imprinted the scene of the stream into her mind. This was a method of perception, which was most effective when the weather was clear and bright.

She soon discovered the cave as well. Although she was cautious, the thought of Yun Yue's uncertain fate inside, or even the possibility of her being brutally violated, made her determined to go even at great risk.

Once inside, she continued to explore the cave using the mist and clouds. The maze was nothing to her, and she quickly found the main path leading to the depths.

The road went uphill, winding and turning for hundreds or even thousands of miles, which puzzled her greatly. Where did this cave come from? Was it a cave dwelling? If so, could there be an exit? Perhaps Junior Sister Yun had escaped through the cave.

Thinking about it this way, perhaps Junior Sister Yun has not yet been harmed. If we rush to her rescue in time, it will not be too late.

Thus, the wispy cloud quickened its pace, and the mist finally found an exit, halfway up the mountain, in an open space, where it seemed someone was lying.

"It's my junior sister!" Sensing the familiar Xuan Qi, Qianshaoyun could not wait any longer, so she turned from walking to flying and rushed out of the cave.

"Thief! Stop hurting my sister!"

"???"

Fang Shi, who was elegantly slicing the roasted meat, stared blankly at the clouds of mist rising from the cave and the whip that struck his head with lightning speed.

*Snap!*

"Ouch, ouch, ouch..." He immediately covered his face, rolling on the ground in pain.

"Eh?! It's you, kid." Qianshaoyun only saw a blurry figure in the clouds and mist, unable to discern its true nature, and assumed it was the thief with fifth-level cultivation that his junior brother had mentioned, so he made his move.

But the other person's voice sounded very familiar to her.

"Who are you!"

"It's me! I'm a good person!"

Fang Shi got up, and after thinking for a moment, he quickly took off his monk's robes, revealing the straight red mark in the center of his face.

"Oh my, it's you?"

Qianshaoyun hurriedly stepped forward, looked you over, and said in great surprise, "You were unharmed after taking my whip?"

Fang Shi fell silent.

You can't see this huge mark on my face, can you?

And shouldn't you apologize first?

Unfortunately, Qianshaoyun's attention immediately shifted to the unconscious Yunyue, so she could only offer a perfunctory apology before rushing over to check on Yunyue's injuries.

"What a deep wound." Seeing the deep knife wound on Yun Yue's waist, she frowned.

Suddenly, she saw the meat that Fang Shi had just cut on the wooden board, so she looked up at him.

"..." Fang Shi solemnly declared, "This is the flesh of a mystical beast!"

Qianshaoyun rolled her eyes and said, "I know, I meant for you to turn around, I need to heal her."

"Huh?" Fang Shi didn't understand. It's just treating an injury. The wound is on his waist, not in some strange place. Do you think I'm a child when I'm a teenager? Let me tell you, although I didn't have practical experience in my previous life, my theory... uh.

Fang Shi was just talking at once when suddenly Qian Shaoyun began to loosen her clothes, and in an instant, a snow-white peak seemed about to emerge.

She said somewhat awkwardly, "I'm going to use the dual cultivation method to transfer Qi to Elder Yun. Do you intend to just watch?"

"Oh." Fang Shi stiffened his neck and obediently turned around.

Well, he's just a kid in this respect; he couldn't handle such an exciting scene at such a close distance.

Bah! I am a man, and although I am still growing and not quite seven feet tall yet, I am upright and honorable!

Even so, the sounds coming from behind one's ears still sparked a lot of imagination.

Perhaps feeling a little awkward in the silence, Qian Shaoyun took the initiative to ask, "Junior Brother Fang, weren't you supposed to be resting at the inn today? Why are you here?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Shi indeed asked, and said, "After I woke up, I had nothing to do, so I thought I would go out of the city to find some spiritual fruits. I was walking behind you along the official road, intending to just stroll around your vicinity, but I ended up getting lost while looking for fruits. By chance, I saw Elder Yun being chased, so I dared to follow him."

Upon hearing this, Qianshaoyun didn't know whether to feel relieved or frightened, so she asked again, "Did you dig this hole?"

She still remembered what had happened before; this kid possessed some strange abilities.

"I discovered it by chance, and it just so happened that Elder Yun was also hiding inside, which I happened to see," Fang Shi lied through his teeth.

"Uh, do you believe that?"

"Hmph~" Qianshaoyun chuckled lightly, "If you say so, then I'll believe you."

She looked down at Yun Yue and said very gently, "Thank you for saving Junior Sister Yun. She is a very important person to me."

"?"

A question mark immediately appeared above Fang Shi's head.