The Cannon Fodder Turns His Sister Into A Soaring Phoenix

Floating clouds drifted aimlessly in the dim morning light.

Two flying swords descended from the sky and landed in the Black Star Sect spiritual garden filled with light white mist.

Feng Yu Die greeted a Foundation Building disciple guarding the place, then brought Ye Anping to the southeast corner of the spiritual garden, in front of a tomb with good feng shui.

The miniature courtyard stood here, and a carefully selected sapling in the courtyard was now only a bare trunk, looking a little bleak.

Ye Anping did not approach, as there was no particular connection between him and Master Taixu, so he silently hugged his chest and leaned against the bare tree trunk twenty steps away from the tomb.

He watched Feng Yu Die take out a jar of wine and rice cakes from her storage bag and place them on the copper incense burner in front of the small courtyard. She also pulled out the weeds growing around the tomb, took out a mat, and knelt on both knees.

Then, she brought her hands together and solemnly clapped.

Pa Pa—

"Master liar, I've come to see you again."

Ye Anping retracted his gaze, thinking that she would probably talk to Master Taixu for a while, so he looked up at the floating clouds in the sky and replanned the route to the Eastern Region in his mind.

However, Feng Yu Die's next sentence interrupted his thoughts and made him glance over at her. "The man behind me is Ye Anping, the Young Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect, my savior, and the person I am determined to follow from now on."

Ye Anping: "..."

"Master, the last time I came to see you, I had an inner demon in my heart. Whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it*. He is the one who tied the bell for me. I don't know when it started, but every time I can't see him, I feel very uneasy."

Ye Anping: "..."

"I'm afraid that he will suddenly disappear like you, Master. I figured it out some time ago. This feeling is because I like him."

Ye Anping: "..."

"It's different from the love I had for Sister Pei at the beginning. When I first met him, I thought he was just like those bad men you talked about, and a big liar. After all these years, I found that he is a good man. He has saved my life several times and is very good to me. Although he has not agreed to be my cultivation partner yet... Hehe..."

Ye Anping: "..."

"But I will definitely make him agree in the future. I'm slowly boiling the frog in warm water. Master, you once said that in terms of qualifications and appearance, I can rank among the best in history. Sooner or later, I will give birth to a tender, chubby baby with Master Ye, and then I will bring the child to show you."

Ye Anping hesitated. "..."

"I want to stay by his side and protect him forever! Love him forever! Kiss him, hug him, marry him... Hehe—"

Ye Anping: "... …"

Feng Yu Die smiled sweetly, then pursed her lips and glanced at Ye Anping who was leaning against the tree staring at her. "But I want this day to come sooner. Master, please make up for the lie you told me back then and help me, okay? How about asking him to agree to marry me?"

Ye Anping: "..."

"If you can help me accomplish this, Master, I will definitely bring you the Void Spirit Jade Wine that you have always wanted to drink. I already checked, and it's ten thousand spirit stones per ounce, which is quite expensive... but it's not like I can't buy it, hehe..."

Ye Anping: "..."

"Master, if you want to drink it, just show your spiritual power~ If you don't want to drink it, then forget it. I won't force you… Heh--"

For no reason, Ye Anping felt goosebumps all over his body. After hesitating for a moment, he straightened up and walked away without saying a word. 

Swish… 

The sound of his boots stepping on fallen leaves reached Feng Yu Die's ears. Looking back and seeing Ye Anping walk away, she covered her mouth and snickered as if her plan had worked, then clapped her hands and bowed.

Pa pa—

"Master, okay, I'll leave now! This trip to the Eastern Region is full of dangers, and there is a crazy bitch named Gu there. I won't let her get away this time!"

Feng Yu Die filled a glass of wine and spilled it over the tomb. Then, she stood up, patted the fallen leaves stuck on her clothes, and hurried after Ye Anping.

"Master Ye~ wait for me!" 

Ye Anping, who was walking out of the cemetery alone, stopped when he heard her voice. He looked back and saw Feng Yu Die hurriedly chasing after him. After running to his side, she looked at him and giggled. "Hee hehe—" 

"Have you finished paying your respects?" 

"Well, Master Ye, did you hear what I said?" 

"No." 

"Liar~" 

Ye Anping sighed slightly. He saw a fallen leaf stuck on Feng Yu Die's shoulder and reached out to flick it off, then summoned his flying sword from the storage bag before stepping on it. "Let's go." 

"Uhm..." Feng Yu Die nodded, called Xiao Tian to lie on her head, and then summoned her flying sword too, following Ye Anping into the air. 

In the early morning light, two dazzling spiritual lights broke through the sky and clouds, heading east. 

Soon, the three incense sticks she had lit before Master Taixu's tomb also burned to the bottom. 

With the breeze, the incense ash blew away, as if chasing after the two people flying eastward, disappearing between heaven and earth...

… …

The next day, dark clouds filled the sky as a light rain came unexpectedly.

On the Sword Wind Platform, the five-color formation flag stood there idly as before. Pei Lianxue, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the formation, frowned and looked at the sky where her Nascent Soul thunder tribulation was late to appear. Although her face was expressionless, she finally had some resentment in her heart.

The longer the lightning tribulation was delayed, the later she would see her brother.

Ye Anping came a few days ago and said that he would be leaving for the Eastern Region early and that she should stay peacefully in the Black Star Sect to form her Nascent Soul. After she and Xiao Yunluo formed their Nascent Soul, they would follow the Black Star Sect disciples to the Eastern Region and meet up there.

And now the Second Idiot's Nascent Soul thunderbolt tribulation had come...

"Woo—"

Just as Pei Lianxue puffed up her cheeks and complained, a bell rang in her ears, and then a small branch hit her forehead.

Pah—

"Huh?"

Pei Lianxue looked up and saw that Xiao Yunluo's sister had arrived here at some point. After a long silence, she asked, "Yunluo's sister..."

"You need to calm down to overcome the tribulation. Don't think too much."

Si Xuanji walked in front of her, knocked on her forehead with the branch again, then sat down on the ground. "Anping asked me to take care of you for him, and make sure you form your Nascent Soul safely."

"Oh..."

Pei Lianxue nodded expressionlessly and touched the place where Si Xuanji knocked her. For a while, she stared at Si Xuanji who was shorter than Xiao Yunluo, before suddenly asking, "Are you the leader of the Black Star Sect?"

"..."

Si Xuanji was about to close her eyes and concentrate her energy, but after hearing this, she widened her eyes. She didn't deliberately hide her cultivation but just suppressed it a little to avoid disturbing Pei Lianxue.

Hearing her calmly ask this question, Si Xuanji pursed her lips and asked back, "You know who I am, but you're still so calm, aren't you afraid?"

"I didn't provoke you, so I'm not afraid."

"Hehe..."

"Are you also attracted to my brother?"

"Yes."

"...I knew it." Pei Lianxue whined with a pout. "The girls who are close to my brother are all attracted to him..."

Si Xuanji covered her mouth and snickered. "Unhappy?"

"...Yeah."

"Then, what are you going to do?"

Pei Lianxue was silent for a while and answered with some disappointment in her voice. "I can't beat you now..."

Si Xuanji raised the branch and tapped her forehead again. She thought this girl was cute and a little weird. She was almost a Nascent Soul cultivator, but she was still so outspoken. She tapped her head again. "Don't worry about forming your Nascent Soul. I'm watching from the side. Yunluo is at the Gathering Spirit Array on the Main Peak and Anping took Feng Yu Die to the Brilliant City yesterday."

"Oh..." Pei Lianxue nodded. "Hmm? He took the idiot?"

"Yep."

Pei Lianxue lowered her eyes and fell silent for a while. Suddenly, as if she had a bad premonition, she frowned. "Matriarch Xiao..."

"My last name is Si."

"Oh. Matriarch Si, can you make my Nascent Soul thunder tribulation come faster?"

"No."

"Oh... so useless."

?!

Si Xuanji was stunned for a moment, then raised the branch and knocked her forehead again. "You are so outspoken. Do you believe that I will kick your ass?"

"I believe it."

"Empty your mind and don't think about anything."

"...Oh."

Pei Lianxue pouted, a little disappointed. Seeing Si Xuanji slowly close her eyes and stop speaking, she looked up at the dark clouds in the sky. 

Was it because her lightning tribulation had not manifested yet that her brother had no choice but to bring Second Idiot to the Eastern Region first? 

Pei Lianxue had a strangely uncomfortable feeling in her heart.

Brother had once said that the Heavenly Dao was messing things up. Moreover, there seemed to be a secret between him and the Second Idiot that he had never told her. 

Pei Lianxue couldn't help but recall the red veil that suddenly floated on her wedding night, and her eyebrows frowned tighter and tighter...

"Hmm… there is something strange."

As she murmured, a hint of anxiety showed in her narrowed amber eyes.

Rumble—

A ray of ice-blue silver light instantly shot out from the dark clouds.

Si Xuanji, who originally thought that there was still some time left, glanced up when she heard her mumbling. She saw the strange ice-colored thundercloud, and a hint of doubt appeared in her yin-yang eyes.

"Eh?"

The next moment, the clouds rolled up and gathered into a huge tribulation cloud in the sky.

Si Xuanji narrowed her eyes slightly and raised her hand, poking Pei Lianxue's forehead. "Focus on the tribulation. Don't think about anything else."

"Uhm."

Then, Si Xuanji flicked her sleeves gently, and the five-element light pillars suddenly rose from the five-color formation flags that had been standing around the Sword Wind Platform for more than a month, and they condensed into a huge formation diagram under Pei Lianxue.

After helping Pei Lianxue set up the formation, Si Xuanji's figure directly turned into a little spiritual light that dissipated and gathered again on top of the ten-thousand-foot tribulation cloud.

She looked at the tribulation cloud swirling beneath her bare feet, then raised her eyes to the sky above, at the star that was emitting a dark glow.

What she saw was that the ice-blue Water Spirit Star that had been accompanying the Reverse Star had a spot of spiritual light in the center, which in an instant, bloomed with a brilliance that was enough to make all the surrounding stars fade. It then condensed into a dark star that looked exactly like Ye Anping's life star.

Si Xuanji was extremely surprised. She closed her left eye, pursed her lips, and looked down at the tribulation cloud below.

"Heh, this girl..."

 *Meaning, whoever started the trouble should end it.