An Yao frowned, wondering what Qi Yu meant by that.
"What do you mean by this, young lady? Could it be that my family members have offended you in the past?"
Qi Yu smiled and said, "No, I was just saying it casually."
"I will be careful," An Yao nodded. "May I ask what brings you to the escort agency, young lady?"
"I would like to ask Chief Escort An to escort me to the White Tiger Kingdom, Moon City."
"This..." An Yao hesitated for a moment, "If I may ask, does the young lady intend to go to the Flying Star Sect?"
Qi Yu's expression remained unchanged as he said, "No, I'm just going to see a friend. Why do you say that, Chief Escort An?"
"There are still three months until the Flying Star Sect's recruitment ceremony. Seeing that you are so young and have already reached the Foundation Establishment stage, I thought you wanted to attend the Flying Star Sect's recruitment ceremony."
"Ah, that's quite a coincidence," Qi Yu said with a smile.
"If we are going to Moon City, the journey is long and will probably take about a month. When do you plan to depart, young lady?"
Qi Yu replied without hesitation, "Tomorrow."
“No problem. I was just planning to take my daughter to the Flying Star Sect for the recruitment ceremony in a while. Since my subordinate offended you earlier, I can give you a 20% discount.”
Qi Yu looked at An Yao with some surprise, "How much is that?"
"Eight thousand low-grade spirit stones."
"hiss……"
"Is this a bit too expensive?" Qi Yu tentatively bargained, "Eight thousand is still a bit too expensive. Can you make it cheaper?"
"Then let's make it seven thousand low-grade spirit stones."
An Yao was a straightforward person, and immediately gave Qi Yu a discount of one thousand low-grade spirit stones.
Although it's still expensive, the distance between Moon City in the White Tiger Kingdom and Martial City in the Vermilion Bird Kingdom is indeed quite far. Not only is it to hide from Chu Mo, but it also involves passing through the Crimson Rui Forest, which contains many powerful demonic beasts. Hiring a Golden Core cultivator to escort her would greatly reduce her stress.
She did indeed want to visit the Flying Star Sect, but she didn't know that the Flying Star Sect's recruitment ceremony would begin in three months.
However, it doesn't have any impact.
"Let's make a deal."
An Rong'er, who was standing not far away, heard their conversation. She looked at the unremarkable-looking girl and felt uneasy for some reason.
She stepped forward, tugged at An Yao's sleeve, and said, "Father, I don't want to leave so soon."
"Hmm? Why?"
An Rong'er glanced at Qi Yu and said, "It's too early, Father. You should take this young lady there first, and then come pick me up."
An Yao shook his head in disapproval, "It will take a month to send this girl there, and another month to return. I'm afraid she won't make it to the recruitment ceremony."
"Then just have someone else take her away!"
An Yao looked at Qi Yu hesitantly.
Qi Yu asked, "Does Chief Escort An have any other Golden Core cultivators under his command?"
"Yes, there are, but they've all been sent out. Now, only I, An, am left in the escort agency at the Golden Core stage."
Qi Yu sighed and said, "To be honest, I've made an enemy of a Golden Core cultivator. If I hadn't had no other choice, I wouldn't have spent so much money to hire Head镖师 An to escort me to Moon City."
Seven thousand low-grade spirit stones is no small sum, and such large orders don't come easily on a regular basis.
An Yao did not indulge his daughter's willfulness and said, "In that case, I will personally escort you to Yuecheng."
An Rong'er cried out, "Father! What am I going to do!"
"Either you go with them, or you wait for the others to come back before you go. It's your choice."
An Rong'er bit her lower lip. Naturally, she still preferred her own father to take her, so she reluctantly said, "If we're going together, then we'll go together."
An Yao nodded in satisfaction, then turned to Qi Yu and said, "Then why don't you stay at the escort agency for the night?"
"Can."
"May I ask your name, young lady?" An Yao gestured for Qi Yu to enter.
Qi Yu raised the corners of her mouth and said leisurely, "Jade gives rise to smoke."
...
An Yao arranged a comfortable room for her, and Qi Yu took out a thousand low-grade spirit stones as a deposit and gave them to him first, then gently locked the door.
She touched her chest in anguish and whimpered twice, lamenting the loss of the sacred stone.
"What’s wrong with you?"
A voice suddenly rang out.
Qi Yu was so startled that she turned around to look.
A man dressed in a pure white feathered robe, with his silver hair flowing freely, leaned against the bed, casually playing with a trembling green parrot in his hand.
The green parrot's beady eyes looked at her pleadingly, and the whole bird trembled like a leaf.
Qi Yu: "..."
Although it is a spirit, it is still a bird, so it is quite normal for it to be afraid of the phoenix.
The fact that she allowed people to enter and leave her space so casually still made the hairpin's owner feel a little embarrassed.
Seeing that Qi Yu did not answer him, Feng Xiao's face darkened. "I asked you what's wrong, why are you clutching your chest?"
"Oh." Qi Yu lowered her hand from her chest and said, "It hurts me to be broke."
Feng Xiao: "..." There's no need to be so heartbroken.
Seeing Feng Xiao's speechless expression, Qi Yu said irritably, "As the saying goes, money can take you anywhere, but without money you can't move an inch. Without money, you simply can't survive in the cultivation world."
She posed a soul-searching question to Feng Xiao: "Do you have money?"
Feng Xiao: "..." He really didn't.
"Hehe." Qi Yu's gaze subtly swept over his entire body. "Do you know what it's called when someone has no money and has to rely on others to support them?"
Feng Xiao: "What's your name?"
"Pretty boy!"
Feng Xiao's face darkened for a moment. "When did I ever ask you to support me?"
Qi Yu started making things up as soon as she opened her mouth: "Don't deny it, before you lost your memory you kept pestering me to buy you this and that every day, and I spent a lot of money just on food."
"……impossible!"
After saying that, he pinched the green-feathered parrot hard and disappeared into the space within the hairpin.
The green-feathered parrot screamed and disappeared along with Feng Xiao.
Qi Yu curled her lips into a smug smile.
Although they became unpredictable, they were still quite easy to fool overall, since they didn't seem very smart during their early stages.
Qi Yu was leaving Wucheng the next day, and after a moment's thought, she decided to make one last trip to the old house in the south of the city.
It was still early in the day, and Qi Yu was walking slowly along the road.
She probably wouldn't have a chance to come back to Wucheng after this, so she wanted to take a few more glances at this first place she had settled in since transmigrating into the book.
Several girls were crowding around releasing lanterns by the babbling brook. Qi Yu glanced at them casually, but suddenly spotted a familiar figure by the brook.
A solitary young girl dressed in blue leaned against a willow tree, staring blankly at the girls playing and frolicking with lanterns.
Qi Yu paused, but couldn't help taking a few steps closer.
Wu Qianqian stared absently at the sword in her hand, glancing at the sky and then at the other girls, lost in thought.
She murmured, "Qi Yu..."
Qi Yu immediately perked up her ears, wanting to know what Wu Qianqian would say next.
The girl suddenly drew her sword and said bitterly, "...She's a witch! I trusted her so much!"
Qi Yu: "..."
Goodbye.
Just as he was about to step away from Wu Qianqian, he suddenly heard the girl behind him throw her sword to the ground.
"How could she be a witch..."
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