A life of freedom
"This..." Bai Roushuang looked back at the thugs guarding the door with sharp eyes, "Isn't this bad?"
"It's not good," Xu Shulou said in distress, "After all, I am generally a law-abiding citizen."
Bai Roushuang didn't dare to delve into what she meant by "generally" and said in a trembling voice: "I mean, it's too dangerous to do it here. How about we wait until they are bought and then follow the buyers?"
"What if they were bought separately?"
"This...how about we take a look first?"
"Okay."
Xu Shulou agreed with his junior sister's suggestion, and temporarily kept his hands off the folding fan.
A monk in a silk robe asked to go on stage to inspect the goods, and someone opened the cage door and grabbed Fenmo, who was huddled in the corner, by the ankle and dragged her out.
Fenmo's clothes, which were not enough to cover her body, slipped down during the dragging process. She nervously tried to grab the collar but was stopped. She was almost exposed to the sight of the people in the audience wearing only a bellyband.
The silk-robed monk who came on stage to inspect the goods tried to pull the string of her bellyband again, teasingly. The other little fox couldn't stand it, so he gritted his teeth and reached out to stop him, but was pulled away by someone nearby.
"She has a bit of a temper, which is interesting." The silk-robed monk laughed strangely, "Are you going to sell these two separately? I have no interest in the drama of sisterly love."
The male cultivator who was in charge of introducing the products on the stage smiled and said, "Each of them has its own price."
"How much?" the silk-robed monk asked as he reached out and touched the pink, naked calf.
Fen Mo shivered and tried to hide, but someone held her shoulders and she couldn't move. She had anklets on her feet that bound her spiritual power, and the end of the chains were tied to an iron cage. She couldn't even turn back into a fox. When she heard the monk say that he wanted to separate the two of them, she felt anxious and angry, and was almost drowned in despair.
At this time, a female voice rang out from the audience: "I also want to go on stage to inspect the goods."
The male cultivator who was in charge of introducing the goods was a little surprised to see that it was a female cultivator, but he still said respectfully, "Please go ahead, dear guest."
Xu Shulou smiled and whispered to Jiang Yan, "Take my sister away while the chaos is going on. Don't worry about me. I'll meet up with you guys after I shake off the pursuers."
"Taking advantage of the chaos?" Bai Roushuang knew that with her senior sister's temper, she would definitely not be able to watch the two female demon cultivators being humiliated in public, so she stopped trying to persuade them. At this time, she just lowered her voice and asked nervously, "What chaos is going on here?"
Xu Shulou explained to her kindly: "It's me who's going to create the next mess."
"..." Bai Roushuang could only watch helplessly as her senior sister, who had never known how to write the word "fear", strode onto the podium.
When Xu Shulou came up to the stage, the two little foxes stared at her with wide eyes, obviously recognizing her.
Xu Shulou moved closer to them. She had no experience in "inspecting goods", and she couldn't follow the example of the silk-robed monk who had just taken off clothes and untied his bellyband. For the sake of pretending, she simply raised her hands to pinch the face, stretch the claws, smooth the fur, and by the way, she lifted the human-shaped demon cultivator up, tossed him around, and shook him.
The monk in silk robes looked at Xu Shulou hesitantly, and couldn't help but murmur in his heart, this girl looks innocent, but unexpectedly she plays so perverted, and a simple and lustful person like him looks out of place standing next to her. He moved aside, not wanting to associate with such a weird guy.
While throwing the powder and ink, Xu Shulou whispered, "If you want to go with me, just blink."
The two of them immediately began blinking at Xu Shulou at a frequency as if their eyelids were twitching, as if they were afraid that she had missed the signal.
The silk-robed monk at the side began to hesitate and questioned the male cultivator who was in charge of the introduction: "Where did you get these two demon cultivators? Have they never been trained? Why do they look like they have cramps when they flirt with you?"
The male cultivator chuckled twice and stepped forward to ask Xu Shulou to be gentle with their precious cargo. Just as he took a step, he heard a sound in his ears and a fog dissipated in front of him.
Several metal collision sounds were heard, as if someone was using a weapon to cut off the anklets that were used to restrain the spiritual power of the two demon cultivators.
"Not good!" He reacted quickly and shouted, "Hurry and guard the door!"
Then he heard the sound of the roof breaking.
The male cultivator quickly changed his words: "He ran away from the roof, chase him!"
Seeing that the venue was becoming chaotic, except for those monks who particularly loved to watch the fun, the others who did not want to get involved in trouble left in a hurry.
Xu Shulou mixed in the crowd and walked out of the gate. He turned around and glanced at the thugs who were chasing him out through the big hole in the roof.
Through the many years of fighting wits and courage with various major sects, she has acquired rich experience in escape.
Before she left, she heard someone threatening: "If anyone dares to destroy the Feiying Sect, I will make sure she never leaves Fandu City!"
The group of people chased out but didn't see anyone, so they knew they had been tricked, and some of them searched in the direction of the door.
"Over there!" The moment he was discovered by them, Xu Shulou had already flashed into the gate of Taixu Realm.
She casually took out an alchemy furnace from her Qiankun bracelet and gave it to the maid who was guarding two paintings on the first floor. At this time, she didn't care whether it was useful or not. She just took whatever she touched.
The maid laughed and gestured to her to keep quiet.
Xu Shulou selected a painting and jumped into it.
The next moment, a group of people hurriedly passed by here, and their eyes swept across the painting of Han Xizai's Night Banquet on the wall.
In the scroll, a beautiful woman is playing the pipa, with two fluffy cats lying beside her skirt. The other people in the painting are looking in her direction with surprise on their faces, as if they are impressed by her pipa skills.
Is there a cat slave in Han Xizai's Night Banquet? One of the thugs thought indifferently, and finally suffered from his lack of attainments in ancient paintings. He asked the maid, but seeing that she only had a confused look on her face, he strode past the place.
In the painting behind them, a woman in a light green coat was angrily saying, "Girl, why did you steal my pipa?"
"I'm sorry, I'm returning it to you now. It's mainly because it's too difficult for me to get into the dancing team." Xu Shulou stood up holding the pipa. The two "raccoon slaves" under her feet raised their heads. They were actually two foxes, one pink and one white.
Xu Shulou picked up the wine pot on the table beside him, poured himself a glass of wine, raised his head and drank it all: "Sorry to disturb your pleasure, let me offer you a drink." Then he jumped out of the painting holding the two foxes.
"Why don't you hide for a while?" The maid beside the scroll whispered, "In Fandu City, it's not easy to leave if you offend the people of Feiyingmen."
Xu Shulou smiled and said, "The master of the Grand Void Realm will not be afraid of the Flying Eagle Sect."
"Of course we are not afraid," the maid also laughed, "We will not betray you, but we will not protect you either. As long as you can pay the spirit stones or equivalent, you are a guest here, whether you are an immortal or a fugitive, we treat you equally. Take care of yourself, young lady."
"Thank you." Xu Shulou bowed, but did not leave the door. Instead, he continued to climb the stairs.
She knew that there must be someone guarding the door, and the group of people entering would react sooner or later...
As expected, just after going up a few floors, someone shouted angrily from upstairs: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? There are two raccoon slaves! They must be two foxes, right? Hurry up and search the Night Banquet Map!"
Xu Shulou used the same trick again, holding the little foxes and slipping into the "Spring Banquet" on the side. There were people dressed as scholars sitting around the table, and servants were standing beside them preparing tea for them.
Xu Shulou mixed into the team of servants and prepared tea carefully. After seeing a group of thugs hurriedly passing by outside the picture, she raised the tea bowl and drank the prepared tea herself.
The scholars sitting around the table were very dissatisfied, but Xu Shulou turned a deaf ear to them, took out the painting and went upstairs.
The little foxes followed at her feet, jumping up the stairs, very lively and cute. Xu Shulou strolled leisurely in the Taixu Realm, as if he was treating the chase as a way to relax.
When he heard footsteps, he hid in a nearby painting.
The painting in front of him was "A Picture of Pine Wind in Myriad Valleys". After escaping the pursuers, Xu Shulou did not rush out. Instead, he picked a tree and leaned against it. He watched the two foxes in front of him transform into human forms and bow down in front of him: "Thank you very much, Miss Xu."
"You're welcome."
The two little foxes jumped into the stream to bathe. Xu Shulou picked out two sets of unworn clothes from the Qiankun bracelet and handed them to them: "Why are you at the auction?"
The white fox named Ningxue lowered his head in shame when he heard that.
“…”
Fenmo looked at Xu Shulou, took a breath, and told them their experiences: "It was Ningxue, that silly fox. She fell in love with a bastard monk and brought him home without any precautions. As a result, that man drugged our water, knocked us out, and sold us! Everything in our storage bags was also taken away by that man."
Ningxue clenched her fists: "It's me who hurt you..."
Fen Mo rolled her eyes at her, but she couldn't bear to see her like that. "Okay, let's be locked up in the cage together. I've heard you apologize so many times that my ears are callused. Anyway, you've escaped now. I don't blame you. Just remember this lesson from now on. The one who should be scolded is that bastard!"
Xu Shulou frowned: "Who is it? I will help you get justice."
Ning Xue said stubbornly, "Thank you, young lady. But I will avenge this grudge myself."
Xu Shulou didn't force it, he just nodded: "I understand."
"It's just that... today I have caused you to offend the Flying Eagle Sect. Even if you manage to escape by chance, I'm afraid you will be banned from entering this city in the future."
Ningxue was about to bow again, but Xu Shulou helped her up: "It's okay. If we can't stay in Fandu City anymore, we still have the Never-Sleeping City on the Grassland and the Crystal Palace in the East China Sea. Fandu is not the only city built by the monks. What are you afraid of?"
Fanmo interrupted: "Why didn't you count the Ice Lotus Palace on the snowy mountain?"
...Because the Ice Lotus Palace had banned her from entering many years ago.
"That's a long story," Xu Shulou coughed lightly and changed the subject very naturally, "Why don't we discuss how to leave Fandu City first."
The two girls lowered their heads and thought hard. Before they could figure out anything, a huge animal suddenly flew towards them from the mountain.
Fan Mo was shrouded in shadows. She looked up and asked in surprise, "Why is there a flying elephant in the painting of pine wind in thousands of valleys?"
"Flying elephant? Is it him?" Xu Shulou was slightly startled, then she remembered something. The elephant had already flown close to her, and was wrapping its trunk around her waist affectionately.
"Is it really you?" Xu Shulou was carried to the elephant's back by the flying elephant. He bent down and touched the elephant's ear in surprise, and introduced it to the two people, "This is my third junior brother's spirit pet!"
The flying elephant opened its mouth wide and looked up to the sky happily, as if it was emitting some kind of sonic communication.
Soon, a group of messy animals under the trees on the mountain all popped their heads out and rushed towards them. There was even a big fish that jumped out of the water and fluttered on the ground towards Xu Shulou.
The two of Fanmo were stunned.
"These are my third junior brother's pets," Xu Shulou explained as he raised his hand to scoop up the big fish, caressed it and threw it back into the water. "What a coincidence! I didn't expect him to be here too."
"...Why does your junior brother keep so many spiritual pets?" the two girls asked in amazement.
"This is his...personal hobby." Xu Shulou barely maintained the sect's image and did not reveal the matter of the Merciless Dao. She picked up a Shuyan and looked at it. "Hey, are you new here? I haven't seen you before."
She asked the spirit pets that surrounded her, "Where is Third Junior Brother? Can you take me to find him?"
Everyone was very enthusiastic and the flying elephant even wanted to carry her over on its back. Xu Shulou had to decline and picked a small monkey to lead the way.
They followed the monkey out of the painting and all the way to the 20th floor. What came into view was a landscape painting that had already taken shape. A slightly thin man was adding and revising the painting with a pen.
Hearing footsteps, he turned around and saw Xu Shulou, and asked in surprise: "Senior Sister?"
This handsome man is the third disciple of Mingyue Peak on Wuchen Island, named Feng Yi.
Xu Shulou was also surprised when he saw the paintbrush in his hand: "Are you a painter here?"
Third Junior Brother Feng Yi nodded in despair: "The spirit pets eat too much, I have to make money to feed them."
“…”
Feng Yi sighed: "Why do they only eat spirit stones and not rice?"
The elder sister with a cleaner pocket and her younger brother who was almost eaten up by the spiritual pet, looked at each other from afar across a corridor with tears in their eyes, and their bitterness was unspeakable.
Feng Yi looked very depressed: "Senior sister, are you here to play?"
"No, I was being chased."
Perhaps because he was very clear about the character of the senior sister, Feng Yi was not surprised at all when he heard this. He just asked, "Is there any way to escape?"
"We can only hide in Taixu Realm for now, and wait until they relax their vigilance before trying to find a way out."
Hearing this, Feng Yi rummaged through his Qiankun Ring and took out a small token and threw it to Xu Shulou: "The benefit of working here is that you can enter the painting with the token without paying spirit stones. I usually keep my spirit pets in paintings that are rarely visited by people."
"Thank you." Xu Shulou was overjoyed. She had just sent out a low-level alchemy furnace and two defensive jade bracelets in Taixu Realm. Now that she had the token, she could finally move freely between the paintings.
Before leaving, Xu Shulou asked his junior fellow apprentice again, "How is the salary in Taixu Realm?"
"Not bad," Feng Yi nodded, "Working as a painter here for half a year is enough for me to support those evil beasts for ten years."
"...Don't take in any new spirit pets. Have you not given up the ruthless way yet?"
"It's a heartless piece of trash. It's ruined my life. I threw it away a long time ago," Feng Yi shook his head in disdain. "I don't want to keep collecting it either. Senior Sister, have you seen that Shuyan? Its owner got a new pet and thought it was useless, so he threw it away. I picked it up. I found out after I picked it up that it can't do anything except eating."
"..." Xu Shulou could only pat his shoulder and said, "When Senior Sister has spiritual stones, I will help you share some of the burden."
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In Fandu City, Bai Roushuang and Jiang Yan squatted at the foot of the wall, watching the Feiyingmen thugs coming and going, feeling a little anxious: "Where can we go to find Senior Sister?"
"Don't worry," Jiang Yan comforted, "I have experience and know where to find her. Even if I can't find her, she will show up on her own in a few days."
"..." Bai Roushuang didn't want to know why he had this experience.
As expected, Jiang Yan's face was filled with sadness when she mentioned the past: "Let's go to Taixu Realm later, it's the best place to hide. Change your clothes first, so as not to be seen by the people from Feiyingmen. Remember that we entered the gate together with Senior Sister at the auction."
"good."
Jiang Yan really understood Xu Shulou. The worried Bai Roushuang went back and forth in Taixu Realm three times and finally met her senior sister.
However, Xu Shulou was not found by them, but rushed out on his own.
She rolled out of the painting holding the fox, and stood on the stairs in a very casual manner. She raised her hand to tidy up her hair, looking graceful and elegant, without any sign of the embarrassment she had just suffered from being chased.
The man in the painting who was chasing and hacking her had his expression frozen in a ferocious look at that moment.
Bai Roushuang wanted to cry but had no tears: "Big Sister, who have you offended again?"
There are people chasing you in the painting, and there are people chasing you outside the painting.
Bai Roushuang sighed, thinking how lucky she was to be able to witness with her own eyes the unrestrained life of her senior sister, who was hated by everyone and dogs.
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