The others, except for Liu Ying who was carried by Bai Jiuxiao the whole way, were all somewhat tired from using their full strength to ride the wind. Thinking that they were already far from Mount Ling, they each found a flat and clean place to sit and rest for the time being.
"well!"
As everyone was resting, they suddenly heard a woman's sigh, which startled them.
It wasn't that the place was eerie or scary, nor was the sudden sigh particularly frightening; it was simply that these people had been chased and ambushed in Lingshan earlier, leaving them somewhat like frightened birds.
Everyone looked toward the source of the sigh, and saw a very young girl sitting cross-legged next to Zhao Feiyang. She was resting her chin on her hand, looking troubled and distressed.
It was Chu Nian.
Zhao Feiyang stared at her for a while before a bellyful of questions popped into his head. He asked, "Niannian, you...you...were you fighting with the Golden-Winged Roc?"
Chu Nian said, "No!"
Zhao Feiyang was taken aback and asked in bewilderment, "When he drove you away, I clearly felt that he wanted to eat you up. Didn't he actually do it?"
Chu Nian: "He... I guess you could say he didn't have time to make a move! He was just unlucky; before he could even do anything, he slipped and fell into the Buddha pond."
The crowd fell silent, their gazes fixed on her with strange expressions: Was the Golden-Winged Roc an ordinary bird? He had roamed the Three Realms for so many years, and it seemed that no misfortune had befallen him yet; otherwise, how could he have roamed so freely for so long?
He's always the one who brings bad luck to others, so why is he the one who's unlucky today? And is it even possible for a bird like the Golden-Winged Roc, a bird of supreme power, to "slip into the Buddha's pond with a single step"?
Zhao Feiyang paused for a while, then said, "Niannian, that Golden-Winged Roc is considered the number one divine bird in the world. So many Buddhist masters on Mount Ling are helpless against it. Tell me in detail how it slipped and fell into the Buddhist pond?"
Chu Nian sighed helplessly, "Well, what's the point of going into details? He just lost his footing and fell!"
Zhao Feiyang didn't believe her nonsense at all and kept pursing his lips, but he felt that Chu Nian wouldn't explain the situation in detail even if he asked her again, so he could only give up.
Yin Shanjun couldn't help but ask, "Lingshan suddenly dispatched a large number of monks to hunt down the female thief, and the image of that female thief clearly shows you. What exactly is going on?"
Chu Nian said helplessly, "Isn't this all that damn bird's fault?"
Master Nanhua said, "From what those monks were saying, it seems that the water in the Buddha Pond is missing. Could it be that he stole the water from the Buddha Pond?"
Chu Nian: "It's all that damn bird's fault. You know, if it falls into the water, it falls in, but it splashes around and barks all the time, which is why it disturbed those monks."
Zhao Feiyang asked in bewilderment, "But we later heard that the Golden-Winged Roc left Mount Ling on its own and could not be found."
Chu Nian laughed when the topic came up, saying, "Luckily, I was quick-witted enough to pick up a stone and throw it at that stinky bird, knocking it unconscious."
"Stun them?" Master Nanhua and Lord Yinshan shouted in unison.
As top experts in this world, they weren't entirely clear about the Golden-Winged Roc's strength, but they had a fairly good grasp of it. That was a bird that even the two of them combined could probably only manage a draw against; could it really be knocked unconscious by a rock?
Bai Jiuxiao had suffered greatly at his hands back then. If it weren't for the monks from Lingshan who heard the commotion and came to her aid when she rescued Liu Ying, she wouldn't have been able to escape with Liu Ying.
She said coldly, "Liu Nian, you'd better tell me the truth about what happened back then!"
Upon hearing her words, Chu Nian immediately rolled her eyes at her, mimicking Zhao Feiyang's eye roll.
Upon seeing this, Bai Jiuxiao angrily asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Chu Nian: "Do I need to explain this to you?" If Zhao Feiyang hadn't been so curious, she wouldn't have bothered with these people.
Bai Jiuxiao's face flushed red with anger, and she shouted, "Who do you think you are? Even if you're a tail, you're still someone I gave birth to."
Chu Nian: "It's better not to give birth at all than to give birth without raising the child. Besides, you and that Liu Tuan keep trying to kill me. Do you expect me to respect you like I respect my birth mother?" She laughed sarcastically as she finished speaking.
Seeing that they were all in a bad mood, and that they might start fighting over a few words, which would put him and Master Nanhua in a difficult position, Yin Shanjun quickly interjected, "By the way, Miss Liu Nian, you just said that you knocked out that Golden-Winged Roc with a stone, and then what?"
Chu Nian: "Then I thought, that pool of energy water in the Buddha pool is such a waste, it's not good to just leave it there. So I thought about using this energy water to benefit all living beings..."
Zhao Feiyang stared at her, then interrupted dryly, "So you dug up someone else's Buddhist pond?" That does seem like something this woman would do.
Chu Nian: "I was just thinking of making use of waste! Haha..." She then laughed foolishly.
Yin Shanjun, Nan Hua Zhenren, and Bai Jiuxiao were completely dumbfounded. Zhao Feiyang was a newly registered minor immortal, and Liu Ying had only lived for a little over ten years, so naturally they didn't know what kind of magical thing this Lingshan Buddha Pool was. But these three old foxes couldn't possibly be unaware of it!
It took Bai Jiuxiao a while to find his tongue, and he shouted, "You said you dug up the Buddha Pool? Do you think anyone would believe you? Do you know that the Buddha Pool is the number one magic weapon left by the Buddha, with countless Buddhist array patterns on it, and it is protected by countless Buddhist mantras and arrays. Don't even mention digging up the Buddha Pool, you can't even move a blade of grass next to it."
Chu Nian rolled her eyes at her in the same style as Zhao Feiyang.
Master Nanhua asked, "After you dug the Buddha pond, what happened next?"
Chu Nian: "The monks arrived, but luckily I ran fast enough and they didn't catch me. Otherwise, if they knew I knocked out their birds..."
Master Nanhua calmly interrupted her, saying, "They wanted to capture you because you dug up their Buddhist pond, not because you knocked out the bird. They only let the bird live on Mount Ling because they couldn't handle it." He felt he was already beyond shocked, and he probably wouldn't be surprised if this woman did even more earth-shattering things.
Chu Nian nodded and said, "Yes, later that silly bird woke up and told me that they were chasing me for Chi Zi, not for him. That's when I found out what was going on."
The silly bird also said that those monks were deeply obsessed with the Buddha pond, and if I didn't return it to them, they would chase me to the ends of the earth. I thought, since all I wanted was the water from the pond, and the pond itself was useless to me, I simply buried it back in that valley.”
Everyone listened to her as if she were speaking gibberish, wanting to ask, "Who am I?" "Where am I?" "Am I really not dreaming?"
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