Chapter 20 Xuanfeng's Serendipitous Encounter with Su Yuyao
Lush green grass, yellow dust flying everywhere, a snow-white war wolf carrying a boy with a youthful face but a murderous aura runs ahead, followed by a pack of wolves, a black bird above, and the sounds of insects and snakes.
Xuanfeng silently retreated to a distance, not because he was afraid of trouble, but because Zeyuan was now the righteous Heavenly Lord, and he could not usurp the throne.
Su Yuyao led the creatures of various races and regions, fighting her way through a bloody path, and charged majestically towards the Heavenly Gate.
Ta Shuang stood sideways, while Su Yuyao straightened her body and searched for Sa Hanyi and Ruixue at Tianmen.
Bei'ao stood up, walked forward, and shouted, "Where did you come from, you wild child?! How dare you be so arrogant?! How dare you fight your way in?!"
Su Yuyao looked down at Bei Ao not far away. It was him who had asked for benefits yesterday and seriously injured Sa Hanyi and Ruixue!
Then, without backing down, she retorted sharply, "I am Sa Ningbao, the eldest daughter of the Wolf Clan of Xuanhuang Valley! And who are you, you idiot?! Why should we have guards on this perfectly open road?! What shady business have you been up to?!"
As soon as Su Yuyao spoke, Xuan Feng's pupils trembled. He stared at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure on the snow wolf from afar, his heart pounding wildly.
You brat! It's you?! Is it really you?!
Enraged, Bei Ao puffed out his beard, "You! You rude wild girl, I am Bei Ao, the Heavenly Gate General of the Dui Palace, and you actually..."
"Oh? You are General Dui Palace Tianmen? Do you have any orders?!" Su Yuyao interrupted Bei Ao.
"A summons! The summons hasn't arrived yet, but..."
"Since there was no summons, then you are not the Heavenly Gate General! I ask you, where are my father and the alpha wolf of our tribe?!"
Bai'ao was so angry that his eyes were bulging, but he couldn't do anything to Su Yuyao because Zeyuan and Xuanfeng were present.
Ze Yuan stepped forward, raising an eyebrow, and said, "Your father and the alpha wolf are both fine, they're getting medicine and healing. By the way, what did you say your name was?"
Ze Yuan wasn't angry at Su Yuyao's rudeness. Having grown accustomed to fairies who all looked the same, this uncultured wild girl actually piqued his interest.
"Fine, if you didn't hear me!" Su Yuyao said impatiently, looking at Ze Yuan's nonchalant and hopeless expression. "Hand over my father and the alpha wolf!"
"Men! Bring out Chief Sa and the alpha wolf!" Ze Yuan gave the order, and several heavenly soldiers carried the unconscious Sa Han Yi and Rui Xue over.
Su Yuyao jumped off Ta Xue, drew her crescent-shaped blade from her waist, and pointed it at Ze Yuan. The blade flashed with a cold light and exuded a chilling aura. "Put my father and the alpha wolf down, and all of you step back!"
Ze Yuan squinted at Su Yuyao, raised his hand, and gestured for the heavenly soldiers to put her down.
"Back off!" Su Yuyao shouted.
The heavenly soldier glanced at Ze Yuan, who smiled and said, "Step back."
As soon as the heavenly soldiers withdrew, the wolf clan members rushed forward and carried Sahan and Ruixue away.
Seeing that the two were safe, Su Yuyao continued, "Now, I want to talk to you about your monthly salary!"
Looking at the little guy in front of him, Ze Yuan smiled and asked, "How do we talk?"
"Who are you? What's the point of me talking to you?" Su Yuyao didn't want to waste her energy.
"I am the Heavenly Lord of the Limitless Path!"
The Heavenly Lord of the Dao? This person succeeded Xuanfeng in his position. Could it be that he sent someone to kill me?
Xuanfeng's pupils dilated again.
Su Yuyao calmed down, thought for a moment, and said, "The monthly stipends for all our clans will remain the same as before. We will not ask for more, but we absolutely cannot ask for less! They must all be delivered to the gates of Hengcheng by noon tomorrow!"
"Alright, the monthly stipends for each ethnic group will not be reduced..."
"Alright!" Su Yuyao seized upon Ze Yuan's promise and shouted loudly, "Did all the races hear that?! The Heavenly Lord of the Dao himself said it! The monthly stipends of each race will not be less than promised!"
Birds sing, insects chirp, and wolves howl.
"Furthermore, my father and the alpha wolf were tortured for no reason, and we must get an explanation!"
"Oh? You want an explanation, and I want an explanation too," Ze Yuan took a step forward, pressing his chest against Su Yuyao's blade. "What about the people you hurt last night and just now?"
Xuanfeng's pupils trembled violently.
Su Yuyao did not back down at all. She gripped the hilt of her knife and said calmly, "Since you are a Daoist Heavenly Lord, you should know the cause and effect here! If you hadn't been unreasonable first and detained our wolf clan members, why would we have harmed your people? You should bear all the consequences yourselves!"
Ze Yuan sneered, then said in a gloomy tone, "Fine, the previous ones don't count, but now!" He pointed at Su Yuyao's crescent blade and said, "I am the Daoist Heavenly Lord! Just because you pointed a blade at me, I have the right to execute you!"
“I believe you have the right to do so. But I also want to ask you, don’t you also have the right to make General Tianmen inactive, demand benefits, and resort to private punishment?”
Ze Yuan frowned slightly.
"If it is your authority, I have nothing to say. You can kill me or torture me, I will accept it all! However, this will make everyone in the world mistakenly believe that you are a false emperor who allows your servants to withhold their monthly salaries, indiscriminately kills innocent people without distinguishing right from wrong, and is untrustworthy and immoral!"
Ze Yuan's eye twitched.
“If this was not authorized by you, then it was Bei’ao’s private act! As the virtuous Heavenly Ruler, you know what he did, shouldn’t you punish him to demonstrate your authority?”
Ze Yuan stared at Su Yuyao for a long time, then slightly curled the corners of his mouth and shouted loudly, "Guards! Remove Bei Ao's armor and give him twenty strokes of the cane!"
"No way! My father almost lost his life, and the alpha wolf was seriously injured. Twenty lashes are all it takes?" Su Yuyao was clearly dissatisfied with Ze Yuan's punishment.
"Then, Miss, what do you suggest we do?" Ze Yuan bent down and asked, staring into Su Yuyao's eyes.
Su Yuyao was inexperienced and didn't know what to do when Zeyuan asked her. After thinking for a long time, she shouted, "Anyway, we can't just hit her twenty times!"
"Alright, then... give them fifty! Men, come here!"
Bai'ao was both surprised and puzzled. How could this girl have gotten him fifty lashes just for saying a few words?!
Because Ze Yuan was present, the heavenly soldiers who carried out the caning were extremely powerful, and Bei Ao was beaten until his skin was torn open and his flesh was bloody.
"Are you satisfied now?" Ze Yuan asked, pointing at Bei Ao lying on the ground.
"I'm still not satisfied!"
"Then, how can I vent my anger?"
Su Yuyao sheathed her crescent-shaped blade and said, "You punished him because he's your subordinate, it's an official matter! But he hit my father, and I have a personal grudge against him!"
After saying that, Su Yuyao walked to Bei'ao's side, lifted her leg and straddled Bei'ao's back, clenched her fists, swung her two little arms, and punched Bei'ao in the back of the head with her left and right fists, "You dare hit my dad! You dare hit Ruixue!"
Everyone was shocked. All living beings seemed to be frozen in place. This girl... is she courting death?
Ta Shuang quickly stepped forward, licking Su Yuyao's face to soothe her emotions, trying to find an opportunity to pick her up, but couldn't find a chance to bite her.
Just as Su Yuyao was getting a good beating, someone suddenly grabbed her wrist and pulled her up.
"Ah! What are you doing! Let me go!" Su Yuyao resisted, kicking and hitting.
"Girl."
Su Yuyao suddenly fell silent. She slowly raised her head and froze. She saw Xuanfeng's haggard face.
She looked at the person she had once kowtowed to, begging to be adopted; she looked at the person she had tried so hard to please, just to avoid being abandoned; she looked at the person who had promised to come and get her soon, but never showed up; she looked at the person who had never appeared since she disappeared for many days…
"Bastard! Let go!" Su Yuyao said coldly, tears welling up in her eyes.
You bastard! You filthy bastard! You said you'd pick me up, but you abandoned me! I almost died, and you didn't even look for me! If you had picked me up sooner, none of this would have happened! Or did you never intend to pick me up in the first place?!
Yes! You never even considered coming to pick me up! You've been trying every possible way to abandon me! This time, you got your wish; I have a new home! A new identity! You don't need me, and I don't need you!
Xuanfeng heard every word Su Yuyao said in her heart. Every word was like a knife stabbing into his heart, but he couldn't explain it, and he couldn't explain it now.
Su Yuyao broke free from Xuanfeng's grasp, tears streaming down her face as she climbed onto Tashuang's back, choking back sobs as she said, "Youdao Tianjun! Don't forget, the monthly stipends for each race must be delivered to the city gates before noon tomorrow!"
“Okay!” Ze Yuan looked at Su Yuyao with great interest.
Yellow dust swirled, a cold wind whistled, and Su Yuyao's tears welled up, blurring her vision. Her heart ached heavily, and she felt as if her entire spirit had been ripped away.
It turns out that Xuanfeng had already returned to the Wuji Dao. He never intended to take me away, nor did he accept my request. What did my life or death mean to him? Since my life was worthless, what reason did he have to avenge me? It was all just my wishful thinking…
Sahan and Ruixue were seriously injured, so the wolf clan decided to send them and Su Yuyao back to Xuanhuang Valley overnight, leaving only some people to receive their monthly stipends.
The leaders of the other tribes also expressed their agreement, since the Heavenly Lord of the Way had already promised the monthly stipend and would certainly not go back on his word.
Su Yuyao remained listless and unusually silent. She couldn't understand why being abandoned by Xuanfeng would make her so lost and sad, since she had never cared about what others thought of her.
This feeling made her experience an inferiority complex she had never felt before; she even lost the sense of superiority she had felt as a young lady of the wolf clan.
Boss Sa and Mrs. Sa are not related to me, so why should they spoil me? If they abandon me again, where can I go?
Su Yuyao, who was not defeated by death, became despondent because of Xuanfeng's appearance.
The wolf clan members were all busy preparing their packs. When they saw Su Yuyao looking dejected and gloomy, they simply assumed that she was worried about Boss Sa and Ruixue.
With everything ready, Ta Shuang, as the alpha wolf, led everyone onto the ice and began their journey home.
...
"Immortal Master! I've seen the girl!" Xuanfeng couldn't wait to share this exciting news with Qimen.
"What?! You saw Yao'er?!" Qi Men put down his pen and asked anxiously, "Where did you see her?"
"At the Dui Palace Heavenly Gate, she is now the eldest daughter of the Wolf Clan of Xuanhuang Valley, Sa Ningbao..."
"ah?!"
Xuanfeng paced back and forth, hands on his hips, and continued, "Today, she led all the creatures of various races, fighting her way through to the Heavenly Gate of the Dui Palace to rescue her father, Sahan..."
"Huh?!" Qi Men was completely unable to process this complicated news.
"She thought I had abandoned her..."
"Yo..."
Qi Men thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out what was going on. "My lord, there's no time to lose, let's go find Yao'er right away!"
Xuanfeng rubbed his face and said, "The girl said she has a new home now, and besides, she risked her life to save Sahanyi, which means that Sahanyi and his wife treated her well. If I go to pick her up now, wouldn't that... disturb her peace..."
Qi Men sighed and said, "Sir, even if we don't bring her back, shouldn't we at least go and see her..."
...
After several days of travel, Sahan and Ruixue finally returned safely to Xuanhuang Valley.
When Mrs. Sa learned what had happened and saw that Sa Han was seriously injured, she was both angry and heartbroken.
Seeing Su Yuyao's lifeless eyes, she felt even more heartache. "Ningbao, are you scared?"
Su Yuyao looked up at Madam Sa and asked, her voice choked with emotion, "Godmother, if I'm particularly naughty and disobedient, and always causing trouble, will you throw me away?"
"Silly child! What are you saying?! Your godfather and I would never abandon you!" Madam Sa touched Su Yuyao's forehead and asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"
"What if you have another child? Will you abandon me?"
"Of course not! Whether I have children or not, I will never abandon you! You are our daughter!"
Those who saved me, complete strangers, said they would never abandon me, but the person I begged not to abandon me threw me away...
Su Yuyao became increasingly upset as she thought about it, and finally burst into tears.
The loud cries, amplified by the hole, became earth-shattering.
Ruixue was lying in her own cave to heal her injuries when she heard Su Yuyao crying. She quickly struggled to get up and looked in Su Yuyao's direction.
Sa Han, who had been unconscious, was startled awake by Su Yuyao's cries and weakly asked, "Ningbao...why...are you crying..."
"My lord! You're awake!"
"The boss is awake!"
"Great! Boss was woken up by Miss Ningbao's crying!"
The wolf pack, shrouded in darkness, immediately erupted in jubilation.
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