Panlong City, Wenren Mansion.
The sedan chair bearers carried a festive red sedan chair to the doorway. Neighbors would occasionally cast glances at the scene, finding the empty Wen family home, devoid of anyone to greet them, quite comical in contrast to the arriving red sedan chair.
With a shout from the head nanny, Wang, "Welcome back to the Sixth Miss!"
No one responded at the mansion.
The girl inside the sedan chair was engrossed in reading her newly acquired storybook, completely unaware of the commotion outside.
It's unclear how much time passed, but when the sedan curtain was pulled open, Granny Wang forced a smile and said, "Sixth Miss, we're home. Please get out of the sedan."
"Where's my mother? Wasn't she supposed to come pick me up?"
"It happened so suddenly, I only found out now. Just now someone from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect came to report that the Fifth Miss had an accident while breaking through to the Golden Core stage today, and her Dao Heart is probably unstable. Madam has already rushed to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect..." Granny Wang didn't say anything more. Steward Xu had already made it clear to her what was more important.
A gifted young lady who is about to form her core, and a biological daughter who mistakenly entered the mortal world and was raised by a crude country bumpkin.
Is the lady's attitude toward the two not clear enough?
"Understood." Tianning closed the storybook, picked up her heavy trunk, and got out of the sedan chair.
Manager Xu, who came with Granny Wang to pick up the girl, thought the other party would make trouble. After all, when the head of the family sent people to the mortal world to find his biological children, he did not intend to bring back this sixth young lady whom he had never met before. He only thought of using some money to shut her up and keep her in the mortal world forever.
This way, there's no need to worry about raising a wild girl or hurting the Fifth Miss's feelings.
Unexpectedly, the old man who raised this sixth young lady was a rogue who relentlessly pestered the Wen family to take her away. Only with no other choice did they bring her back.
Manager Xu looked at the girl who got off the carriage. She was wearing a pink dress with several jarring patches on the hem. It was obviously an old, patched-up garment made by a country person. She probably wore her best clothes for the sake of appearances, but little did she know that it was not even as good as what the maids in the mansion wore.
The girl wore only a crooked wooden hairpin and a gray sparrow on her head. Her beady eyes were staring at Steward Xu. She was carrying a huge box with a lazy white cat lying on it.
That's so petty and low-class, it's not presentable at all!
However, her appearance is passable. Her face, which is still developing, has a childish look, but she is full of youthful vigor, lively and cute, and her beautiful eyes curiously look around.
After confirming that no one would welcome her home, Tianning looked away.
She had thought the cultivation world would be vastly different from the mortal world, but judging from appearances alone, there was no difference.
"I'm tired, take me to my yard to rest."
After traveling for several days, Tianning just wanted to lie in bed, finish reading the exciting plot of the storybook, and then go to sleep. She didn't care that her supposed biological mother, who had promised to wait for her at home, had gone to care for the cuckoo that had taken over her place for more than ten years, leaving her here.
Her background is a bit dramatic. She should have been the pampered and beloved eldest daughter of a prestigious family, but she was switched at birth and ended up in the mortal world by some twist of fate.
The Wenren family is not only one of the eight great families in the cultivation world, ranking alongside the six major sects, but its bloodline is also protected by an ancient divine dragon. When a Wenren family member reaches the age of fifteen, he can go to the ancestral hall, touch the Dragon-Attracting Stone, and a dragon that can form an equal contract with him will appear.
Although it is an equal contract, the probability is even more minuscule, one in ten thousand, but that is a powerful dragon!
With this honor, the Wenren family has maintained its position among the eight great families in the cultivation world for a thousand years. Even as other families have declined or risen, the Wenren family has remained steadfast for a thousand years.
The value of any member of the clan who possesses a Qilong is immeasurable.
Then there's Wenren Xue, the adopted daughter. For fifteen years, she remained unaware of the truth. Suddenly, she sensed something was wrong and sent people to find Tianning's whereabouts, all because of the Dragon-Guiding Stone.
Wenren Xue was intelligent and gifted from a young age, and no one doubted that she was not of Wenren family blood. In addition, when Wenren Xue was young, she met the young prince of the East Sea Dragon Clan who came to visit her family and fell in love with her at first sight. He vowed to make a contract with her for life, so it was even more impossible for her to think about the prince being replaced by a cat.
Even though Wenren Xue was not destined to be with the Dragon Clan, the young prince Long Ye still planned to forcibly use the Dragon-Attracting Stone to form a master-servant contract between the two.
The high and mighty dragon clan willingly lowered their heads, and countless members of the clan envied Wenren Xue immensely!
But no one expected that... the Dragon-Guiding Stone would expose Wenren Xue's true bloodline in public!
This led to the series of events that followed.
"Sixth Miss, are you really going to enter the manor like this?" Steward Xu looked at the sparrow and the white cat with disapproval in his tone.
The cultivation world isn't some rural village where you can bring any mindless animal into your home to raise.
"That's right."
Tianning showed no fear in front of Steward Xu, displaying none of the timidity typical of someone from the countryside.
"It was Madam's permission to bring these two pets into the manor," Granny Wang tugged at Steward Xu, lowering her voice to whisper, "You have no idea how unreasonable that old country man is; he almost made her bring all his pigs and cows over..."
It was precisely because of those outrageous pigs and cows that the lady reluctantly agreed to bring these two little creatures along.
Manager Xu's lips twitched. Thinking of the filthy pig, he realized that the sparrow and the cat were nothing in comparison.
He's just a country bumpkin; he doesn't even realize how shameful he is.
"Sixth Miss, let this old servant help you with your luggage." Steward Xu was disgusted but didn't show it on his face: "There are also sparrows and cats. You need to go to the ancestral hall to test the Dragon-Attracting Stone first. It's inconvenient to carry these things with you."
"No need, you can't lift it."
Tianning made his judgment after just one glance at the other person's physique.
"Sixth Miss doesn't know that the mortal realm is different from the cultivation realm. This old servant is a Foundation Establishment cultivator."
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