Chapter 100: "Why Don't You Give the Flower Offering Sect a Try?"_4
But even so,
this was the first time someone was willing to pretend to care about her, to make her laugh, and to care about her feelings.
"..."
The wandering Heavenly Girl gazed hazily at the hairpin placed on the table beside her. The hairpin was truly ugly. The primary task of the Flower Offering Sect's wandering Heavenly Girl was to seduce the Heavens' Pride of various sects.
She had tried her best too.
For instance, being the top geisha in the Capital's brothel allowed her to save some private money to escape from the Flower Offering Sect. Fat Long had also given her advice, spreading rumors about a bigwig who offered three Spirit Stones but didn't purchase her body; after that, indeed more people sought her out.
She once asked Fat Long why not spread that even three thousand Spirit Stones couldn't buy her body, wouldn't that be an even better gimmick?
Fat Long's evaluation of her was 'foolish'.
The gimmick of three Spirit Stones, the bigwigs would just treat it as a joke and laugh it off. The gimmick of three thousand Spirit Stones would likely make them really want to come and see, which would be absurd.
She found it very logical.
Fat Long was really smart if he wasn't randomly assigned the "Bull Strength" entry, he definitely could have made a name for himself. Just... bad luck, just like her.
Such are the times.
Who can really be lucky?
Just then—
A hoarse male voice came from outside the cave: "Senior sister finally returns to the sect, how could you not come and see your junior brothers?"
Upon hearing the voice outside the cave, the wandering Heavenly Girl's face flashed with fear as she tightly gripped the hairpin in her hand and trembled, "Junior brother, senior sister is a bit unwell today, can it wait for another day?"
"What do you think?"
Sounds of breaking through the formation already came from outside the cave.
The wandering Heavenly Girl, with a deathly pale face, looked down at the hairpin in her hand for a while before quickly gathering the pink reeds beneath her and storing them in her Storage Ring; then she forced a smile, sitting on the bed and looking towards the several young men who had entered the cave, slyly laughed.
"My junior brothers, can it wait for another day? Wait until my injuries are better, would that be okay?"
"That won't do." Find your adventure at empire
The leader, a young man holding a whip, stepped closer with a smirk, half-smiling: "We would also like to taste the Sect Master's flavor, how about giving us a chance, sister?"
...
An hour later.
The wandering Heavenly Girl lay on the bed covered in whip marks, gazing hazily at the starry sky outside the cave, as if she again saw Fat Long, who had sat outside her cave and told her stories all night long.
She said she, as a wandering Heavenly Girl, had no power at all; she couldn't let him go.
Fat Long shook his head in disbelief; being called a wandering Heavenly Girl sounded powerful, how could she have no power?
When they parted,
she saw excitement and ambition written all over Fat Long's face; he told her he would one day become a big shot and then flatten the Flower Offering Sect.
Latter on...
Later, by the Sect Master's command, she went to Fufeng City, and just before entering Fufeng City, she saw Fat Long turning his back and fleeing, as if terribly afraid she'd see him.
Thinking of this,
the wandering Heavenly Girl lying on the bed couldn't help but smile, the stars outside the cave twinkling brighter: Fat Long's fearful demeanor of being seen and then dragged back to the Flower Offering Sect was indeed charming.
But how could Fat Long know that everyone captured by the Flower Offering Sect had a marker left in their body that could find them from a thousand miles away, it's just a matter of whether the sect wants to find you or not.
Upon entering Fufeng City, she saw Fat Long.
Still with that carefree demeanor.
Still saying no matter how much suffering he endured, "the strong will never feel humiliated for yesterday's kneeling."
Latter on, when the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm opened, she was supposed to seduce Zhao Yishi by the Sect Master's command, but she saw Fat Long publicly killing his former Taoist couple, declaring he hated such promiscuous women the most!
She stood in the crowd and did not approach.
Somehow, she didn't really want Fat Long to see her promiscuous side in front of him.
Even though she was already seen as a promiscuous woman in Fat Long's eyes.
But hearing about it and seeing it are, after all, two different concepts.
She still remembered sitting outside the cave with Fat Long, looking at the starry sky, saying the Flower Offering Sect was like that night, and we were like the stars; no matter how bright we were, we couldn't drive away the darkness.
Fat Long carelessly said,
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars seem."
Yeah.
She had to admit that at the time, Fat Long's unexplainably confident chubby face was quite charming. It was also Fat Long who inspired her to seriously think about escaping the Flower Offering Sect, a thought that had crossed her mind quite early on.
Only...
All disciples of the Flower Offering Sect had their Life Plates kept at the sect, no matter where she went, they could always locate her through the Life Plate; where could she escape to?
In a daze,
she again thought of Fat Long and what he said when they parted, declaring that one day he would become a major figure and definitely flatten the Flower Offering Sect.
"Fat Long..."
The wandering Heavenly Girl lay on the bed, flipping over the hairpin she had just hid under the bed, playing with it unconsciously as she muttered, "When will you become a big shot and flatten the Flower Offering Sect?"
"I may not be able to wait for you..."
...
"Forget about it."
Inside the Chao Tian Sect, Fat Long looked at the scholar with annoyance: "The Flower Offering Sect is purely a place where only a beast can survive; luckily, I'm beastly enough to thrive there. If your brother with his personality were to become a replacement there, he'd have been drained into a mummy on the first day."
"I really pulled out all the stops that time."
"That was a lick from head to toe, so disgusting that even I found it repulsive, but that's how I narrowly managed to escape with my life."
"What do you think?"
"What do you mean, 'I played around in the Flower Offering Sect and came out still wanting to play'? Try playing in the Flower Offering Sect yourself."