The Fairy: From the Traveling Merchant

Chapter 1027 Harvest and Reward

Perhaps because she often turns into a "black cat," Gong Yun's personality is generally somewhat lazy, and she prefers to enjoy herself and watch others have fun.

It was rare to see her so lively, so Zhao Chen couldn't help but tease her with a smile: "You're a famous female knight-errant, how can you be so excited about stealing things?"
"Quickly stop this, don't reveal your true nature."

Upon hearing this, Gong Yun rolled her eyes at him, ignored him, and continued speaking to herself:

"I have acquired quite a few treasures, including a five-hundred-year-old ice crystal flower. This is a wonderful thing that can help ice and snow-type supernatural cultivators comprehend the mysteries of related laws and even assist in 'communicating with the law'!"
"Furthermore, I also retrieved the Ice Soul Sword, the magical artifact that made Feng Yin, the heroine who was killed by Feng Qing, famous.

"There are also thirteen types of malevolent energy, including 'Mysterious Ice Fiend' and 'Frosty Wind Force', as well as two rare and precious treasures that can be used to refine magical artifacts: 'Essence of Arctic Mysterious Ice' and 'Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Heart'."

She paused for a moment, then smiled slyly like a cat that had stolen a fish, saying, "This must have been collected by Feng Qing for refining magic weapons. Now that I've stolen it, she'll be heartbroken."

Rare and precious treasures and fierce energy require special environments to be preserved for a long time. Unlike Zhao Chen, Feng Qing does not have a "warehouse" that can freeze time, so she cannot carry them with her. This gave Gong Yun the opportunity.

"Good heavens... You've robbed the Feng family's entire treasury, except for the books and pills!" Zhao Chen was also somewhat astonished. Although he knew that losing these things wouldn't cripple a prominent family, it would definitely be a major blow.

but……

"These treasures should be guarded by cultivators with supernatural powers... well, at least mid-level cultivators with supernatural powers, right? How did you manage to get your hands on them?"

Zhao Chen heard that the current generation of supernatural cultivators in the Feng family were not very promising, and there was not a single high-grade supernatural ability. Otherwise, Feng Qing would not have been so obsessed with prolonging life... But there were still several fourth-grade and fifth-grade supernatural abilities. It was not necessary to leave such an important thing to a seventh-grade cultivator who only had illusion supernatural abilities.

"Because it wasn't just me who tried to take advantage of Feng Qing's absence; there was someone with an even bigger target who drew most of my attention away," Gong Yun explained with a smile. "You should know that person too; his name is Feng Wantong."

Feng Wantong… Feng Wantong, the “Cold Desert”? The one who was taken away by Zheng Xiao, the “Blood Demon Sword,” and who supposedly joined an outer organization of the “Heavenly Court”?
Zhao Chen still remembered this person, not only because he and Fei Meng had tried to use him—although they hadn't succeeded—but also because of Zheng Xiao, the "Blood Demon Sword," a true immortal who had emerged from the Worry-Free Cave.

He vaguely remembered that this master had been avoiding him because he thought he was a "troublemaker," which delayed his task of delivering the letter to Master Qin. In the end, he only made contact with him through the young girl Xiao Ruoyun.

This Zheng Zhenren seems to be one of the witnesses to the "secret" behind the Yuwang Sect in Anyi. As a result, his main body had to be suppressed, and he could only send out a "Blood God Child" to travel and accumulate "morality" and become a "grandpa" for people.

What could be Feng Wantong's purpose in returning to the Feng family at this critical juncture?

Has he already betrayed the Feng family to retrieve his belongings? Or is it a mission from "Heaven"?

If it's the former, it's nothing; but if it's the latter, then it's worth pondering.

What exactly does the Feng family possess that would make the "Heavenly Court" or that True Man Zheng Xiao covet it?
"Do you know what he stole? How did he manage to attract most of the supernatural cultivators left behind by the Feng family?" Zhao Chen asked after thinking for a moment. Gong Yun recalled carefully and said somewhat uncertainly, "He seemed to be looking for some kind of 'egg'? But I'm sure it wasn't the 'blood egg'."

"The reason he was besieged was because he was a traitor to the Feng family... After all, because of him, the Feng family had been targeted by the Shu King's faction for a long time and suffered considerable losses."

Eggs? Does Feng Qing have a fetish for collecting "eggs"? Zhao Chen thought to himself, but he had no clue. He could only suppress his doubts and think about having Xiao Ruoyun and Zhou Fu try to find out later.

After all, the former is his bloodline descendant, while the latter is the reincarnation of a real person, and they had a relationship in their previous life.

However, Zhou Fu and Xiao Ruoyun are currently traveling in Xiaozhou, where they have earned the nickname "Fu Yun Twin Heroes".

Of course, Zhao Chen also deserves credit, after all, he made quite a splash at the Shu Sword Tournament by using Zhou Fu's name and appearance...

As his thoughts raced, Zhao Chen steered the conversation back to the treasures, asking with a smile, "How do you plan to distribute these things?"

Gong Yun had already thought about this problem. She first selected two streams of malevolent energy and one stream of pure energy from the dozen or so types of qi, and handed them directly to Zhao Chen, saying:
"Of the five types of fierce energy required for 'Snow Falls on Earth,' the Feng family doesn't even have the two most difficult ones, but I heard that the Princess has already found them for Seventh Sister. The other three here are just icing on the cake, a small token of my appreciation as her older sister."

As she spoke, she took out Feng Yin's magical artifact, the "Ice Soul Sword," and continued, "This is the personal item of Seventh Sister's closest elder, and it should be returned to its rightful owner. Consider it an early 'magical' gift to her."

She had heard that Feng Wan's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, and that she was not far from reaching the level of supernatural powers.

"As for that 500-year-old 'Ice Crystal Flower,' it can't be given away for free. She has to exchange it for a treasure of equal value." Even if they were sworn sisters, Gong Yun wouldn't give unconditionally; such a relationship wouldn't last.

Moreover, the Ice Crystal Flower is extremely beneficial for cultivation at the supernatural power stage. If there's no equivalent item to exchange for it, and Feng Wan uses it to advance her cultivation by leaps and bounds, it wouldn't be good if she left me behind...

Actually, Wan'er might not even need this thing... Having cultivated with the "Nine Nether Goddess" and knowing the extraordinary nature of special physiques, Zhao Chen accepted the "Ice Soul Sword" with a slightly strange expression, nodded and said, "I will mention this to her."

"Those last two rare treasures are actually of no use to me. I originally intended to give them to you as compensation, since you used up a 'Dongxuan' treasure for our sake..."

"But then I thought about it, and we sisters have already benefited you. Our affairs are your affairs, so this kind of compensation is a bit unfair... Therefore, I've decided to treat them as payment for hiring you to protect me when I advance my supernatural powers!"

At this point, she gave Zhao Chen a meaningful look and added, "The protector must be you in person; this clone doesn't count!"

Gong Yun's biggest gain this time was obtaining the opportunity to condense her divine soul; everything else was external and she didn't care about it at all.

(End of this chapter)