My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

In the dim and damp abandoned house, the white light seemed particularly glaring.

Sizi curiously stretched out two tender white fingers.

Carefully, he took out the jade slip that shimmered with a soft halo from the hidden pocket in the sleeve of the girl in green.

The jade slip was crystal clear, with intricate array patterns engraved on its surface.

It was getting slightly hot at that moment because of the frantic urging from the other end.

"what?"

Si Zi held the jade slip, his big, dark eyes filled with curiosity.

"This little token looks just like the communication jade slips that my Crown Prince and Sixteenth Brother made for me."

As the most beloved little princess of the Tang Dynasty, Si Zi was very familiar with this kind of communication magic artifact in the cultivation world.

Back in Chang'an, she often used this to direct Fang Yi'ai to buy her snacks in the East Market in the "We Are a Loving Family" group chat.

The little girl didn't hesitate at all.

He directly separated a wisp of his faint but pure divine consciousness and skillfully probed into the core of the array on the jade slip.

"Buzz!"

The instant their consciousnesses connected.

"You beasts! You depraved beasts!"

A roar from a middle-aged man, filled with boundless rage, anxiety, and murderous intent, exploded in Si Zi's mind like a thunderclap.

"If you dare to lay a finger on my daughter, I will skin you alive and tear you to pieces!"

The sudden roar startled the rhinoceros.

The little girl shuddered, and even the little dumpling on her head swayed a couple of times.

She quickly moved the jade slip a little further away and patted her chest with her small hand.

Then, puffing out her pink cheeks, she complained to the jade slip in a soft, childlike voice.

"You're so fierce! Don't speak so loudly."

Si Zi pouted and glanced at the still unconscious girl in blue beside her.

"Big sister is sick and very weak. You've disturbed her rest!"

……

at the same time.

Tens of thousands of miles away from this abandoned ancient city.

Inside a magnificent and spiritually rich mansion belonging to a powerful cultivation family.

The family council hall.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it felt like water could freeze over.

The patriarch was gripping a mother jade slip tightly with both hands, his eyes were bloodshot, and his body was radiating a violent spiritual pressure from the peak of the Golden Core stage.

The main hall was filled with the core elders of the family.

Everyone's face was ashen, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Their family's darling daughter was kidnapped by a notorious gang of bandits on her way back to Hui Muslim territory!

The entire guard was wiped out, and the only clue was this transducer jade slip.

Just after the patriarch uttered that furious threat.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for the vicious kidnapper to demand an exorbitant ransom.

however.

It came from the jade slip.

It wasn't a sinister, vicious sneer.

It is not a cruel and bloodthirsty threat.

Instead, it was a soft, sweet voice, tinged with a hint of grievance... the voice of a five-year-old girl?

They were also told not to speak loudly, for fear of disturbing people's rest.

silence.

A deathly silence fell over the vast council hall.

The head of the family was stunned.

The elders, who were usually so adept at strategizing, looked at each other in bewilderment and confusion.

“Who…who are you?”

The patriarch swallowed hard and tentatively asked the jade slip a question.

His voice even carried a barely perceptible tremor.

Soon, a little girl's clear, innocent reply came from the other end of the jade slip.

"I am a rhinoceros!"

Sizi?

The air inside the hall seemed to freeze once more.

After a brief silence.

The eldest elder, seated at the head of the table on the left, gasped sharply.

He stood up, leaning on his cane, and an unprecedented solemnity and horror appeared on his deeply lined old face.

"Master! Don't be fooled by that voice!"

The elder's voice was low and deep, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"These kidnappers have such deep cunning! Such ruthless methods!"

The patriarch's heart tightened, and he quickly asked, "What do you mean by that, Elder?"

"Think about it carefully. How could those desperate criminals who live on the edge of death year-round possibly let a little girl guard hostages?"

The elder stroked his beard, a wise glint in his eyes.

"This is clearly the kidnapper leader using some extremely advanced 'voice-changing technique'!"

"He deliberately disguised himself as a young child to lower our guard and unsettle us!"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the hall suddenly understood.

They all nodded in agreement.

"Indeed! The Grand Elder is right!"

The second elder slammed his hand on the table, gritting his teeth.

"And listen, he even gave himself the alias 'Sizi'!"

Ancient texts describe the Si (兕) as an ancient, ferocious beast, resembling an ox, dark in color, possessing immense strength, and incomparably fierce!

"This kidnapper is using this alias to blatantly provoke us, implying he's as cruel as an ancient beast!"

After hearing this analysis, the head of the family felt a chill run down his spine.

Disguised as a child, using the name of a ferocious beast.

What a cunning and terrifying old fox he is!

Faced with such an unfathomable opponent, the daughter's situation was absolutely extremely dangerous!

……

Inside an abandoned house.

Si Zi held the jade slip and waited for a long time.

After asking "Who are you?", there was no further sound from inside.

"Feed? Feed, feed, feed?"

The little girl brought the jade slip to her lips and shouted a couple of times.

Still no response.

"Is it broken?"

Si Zi scratched his head, recalling the crude methods his sixteenth brother used to use when cultivating magical artifacts.

She stretched out her chubby little hand.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

He slapped the surface of the jade slip a few times, trying to clear any possible obstructions in the array inside.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

The crisp tapping sound, carried clearly from the mother jade slip, reverberated throughout the entire family hall.

This sounded to the family members who were on high alert.

They were practically death warrants!

"not good!"

The elder's face turned deathly pale. "This is a warning! The kidnapper is losing patience; he may be beating the young lady!"

The patriarch's heart clenched instantly, and cold sweat soaked his back.

He no longer cared about negotiation skills and shouted at the jade slip almost pleadingly.

"Please show mercy!"

"Don't hurt my daughter! Please don't hurt her!"

The patriarch's voice trembled, carrying the deepest despair of a father.

"What do you want? Anything our family has—spirit stones, magic weapons, cultivation techniques—I can give you anything you want!"

On the other end of the jade slip.

The slapping stopped.

A few seconds passed.

That "unfathomable, treacherous, and vicious" ancient beast imposter once again spoke in a cute and innocent voice.

"Huh? There's a sound again."

Sizi's voice held a hint of surprise, "You just said you could give me anything I want?"

The patriarch took a deep breath, his tone extremely solemn.

"I swear on the lives of thousands of my clan, as long as my daughter is safe, we will give you whatever you want, without haggling!"

Inside the abandoned house.

Upon hearing this, Sizi's big, dark eyes widened instantly.

Glistening saliva involuntarily dribbled down from the corner of his mouth.

Is there really such a good thing?!

You can have anything you want?!

Instantly, the foodie's mind conjured up images of the delicious foods she craved in the East and West Markets of Chang'an.

"Then I want something delicious!"

Sizi happily raised her little hand and began to seriously recite the names of the dishes.

"I want bright red, sweet and sour candied hawthorns!"

"I want lots and lots of those... crystal-clear pastries!"

"Hmm... if there were a fragrant, juicy roast chicken, that would be perfect!"

*smack*

After the little girl finished speaking, she swallowed loudly.

……

The council hall of a cultivation family.

Dead silence.

An even more complete and prolonged deathly silence than before.

Everyone leaned forward, ears perked up, afraid of missing any exorbitant demands from the kidnappers.

but.

When the words "candied hawthorn," "crystal pastry," and "roast chicken" echoed throughout the hall.

Everyone's brains collectively crashed.

The patriarch stared blankly at the jade slip in his hand, his mouth agape.

The elders looked at each other, their eyes filled with a clear sense of bewilderment.

"What...what does this mean?"

The patriarch looked helplessly at the Grand Elder, "These vicious kidnappers went to great lengths to abduct my daughter, just for a few snacks from the mortal world?"

"Could he really be a little girl of a few years old?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

The elder categorically denied it, his brows furrowed into a deep knot.

"This is definitely a smokescreen thrown out by the kidnappers! How could these mundane items possibly catch the eye of a cultivator!"

"There must be some kind of deep code hidden within this that we haven't yet cracked!"

Just as all the elders were scratching their heads, racking their brains to figure out what the "code" meant.

Standing behind the head of the family.

A handsome young man dressed in a magnificent brocade robe suddenly trembled.

He is the kidnapped girl's older brother and the most outstanding genius among the younger generation of the family.

"Father! Elders!"

The young man took a step forward, his eyes gleaming with an all-knowing light.

His handsome face was now filled with absolute shock and undisguised horror.

"I see!"

The young man pointed at the jade slip, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

"I finally understand what this kidnapper really wants!"