Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

Chapter 961: Chapter 941: Xuanyuan Clan, Ji Yunshang

Once they were seated inside, after Luo Qianqian finished explaining the origin of this stone, Qin Nuan looked curious: ”Could this be some kind of spiritual beast?”

Luo Qianqian smirked repeatedly: ”Have you ever seen such an ugly shell? Even Xiao Nezha is just a round ball of flesh, isn’t he?”

”A circle might be a bit irregular or imperfect, but it doesn’t affect the judgment that it’s still a circle.” Luo Yanran nodded in agreement, but after a moment, she frowned: ”Wait a minute, aren’t eggs supposed to be oval? Like chicken eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs, even ostrich eggs are oval, right? Could this be a dinosaur egg?” Luo Yanran was lost in her own imagination.

”You’re overthinking it. If it’s really a dinosaur egg, I’d hand it over to the state.” Luo Qianqian looked disdainfully at the egg in her hand; it looked like an egg from a small animal: ”Think about it, for a dinosaur that big, leaving such a small egg, wouldn’t it get trampled to death?”

Moreover... laying an egg is part of an animal’s body, and something this small suggests the creature that laid it wouldn’t be very large.

”Could it be a snake?” Luo Yanran suggested again.

Luo Qianqian shuddered unconsciously: ”Don’t scare me.”

I’m not good with frights; if you scare me and I drop this thing and it breaks, that’s a minor issue. But if it’s an extinct animal, that would be a huge mistake.

”Could this thing be something like a dodo?” Luo Qianqian began to let her imagination run wild as well.

On the other hand, Tang Tianyi just looked at her with gentle eyes without speaking.

It was his god-grandmother who nudged him: ”You kids nowadays sure have a spirit of exploration.”

Tang Tianyi smiled wryly: ”Their imagination is just wild.”

But even so, everyone knew this ’stone’ was quite extraordinary, with a very tempting background.

”Let’s keep it, at worst, it’ll be a surprise for my brother.” Luo Qianqian nodded firmly. Since it was already hers, she couldn’t just throw it away, right?

Who knows what this life form would turn into, and it even requires medicinal baths; it’s practically more delicate than a human.

But there’s no need to tell anyone about these, especially the part about feeding it blood...

As her enthusiasm for the stone waned, Luo Qianqian turned to look at the elderly woman behind Tang Tianyi: ”I’m sorry, got a bit carried away... Please don’t take offense.”

”It’s fine.” The old lady smiled: ”Come with me.”

As she spoke, she led Luo Qianqian and the others to the neighboring courtyard, seated them, and poured tea: ”My surname is Ji, given name Yunshang, and I’m the clan leader of the Xuanyuan Tribe.”

Except for Luo Qianqian and Tang Tianyi who remained calm, the other three all gaped in disbelief.

Tribe? Why was their first reaction an alliance?

But the words Xuanyuan were too familiar.

Qin Nuan looked helplessly at Luo Qianqian: ”Qhianqhian, is this what I think it means?”

”Pretty much.” Luo Qianqian nodded, with a hint of teasing on her face: ”Anyway, it’s not like there’s a second meaning you could think of.”

Qin Nuan swallowed hard, indeed, there really wasn’t a second piece of information associated with those two words.

Her eyes fixed intently on Ji Yunshang.

”Our tribe, the most well-developed and widespread is the Maoshan sect.” Ji Yunshang smiled: ”And with Maoshan’s shortcomings, we have them too: the Five Defects and Three Shortcomings.” She spread her hands, full of helplessness: ”Quite unluckily, I’m without children, a husband, or a father, so I can only have a god-grandson.”

She patted Tang Tianyi on the shoulder: ”Luckily, he recovered quite a bit after growing up, although he was sick as a child.”

”God-grandmother.” Tang Tianyi was a bit puzzled.

He was sick first, and then she took him as a grandson. So why did it sound reversed coming from Ji Yunshang’s mouth?

”Maoshan belongs to Xuanyuan?” Luo Qianqian’s mouth twitched uncontrollably: ”I always thought it belonged to Daoism.”

But this didn’t catch the attention of Qin Nuan and Luo Yanran; they were completely frozen in place, staring blankly ahead. If it weren’t for their breathing and heartbeat, Luo Qianqian almost thought they’d...

Glancing at them, Ji Yunshang didn’t pay too much attention. Instead, she looked at them sideways and continued: ”What I can give you is this.” She picked up an incense burner from the ground and placed it on the table: ”The egg also requires a medicinal bath, but this path, I can’t help you with.”

Apologetically, she looked at Luo Qianqian and said: ”My health isn’t what it once was; I just hope I can hold on until then.”

”Until when?” Luo Qianqian asked, full of curiosity.

”It’s nothing.” Ji Yunshang waved her hand, smiling as she pointed to a room on the side: ”You can sleep two to a room. My place is not as good as that old man’s, just make do.”

Then she got up and left the courtyard. Just before stepping out, she stopped, pondered, and said: ”No matter what happens, you’ll have a good ending.”

She then turned and left.

Luo Qianqian looked bewildered and turned to Tang Tianyi, only to find him in the same dazed state as Qin Nuan and Luo Yanran.

It took a moment for him to return to normal.

Qin Nuan immediately grabbed Luo Qianqian: ”That old lady just now? She has the surname Ji, wow, feels like I’ve met someone incredible.”

Luo Qianqian smiled with her lips slightly curled: ”Yeah, quite an incredible person.”

That night, Luo Qianqian and Qin Nuan shared a room. Luo Qianqian sat on a bed, quietly maintaining a cultivation posture, while Qin Nuan was already fast asleep.

Exhaling some murky air, Luo Qianqian opened her eyes, confused.

For some reason, she suddenly felt that more and more people were paying attention to her.

Pushing open the door, she saw Ji Yunshang sitting in the courtyard, holding a wine jug, drinking alone.

Hearing the door open, Ji Yunshang turned around, saw it was Luo Qianqian, and smiled, waving her over: ”Come.”

Luo Qianqian carefully closed the door and walked over: ”Grandma Ji.”

Then sat on the chair next to her: ”What are you doing here so late?”

”Waiting for you.” Ji Yunshang smiled: ”This Thousand Days Drunk is a good thing, they say drinking it once makes you sleep a thousand days.”

Luo Qianqian said nothing. If you really sleep for a thousand days, without a hospital, you’d probably die, wouldn’t you? From weakness, from hunger.

”I haven’t seen Tianyi in a long time; without a reason, he wouldn’t come. Since his grandmother died, I’ve only seen him twice. This is the second time; the first time, he took the Spirit of Jade from me.”

”The Spirit of Jade is yours?” Luo Qianqian was stunned.

Ji Yunshang nodded: ”It’s mine, but people like us, at most, it’s just decoration, nothing of use.”

”Where did you find it?” Luo Qianqian quickly asked.

If there’s more, the Nine Heavens Pavilion would surely become famous.

”That place, you’ll be going there soon as well.” Ji Yunshang said.

Luo Qianqian’s face turned pale: ”Are you talking about the Immortal Island?”

”Correct.” Ji Yunshang nodded, satisfied.