At sunset, Xiao Jingting drove the carriage as usual. He headed towards Star City but bumped into a large convoy.
Xiao Jingting found several acquaintances in the convoy: one was Ouyang Mingyue and the others were Ouyang Jing and Ouyang Jinyue. Thatâs right. Xiao Jingting bumped into the convoy of the Ouyang family which was heading towards the Star City.
As soon as the carriage driven by Xiao Jingting approached the Ouyang familyâs convoy, they were asked by the Ouyang family escort team to keep their distance from their convoy.
Ouyang Jinyue who was bored, spotted Xiao Xiaofanâs figure and came over to chat.
âUncle Xiao, are you planning to go to Star City as well?â Ouyang Jingyue walked up to Xiao Jingting and asked.
Xiao Jingting nodded and said,âYes! Are you going too?â
Ouyang Jinyue nodded and said,âYes!â
Xiao Xiaofan holding the milk jug sat on the double Jiao horse, curiously looking at Ouyang Jinyue before saying,âLittle sister, what would you be doing in Star City?â
Ouyang Jinyue folded her arms and said angrily,âI am a young lady.â
Xiao Xiaofan swayed his feet that were hanging in the air to compare their height and said,âLook, Iâm taller than you now.â
Ouyang Jinyue snorted and raised her chin as she smiled darkly,âBelieve it or not! Should I kick you down?â
Xiao Xiaofan puffed his cheek and said,âYouâre so fierce!â
Ouyang Jinyue smiled triumphantly and said,âYou are finally afraid.â
âMiss, what are you doing here?! Hurry and go back to our convoy. Itâs not safe here.â A middle-aged woman gestured to Xiao Jingting and others as she looked at Ouyang Jinyue with earnest words.
Xiao Jingting glanced at the middle-aged woman indifferently. The middle-aged woman was a cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Practice, so when she looked at him and Xu Muan, her eyes were full of vigilance and disdain, as if their family was something despicable that would stain them.
Ouyang Jinyue frowned and said,âGo back first, Iâll come back after playing for a while.â
âYoung lady, you are still young and easily deceived.â The middle-aged woman was very worried as she glanced at Xiao Jingting.
Xiao Jingting rolled his eyes. Did he look like a liar? All jokes aside, back on Earth, he had always been a good student with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty! He was a righteous man!
Ouyang Jinyue became a little impatient. âAunt Yu, I am already so big. I will not be cheated so easily.â
âYoung lady, you are only six years old.â Qian Yu said with a smile.
Ouyang Jinyue became dissatisfied. âWhatâs wrong with being six years old? Six years old is already big. Anyway, many guards are here, so how would my staying here matter?â
Qian Yu still wanted to say something, but Ouyang Jinyue had already impatiently waved her hand. âAlright Aunt Yu, just stop talking. I am not a child anymore, donât be nosy.â
Although Ouyang Jinyue was young, probably because of her origin, she had a certain prestige.
Qian Yuâs face changed and she didnât dare to get angry with Ouyang Jinyue. She only glared at Xiao Jingting and Xu Muan.
Xiao Jingting couldnât help feeling a little depressed, thinking,âThe weak ones are easily bullied! This woman doesnât dare to offend Ouyang Jinyue but continues to despise me. I am actually not as intimidating as a six-year-old girl!â Xiao Jingting felt a deep sense of frustration.
Xiao Jingting saw Qian Yu went straight to Ouyang Mingyue and muttered something into her ear.
Xiao Jingting didnât need to guess, and he was sure that this woman wouldnât have anything good to say.
Qian Yu was only at the sixth level of Qi Practice, but she relied on her Marquisâ background and looked down on him.
Xiao Jingting had always felt that this world was a pure cultivation world. But suddenly, he realized that in this world, the background was important too!
âWho is that woman? Who is she to you?â Xiao Xiaofan asked.
âSheâs my wet nurse.â Ouyang Jinyue said.
Xiao Xiaofan stared at her and said,âYouâre so old but you are still drinking milk!â
Ouyang Jingyue blushed and said angrily,âI have been weaned for a long time, but the nurse has always been taking care of me.â
Xiao Xiaofan nodded and said,âReally?â
Ouyang Jinyue looked at the milk jug in Xiao Xiaofanâs hand and said angrily,âYou still dare to ask me about it, but look at whatâs in your hand. Beast milk, you are so old and youâre still drinking milk.â
Xiao Xiaofan lightly snorted and said,âSo ignorant. This is not beast milk but milk wine that boys are meant to drink.â
Ouyang Jingyue looked at Xiao Xiaofan with some suspicion and said,âReally? However, thereâs no smell of wine at all. It rather smells like heavy milk.â
Xiao Xiaofan snorted softly and said,âNo vision, itâs wine.â
âHumph, itâs clearly beast milk, but youâre still pretending itâs wine. You have no shame.â Ouyang Jinyue said proudly.
âItâs wine, who is pretending?â Xiao Xiaofan said, dissatisfied.
âMiss Ouyang, what are you going to do in Star City?â Xiao Xiaodong revealed an innocent expression as he asked.
Seeing Xiao Xiaodong reveal an innocent and curious expression, Xiao Jingting couldnât help rubbing his nose.
âIâm going to attend the selection.â Ouyang Jinyue said.
Xiao Xiaodong asked with some curiosity,âWhat kind of selection?â
Xiao Xiaodong beat around the bush and inquired about many questions. For example, in Star City, there were actually cultivators who came from Green Cloud Immortal Sect. The Barbarian Wasteland Continent could be said to be the territory of the Green Cloud Immortal Sect to a certain extent but the Green Cloud Immortal Sect did not care much about this place. They only secretly supported some forces to manage this continent.
The Marquisâ house was one of the forces supported by the Green Cloud Immortal Sect, the Sect would regularly come to the Barbarian Wasteland Continent to collect some disciples. In the past, they used to collect only those with good qualifications. However, over time, the Sectâs disciple quota had been divided among the major families, so people from the Sect were now directly selected from the major forces.
In the Barbarian Continent, there were countless youngsters, and picking talented disciples was not an easy task. The children of these big families were trained to extremely high levels since childhood, and their levels were indeed much higher than those of the common families, so the emissaries of the Green Cloud Immortal Sect naturally gave priority to choosing disciples from those big families.
Moreover, large families would give a great gift to the Green Cloud Immortal Sect emissaries regardless of whether their children were selected or not. However, those from poor families simply couldnât afford to give such expensive gifts.
The Sectâs standards for accepting disciples were extremely high and there were quite a few big families in the Barbarian Continent, so the competition was very fierce.