"Junior Sister, you're being too serious. Speaking of which, it was this Fire Crow of mine that caused the trouble. You scolding Yue Wu like this makes it seem as though I'm the one at fault." Lu Xiaotian waved his hand. "Tell me, did my Little Fire Crow steal and eat your spirit fruits again?"
"Steal and eat spirit fruits? That's putting it mildly! Uncle-Master Lu, this thief—this Little Fire Crow has committed every imaginable misdeed in Soaring Heavens Palace. It has visited every fire-element spirit-fruit orchard in the entire palace, and the disciples inside don't dare do anything to it. What's most infuriating is that eating spirit fruits would be one thing, but it often takes only one or two bites from a fruit before abandoning it. What a waste!"
"My mother brought me a Blood-Crown Fire Falcon from outside two years ago. I went to great lengths to collect a Fire-Tear Spirit Peach, intending to use it to help my Blood-Crown Fire Falcon advance. But when I let my guard down, this Little Fire Crow snatched the Fire-Tear Spirit Peach away."
Seeing that Lu Xiaotian did not seem nearly as stern as she had imagined and actually looked quite approachable, Xiao Yuewu began spilling everything like beans from a tipped bamboo tube. She picked out some of the more serious misdeeds the Little Fire Crow had committed in Soaring Heavens Palace over the years. Treating Soaring Heavens Palace's orchards as its own backyard and wasting spirit fruits had already become an everyday occurrence.
Worse still, it bullied other cultivators' fire-element spirit beasts and spirit birds, stole their food, and occasionally, when it found the food unpalatable, would caw and squawk for a while. Its many evil deeds were too numerous to record on bamboo slips. At first, the