Losing Money

The shopkeeper was a middle-aged woman, whom the clerks called Madam Xueying. Retaining her grace from days of old, she had taken a fancy only to Beibei as a potential disciple.

Madam Xueying's husband was none the less than Xueying, formerly the most capable subordinate under the Divine Lord Emperor Fan!

Xueying had vanished for ten thousand years, his whereabouts, along with the followers who once trailed him, lost in mystery.

After Emperor Fan and the second successor of the Demonic Forbidden Canon perished together, they faded from the sight of all, and people throughout the God Realm whispered that he was dead.

Madam Xueying walked over, looked at Beibei, and cleared her throat. Struggling to strike a posture of an otherworldly expert, she squatted down.

"Little child, I see your bone structure is extraordinary and your heavenly gate is full. Why, the roots of wisdom are faintly visible between your brows, and your spiritual energy surges straight into the heavens... Tsk tsk, you are simply a once-in-ten-thousand-years cultivation prodigy!"

At this, Madam Xueying paused. Seeing that the little Beibei before her was completely dazed by her flattery, she knew she had a chance, so she struck while the iron was hot. "So, would you like to learn the Dao of cultivation?"

"The kind where you can soar through the skies and tunnel through the earth—you must know about that, right?"

Madam Xueying kept enticing Beibei...

Beibei snapped out of it with a smile and immediately shook her head. The Red-clothed Fairy chuckled softly, thinking to herself that if they were so easily fooled, she and her sisters would have already coaxed the two little ones back to the Flowing Immortal Palace.

Madam Xueying was deeply disappointed, wearing the exact same expression the Red-clothed Fairy had worn earlier.

Meanwhile, the