Travel Guide

After exchanging messages with Himeko last night, Xiao Xi went straight to bed, only waking up leisurely once the morning sun shone into her room.

Squinting her eyes, she stretched out in a long, satisfying yawn. "Mmm, that was such a comfortable sleep..."

Once Xiao Xi finished tidying her clothes and stepped out of her room, she saw Stelle, who had come looking for her.

"Xiao Xi, take a look at this." Stelle handed over a travel brochure.

"This is the Aurum Alley Travel Guide, produced by the Star-Plucking Society. Stelle, are you thinking of going there for a stroll?"

"Yeah. Now that we've finally resolved everything on the Luofu, heaven knows how I felt after finding out what those Vidyadhara High Elder Preceptors had done..."

"Witnessing the diversity of species before you've even turned one year old, huh? That must have been tough on you." Faced with such a situation, Xiao Xi could only offer a helpless, teasing remark.

Speaking of the Vidyadhara, Stelle had miraculously found quite a bit of evidence back at the Alchemy Commission. Heaven knows why those High Elder Preceptors used paper letters to send messages—did mobile phones not exist for them?

It made the secret collusion between the Vidyadhara and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus look incredibly stupid. Both sides were at fault; leaving evidence at the Alchemy Commission meant it would all be over the moment the Luofu authorities investigated, right?

It was also quite strange. Before Stelle arrived, the Luofu's security system wasn't exactly poor. Even if the Alchemy Commission was crawling with traitors, such obvious evidence shouldn't have been ignored. Could there really be some mysterious force helping Stelle?

In any case, with the evidence Stelle uncovered, combined with the fact that the Vidyadhara High Elder Preceptors had attempted to assassinate the High Elder Bailu—a plot foiled only because Dan Heng happened to be there—both of them were safe and sound.

With these two pieces of evidence brought to light, it was enough for Jing Yuan to suppress or even purge a faction of the Vidyadhara on the Luofu.

Jing Yuan had also taken this opportunity to eliminate most of the reactionary forces on the Luofu, which could be considered a happy ending for everyone. Now that everything had concluded smoothly, it was time to get some well-deserved rest.

"Aurum Alley is said to be a famous commercial street on the Luofu. They say there are plenty of Xianzhou snacks there, so we can go and try them when we arrive."

Walking on the path toward Aurum Alley, Stelle and Xiao Xi were discussing what they should do once they reached their destination.

"Huh." Xiao Xi looked toward the bushes ahead, suddenly hesitating as she asked, "Stelle, did that bush just move? Is there something hiding inside?"

"The bushes?" Stelle turned to look at the roadside. The shrubs were trimmed very neatly and orderly by the Luofu staff. As the two walked over to take a closer look, they could vaguely see something purple mixed in among the green leaves and branches.

Stelle and Xiao Xi exchanged glances. After a moment of hesitation, they decided they had to call whoever was in the bushes out.

"Um... although I don't know who you are or why you're hiding in the bushes like this, if it's convenient, could you please come out?" Xiao Xi asked gently.

However, the person hiding in the bushes was clearly startled by Xiao Xi's sudden voice; the low shrubbery suddenly trembled.

"Eek, ah!" The person's voice sounded very flustered. As they scrambled out of the bushes, they nearly collided with Stelle's thigh.

"A child?" Xiao Xi exclaimed in surprise.

The little girl had long purple hair and a small gourd hanging from her waist. And those things on her head... were those dragon horns? And a dragon tail? So, a Vidyadhara child?

Come to think of it, there was only one young Vidyadhara girl on the entire Luofu with such an appearance: the High Elder, Bailu.

"Are you the current High Elder of the Vidyadhara, Bailu? Why are you here? And why were you hiding in the bushes?" Xiao Xi asked, puzzled.