When Enemies Meet, Their Eyes Burn Red

Xuan Xiao had been lost in thought when a thunderous roar suddenly came from behind him.

"It's you!"

Xuan Xiao turned around and saw two familiar faces.

Well, they could not exactly be called familiar. They had only met once, and the memories were not particularly pleasant.

The red-haired girl instantly exploded when she saw him. She sprang up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, her eyes wide as she looked ready to rush over and bite him twice.

The golden-haired girl beside her immediately followed, smiling at Xuan Xiao with a hint of amusement in her eyes, clearly eager to watch the show.

They were none other than Ning Tian, the young sect mistress of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and her attendant, Wu Feng, the Peerless Tang Clan's famous lesbian.

The moment Xuan Xiao saw them, a playful smile curled across his lips. Unhurriedly, he greeted them.

"Isn't this Miss Ning and her hot-tempered little attendant? How's it going? Does your butt still hurt?"

The moment those words left his mouth, Wu Feng's face flushed bright red, as though she were about to breathe fire.

Ning Tian's expression stiffened as well. Clearly, that memory was not a pleasant one for either of them.

This matter had to be traced back to three years ago.

At the time, Xuan Xiao had been hunting for his third Soul Ring in the Star Dou Forest when he happened to run into Ning Tian's group, who had come to hunt for her second Soul Ring.

Originally, it had been no big deal. Everyone hunted their own Soul Beasts and stayed out of each other's way.

But when Ning Tian learned that he was hunting for his third Soul Ring, her eyes immediately lit up.

She considered him a rare talent and directly invited him to join the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Naturally, Xuan Xiao could not agree. As a transmigrator with a system, how could he possibly go work as someone else's subordinate? He flatly refused.

But when Wu Feng saw her young mistress being rejected, she immediately became unhappy.

She jumped out on the spot, pointed at Xuan Xiao's nose, and cursed him for not knowing what was good for him. Her insults were downright nasty.

Xuan Xiao did not indulge them either. Using the extreme speed granted by his second Soul Ring, his figure flashed and vanished from where he stood.

When he reappeared, he somehow had two bricks in his hands.

One brick each—smack, smack. Before Ning Tian and Wu Feng could react, they had both been knocked unconscious.

Even the three Soul Emperor guards who had accompanied them were each knocked out from behind, tied up like a string of rice dumplings, and hung from a tree.

When the three Soul Emperors woke up, they were dumbfounded. They were Soul Emperors above level sixty, respectable experts within the sect.

Yet they had been taken down by a little brat who looked eight or nine years old?

Normally, that should have been the end of it. At most, he could have untied them, dusted off his hands, and left.

But how could Wu Feng's fiery temper endure that?

She immediately opened fire at Xuan Xiao, spewing all sorts of nasty insults. Her cursing was truly vicious.

Xuan Xiao did not indulge her either. He hung her from a tree, found a handy branch, and whipped her thoroughly with a grin.

Wu Feng was beaten until tears and snot covered her face, wailing miserably in utter disarray.

After venting his frustration, Xuan Xiao untied Ning Tian and instantly vanished without a trace, not even leaving behind a shadow.

From then on, the incident became a thorn in Wu Feng's heart. Every time she remembered it, she felt humiliated.

Who would have thought they would run into each other again today? Enemies truly did meet on narrow roads.

Seeing Wu Feng's expression, as though she wanted to bite him to death, Xuan Xiao calmly picked his nose and spoke with complete indifference.

"Can you blame me for that? Who told you to have such a foul mouth? If you hadn't cursed at me, would I have whipped you?"

Wu Feng trembled with rage, her teeth grinding audibly as she squeezed out three words through clenched teeth.

"You're still talking!"

Xuan Xiao's eyes shifted as though he had suddenly thought of something, and he revealed a brilliant smile.

For some reason, that smile sent a chill down their spines, as though they had been targeted by some dangerous beast.

"Little dragoness, you'd better behave. If you keep making trouble, I'll go ask your sect master for Ning Tian's hand. With my talent, your sect master won't even have a reason to refuse."

Wu Feng froze for a moment, then her expression turned even uglier as she nearly roared the words out.

"Give it up! Even if I die, I'll never marry you!"

Xuan Xiao's next words instantly wiped the smile off Ning Tian's face. Her expression froze completely.

"Have you misunderstood something? I wasn't talking about you. I meant Young Sect Mistress Ning. As for you? At most, you'd count as a dowry maid."

Silence.

The entire street fell deathly quiet. One could have heard a pin drop.

Ning Tian's face instantly turned red, the flush spreading from her cheeks all the way to her ears. She looked like a boiled shrimp.

What he said was not wrong. The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had indeed been lacking talented successors in recent years.

There were practically no capable figures among the younger generation, and her mother had been worrying over finding a suitable guardian elder for the sect.

If a genius who had reached Soul Elder at only twelve years old willingly came knocking, her mother would probably laugh in her dreams.

By then, forget proposing marriage—her mother would likely tie him up and drag him back to the sect herself, then force Ning Tian to marry him.

Wu Feng looked as though someone had grabbed her by the throat. Her mouth hung open, but she could not utter a single word for a long while.

Her expression was utterly marvelous: furious, aggrieved, and helpless all at once.

She wanted to curse him, but she was afraid Xuan Xiao would really go propose marriage.

But if she did not curse him, she could not swallow this indignation.

She stood there like a fish stranded on shore, her mouth opening and closing without making any sound.

Seeing the two of them like this, Xuan Xiao was in a wonderful mood and burst into laughter.

"Alright, alright, I'll stop teasing you. I have things to do, so I'll be leaving first."

With that, he waved his hand and turned toward a general store, leaving Ning Tian and Wu Feng standing there in a complete mess.

After quite some time, Wu Feng finally came back to herself and stomped her foot through gritted teeth.

"Bastard! Don't let me run into you again!"

Xuan Xiao heard the furious shout but did not get angry. He turned back, smiled at her, and pulled something from his robes.

Even from a distance, Wu Feng could see it clearly. It was a Shrek student badge.

The brand-new metal badge gleamed beneath the sunlight. The symbol of Shrek Academy was engraved upon it, and it was clearly freshly issued.

Xuan Xiao tossed the badge in his hand and raised an eyebrow at Wu Feng. The meaning could not have been more obvious.

I'm at Shrek now. You can come find me anytime you want.

Wu Feng's expression instantly became extremely colorful. Her lips trembled for a long while, but in the end, she still could not say anything.

Ning Tian looked at Wu Feng's dazed appearance and truly feared that Wu Feng would faint from anger.

"Little Feng, snap out of it."

That single "Little Feng" immediately sent Wu Feng drifting into bliss.

Little Feng?

The young mistress actually called me Little Feng!

Wu Feng stood frozen in place as though she had been hit by a binding spell, those two words echoing over and over in her mind.

She had followed Ning Tian for so many years. Ning Tian had always called her Wu Feng or Xiao Feng, never using such an intimate form of address.

What was going on today?

Could it be because that bastard said he wanted to propose marriage, and the young mistress panicked?

Wu Feng's heart pounded wildly, and an involuntary blush rose to her face.

Ning Tian looked at her like this and sighed helplessly.

"Let's go. Stop standing here foolishly. We still have business to attend to."

Only then did Wu Feng come back to her senses and hurriedly follow Ning Tian, though her thoughts remained a complete mess.