She Wanted to Boil an Egg

Chapter 2: She Wanted to Boil an Egg

"Stop! Why are you fighting?"

A faintly angry voice descended from the sky. A breathtaking beauty in a pale violet dress came riding the wind, her long hair streaming and skirts fluttering, her entire body shimmering with a sparkling glow.

[You destroyed the Ten Thousand Talisman Sect with a single sword, bearing an enormous karmic debt of sin. Your mother was not in the sect that day. Now that she has returned after attaining the Great Dao, she intends to perish together with you.]

[System Quest: Make her let go of her hatred and embrace you once more.]

[Quest Reward: Ninth-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill.]

Jiang Wan stopped and raised her head to look at this body's mother.

Fairy Xueyun's skin was as white as snow. She looked no older than sixteen, her brows slightly furrowed as she gazed at them.

Jiang Yao, on the other side, was the first to rush over and hug Fairy Xueyun.

"Mother, I was doing it for her own good, but she hit me. Yaoyao hurts so much, boohoohoo."

Little Jiang Wan stared in a daze. Huh? She already knew how to accuse the victim first at such a young age?

Then she would complain too. She was her biological mother, after all. Surely she would not favor a daughter with no blood relation over her own?

With that thought, she charged toward her real mother like a tiny cannonball. First, she acted cute and coquettish, then said with remarkable fluency:

"Mother~, she stole my Candied Hawthorn, stole my jade pendant, and now she's even stealing my mother. Mother~ Mother, hug me."

As she spoke, Jiang Wan rushed in front of the beautiful woman and plunged headfirst into her arms, squeezing Jiang Yao aside.

Sure enough, the beautiful woman reached out and held her as well.

In a childish, milky voice, Jiang Wan sweetly said to Fairy Xueyun:

"Mother~, you're Wanwan's real mother. Wanwan likes you."

Fairy Xueyun held one child in each arm. Hearing this, a smile bloomed at the corners of her beautiful lips, soft and lovely as spring crabapple blossoms. When she looked at the daughter she had found again, there was more affection in her eyes.

"Good girl, Mother likes you too. You two—"

[You threw yourself back into Immortal Venerable Xueyun's embrace. Your filial heart was utterly pure, moving Immortal Venerable Xueyun—who had intended to perish together with you—to hold you once more and put aside her killing intent. You must have racked your brains, your filial devotion moving heaven and earth.]

[Quest completed.]

[Quest Reward: Ninth-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill.]

Jiang Wan swore this was the best system she had ever seen. No, the best System Bro!

The Marrow Cleansing Pill was stored in the system space, and she could eat it whenever she wanted. But it was ninth-grade! What if it cleansed this tiny body of hers right out of existence?

Before Fairy Xueyun could finish speaking, Jiang Yao, whom Jiang Wan had squeezed aside, closed her eyes and went limp, fainting on the spot.

Fairy Xueyun was greatly alarmed. She hurriedly released Jiang Wan, checked Jiang Yao's condition, and instructed Jiang Wan.

"You play by yourself first." Then she picked up Jiang Yao and flew away.

Jiang Wan clicked her tongue. Good thing she had rushed over just now, or the quest would never have been completed. Jiang Yao definitely did not have the intelligence of a three-year-old.

Damn it, what three-year-old had this many tricks up her sleeve? How was a college student who had suffered ten straight losses in games supposed to live with this?

She turned to look at her little handsome Senior Brother. Luckily, the boy was still there. He was already at the Qi Refining Third Layer at five years old. Since she was three and a half, she should be able to start cultivating too, right?

"Senior Brother, can you teach me how to cultivate?"

Little Liuhuo glanced in the direction Mistress had left, his worry for Junior Sister written all over his small face.

He withdrew his gaze and looked at the newly found Junior Sister. If he left now, she would probably be sad too.

"Alright!"

The two went inside, one teaching earnestly and the other learning earnestly. Qi Induction really was much like the cultivation novels.

After seeing off little Senior Brother Liuhuo, she sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion and tried Qi Induction on her own.

Madam Li's shrill curses rang out from the courtyard.

That woman really was annoying!

She had just seen colorful spiritual energy swirling around her during meditation and was about to lure it over to play with her when that woman interrupted her.

"Jiang Wan, how could you be so vicious at such a young age? You actually beat Yaoyao unconscious! If I had known you were so rotten-hearted, I never would have kindly raised you all these years."

Kindly raised her?

There was something criminal about the way she said that!

Forced to interrupt her Qi Induction, Jiang Wan's little face darkened as she looked at the gaunt woman who had entered. Her triangular eyes and face were full of harshness.

"Foster Mother, didn't you raise me as your daughter? Or did you know from the beginning that I wasn't your daughter? Could it be that you deliberately switched Jiang Yao and me?"

Madam Li's heart jolted. What was this little brat saying? She... no, impossible. She was so young. She couldn't possibly know!

"What nonsense are you spouting?

"Look at what you did to Yaoyao—you made her faint! You're nothing but a jinx."

Fortunately, this three-and-a-half-year-old body contained her adult soul. Otherwise, how heartbroken would such a small child be after being treated like this?

Even if she had not given birth to her, she had still raised her for three years. Look at how much Fairy Xueyun cared for Jiang Yao. But this woman? If she were not three years old right now, she truly wanted to beat her up. Unfortunately, she could not beat her yet.

As Madam Li spoke, she even raised her hand, reaching over to poke Jiang Wan in the head.

The little girl still had a bump from smashing her head against a stone. She lifted her hand and knocked Madam Li's away.

"Ow! You little brat, why are you so strong? You've got the gall to treat me like this after eating a bear's heart and leopard's guts! Just see if I don't beat you to death."

Madam Li still thought this was that down-and-out little cultivation lineage. Jiang Wan was not even her daughter, yet she actually dared to say she would beat her whenever she pleased.

Jiang Wan stood before her with her hands on her hips, glaring fiercely in an adorably vicious manner.

"I'm the Sect Master's daughter. You dare hit me? You'd better think it through!"

Her words only made Madam Li angrier. She grabbed Jiang Wan by the back of her collar and carried her outside.

Jiang Wan's tiny arms and legs flailed in midair. Unfortunately, she was trapped in this tiny body. Just as she was about to scream with all her might, she was knocked unconscious.

When she woke again, she discovered that the ground beneath her was moving, with towering mountain peaks all around her.

What was going on?

Her body rolled over and over. Only after her tiny body rolled down did she realize she had been on the back of a huge turtle about a meter long.

She had no idea where this was. Being so small gave her no choice but to look around and shout at her surroundings:

"Is anyone there?

"Is anyone there—?"

Forget people—even the turtle from before had left. All that remained was an egg as large as a goose egg.

Could it be that the turtle was afraid she would starve to death, so it had left this for her?

She truly had not eaten all day. She had only taken two bites of Candied Hawthorn that sped up digestion.

This rotten place had to be Madam Li's doing. She had underestimated Jiang Wan's wilderness survival skills, hadn't she?

At once, she marched forward on her short little legs, found a large leaf to use as a pot, gathered dry branches nearby to build a fire, and then started drilling wood to make fire.

In the distance, the huge turtle completely failed to understand what this little brat was fiddling around with.

Wait, she... was she boiling water?

No, she was boiling the egg—?!!

My child's mother, I'm sorry! I had wanted to entrust my egg to a human before I died, even if it meant forming a contract. How had it come to the point where it was about to be boiled and eaten?

Human cubs really were unreliable!

Jiang Wan stuck out her little butt, rubbing her tiny hands together as she watched a small fire rise. The skin on her hands had practically rubbed raw.

[Because you could not eat braised turtle, you went mad and slaughtered the entire Xuanwu Clan. Now, travel across the Myriad Worlds and find the last remaining trace of the Xuanwu Tribe's bloodline.]

[Quest Difficulty: Infinitely high.]

Jiang Wan: So the villain wasn't just a villain—she was a lunatic too?

She had just placed the turtle egg into the leaf pot when she heard the system's words and took the egg back out.

Seeing this, the huge turtle in the distance, which was about to breathe its last, suddenly drew another breath.