Jun Wen felt his face sting a little, and started to change the subject, "Little Junior Sister, Blood Tiance definitely hates us to death now!
As for me, I can at least protect myself a bit, but you'd better just stay quietly in the sect from now on and not go anywhere!
If you ever run into that old demon or his subordinates again, you're dead for sure!"
Feng Xi looked at him with a mocking smile, "You can protect yourself? Are you sure?
If it weren't for me this time, the grass would already be growing on your grave!"
Jun Wen: "..."
If you keep talking like that, I'll stop caring about you!
Jun Wen forced himself to save face, "Really, it's our Xuantian Sect's fault for being too poor!
The other three sects' personal disciples all have tons of life-saving methods, talismans, array disks, spiritual artifacts beyond counting, not to mention all sorts of precious pills.
Who would be like me with only a few spirit stones, and I used them all up to activate the teleportation array."
Feng Xi pressed her lips together and smiled, "Fifth Senior Brother, we're going to get rich soon! Once they dig out that upper-grade spirit stone vein, we'll get ourselves some life-saving treasures too!"
Jun Wen's eyes lit up, "Right! We'll be rich people from now on!"
The two of them daydreamed for a while, their eyes... practically turning into the shape of spirit stones.
"Right, Fifth Senior Brother, what's the identity of that old demon? He seemed really powerful."
Jun Wen immediately answered, "He's a Protector Elder of the Blood Demon Clan, and slaughtered many of our human cultivators. His methods are extremely cruel.
A hundred years ago, for some reason, he entered deep into human territory and was supposedly killed by the Four Great Sects working together.
Who would've thought he didn't actually die."
Feng Xi listened and blinked her eyes, "Fifth Senior Brother, keep watch for me, I'm going to have a friendly little chat with the old demon."
Jun Wen was dumbfounded!
"Little Junior Sister, what did you just say?"
"I'm going to send the old demon a message to explain that what happened earlier was just a misunderstanding.
From now on, we're still his loyal subordinates, and we'll continue to do our best as diligent little spies for the demon race."
Jun Wen: "... Are you insane?"
Back in the mine, they only acted that way to survive, now that they'd escaped from his clutches, why would she voluntarily go back to pretending?
Feng Xi sighed, "Fifth Senior Brother, do you think I want to keep acting? I'm doing this for our Xuantian Sect, for the human race!
As long as we can make the old demon believe us, we'll be able to obtain first-hand information about the demon race. That would only benefit humankind, not harm it!
So I have to act and keep acting.
Fifth Senior Brother, the fewer people who know about this, the better. So other than you and me, no one else can find out.
Not even Master.
It's not that I don't trust him, but out of concern for us, he'd definitely stop us.
So, Fifth Senior Brother, from now on it's just the two of us fighting side by side!
For Xuantian Sect, for the human race, we must endure humiliation and bear the heavy burden…"
After Feng Xi's long speech, Jun Wen was fired up with passion, feeling as if the fate of humankind itself rested on their shoulders.
He only calmed down after a good while.
"Little Junior Sister, our plan sounds good and all, but will that old demon even believe us?"
You just tricked him, why would he trust you again?
Feng Xi smiled, her eyes curving like crescents, "We'll know if we try!"
Saying that, she asked Jun Wen to keep watch while she took out the Blood Demon Clan Order Blood Tiance had given her.
"My Lord, this subordinate deserves ten thousand deaths!
To avoid arousing human suspicion, this subordinate rashly acted on her own and wounded you.
It's because I had absolute faith in you and knew you'd surely escape unharmed, so I performed that little ruse of self-injury…"
Moments later, Blood Tiance's furious voice came through the token, "You wretched girl, do you take this master for a fool?!
How dare you deceive me like this, just wait! I'll turn you into a living puppet and make you beg for death but be unable to die!"
Feng Xi sighed, "My lord, I know you're angry with me. No amount of words can make up for what I've done.
But my loyalty to you is witnessed by Heaven and Earth, you mustn't forget, I swore a venomous oath before you!
In just over half a month, the Tianhen Secret Realm will open. I'll make sure to sow discord among the Four Great Sects and present it as my offering of allegiance."
A moment later, a chilling voice came from within the Blood Demon Clan Order, "Very well. This master will give you one more chance. Don't disappoint me."
Because Feng Xi had communicated through divine sense, Jun Wen couldn't hear what Blood Tiance said. When he saw Feng Xi smiling as she put away the token, he hurriedly asked, "Little Junior Sister, what did he say?"
Feng Xi grinned, "What else could he say? Of course he forgave me!
After all, spies as brilliant as me are rare both on earth and in heaven!"
Jun Wen: "... Could you please speak like a human?"
Feng Xi then explained everything to him in detail.
Jun Wen: "... Wait, aren't you too immersed in your role? You really plan to stir up conflict among the Four Great Sects?"
Feng Xi gave him a look, "Fifth Senior Brother, can you try using your brain once in a while?
The Four Great Sects have been fighting each other for ages, do I even need to stir them up?
Besides, Shen Zhilan must hate me to the bone by now. When the time comes, I won't even have to do anything, she'll be the first to deliver a knife to my back!"
Jun Wen: "..."
He used to think he's clever, but ever since meeting Little Junior Sister, he started to question whether he had any brains at all.
The truth was, Feng Xi's ongoing act with Blood Tiance wasn't really for the sake of humankind as she claimed, it was purely for self-preservation.
Feng Xi did have a sense of righteousness, but… not much.
She could barely protect herself, how could she spare the effort to worry about humanity's future?!
According to Jun Wen, Blood Tiance was a Protector Elder of the Blood Demon Clan, which meant he had both great strength and great influence.
If she didn't patch things up, the Blood Demon Clan might put a bounty on her head.
And with how weak she was now, she couldn't afford to make too many enemies.
Once she grew strong enough in the future, she'd see who dared to cross her!
Meanwhile, Xiao Baidao had already ordered people to excavate the second-layer of the mine.
The reason was perfectly reasonable, since Blood Tiance had been hiding there, they might find some clues.
During the excavation, part of the mine collapsed again, but most of it remained intact.
Yet Xiao Baidao's heart grew cold.
Because they hadn't found the upper-grade spirit stones Feng Xi had spoken of.
Still, under Feng Xi's persistent urging, Xiao Baidao continued to have them dig.
Then, one day, there's progress.
While excavating laterally, they discovered dense rock.
Dense rock had one special property, it blocked spiritual energy.
As soon as they stripped away the dense rock, they sensed a surge of rich spiritual energy.
It really was an upper-grade spirit stone vein!
The entire Xuantian Sect went wild with joy!
They said that at the time, two of the four Peak Masters fainted on the spot!
Only Xiao Baidao remained calm and composed, without the slightest change in expression.
Everyone admired their sect master deeply, as expected of our sect master, calm and steady, a true man of depth!
Little did they know that Xiao Baidao simply couldn't believe his own eyes!
An actual upper-grade spirit stone vein?
Did Heaven really drop a pie on our heads?!