Chapter 24

Chapter 24: A Wild Sprint

The group that had been packed together quickly thinned out. As people scattered, the weasel rat pack was confused for a moment. Then part of it kept chasing Wei Yun Ting’s squad, another part chased a squad made up of ordinary children, and the remaining squads only had two or three weasel rats behind them. The threat dropped immediately.

Wei Yun Xi swept her spiritual sense over the ordinary squad that was being singled out. Sure enough, the girl who had gone to the toilet with Wei Yun Qing was in that squad.

Looking at the weasel rats still chasing hard behind them, she was sure her guess was right. Wei Yun Qing truly harmed people.

The chubby kid couldn’t run anymore. He waved at Yun Xi and said, “Yun Xi, don’t pull me anymore. I’m going to fall behind. You run first.”

Wei Yun Xi said loyally, “Brother Zong Hao, I can’t leave you alone!”

She found the right moment, pulled him into a patch of thorn vines, and at the same time tossed out the isolation array plate in her hand. She dragged Wei Zong Hao into the array and hid inside.

Once inside the array, Wei Zong Hao collapsed on the ground and panted hard. Wei Yun Xi wasn’t doing much better, but while running earlier, she had instinctively poured spiritual energy into her legs. She had even used wind spiritual energy, and that was how she managed to drag a chubby kid along without being caught.

Choosing to fall behind now was because she didn’t want to be dragged down by Wei Yun Qing. Who knew what treasure Wei Yun Qing had taken from the weasel rats?

After Wei Zong Hao finally caught his breath, he sat up and looked at the weasel rats prowling outside the array. “Yun Xi, did we fall behind?”

“Yes. We had no choice. Most of the weasel rats were chasing us, and you couldn’t run anymore. I could only pull you aside to hide for a bit.”

“Thank you, Yun Xi. Here, eat some dried meat. I was running so hard just now I nearly ran out of breath. Eat something and get your strength back.”

Wei Zong Hao was uncharacteristically generous. He felt this girl was someone worth getting close to. Even in danger, she hadn’t abandoned him, and she even used a precious array plate to protect him. She was exactly the kind of clan sibling his mother said he could befriend.

Wei Yun Xi didn’t stand on ceremony. She took the dried meat and ate two pieces. Only after the weasel rats outside left did she say, “They’ve left. Let’s rest a bit more, then go catch up to Sister Yun Ting and the others.”

“Mm. We’ll go after we rest.” Wei Zong Hao nodded.

Wei Yun Xi asked, “Brother Zong Hao, why do you think the weasel rats wouldn’t stop chasing us?”

Wei Zong Hao asked back, “Yun Xi, you saw it clearly? Most of the weasel rats were behind us?”

He had been too busy running to look back.

Wei Yun Xi nodded at once. “I saw it clearly. Especially when Sister Yun Ting told everyone to split up, there were the most weasel rats behind us. Some also chased an ordinary squad, and the other squads only had two or three behind them.”

Wei Zong Hao frowned. “Earlier I saw Wei Yun Qing go into the woods with an ordinary girl to use the toilet. Could it be the two of them took something?”

Wei Yun Xi raised her eyebrows, a little surprised. She hadn’t expected someone else to notice Wei Yun Qing’s movements. It seemed these little kids weren’t simple either.

But that didn’t stop her from agreeing. “I saw it too, but I didn’t dare say anything just now.”

Hearing that, Wei Zong Hao knew he wasn’t the only one who noticed. He showed a row of little white teeth and said, “Come on. Let’s catch up and see if she really caused this.”

Wei Yun Xi nodded right away. After the two of them recovered their strength, she withdrew the array plate. It consumed her spirit stones, and every use cost her, so saving it was best.

This time, the two of them held hands and followed forward little by little along the direction they had been heading.

At that moment, Wei Yun Ting hated the troublesome younger clan sister to death and shouted, “Wei Yun Qing, if you don’t want to be eliminated, then give it back to the weasel rats! Otherwise, I won’t care about you anymore!”

Wei Yun Qing was unwilling, but in the end she took a baby weasel rat out from her sleeve and placed it on the ground, then quickly left that spot.

Among the weasel rat pack, there were those at the third layer of the Qi Refining Stage. She was no match for them at all. If Wei Yun Ting stopped protecting her, being eliminated was only a matter of time.

Once she put down the baby, the weasel rats that had been chasing them finally stopped. The biggest one went over and sniffed the baby. After confirming it was fine, it picked the little one up in its mouth and returned along the original path, without continuing to chase.

That was because the weasel rat pack had already left their own territory. Staying too long wasn’t good for them either, and the beasts whose territory they stepped into would treat it as a provocation.

Only then did Wei Yun Ting finally let out a breath, but she no longer had a good expression toward Wei Yun Qing. She felt this younger clan sister was too small-minded. This kind of beast was only first-tier. At most, it could break through to Third Rank. Besides running away, it didn’t have much ability, so she had no idea why Wei Yun Qing wanted to take a baby weasel rat.

If Wei Yun Xi were there, she could probably guess some of it. Wei Yun Qing had lost her biggest cheat, the wooden-token space, and her storage pouch was flat.

Without the support of the big shots in the chat group, she lacked confidence, so she wanted to catch this baby weasel rat that delivered itself to her and trade it for spirit stones. When they were little, those things were stupid and cute, and they were very popular with young girls.

But it backfired, and she scattered the entire squad. Wei Yun Qing muttered to herself, but when she looked back and saw Wei Yun Xi was missing, her mood improved.

“We’ll rest here for a bit.” After Wei Yun Ting saw the weasel rats weren’t chasing anymore, she spoke.

Only then did the remaining six stop running. Once everyone caught their breath, Wei Zong Han spoke bluntly. “Yun Qing, do you even know what you’re here to do? Are you trying to get the Wei Family disciples all eliminated, so the other families from Kun Yu City can laugh at us?”

Wei Zong Han was one of the first five disciples chosen to enter the sect. He was the same age as Wei Yun Ting and was also at the third layer of the Qi Refining Stage. But he was from a side branch of the Wei Family, so he followed Wei Yun Ting as the leader. Still, he was treated as the deputy leader, so he didn’t hold back at all.

Wei Yun Qing’s face flushed red, and her eyes reddened too. “Brother Zong Han, I didn’t know that baby weasel rat would bring the whole pack. When I went to the toilet, it fell onto my head. I saw its eyes weren’t even open, so I thought it had been abandoned. I just wanted to take it back and raise it. I know I was wrong!”

After she finished, she started wiping tears, making Wei Zong Han feel like he had punched cotton. He could only turn and look at Wei Yun Ting.

Wei Yun Ting also had objections, but Wei Yun Qing’s spirit-root aptitude was good, and she cultivated quickly. She was a key disciple the clan focused on, so Wei Yun Ting couldn’t speak too harshly. She could only warn her sternly, “Yun Qing, you’re already a cultivator. You can’t act so carelessly. Luckily this time it didn’t cause a major disaster. Take it as a lesson.”

“Sister Yun Ting, I remember.” Wei Yun Qing said with a wronged look.

Just then, Wei Zong Jin frowned. “Yun Xi and Zong Hao are gone!”