Chapter 320 - Bait
Yang Xiu was as happy as happy could be, walking around the tournament grounds with her brother trying to find people who wanted to attack her. So far though, the worst that had happened was a bunch of Jade Chameleon Sect members in their gray robes giving her evil looks.
More promising was that some of them had dashed off after catching sight of her, hopefully to report to their superiors.
The blue and white robed members of the Swift Blizzard Sect had been more circumspect in their disdain for her and her brother, but she could tell they loathed her to the core of their very beings.
It was glorious. She couldn’t wait until the tournament started.
Luckily, there was a market set up for the participants with hundreds of stalls and plenty of stuff to look at. Otherwise, the two of them just walking at random for hours would have been much more suspicious. As it was, though, she thought they did a good job of pretending to shop. Yang Ru even bought a pretty necklace, probably for Kang Lin—not that the gift would do him any good.
Yang Xiu was pretty sure that he’d let the girl get away. It wasn’t really his fault, of course. The idiotic girl somehow thought that he was too good for her. Yang Ru. Too good. For Kang Lin.
That thinking made no sense to Yang Xiu. She loved her brother fiercely, and anyone talking bad about him would have to deal with her. But he wasn’t anything special compared to the girl she’d hoped would become her sister.
Yang Xiu gave a mental shrug. If someone wanted to be that stupid, there was nothing anyone really could do about it. She’d already tried to talk sense into Kang Lin.
The current mission demanded Yang Xiu’s attention as she was supposed to be keeping watch for enemy cultivators, so she dropped that line of thought.
If you do it long enough, even shopping and acting as bait can become boring. She seriously thought about calling it a day. Master hadn’t been sure that anyone would react immediately or at all.
Finally, though, it happened and in the best possible way.
That jerk Golden Core that had accosted them at the auction house arrived. He flew toward the twins on his sword, his expression enraged.