A few months ago, she and her sister were both still everyday mortals having no business with the paths that cultivators took. However, she had met a completely white man while she was hunting with her sister around here.
Meeting this completely white man, they made small talk during which he had given her some instructions and elixirs, both helping her cultivation tremendously, though after that the man left just as suddenly as he had come.
Not forgetting that meeting and beginning the following the old man's instructions, she soon felt how her power became overwhelming, just like the old had promised her. Soon her speed, strength, and resilience became a whole different class in a short time. Then due to this, she would start sparring with the tribe leaders kids, who were cultivators like her now, even winning some of the fights.
From there on, she started taking cultivation seriously, and she had now felt three major upgrades in her power. Still, even if she had become a cultivator, her family was the centre of everything, and she would also cultivate for that reason. Even the tribe leader had started to become more and more welcoming towards her and her family after every breakthrough of hers.
She felt how she was becoming something.
Now to today, she had listened to her sister talking something regarding hunting a giant rat that had been running around the outskirts of the town, yet like everyone else, she didn't think a lot of it, letting her sister go look for it while she trained.
Yet now her sister was running from some man, who had one of her sister arrows in his shoulder while still charging at her. Observing this and knowing full well that her sister wasn't a useless bow user, she could reason that if the man was a mortal, would he be on the ground already. Furthermore, from the speed of the man and how the arrow didn't affect him much was she a hundred per cent sure that the opposition was a cultivator.
This in mind, she was about to start a discourse with the man, but that was thrown into the wind when her sister screamed.
¨That man is a scout from another tribe! And knows where our village is!¨ She exclaimed while taking another arrow from her quiver and placing it on the nock, stretching the string and aiming towards the alleged scout.
Meanwhile, as the two sisters were doing their own thing so was Xiao Fan doing his own thing which was to rush at the two of them at full speed.
When Xiao Fan had seen someone else appearing, he hadn't thought much other than to catch her too and to catch her first since she could still run while the other sister was out of stamina.
However, aiming for the newcomer's head, Xiao Fan would inevitably look at that face his fist was about to hit. A small thing, yet one which would prove out to be a grave mistake for the man who in prison had never seen a woman and the fact that she certainly was a beauty didn't help much either.
For Xiao Fan to see the snow-white face of the woman which boasted two big black eyes now taking captive of his own was nothing short of a world-changing view.
Now, at this point, if one could think, one could figure that Xiao Fan's charge wouldn't go as planned. The boy was already thinking of something completely else than punching that face in front of him.
Still, while Xiao Fan might be in a trance, the woman, his opposition surely wasn't, as when Xiao Fan's body and the punch it carried with it went past her she was active. And while at first she was pretty weirded out by his performance, she a blink later didn't care. She simply took a step back gathered her power and punched his stomach that presented itself so nicely to her fist.
Sending Xiao Fan flying backwards.
Yet, even when flying backwards in the air, Xiao Fan still stared at that face for a moment. A moment which was then stopped as the time that on him had stopped for a moment was taken back into the normal regulations of time. And after that, he soon hit the ground.
A small dust cloud followed his rolls in which he was trying to regain the lost footing. A few rolls later, he found his footing, and while standing up, he noticed that the arrow on his shoulder had broken, in a bad way, since the tip of the arrow had been pushed deeper into his shoulder by all that rolling.
'Not a big deal' Not seeing anything too bad, he took his gaze off the shoulder and refocussed it towards the two girls, who were waiting for something? Why weren't they coming towards him? 'Weird' he thought, but it was giving him ample time to look at the two silver-haired women.
The one he had chased after had locked her bow on him, giving an angry expression towards him, and next to her, the newcomer, the one who had made his heart thump but not because of the punch was waiting with an indifferent attitude.
Xiao Fan had no scale for the attractiveness of women, but these two should go to the top, or at the very least raise the bar to heaven. Even he when seeing such women instinctively patted some dust off his robes, and then tried to put out a more pleasant face towards the two women, who looked at each other for a moment before the taller one spoke to him.
¨Which tribe are you from. And what were you trying to do to my sister¨ Now that she had gotten a feel of the man she could conclude that his Grade was lower than her but by not much. The punch had made him be knocked back by a bit, maybe making smaller problems for him, yet now she didn't care much of the damage. For now, she was much more interested in seeing him calm down, even if he was making such a weird expression with his face.
¨I'm not part of any tribe. I have been lost for the past days!¨ He quickly shouted back, telling everything how it truly was. He didn't think of his words much because he focused more on checking his body condition that seemed mostly fine. But he also knew that few punches more, and there would be problems.
Due to this negligence in wording, his reply was bad, to say the least of it. It was the very thing anyone in panic would think of to say, and so only made the two women more suspecting of him.
¨Thats just what any spy would say!¨ Yet even after this, the taller woman didn't want to fight till one of them fell, or he would run away, or maybe target her sister. If alone, she would take him, but with her sister so close it would take one punch from him to end her life, leading into the ending which was the last thing she wanted to happen.
On the other side, Xiao Fan realising that he had indeed spoken what any terrible spy would say thought and begun a different approach ¨Then who are you? Your sister has ambushed me, shot me with multiple arrows, and you are the one asking me questions?¨
While the exchange of words was going on, Xiao Fan in the meantime detected that the arrow had gone deep enough that he was losing blood, detected as in he felt blood running on his skin.
Yet having nothing better to do to it, he used his other arm to block some of the flow.
Meanwhile, the taller woman's eyes turned towards her sister on the side ¨Are you sure about him being a spy?¨ She wouldn't doubt her sister, but for now, she had only said that he was a scout and nothing else, and even that being true was only likely, at best.
However, the smaller sister was very sure about what she had seen. Moreover, after being hunted by the man like he had been doing was she now sure to get back by using her sister.
¨Sister Huan, I'm sure that he is a spy! And he was coming after me in a way that I was sure that he would take my chastity without Sister Huan coming to my help¨ She pleaded.
The woman named Huan turned her eyes back to Xiao Fan, who didn't seem like the person, but her sister had said so, and she would teach the man a lesson.
¨Dont worry Sister Lan. I will teach the evil man a lesson¨ She ate the shit Sister Lan told her.
¨Thank, you sister for always taking care of me¨ Lan spoke to Sister Huan who was looking at Xiao Fan while he was stunned looking at Sister Lan,
Who saw Sister Lan presenting a mischievous smile towards him.
Xiao Fan quickly realised that she wasn't caring so much about his real background as for now she just wanted him to suffer some.
But their staring was soon stopped by the third person around.
¨Stop looking at my sister you pervert!¨ The man still dared to look at her sister while she was already coming at him? Indeed, it looked like the man truly had wicked thoughts about her sister.
And she was already at Body Warming realm third grade, so the one thing making this fight hard for her would be to protect her mortal sister from danger. Remembering this, she had already with a few steps closed the distance between them by half.
That was also the moment during which Xiao Fan finally reacted to her screaming from looking at the other sister. Understanding that the negotiations had gone sour, he made the only thing possible, which was to turn around to withdraw from the battlefield with a woman chasing her this time.
There was no real possibility to win so he would need to run away before being pummeled by the woman, who he had also taken as the stronger cultivator.
Both of them knew their strength, but another thing was knowing the others strength since Body realm had almost no means to figure out the other party's strength before clashing. However, he had already taken a punch from her and knew very well that in a fight, there was little to no chance for him. Adding in was that he hadn't done a lot of real fighting while the woman seemed to have some, so avoiding combat was his best idea for now.
Fleeing like this might make him need to change location, but that was better than dying.
Sister Lan seeing the two of them running back the path she had come from, took the arrow off the bow and ran fast as she could behind the two people with super-human speed disappearing into the forest.
On the cultivator side, one Grade difference in power was a big cap, but luckily for Xiao Fan, the speed of a cultivator increased much less from gaining a Grade in the Body Warming Realm, so for now, Xiao Fan could somewhat keep her behind him.
Just last night, he had read that even a Grade One could run away from a Grade Four smoothly, so he was confident in getting away. And taking the same route, he had run before Xiao Fan started to gain distance, which he felt was due to the fact that he had this route mapped out, or so he thought.
Because, in reality, Sister Huan was giving him enough leeway that it would seem she had lost him while she would then turn back to regroup with her sister and begin the hunt to track the pervert from a better position. These were their home grounds and their playground, so she had all the confidence to catch him later without endangering her sister.
Meantime, on the side of the now hunted, Xiao Fan seeing no one chasing him came to the conclusion that he had escaped the pursuit. Now he could focus his attention on to the arrowhead stuck inside his shoulder, which hadn't taken this running too well and so had begun to sprout out blood at a faster pace.
When he got back to the cave, he crashed on the floor and moved his hand away from the shoulder to see how bad it was. After undressing the top half of his robes, he could see that the arrow head's base wasn't showing anymore.
¨That's not good...¨ Xiao Fan said to himself while starting to feel the wound with his finger. Doing so Xiao Fan realised that it must have ripped even more during his run as every move of his hand felt like something was ripping the muscles in his shoulder apart.
Cao Cao still nowhere to be seen he needed to start first aid by himself, but with his own ideas, the first aid was really just ripping the arrow out before thinking much else.
The arrowhead could already bee seen from the other side of his armpit, as he took what was left of the shaft into his grips. Then with one quick pull and a scream, the arrow that had become red came out of Xiao Fan's shoulder.
Luckily his screams inside here couldn't be heard as the waterfall would block any noise. Very luckily, indeed as the two women were already top of the waterfall.
Precisely when Xiao Fan was screaming from all the pain, the two sisters had made their way back to the place where Sister Lan had laid her ambush.
¨Sister the man was looking from here towards our Greenwood Town!¨ The smaller sister ran to the spot where Xiao Fan had been.
¨Did you see his luggage anywhere?¨ She came next to her and saw the few arrows fired that her sister was now picking up.
Sister Lan was picking up the arrow that had hit the rock and made a sad sigh as the head of the arrow would need to be fixed before used again ¨He didn't have anything on him as he climbed up that side¨ She pointed towards the side Xiao Fan had climbed up.
Slowly but surely the more Sister Huan listened to her was she getting less and less confident that the man had been here as a scout and simply blurted out idiotically the words that he was lost and had no allegiance.
Furthermore, her sister being who she is would have surely after all that wanted some revenge on him.
While thinking about this, she took a look at her sister.
She trusted her always, but she also knew that her sister had a tendency to lie or make the words sound more towards her liking. And because of that, she was now thinking about how they had a rogue cultivator running in their backyard for no good reason.
And while in reality, the blame would fall to her sister, she would need to step up and help her as no way her sister could handle a cultivator only little weaker than her. This all was much more her problem than Sister Lan's.