"Xian Miaomiao?" Upon hearing that name, Chu Feng was first stunned, then looked at Xian Miaomiao with a suspicious expression. "You're not tricking me again, are you?"
"What would I trick you for? I'm not tricking you."
"Hold on, why would you even think that? Ugh, you're looking down on my name!" Xian Miaomiao's little cheeks puffed up in anger.
"Haha, no way — I wouldn't dare."
"It's just that… the name Xian Miaomiao, ah… it's really… it's pretty nice." Chu Feng waved his hands repeatedly, though he truly felt the name was a bit too entertaining. It was so informal — it didn't look like the proper name of a princess of the Ancient Elves at all. Still, he believed that Xian Miaomiao was not lying to him this time.
"It seems the two of you are getting along quite well." Just then, Princess Lingyue pushed the door open and entered, with the Martial Emperor elder following behind her.
"Sister! Uncle Yue! You're here! Come in, come in — I've had a grand feast prepared and have been waiting for you!" Upon seeing Princess Lingyue and the elder, Xian Miaomiao clapped her hands in excitement and ran toward the depths of the hall.
"You little glutton," Princess Lingyue said with a shake of her head and a smile. She then looked at Chu Feng. "Young Master Chu Feng, please. This girl rarely treats me to a meal, and the fact that I'm getting such treatment is all thanks to you."
"Your Highness is too kind. Just call me Chu Feng," Chu Feng said.
"If anyone's being overly formal, it was you first, Young Master Chu Feng," Princess Lingyue said with a smile.
Chu Feng chuckled but said nothing more, instead walking toward the depths of the hall.
After that, Chu Feng enjoyed a lavish meal at the palace. It was extraordinarily sumptuous. Once the meal was finished, Uncle Yue escorted him to a separate palace to rest.
At that moment, within the tree palace, only Princess Lingyue and Xian Miaomiao — the two sisters — remained.
"So, did he pass your test?" Princess Lingyue asked.
"Barely," Xian Miaomiao replied.
"Then how many Thousand-Leaf Sparrow Tail Flowers are you planning to give him?" Princess Lingyue asked.
"He only barely passed, so naturally I can't give him too many. I'll just casually give him a hundred or so," Xian Miaomiao said.
"What?!" Even the usually composed Princess Lingyue's expression changed drastically at those words.
"Miaomiao, what nonsense are you talking about? We only have a few thousand Thousand-Leaf Sparrow Tail Flowers in the entire Elf Kingdom."
"When the Compass Celestial and the Snow-Haired Celestial came asking, we only gave them one each. Even when the Weapon Refining Celestial and the Yin-Yang Celestial came, we only gave them each one as well."
"Even back when Father prepared a grand gift for the Immeasurable Celestial in thanks for helping our Ancient Elves open the ruins, there were only ten Thousand-Leaf Sparrow Tail Flowers included."
"This Chu Feng may be extraordinarily talented, but his status is far beneath those individuals. Giving him one is already sufficient. And you want to give him a hundred? Even the elders wouldn't agree to that," Princess Lingyue said, deeply astonished.
"Oh come on, sister. Thousand-Leaf Sparrow Tail Flowers may be scarce, but we still have a few thousand, don't we? Besides, Chu Feng is using them to save someone — what's the harm in giving him a few more? He helped me back then, you know. If he hadn't helped me, your little sister here would have gotten beaten up," Xian Miaomiao said with a pout.
"Stop talking nonsense. Your cultivation back then may have been far weaker than it is now, but those people still couldn't have laid a finger on you. And Uncle Qing was following you in secret, to say nothing of the entire Azure Wood Domain — in the whole Martial Sacred Continent, how many people could actually touch you?" Princess Lingyue said.
"But sister, what if my cultivation had been very weak, like an ordinary little girl's? And what if Uncle Qing hadn't been secretly following me?"
"Then, if Chu Feng hadn't helped me at that time, what do you think would have happened to me?" Xian Miaomiao asked with a serious expression.
"That's… ah, fine. A hundred it is. I knew you felt something special about this Chu Feng — no wonder you keep going on about him."
"As for Father and the elders, I'll go talk to them for you." In the end, Princess Lingyue yielded, because she understood that regardless of whether Xian Miaomiao had actually been capable of protecting herself at the time, from Chu Feng's perspective, she was not. So Chu Feng had genuinely helped her sister.
She cared deeply about her younger sister, and since her sister wished to use one hundred Thousand-Leaf Sparrow Tail Flowers to repay Chu Feng's kindness, she could only agree unconditionally.
"I knew you're the best, sister!" Xian Miaomiao happily hugged Princess Lingyue's arm.
"Oh right, Miaomiao — the Blood Devouring Armor is finished," Princess Lingyue said.
"Really? How many did they make?" Xian Miaomiao asked.