The Soldier King Becomes a Useless Little Girl

Chapter 211: Mommy, You’re Back~

The tallest ancient pine tree was tall and grand, with a canopy like a mushroom cloud, shading the sun and obscuring the daylight, even hiding the morning light.

Peering through the gaps in the trees, one could vaguely make out something resembling a hanging nest at the top of the canopy.

Upon seeing this, Heir Yang and the others could hardly conceal their delight.

The morning light had just appeared, and there was no movement in the tree, indicating that the Xuan Bird was either not there or still resting.

With a wave of his hand, the guards under Heir Yang quickly surrounded the ancient tree.

"Princely Heir, the tree is too high, our arrows can’t reach it."

The guards said with difficulty.

Their arrows were just ordinary strong crossbows with a range of only twenty to thirty yards, and the ancient tree was a good fifty to sixty yards high, so they couldn’t hit the bird’s nest, let alone disturb the Xuan Bird inside.

"A bunch of idiots, if you can’t shoot the arrows up there, can’t you climb up? Whether by hook or by crook, drive the Xuan Bird out so I can capture it alive."

Heir Yang cursed loudly, immediately urging several hunters to climb the tree.

Though the hunters were reluctant, they didn’t dare disobey Heir Yang and had to elect one among them to climb up.

A hunter started to ascend along the trunk of the tree.

After climbing more than ten yards, suddenly, the tree trembled, and the hunter panicked, his hand slipped, and he fell from the tree, breaking his leg and crying out in pain.

"The tree, the tree moves."

The hunter pointed at the tree and exclaimed.

"Do you think I am as foolish as her, to think a tree can move? It’s just a tree; how can it move?"

Heir Yang kicked the hunter and commanded another to ascend.

But the next hunter, having climbed to about the same height, rolled down as well.

Heir Yang, not superstitious, ordered two or three more experienced hunters to try, but none of them could climb the tree. Just like the first hunter, they said the tree moved, and they couldn’t climb up at all.

"A bunch of useless cowards, thrown out to feed the mountain beasts. It seems I must do it myself."

Heir Yang said impatiently.

Ready to take matters into his own hands, he began to climb using both hands and feet.

"Princely Heir, hold on. You are a body worth a thousand pieces of gold; should anything happen to you, it would be difficult for us to explain to the Prince. Let her go up."

It was the female warrior who earlier had tricked Xin Lin who was speaking, glancing at Xin Lin.

The child had just escaped from the bird’s nest the night before.

"Her? Is she capable?"

Heir Yang said doubtfully.

"Child, you climb up, lure the Xuan Bird down, and if you succeed, I’ll give you endless sweets."

The Female Warrior spoke with a pleasant face.

On hearing this, the little girl nodded eagerly.

Without further ado, she began climbing the tree.

"Looking at her silly appearance, she climbs quite adeptly. Low-grade people really are low-grade."

Heir Yang, seeing Xin Lin climbing faster than the average hunter, scornfully said.

Little did he know that before long, he was going to have a narrow escape from death because of this low-grade person.

Xin Lin climbed halfway up, with Fu Xi’s Energy gathering in her eyes, casting a glance towards the direction of the nest.

Sure enough, as expected, there was no sign of the Xuan Bird.

Heir Yang and the others might be foolish, but Xin Lin certainly was not.

Xuan Birds are Level 5 Dark Beasts, and the Ancient Forest was their territory. There was no reason for the creature to be oblivious to the intrusion of more than a dozen people on its turf.

Tsk, the timing really couldn’t be worse; Aunt Bird happened to be absent.

Not sure whether to call it lucky or unlucky, originally wishing to teach those guys below a lesson with the Xuan Bird... But well, the Sealing Spirit Talisman is still there.

Xin Lin saw her Sealing Spirit Talisman, lying intact in the nest.

Inside the nest, the Overlord Egg was also lying there good and well. Ever since it had been brought back, the Overlord Egg hadn’t shown much vigor, appearing listlessly ill.

(Those annoying ants have come again)

The Overlord Egg was about to give itself a shake when it suddenly jolted.

(Mommy, it’s Mommy’s scent!)