[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-sect-leader-has-taken-in-a-new-female-discip":3,"chapter-the-sect-leader-has-taken-in-a-new-female-discip-the-sect-leader-has-taken-in-a-new-female-discip-chapter-1139":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Sect Leader Has Taken in a New Female Disciple",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1838172,2444,"Chapter 1139 - 345: Wait, Old Hen, Why Did You Suddenly Come Back?","the-sect-leader-has-taken-in-a-new-female-discip-chapter-1139",1139,"\u003Cp>Above the blade’s glimmer, a round-faced youth stood with hands behind his back, his robes fluttering with an air of elegance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet those small rolling eyes always carried a look of mischief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoosh—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Xiaohu traveled by sword control, moving at lightning speed, heading straight for the peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, he paused mid-air, the blade arc carved a semi-circle in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He squinted his small eyes, intently staring at the familiar courtyard halfway up the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the green stone slab in front of the courtyard gate, a gray-brown figure was curled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My goodness!\" Yan Xiaohu’s eyes widened in disbelief, \"Old Fourth? You’re back?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without another word, he swiftly changed direction with his large blade, the sword energy burst forth as he dove downward!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the blade touched the ground, a cloud of dust billowed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Xiaohu landed steadily, summoned back the large blade with a \"clang\" in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rushed to the courtyard gate, taking three steps at a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, he saw an old hen sleeping soundly on the steps, its feathers stained with dark red blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old friend, is it really you? When did you get back? Did you miss me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Xiaohu’s voice trembled as he carefully picked it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The familiar touch made his eyes well up with tears, he couldn’t help but bury his face into its feathers deeply inhaling—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ugh—\" He quickly turned his face away, dry heaving, \"Did you roll into a dung pit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, his entire body stiffened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That foul smell unmistakably mixed with the rusty scent of blood qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old Fourth!\" Yan Xiaohu turned abruptly, shouting into the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the courtyard remained utterly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly pushed the door open, causing the accumulated dust to fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the empty courtyard, the stone table was covered with fallen leaves, cobwebs formed between the window panes, and sunlight cast dappled shadows through the gaps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Xiaohu quickly took out the identity token, green light flickering at his fingertip, sending out three transmissions in a row, yet there was no response, like dropping a stone in the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Strange...\" Yan Xiaohu scratched his head, looking at the sleeping old hen in his arms, frowning tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Old Fourth didn’t come back, how did this old hen appear here alone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five years ago, when Old Fourth and Second Senior Sister left the Taiqing Sect for the Imperial City, they clearly took this old hen with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night when he secretly tipped them off, watching their departing figures with Master and Uncle, he even saw the old hen perched on Old Fourth’s shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wake up, wake up!\" Yan Xiaohu shook the old hen vigorously, but it was like it was drunk, showing no reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This really is bizarre. Last time, you were taken by Old Fourth’s godson, Buddha Son, and appeared here mysteriously years later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now your master personally took you away, and you ran back on your own?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Xiaohu couldn’t help but mutter, checking it over carefully but found no injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What, homesick?!\" Suddenly, Yan Xiaohu’s eyes lit up, he grinned slyly, \"Could it be you can’t bear to leave me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"True, I took plenty of spirit eggs from you yet fed you many spirit stones, consider me half your master!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he took out a few top-grade spirit stones from his storage bag, waving them in front of the old hen’s beak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were the usual circumstances, the glutton would have pounced long ago, but now it remained asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forget it, you’re too filthy,\" Yan Xiaohu wrinkled his nose in disdain, \"Better find a place to clean you up first, or it’ll waste those silky-smooth feathers!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked up the old hen, gently tapped his fingertip, and silently closed Zhou Qing’s courtyard door with a spiritual power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning, he stepped onto the large blade, a flash of the sword light took him flying down the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he quickly turned back, heading straight for the peak, murmuring incessantly the entire way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Almost forgot business, now that Taiqing Sect has decided to attack the Cangyan Daoist Palace, those cushy jobs can’t fall into outsiders’ hands!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Purchasing, transportation, loot tallying... these lucrative roles need to be claimed early, after all, I still have eight brothers to support!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>",712,"2026-06-09T06:34:23.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","1a7ae12f59d5255f809162652f4bfc17d4144bfc9406d537ff9b8f38f312bf39","the-sect-leader-has-taken-in-a-new-female-discip-chapter-1140","the-sect-leader-has-taken-in-a-new-female-discip-chapter-1138",1176,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-sect-leader-has-taken-in-a-new-female-discip-cover.jpg"]