novelraw Chapter 88 - 87: Could It Be That Elder Lu Is Keeping Master?
Chapter 88 - 87: Could It Be That Elder Lu Is Keeping Master?
"I promised Senior Sister Lu I'd use my Yang Fire to help her cultivate a special Daoist Skill from the Divine Desolate Era."
Pei Yuhang saw how worried Qing Yueqiu was. To stop her from overthinking and unsettling her own mind, he had no choice but to reveal a little information to her.
"What kind of Technique requires Master's Yang Fire to cultivate?"
His usually sweet "little padded jacket" didn't go along with Pei Yuhang's wishes this time, stubbornly choosing to press on with her questions.
Pei Yuhang naturally felt no annoyance toward his earnest senior disciple. He knew this was just Qing Yueqiu's way of showing she was worried about him.
A gentle smile touched Pei Yuhang's lips. He stroked her silvery-white hair and released a soft wave of his Power of Divine Thought to calm her emotions.
"Yueqiu, Senior Sister Lu is a truly good person. She has no reason to harm me, so you can rest easy on that... As for the deal between us, I really can't tell you any more."
"Yueqiu, just leave all the trivial matters, everything besides your own future, to your master. I'm a reliable elder, you know."
"..."
Qing Yueqiu bit her thin, rosy, crystalline lips bitterly. Master had already said so much; what else could she say?
'Besides... Master's gentle gaze is just too unfair.'
She couldn't meet his eyes at all right now. She knew that under that gaze, as tender as water, her body would go completely limp... If she lost her composure in front of her master, she'd be too ashamed to face anyone ever again.
"Alright, then... Yueqiu will trust you, Master. But you have to promise me... never force yourself to do anything for our sakes, and that includes Mistress."
Qing Yueqiu stressed the word "Mistress." Even though her head was lowered, her voice was incredibly serious.
Pei Yuhang fell silent for a moment before finally smiling and saying, "Don't worry, Yueqiu. I won't force myself."
"Can you make a pinky promise with me, Master?"
Whether by coincidence or not, Qing Yueqiu took the very finger on Pei Yuhang's hand that bore Shang Miaoyan's bite mark.
Pei Yuhang sensed the silver-haired girl's nervousness from the sweat on her fingertip.
His Adam's apple bobbed. A sense of shame for hiding things from and deceiving his disciple welled up in his heart, but he still recited the "pinky promise, hang it up, a hundred years, no changing" oath with her.
In the Heart Lake, Yu Xiaoyan witnessed Senior Sister Qing Yueqiu's swift defeat and stomped her foot in a fury.
'Can't that stupid cow of a Senior Sister be a little tougher! Master was clearly softening his stance, but the moment he says a few words, you give up! You're so useless! Aaargh!'
Yu Xiaoyan had a gut feeling. Judging from how Master had been leaving early and returning late recently, something was definitely not right with him!
'He's probably been seduced by that Elder Lu!'
The thought of her master being toyed with at will by some old hag of a Fairy made Yu Xiaoyan's heart ache with anger. And yet, when she pictured the aloof White-clothed Sword Immortal being meticulously played with by a Fairy, she inexplicably felt her mouth start to water. It was... quite a feeling...
'No, I can't keep thinking about this! Any more and I'll get weird!'
[Yu Gu Nan, hurry up and give me back the body! Let me go ask Master myself and get a clear answer!]
Faced with her sister's uproar inside her, Yu Gu Nan just said faintly,
"Master is about to take us to Dan Yun Pavilion to see that 'old woman.' Whether she's coercing him or not... won't we know if we go see for ourselves?"
After speaking, Yu Gu Nan looked at Pei Yuhang's back.
For some reason, the thought that this gentle and refined man before her might be the plaything of another Fairy also made her feel a strange tightness in her chest.
'We've only known each other for less than half a month...'
'It doesn't matter. Pei Yuhang is just a tool for me to bully my sister anyway. If you really are that shameless, then when I use you, I won't feel any guilt no matter how rough I am.'
...
「In a remote corner outside Dan Yun Pavilion.」
Elder Lu's Little Pill Boy, Chen Sixuan, was squatting on the ground. She giggled strangely to herself as she flipped through a small, coverless book with no pictures or text on the outside, its pages filled with creases from frequent reading and even signs of water damage.
"Heh heh... Pei Sword Immortal was knocked to the ground by the Fairy at the martial arts tournament. The Fairy will definitely take him back and train him thoroughly, teehee~! SLURP~ Too bad the latest part of the story ends here. I wonder when the next book will come out."
'I wonder which great master wrote this *Sword Immortal's Cultivation*. I'd love to meet them... I just feel like when the author describes Pei Sword Immortal, so many parts are just like Junior Martial Uncle Pei. It's a perfect fit to imagine him in the role...'
BUZZ—
A sword's cry rang out from the sky. It seemed someone riding a Flying Sword was preparing to land here.
Chen Sixuan frantically stuffed the little pink book into her Jiezhi Storage Ring.
When she looked up again, a White-clothed Sword Immortal, as handsome as jade, descended from the sky with two beautiful young women.
The silver-haired girl had a mature, even perfectly curvaceous figure. She possessed both a young girl's innocence and the ripeness of a juicy peach.
The other, a cute girl with her hair in a bun, had a less developed figure but was by no means overshadowed by the silver-haired girl. She was a different style of beauty—though anyone expressing their love for her would probably be seen as a pervert...
Chen Sixuan knew these two must be the female disciples of Junior Martial Uncle Pei that her own master had mentioned.
"Ahem, hello, Junior Martial Uncle Pei!"
"Mm, sorry to trouble you again to take us up, Xiaoxuan."
"No trouble, no trouble at all..."
Chen Sixuan greeted Pei Yuhang with her head lowered. Her face was flushed, and her hair was slightly disheveled. After all, she had just been lost in her little pink book and hadn't had time to tidy up.
For some reason, Chen Sixuan, who was usually rather dense and didn't care much about what others thought, suddenly felt a pang of regret.
'Have I been too careless about my appearance? Standing in front of the two beautiful disciples Junior Martial Uncle Pei brought, what's the difference between me and an ugly duckling?'
'Thankfully, Junior Martial Uncle Pei's voice sounded normal. It seems he didn't notice my awkward state...'
"Ahem, Junior Martial Uncle Pei, I'm going to activate the Teleportation Array now."
Chen Sixuan fumbled to take out a Teleportation Scroll, forcing a calm tone as she spoke.
"Mm, thank you for your hard work, Xiaoxuan."
The moment Pei Yuhang's voice fell, he felt the space around them begin to distort. The next instant, the noisy ambient sounds vanished, replaced by a tranquil serenity, and the air filled with the elegant fragrance of medicinal pills.
TAP, TAP—
Footsteps were approaching.
Seeing the graceful, enchanting figure walking toward them, the previously calm expressions on Qing Yueqiu and Yu Gu Nan's faces vanished. Their pupils contracted as if they were facing a great enemy.
Without a doubt, this was a true, great! Enemy!
"Ah, Yueqiu, do you remember me? Sister Lu used to hold you when you were little~"
"Mm, and hello to you, you cute little thing. It looks like the two Divine Souls inside you are getting along peacefully. That's wonderful."
"I'm so happy I could help Junior Brother Pei's disciples~!"
Lu Ruoxi's smile was radiant.