Chapter 16 - Holy Lady

Li Weiran's smiling eyes fell on the little girl's long ink-black hair that cascaded over Chen Yubai's arms.   When he s.h.i.+fted his eyes to meet her clear black eyes, his smile became even gentler.

"What were you doing just now?  Why did you jump from such a tall tree?"

"I am learning to ride on clouds!"  The young girl said proudly.  "My s.h.i.+fu taught me this method!"

Li Weiran held back his laughter and glanced at Chen Yubai who showed a gloomy expression.

Feeling regretful and embarra.s.sed, Lord Guos.h.i.+ threw off the person in his arms in anger.

The girl who was as light as a swallow bounced twice and then stood up steadily.  With a puzzled expression, she looked up at her s.h.i.+fu and asked.  "But s.h.i.+fu, why is it that when I jumped down, I fell downwards and not fly upwards?"

"…….You didn't climb high enough!"  With a serious expression on his face, Lord Guos.h.i.+ lied.

"But this tree is already the tallest tree in the Residence!"  Ji Xiaoli said sadly.

The interest displayed in the eyes of Li Weiran was extremely piercing to the eye.  With a gloomy face, Lord Guos.h.i.+ sent her away.  "s.h.i.+fu has a guest here right now.  You're not allowed to cause mischief.  Retreat!"

He put on a very serious and esteemed 's.h.i.+fu' front and Ji Xiaoli obligingly gave him face.  Then with a spirited reply of a loud 'Yes', she turned around and walked away cheerfully.

Lord Guos.h.i.+ actually did not want to be concern about her but he could not hold back and coldly said behind her.  "You are not allowed to climb trees again or else I will break your legs!"

The young girl who was originally rejoicing gave a s.h.i.+ver.  She ran even faster and in a puff of smoke, she instantly disappeared.

Chen Yubai retracted his gaze and his eyes happened to rest on Li Weiran's gentle smile.

"Lord Guos.h.i.+ is not only good at maintaining yourself, but you are also good at teaching.  Your brilliant disciple is really……lively and lovely."

There was a hint of gloating in the expression on Li Weiran's face which was the same expression that Chen Yubai had when he mentioned Qin Sang just now.

"I will take my leave…….and will not hinder Lord Guos.h.i.+ in teaching your brilliant disciple to ride on clouds."

"Scram!"  Lord Guos.h.i.+ was at the end of his patience and spat out the word as a farewell.

The young Chief of Martial World Alliance laughed loudly as he left.

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Since she was not allowed to climb trees, Ji Xiaoli could only play around in the garden.

She tugged at the crown of the spiritual peony plant and asked it in confusion.  "Liangyi!  Liangyi!  Just now I jumped down from the tree!  But I couldn't ride on the clouds…….and I didn't fall to my death either.  Tell me, is this considered as I have become a fairy ……or not?"

The peony plant spirit truly wanted to spray its pistils into the face of this idiot but yesterday, it almost lost its life.  She felt very scared and replied.  "How would I know……."

"You don't know?  Ai, it is also correct.  You still have not become a spirit and you are far from being a fairy."

The peony plant spirit became furious.  "Do you think you are very close to being a fairy?!  You……."

Ji Xiaoli frowned and tugged its leaves.  "What did you say?"

The peony plant spirit swallowed its words and softly coaxed her.

"Nothing…….I mean you must be charitable.  You have to personally ask Lord Guos.h.i.+ about the matter of becoming a fairy!  It is still a few more decades before I can become a demon.  Please have mercy on me!  You have already caused a separation between me and my sister.  Please stay away from me!"

The plant did not show her any affection and disdained her.  Ji Xiaoli felt very sad and turning away, she went to look for affection somewhere else.

However, in the garden, there was not even a plant that could speak.  Actually, the garden was full of exotic flowers and plants and all of them were good materials for refining pills.  She spent a long time playing with the flowers and plants and finally in high spirits she squatted down in front of a 'Dan' tree.

The sap from the leaves of the 'Dan' tree is spicy and it is a good material for refining thunderbolt pellets.  It looked like an old tree, so the sap should be very spicy which should be suitable.  Ji Xiaoli untied the claw hammer from her waist and raising her hand, she hacked it into the tree.

A scream pierced through the quiet wind blowing in the garden.  "Ah!  It hurts ! ! "

"..?.!…"   Ji Xiaoli was so frightened that she stepped back and landed on her b.u.t.t.  "You can speak!  You frightened me!"

"You have hacked away 10 years of my cultivation!  I'm dying!"  The 'Dan' tree cursed and screamed pitifully again and again.

She quickly apologized to the tree and used all her strength to pull out the claw hammer that was wedged in the tree.

As a result of using too much force, she fell backward and landed on a patch of gra.s.s.  The patch of gra.s.s had just become a demon not long ago.  These few days, after hearing the tragic fate of the Snow Flower Forest and the century-old Green Radish Vines, it felt fearful day and night.  Now that this disaster-bearing girl had landed and rolled on it, immediately it cried out.

The sounds of screams and crying echoed throughout the garden and the demons and spirits in the garden began to whisper.  The peony plant spirit quickly and eagerly started to fan the flame.  "What did I say?  She is our predestined calamity!  Our calamity!"

The garden burst into an uproar with curses and scolding.  When Ji Xiaoli saw she was about to be attacked by the whole group, she became frightened.  She climbed up from the ground and then threatened them while she stammered.

"All of you……any more nonsense……I will call my s.h.i.+fu and tell him to hack off all of you!"

Lord Guos.h.i.+'s name was indeed powerful and the spirits became scared.  The whole group quietened down simultaneously and did not dare to make another sound.

The little girl who used her s.h.i.+fu's power to threaten others felt very proud of herself.

Just at this moment, a low and cold male voice rang out.  "Ji Xiaoli, who allowed you to hack my tree?"

Xiaoli jumped with fright.  She did not expect that the group of spirits suddenly became quiet not because of her threat……..but because her s.h.i.+fu had appeared!

"I……I didn't cut……I just wanted a piece to refine pills…..s.h.i.+fu!"  She hurriedly waved her hand and explained.

Chen Yubai tightened his thin lips and looked at her with a cold expression of displeasure.

The guilty Ji Xiaoli went to the tree to retrieve her hammer but it was wedged too deep in the tree and she was unable to pull it out.  She placed a foot on the tree trunk and tried to pull the hammer out with both hands.  The tree felt so painful that it cried in a low voice but did not dare to scream out in front of Lord Guos.h.i.+.

Her grimace revealing her teeth was piercing to his eyes and Chen Yubai was unable to stand it any longer.  With a sweep of his sleeve, he flicked her lightly to the side and then he flipped his palm over.  The hammer that was wedged in the tree trunk flew gently and smoothly into his hand.

Ji Xiaoli's eyes sparkled and her eyes showed a look of admiration and fascination that said 's.h.i.+fu, you are awesome'.  Happily, she climbed up on her feet to take back her hammer.

Chen Yubai lowered his eyes and when he handed back the hammer to her, he made a cut on her palm.

He exercised proper care while doing it and left a shallow wound with just a line of blood mark without any blood flow.

When he withdrew his hand, the cool black ice silk of his sleeve brushed lightly over the wound.

Ji Xiaoli did not feel anything other than a sudden cold feeling on her palm.  When she withdrew her hand and took a look, she suddenly screamed.

Although no blood was actually flowing from the wound and the blood had already dried, a strange scented fragrance like musky orchid drifted in the garden.  Once the demons and spirits caught the fragrance of the blood, suddenly there was a commotion.  Although Chen Yubai was unable to hear anything, he could feel the atmosphere in the garden had turned very unusual.

The iciness in his eyes became colder and his eyebrows wrinkled up.  The atmosphere that was surging with shock and fear around him became even colder.

His eyes fell back on the girl's face in front of him.  The girl was crying pitifully and glaring at him, waiting for him to explain his brutal behavior.

He said coldly to her.  "Inside this Residence, every blade of gra.s.s and every plant belongs to me.  If you cut any of it then you will have to pay me back the same."

"……"  The tearful Ji Xiaoli covered her wound and protested against the injustice.  "Earlier, s.h.i.+fu had also pulled out the trees in Snow Flower Forest!   They had also transformed into spirits!  Why didn't s.h.i.+fu allow them to have long lives?!"

"Whoever took their lives will have to compensate with his life."  Chen Yubai said faintly.  "Before you came, they were all living very well."

With tears streaming down her face, Ji Xiaoli stood there in a daze.

Then Lord Guos.h.i.+ gently and lightly flung his sleeve and the claw hammer fell at her feet, to land half stuck into the ground…….   Use this to compensate with your life!……   Now - start - to – pay - with - your – life!

Ji Xiaoli fell back two steps and then bent down to retrieve her hammer.  She quickly put the hammer back into the leather bag that was tied to her waist, then turned around and ran away in tears.

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Really squeamis.h.!.+

After a long time, Chen Yubai finally returned to Guan Xing Pavilion.  He recalled the panic she showed as she stumbled and fell when she was running away.  Unconsciously, he let out a humph.

It was just a line of blood mark…….does she need to shout and yell at him?  She would normally address him affectionately, calling him s.h.i.+fu here, s.h.i.+fu there……so, it seems it was all only flattery.

When Xiao Tian came in to serve tea, he noticed the unhappiness in Lord Guos.h.i.+'s gloomy face.  Without daring to breathe heavily, he served up the tea.

Chen Yubai did not realize that he was showing an unhappy expression and as usual, after taking a sip of the tea, he got up and told the young boy to help him change his robe.

Xiao Tian picked up the robe from the couch and a.s.sisted Lord Guos.h.i.+ to put them on.

"Yi?……."  The boy looked at the new robe on Lord Guos.h.i.+ and tilted his head in bewilderment.  "My Lord, you finally allowed the seamstress to change the pattern on your robe.  This robe on my Lord is really………. ah!"

The young boy swallowed the following words 'looks good' and nearly choked to death.

Originally, every day the black ice silk clothes would have the same auspicious cloud patterns embroidered with gold threads.   Even the position of every one of the cloud designs would be the same without any change.  However today, this robe is embroidered with a new strange pattern…….  The sleeves and the hem were embroidered with vivid branches and leaves.  The flowers looked very alive and the name of the flower was unknown.  The flowers were small and the leaves were thin and long.  It gave one a feeling of tenderness with just a glance.

The embroidery work was truly exquisite and looked very alive which made the black ice silk robe looked deeply yielding.

Xiao Tian clicked his tongue in amazement but Lord Guos.h.i.+ had a dark face.

The set of clothes was brought over by that squeamish girl earlier on.  It was left on the couch untouched and the young boy had unknowingly thought it was a set of new clothes sent over by the seamstress.

But this time, Chen Yubai had something urgent to do and did not have time to make a fuss over it.  "Put down the clothes.  You can retreat."  He ordered coldly.

With a slight smile, the young boy withdrew.

Once the door and windows were tightly closed, the room became quiet.  Chen Yubai lifted the cup of tea and poured the tea on the sleeve of the robe that he had just taken off.

Although the bloodstain was only a thin line, the sweet fragrant scent lifted by the slightly bitter taste of tea could not be doubted.

It is said that the present Emissary Qian Mi had once stayed in the legendary Qian Mi Holy Land when she was a child.  Her blood is many times more fragrant than the other people in the clan and it can also treat countless strange poisons in the world.   That year, when the old Lord Guos.h.i.+ was sick, the Emperor had sent Emissary Qian Mi to treat him and Chen Yubai came to know about this blood.

That time, Emissary Qian Mi had cut her finger to gather a small half-cup of fresh blood but it was incomparable to the strong fragrance of the little trace of bloodstain on his sleeve right now.

Therefore, if Emissary Qian Mi had truly returned to the Holy Land to revitalize the strange blood in her body, then the true Holy Lady of the Qian Mi Tribe who was conceived and born in the Holy Land that Li Weiran requested him to locate……..he has already found her!