"Who do you want to punish?" A gentle female voice suddenly sounded from the air.
Wei Hui was startled. He didn't even feel the person coming.
"Who are you?" Wei Hui raised his head and saw the woman stepping on a jade lotus midair. She had a pair of tender eyes on an oval face with an airy temperament like a fairy.
Wei Hui was sure that he had never seen this woman before.
"Chen Qing." Wen Huai Wen stretched out his hand to the woman. The jade lotus imperial device under the woman's feet slowly shifted downwards as she gently placed her hand on Wen Huai Wen's palm and floated down from the lotus.
"Greeting Supreme Elder!" The San Wen Mountain's disciples immediately bowed respectfully when they saw her.
"Supreme Elder?!" Wei Hui’s eyes widened in shock. Suddenly, he recalled his father mentioning that San Wen Mountain had a Shang clan, who were comparable with the other five sects. The members of this clan paid no attention to worldly matters, but all had unpredictably deep cultivations. Every patriarch serves as the Supreme Elder of San Wen Mountain. San Wen Mountain provides for their needs, while the Shang Clan is responsible for protecting the San Wen Mountain.
"You’re the one that was boasting you would punish my husband?" Shang Chen Qing cast her eyes lightly at Wei Hui. Although her voice was still gentle, the disdain in her eyes was obvious to Wei Hui.
Wei Hui had just suffered a loss with Luan Qing Xiao and learned that women whose cultivation base he can't see shouldn’t be offended. This Shang Chen Qing was probably another similar case.
His heart skipped a beat as he bowed respectfully before he raised his head and gave a smile. "It's all a misunderstanding, This One wasn’t intending to punish Senior Shang’s husband at all." Who would have thought the Golden Core mountain lord of San Wen Mountain actually had a Dao companion with such a high cultivation?!
"Oh, is that right?" Shang Chen Qing peered at Wei Hui, "You didn't intend to punish my husband, but you almost injured my child and this sect’s disciple just now. Am I not mistaken?"
Wei Hui's expression turned ugly: Renjia came to trouble when her son was almost injured, yet his own daughter had her arms and legs broken, he couldn't avenge her. This world is really hateful!
Nonetheless, to cultivators, power is supreme. He could be rude to Wen Huai Wen, but he definitely can’t afford to disrespect Shang Chen Qing. If he offends her, she certainly won’t hold back.
Qiu Luo Zong's disciples' quality is at its lowest. With the exception of his wrathful elder disciple Yang Xia Chen, it was difficult to name one that was worth nurturing.
If anything happens to him, Qiu Luo Zong will be over since no one else can support it.
How would he ever face his father who handed over the sect to him again?!
All these thoughts happened in a blink of an eye. Wei Hui stood with his back straight. At least, he could save himself some face by like this, "I admit to everything Senior Shang said."
"Then if I want to break one of your hands as remuneration, are you willing?"
"…… I’m willing!"
Luan Qing Xiao and Nie Zhen'er, who had left, didn’t see the shame Wei Hui went through by Shang Chen Qing breaking his hand in public. Soon after returning to the small courtyard, Shang Jin Quan scurried over to catch up to them.
"Elder Luan, Elder Sister." Shang Jin Quan stood outside and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Luan Qing Xiao answered.
As soon as Shang Jin Quan opened the door, his hand was held by Nie Zhen’er. "Xiao Quan, how come you’re here?"
"Our Mountain Lord… .. " Shang Jin Quan touched his head and smiled with his little white teeth, "My father asked me to come thank Elder Luan."
"Elder Luan, thank you for protecting me just now." Shang Jin Quan bowed earnestly.
"Mountain Lord, father?" Nie Zhen'er was surprised, “Xiao Quan, is your father San Wen Mountain’s Mountain Lord?"
Shang Jin Quan shyly nodded, "Yes, but I am an ordinary guide boy during the Inter-Sect Grand Competition. My father forbade me from mentioning my identity to anyone."
"San Wen Mountain’s mountain lord’s name is Wen Huai Wen, you took after your mother's surname?" Luan Qing Xiao asked.
Shang Jin Quan nodded, "My mother is San Wen Mountain’s Supreme Elder Shang Chen Qing."
Luan Qing Xiao said, "No wonder." There weren’t many people surnamed Shang. Within the San Wen Mountain, surnamed Shang could only be that one clan. "Didn't expect Mountain Lord Wen to be able to marry your mother ."
Shang Jin Quan saw Luan Qing Xiao's face didn’t have any surprise and admired, "Did Elder Luan guess it a long time ago? My Elder Sister's master is so amazing!"
Nie Zhen'er also nodded in admiration, "Mistress is really super awesome!"
Luan Qing Xiao saw that they had started playing after those two sentences, so she released Little Cutie who was cultivating in her space, "You three can head out and play, just don't go too far away. If there’s any danger, use the spirit jade to contact me."
Little Cutie came out in his little child form and instantly captured Shang Jin Quan's heart.
"This is my spiritual pet, his name is Little Cutie." Nie Zhen'er introduced him.
Little Cutie touched the little pigtails on his head in a daze, and shifted his big eyes on Luan Qing Xiao. "Mistress, I said I want to cultivate hard to avenge my mother. How can you just kick me out?"
Luan Qing Xiao glanced at him lightly, "I've never seen anyone falling asleep with snot bubbles while cultivating."
Little Cutie blushed, "I-I just feel sleepy as soon as I start to cultivate..."
"Cultivation should happen naturally. Since you can't calm down, you might as well come out and play."
Luan Qing Xiao drove the three out after speaking, "Mistress needs to cultivate, you guys come back later tonight."
With Shang Jin Quan, the heir of San Wen Mountain, there she wasn’t worried about the safety of the group.
When night arrived, Luan Qing Xiao opened her eyes and probed the surroundings with her divine sense, but didn't detect Nie Zhen'er's aura. Her brows furrowed slightly.
She walked out the door and found that the sky had completely dimmed.
In the six rooms, Chao Gan Yun and Hui Meng Tong were cultivating, while Zhang Ran was already asleep and Ying Yuan Yu wasn’t there.
Luan Qing Xiao first tried to contact Jin Quan through the jade from San Wen Mountain. Receiving no response, she immediately took out the mother spirit jade to confirm Nie Zhen'er's location.
According to the location shown by the mother jade, Luan Qing Xiao's sword came to a brightly litted hall, guarded by six San Wen Mountain disciples.
When Luan Qing Xiao walked over, the six people immediately stopped in front of her. One asked, "Who are you?"
"Luan Qing Xiao of the Shang Qing Palace."
"It turned out to be Elder Luan. Why is Elder Luan looking for our Mountain Lord this late at night?"
Luan Qing Xiao's furrowed brows loosened. So this was Wen Huai Wen’s residence.
This hall had an enchantment, making her divine sense unable to perceive Nie Zhen'er. However, since the child jade was inside, Nie Zhen'er should be inside as well.
Without Luan Qing Xiao answering the person's question, Wen Huai Wen has already walked outside the main hall, "Elder Luan, This Wen was about to find you. I didn’t expect you to come in first, please do come in."
The six disciples retreated as Luan Qing Xiao made her way over, "Was Zhen’er being naughty?"
Wen Huai Wen didn't speak. Instead, he entered the hall with a heavy face.
Luan Qing Xiao wondered if Nie Zhen'er had caused some serious trouble?
Once Luan Qing Xiao entered the hall behind Wen Huai Wen, she only saw a fairy-like figure with no signs of Nie Zhen'er and the others.
Luan Qing Xiao frowned and realized that things weren’t that simple.
Sure enough, after Wen Huai Wen introduced Shang Chen Qing to her, before she could ask anything, he showed Luan Qing Xiao a palm-sized jade. "Elder Luan, is this your disciple's jade?"
Luan Qing Xiao nodded and accepted it, "This indeed is Zhen'er's jade. Mountain Lord Wen, may I dare to ask where is Zhen'er and Xiao Quan now?"
Wen Huai Wen sighed and said nothing.