Gu Qingfeng was startled upon opening the scroll and looked up at Murong Xun.
Murong Xun was seductively leaning back in her chair and had her slender legs crossed. She slightly lifted her cup toward the stunned Gu Qingfeng and saluted him with a smile.
Her misty gaze held a natural glittering effect, a truly intoxicating sight.
‘Murong Xun, you sinful vixen! Your appearance makes it very hard for the male species present to shift their gazes away!’
“A disciple that Peak Master Murong regards so highly must be extraordinary. Why don’t we all take a look?” the middle-aged man from Heavenly Dao Sect, Guan Yongnian, said with a smile.
After gaining a nod from Murong Xun, Gu Qingfeng permitted his subordinates to hand the portrait to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
Murong Xun absentmindedly drank her wine and aloofly said, “My disciple is innately endowed and exceptionally talented, so there’s no harm in letting you look.”
When Guan Yongnian opened the scroll and looked, he was shocked.
Murong Xun slightly raised her brows and a meaningful smile turned up on her lips. “Could it be that Hall Master Guan also knows my disciple?”
Guan Yongnian closed the scroll and nodded. “My disciple sent me a portrait two days ago and said that they found a seven-year-old mystic cultivator in a backwater place like Qiaotou Village. Our Heavenly Dao Sect was also very interested in recruiting this talented child, but unfortunately, the mutated corpse calamity struck us and everything turned very chaotic, so we didn’t have time to find the child before…”
“A seven-year-old mystic cultivator?” A dark-skinned and stern-faced woman from Daybreak Sect narrowed her eyes and got up from her seat to walk to Guan Yongnian’s side. She took one look at the portrait and snorted. “It really is her.”
A seven-year-old was dearly uncommon these days.
No! In fact, it was extremely rare!
Although every child can theoretically trigger their mystic meridians at the age of seven, only a small number actually succeed in triggering their meridians.
As soon as Lu Youmei heard Murong Xun say her disciple was a seven-year-old mystic cultivator, aversion seeped into her heart.
A look and it really was the stoic child that the disciples in her sect mentioned.
“Very well, Murong Xun! Your sinful disciple might be young but she’s already so heartless, vicious, and cruel!” Lu Youmei glared at Murong Xun and confronted her head-on. “Do you know what good deed she did? She not only hurt my Junior Brother Bi but also seriously injured several disciples from my Daybreak Sect! What is more unpardonable is that she killed my disciple, Li Xiang.”
“Murong Xun, what do you have to say for yourself? The three sects originally stuck together but minded their own business! Yet, you allowed your disciple to commit such atrocious offenses! Shouldn’t you give our Daybreak Sect an explanation?!”
Gu Qingfeng’s smile froze on his face.
He merely wanted to hold a tiny banquet to receive the members of the three sects! Why did you have to start insulting each other again? Couldn’t you allow this city lord a day of rest?!
Murong Xun sipped some wine from her cup and she slightly peered up with slitted eyes. She puffed out a breath before looking toward Lu teasingly. “What kind of explanation do you want hm, Hall Master Lu?”
‘Heavens! Peak Master Murong, there’s no doubt you genuinely look like a wicked vixen!’
Even Lu Youmei could not resist blushing despite also being a woman and nearly lost her train of thought.
“Murong Xun, as a peak master of Holy Water Sect, you should dutifully follow the three sects’ principle of unity! …Hand your sinful disciple over and allow our Daybreak Sect to punish her!”
Murong Xun’s tipsy eyes narrowed and shifted enchantingly. A teasing smile rose on her lips. “First, this peak master hasn’t even found her little disciple. Second of all, even if she is found… Pft, how could this peak master allow you to punish her beloved disciple?”
