The woman smiled, seemingly unconcerned: "I didn't expect the little pills I gave her would actually work. All my efforts weren't in vain. Now, I'm no longer the only one on Qingyou Peak who knows the taste of love!"
"Ugh!" Ying Tangtang made a vomiting gesture, her face full of disgust: "Guan Yingying! You are not allowed to have any contact with Junior Sister again, or I will definitely teach you a lesson on behalf of Master!"
"Hehehe... Senior Sister, don't worry, Junior Sister will definitely come to thank me after she comes out of seclusion! At that time, I will teach her all the remaining moves I have. With our Junior Sister's beauty, she will surely make that mortal man fall head over heels for her and never mention breaking off the engagement again..."
As he spoke, he suddenly rose into the air, turning into a wisp of green smoke that drifted towards the distant mountains.
"This girl is getting more and more outrageous!" Ying Tangtang was extremely annoyed, but there was nothing she could do about it, so she could only sigh.
"Senior Sister! Senior Sister!"
Just then, another female voice came from down the mountain.
Ying Tangtang frowned slightly and turned to look.
A woman in yellow flew down from the foot of the mountain and landed in front of them, her brows furrowed with urgency.
"Yun'er? What's the matter? I just got out of the confinement room and you've already come looking for me."
The girl in yellow was named Jiang Yun. She was Nie Qingshuang's fourth disciple and Ning Yuyao's senior sister.
"Elder Zhao of Huayin Palace requests an audience. Please go there as soon as possible, Senior Sister!"
"Elder Zhao?" Ying Tangtang pondered for a moment before saying, "You mean Zhao Sanyuan? He came to see me?"
Jiang Yun sighed: "To be precise, Elder Zhao came to see Junior Sister Yuyao."
"Outrageous!" Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Ying Tangtang's expression turned serious: "He knows that Junior Sister is in seclusion, yet he comes to find her at this time. Isn't that making things difficult for her?"
"That's why he asked his senior sister to see him..."
Hearing this, Ying Tangtang frowned even more deeply: "What exactly is it that made him rush up the mountain to find me, not even for a day?"
"Something's happened in Lin Yuan City! Junior Sister's sweetheart... has been missing for a month!"
"What!"
...
Men are never allowed to go up the mountain to the Moon Palace. All visitors, except in very rare special circumstances, must wait at the foot of the mountain for an audience.
And Zhao Sanyuan was the same.
In the reception room, Ying Tangtang's face was gloomy as she looked at the white-haired old man before her: "Elder Zhao, you'd better explain yourself! How did you manage to find me?"
Zhao Sanyuan sighed. Although his cultivation was no weaker than Ying Tangtang's, his status was far inferior to hers. He could only humbly say, "Fairy Ying, you may not know, but before your esteemed Fairy Ning went into seclusion, she wrote me a letter, asking me to come out of seclusion and teach the little children of Lin Yuan City the Dharma..."
"That's utter nonsense!"
Ying Tangtang coldly interrupted, "That Shen Yunhao clearly has a useless physique, how can he talk about cultivation?"
“I don’t know anything about this either!” Zhao Sanyuan said with a bitter expression. “But Fairy Ning’s instructions are absolutely true. I have a letter from Fairy Ning here. If you don’t believe me, you can check if it is Fairy Ning’s handwriting! Or, you can ask her when she comes out of seclusion.”
Ying Tangtang thought for a moment and felt that he had no reason to lie, so she didn't dwell on it any longer: "And then?"
"Then I thought to myself, since this mortal child received a book personally written by Fairy Ning, he must be extraordinary, so..."
Next, Zhao Sanyuan told Ying Tangtang everything that had happened in Linyuan City.
"For this reason, I went so far as to ask our Vice Palace Master Wu of Huayin Palace to come out of seclusion in an attempt to find clues about the child, only to learn in the end that... the child was thrown into the Heavenly Abyss, and we are truly powerless to help..."
"Heavenly Abyss!"
Upon hearing this, both Ying Tangtang and Jiang Yun, who had come along, were startled.
Ying Tangtang immediately understood the reasoning behind it and gave a cold smile: "Truly a clever tactic. Did you anticipate that my Qingyou Palace would not stand idly by and avoid being held accountable later?"
Jiang Yun frowned and scolded, "If that's the case, why didn't you come up the mountain to report it sooner? A month has passed now, and that mortal child's body has long since vanished without a trace, impossible to find again!"
"After I learned of this, I immediately sent many people to patrol the mouth of the Ming River in Longhai. If there is even a one in ten thousand chance that the child will survive, I will naturally be able to save him."
Zhao Sanyuan sighed and continued, "At the very least, if we could find the child's body, it would be an explanation to Fairy Ning... But after a month, we have found nothing, so we had no choice but to make this trip to Guanghan Palace."
Jiang Yun, however, looked disdainful: "To atone for your crimes, you need real ability. If you had gone up the mountain earlier, your master might have had a chance to find it if he had personally intervened! Now it's too late to say anything!"
"Enough, enough, there's no point in saying more!" Ying Tangtang waved her hand. "If there's nothing else, you can go back now!"
"I take my leave!" Zhao Sanyuan bowed with a miserable expression and slowly left the reception room.
After he left, Jiang Yun immediately asked, "Senior Sister, what should we do now? Should we tell Master about this?"
"Of course we should. That mortal boy was the one Junior Sister longed for. Now that he's dead, you can imagine how much of a blow she'll suffer when she comes out of seclusion... And Master loves Junior Sister the most, so he certainly won't ignore her."
"But...but that person is already dead, and was thrown into the Abyss. We can't even find the body. Master is not a saint either. What else can we do?"
"No matter what Master does, we just need to do what we're supposed to do..."
After saying that, Ying Tangtang turned and left, heading up the mountain.
A moment later, in the serene main hall.
"What does the death of a mere mortal have to do with me?"
Dressed in a dark blue palace dress, Nie Qingshuang sat cross-legged on the high platform, her expression indifferent, seemingly not taking the matter seriously.
"But Master... what about Junior Sister?"
"Yao'er was attached to the mortal world and lost her virginity at this critical juncture. I have not yet blamed her. Now that the boy is dead, it is actually a good thing. It will allow your junior sister to be single-minded and no longer be disturbed by these worldly affairs."
Ying Tangtang hesitated for a long time, and was about to speak when Nie Qingshuang waved her hand to interrupt her: "What, you seem even more anxious than Yao'er. Could it be that you've fallen for that boy?"
"This disciple dares not!" Ying Tangtang quickly lowered her head.
"Then go down and focus on your cultivation. Don't concern yourself with anything else here!"
"Your disciple will humbly follow your teachings!"
No sooner had Ying Tangtang left than Nie Qingshuang, sitting alone in the hall, hesitated for a moment and sighed.
"Alas! In that case, that girl will probably be quite heartbroken... However, how dare you provoke my Qingyou Palace! If you get away with it so easily, what will become of the dignity of my Qingyou Palace!"
After saying that, he waved his hand and cast a hand seal to temporarily seal the palace gate, then disappeared into thin air.
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