Chapter Eighty-Five: Senior Brother, Brought Another Girl Home Again
The mountains on both sides slowly moved backward like rolling curtains.
Ye Anping, with Xiao Yunluo, was piloting the Pink Hundred-Year Cherry Wood Divine Flying Boat, making him the most eye-catching guy in the Western Regions at the moment.
On the way back to the Hundred Lotus Sect, he was stopped at least dozens of times.
Once, while flying in mid-air, a female rogue cultivator at the Core Formation Stage chased after him and directly asked if he needed a master who could teach him some rare cultivation methods.
Ye Anping guessed that the woman probably mistook the Cherry Wood Divine Flying Boat for his, seeing him as a rich young master from a great family and wanting to get some profit from him.
After all, the principle of not flaunting wealth was true; this toy worth nearly a hundred thousand spirit stones was indeed too ostentatious.
However, it was during these approximately seven or eight days spent with Xiao Yunluo that Ye Anping suddenly realized Xiao Yunluo seemed to have fallen for him.
He speculated it was probably because of their previous spar…
When they were about a hundred li from the Hundred Lotus Sect, Ye Anping pondered for a moment before finally speaking:
“Senior Sister Xiao, don’t mistake others’ sincerity towards you for love.”
“?!”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yunluo, who had been dozing behind him, immediately woke up and looked at him with surprise:
“What?”
Ye Anping confirmed there were no mountains ahead and turned his head slightly to look at her.
“After our last spar, you didn’t… fall for me, did you?”
“I…”
“I can understand. After all, you’ve always been alone since you were a child. All the disciples and elders in the Xuan Xing Sect treated you with utmost politeness and dared not injure you during sparring. So, the fact that I almost killed you back then must have left a deep impression.”
“…” Xiao Yunluo was stunned.
“But…” Ye Anping shrugged, “You shouldn’t have fallen for me because of that.”
“Who?! Who likes you?!” Xiao Yunluo quickly stood up, her face flushed with embarrassment, and retorted loudly, “How could I possibly like you?!”
“You cannot fall for me, nor can you like me.”
“!”
“Don’t fall for someone over a trivial matter,” Ye Anping shrugged and said, “Otherwise, you’ll eventually be easily swayed by others…”
Xiao Yunluo fell silent for a moment, averted her gaze, puffed out her left cheek, and rebuked, “Why are you so narcissistic…”
“Narcissism isn’t a flaw. Narcissists love themselves, at least they’re much better off than those who put themselves down.”
“…”
“We’re almost there.”
Ye Anping didn’t bother with further conversation and quickly slowed down the Divine Flying Boat, lest they overshoot or he flung Xiao Yunluo out during a sudden stop.
After flying for about another half an hour, the two arrived before the gates of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
The gate of the Xuan Xing Sect was carved from a single piece of spirit jade, etched with cloud patterns. It could be said that the gate itself was a priceless spiritual item.
As for the gate of the Hundred Lotus Sect…
“The gate of the Hundred Lotus Sect is made of wooden planks, Xiao Yunluo said, her first reaction upon seeing the gate of this third-rate sect being one of surprise.
Ye Anping glanced at her and replied with a straight face, “It’s more environmentally friendly. It’s made from leftover materials.”
“Environmentally friendly?”
“It means respecting nature…”
…
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The Tian Ge of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
Kong Yulan had just finished bathing and walked out of the inner room, rubbing her head with a towel.
“Old man, how’s Ping’er doing now? He hasn’t written a letter home in so long…”
Ye Ao, wearing a pink bathrobe, was focusing on his desk, playing with two jade walnuts he had bought yesterday. Hearing Kong Yulan’s words, he sighed heavily:
“Yulan, you’ve been asking me this question since the day that boy left the sect, every single day…”
“I’m just worried about him. He’s never traveled far before. What if something happens to him out there? I wouldn’t be able to help him.”
“Don’t worry, that boy…”
Ye Ao couldn’t help but recall the shock he felt when he saw his son return with the storage bag of the Gu Poison Sect’s Grand Tutor.
“That boy is shrewd, unlike either of us.”
Kong Yulan blinked and looked at him:
“What do you mean? Do you have a mistress outside?”
“Huh?!” Ye Ao paused and quickly waved his hands, “Ho-how could that be? Yulan, you know I’m here in the Tian Ge every day. Where would I find the time to look for affairs outside?”
“So, you mean you *want* to look?”
“Ah… I…”
Just as Ye Ao struggled to figure out how to backtrack, Xiao Die’s voice was heard from outside the Tian Ge.
— “Sect Master!! Young Master is back!!”
Upon hearing this, both Ye Ao and Kong Yulan froze, turned their heads towards the door of the Tian Ge, and simultaneously made a sword finger gesture, each opening one side of the door to let Xiao Die in.
“That boy is back?!” “Ping’er is back?!”
“Ah… yes.” Xiao Die was taken aback, and could only nod slightly, “And he’s brought a girl with him.”
“Brought a girl… Is it Pei girl? Or that Feng Yu Die?”
Xiao Die shook her head and said with a smile, “Neither, it’s a new girl.”
“Hiss—A new girl?” Ye Ao’s forehead creased into five wrinkles, “This boy… does he have to bring a girl back every time he goes out? Last time he brought back a girl with Saint Emperor bloodline, what is it this time?”
Kong Yulan walked up to Xiao Die, her eyes filled with curiosity:
“How is the girl dressed? What does she look like? What’s her cultivation level?”
“…She seems to be dressed well and is very beautiful… As for her cultivation, I could tell she’s at Qi Refining Completion.”
“It seems she’s from a great family,” Kong Yulan mused with her chin in her hand, “Ping’er is really something. Why didn’t he say anything beforehand? I haven’t prepared anything…”
Ye Ao cast a speechless glance at Kong Yulan and then asked, “Where are they?”
“Almost…”
Before Xiao Die could finish her sentence, Ye Anping had already walked in through the main door of the Tian Ge with Xiao Yunluo.
Upon seeing Ye Ao and Kong Yulan, Xiao Yunluo couldn’t help but purse her lips nervously. She then took a deep breath and quickly cupped her fists in greeting.
“This junior greets Sect Master Ye, and Madam Ye.”
Before Ye Ao could respond, Kong Yulan instantly flashed in front of Xiao Yunluo, took her hand, and brought her face close, as if about to kiss her.
“Girl, what’s your name? Which great family are you from? How old are you this year? Who are your parents? In what year, month, and day were you born? Do you have any siblings?”
Xiao Yunluo was so frightened that she instinctively stiffened her neck and mumbled hesitantly, completely bewildered.
“This…”
Then, she quickly looked to Ye Anping for help with her eyes.
Ye Anping sighed, somewhat helplessly, and introduced:
“Mother, this is the only daughter of Dan, the Immortal Master, her name is Xiao Yunluo.”
“So, she’s from Dan, the Immortal Master…” Kong Yulan nodded, but then felt something was wrong. Realizing it, she looked back at Xiao Yunluo with a look of horror. “Ah?! Dan… Dan, the Immortal Master?!”
At these words, Ye Ao’s hands, which had been playing with the jade walnuts, instantly stopped.
Three jade walnuts slipped from his palms, fell onto the desk, then rolled to the edge and dropped to the floor with three dull thuds, landing at Ye Anping’s feet, where he stopped them with his foot.
Xiao Yunluo thought for a moment, then quickly took out her identity jade token from her storage bag and presented it to Kong Yulan with both hands:
“Yes, this junior is the daughter of Dan, the Immortal Master of the Xuan Xing Sect. My surname is Xiao, and my given name is Yunluo.”
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