In a large Oriental-style courtyard, there was a square pond under the patio. There were fake mountains and lotus leaves in the pond. Golden and orange carps swam in the water.
Lian Su sat on the edge of the pond. She immersed her feet completely in the water. Her delicate white soles stepped on the pebbles at the bottom of the pond. The water rippled like two white lotus roots.
It was a beautiful scene. A wind suddenly blew in the courtyard, blowing at Lian Su’s robe. Lian Su raised her head. A strand of hair fell from her temple. She gently touched it, her face calm.
“What are you doing here?”
A cool breeze drifted around the courtyard, stirring up tiny specks of dust. Light and shadow flickered. A golden figure with an indistinct face was reflected in the pond.
“You let Zhuang Kui go?”
A voice came from the water, mixing with the rippling water. It gave off a clear and peaceful feeling. Lian Su looked at the figure and sneered.
“That little bastard killed two people from my Lian Clan. Even if Jibei died, so be it. He was just a useless Master. But Lian Ye was different. He was the last heir of my Lian Clan, but now the bloodline has been cut off. Someone wants to end my Lian Clan’s bloodline. Why can’t I let Zhuang Kui kill him?”
The figure said indifferently, “Lian Ye still has a few illegitimate children. You should know that better than I do.”
Lian Su stared at the figure on the water. Her beautiful face suddenly became ferocious. She shouted at the pond.
“Yes, but so what! In the end, people have died. One was my brother. The other was good-for-nothing, but he was still my nephew. I’m just a woman. I just want to collect my debts. I only know that they both lost their heads. They died so miserably …”
Lian Su vented hysterically at the pond for a while. She stirred up half of the pond. The water rippled, and the carps at the bottom of the pond swam everywhere.
The figure on the water didn’t move.
“I don’t mean to blame you …” The figure’s tone suddenly became much gentler. He seemed to want to comfort Lian Su, but he didn’t know where to start. “Although Zhuang Kui’s strength is not bad, in the end, he is still a little lacking. He may not succeed …”
Lian Su furrowed her brows. “That little bastard is that strong?”
The shadow said indifferently, “He is someone Tan Zhongyu has taken a fancy to, Tan Zhongyu will definitely send someone to protect him. If Mingyu Hall sends out someone, plus the person who killed Lian Jibei and Lian Ye, Zhuang Kui won’t be able to do anything facing them together …”
“Then send another one for me! Someone stronger than Zhuang Kui …” Lian Su said urgently.
“No need.” The shadow replied, “I sent twelve more Constellations with Zhuang Kui. With them around, you can basically achieve the results you want.”
“Twelve Constellations …” Lian Su’s beautiful eyes lit up. She seemed to let out a long sigh of relief, and a smile bloomed on her face.
She swept away her previous deranged appearance and stepped into the lotus pond. Her long robe floated on the clear water, and her jade-like feet stepped on the pebbles at the bottom of the pool as she walked forward step by step.
“In the end, you still care about me. You always think of me …” Lian Su’s smile was like a flower, bright and sweet.
The shadow on the water continued to speak, “Of course I will help you. But this time, you gave the Extreme Dao Secret Scroll to Zhuang Kui without permission, it was indeed a bit too much …”
The smile on Lian Su’s face suddenly froze, and her expression quickly turned cold.
“So what? Besides this, tell me, what else do I have that I can make Extreme Dao Academy’s senior disciple help me? Besides this, what else have you given me?”
Lian Su kept sneering, her eyes staring at the shadow on the water, her face full of ridicule. The shadow on the water fluctuated a bit, and then slowly shattered in the light.
A final voice sounded.
“In any case, I hope there won’t be a next time.”
The shadow disappeared.
Lian Su fixed her eyes on the position of the shadow just now, and stared for a long time. Suddenly she giggled, and wantonly danced, and moved her body, setting off waves of water, like a lunatic.
An airport security officer stopped a woman carrying a suitcase, and politely said, “Please show me your ticket and documents, then put your luggage on the conveyor belt and cooperate with our inspection.”
The woman leaned close to the security officer, and whispered a few words in his ear.
The security officer’s face suddenly changed, and hurriedly stepped back, with a bit of respect in his seriousness, he said, “Please go through, I wish you a pleasant journey.”
The woman smiled, didn’t say anything, and casually walked through the security check.
The people behind her curiously looked, and couldn’t help but begin to guess the other person’s identity.
The woman walked through the departure hall, into a single VIP lounge, and then sat down in a relaxed manner.
The woman took off the sunhat on her head, revealing a smooth and pale swan neck, and a beautiful face as fair and brilliant as jade. She looked very young, probably only in her twenties, and her temperament was like a city elite who just came back from an overseas vacation.
“I just came back from a mission, is there a need to be in such a hurry?”
The woman reached out and tapped something like an earring on her ear, complaining.
A voice that only she could hear came from the earring.
“No choice, the Martial Sage personally gave the order, please forgive me …”
The woman’s expression was helpless, and said in a low voice, “Send me the information.”
“I already sent it to you.”
The woman took out a small tablet from her bag, opened it, and browsed it in front of her eyes. As she browsed, she chatted with the voice in the earring.
“How did you feel on this trip?”
“Not good. It was still the same old opponents, and we fought a few times after meeting. But recently, Huan Yin [TN: previously translated as Rin Yin Organization] and the Black Devil Society’s activities seem to be a bit frequent, and they were in a terrible fix, so they didn’t have much time to pay attention to me …”
As she spoke, the woman started gloating. Suddenly, she looked at the tablet in her hand, and cried out in a low voice, her expression surprised.
“Less than nineteen years old, a Master? And killed a Master from the Extreme Dao Martial Arts Academy at the same level? This little kid is that powerful?”
The voice in the earring echoed, “A seed personally chosen by the Martial Sage, the first in thirty years. Naturally, he’s extraordinary …”
The woman flipped through the information on the tablet, her eyes somewhat shocked, and sighed, “He’s even more powerful than Xing Yuzong in the past. The Mingyu Hall will have another tiger general …”