554: Chapter 397 554: Chapter 397 “Gorgeous lady, junior sister, don’t run!” said one of the slick-tongued men pursuing Cai Xiangxiang.
“Have you taken a fancy to senior sister too?
Have you met this senior sister before?
Which peak does she belong to?”
Some of the disciples who had just entered the Immortal Sect saw the familiar faces trailing after a woman and thus inquired.
“Never mind who she is, as long as she’s from our Immortal Sect, let’s get acquainted!
I’m off to protect her.
If a woman rushes off , what if someone abducts her!”
“Heh, hehe, is that really so!”
Fearful, Cai Xiangxiang didn’t dare to look back at the voices behind her.
Since flying was forbidden within the Immortal Sect, she could only increase her pace, hoping to shake off the men chasing her.
As she sprinted out of the Immortal Sect, she whizzed by the disciples guarding the gate, leaving them to feel nothing but a gust of wind.
They had not made out Cai Xiangxiang’s face clearly when they noticed the group of men following her.
One of the men ran up to the gatekeepers and asked, “The junior sister who just left, which peak’s disciple is she?”
The gatekeeping disciples relied on identity jade tokens to recognize people.
Only those who had been around for many years and frequently went in and out of the Immortal Sect were remembered by face.
Or if someone had left a particularly strong impression, they would remember that person’s identity.
With more than a thousand people in the Immortal Sect of various ranks, it was challenging for anyone to remember every individual’s identity.
The two of them hadn’t seen the lady’s face clearly, but from her figure, they knew she was a woman.
“I didn’t get a good look at her face just now; she seemed very young, and I have no impression of her in my mind,” one of the gatekeepers admitted.
“She must have not been here long and rarely leaves the sect,” the other suggested.
Displeased, the inquirer shot them a look and said, “This junior sister is already 20 years old.
The Immortal Sect recruits disciples around the ages of fourteen or fifteen.
I don’t believe she hasn’t left to perform tasks in these years.
Such a beautiful junior sister, and you’ve never seen her?”
The two gatekeepers shook their heads.
Their duty at the gate was done in shifts, and they were only there when assigned tasks, not stationed for years at a time.
They simply preferred guarding the gates over venturing outside on tasks since it seemed less dangerous, and after all, they were still within the safety of the Immortal Sect; otherwise, who would want to play the role of a watchdog?
“Hmph, useless; it was pointless to ask you,” the man scorned.
He then hurried to catch up with his companions.
Upon leaving the Immortal Sect, they all pulled out their flying artifacts and soared into the sky.
The man found it odd.
Could it be that the senior sister they were chasing was fleeing into the sky?
Once he ascended, he found his answer.
He saw a massive flying artifact hovering midair; the junior sister they were chasing had swiftly boarded that giant flying vessel.
The men following her only dared to hover at a distance in the sky, wary of drawing nearer.
To own such a colossal flying artifact, the owner must either be immensely wealthy or extraordinarily powerful.
They could sense an overwhelming aura emanating from the artifact, so oppressive that even from a distance, they struggled to breathe.
Their peers who had chased after her instinctively stepped back, seeking even greater separation from the artifact, but still they felt breathless.
It seemed as if a mighty figure they had never encountered before was present.
Even when they had seen Golden Core Elders or Nascent Soul Elders, they had never felt such an aura of menace.
Then they saw some of their senior brothers in the air nearby, gazing at the enormous flying artifact with frustrated expressions yet also not daring to approach.
The group began to speculate.
If these senior brothers had followed someone here, why weren’t they boarding?
They must be of similar strength, but their appearance was too ordinary, and from their garb, one could tell they were senior brothers from Refining Artifacts Peak.
The thought of Refining Artifacts Peak’s only female disciple, Yan Weiwei, the Peak Master’s direct disciple and North City Immortal Sect’s prized flower, crossed their minds.
They had heard she accompanied a servant disciple, a woman who was hardly ever seen.
Many people had no clue what she looked like.
Now they started to suspect that the junior sister they were pursuing was indeed the female disciple always at Yan Weiwei’s side.
At that moment, they felt relieved they hadn’t acted rashly, for they might have lost their lives otherwise.
Though slightly fearful, they were reluctant to leave just yet, eager to see whether the vessel truly housed a personage of great significance.
What kind of eminent figure might it be?
Yan Weiwei was the first to arrive, followed by senior brothers she had not included in the invitation to board the flying artifact.
She was meeting her beloved, seeing her junior brothers, and considering the individual she wanted to see had just arrived, with others in tow, she had not extended an invitation to these people.
Upon entering the flying artifact, Yan Weiwei met the junior brother she was there to see and also encountered the senior brother she had been longing to meet, as well as several hundred strangers.
Yan Weiwei wasn’t sure why there were so many aboard the ship; she wondered why Jiang Tang and the senior brother had come to the Immortal Sect but hadn’t entered, and realized it must have been inconvenient due to the following crowd.
Yan Weiwei understood that Jiang Tang now harbored ambitions to achieve great deeds.
Not fully comprehending the senior brother’s identity, she knew he was from a noble clan, dedicated to his mission—she had seen him in action before, serving in an official capacity.
“Senior sister, long time no see, have you missed me?
Haha,” Jiang Tang said playfully.
Yan Weiwei smiled without saying a word, feeling somewhat shy under the gaze of the hundreds of eyes upon her.