Chapter 31: Grand Elder Yun Xing

Lu Qingyun was soon at the Yellow Hills Martial Hall and he asked the ordinary protégés that were around as he asked for an audience with the Grand Elder Yun Xing.

He was given many disdainful looks but he did not mind at all.

None of the ordinary protégés were willing to lead him to the palace where Grand Elder Yun Xing was and had simply pointed their fingers in a direction.

There were even instances when they were even pointing at several different directions after Lu Qingyun got himself lost in the many palace buildings of the Yellow Hills Martial Hall.

He was hoping that he would be able to find Ouyang Xue in this place as she was a core protégé of the Grand Elder Yun Xing.

She was kinder and she would also be helpful to guide him to see her protégé mistress and Grand Elder Yun Xing.

Eventually, he saw a beautiful maiden in white that was gracefully walking in front of him as he got lost in the many open pavilions of the Yellow Hills Martial Hall."

"Maiden. This junior sister, do you know the way to where the Grand Elder Yun Xing is? I am looking for her for an important matter."

This beautiful maiden began to turn around and as soon as she had turned around, Lu Qingyun was shocked; it was because she was none other than Grand Elder Yun Xing herself.

She was even more beautiful than the last time that Lu Qingyun had seen her and it seemed that she had done that on purpose.

In fact, she was fairer and exuded a mesmerizing charm when Lu Qingyun saw her now.

Grand Elder Yun Xing had indeed made herself a little uglier so was not to offend Celestial Shi Guanyin who was a renowned beauty among the grand elders and in the Heavens Ridge Villa.

"Lu Qingyun! It is you! Darn you!" Grand Elder Yun Xin immediately scolded him the minute that she saw him.

Lu Qingyun was quite startled when Grand Elder Xun Yun was suddenly shouting vulgarities at him and this destroyed her demure image.

Grand Elder Yun Xing had actually been cursing Lu Qingyun for the past 3 days ever since Lu Qingyun had broken her earth-step precious sword. This was a precious sword from her dead master who was also the former grand elder of the Yellow Hills Martial Hall.

Naturally she was infuriated by Lu Qingyun and she had been cursing him day and night.

When she saw that Lu Qingyun had dared to appear right in front of her, she had exploded with anger as she finally got to rebuke him openly.

In fact, she was now thinking of teaching Lu Qingyun a lesson that he would never be able to forget.

It did not matter to her if he is the core protégé of the acting sect leader; she would think of a false charge against him later such as him molesting her.

She had to punish this Lu Qingyun for breaking her earth-step precious sword!

No matter what happened today, nothing would be able to stop her today.

And she happened to know that Qin Keqin was not in the Heavens Ridge Villa today or for the next several days too.

So, she was now smiling coldly at Lu Qingyun. "What do you want to see me for?"

Lu Qingyun composed himself to say weakly, "My greetings to the Grand Elder Yun Xing, erm… I have come to apologize to you for breaking your sword…"

Grand Elder Yun Xing snapped her fingers as she interrupted coldly, "Do you think that a simple apology will make up the loss of my precious sword? You are too young and too simple."

Lu Qingyun weakly said, "That's why I've come to compensate you today."

Grand Elder Yun Xing frowned, "Compensate me? Do you think that you will be able to compensate me for my loss? My loss is just a physical loss but the mental loss that you have caused me cannot be compensated by any means…"

Lu Qingyun had suddenly taken out a heaven-step precious sword, "I hope that this precious sword can compensate you from the loss of your precious sword."

Grand Elder Yun Xing was shocked, "This looks like a high grade heaven-step precious sword even. This is really for me?"

Lu Qingyun smiled, "That's right. This is for Grand Elder Yun Xing."

Grand Elder Yun Xing asked again, "You are not keeping it for yourself?"

Lu Qingyun smiled, "I don't need such a good precious sword and moreover I feel that Grand Elder Yun Xing deserves this precious sword more than me."

Then he had also taken out a small pouch and he said, "There is a bag of Heavenly Lotus Tea that is in this pouch. While this may not be enough to compensate for your mental loss but this is a gesture of my sincere apology…"

"This is enough," the Grand Elder Yun Xing chuckled softly and she was now smiling beautifully to Lu Qingyun.

She was secretly gasping with great shock at the heaven-step precious sword and now this Heavenly Lotus Tea...

Then she continued, "Actually, I am not angry with you at all. I am not a petty grand elder. But I do appreciate your sincere apologies and if I don't take your gifts then I am the one that don't look sincere enough."

Lu Qingyun laughed softly, "I am glad that Grand Elder Yun Xing is able to accept my sincere apologies. Now that my task here is finished, I ought to go as well."

Grand Elder Yun Xing gave Lu Qingyun a flustered look as she halted him immediately, "Aiyo! Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Since you are here, I ought to show you around my Yellow Hills Martial Hall."

Lu Qingyun said awkwardly, "I shouldn't have wasted Grand Elder Yun Xing's precious time. Maybe next time. It is getting late now I hope to return to my peak before nightfall."

He had indeed wasted a lot of time going around the mountains of the Heavens Ridge Villa due to the random directions of the protégés that were fixing him.

Grand Elder Yun Xing smiled coquettishly to him, "Well, maybe next time then. It is indeed getting late now."

Lu Qingyun bade her farewell, "Farewell to my grand elder then."

When he had almost disappeared from view, Grand Elder Yun Xing was suddenly shouting in his direction. "Protégé Lu Qingyun, are you single?"

Lu Qingyun did not know why she was asking him that as he shouted back, "I am still single."

With that he had quickly disappeared from view.

Grand Elder Yun Xing was still looking flustered even when Lu Qingyun had disappeared from view as she muttered, "Well, he isn't that bad. I've misunderstood him. Moreover, he is quite handsome too…"

Then she was looking gleefully with great delight as she held the heaven-step precious sword and the bag of Heavenly Lotus Tea in her hands.

Along the way back to her inner palace, when she had walk past her protégés, many of her protégés were commenting with a shocked look. "Our grand elder is alright now? She has been throwing her temper left and right lately."

"She even smiled at me when she walked past me just now…"

"Maybe it is the calm before the storm…"

"I hope that she will cancel the dangerous experiential training that she has suddenly planned for us… I don't want to die…"

"What has happened?"