Chapter 10: The Mysterious Man!

  Leng Ruo Xue and others had just stepped out of the store when they heard this voice, and they all looked towards the owner of the voice at the same time...

  The owner of the voice is in her early twenties, with a face as beautiful as a peach blossom and a sensual, alluring figure. She's tall and slender, and her demeanor appears to be quite exceptional. From her appearance alone, she's undoubtedly a rare beauty. However, her personality is another story altogether...

  "She is the little princess of the Sun family, Sun Meilin." Lan Meng said in a low voice to Leng Ruxue and others.

  "It's actually a member of the Sun family, no wonder!" Leng Ruo Xue said with a hint of a smile that was not quite a smile, her eyes emitting several cold glints.

  "Little girl, you'd better not provoke her now, she's highly favored in the Sun family." Lan Meng furrowed his brow and reminded.

  "Lan Lao Tou, you've got it wrong, haven't you? Was I the one who provoked her?" asked Cold Snow with ill intentions.

  "In short, it's better for you to keep a distance from her now, and never try to confront her head-on." Lan Meng said worriedly. Alas! This girl has a vengeful personality, sometimes she can be quite a headache too.

  "Lan Lao Tou, you're too fond of compromising. I'm not willing to suffer humiliation myself." Cold Snow smiled faintly, but the chill in her eyes grew thicker.

  "Alas! No choice, being in a big family, one has to be tolerant." Lan Meng sighed softly, saying somewhat helplessly.

  "Xuě ér, are we going?" The demon gently wrapped his arms around Leng Ruò Xuě's waist and asked.

  "It's in the past." Cold-as-Snow nodded slightly.

  Cold as snow, a figure walked towards those two giant spiritual beasts.

  "Get away from me, you ugly freak!" Sun Meilin's beautiful face was filled with disgust.

  "You still have a conscience." Cold-as-snow nodded in satisfaction.

  "What did you mean by that?" Sun Meilin, who had already sat on the back of the Ling Beast, asked angrily.

  "Literal meaning." Cold as snow water eyes lightly glanced at Sun Meilin, smiling faintly.

  "Don't you understand? It means that you have a good understanding of yourself and know that you can't show your face to people." The demon explained very kindly.

  "You... you two ugly freaks, how dare you say I'm ugly? I'm the second most beautiful woman in the vast sky continent! You're going to die, what kind of eyes do you have!" As soon as someone said she was ugly, Sun Meilin immediately became uncalm. To think that her greatest pride was her looks, but today she was actually told she was ugly by two extremely ugly freaks - how could she bear it?!

  "Second beauty? Not even the first beauty, what's there to be proud of? Besides, when I said 'ugly', I was referring to your heart, not your face." Cold Snow said with a hint of mockery. Honestly, she couldn't understand why everywhere had rankings like "first beauty", "second beauty"... She hated these beauty rankings the most, because in her opinion, they were just some boring men's tricks to satisfy their own desires, and any wise woman wouldn't care about them.

  "You... damn you, do you know what you're saying? I won't let you off." Sun Meilin shouted in a fit of rage.

  "Image! Image! You're not the second beauty, are you? Pay attention to your image! But whatever you do, don't let people see your true face, or else it'll make them vomit." Cold Snow sneered and reminded her.

  Sun Meilin listened to Leng Ruoxue's words and looked around, only feeling slightly relieved when she found that there were not many people on the street. Humph! Although that ugly woman was very annoying, what she said was right, she really needed to pay attention to her image. As for that ugly woman, she would deal with her later if she had the chance.

  Not far away, the Azure Abyss heard Cold-as-Snow's words and his heart was filled with cold sweat. Alas! This girl's eyes truly couldn't tolerate even a grain of sand!

  "Let's go, Old Blue!" Seeing Sun Meilin not responding, Leng Ruo Xue naturally didn't bother to pay attention to her either. After speaking, she directly sat onto the back of another spiritual beast.

  Yao mo and others also sat up, Lan Ming was the last one to sit up.

  "Lan Hui Chang, we must set off." A person respectfully opened his mouth on the Ling Beast, and he had seen that brief confrontation just now, so he didn't dare to underestimate these several ugly people. Alas! They weren't even afraid of the young mistress of the Sun family, let alone put him in their eyes.

  "Let's go!" Lan Meng said with a faint nod.

  The person from the General Assembly, after hearing Lan Meng's words, immediately drove the Ling Beast and slowly flew up...

  Cold as snow, half leaning against the demon, lying on the back of a giant spiritual beast, this spiritual beast is a flying spiritual beast lion eagle unique to the vast heaven continent. Although the level of the lion eagle is not high and its flight speed is not the fastest, it has a large enough area and is stable and comfortable, so it can be considered one of the most popular flying spiritual beasts on the Vast Heaven Continent.

  "Lan Lao Tou, sitting on this lion's back is much more comfortable than sitting in your golden carriage." said Cold-as-Snow with her eyes closed.

  "The speed of the lion eagle can't be compared to my Golden Light." Lan Meng said, unwilling to show weakness. He didn't want his beast to be looked down upon by this little girl.

  "Jin Hui's back is too hard, flying fast is one thing, but what about comfort?" Leng Ruo Xue said disapprovingly.

  "Little girl, you really are blessed and don't know it. My Golden Hui is very proud, normally except for me, no one else is allowed to sit on its back." Lan Meng said with an expression as if she had gotten a great bargain.

  "Is that so?" Leng Ruoxue said lightly, narrowing her eyes as she glanced at the other Griffin flying alongside them. The people sitting on it were all brought by Zhou Kun, but the young lady from the Sun family had a sullen face and remained silent no matter how eloquently Zhou Kun spoke, clearly still fuming from being infuriated earlier. Heh heh!

  "Little girl, you've provoked her, be more careful in the future!" Lan Meng said with some concern as he followed Leng Ruo Xue's line of sight.

  "Lao Lao, you're wrong, it wasn't me who provoked her." Chilled Snow corrected, she had never been someone who liked to stir up trouble, and if others didn't come to provoke her, she would absolutely not take the initiative to pick a fight.

  "Anyway, just be more careful in the future." Lan Meng was too lazy to argue with Leng Ruo Xue, he knew he couldn't win against her.

  "Blue Old Man, I have my own measure, you'd better worry about yourself!" Leng Ruoxue said calmly. Once they arrived at the Xuan Shi General Assembly, Blue Ming's days would be absolutely terrible. Alas! Who let him have an irresponsible master? He couldn't even protect his own disciple.

  "I'm mentally prepared." Lan Meng shrugged indifferently.

  "That's good." Leng Ruoxue didn't say another word and closed her eyes, taking a short rest.

  After flying for about three hours, we finally arrived at the location of the Xuan Shi General Assembly, Xiao Yao City.

  Xiao Yao City is the location of both the Xuan Master Guild and the Dan Master Guild, with an area second only to the three main cities. However, Xiao Yao City generally does not allow ordinary people to enter, and the threshold for entering Xiao Yao City must be a Xuan Master or a Dan Master. Of course, people from the other two major guilds, the Qi Master Guild and the Beast Tamer Guild, can also enter the city, but they must have identification proof.

  Two giant Griffin flew directly into the city of Xianyao and landed in front of the gate of Xuanshi General Assembly.

  "Wait a moment, you will be taken to your quarters soon," said the man who had brought them, bowing respectfully.

  "Alright." Lan Meng responded with a single word.

  Leng Ruo Xue and others jumped down from the back of the lion eagle and stood directly at the door of the Xuan Shi General Assembly, waiting.

  At this time, a servant walked out from the inside of the Xuan Shi General Assembly. The servant saw them and came directly to Zhou Kun's group, bowed slightly, paid his respects, and then said very respectfully: "Director Zhou, you've finally arrived! Director Wu was thinking about you two days ago! Come in with me quickly!"

  "Alright, thank you for leading the way." Zhou Kun said with great gentlemanly demeanor.

  "Director Zhou, Miss Sun, this way please." The waiter said respectfully and completely ignored the existence of Leng Ruo Xue and others, directly leading Zhou Kun and others into the grand hall.

  While Zhou Kun and his group were passing by Lan Meng and others, they deliberately provoked them with a glance before swaggering into the Xuan Shi General Assembly.

  Leng Ruo Xue and others were thoroughly left out...

  "My goodness, these people are blind! I've never been treated like this before!" Old Man Zhao cursed.

  "Why bother with a dog?" Leng Ruoxue said calmly, without any hint of anger on her face.

  "Girl, aren't you angry?" The old man asked somewhat disbelievingly, when did this girl's temper become so good?

  "It's as expected! What's there to be surprised about?" Lan Xue said indifferently, casting a sympathetic glance at Lan Meng.

  "Sorry, it's all my fault." Lan Meng said with some guilt. Alas! In the eyes of outsiders, he might be invincible, but in the association, it was the vice president's world, and he had always been suppressed. Now, Leng Ruo Xue and others were also implicated by him.

  "This has nothing to do with you, don't blame yourself." Leng Ruoxue comforted, in her opinion, Master Xuan would eventually become what he is today, it's all because of Lan Ming that irresponsible master, who gave that ambitious vice president the opportunity to develop his own power.

  "I say, since no one is managing us, let's go in ourselves! Standing on the street isn't a solution!" Lin Liang said, he didn't want to be treated like a clown for people to gawk at.

  "Alright, let's go in ourselves!" Lan Ming took a deep breath and made the decision, although it didn't follow the rules of the Xuan Shi General Assembly. However, he couldn't just leave Leng Ruo Xue and the others standing outside forever!

  Leng Ruo Xue and others nodded, and a group of people directly pushed open the general meeting's large door and walked straight in.

  "Who dares to trespass on the Xuan Shi General Assembly!" A loud shout rang out in everyone's ears.

  In the blink of an eye, Cold-as-Snow and others were surrounded by a group of dark cultivators.

  Leng Ruo Xue looked at the powerful formation in front of her, sneering inwardly. It seemed that this President was going to give them a warning shot! She really didn't believe it, every cultivator who entered the Xuan Shi General Assembly would receive such treatment.

  "I am Lan Meng." Lan Meng said, suppressing his anger.

  "Oh, so it's Blue Hui Zhang after all! Blue Hui Zhang, you should know the rules of our Xuan Shi General Assembly, right? The Xuan Shi General Assembly is not a place that can be casually trespassed. If there's something going on, it must be reported first." A middle-aged man with a somewhat sleazy appearance, who was leading the group, sneered and said with a smile, "Haha, the feeling of stepping on Blue Ming's foot is really great! Humph! Even if he's the beloved disciple of the General Assembly, what can he do? Now, the one in charge of the General Assembly is Wu Hui Zhang."

  "We've been here for a while, don't tell me you didn't know?" Lan Meng said coldly, his pitch-black eyes staring fiercely at the middle-aged man.

  "It's just a matter of time before Lanyu gets busy again, what's the big deal if you all wait a bit longer?" said the middle-aged man nonchalantly.

  "We came with Zhou Kun together, he can go in, but we have to wait, what's the logic?" Lan Meng asked with a displeased face.

  "Director Zhou's accommodation was already arranged, but Director Lan and others' accommodations need to be arranged now. Alas! This can't be blamed on us! We didn't expect that the Windless City Guild would send someone to participate in the competition this year." The middle-aged man said with a tone of shirking responsibility.

  "Your meaning is, people from other guilds came and didn't have to wait outside, only the Windless City Guild needs to wait, right?" Cold Snow's light voice sounded.

  "Who are you? I was talking to Lan, what right do you have to interrupt?" the middle-aged man glared and asked.

  "You don't need to care who I am, just answer me with a yes or no, that's enough." Leng Ruoxue said expressionlessly, for such a small role, she had never put him in her eyes, if he was really too annoying, it would be better to get rid of him directly, not worth wasting her breath on him.

  "That's right." The middle-aged man was intimidated by Leng Xue's icy and majestic aura, and answered honestly.

  "Lan Hui Chang, did you hear that?" said Leng Ruo Xue calmly.

  "Uh-huh!" Lan Meng nodded, indicating she understood.

  "Take us to where we live, otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite." Lan Meng's anger was rising, and the pressure of his status as a Xuan Wang was fully released. Hmph! Was it because he had been too easy-going all along, so these people had forgotten that they were in front of a Xuan Wang?

  "Ah! Blue will be fine, don't get angry, I'll take you there right away." The middle-aged man's forehead was dripping with cold sweat as he spoke in a somewhat fearful tone. But... didn't the vice chairman say that Blue Ming wouldn't do anything to them? He was just a great master, and the pressure of the Mystic King was something he couldn't withstand.

  Moreover, it was not just him, but almost all the Xuan Masters present, except for Leng Ruoxue and others, felt an enormous pressure that was hard to bear...

  "Boss Lan, can you ease up on the intimidation? I'll take you to your residence," the middle-aged man pleaded in a somewhat painful tone. Ugh... he was just a errand boy, why did he have to be treated like this?!

  "Hurry up!" Lan Meng glared at the middle-aged man, kicking him in the buttocks and ordering him to move faster, but he had no intention of retracting his oppressive aura.

  "Yes, yes, please follow me." The middle-aged man said cautiously, then very obediently walked in the front to lead the way, and didn't dare to have any bad thoughts anymore.

  After walking for a long time, the middle-aged man finally brought Leng Ruo Xue and others to a separate courtyard, and said to Lan Meng and others: "Lan Huizhang, this is where you will be staying. Hmm! It's very quiet here, no one will come to disturb you."

  Leng Ruo Xue gazed at the overgrown weeds, at the house that was not much better than a ruin, and smiled wryly as she glanced at the middle-aged man, saying: "We are very satisfied with this place."

  After hearing what Leng Ruoxue said, the middle-aged man didn't know why, but instead of feeling reassured, he became even more frightened.

  "Ah! There's really no other place, you'll all have to make do!" The middle-aged man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said stiffly.

  "I said we're satisfied, can't you understand human language?" Leng Ruoxue smiled with ill intentions, her eyes flashing with a chilling light.

  "Hmm! I get it, as long as you're all satisfied." The middle-aged man finished speaking and was so frightened that he fled in a hurry, disappearing without a trace.

  "Haha, little girl, your power is growing stronger!" The old man laughed and said.

  "When dealing with evil people, you have to be more evil than them. If you always back down, it will only make the evil people think you are weak and easy to bully, and they will become even more overbearing!" Leng Ruoxue looked at the old man as she spoke, but her words were clearly directed at Lan Meng.

  "Little girl, you're right. I have too many things to take care of." Lan Meng said with some helplessness. Alas! In fact, he really envied Leng Ruo Xue's carefree life, where everyone around her was extremely doting on her. However, such a life for him was something he yearned for but could not have.

  "So, I don't like those so-called aristocratic families." said Leng Ruoxue calmly.

  "Xue Er, this place needs to be renovated properly, otherwise it's uninhabitable." At this time, Leng Qing Tian looked at the seemingly abandoned courtyard and felt a bit of a headache. Meanwhile, in his heart, he couldn't help but curse Xuan Shi for being too bullying. He had lived for over 70 years, when had he ever been treated like this?!

  "Uh-huh, Grandpa, don't worry, I'll get the beasts to come out and help." Lan Ruo Xue comforted.

  "Xue Yaotou, let's hurry up and gather the crops! Otherwise, we won't even have time for lunch." Lin Liang said with some annoyance, gazing at the sun hanging high in the sky.

  "Don't worry about food, Master Xuan will provide it." Lan Meng comforted.

  "What kind of food can we expect from the Xuan Shi Association? Forget it! If our living quarters are like this, what can we expect from the food they provide for us? It's already good that they don't feed us pig food." said the old man with a scowl.

  "Uh!" Blue Ming's face turned pale, and he didn't dare to guarantee it anymore. Who knows if what that old man said was true!

  "Lan Hui Chang, are you sure you can afford our fee?" Cold Snow suddenly looked at Lan Meng with some doubt and asked. Seeing the inhumane treatment he received, she really couldn't imagine that Lan Meng would have any money!

  "Damn it, I'm just rich!" Lan Meng growled in a low voice, admitting that he had always been suppressed by Wu Heng. However, the assets of the Xuan Shi General Assembly were beyond Wu Heng's control, and even his master couldn't control the finances of the general assembly, because the assets of the Xuan Shi General Assembly were managed separately from the general assembly itself. As for who managed the finances of the general assembly, it had always been a mystery within the general assembly!

  "Oh! Then I can rest assured." Leng Ruoxue said, looking like she had let out a sigh of relief.

  "Hurry up and get to work!" Lan Meng glared at Leng Ruoxue with a cold gaze, urging her on.

  "En, you go ahead and work! I'll take a look around here first." said Leng Ruoxue with a light smile.

  "Finish your work first before sightseeing." Lan Meng said in a bad mood. Dead girl, if she didn't annoy him for a moment, he would feel uncomfortable.

  "I don't want to! You demon, let's go take a look." Leng Ruo Xue pulled on the demon's arm and said.

  "Good." The demon would never refuse any of Leng Ruxue's requests.

  The two of them ignored Lan Meng's face which was red with anger and walked hand in hand towards the direction of the room.

  "Young master, don't you feel that something is off here?" asked Leng Ruoxue in a suspicious and hushed tone after entering the main room.

  "Don't worry, there are no ghosts here." The demon hugged Xue'er tightly and comforted her.

  "Two ignorant little brats, of course there are no ghosts here!" Suddenly, a low and solemn voice sounded from beside the two.

  "Who? Come out!" Leng Ruoxue said coldly, vigilantly scanning her surroundings.

  "I'm out." A white figure floated in front of Leng Ruo Xue and Yao Jie.

  That white figure was actually a young man, about twenty years old, with a handsome face like an immortal, and his temperament was as noble and extraordinary as a king who ruled the world. His deep blue eyes, like the ocean, were now slightly teasingly sizing up Leng Ruoxue and Yao Jiao.

  "Huh? How can this be?" Cold-as-Snow looked at the strange white shadow, somewhat curious, and stretched out her hand, but it passed through the young man's body...

  "Xu'er, he should be considered an energy body." The demon looked at Leng Ruo Xue's face full of question marks and began to explain.

  "Energy body?" Leng Ruoxue thought with a hint of puzzlement, what's the difference between an energy body and the divine sense left behind by her master? She only knew that at her master's level, one's divine sense could be materialized into energy, but as for an energy body, she had never heard of it before.

  "Kid, you're quite perceptive. I indeed am an energy body." The young man praised, but in his blue eyes, there was a hint of sorrow.

  "Little girl, when your cultivation reaches a certain level, you will naturally know what an energy body is." The young man explained with a smile in his eyes as he looked at Leng Ruoxue.

  "Who are you? How did you end up here?" asked Leng Ruo Xue, not entangling herself with the energy body's problem.

  "This is where I live, of course I'll be here!" The young man said with a smile.

  "This is obviously the territory of the Xuan Shi General Assembly, and it has been abandoned for a long time." Cold Snow said with an expression of disbelief.

  "Ah, you're right, apart from you guys, no one else knows that I live here." The young man said with a good temper.

  "You haven't said yet, who are you?" asked Leng Ruoxue with an expression that said 'you can't fool me'.

  "You can call me Wu, as for my identity, you will naturally know later." The young man said after some thought.

  "Either a scoundrel or a thief!" Leng Ruo Xue's face was filled with displeasure, this man was truly too cunning, without any sincerity at all.

  A young man with two black lines sliding down his forehead was speechless. How can this little girl be so unreasonable!

  "Let's ignore him and go somewhere else!" Leng Ruoxue pulled the demon away, turning to leave...

  "Don't tell anyone that you saw me here!" The young man hastily said before Leng Ruoxue and Yao Jiao stepped out of the room.

  "Don't worry, we won't say anything. Even if we did, no one would believe us. They might even think we're mentally ill." Leng Ruoxue replied coldly without turning her head.

  "You demon, how did you know about the energy body?" asked Leng Ruo Xue in a low voice after walking out of the room.

  "I've seen it in a book." You Yao replied.

  "What book is it? Let me take a look too." Leng Ruoxue stretched out her hand in front of Yaoni, asking for it.

  "That book has been gone for a long time." The demon sighed and said with some helplessness.

  "Monster, will that person harm us?" Leng Ruo Xue knew that the monster was hiding secrets from her, but she wouldn't force him to reveal them, so she directly changed the subject.

  "It shouldn't be." The demon said with great certainty, although that person... But with his current strength, if he wanted to harm them, it would still be easy as turning over his hand.

  "Oh! That's good." Leng Ruoxue felt relieved, actually, she didn't care who that man was at all. What she was mainly worried about was that the man would harm them, after all, the safety of her loved ones was what mattered most to her.

  Leng Ruo Xue and Yao Jie went around each room one by one after that, then returned to the courtyard.

  "You two lazy bums, we've all finished our work, and you're actually coming back now." Lan Meng's anger was stirred up by the sight of those two carefree individuals.

  "Is it done so quickly? But it seems like there are still many rooms that haven't been cleaned yet!" Leng Ruoxue said with some surprise.

  "We can't live in that many rooms, what's the point of packing so much?" Lan Meng said coldly, giving Bai Xue a glance.

  "Oh! You demon, since we've all been gathered, let's go choose a room!" Leng Ruo Xue said with a faint smile, turning her head to face the demon.

  "Dead girl, you haven't done anything yet and you still want to choose your room first?" Lan Meng glared with discontent, deliberately speaking in a low growl.

  "Can't it be?" Leng Ruoxue looked at everyone with a hint of grievance and asked.

  "Of course, young lady! You're a girl, after all! Naturally, you get to choose first." The old man said in perfect sync.

  "Lan Lao Tou, you need to learn from him! Look at how much of a gentleman Zao Lao Tou is." Leng Ruo Xue said with satisfaction, and then directly pulled the demon king to choose a room.

  "That dead girl, it's all because of you guys spoiling her." Lan Meng glared at Leng Qing Tian and the others with a mixture of anger and frustration, feeling somewhat depressed. How could he not defeat a little girl? It was really too frustrating...

  "Xue'er is my granddaughter, I don't spoil her, who else would I spoil?" Leng Qingtian asked with a seemingly puzzled tone, but in his heart, he was laughing secretly, haha, how could this Lan Meng possibly be Xue'er's match?!

  "The blue will fade away, let's hurry up and prepare lunch!" Lin Liang said very kindly, he was already hungry.

  "Uh-huh." Lan Meng nodded resignedly and began preparing lunch with everyone else...

  One hour later.

  "You were right, I said! The meal is ready." Xue Lengxue, who had arrived with a fragrant scent, happily said to the demon beside her.

  "Hmm, we're just in time." The demon said with satisfaction.

  "Damn it, you two are really good at picking timing." Lan Meng gritted his teeth and glared at the two of them.

  "This is what they mean by 'better late than never'!" said Leng Ruoxue with a self-satisfied smile.

  "Xue Er, you two quickly sit down and eat!" Leng Qing Tian urged, he was very clear why Xue Er was not stopping Blue Ming. Alas! Xue Er's heart was in the right place! Hopefully Blue Ming could understand.

  "Good." Cold as snow, Xue pulled the demon down to sit together, just picked up a piece of roasted meat, was about to eat, when a soft voice sounded in her ear.

  "I want to eat too!"

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