3: Chapter 3: My cheap apprentice is acting strangely; he seems to be envious of me.

A few minutes ago.

Inside the main hall, the air had frozen.

The Aura belonging to a Dragon Transformation Realm Elder pressed down heavily on Leng Qingqiu's shoulders.

With her at the center, the bluestone tiles on the floor cracked into spiderweb-like fissures.

The Elders of the Leng family were all pale-faced, harboring anger they dared not voice; they were also suffering under this immense power.

Leng Qingqiu's body was trembling, but her eyes were filled with a deathly coldness.

'Su Chen...'

'Everlasting Su Family...'

She looked at the face before her, so arrogant it was distorted; what surged in her heart was not humiliation, but a heaven-toppling killing intent.

In her previous life, failing to obtain her Revered Master was supposed to be the end.

She never expected that she would actually return to the day where all the tragedies began.

"Leng Qingqiu, what are you still waiting for?"

Seeing that she wouldn't kneel, a flash of impatience crossed Su Chen's face. He threw the Letter of Divorce onto the ground and tapped it with the tip of his toe.

"You are a piece of trash with a shattered Dantian who has been reduced to a Mortal. Being able to have your engagement annulled by me is a blessing the Leng family earned over eight lifetimes! Kneel, pick up the Marriage Contract, and this matter will be settled!"

"Otherwise, today every single person in your Leng family will be buried with you!"

The malice in his words and the arrogance of his posture were exactly as they were in her memories.

She laughed.

She laughed poignantly, and she laughed with finality.

Since she was living a second life, she would start by bathing the Su Family in blood!

The Divine Soul within her body began to burn, and a resolute and violent Aura was about to burst forth.

Even if it meant her Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, she would drag these two pieces of trash down with her!

At the very moment she was about to detonate her Divine Soul.

An indescribably gentle power appeared out of thin air, supporting her knees that were about to buckle and smoothing out the rampaging Spiritual Qi within her body.

In the face of this power, the mountain-like Aura that had made it impossible for her to breathe instantly melted away without a trace, like spring snow meeting a blazing sun.

Immediately following that.

A slightly lazy voice, tinged with a bit of impatience, drifted down from above everyone's heads.

"I want to see who dares to make the good disciple I've set my sights on kneel?"

These words were not loud, yet they were clearly poured into the ears of everyone present, carrying an unquestionable dominance.

Everyone in the hall, including Su Chen and that Dragon Transformation Realm Elder, looked up in horror.

Mid-air.

A young man wearing a white inner robe had appeared there at some unknown time, looking down at the scene below.

His long hair was casually tied back with a single wooden hairpin, and his eyes were half-open and half-closed, giving him the appearance of someone who hadn't fully woken up.

The Dragon Transformation Realm Elder of the Su Family's pupils constricted, but then he relaxed and let his guard down.

He completely failed to see through the other party's cultivation; there were no Spiritual Qi fluctuations on the man's body at all, just like a Mortal.

But having lived for over a thousand years, he knew there were only two possibilities for such a situation.

Either the other party really was a Mortal, or the other party's Realm was so high it was beyond his imagination.

How could someone who could appear here silently and easily neutralize his Aura be a Mortal?

However, as a member of the Everlasting Su Family, he possessed his own arrogance.

"Who is Your Excellency? The Everlasting Su Family is conducting business; it would be best if Your Excellency does not interfere! If you insist on meddling, consider the consequences!"

"I've already considered the consequences. What can you do to me? Do you want me to handle this 'grandly'?"

He shouted with an unfriendly tone:

"That Magic Treasure of yours for hiding your Aura is quite good. Why don't you hand it over, and this old man can pretend nothing happened! You can even leave in peace!"

Lu Chen sighed upon hearing this.

He had originally just wanted to quietly take a disciple and leave, so why were there always flies buzzing in his ear.

"While this Emperor is speaking, why are you barking like a dog?"

Lu Chen glanced at him with an indifferent expression.

"This Venerable One left in a hurry and didn't have time to use the Dust-Cleansing Incantation after dressing; do you not recognize me now?"

After speaking, he didn't even bother to look the Elder in the eye, simply waving his hand casually in that direction.

The movement was light and airy, no different from shooing away a bothersome fly.

There was no explosion of Spiritual Qi.

There was no manifestation of Laws.

That overbearing Dragon Transformation Realm Elder couldn't even let out a scream before his entire being vanished into thin air.

A second later.

Boom!

A muffled sound came from the distant mountains, and the ground trembled violently.

Everyone looked over in terror to see that a human-shaped pit with incredibly smooth edges had appeared on the hard bluestone peak; it was bottomless and pitch black, leading to who knows where.

As for that Elder, both his body and soul had been slapped into it, so deep they couldn't even be scraped out.

The entire Leng family hall fell into an eerie silence.

The arrogance on Su Chen's face instantly froze, then turned to terror, and finally faded into a deathly pallor.

The members of the Leng family gaped even wider, their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets, their brains completely unable to process the scene before them.

That was a Dragon Transformation Realm expert!

Since the Qingling Leng Family's decline, the entire family hadn't produced a powerhouse of that level for a long time, yet he was slapped into nothingness just like that?

Leng Qingqiu looked up at the white-clothed figure, and a violent fluctuation appeared in her eyes.

It was Revered Master!

Emperor Yun Tian of the Yunxiao Holy Land, Lu Chen!

The existence who had protected her while she walked unhindered through the Human Realm in her previous life.

But on this day in her previous life, he hadn't appeared!

Could it be...

An absurd thought that made her heart race uncontrollably emerged from the depths of her heart.

Could it be that Revered Master has also been reborn?

He knew what happened to me in my previous life, so he specifically came to save me in this one?

Does Revered Master also like me?

Once this thought arose, it could no longer be suppressed, growing wildly within her heart.

Lu Chen's figure slowly descended from the air, ignoring the terrified Su Chen and the stunned members of the Leng family.

He walked straight up to Leng Qingqiu.

Looking at the young girl's dust-streaked yet still beautiful face and the stubborn, unyielding light in her eyes, Lu Chen was quite satisfied.

Well, this disciple is quite pleasing to the eye; keeping her at Xiaoyao Peak in the future would provide a delightful view. He always did enjoy 'climbing high peaks'.

He reached out, originally intending to pat his disciple's head like those Revered Masters on TV.

But halfway through, he felt it was a bit awkward, so he patted her shoulder instead.

"Hey, girl."

Lu Chen spoke in his usual lazy tone.

"Take me as your Revered Master, and you'll walk unhindered from now on."

As the words fell.

Leng Qingqiu didn't hesitate for a second.

Her straight back suddenly bent, her knees hit the ground heavily, and she respectfully kowtowed three times to Lu Chen.

Each one was incredibly forceful.

"Disciple Leng Qingqiu pays respects to Revered Master!"

She looked up, and those originally cold eyes were now strikingly bright, swirling with excitement, admiration, and a strange, somewhat ambiguous flavor along with a flash of possessiveness.

In this life.

Revered Master is mine!

No one even think about taking him away!