Interlude: Meng Yue

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Meng Yue made her way out of the Xiao Sect’s main house with a serene smile on her face. The moment she took one step outside the building, her form vanished. It was merely a movement technique, but Meng Yue felt it was proper to use it. Making a big impression was always good.

The woman of such beauty that men would cut their arms off if she but asked reappeared several miles away on a rooftop. She mentally congratulated herself on a job well done. By showing up at the wedding, she had given the Xiao Sect’s Patriarch a lot of face. No one would be able to say anything bad about Xiao Zheng for a long time.

Meng Yue smiled proudly.

It had been a last-second decision, but it had worked out beautifully. Why, everyone in the Xiao Sect had been overjoyed to see her! They hadn’t even been able to meet her eyes from the joy! They had kept such a respectful silence for her! Truly, Eastern Port City had very well-behaved people living it!

To think her sisters thought she’d embarrass the Sect!

“Sister Yue is strong and beautiful, but her gifts are best used away from boring meetings.”

“Sister Yue is great at cultivation. I envy her strength. Perhaps it is better if Sister Yue focuses only on that?”

“I don’t mean to offend, but the image our Divine Frozen Palace wants to maintain and the image Sister Yue projects…. Sister Yue understands, right?”

“Yue, I won’t mince words. You are utterly without skill in diplomacy. You’re quick to violence and not at all subtle. When angered, you are without mercy. It is as if you never left the Renegade Realm. If we let too many people see you, they’ll get the idea that we’re all unthinking savages.”

To think those four had the gall to say such things to her!

Who did they think they were!

When had she ever made the Divine Frozen Palace look bad? When?

Meng Yue had been so angry with her sisters that she had left to hunt. The need to kill something had been strong. Luckily, she had found a Ravenous Silver Wolf, a fine specimen at that. It had taken almost a month to chase it down and kill it. As she was beating it to death, Meng Yue imagined it was her sisters’ faces staring back at her instead of the wolf’s.

It had been a fairly satisfying endeavor.

After killing it, Meng Yue realized she was very close to Eastern Port City. For someone as powerful as her, a city that small usually wasn’t worth remembering, but as one of the Five Fairies of the Divine Frozen Palace, Meng Yue knew the names of all the Sects they were allied with as well as their central locations.

The Xiao Sect wasn’t worth mentioning next to the Divine Frozen Palace, but it was still among the Top 100 Sects of the Empire.

It had only been proper for her to pay a visit, right?

There was absolutely nothing wrong with that. Meng Yue most certainly hadn’t just gone there to prove she could represent the Sect without looking like an angry savage.

Not at all.

Besides, nothing but good had come from her actions! A Body of Extreme Yin! To think such a small city hid such grand treasure!

The moment she had felt that Qi, Meng Yue knew she needed to take that girl as her disciple. Ah, to think she had found someone worthy of being her personal disciple in a place like this. The ways of Heaven were amusing. She had even negotiated the terms to take the girl without a single altercation.

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That would show those four!

Meng Yue could almost imagine the jealousy in their eyes when they learned her disciple had a Body of Extreme Yin. That would be a sight to see!

Still, Xiao Zheng should have known better.

To think he’d put on a meager effort for his daughter’s wedding!

He even admitted it right in front of her. The poor girl!

Meng Yue couldn’t understand it. The man had begged so fiercely for the wedding to be held. Enough that she had been moved and allowed it to happen. The Patriarch of the Xiao Sect stood on the Second Level of the Emperor Realm, but to Meng Yue, that wasn’t much.

Meng Yue was already in the Ninth Level of the Emperor Realm.

The difference between them was simply too big. It was unlikely Xiao Zheng would ever leave the Human Realms of Cultivation while Meng Yue was only a half-step away from the Divine Realms. There was no point of comparison. If Meng Yue had wanted to take Xiao Zheng’s daughter, she would have easily been able to do so. Instead, she allowed the wedding to happen and even agreed for the newlyweds to live together for a month.