Chapter 85

Chapter 85: Chang Li Gets Harshly Disciplined by Azure Luan

The landing point of each Teleportation was random, and this time they dropped right in front of the Sect Master’s Hall.

Voices came from inside.

Song Wei Yan asked: “Master, weren’t you in Closed-Door Cultivation? Why did you come out early?”

Immortal Lord Chang Li rubbed his chin and thought aloud: “Lately I can’t seem to calm down. I have a bad feeling, like something big is about to happen. I haven’t done anything that harms the heavens or people recently.”

The next moment, a blue figure flashed before everyone.

Immortal Lord Chang Li’s eyes lit at once as he blurted: “Azure Luan? Why are you here?” He only felt the surprise of her sudden arrival and did not notice the cold smile at the corner of her lips.

She said: “Because I am the source of your bad feeling,” and before he could react, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan raised her hand and slapped him.

“Smack!”

It was still the same familiar feel.

Hearing Immortal Lord Chang Li’s voice, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan had dashed right in. Afraid to miss the show, Shen Sang Ruo also trotted in.

She arrived just in time to see the explosive scene.

That slap not only stunned Immortal Lord Chang Li, it also made the jaws of the others in the room drop.

Covering the cheek she hit, Immortal Lord Chang Li spoke in a blank voice with a hint of hurt: “Azure Luan, why did you hit me?”

After so many years, seeing Immortal Maiden Azure Luan made him very excited. He had so many things to say and so many questions to ask, but before he could speak, he got slapped silly. He truly did not understand. He had done nothing, and she rushed in and smacked him.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan sneered and said: “Why I hit you, you really have no idea?”

Immortal Lord Chang Li, rare for him, shook his head honestly. He truly did not know.

“Fine, then I will explain it to you and settle new and old accounts together,” Immortal Maiden Azure Luan said, ready to tally everything at once. “Was the Heart-Link Pearl stolen by you?”

Su Xi Yu and the other three, together with Daoist Wu Wei, all turned to stare at Immortal Lord Chang Li. Their faces said one thing: We didn’t expect you to be this kind of Immortal Lord Chang Li.

With an odd look, Immortal Lord Chang Li fumbled: “How can things between an Immortal Lord and an Immortal Maiden be called stealing?”

Seeing Shen Sang Ruo behind her, he spoke a bit guilty as he added: “I only took one bead. I already asked someone to send it back to you. Don’t start hitting.”

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan coming back with Shen Sang Ruo meant she had received the Heart-Link Pearl. So why was she still so angry?

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan almost laughed from anger. What did he mean by “only a bead”? That was clearly a very important thing. She slapped Immortal Lord Chang Li on the head again and said: “Then why did you not send it yourself? Why make someone else bring it? You knew I would get angry, right? And you even said I was scared of you, that I wouldn’t come find you, and that I would shake when I saw you?”

Immortal Lord Chang Li protested at once: “I never said that. Are you sure you didn’t get it wrong?” He truly felt wronged.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan pointed at Shen Sang Ruo and said: “You let her deliver such an important thing. She must be someone you trust. If those words came from her mouth, how could they be false?”

Immortal Lord Chang Li whipped toward Shen Sang Ruo and asked: “You said that?”

She only showed him a smile that meant good luck. [Cause and effect never miss. Every cause has a result.] Heh.

Her smile was full of challenge. Immortal Lord Chang Li understood at once that this was Shen Sang Ruo’s payback.

“You—” He had just started to speak to Shen Sang Ruo when Immortal Maiden Azure Luan grabbed his ear and yanked his attention back.

“Come on, say it again to my face. I want to see if you dare,” Immortal Maiden Azure Luan declared, dragging Immortal Lord Chang Li outside. He shouted as he went that he never said it and that someone was smearing him.

But Immortal Maiden Azure Luan would not listen, and soon his wails followed.

Watching the scene, Shen Sang Ruo clicked her tongue. Immortal Maiden Azure Luan was truly fierce. Even facing the high-and-mighty Immortal Lord Chang Li, she went straight to using her hands.

While she was savoring it, the others in the hall gathered around.

Daoist Wu Wei looked full of gossip and asked: “Sang Girl, what happened? How did you bring this Grand Auntie here?”

Back before the great change in the Ninghua Sect, everyone had seen Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s temper more than once. Every time she met Immortal Lord Chang Li, there would be friction and arguing. They were like water and fire.

Later, no one knew what conflict they had, but Immortal Maiden Azure Luan returned to the Wind-Moon Spirit Ruins and almost never came out again. Why would she come to Ninghua Sect now? Though it did look like she came to settle accounts with Immortal Lord Chang Li.

Su Xi Yu sighed and said: “Yes, after so many years, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s temper is still that wild, and Master is still the one getting hit.”

Bai Ruo An, usually calm, was curious for once and asked: “Junior Sister Shen, how did you convince Immortal Maiden Azure Luan to come to the Ninghua Sect?”

Shen Sang Ruo acted mysterious and said: “It’s a long story,” then she gave them a rough account of what happened.

Song Wei Yan said angrily: “Master went too far, making you take Immortal Maiden Azure Luan’s anger for him.”

Ye Huai, who rarely spoke, said: “I think Junior Sister Shen did the right thing.”

Bai Ruo An surprised everyone by saying: “No, to Master this is not punishment or payback. It is a reward.”

Daoist Wu Wei’s eyes shone as he asked: “How so?”

Bai Ruo An said: “Don’t you think… blah blah blah…” and leaned in to whisper.

While they chattered, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan and Immortal Lord Chang Li had just about “finished” their talks. They walked back in silence, both with dark faces, neither willing to speak to the other. Only Immortal Lord Chang Li’s ears were a little red. No one could tell if that was from being pulled or for some other reason.

As soon as they came in, six pairs of eyes landed on them.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan frowned and asked: “Why are you all staring at us?”

“Nothing, nothing,” they all said, shaking their heads.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan and Immortal Lord Chang Li only found them baffling, but the more the group looked, the more they felt something was going on.

Immortal Lord Chang Li coughed, lifted his old air of dignity to cover up the fact that he had just been hit, and looked at Shen Sang Ruo as he asked: “I heard from Azure Luan that you obtained her Nirvana Power?”

He was trying to restore his image. The four Disciples did not matter; they had seen him get smacked by Azure Luan before. But Shen Sang Ruo had not been fooled into becoming his student yet.

What he did not know was that back when he tricked her, whatever filter she had for him had already shattered.

Shen Sang Ruo answered: “Yes. I thought Nirvana Power might rebuild Senior Brother Song’s meridians, so I traded Fire-Scale Vine with Immortal Maiden Azure Luan for it.”