42 LingLing (2/2)

He picks a pink dress with white lilies embroidered on the skirt{LingLing certainly likes mountain lilies he thinks as he packs it}.

Maybe I should borrow a hairpin also I think she lost hers in the water, He chooses a white jade hairpin with lilies carved on it{more lilies}

Once he is ready to leave, he reassures Zhang Yu that XiXi will be fine in a few days. He then tells him he will be back in the morning to travel to the city with him.

Ling Ling arrives at the hut to see Siyu laying outside the door.She has only seen him from a distance before, he is really quite magnificent she thinks. She wouldn't mind asking Yun Tai for him when she becomes Sect leader.

She pictures herself and the Panthera being an intimidating duo standing on the mountaintop of Cloud Mountain. A peerless beauty with a fearsome beast at her side.

But, for now she rather not come into contact with him so she sits on a branch where she can see in the window down below.

She cringes when she looks into the window, The Old Master is wiping XiXi's forehead with a cloth very gently.

The fox girl seems to be sound asleep, but Yun Pei Shan lifts her head to pour some thing from a bowl into her mouth. That pest seems worse off than Feng Tian described. Good, very good, maybe she will just die and save me the trouble of soiling my hands.

No, she won't die if Master is taking care of her, she might even come out of it in better shape. LingLing remembers when Yun Pei Shan saved her. She was a child being transported to Purple Dragon Kingdom as a slave.

Her tribe lived in the wilderness beyond the Great Divide, that's why her looks are considered exotic.

She has deep almost black eyes with specks of silver. Her hair has streaks of the azure blue color of her tribe. It serves as a striking contrast to her jadelike skin.

They are called The Azure Sky People.Now,very few of her tribe remain there because traders raid their villages for slaves. The women were taken to be trained as dancers because of their exotic beauty, to be put in brothels. The men were used as slaves in the mines.

She had contracted an illness as they passed through the Snow Plains and would cough incessantly. Afraid she would infect the other slaves, one day they simply tossed her from the caravan.

Yun Pei Shan had been traveling through Purple Dragon Kingdom after being at a meeting of The Twelve Great Masters when he found her.

She was curled up in a ball under a tree crying, trying to stay warm. He bent down and wiped her face, he recognized her as one of the Azure Sky People. It didn't take him long to figure out her situation, he fed her some medicine to help her stop coughing.

He then picked her up and used qinggong to take her to his home in Cloud Mountain. Where he nurtured and raised her alongside his other adopted child Yun Tai.

The Old Master was never gentle to her though, as he appeared wiping the fox girl's forehead. He had a look of gentleness she never sawtowards her.

LingLing was snapped out of her reminiscing when she saw Feng Tian arrive , rush in the door straight to XiXi's bedside.

Why do they all care for that little fox girl?