Chapter 8: Battle of Thousand Brilliance (2/2)
“Is there a problem?” Bai Luochu knitted her brows. Back then, plenty of people surrounded and attacked the Thousand Brilliance Temple. Her death should have been a major incident and there shouldn’t be anyone who didn’t know about it. As the question left her mouth, Bai Luochu placed two gold coins on the table.
“No problem, no problem!” The counter staff’s eyes lit up as she quickly responded as though she was afraid of Bai Luochu taking it back. She swept the gold coins into her pocket and started to narrate the events.
The way she narrated the story was too long-winded as she started by talking about how Bai Luochu met Lu Wenshu and how they were mutually in love. She then spoke about how touching their love story was. As Bai Luochu listened to the story, her brows and the corner of her mouth couldn’t help but twitch from time to time.
To be honest, not even Bai Luochu knew that her so-called previous love life was actually such an intense story in the eyes of the world.
It was such a waste for this woman to be a counter staff instead of a storyteller. Bai Luochu couldn’t help but sigh in her heart.
Perhaps she was getting impatient from the narration or perhaps she felt that the counter staff’s narration was actually a deep mockery of her previous self who was blinded by love, Bai Luochu couldn’t help but interrupt. “Stop beating about the bush!”
“Dear customer, to get to the main point… you need to pay extra...” Perhaps the counter staff was afraid Bai Luochu might reprimand her because of her greed, she lowered her head and secretly peeked at Bai Luochu.
Bai Luochu wasn’t stingy and took out another piece of gold coin and pushed it in front of the counter staff. When she saw the gold coin, she quickly complied and narrated the rest of the information.
“When the evil dao witch, Bai Luochu, died miserably due to the inheritance, those so-called people of the righteous dao acted like traditionalists. However, the fact was that they had their eyes on the inheritance as well. In the end, the inheritance was guarded by Lu Wenshu and even if they had thoughts about it, they could only watch on helplessly.”
“What about the people from the Thousand Brilliance Temple?” When Bai Luochu asked about this, she was rather concerned. The Thousand Brilliance Temple was established by her and even though there weren’t many members, they were all her loyal followers. If they didn’t escape that calamity...
“As for the others…” The counter staff took a sip of tea to moisten her throat before she carried on. “They have scattered.”
“Scattered?” Bai Luochu stared blankly. “What does that mean? Are they still alive?”
“That’s right. According to logic, those people should exterminate the evil dao temple. No one knew why they didn’t do it in the end. They simply destroyed the Thousand Brilliance Temple before leaving. However, Bai Luochu had plenty of enemies and there were those who were secretly waiting to take their revenge. Without Bai Luochu around, her subordinates didn’t dare to mess around. In fact, they might even have to hide their identity no matter where they go.”
The counter staff spoke with no restraint and when she thought about the gold coins in her pocket. Her lips became looser the more money there was.
At this juncture, Bai Luochu stood up and walked out with her fists tightly clenched together.
The situation was much better than she imagined. At least they weren’t dead! In the end, the temple was destroyed and her disciples were out there, hunted down... this was something that she didn’t want to see either!
To her, this was utter humiliation!
The counter staff didn’t detect Bai Luochu’s abnormal behavior. She quickly chased after the leaving Bai Luochu and yelled out, “Eh? Why are you leaving, dear customer? If I am to say it, Lu Wenshu is truly a heartless rat and even though Bai Luochu might be an evil dao witch, but she was just a pitiful young lady who was blinded by love.”
The counter staff’s statement made Bai Luochu paused as she turned around and said, “So that is what you think.” Before the counter staff could respond, she turned back and walked towards the direction of the prison cells.
This counter staff was truly confused. “Is this human slave an idiot? She left after paying such a huge sum of money…”
“In any case, the three gold coins are already in my hands. I have to sell plenty of merchandise before I can obtain so much money!” Finishing her statement, the counter staff carefully stored the gold coins into her embroidered pouch. Perhaps it was due to her great mood after getting some good money, the lazy counter staff was actually humming a tune.
Late in the night, Bai Luochu cultivated as per normal but when she thought about the inheritance landing in the hands of that scum, Lu Wenshu, and that her disciples had to conceal their identity because of her and live a life without purpose, Bai Luochu felt extremely guilty. She was in agony. She had to calm her heart before she could carry out her cultivation session.