Chapter 48 (2/2)

Behind Xia Xue, Xue Qilin extended her head to look. On the “application forms”, there was some basic information of the applicants, such as name, place of birth, age, etc… The graceful handwriting clearly belongs to Gong Tianqing.

“How many people are there?” Without lifting her head, Xia Xue asked as she quickly skimmed over the “application forms”.

Qian Duoduo looked to Gong Tianqing, kicking the ball into her court. Everyone's eyes fell on Gong Tianqing, and she shrank into herself.

“For, forty-seven.”

“Oh, more than in previous years.” Xia Xue looked meaningfully at Xue Qilin.

“Why did you look at me?”

“Reputation, a blessing that a certain someone brought us by charging into the Heavenly Sword Gate by themselves.”

The little girl was taken aback. It took her a bit of time to understand what Xia Xue meant.

Ancient sects emphasized on reputation. Although the Merak Temple is among the Five Great Sects, but everyone knows that after the calamity that took place five years ago, the Merak Palace no longer lives up to the Five Great Sects t.i.tle. Previously, people and martial pract.i.tioners in particular felt that if it wasn't for the prestige of the Merak Temple's Great Ancestor, the gradually declining Merak Temple would have already been kicked out from the Five Great Sects.

However, to everyone's amazement, the stagnant Merak Temple unexpectedly still has a Heaven Realm Young Ancestor, and this Young Ancestor even broke into the Heavenly Sword Gate in anger and killed Hua Tianji, the Gate Master of a major sect second only to the Five Great Sects.

In this way, the Merak Temple which has been silent for a long time has now experienced a big reversal in fortune, becoming famous, becoming a topic of conversation among martial pract.i.tioners again.

Driven by this upsurge, it is only natural that there will be an increase in the number of people who want to join the Merak Temple.

“Stop s.p.a.cing out and sit down.” Xia Xue sorted out the application forms, “We're going to start.”

“Oh, okay.” As stated earlier, Xue Qilin took a seat on the left of the fifth Elder, then placed her elbows on the table and propped up her chin with the palms of her hands.

“Do you have gla.s.ses?”

“Is it food?”

“Why do you a.s.sume it would be food.”

“Intuition.”

“Don't believe your intuition in the future.”

“Somehow I feel like it's a waste of time.” Xia Xue was obviously impatient. “Let's hurry and start. I am afraid that these dozens of people will take us two or three days.”

“It'll take that long?”

“Fool.” Xia Xue scolded.

Thick-skinned, Xue Qilin just spread her hands, not bothering.

“Shameless people have no equal in the world, I finally experienced this saying in person.”

“Didn't you say to hurry. Let's hurry and start.” In a righteous tone, Xue Qilin used the other party's words against her.

At a loss for words, Xia Xue stared at her resentfully.

“Qian Duoduo…” Xia Xue shouted, her voice a bit heavy. She was probably a little angry.

Gong Tianqing sitting on her right shuddered.

“Call the first person in.”

A look of amus.e.m.e.nt on his face, Qian Duoduo nodded and went out.

This guy likes to watch drama! Xue Qilin watched Qian Duoduo until his back view disappeared.

“What am I going to do?”

“I'll teach you when we get there. For now, just sit quietly and make no noise.” With a soar expression on her face, Xia Xue answered without even glancing sideways.

She got angry that easily? Xue Qilin made a helpless “oh”.

[1] – Xia Xue uses two different characters and both mean to marry. The first is 嫁, and it means that the person to marry her is female and a.s.sumes her to be male; the second is 娶, and it means that the person to marry her is male and a.s.sumes her to be female

[2] – Xue Qilin uses 娶 here, meaning that in this scenario she is male and Xia Xue is female

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