Chapter 695: Pathetic Little Worms Up On High (1/2)

The head of the Panorama Pavilion was at his wit’s end. His cherished granddaughter of less than two years old, connate peerless immortal Liu Qingmiao, was kicking up a fuss about discarding her immortal foundations to cultivate anew from the beginning!

So shocked that his soul was about to depart from his body, the Pavilion lord almost fell to his knees to beg her to change her mind. After all, her immortal foundations had been forged by a Heaven Descent Pill! When it came to her future, the sky was the limit. She was bound to become an existence akin to the ancient primordial emperor, at the very least. Why would she ever want to sever these foundations?

The Pavilion master was of course unwilling, more than unwilling!

And yet, this little bean sprout less than two years old, the most treasured existence of Panorama Pavilion, little princess Liu Qingmiao, wouldn’t listen to anyone other than her master Lu Yun and his wife Qing Yu.

Qing Ruyan? Forget it, she obeyed the child’s every whim,  while Yue Longsha, Zhu Yan, and the small recalcitrant dragon had all been brought to heel and could be seen scurrying around her day in and day out.

About to lose his mind, the Pavilion lord streaked into golden light with Liu Qingmiao and arrived outside Lu Yun’s gates.

“Lu Yun, come out here right this instant!!”

Heads in Dao City lifted at his booming voice and stared at Lu Yun’s residence in shock.

“What’s the matter? Why is the head of the Panorama Pavilion so angry? Is the merchant alliance and Lu Yun quarreling? Are they about to become enemies?”

The sight of the Panorama lord rushing into Lu Yun’s residence with bloodshot eyes fueled the crowd’s imagination.

“Dusk Province’s current strength, Dao City’s wealth… it’s all thanks to the merchant alliance. If they were to fall out with Lu Yun, we wouldn’t have much to fear with Dusk Province...”

“Not much to fear?” Many people shrugged.

On Witherdew Major’s battlefields, Dusk Province braves had swept through the legions of several majors unopposed and conquered the territory that’d formerly belonged to Exalted Major.

Additionally, Dusk Phalanx’s showing in the battle of the North Sea had been even more magnificent. The image of the two Black Tortoises was now deeply etched in the common mind.

Even without the merchant alliance’s support, Dusk Province would lose only a little wealth at the very most. Lu Yun still possessed a hoard of treasures, and he could find other channels to sell them.

When the other leaders of the merchant alliance heard the news, they scrambled toward the scene, afraid of a worst-case scenario.

……

“What’s the matter?” Xing Chen walked out and looked at the Pavilion lord in confusion, as Lu Yun and Qing Yu had reached a crucial stage in their efforts to develop the body-tempering art.

“Little sweet pea, did you make your grandpa angry again?” He hastily took Liu Qingmiao’s hand from her grandfather and examined her from head to toe. When he made certain she wasn’t injured, he looked up vigilantly at the pavilion head.

The one who spoiled her the most in all of Dusk Province was naturally Lu Yun. Otherwise, how would she have become such a mischievous imp?

She might have been one of the little fox’s soul-parts in her past life, but in the here and now, her soul was reformed into a complete whole and had erased all memories of her previous life.

Now she was simply Liu Qingmiao, Lu Yun’s founding disciple.

The little girl clambered onto his shoulders and pulled a funny face at her grandfather, who stared back at her, huffing with anger. Lu Yun had seemingly been chiding her just now, but in fact, he’d been side-eyeing the Pavilion lord all along. The meaning in his eyes was clearly, “Old thing, what did you do to my dear disciple?”

“You ask her!” The Pavilion Master glowered at Lu Yun for a long while, then finally snorted. “Your cherished disciple wants to discard her immortal core and cultivate again from the beginning!”

He’d brought his granddaughter to Lu Yun in hopes that the governor would dissuade her from this wild idea.

“Hmm?” Lu Yun blinked, then turned his head to look at the little girl sitting on his shoulders. Exquisitely chiseled like a doll, her small face was fully earnest. When she met his eyes, she nodded resolutely.

“Master~ I want to cultivate from the beginning!” she said in a sweet babyish voice.