62 The Genius Girl (1/2)

Since Ye Xiao had said so, the steward didn’t think that he should keep asking, so he just said, “My lord, do you know… those men of the Mu Clan are all dead…”

Ye Xiao promptly turned his head and exclaimed, “What? All dead? What’s going on exactly? Do you know who did it?”

“It is confirmed.” The steward frowned, “It must be the most mysterious organization in the world, the House of the Chaotic Storm… No one was left alive, and they even left some words for the world to see… It seems that the House of the Chaotic Storm is deliberately going against the Mu Clan?”

Ye Xiao immediately realized something.

[It seems that Xiu of the Heavens has really done it!]

She had actually done it without any reservations; she had completely wiped out the members of the Mu Clan that had entered the capital. She was decisive, heartless, cruel and powerful, all at the same time…

It really scared Ye Xiao.

“The House of the Chaotic Storm, which many thought to be only a myth, have really surfaced.” Ye Xiao murmured. His eyes lit up as he recalled the day when he had chased those men to the mountain…

The bamboo forest…

It must have something to do with the House of the Chaotic Storm.

[Sometime in the future, when the sky is clear and dry, I’ll take some gasoline and burn that bloody bamboo forest down… Let me see what can be lured out of it…]

When he returned to his garden, he saw Su Yeyue sitting in the pavilion, resting her jaw on her hands. She was gazing at the moon in the sky.

Ye Xiao walked over gently and sat opposite to her.

The girl looked at the moon and said, “Xiao-Xiao, do you ever wonder… if there are people on the moon?”

Ye Xiao replied, “I suppose so. According to the myths, a goddess lives there, Chang-Er, right?”

The girl answered with a “hmm” and said, “Xiao-Xiao, you got me so worried.”

Ye Xiao smiled warmly, “Don’t worry. Who am I? I’ll always be ok.”

Su Yeyue nodded softly and said, “You’re fine now… but, I was really scared...”

She became silent for a while, before suddenly speaking out in high spirits, “Xiao-Xiao, you didn’t go to the auction the other day! What a pity! I was there and it not only opened my eyes, I even gained something. It is a book, the Sword Art ff Feng-Hua. It’s a marvelous sword technique! I can be a superior cultivator from now on…”

“The Sword Art of Feng-Hua? Is it really that powerful?” Ye Xiao frowned, “Let me have a look.”

Generally, this kind of request was inappropriate. If Steward Song was present, he would have definitely stopped him straight away. The martial art books that were qualified enough to be sold at the high-level auction of the Ling-Bao Hall were at least high-grade books. Anyway, he was still the Xiao Monarch inside, so he only intended to identify the book. Even with his greedy eyes, he wouldn’t spare it a glance. As for the girl…

Of course she wouldn’t mind.

She grinned before taking out a book from inside her clothes and giving it to Ye Xiao. Only now did Ye Xiao notice the elegant sword placed on the stone chair beside her.

[It seems that this girl is really interested in martial arts. I wonder whether the book is the complete version or if it’s only an unfinished work.] Ye Xiao wondered and asked, “Yeyue, what level have you reached in your cultivation?”

Su Yeyue turned a bit bashful as she answered, “About the 7th level of the Mortal Origin Stage…”

“Level 7. The Mortal Origin Stage…” Ye Xiao nodded and felt a bit surprised. As a spoiled princess in the Palace of Hua-Yang, she had actually reached the seventh level of the Mortal Origin Stage. This was already quite impressive. So he said, “Did you start cultivating since you were a kid?”

“Nah…” Su Yeyue hesitated, but she decided to continue, “My father has been fighting on the battlefield his entire life, so he didn’t want me to learn any martial arts. He thinks that a girl lacks delicacy if she decides to practice any kind of martial arts. I have always been interested in it though. Since two years ago, I started to learn something from the guards of my house… Well, I have to keep it a secret and not let my father notice. So I am doing ‘three days fishing, two days drying nets’ [1]; I only practice occasionally. Sigh… it is a pity that the guard who taught me the cultivating method died in a battle not long after the last lesson…”

Ye Xiao was shocked!

[What?

Two years ago?

Taught by a guard?

Practiced secretly?

‘Three days fishing, two days drying nets’?!

And she actually reached the seventh level of the Mortal Origin Stage in two years?

Is she a monster or something?]

With a record like that, she could be counted as a person having a fine aptitude but not outstanding in the Qing-Yun Realm. However, they were living in the Land of Han-Yang. With such an achievement, it might not be enough to call her a genius among geniuses!

And she was cultivating without her parent’s permission; she practiced secretly; she cultivated from time to time…

That meant no one was guiding her!

At the first place, the guard that had been teaching her had already died in battle… That meant the guard only had an average aptitude in cultivation. How could the cultivating method used by such a man be any good?

Under all these negative conditions, she had been cultivating on her own and had actually achieved the seventh level of the Mortal Origin Stage.

This was just inconceivable!

The Xiao Monarch was really astonished!