Under Qing Yun's bewildered gaze, Xu Wang gave her a thumbs-up too, flashing his big white teeth. Qing Yun immediately collapsed, her strength drained away.
Qing Xiao came back, remarkably tenacious.
After Qing Xiao had been tossed out dozens of times, someone else came to the courtyard to request an audience with Lu Yin: Ru Mu, the stunning woman whose beauty had been captured in paintings and spread throughout the land.
"Ru Mu?" Qing Xiao came back with a bruised and swollen face, and spotted Ru Mu as soon as she arrived.
Ru Mu looked Qing Xiao up and down and blinked. "What happened to you?"
Qing Xiao rubbed her nose and fixed her hair. "Just having some fun, some fun."
Ru Mu laughed. "You certainly know how to enjoy yourself."
Qing Yun was also surprised by Ru Mu's arrival. They knew one another and had met in Beyond Heaven.
Facing the courtyard, Ru Mu bowed respectfully. "Ru Mu of Mount Yu Shen requests an audience with the Third Master."
Lao Tao asked, puzzled, "Girl, what are you here for?"
Back in Ring Sun City, Ru Mu had spoken with Lu Yin and wanted to say something, but Lu Yin hadn't given her the chance. They hadn't met again after that, and Lao Tao couldn't figure out why she had come now.
Facing the courtyard, Ru Mu bowed respectfully. "Ru Mu of Mount Yu Shen requests permission to follow the Third Master."
At those words, Lao Tao, Qing Yun, and Qing Xiao, as well as Palace Mistress Yao, Cai Keqing, and Star Toad on the other side of the courtyard—and even the cultivators from various factions watching Lu Yin from farther away—were all stunned.
They thought they must have misheard.
Ru Mu wanted to follow the Third Master?
She was