The Little Disciple Who Caused Trouble

"Roar!" The roar rang out like thunder, brimming with fury, startling everyone inside Jade Purity Hall.

"What happened to Spirit Venerable?" someone in the hall asked in confusion. A young Daoist boy immediately hurried out of the hall to look for the cause.

"Little Ji is still with Spirit Venerable! He won't be in danger, will he?" Su Ru worriedly leaned toward Tian Buyi, who sat beside her, and asked in a low voice.

Tian Buyi was also worried about his little disciple. Without even asking the sect leader seated above for permission, he rose straight to his feet and hurried out of Jade Purity Hall. Su Ru, however, could not follow him out, or it would seem as if Big Bamboo Peak did not take the sect leader's line seriously. When Tian Buyi reached the front of the hall, he saw a scene that made his heart tremble with fear. Beside the lowest step in front of the hall, the Water Kirin was furiously tossing its head, letting out mournful cries mixed with anger. The little disciple he was worried about was clinging to the Water Kirin's dragon horn, swinging left and right through the air as the Water Kirin shook its head.

"Spirit Venerable! Spirit Venerable! Please calm your anger!" Tian Buyi was terrified out of his wits. He rushed to the edge of the pool at a speed almost faster than rolling there and shouted loudly at the Water Kirin.

If the Water Kirin could curse, it would definitely have shot back, "Calm your mother's anger!"

The Daoist boy who had gone to check earlier had already run back into the hall in a panic. Wearing an expression of utter disbelief, he described to everyone in the hall what he had seen.

Led by the sect leader, Daoxuan True Person, everyone came out of Jade Purity Hall and saw a scene that they all found unbelievable.

"Spirit Venerable, please calm your anger!" Daoxuan saw the little fatty on the dragon horn fluttering left and right like a flag, then saw Tian Buyi by the pool doing his utmost to soothe the Water Kirin. He hurriedly came before the Water Kirin and tried to calm it.

Perhaps the pain had lessened, or perhaps Daoxuan True Person's soothing had taken effect. With a mournful cry, the Water Kirin sank into the pool.

Seeing the dragon horn about to disappear beneath the water, while his little disciple seemed scared stupid and still clung to it with no sign of letting go, Tian Buyi hurriedly stepped across the water's surface and yanked the boy down.

"You little bastard, how did you end up on Spirit Venerable's head? Do you have a death wish?" Only after the boy was rescued did Tian Buyi have the nerve and presence of mind to harshly scold this little disciple who kept getting into trouble.

Luo Yunji looked toward the pool, still somewhat unable to make sense of the situation.

"Still looking!" Tian Buyi directly grabbed his little disciple's hand, walked up to Daoxuan True Person, and bowed in apology.

"Forget it! It's good enough that no one was hurt!" Daoxuan True Person's eyes, which seemed able to see through people's hearts, fixed on the little fatty before him as if trying to discern something from him, yet there was nothing.

"Is this the child Junior Sister Su Ru brought back from Small Bamboo Peak?" Daoxuan True Person remembered that he had once seen Luo Yunji when the boy was still an infant in swaddling clothes.

"Yes! This brat has never given anyone a moment's peace. He doesn't cultivate properly either and only knows how to eat and sleep all day. Junior Sister and I are both at our wits' end over him," Tian Buyi replied with a look of grief and indignation when he saw that Daoxuan was not angry, letting out a breath of relief.

"He doesn't cultivate properly?... Only knows how to eat and sleep?" Daoxuan's expression still did not change. Though he hid the shock in his heart, the words he spoke carried a somewhat intriguing tone.

"Yes! Please examine the matter clearly, Senior Brother Sect Leader." They had known each other for nearly a hundred years and were very familiar with one another. Tian Buyi clearly heard something unusual in Daoxuan's tone and hurriedly replied.

"If that's truly the case, then I rather hope every disciple on Azure Cloud Mountain can be like him."

After a pause, Daoxuan continued, "If I remember correctly, Yunji has only been cultivating for three years, hasn't he?"

Tian Buyi nodded and said yes.

"To cultivate the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao to the fifth level in three years—such talent has never appeared in Azure Cloud's history." Daoxuan looked with great interest at the little fatty who was blocked behind Tian Buyi, only half his head showing as he secretly peered at him.

"The fifth level?!" Tian Buyi thought at first that he had misheard. Once he reacted, he cried out in surprise.

"What is it? Junior Brother Tian! You don't even know your own disciple's cultivation level?" Seeing that Tian Buyi's expression did not seem feigned, Daoxuan True Person became even more interested in the little fatty before him.

"Brat! When did you reach the fifth level?" The moment Tian Buyi heard that his precious little disciple's cultivation had advanced another level, he no longer cared whether it was rude in front of the sect leader. He directly pulled Luo Yunji out from behind him and asked in delighted surprise.

"I... I don't know either! How did it become the fifth level? Master! Didn't you say there were no cultivation formulas after the fourth level? I didn't practice!" Luo Yunji was a little muddlehead to begin with, and he truly did not care much about cultivation. So he was also very muddled about his own cultivation level!

"All right! Let's go back up first! The junior brothers are still waiting!" Seeing this muddleheaded master and disciple before him, Daoxuan shook his head speechlessly and turned to climb the steps.

"From now on, you are not allowed to take even one step away from me, understand?" After entering Jade Purity Hall, Tian Buyi instructed his little disciple in a low voice beside his ear.

"Oh!" Luo Yunji obediently nodded in response, but then shifted his body over to lean against Su Ru beside him. Seeing this, Tian Buyi rolled his eyes helplessly. With his wife watching him, he was not afraid the boy would stir up more trouble.

Su Ru had seen the sight of Luo Yunji being flung back and forth on Spirit Venerable's head earlier, and thinking of it now still left her lingering fear. She pulled her little disciple over and carefully looked him up and down from head to toe. Only after seeing that he was truly unharmed did she let out a breath of relief.

It was not suitable to speak privately in the great hall, so she could only suppress her thoughts, planning to properly talk to this little disciple once they left Jade Purity Hall.

Afraid that even with her at his side, this little disciple who constantly caused trouble might still manage to stir something up, she reached out and held Luo Yunji's chubby little paw.

After she held it, she felt that her little disciple was gripping an object in his hand and curiously lowered her head to look. She saw that the little disciple was holding a flesh-colored object about five inches long. It looked somewhat familiar.

The more she looked, the more familiar it seemed, and the guess in her heart frightened her more and more. In the end, she truly could not hold back. "What is this?"

"It was on the big guy's head! It smells really good! Mother, smell it." Seeing his master's wife whisper a question by his ear, Luo Yunji also replied in a low voice.

"What!!" After hearing the answer, Su Ru cried out at once. At this moment, everyone in the hall seemed to be waiting for something, so no one was speaking, with only one or two people nearby exchanging a few words. Thus Su Ru's shout immediately drew everyone's attention.

"What happened?" Hearing the panic in his wife's voice, Tian Buyi hurriedly asked.

"No... nothing! Nothing! Senior Brother Sect Leader, Junior Sister has been rude! I see this person won't arrive anytime soon. I'm worried about Senior Sister's illness, so I'll take my leave first!" As she spoke, she saluted the senior brothers in the hall, then pulled her little disciple with one hand and her daughter with the other, practically fleeing from Jade Purity Hall. She left behind Tian Buyi and Song Daren, master and disciple, full of confusion. Facing the questioning looks from the others, they could only smile awkwardly, close their eyes, and press their lips together.

After Su Ru left Jade Purity Hall, she did not immediately go to Small Bamboo Peak, but instead returned to Big Bamboo Peak.

After returning to Big Bamboo Peak, she had Tian Linger return to her room, while she herself pulled her little disciple into the bedroom and shut the door.

"You... how dare you!" Even now, when Su Ru thought of the scene of her little disciple swinging on Spirit Venerable's head, she could not help feeling worried and frightened. "That is Spirit Venerable! An ancient divine beast! You... you actually dared to climb onto his head. Who, who gave you the nerve?"

Su Ru paced back and forth inside the room. What she was worried about now was how to deal with that piece of Qilin Horn. The Water Kirin was the spirit beast of the founder, Daoist Qingye. Leaving aside seniority, just its merit in protecting Azure Cloud was enough for it to be respected and beloved by everyone in Azure Cloud Sect. If people learned that her little disciple had actually snapped off a section of Spirit Venerable's horn, how were they supposed to explain that?

Even flaying him alive would not be enough to atone for his crime.