Senior Brother

"What's so strange about that?"

Wen Xu was just about to speak when fierce bickering suddenly came from the Jiang Household. All three were cultivators with keen hearing, and after listening closely, they realized that people from the Cloudglow Sect had gotten into an argument with Jiang's mother. More precisely, they had come to make trouble for the Jiang Household.

"Why won't you let us see Senior Sister Baozhu's final appearance? Her injuries clearly weren't fatal. Why did she die as soon as she returned home?"

"Exactly! How, exactly, did you take care of Senior Sister? You even got the funeral rites for a cultivator wrong. If you didn't welcome Senior Sister home, you could have said so. Our Cloudglow Sect may be a small temple, but it still has room for Senior Sister!"

"Madam Jiang, our request isn't excessive, is it? This Beauty-Preserving Pearl was something Senior Brother begged for with great difficulty. He even broke into a small secret realm and suffered serious injuries to bring it back. He's still lying unconscious in his cave abode. Before he passed out, he urgently told us to deliver it here. Today, even if you try to stop us, we still have to—"

Good heavens, they'd gone straight to making a scene?!

It was true that a cultivator's death was handled rather differently from an ordinary person's funeral. Bian Chunchou couldn't help poking his head out to glance at the Jiang Residence's gate. Hmm, there really wasn't a spirit banner in sight.

If the Jiang Household truly cherished their eldest daughter, they hadn't handled the funeral very carefully. But if they said they liked Senior Sister Jiang Ying, that didn't seem to be the case either. Bian Chunchou was genuinely confused now.

Still, the Cloudglow Sect's request was perfectly reasonable. Madam