"Junior Brother, do you know Jade Sun Mountain well?"
"Not particularly."
Su Che nodded. He had dealt with Xue Baizhi a fair few times, and his impression of Jade Sun Mountain was reasonably good.
Jade Sun Mountain could hardly guarantee that every disciple was upright—there was that hypocrite Chu Yuan, for one. But a gentleman was judged by his deeds, not his heart. Its disciples had upheld justice across the Central Land for years, and even if they had earned no great merit, their hard work counted for something. Su Che was willing to think more highly of them.
"Why? Is there something wrong with Jade Sun Mountain?"
"Nothing wrong, exactly. But when the two of us came down from the mountain, Master told us to keep our distance from Jade Sun Mountain. She said there was a problem with its lineage."
Li Shouchang frowned.
"Especially since they've been keeping their gates shut lately. Something may have happened within the sect."
"It never hurts to be careful. But they're the foremost righteous sect in the Central Land. There's no harm in meeting them."
Jiang Shoucheng added his piece.
The two senior brothers played off each other neatly enough. They had even become his advisers.
Before long, Xue Baizhi arrived at the little courtyard. The Reverted Elixir cultivator from Jade Sun Mountain was not dressed as a Daoist nun today. She wore a yellow jacket and skirt beneath a pale-purple gauze robe. Though she had no ornaments in her hair, she had a graceful charm that made one's heart ache for her.
"Xue Baizhi of Jade Sun Mountain greets the True Persons of the Yellow Heaven Sect."
She gave them a salute between equals.
"We wouldn't dare accept that title. Your master, True Person Cangyuan, treats our master as a peer