Ling Hun had been very irritable lately. He had a younger sister named Ling Xuehong, who had married Bai Guyi, one of the Two Elders of Mount Song.
Even back then, Ling Hun had never liked the look of that old bastard!
In those days, Ling Hun and his wife had lived in quiet cultivation on Mangcang Mountain with his sister. Bai Guyi had been passing through when, after exchanging only a few words with Ling Xuehong, he got into an argument with her and began a sword duel. His swordsmanship was clearly far superior to hers, yet he deliberately held back, fighting her for three days and three nights without a winner.
Sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere between them, Ling Hun had been about to deal with the old bastard himself when Elder Longbrow of the Emei Sect happened to pass by. He tied red threads at random and recklessly paired lovebirds, even acting as their matchmaker and arranging for Bai Guyi to marry Ling Xuehong.
Ling Hun had been a hundred and eighty times unwilling, but his sister wanted it. Once a sister grew up, her brother could no longer decide for her. In the end, he could only let her have her way.
After Ling Xuehong married, Ling Hun became Bai Guyi's brother-in-law. They met more often, but their words never found common ground, and they frequently argued and bickered. The last time, they had nearly come to blows in a bloody fight. Only the desperate intervention of his wife, White-Haired Dragon Lady Cui Wugu, and Ling Xuehong had kept them from fighting until heaven collapsed and earth split apart. From then on, however, Ling Hun refused to see Bai Guyi again.
He had not seen his sister for many years, but he still