"Heaven-Gate, Lingyue, this Moonlight Stone holds an inheritance the Sword Ancestor left for our Huangting Dao Palace lineage."
"Each of you has only ten breaths to comprehend this inheritance."
Inside the main hall of Huangting Dao Palace, many years ago.
Palace Master Zuoxing looked solemnly at the two prized disciples before him.
They were Chu Tianque and Chu Lingyue in their youth.
Both nodded in unison.
Palace Master Zuoxing glanced at Chu Tianque.
"Heaven-Gate, place your hand on it first."
Chu Tianque immediately stepped forward in excitement and planted his hand on the Moonlight Stone.
Beside him, Chu Lingyue watched her senior brother Chu Tianque with a somewhat bewildered look, idly twisting the hem of her clothes around her fingers.
Ten breaths passed in a flash.
Palace Master Zuoxing put away the Moonlight Stone and asked Chu Tianque expressionlessly:
"Well?"
The excitement on Chu Tianque's face had already vanished, replaced by "pain" and "bewilderment."
Palace Master Zuoxing asked again:
"Well?"
Beside him, Chu Lingyue hurriedly reached out and nudged Chu Tianque.
"Senior Brother, Master is asking you."
Only then did Chu Tianque open his eyes. He looked at Chu Lingyue reproachfully and said:
"Junior Sister, it's all your fault. I was so close to finding a way in."
With a snap, Palace Master Zuoxing flicked Chu Tianque on the forehead and said coldly:
"If you failed to comprehend it, you failed. What does that have to do with your junior sister?"
Chu Tianque clutched his aching forehead and protested:
"Master, it was her fault! If Junior Sister hadn't pushed me, I..."
Snap!
Before Chu Tianque could finish, Zuoxing gave him another hard flick on the forehead and said:
"Chu Tianque, how dare you resent others for your own incompetence?"
Zuoxing paused, his tone turning colder.
"Especially when she is your