Just as he grew uneasy, Yun Huoyue withdrew her gaze, and her cool voice rang out across the gathering.
"From this day forward, any disciple not of this peak who dares set so much as half a foot on my Green Bamboo Peak will bear the consequences!"
After leaving that utterly domineering warning, she turned and became a streak of fiery-red light, drifting toward the summit.
The gathered disciples were left standing in the wind, completely dumbstruck.
She... she just left? She just let him off?!
C-could it be... this brat really was having a fling with Peak Master Yun?!
Had she even forbidden disciples from every other peak from setting foot here because of him?
Wasn't that blatant favoritism?
At that thought, everyone's heart sank.
When they looked at Chun Xiaobai again, their eyes were filled with lingering fear-and, of course, a measure of jealousy.
"This brat isn't even particularly good-looking!"
"Could Peak Master Yun really like roguish bad boys like him?"
Liu Changqing and his followers in particular had lost every trace of their earlier arrogance and swagger. Only terror and regret remained in their eyes.
This wasn't just clinging to a Peak Master's leg for protection!
He was having a fling with the Peak Master herself!
Forget ordinary disciples like them-even the Peak Masters of the other peaks would probably have to treat this fellow politely from now on, wouldn't they?
Suddenly.
With a thud, Liu Changqing's knees gave way, and he dropped straight to the ground. He forced out a smile uglier than a crying face and spoke in a trembling voice.
"S-Senior Brother Chun! I'm terribly sorry. I failed to recognize Mount Tai standing before me and offended you repeatedly. I..."
"Scram!"
Before he could finish, Chun Xiaobai roared straight into his swollen, piglike face.