"Not bad, little girl!" Elder Hu took the Jade Slip and Jade Talisman Zhou Xue handed him and praised her.
"Sect Master, there's no time to lose. I'll take my leave first," Hu Tianyi said after cupping his hands in salute to Ye Xingchen.
"Go take care of it!" Ye Xingchen said, waving a hand at Hu Tianyi.
Hu Tianyi turned and left the Sect Main Hall to gather men and prepare to head to Flame Mountain.
"Zhou Xue, that will be all for today. You may go," Ye Xingchen told Zhou Xue.
"Yes, Sect Master. I take my leave!" Zhou Xue bowed to Ye Xingchen, then turned and left the Sect Main Hall to find her master.
"Father, since there's nothing else for me to do, I'll go see Mother first," Ye Wuxia told her father when she saw there was nothing more to attend to.
"Hurry along and see your mother. She's been talking about you all this time!" Ye Xingchen waved Ye Wuxia away, urging her to go find her mother. Madam Yuehua's temper had grown considerably worse lately, and she had already put Ye Xingchen in his place more than a dozen times.
"I'm off, then!" With that, Ye Wuxia immediately went to find her mother.
"That girl. Instead of staying in the sect and cultivating properly, why does she keep running off? Going to cultivate in a little sect like the Cloud Glow Sect-she's just looking for fun, isn't she? How could that place compare to our sect?" Ye Xingchen did not believe for a moment that Ye Wuxia had gone to the Cloud Glow Sect to cultivate.
Ye Wuxia arrived at her mother's residence, where Madam Yuehua was watering the immortal orchids she grew.
"I'm back!" Ye Wuxia called out.
"So you still remembered