Chapter 703 - 424 Secret_2

Chapter 703: Chapter 424 Secret_2

Due to the lack of a storage bag, it appeared that she had a lot of belongings.

After becoming the recognized master of the Purple Electric Sword, she showed little interest in the way of the sword. She had no intention of staying long in the Mountain Sea Academy. After buying a souvenir, she booked a ticket back to Crimson City’s Dongtian, which coincidentally brought her into contact with Chen Mobai and his friends.

While she was waiting for the bus, a car stopped in front of her. The window rolled down, revealing a face that brought her great surprise and joy.

“Ride with us.”

Hearing Chen Mobai’s words, Teacher Wanyu’s eyebrows raised in a bright smile.

Chen Mobai got out of the car and helped her put her luggage into the trunk, then invited her to sit in the front passenger seat, while he and Zhongli Tianyu took the back row.

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After Chen Mobai helped Wanyu get into the car, he naturally introduced her to the others.

“This is Pei Qingshuang, a teacher at the Mountain Sea Academy, and also my friend.”

With an aloof nod, Pei Qingshuang, already driving, acknowledged her introduction.

“This is Teacher Wanyu, a student from Starlight Institute, my good friend and the final candidate for the Purple Electric Sword this time round.”

After Chen Mobai’s introduction, Wanyu greeted the stunningly beautiful Pei Qingshuang with a reserved politeness.

Upon hearing her name, Pei Qingshuang’s hands tightened, and her pupils briefly contracted.

She glanced at Chen Mobai and Wanyu with an odd expression, and her usually aloof face suddenly lit up with a warm, cheerful smile.

“Hello, my friends like to call me Cui. If you’re willing, you can do the same.”

Upon hearing Pei Qingshuang’s words, Chen Mobai was left utterly bewildered.

Wasn’t she usually indifferent to everyone? Even towards Zhongli Tianyu, she didn’t pay him much regard.

Could it be because Wanyu is pretty?

Now that he thought about it, all of Pei Qingshuang’s close friends, like Wen Ren Xuewei and Yan Qiongzhi, were all good lookers. Pei surely belonged to the Look’s Party.

Due to student discounts, Wanyu had booked a train ticket. Pei Qingshuang drove her to the station first.

Before parting ways, the two women even added each other as friends.

“Goodbye.”

Wanyu waved them off happily.

Chen Mobai waved back with a smile, but in his heart, he figured it would probably be the last time he would be seeing her.

“In the final round of the Purple Electric Sword selection, Qi Practitioners have the option to participate anonymously so as to avoid excessive public attention.”

After they had dropped Wanyu off at the station, and while Zhongli Tianyu was unloading the luggage, Pei Qingshuang revealed this piece of information to Chen Mobai, who was still in the car.

“Oh, If I’d known that, I would have chosen to be anonymous too.”

Chen Mobai hadn’t been aware of this option. His recent fame had been causing him headaches, and hearing her words, he let out a sigh.

Pei Qingshuang, noticing that Chen Mobai had only understood the surface of her words, hesitated for a moment but didn’t say anything else in the end.

Had she not randomly bumped into them today and had not handled the white stone herself, she wouldn’t have known that Teacher Hao Cao would stoop so low to avoid future blame.

No wonder he had to select twelve exceptional Sword Talents. It was a smokescreen.

But knowing the truth, Pei Qingshuang was even more amazed by Chen Mobai’s talent.

“Stay in touch.”

After saying these words with the unpractised smile she was not good at, Pei Qingshuang watched as Chen Mobai and Zhongli Tianyu entered the airport.

Inside the waiting room.

“She’s the daughter of the Tao Hua sage, right? Who would have thought she could survive this well…”

As a descendant of a Divinity Transformation family, Zhongli Tianyu seemed to know some inside story. After Pei Qingshuang left, he muttered under his breath.

“What do you mean by that?”

After hearing his words, a bewildered Chen Mobai asked. He wondered whether Pei Qingshuang, like him, had suffered from a serious illness when she was young.

“Do you know who her father is?”

Zhongli Tianyu asked back, and Chen Mobai shook his head.

The information inside the Immortal Gate is quite transparent but the section for Tao Hua’s lover has always been blank, so no one knows who Pei Qingshuang’s father really is.

“Do you know?”

“I don’t know either.”

“Then why did you…”s

Chen Mobai was about to curse aloud when the announcement for his flight was made.

The two of them had booked first class, and after the lanky, beautiful flight attendant left, Zhongli Tianyu began telling a story he heard from his childhood.

“Tao Hua the Immortal was a peach blossom who became a spirit, a demon turned human.”

Chen Mobai was taken aback when he heard this, “Isn’t it said that humans and demons are reproductively incompatible, absolutely unable to produce offspring?”

“Right, that’s why when Pei Qingshuang was born, she nearly died.”

“The Jumang Daoist Academy even sought the help of our Zhongli Clan, as our ancestor had left behind several Black Tortoise shells, which are excellent for replenishing Elemental Energy.”

“But in the end, they weren’t needed. An expert from the Imperial Medical Academy stepped in, resealing Pei Qingshuang back into her mother’s womb.”

After experiencing Zhongli Tianyu’s tale, Chen Mobai fell into deep thought.

“Could it be, that Pei Qingshuang’s father isn’t human either?”

No sooner had he asked this question than he shook his head.

In the Immortal Sect, there are only laws prohibiting marriage between humans and demons, which are reproductively incompatible. But if both parents were of the same demon species, there would be no reason to cover it up.

“The higher-ups must be aware of the inside story. Our Zhongli Clan hasn’t produced a Nascent Soul Immortal for a long time, so our ties on the higher echelons have weakened, and we are not privy to much information.”

Zhongli Tianyu only happened to know this because he heard his family mention it when he was young. Seeing Pei Qingshuang today reminded him of it.

“Her father must be surnamed Pei. Are there any individuals of Gold Core or Nascent Soul Realm rank with that surname in the sect?”

Chen Mobai asked a question. Tao Hua, as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, if she were to have a Daoist partner, they would have to be at least of Gold Core rank, right?

Zhongli Tianyu makes a dismissive gesture, indicating that he doesn’t pay attention to such matters.

Luckily, we live in an age of widespread information. All cultivators of Gold Core rank and above are councillors in the Yuan Palace. Chen Mobai conducted a search and found two real people with the surname Pei belonging to the Gold Core realm.

Could one of them be the Daoist partner of Tao Hua?

With this speculation, Chen Mobai treated the matter as if it was mere gossip—something to pass the time during the journey.

By the time he returned to the Crimson City cave, he had forgotten all about it.

Who is Pei Qingshuang’s father? It was none of his business.

Building number one of the Dance Tool Dao Academy.

“You little brat, you didn’t embarrass me.”

In the office, Che Yucheng was looking at the Purple Electric Sword Chen Mobai brought, nodding with a sense of pride.

He had been running around trying to get the matter heard by Cheng Xuan. If Chen Mobai hadn’t gotten the Purple Electric Sword, all his efforts would’ve been in vain.

“Teacher, I already told you, the Purple Electric Sword is perfect for me. On the Sword Tower, I only needed to grip the sword hilt to sense a profound unity between the sword and myself. If it wasn’t for the fact that I haven’t undergone Core Formation yet, the Purple Electric Sword might have recognized me as its master on the spot…”

In front of Che Yucheng, Chen Mobai was like a child flaunting his excellent results to a parent, essentially recycling what the media had been saying about him. Even he himself was half-convinced by his own words.

“Alright, alright, I’ve heard this all before.”

Che Yucheng interrupted Chen Mobai’s repetition. He had read all these on the internet while surfing it.

“The Purple Electric Sword is a Rank-4 sword. If you want to command it, you have to at least reach the Golden Core Realm, or else, study ‘The Union of Differences,’ and make it your Prime Soul Origin.”

Chen Mobai’s face fell when he heard this.

If ‘The Union of Differences’ was something he could learn easily, he would have mastered it long ago.

Che Yucheng only mentioned it in passing. After all, the Purple Electric Sword was now in Chen Mobai’s hands. He started discussing another topic.

“You’ll graduate next year. Which department have you decided on for your graduation design?”

The Dance Tool Dao Academy’s graduation assignment is quite simple: students just need to make a Rank-2 item from a department they’ve studied in.

For instance, a Rank-2 talisman for the Talisman Department; a Rank-2 magic artifact for the Artifact Refining Department…

“Naturally, your Puppet Department would be my first choice, teacher.”

Chen Mobai sincerely expressed his choice. Furthermore, for him, creating a Rank-2 puppet would be extremely easy.

“The Academy principal is coming out of seclusion this year. He will give some extra rewards to those students who present a Rank-3 product for their graduation assignment.”

Che Yucheng finally brought up the main point.

“What kind of rewards?”

Chen Mobai’s eyes sparkled as he asked. Whatever a Nascent Soul Immortal would give as a reward couldn’t be bad, could it?