Chapter 4 The Scheming Disciple and the Charming Master 4

Chapter 4: The Scheming Disciple and His Alluring Master 4

What is he doing here?!

Could he have been reborn too?

While he stood there stunned, Mu Yunting in the line had already stepped up to the spirit-testing stone and placed his hand on it.

Almost instantly, the stone emitted a dazzling light, and an extremely bright purple pillar of light shot up straight into the sky.

Above the nine provinces, the winds and clouds churned violently, as the purple pillar drew in all the thunderclouds within a radius of five hundred li.

The sky, once clear, was now dark with clouds, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling, as if a torrential downpour could break at any moment.

The chaotic training ground went silent in an instant, and even the blind Lin Huaiqing sensed that something was wrong.

"A mutated lightning spiritual root! This is a once-in-a-century prodigy!"

Up on the high platform, the elder in charge of strength cultivators couldn't sit still any longer.

Although Mu Yunting was way past the usual age for joining the sect, with such a rare lightning spiritual root—one in a million—he was bound to achieve greatness in due time.

"What is your name?"

"I am Mu Yunting."

"Are you willing to have me as your master? I'll take you on as my personal disciple, guarantee you'll reach Foundation Establishment within three years, and within ten years, no disciple of the Xuantian Sect will be able to defeat you."

The strength elder was himself a renowned prodigy in the cultivation world, and entering Taiyue Peak was something many disciples could only dream about, let alone becoming a personal disciple—the most prestigious rank there was.

But much to everyone's surprise, Mu Yunting shook his head.

"I'm honored by your offer, Elder, but I've already got a master in mind."

Murmurs rippled through the audience.

"Oh? Then tell us, who do you wish to take as your master?"

Getting straight to the point, Mu Yunting knelt on one knee and bowed. "This disciple would like to take Immortal Venerable Huaiqing as his master! I beg the Immortal Venerable to grant this request!"

Lin Huaiqing, who had just been there as background, was suddenly called out by name and looked a bit awkward.

Even though he was blind, he could feel countless eyes on him from all directions.

Finally, someone couldn't hold back any longer.

Before he could even respond, a figure shot down from the audience, landing firmly in front of the stage, and said to Mu Yunting, each word deliberate:

"If you want him as your master, you'll have to get through me first!"

Qin Du wasted no time, charging straight at Mu Yunting. Mu Yunting reacted just as quickly, and the two clashed.

"How dare you! Qin Du, stop right now!" Lin Huaiqing shouted sternly.

Never mind that Qin Du was his disciple, even if he was an outer disciple of the Xuantian Sect, attacking someone who had come to attend the Immortal Destiny Conference would be seen as picking on someone weaker.

He really had promised Qin Du that he would never take another disciple, but he hadn't even said anything yet—Qin Du's reaction was way too much.

"Ding! Your system is now online. Let me check how far the world's progressed."

The scene was already total chaos, and of course, the system had to pop up and mess things up at the worst possible moment.

"What the hell! The world progress is still at 8%? What the hell have you been doing all these years?"

"What?!"

Even Lin Huaiqing was stunned, ignoring the two brawling below and retorting, "How is that possible? I've already raised this young male lead so well! How can it still be 8%?"

"Which of those two down there fighting is the one you raised?"

"The one on the left... no, wait... now he's on the right! The one in the black clothes!"

"..."

The system let out a shrill screech.

"What's with the six dots?!"

"You didn't even check when you picked him up? That's the freaking villain! You grabbed the wrong person!"

"What?!" Lin Huaiqing felt as if he'd been struck by lightning.

"How was I supposed to check? I'm blind! I just grabbed whoever I ran into. And besides, why did you have to put the villain and the male lead together for me to find?"

The system was silent for two seconds.

It did seem a bit unfair to the poor blind guy.

"Forget it, now's not the time to point fingers. You might as well just take the male lead on as your disciple now."

If Lin Huaiqing could curse right now, he would curse the system out.

But with so many eyes on him, he could only choke back the curses that were about to spill out.

"You two! Stop fighting!"

Hearing Lin Huaiqing finally speak up, both of them stopped at the same time.

Neither of them had a life-bound spirit sword, and fighting with just their fists, neither one could kill the other. It was totally pointless.

Qin Du rushed back to his master's side first, putting on a coquettish tone: "Master, didn't you promise me you'd never take another disciple?"

At that, everyone was stunned.

No wonder Lin Huaiqing had gone into seclusion and stopped taking disciples—it turned out he'd been charmed by this rebellious disciple.

Lin Huaiqing certainly remembered, but things were different now. How was he supposed to know he'd picked up the wrong person? Now he had no choice but to break his promise.

"Xiaodu, be good. Your master's going to take one more."

"..."

"Just this one."

Qin Du's expression changed faster than a Sichuan opera mask.

Feeling deceived, Qin Du said nothing more, his face cold and expressionless as he stepped down from the stage.

Before leaving, he couldn't help shooting Mu Yunting a glare.

Over these five years, he had long come to see Lin Huaiqing as his own master, even though he was the one who had snatched him from Mu Yunting from the very start.

Listening to Qin Du's footsteps fading into the distance, Lin Huaiqing felt a twinge of reluctance.

But the whole affair had been wrong from the beginning. All he could do was try to fix things before it was too late.

Before long, word spread that the Xuantian Sect had gained another genius disciple with a thunder spiritual root.

Naturally, the happiest of all was Chu Xiuyuan, the sect master of Xuantian Sect. Having such a prodigy of the cultivation world entrusted to his junior brother's care put his mind at ease.

As soon as the Immortal Destiny Conference wrapped up, Mu Yunting collected his disciple robes and communication jade pendant, then moved with Lin Huaiqing to live on Lingxiao Peak.

The side halls on either side of Lin Huaiqing's main chamber housed his two personal disciples.

"Master above! Your disciple bows to you!"

After formally drinking the disciple's tea in the ceremony, from that day forward, Mu Yunting was also his disciple.

The world progress finally ticked up to 10 percent.

After getting Mu Yunting settled into his quarters, Lin Huaiqing finally remembered Qin Du, who he'd left forgotten in a corner.

The kid was definitely mad at him.

Ever since they got back, he'd locked himself in his room and hadn't made a peep.

From his qiankun pouch, Lin Huaiqing pulled out an oil-paper bundle—pastries he'd had someone buy from the town at the foot of the mountain.

He planned to bring the sweets to cheer Qin Du up.

Even the system couldn't help questioning this move.

"Host, you know he's the villain, yet you still keep him around. Aren't you afraid of the trouble he might bring?"

Lin Huaiqing just smiled faintly.

"I was the one who brought him back to Xuantian Sect that day. Even if he's the villain, he's still my disciple. Besides, I've raised this kid since he was little. With me teaching him to be good, he might not turn out to be a villain after all."

The system went quiet.

He knocked on the side hall door, but there was no sound from inside.

"Xiaodu? Xiaodu?"

"I'm here!"

Lin Huaiqing mentally gave the system the finger.

He fumbled his way step by step to Qin Du's bedside.

A grown guy like him, burying himself under the covers over a little setback—the lump looked like a small hill.

Lin Huaiqing couldn't help but chuckle softly.

But this only made Qin Du even more annoyed.

"Master took on a fine new disciple today—bet you're grinning in your sleep, huh?"

Lin Huaiqing knew Qin Du was ribbing him, but he could only swallow his pride and try to soothe him:

"What nonsense is that? Haven't you always been my good disciple? Besides, you're the senior brother—you should set an example for your junior brother."

Unfortunately, Qin Du didn't give him a friendly look, and whether he took the words to heart was anyone's guess.

Qin Du rose and said solemnly:

"It's late, Master. What do you want coming to this disciple's room?"

The kid really knew how to put on airs.

"Instructions? Nah. These are pastries from Daoxiang Village. Aren't they your favorite? I had someone go down the mountain to get them for you. Sneak-eat them—don't let your junior brother see."