The next day, Li Beifei prepared to take Mu Qingyi, Liu Yanran, and Liu Yuran out to sea for a good time. Just as they arrived at a dock, they encountered two women blocking their path.
"Ladies, do we know each other?" Li Beifei wondered inwardly as he looked at the two women. One of them had a cultivation level similar to his, while he couldn't gauge the depth of the other, who had a more mature aura.
Mu Qingyi, who was holding Li Beifei's arm, frowned. The two women before her were beautiful and had noble auras, no less than her own. Suddenly, a flash of insight crossed her mind.
"Are you the two city lords of Jade Water City?" Mu Qingyi asked.
"Oh? What makes you say that?"
Lu Chengfeng looked at Mu Qingyi in surprise.
"Rumor has it that the two city lords of Jade Water City are like fairies. I am just a humble woman, and precisely the Mu Qingyi that those busybodies compare them to." Mu Qingyi smiled. Lu Chengfeng's words were already an answer to her question.
Li Beifei raised a brow, surprised. "Two city lords, we don't seem to have met before, have we? Why are you blocking our path?"
Lu Chengfeng didn't pretend to be profound and directly said, "To be honest, we're here to find you."
Li Beifei looked at Mu Qingyi and the other two women, then said, "Find us?"
"More precisely, to find Ye Hongyi!" Gu Huaiyu said at this moment.
"Find Honghong?" Mu Qingyi was surprised. A trace of thought flashed in her eyes. Suddenly, she remembered Honghong mentioning a long time ago that Senior Gu had taken a third disciple, a female disciple, and given her the surname Gu. However, Honghong said that Senior Gu had already left the mortal realm with that disciple to cultivate in other worlds. Could it be that she came back with Senior Gu?
Remembering Senior Gu's laissez-faire attitude towards education, it was very possible that she brought her back and let her experience the world on her own.
Numerous thoughts flashed through Mu Qingyi's mind. She looked at Gu Huaiyu and softly asked, "Are you Gu Huaiyu?"
"Eh..."
Gu Huaiyu was instantly stunned. She had originally wanted to tease her second senior brother, but she didn't expect Mu Qingyi to expose her identity so quickly.
"Honghong mentioned you to me," Mu Qingyi explained.
"So that's how it is." Gu Huaiyu suddenly understood. Senior Sister Honghong had mentioned many people to her, and Mu Qingyi was one of them, so it was normal for Senior Sister Honghong to mention her to Mu Qingyi.
"Hehe, hello, Sister Qingyi!"
Since she had already been recognized, Gu Huaiyu frankly admitted it and sweetly called Mu Qingyi sister.
"Hello, Sister Huaiyu!" Mu Qingyi also said with a smile.
"By the way, this is Lu Chengfeng, also a disciple of our master." Gu Huaiyu immediately introduced Lu Chengfeng to them.
"I am just a nominal disciple of the teacher!" Lu Chengfeng said modestly.
"It's just a title, the master treats us all equally." Gu Huaiyu didn't feel that the master treated her and Sister Lu any differently.
Lu Chengfeng also nodded. Although she was only a nominal disciple of the teacher, the teacher treated her no differently from a direct disciple. Others would only pass on unimportant and non-core techniques and divine powers to nominal disciples, but the teacher was different. He had passed on his supreme saber technique to her. Where else in the world could she find such a good teacher?
After Gu Huaiyu introduced Lu Chengfeng, Mu Qingyi also introduced Liu Yanran and Liu Yuran to the two of them. It had to be said that the speed at which women established friendships was beyond imagination. Soon, the women forgot about the only man present and gathered together to whisper about something.
At this time, Li Beifei was still dumbfounded. What master, disciple, nominal disciple, he couldn't understand any of it.
"Hey, I still don't know who you are?"
Li Beifei couldn't help but ask. Lu Chengfeng, Gu Huaiyu? He didn't recognize the names even after they were said.
"My surname is Gu, guess who I am?" Seeing that Li Beifei was still confused, Gu Huaiyu said mischievously.
"Gu? Damn, you wouldn't be the old guy's daughter, would you?" Li Beifei was shocked.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Beifei realized something was wrong and quickly slapped himself, muttering, "Master is above, this disciple did not intend to offend, please forgive me."
This was the dock. If he was beaten up, his hard-earned reputation as a "Sword Immortal" would plummet. In the future, anyone who saw him would say, "Oh, isn't that the Sword Immortal who was beaten in the street?" So Li Beifei decisively slapped himself and apologized, regardless of whether the old guy heard him or not.
The expected storm of fists did not appear, and Li Beifei breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Huaiyu finally understood why the master always said that the second senior brother was a rebellious disciple. He kept calling him the old guy, so he deserved to be beaten.
Mu Qingyi shook her head helplessly and then told Li Beifei Gu Huaiyu's identity.
After Li Beifei heard this, he looked at Gu Huaiyu with a puzzled expression.
"It shouldn't be!" Li Beifei shook his head.
"What shouldn't be?" Gu Huaiyu asked in confusion.
"Do you have any hidden special physique?" Li Beifei asked.
Gu Huaiyu shook her head. She was just an ordinary mortal body.
"Then is your comprehension heaven-defying, and your cultivation speed faster than ordinary people?" Li Beifei asked again.
Gu Huaiyu shook her head again. The reason why she could become a saint in a thousand years was thanks to the Purple Qi Eastward Technique tailored for her by the master, plus the ubiquitous purple energy of the Purple Yang Great World. This allowed her to cultivate and become a saint in a thousand years. If she were in any other world, she would not be able to become a saint in a thousand years.
As for heaven-defying comprehension? Forget it!
"Then there's no reason the old, uh... Master would accept you as a disciple." Li Beifei was very puzzled. Not only did he accept her as a disciple, but he also gave her his surname. All of this revealed strangeness.
Bestowing a surname was not a treatment that ordinary people could enjoy.
He felt that Gu Huaiyu was strange in every way. Could she be the reincarnation of the old guy's daughter? If that were the case, everything would make sense.
"Hey, Second Senior Brother, can you stop being so long-winded like a woman? Hurry up and take us to find Senior Sister Honghong. We have very, very important things to do!" Gu Huaiyu didn't want to discuss with Li Beifei why the master accepted her as a disciple. Her mind was full of the treasures inside the Heavenly Pool Holy Palace.
"No, I want to go out to sea with your sisters-in-law." Li Beifei refused.
"Sisters-in-law? Are they all?" Gu Huaiyu looked at Mu Qingyi and the other two women.
Mu Qingyi smiled calmly, but Liu Yanran and Liu Yuran's expressions changed slightly. They wanted to explain for the young master, but Li Beifei was faster than them.
"Good that you know, what could be more important than taking them out to play?"
Li Beifei admitted it, and Liu Yanran and Liu Yuran felt as if they had been struck by lightning. They looked at the young master's back in astonishment. Once upon a time, they also wanted to become the young master's women, but ultimately, they couldn't take that crucial step. Now, had the young master admitted it? They didn't hear wrong, did they? Would Miss Qingyi be angry? Would she make the young master chase them away?
For a time, the two women's moods changed unpredictably.
At this time, Mu Qingyi reached out and held their hands together, giving them a reassuring look.
Gu Huaiyu looked at this scene and couldn't help but marvel.
Lu Chengfeng also looked at Mu Qingyi in surprise. She didn't expect Mu Qingyi to be so magnanimous. She already had a good impression of Mu Qingyi, and now she admired her even more.
"Alright, there's always time to play. As a senior brother, you're not taking care of your junior sister. If Senior Gu knows, he'll beat you again."
Mu Qingyi said.
"Hehe, I'll listen to you." Li Beifei's tough attitude softened instantly.
So Li Beifei and the others took Lu Chengfeng and Gu Huaiyu back to the city.
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