Chapter 935 — All Forces Converge on Songshan
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"All right, I understand, Uncle Li. Are you trying to drive me to death with worry? How are Pengzhan and Yaoyao?" Palace Master Wan'er asked hastily, with a wry smile.
"It is still bad news... The Yu family has also shown up at their door!" Elder Li sighed and shook his head.
"The Yu family? Why did they go as well?" Palace Master Wan'er started. "How did Pengzhan manage to offend the Yu family too?"
"It is not him. Master Gu actually never offended the Yu family," Elder Li said. "It was Yu Kun of the Yu family, who once sneaked into the young miss's villa at night and wounded her beloved dog, Mighty General. In her fury, the young miss ordered Wei Zhao to kill Yu Kun. Later, because of Li Fu, Wei Zhao let Yu Kun off... but by then Yu Kun had already been crippled. So the Yu family seized on that as a pretext to come and take revenge on Master Gu..."
"Why did someone of the Yu family sneak into Yaoyao's villa? What were they trying to do?" Palace Master Wan'er was truly angry now. "A mere Yu family of the mortal world dares to lay a hand on my daughter..."
"If the Supreme Elder would only nod and acknowledge the young miss as his own, then naturally the Yu family would not dare to touch her!" Elder Li said with a bitter smile. "Let alone the Yu family—even the hidden hereditary clan behind them would have to think it over..."
"Yes..." Palace Master Wan'er sighed. "My poor, miserable daughter..."
"The people of the Yu family went to see Wei Zhao because Wei Zhao possesses a few map fragments of Cloud Terrace Island..." Elder Li said.
"Him? He actually has map fragments?" Palace Master Wan'er was slightly astonished, but then she shook her head. "Never mind him. What did the Yu family say? What do they want?"
"The Yu family demanded that the young miss marry into their household as a concubine, and that Master Gu's conglomerate be given as her dowry..." Elder Li sighed.
"What!" Palace Master Wan'er sprang to her feet, both shocked and furious. "How can they be so shameless? Do they dare?!"
"If you showed yourself, they naturally would not dare... Even if your old servant were to show himself, the Yu family would not dare to act thus... But your old servant cannot descend the mountain!" Elder Li said helplessly. "The Shadow Group is responsible for intelligence gathering and collection; among its members there are no capable fighters..."
"No! I'm going to beg the Supreme Elder! I cannot watch anything happen to him and Yaoyao! If anything happens to them, what reason is there for me to go on living?" Palace Master Wan'er truly could not sit still any longer. If matters really were as Elder Li had said, then the Gu family was indeed finished—and her daughter was finished for life! She could not allow her daughter's life to spiral into tragedy. She simply could not!
"Alas!" Elder Li sighed. "I will go with you, young miss."
Palace Master Wan'er and Elder Li hurried off toward the Supreme Elder's place of cultivation. As soon as she entered, Palace Master Wan'er said solemnly, "Supreme Elder, Wan'er wishes to descend the mountain."
"Descend the mountain? Have you broken through to the Heaven Stage?" The Supreme Elder asked casually, paying no heed to the anxious expression on Palace Master Wan'er's face.
"No! That is precisely why Wan'er begs the Supreme Elder to allow me to descend! If I had already broken through to the Heaven Stage, I could naturally descend the mountain at will!" Palace Master Wan'er said.
"No." The Supreme Elder replied with extreme coldness.