Chapter 1809 — Bingtang's Sister
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Though Elder Zhang's face had returned to its usual calm, a mighty storm was raging within him. These unremarkable-looking commoners were actually connected to Bingtang, Master of the Ice Palace? But where Bingtang was concerned, he could not possibly decide on his own; he could only go and consult the Valley Master Xueli once again.
"Valley Master Xue!" After the disciple announced him, Elder Zhang entered Xueli's chamber once more.
"Elder Zhang, why have you come back again? Have those people left?" Xueli was rather puzzled. Elder Zhang had just come to seek her instructions about those people buying on credit, and yet in less than a quarter of an hour he had returned; it struck her as rather baffling.
"They have not... Those people wish to see the Valley Master in person..." Elder Zhang said. "Valley Master Xue..."
But before Elder Zhang could finish, Xueli's already gloomy expression turned gloomier still, and that delicate, lovely face of hers grew somewhat sinister. "See me? Elder Zhang, you come to report such a matter to me? Why did you not simply refuse them?"
Though Xueli was not a peerless expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank, her prestige within Snow Valley was still very high, owing to the fact that she was the closed-door disciple of the Grand Elder and the former Valley Master.
"Valley Master Xue, that is precisely what I told them. But one among them claims to be the sister of the Ice Palace Master... so I could not make the decision myself, and came to ask your will, Valley Master," Elder Zhang said with a bitter smile.
"The Ice Palace? Its Master? Which Master?" Xueli was slightly taken aback.
"Bingtang, Master of the Ice Palace..." Elder Zhang was unsurprised by Xueli's reaction; after all, he too had been struck dumb with shock when he first heard the news.
"What? She is Bingtang's sister?" Xueli's expression shifted slightly, but then a flash of injured pride crossed her face. At the thought of Bingtang having politely declined her proposal, she felt thoroughly displeased. You turn me down one moment, and the very next you send your sister to buy the Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit—is that not to hold Snow Valley in contempt?
"Yes. So, Valley Master, it would be best if you saw her in person..." Elder Zhang smiled bitterly. "After all, we and the Ice Palace share a common lineage..."
"A common lineage... If Bingtang truly cared about our common lineage, why would she have refused our proposal?" Though Xueli was a Valley Master, she was young after all, and lacked the steady prudence of the elders. "Send them away. Do not let them stay here and anger me!"
"Yes... I shall go and send them off at once..." Elder Zhang smiled bitterly. Xueli was venting upon the sister the anger she held toward Bingtang. It would have been better had he never mentioned that connection at all; now that he had, Xueli was all the more incensed.
"Wait!" A voice rang out. The sound arrived before the person, and then a figure drifted down, appearing before Xueli and Elder Zhang.
Yet once they saw clearly who had come, both Xueli and Elder Zhang straightened solemnly and clasped their fists in salute. "Greetings, Grand Elder!"