For a moment, Ci Yun and the others, along with the numerous disciples, began to flatter enthusiastically, their sycophantic voices filled the entire square.
Fu Guang nodded with a smile, extremely pleased with himself.
However, just as the noise subsided slightly, a ruthless glint suddenly appeared in Elder Shui Jing’s eyes, followed by a light chuckle.
"But Sect Leader, there’s one more thing I’m not sure whether I should mention or not!"
"Hmm? What is it?" Fu Guang asked with a smile.
"Well..." Elder Shui Jing glanced at Lu Chuzhen who was at a distance, then said indifferently, "It’s about our Sect Leader’s senior sister!"
"Oh? What could be the matter with Zhen’er?" Fu Guang was briefly startled.
Lu Chuzhen was also shaken, but before she could speak.
The elder spoke in an intriguing tone, "It’s nothing serious; just that I heard from Ci Yun that our Sect Leader’s senior sister left the mountain without permission, and intervened in the mountain-opening ceremony, forcefully recruiting two young men with unclear backgrounds!"
"Is that so?" Fu Guang frowned slightly.
At the same time, Ci Yun, who had been waiting for the right moment at the back, hurried forward to add fuel to the fire, "Sect Leader, every word the Elder says is true!"
Fu Guang turned his head and gave Lu Chuzhen a cold glance, his expression growing even grimmer when he saw Xing Yushu and Xue An standing behind her.
"What exactly happened?"
Lu Chuzhen was somewhat flustered, as she did not anticipate Shui Jing and Ci Yun to be so malicious, blowing the matter up at such an occasion, leaving her utterly unprepared.
A hint of jealousy appeared in Fu Guang’s eyes.
If it were simply the recruitment of two entry-level disciples, that wouldn’t matter much, but the key issue was that the two young men were both very attractive, especially the one in the white clothes, whom even Fu Guang found somewhat inscrutable.
This inevitably caused him great displeasure, as he had always considered Lu Chuzhen off-limits.
Seeing this, Shui Jing and Ci Yun exchanged glances, both seeing the excitement in each other’s eyes.
Then Elder Shui Jing deployed her strongest trump card.
She let out a cold laugh.
"Sect Leader, if it were just the recruitment of two unrelated disciples, that would be fine, but I heard that our Sect Leader’s senior sister became extremely agitated after meeting this young man, repeatedly calling him Yu He..."
As soon as she said this, Fu Guang, who had been maintaining a dignified demeanor, suddenly changed his expression dramatically.
Because this name reminded him of many unpleasant memories.
Therefore, he couldn’t help but demand angrily, "Lu Chuzhen, is everything they’re saying true?"
Lu Chuzhen, pale as a sheet, was trembling slightly.
She wanted to deny it, but with Shui Jing and Ci Yun watching her like tigers eyeing their prey, denial was now impossible.
In the end, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Lu Chuzhen slowly bowed her head and said, "Yes, Sect Leader, indeed he is the descendant of my elder brother Yu He, but I only wished to help him inherit the legacy, you..."
"Enough, don’t say any more!"
Fu Guang’s voice was as cold as ice, and his gaze moved past the trembling Lu Chuzhen from fear, falling onto Xing Yushu.
No wonder he felt the boy looked familiar on first sight; it turns out he is the descendant of Xing Yuhe.
Killing intent emerged in Fu Guang’s eyes.
The love-hate entanglement among the three of them a hundred years ago was extremely complicated.
But ultimately, it came down to Fu Guang’s coveting of Lu Chuzhen’s beauty and her rare physique, which is greatly beneficial for male cultivators.
And so, he seduced Lu Chuzhen in various ways.
In the end, Lu Chuzhen fell for it and broke up with Xing Yuhe, with whom she had confirmed a cultivator’s pairing, causing the once greatly promising Xing Yuhe to suffer a breakdown in his cultivator’s spirit, eventually halting at the level of an outer sect disciple and sadly descending the mountain.
Of course, these past events were the deepest secrets of the Golden Cauldron Pavilion, unknown to outsiders.
Even Xing Yuhe only thought that Lu Chuzhen simply had a change of heart.
But Fu Guang, who had staged all of this, was well aware of the actual events. Indeed, if not for Lu Chuzhen becoming his cauldron, he would not have been able to advance rapidly in a mere hundred years, eventually reaching the Great Luo Peak.
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