Chapter 21: The Red Dust Dao

Xue Fu.

A sound of porcelain shattering on the floor rang out.

Lady Xue was so angry her face turned pale, "You say the Emperor is going to the Su Family to drink at their wedding feast?"

Kneeling on the ground, Zhang Guanshi responded in a trembling, hushed voice, "The whole street... everyone knows about it. And Commander Cui brought many palace maids and eunuchs to help the Su Family prepare the wedding banquet. The little one also heard..."

'Bang!' Before the words were finished, another back cushion was smashed onto Zhang Guanshi's head.

"Heard what?" Xue Fuyi entered the door, followed by Xue Mengying; both sisters were dressed in light purple Dao Robes, with the sword-pattern totem of the Profound Heaven Sect on their collars.

What was different was that Xue Fuyi's sword-pattern totem had more mountain-range runes than Xue Mengying's.

Seeing Xue Fuyi and Xue Mengying return, Lady Xue's expression immediately improved significantly, "It is none other than that treacherous, unfaithful, and unrighteous Su Family."

"What? They haven't been kicked out of Yun Du yet?" Xue Mengying snapped haughtily.

Lady Xue felt extremely comforted, "Good daughter, you spoke what was in your mother's heart."

Xue Fuyi's expression was calm as she looked at Zhang Guanshi kneeling on the ground, "Why is the Emperor going to the Su Family? What exactly is going on?"

Zhang Guanshi immediately told Xue Fuyi everything he had heard in the streets and what he had sent people to investigate, point by point.

Xue Fuyi did not speak, but Xue Mengying exploded again!

"That slut Su Xi has returned to Yun Du?" Her voice was somewhat distorted, sharp and piercing.

Seeing her reaction, Lady Xue asked, "Did she bully you?"

"She and I are irreconcilable; I wish I could tear her into ten thousand pieces." A sharp sword appeared in her hand, and her entire body was filled with murderous intent.

Seeing this, Zhang Guanshi knelt even more humbly... None of these three mother and daughter of the Xue Family were easy to serve! The Su Family was also in for a stroke of terrible luck.

"Mengying, do not act recklessly." Xue Fuyi stopped her, "Given her current status, you cannot touch her."

Xue Mengying feared Xue Fuyi the most and listened to her the most; she immediately restrained her aura and muttered, "The Sect Master's personal disciple! That was clearly prepared for Elder Sister, how did it become her?"

Xue Fuyi's expression stiffened almost imperceptibly, "Alright, we will go tomorrow as well."

Lady Xue was displeased, "I just had someone smash their shop, why are you going?"

"..." Xue Fuyi looked at her mother in astonishment, "What did you do?"

"Su Zhangqing is the same age as Huan Er, and Huan Er should be getting married too. But, just because..." Lady Xue suddenly cried.

Xue Mengying's eyes also turned red, "At that time, that Su woman fled; taking one was taking one, taking two was taking two, why didn't she take little brother Huan Er away as well?"

Zhang Guanshi on the ground secretly glanced at Lady Xue... That Su woman had foresight and had warned the mistress, but no one took it seriously; pursuing it after the fact was not appropriate.

"Mother, I have a way to help little brother Huan Er forget his past experiences; perhaps he might get better." Xue Fuyi took a bottle of Pill from her Storage Ring and handed it to Lady Xue.

Lady Xue looked at the name of the Pill, "Forget-Sorrow Pill?"

Xue Mengying knew about this and looked at Xue Fuyi in surprise, "After taking this Pill, one will forget everything from the past, to the point of not even recognizing people."

"Forgetting is good, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't recognize people; it certainly won't be worse than him going crazy and wanting to commit suicide now." Lady Xue took the Pill and hurried toward the inner courtyard.

"Accompany me to the Su Family tomorrow." Xue Fuyi warned, "The Emperor is there, so you should restrain yourself."

"Yes, Elder Sister." Xue Mengying did not know what she was thinking of, but a blush suddenly appeared on her face.

Seeing this, Xue Fuyi's expression was indifferent, "The Emperor is not someone you can covet; cultivate well and strive to enter the Foundation Establishment Stage as soon as possible."

Before Su Xi fell asleep, she could feel Su Mu accompanying her by her side, tucking in her quilt and touching her forehead.

It was just like how she was cared for when she was a child.

It was precisely this gentleness and maternal love from Su Mu that allowed her heart, which had been drifting for unknown reasons, to settle down firmly.

At this moment, her cultivation entered the Qi Refining Late Stage.

Da Jin sensed the change in Su Xi's realm, opened his golden cat eyes, and then took a sound-transmission talisman from his mouth—【Sect Master, the Young Sect Master has entered the Qi Refining Late Stage.】

After receiving the sound-transmission talisman, Rong Shou fell silent.

Da Miao, curled up in a basket nest to gestate, said: "The Sect Master cultivates the Heartless Dao and avoids becoming tainted by worldly karma. The Young Sect Master seems to be the exact opposite; she cultivates the Red Dust Dao! Only by cultivating amidst the worldly Profound Dust can she break through her realm."

"That makes it even more troublesome." Rong Shou put away the sound-transmission talisman.

"You master and disciple, I don't know whether to call it a righteous fate or an evil one." Da Miao let out a huge yawn, hugged her big belly, and fell into a deep sleep.

Rong Shou looked up at the stars in the sky; his heart, which had been as still as an ancient well, rippled, but it soon returned to calm.

Su Xi climbed out of bed; outside, the night was deep and silent, with all sounds hushed.

【Host, what are you doing?】

【Going to take a look at Xue Fu.】

Su Xi left via Teleportation.

And the moment she left, Da Jin followed right behind her.

Arriving at the back door of Xue Fu, just as Su Xi was about to enter, she heard the night-watch old women gossiping.

"Did you see the Second Miss's face?"

"Of course I did. The Second Miss is getting prettier and prettier; that noble air about her, she is definitely Empress material. It's a pity she entered the Immortal Gate."

"I'm not talking about that. Who doesn't know she's pretty? Ten years ago she already had the title of the number one beauty in Yun Du. I'm talking about whether you saw her temples?"

"Didn't pay much attention, what did you see?"

"She's been deflowered!" The voice lowered further, "She's already lost her maidenhead, she's no longer a virgin!"

"Old sister, you shouldn't say such things recklessly. But your eye is the most vicious and accurate!"

"Who's talking there?" a night-patrolling servant shouted.

The two old women hurriedly stood straight and stopped gossiping.

Su Xi asked Er Miao: 【Can you tell that just by looking at a face?】

Er Miao replied: 【Purely empirical school.】

Su Xi: 【...】

Entering Xue Fu, Su Xi headed straight for the main room of Lady Xue's primary courtyard. Back when she was in the estate, she had been a little maid by Lady Xue's side.

It was said she was there to serve and be trained in etiquette so she could marry into a scholarly, prestigious family in the future. In reality, she did the dirty, exhausting work of a third-class maid every day, and without a single cent of wages.

As for the actual deportment and manners that the young ladies learned, she didn't even get a glimpse of them.

After she realized Lady Xue wouldn't teach her anything, she feigned illness to leave the primary courtyard and spent her days doing odd jobs in the kitchen with her mother.

Lady Xue had not yet rested.

She was singing a nursery rhyme, the kind used to coax a small child to sleep.

【What kind of madness has seized Lady Xue in the middle of the night?】 Su Xi opened the System Map to see what she was doing.

One look and she was dumbfounded; Lady Xue was holding a young man of weak-crown age, coaxing him to sleep!

Master Xue was also there accompanying them, the deep furrows between his brows relaxing slightly, as if he were pleased and gratified by the scene before him.

【What does the Host intend to do?】

【Lady Xue sent people to smash my family's shop; my mother and the others endured it, but I certainly cannot.】