Chapter 963: Meeting the Hall Masters
Yue Xuexia’s grandparents didn’t stay for too long. They’ve only dropped by to check on her. Now that they had seen her safe and healthy, the worry they had in their hearts had fainted greatly. However, to avoid Yue Xuexia’s identity getting exposed, they can only cover their faces again before leaving. After wearing her disguise, the Moon Goddess and the Immortal Sun Emperor had seen them off at the gates. The guards looked bewildered as they couldn’t remember this pair entering through the gates and were surprised that the owner of the Moonlight Peak had personally sent this pair out. The students were also staring at them as no one can recognize who the Moon Goddess is and the handsome sword cultivator by her side.
Grandma Su was once again crying, this time in relief and joy. "Xue’er, make sure to take care of yourself. Jue’er, I will leave Xue’er in your care." She said while patting the hands of both the Goddess of the Moon and the Immortal Sun Emperor.
Grandpa Yue was smiling as he pats his granddaughter’s head and says, "Look after yourself. If you need something, use this to contact home." He had given Yue Xuexia a communicator connected to the main palace and this can directly contact him.
But his smile disappeared when he looked at the Immortal Sun Emperor, his eyes turning stern and looking at Shen Jueyang. His hand turned heavy while patting his shoulder and said, "Protect Xue’er well. If you fail again in this lifetime, I will definitely kill you with my own hands, Shen Jueyang."
The Immortal Sun Emperor didn’t feel offended. Just the fact that they are willing to trust him one more time even after what had happened in their past lives, made Shen Jueyang feel grateful. He slightly bowed his head towards the older couple.
"I will definitely keep her safe no matter what in this life," the Immortal Sun Emperor said.
The Ancient High Elf Queen pats her husband’s back and said, "Then we are taking leave now. Xue’er, tomorrow they are all coming to see you. Do as you will."
After saying these words, the Ancient Moon God held his wife and finally ripped a Teleportation Talisman so they could return back to the Everlasting Moon Empire as soon as possible. They were extremely delighted that they had met Yue Xuexia whom they came for and happily returned home to share the news to others. After the old couple had left, the eyes of Yue Xuexia were once again filled with yearning. In her heart, there is nothing more important than family and the reason she is not coming home was because she felt that going home at this moment would just place them into some danger she couldn’t explain.
The Immortal Sun Emperor noticed that sadness in the Moon Goddess’s eyes and reached out to hold her hands. Yue Xuexia turned her head to look at him.
Shen Jueyang said, "Let’s go back. The master is waiting for us."
The smile on his face had melted the loneliness within the eyes of the Goddess of the moon. Yue Xuexia had instinctively squeezed the hand that grips her and then felt relaxed. A small smile also appeared on her face, this time she wasn’t hiding her face as her disguise was enough to make her look ordinary, yet her demeanor and poised said otherwise. Because of this, despite looking ordinary, people couldn’t help but stare at them.
Yue Xuexia said, "Okay. Let’s go home."
The two left the gates leaving both the guards and the students staring at them. They almost couldn’t move their gaze. Only when the Immortal Sun Emperor and the Moon Empress had left that the students had the heart to whisper from one another.
"Who are those seniors?"
"They look average but how come I couldn’t move my gaze away from them?"
"You felt that too?"
"So strange. Did we have those kind seniors in the academy?"
"Maybe they are seniors that have returned to the academy. Like Principal Wu Yao’s disciple."
"Maybe... We will know tomorrow when the classes resume."
After this scene, the rumors about the young couple that might possibly be new seniors in the academy had spread. On the other hand, when Yue Xuexia and Shen Jueyang had returned to the main peak, they were unexpectedly welcomed by the gathering of the teachers of the academy. These teachers were the hall master of the seven peaks and they had all come to meet the disciples of Principal Wu Yao who is now completely healed. The Hall Master of Medicine and Alchemy. They had heard that the disciple of Lord Wu Yao is as powerful as the Divine Doctor.
At the beginning they did not believe it until they saw the state of Wu Yao with their own eyes. The hall of medicine and alchemy were the first group of healers that tried to treat the principal and in the end failed. Like all other doctors, they had believed that it was almost impossible to cure the illness of Lord Wu Yao. In fact, they didn’t even know the cause of his ailment, now that Principal Wu Yao had told them that the reason he was bedridden was due to a poison they couldn’t believe as it was something they had failed to detect.
Now meeting the person who had successfully cured Lord Wu Yao, everyone was excited to meet his disciple. When the Moon Goddess and the Immortal Sun Emperor saw the two, all the hall masters immediately realized that their appearance was a disguised one. As for why they thought so, the answer is much simpler. Their demeanor and posture didn’t match their ordinary faces. There is also the dangerous aura coming from Shen Jueyang which the hall master of sword and assassination had noticed immediately upon meeting his eyes. Just this first impression alone shows that these two new disciples aren’t ordinary at all, especially since they couldn’t see through their cultivation realm at all.
Principal Wu Yao upon seeing his two disciples returned, happily called for them.
"Oh? You two are back. Come here! Let me introduce you two to our academy’s seven Hall Masters," Wu Yao said.
The Immortal Sun Emperor and the Moon Empress walked towards their master and stood at each of his sides. Lord Wu Yao was so happy and happily introduced his disciples.
"These two are my disciples. My first one is the young lady here. She is proficient in medicine, alchemy and sword. Her name is Yuelei Xuexia. This is my second disciple. As you can see he is a sword cultivator. His name is Shen Jueyang." Principal Wu Yao said. "Xue’er, Jueyang. These are the hall masters. The Hall Master of Alchemy, Han Li. The Hall Master of Medicine, Lao Fan. The Hall Master of Talisman, Su Jin. Hall Master Jun Wu of Armament Hall. The Hall Master of Beast Taming, Lao Xu. The Hall Master of Assasination Xie Yu and finally the Hall Master of Sword, Lao Mo."
The Moon Goddess and the Immortal Sun Emperor greeted them all properly. Right now, their identity is simply disciples of Principal Wu Yao and not cultivators within the realm of the emperor.
"We greet the Hall Masters!" Yue Xuexia and Shen Jueyang said.
The hall masters were delighted that these two, whose standing was mostly noble, were willing to greet them properly as elders. Very similar to how the twin princesses of the Ancient Moon Clan are, the twin moon princes were different though. As the princes never lived a life as a mortal. They were born noble and as a prince, so except for family and clan elders, they respected no one unless they possessed higher standing and strength than they are. As for the Immortal Sun Emperor, he is just following after the Moon Goddess as for whether he respects them from the heart that’s another different story.
"Welcome back, Martial Niece Yue and Martial Nephew Shen!" The Hall Masters also welcomed them back warmly.
The Moon Goddess, seeing that none of these hall masters had malice towards his master, decided to give them gifts.
"Martial Uncles, Jueyang and I had just returned from our journey but we have prepared some gifts for you." Yue Xuexia said.
She started pulling out things from her space ring, likewise, Shen Jueyang also took out a few good things. Yue Xuexia took out things that had some uses to each hall’s expertise. Like a book of pill recipes for the Hall Master of Alchemy, Immortal Herb seedlings and copy of the late divine doctor’s legacy for the Hall Master of Medicine, a rare ore for the Hall Master of Armament and the Qilin Egg for the Hall Master of Beast Taming Hall. Shen Jueyang made up for the rest. He had quite a treasure he had gathered in his past life and recovered when he had returned to the Immortal World. He gave an ancient book of Talisman to the Hall Master of Talisman, King-grade twin dragon daggers for the Hall Master of Assassination and a King-grade Flame Sword for the Hall Master of Sword.
When the seniors saw the gifts their Martial Niece and Martial Nephew had given them, they were all dumbfounded. Principal Wu Yao was calm. What he got from these two brats was even more outrageous. Like that Longevity Pills for him and his Life Gu to share, a semi-divine weapon each for him and his brother, Wu Zhou. He planned to stop them if they pulled out anything like divine-grade treasures.