She paused, her eyes narrowing dangerously as two sharp little tiger teeth showed:
"Besides, Qing Jun smelled it... you’ve got the same rotten, moldy stink on you as this Celestial Abyss. The time you’ve spent in this hellhole is definitely no less than that lunatic! Who knows if you just couldn’t beat that crazy old man, so you’re pretending to be a good person and luring us into your lair to be your midnight snack!"
The white-haired old man was bombarded by this little girl’s machine-gun retort and was instantly choked speechless.
He was a bit stunned.
This little girl looked young and reckless, but her combat instincts and vigilance were terrifyingly high.
Not only had she judged from his aura that he’d been in the Celestial Abyss for a long time, she’d even seen through his intention just now to hide in the dark and observe, wanting to see where the limits of these three monstrous geniuses lay!
"What a sharp-tongued, clear-minded little girl..."
The old man gave a wry laugh and shook his head,
"I’ll speak plainly. You’re that Chen Ye’s disciples, aren’t you?"
"You... how do you know my master’s name?!"
Qing Jun’s eyes went wide and round.
The old man shook his head with a smile:
"I am also a Cultivator of Lingyin Sect, my name is Bai Liuyue. You might not know this name, but you definitely know Bai Susu. Mm... her grandfather’s grandfather is precisely this old man!"
"That bad woman’s... ancestor?!"
Qing Jun’s eyes grew even wider, and the words slipped out of her mouth before she could think.
"Bad woman?" A trace of surprise flashed across Bai Liuyue’s aged face, then he let out a bitter laugh. "Looks like that girl Susu usually bullies your master quite a bit... or at least doesn’t stop provoking you lot."
The little girl nodded repeatedly at that.
She hugged her small chipped bowl pitifully, almost about to cry:
"Grandpa, don’t you think Qing Jun is pitiful?"
Bai Liuyue carefully sized up the little girl.
This girl had fair tender skin and delicate, adorable features—where did she look pitiful?
But he still wisely said, "Pitiful, far too pitiful."
Bai Liuyue muttered in his heart.
Ordinary Sect Disciples, upon hearing his name and seeing his strength, would immediately bow and loudly call him Old Ancestor.
But this girl was something else,
having just met him, she actually asked such baffling questions.
"Wuu wuu wuu, it’s all that bad woman’s fault!"
The little girl was a mess of snot and tears,
"From now on, Grandpa, you have to properly teach her a lesson, don’t let her bully my master anymore!"
"This... this..."
Bai Liuyue looked embarrassed. Susu treated him with a fair amount of respect, but as for him wanting to "teach" Susu... that was probably impossible.
Under heaven, there was simply no one who could teach Susu a lesson,
He’d originally hoped Chen Ye could rein her in a bit, but from what this little girl said, that hope was probably gone.
Zhiwei promptly stopped the little girl who still wanted to complain, and pulled her two junior sisters to bow in salute:
"So you are Old Ancestor Liuyue. This junior, Zhiwei, greets Senior. My junior sister offended you just now; I hope Senior can be magnanimous."
"No need for such formalities, we’re all one family, no need to fuss with that."
Bai Liuyue leaned against the icy rock wall and shook his head.
Since they were Chen Ye’s disciples, then of course they were family.
Chen Ye was Bai Family’s son-in-law, after all.
Though he was one of the Bai Family’s Old Ancestors, in a certain sense... his status wasn’t even as high as Susu’s.
When she heard the words "one family," Qing Jun’s little face immediately puffed up like a bun.
Who’s family with that bad woman!
But under the warning in Senior Sister Zhiwei’s stern gaze, the little girl could only aggrievedly hug her broken wooden bowl, squat in a corner, and draw circles, muttering from time to time things like "Master belongs to Qing Jun," "the bad woman’s ancestor is also a bad person," "Qing Jun is going to lock Master up so Master can only play with Qing Jun."
Zhiwei pretended not to hear her little junior sister’s muttering, her expression solemn as she asked:
"Senior’s cultivation is sky-reaching. Why are you trapped on the 3rd Layer of this Celestial Abyss? And... why did Senior come to the Celestial Abyss with True Inheritor Bai? Could it be related to that earth-shattering incident more than twenty years ago?"
Bai Liuyue was surprised.
These three girls were each smarter than the last.
Especially this Lu Zhiwei—she actually connected it to that incident from more than twenty years ago.
You had to know, back then Lu Zhiwei hadn’t even been born yet!