After Chui Yim and Lam Ming Sum reunited, Lam Ming Sum paid the Wandering Son’s Lake residence frequent visits and prepared Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee meals every time she came, much to Kan Hang’s displeasure.
However, Lam Ming Sum insisted, and here she was, a “Servant-Maid-Princess” who threw Ping Chi off his feet when he came to stay.
Under Yeung Chun’s and Lam Ming Sum’s care, the quality of Kam Chin Kee’s and Chui Yim’s meals improved, and the former even gained weight!
Chui Yim also forged a good relationship with Hui Sai Cheong, who always greeted Chui Yim – to be exact, the wine Chui Yim secretly brought him – with a wide smile.
It was the end of another school day. As always, Hui Sai Cheong secretly brought Chui Yim to the small arena of the outer sect after all the other disciples left. Chui Yim was left speechless at his actions.
You’re so big… such a round man acting so surreptitiously will only increase suspicions!672Please respect copyright.PENANAfew6dS7Zhf
“Little Brother Chui… what delicious wine do you have today?” Hui Sai Cheong was naturally much older than Chui Yim as well as one of Cloud Palace's mysterious disciples. But the way Hui Sai Cheong stared at Chui Yim with anticipation and desire made Chui Yim feel like an evil drug dealer, while Hui Sai Cheong was a man who became a drug addict due to wrong life choices.672Please respect copyright.PENANADRiTfK5TcX
“You’re lucky today.” Chui Yim opened his left hand, revealing a small bottle of wine.672Please respect copyright.PENANAnpIDmUh3ly
“Pentachromatic divine rock?” Hui Sai Cheong eyed Chui Yim’s bracelet. “Not bad.”672Please respect copyright.PENANASpnYIrhTmo
Chui Yim glared at him. His respect for Cloud Palace’s seven disciples had decreased after witnessing the alcoholic side of Hui Sai Cheong. “You recognize it?”672Please respect copyright.PENANAcKbWthLO4i
“Why wouldn’t I?” Hui Sai Cheong chuckled and pulled out a small knife – small only in comparison to Hui Sai Cheong’s plumper-than-average hands.672Please respect copyright.PENANAxz5mx65AUm
This was a kitchen knife, and one that left Chui Yim in disbelief. There was a simple-looking round stone at the end of the handle, and upon closer look, it shone with five-colored light! Is that a pentachromatic divine rock?672Please respect copyright.PENANAeK3VdOoS3E
“Part of my kitchen knife was made of pentachromatic divine rock!” Hui Sai Cheong explained, kept his knife, and proceeded to stare at the small bottle in Chui Yim’s hand longingly. He was too embarrassed to act proactively. “Erm, Little Brother Chui, what’s that?”672Please respect copyright.PENANA3vk8lOwbXO
“You made a kitchen knife with a pentachromatic divine rock!? How does that enhance g-food!?” Chui Yim ignored him.672Please respect copyright.PENANAV7mnyULilj
“It looks beautiful, so I use it as decoration. I also keep my most used ingredients inside; it keeps them very fresh.” Hui Sai Cheong giggled and flashed Chui Yim a thumbs up.672Please respect copyright.PENANAuBSxtkOknZ
Chui Yim took a deep breath and constantly reminded himself that this stout middle-aged man was actually a legendary figure, so him owning an extravagant pentachromatic divine rock and using it for decoration was reasonable and fair672Please respect copyright.PENANAzTJIcUwr6S
“Open it and you’ll know.” Chui Yim side-eyed him and left after passing Hui Sai Cheong the bottle.
After spending almost all his savings on the everlasting wood, he almost went broke, and life only became better after making Matchless Guardian for Lee Bak and taking in orders from Chow Chung recently. Currently, he felt like a rich man again.Yet here was Hui Sai Cheong, using an ingredient he couldn’t even afford as decoration! How hurtful this piece of information was to Chui Yim! Especially after recalling how Hui Sai Cheong gave him a thumbs up and said it keeps his ingredients very fresh…
I feel like dying…672Please respect copyright.PENANAMCirhEAwWL
Hui Sai Cheong opened the bottle carefully and gasped. He smelled the strong aroma clearly in an instant!672Please respect copyright.PENANAZbgLA2iyYH
“Thousand Miles Aroma!” With lightning speed, he shut the bottle and looked at it with heart eyes. “Good stuff… good stuff…”672Please respect copyright.PENANA81CN6WhoDx
While Hui Sai Cheong was fawning over the bottle, a gentle voice rang from behind him. “Junior Brother, what are you doing?”672Please respect copyright.PENANAWoFWH0ug1e
The voice sent Hui Sai Cheong trembling and jumping up like he saw a monster. His white, round face twisted together, whining, “First… Senior… Brother…”672Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4QyBt6bxd
“Hehe.” The man walked over, standing behind Hui Sai Cheong. He was a gentle-looking man who seemed no more than thirty years old. With long, black hair tied into a ponytail and a white scholar robe, he looked just like a hardworking scholar.672Please respect copyright.PENANAz6RcqhDcS0
“First Senior Brother… I…” Hui Sai Cheong stammered to explain himself, but the scholarly man only put out his palm with a chuckle.672Please respect copyright.PENANAmgn5Cgju1U
Hui Sai Cheong’s face twisted further in sadness, but he did as told with extreme unwillingness after much contemplation.672Please respect copyright.PENANAP57WBigl70
“An act of rebellion, I see. Drinking in secret. No wonder guilt washed over you every time you came across me for the past few months. I knew that something was up.” The scholarly man smiled faintly, and his voice was so soft, like the breeze of spring.
On the other hand, Hui Sai Cheong was feeling helpless and upset, like it was pouring down on him.672Please respect copyright.PENANAwVHj8AoNLn
The senior brother ignored Hui Sai Cheong and watched as Chui Yim walked further off. “This boy… not bad.”672Please respect copyright.PENANAnjIaQ74Bjs
Hui Sai Cheong regained energy instantly. Maybe because Chui Yim became his wine supplier a few months ago, he somehow took Chui Yim as a comrade and forgot his displeasure instantly to speak up for him. “Indeed, indeed. Look at how powerful his body is. Even I might not have been as strong when I was at his state! He has a great character, and loyal too…”672Please respect copyright.PENANAxsa1oHNoAq
“Great character because he was willing to bring you wine, right?” The scholarly man looked at Hui Sai Cheong weirdly.672Please respect copyright.PENANAYYQBxB0EOu
The other shut up immediately.672Please respect copyright.PENANAap7b9xOPsn
The man turned back and watched Chui Yim leave with a meaningful look. “Junior Brother, I’m sure you understand that we, Cloud Palace, do not look at such conditions,” he said.672Please respect copyright.PENANAvp2tgZuYvI
“Other than following your heart, nothing else matters.
“This is what Cloud Palace is.
“Good candidate? We’ll see…”672Please respect copyright.PENANAoQbMN0ttlG
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The inter-school exchange was like the climax of a peaceful life. Now that the inter-school exchange had come to an end, the institutions returned to their normal lives.672Please respect copyright.PENANATk12wrKrGr
However, the crowd was waiting for the next climax – the Cloud Palace enrollment that was going to take place half a year later.672Please respect copyright.PENANAqRJBIm3deo
The Cloud Palace outer sect was established for the purpose of actual enrollment. The inter-school exchange was only an early peak at this generation’s talents.672Please respect copyright.PENANAL74BoWiHQ7
The best gliphist representative would be the greatly talented Kong Yau with her personal Blue Galaxy gliph and her self-created gliph, Star Lock.672Please respect copyright.PENANACL9w0fqb5V
Lee Bak from the Metallic Blood War Gate also proved his powerful capability. Adding on Matchless Guardian, he had become even stronger.672Please respect copyright.PENANAtgCbKtXkeR
Apart from them, Sung Hau and Sze Fung’s new disciple Suen San Kuk had half a year more to practice their Thunderstorm Sword and Yi Qi’s Graceful Footwork respectively.
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