Chapter 3181 — Ye Rou'er Goes Missing
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"I've missed you too, Yao Yao. How have you been at the Palace of the Dark Night? How is it that you're able to call me? Did the Grand Elder allow you to contact the outside world? Have you been in touch with Wei Zhao?" Gu Pengzhan fired off a whole string of questions.
"I'm the Palace Master of the Palace of the Dark Night now, and no one here can interfere with what I want to do!" Gu Mengyao was full of pride as she said this. "Daddy, don't worry about me. I'm doing very well here, and the Grand Elder doesn't demand anything of me!"
"Ah?" Gu Pengzhan was startled. He had not expected Gu Mengyao to be so formidable! Ye Rou'er, too, had once been Palace Master of the Palace of the Dark Night, but clearly she had held no real power. Gu Mengyao was different—she had scarcely arrived at the Palace of the Dark Night before she had claimed the station that was her due!
"Yes, Daddy. I've already successfully received the inheritance, and I'm now a peak late-stage Yellow Rank expert, so the Grand Elder is very pleased," Gu Mengyao explained. "By the way, have you seen Mommy? Are you both well?"
"Your mother?" Gu Pengzhan was momentarily stunned, then asked hurriedly, "Yao Yao, are you saying your mother has come back?"
"That's right. Haven't you seen her?" Gu Mengyao's heart lurched. Surely nothing had gone wrong? After all, Ye Rou'er had set out half a month ago—why had she still not reached home?
"No, I haven't. Do you mean your mother has returned?" Gu Pengzhan was startled as well, and it suddenly struck him that something might be amiss.
"Daddy, wait a moment—I'll contact you again shortly!" Gu Mengyao was growing anxious. By rights, with Ye Rou'er's early Heaven Rank strength, there should have been no danger; yet Ye Rou'er had most certainly set out, and she had not come home. Where else could she have gone?
Even for an early Heaven Rank expert, Gu Mengyao could not rest easy. After all, the people the Dongfang family had sent before had also been Heaven Rank experts, and Ye Rou'er was truly no match for such people! So Gu Mengyao had to find some trace of Ye Rou'er as quickly as possible.
"All right. The moment you have any word of your mother, tell me at once!" Gu Pengzhan was frantic too, and he spoke hurriedly.
"Yes!" Gu Mengyao hung up and went straight to find the Grand Elder.
These days Gu Mengyao held great authority within the Palace of the Dark Night and could come and go freely anywhere in the Palace—a power Ye Rou'er had never possessed. Even the Grand Elder's own residence she could enter without announcing herself; this too was the Grand Elder's arrangement, so that whenever Gu Mengyao ran into difficulties in her cultivation, she could come consult her at any hour.
And so the disciples of the Palace of the Dark Night had come to see it plainly: Gu Mengyao was the true Palace Master. It was not as it had been in Ye Rou'er's day—the era when the Grand Elder's word was law had passed!
No one dared pay lip service to Gu Mengyao's words. Whatever she said carried the same weight as if the Grand Elder had said it! Such was authority.
"Greetings, Palace Master!" The Grand Elder's maids had once been formidable figures in their own right, and they had never deigned to show Ye Rou'er a courteous face; yet before Gu Mengyao they were utterly respectful. They knew full well that if Gu Mengyao wished them dead, the Grand Elder would not hesitate for an instant.
"Yao Yao, you've come!" The Grand Elder herself came out warmly to welcome her. At the sight of Gu Mengyao her face broke into a broad smile; the more she looked, the more pleased she was.
"Yes, Grand Elder. Just now I called my father, and he says my mother never returned to Donghai City. Wasn't she escorted back by our people?" Gu Mengyao asked outright.