Chapter 3302 — Rejecting the Proposal
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Moreover, Gu Mengyao knew more of the inside story. She had long since learned from Wei Zhao that the Inheritor Plan and the Cloud Rank Island Plan were both spearheaded by Patriarch Xuanchen. That being so, Xiao Yi, as Patriarch Xuanchen's disciple, was all the less likely to harm Gu Mengyao—he would not even be able to account for himself when he returned!
This was why Gu Mengyao was so haughty and dared to mock and taunt him!
Sure enough, Xiao Yi's face stiffened and his old cheeks flushed red. His Heaven Rank divine weapon had been filched by Wei Zhao and still had not been returned—this was a wound in his heart—and Gu Mengyao's blunt mention of it made him unable to save face: "Enough, Junior Brother Kang, let's get to business!"
"Of the Five Luminaries Sect, Patriarch Xuanchen's eldest disciple." Gu Mengyao said this to the aghast Grand Elder at her side, laying bare Xiao Yi's identity outright!
Hearing this, the Grand Elder's expression shifted slightly, and she could not help but knit her brows: "A man of the Five Luminaries Sect? What business do you have here?"
"Nothing much. I merely came along with Junior Brother Kang!" Xiao Yi said, pointing at Kang Jingming.
"Kang Jingming? Aren't you an elder of the Xuandan Sect? Since when did you become Patriarch Xuanchen's disciple?" Gu Mengyao asked.
"Haha, I am not only Patriarch Xuanchen's disciple, I am also his son-in-law!" Kang Jingming laughed heartily. "Enough, let us not speak of that. Palace Mistress Gu Mengyao, I have come this time on behalf of the young sect master of our Xuandan Sect, Tian Canbian, to propose marriage to you!"
"Propose marriage? Propose what marriage?" Gu Mengyao was slightly taken aback.
"Our Young Sect Master Tian has taken a fancy to Miss Gu and intends to take her as a concubine. What do you say, Miss Gu? If you have no objections, we shall settle the matter here and now, and from then on you will belong to Young Sect Master Tian!" Kang Jingming rattled on as though the mere unilateral declaration by the Xuandan Sect were enough to make it so.
"Kang Jingming, what do you mean by this? Are you out of your mind?" Gu Mengyao's face darkened, and her gaze turned icy. So Kang Jingming had indeed come with ill intent, running over here to stir up trouble! Marry Tian Canbian? Did he not know that she was in love with Wei Zhao?
But surely he did know—and he had come here simply because he had seen that Wei Zhao's strength was no longer what it once was, and so had come to make trouble.
"Elder Kang, please go back. Your Xuandan Sect is a great house with vast estates, and our Dark Night Palace cannot hope to match you!" The Grand Elder held no small amount of resentment toward the Xuandan Sect as well. Though the affair of that year could be said to have begun with Ye Rou'er breaking off the engagement, in all the years since, the Xuandan Sect had been secretly suppressing the Dark Night Palace, and this had long since made the Grand Elder hate them. How could she possibly allow Gu Mengyao to be joined to them in marriage now?
Moreover, the reason the Grand Elder had originally wished for Ye Rou'er to marry the Xuandan Sect's Tianji Xing—Tian Canbian's father—was that the Dark Phoenix bloodline in Ye Rou'er's body was not particularly pure, and the odds of her receiving the inheritance were rather small. After she married Tianji Xing, the Xuandan Sect could use secret arts to draw out the fullest potential of the Dark Phoenix bloodline within her body and then preserve it within the body of their daughter! (To be continued) RT