Sect Clan Chronicles

11

Cheong Myeong felt someone touch his face, their fingertips tracing the outline as the person chuckled. Cheong Myeong slowly opened his eyes...he can't see too clearly due to such a strong light. He can only come up with a few guesses....although...to him, it was already too obvious who the person is.

He can feel the person's hair touching his face....brown. it was lengthy and disheveled. Their green hanfu's sleeve grazing on his chest as the person yet again chuckled.

"Are you pretending to sleep again?" That oh so familiar voice....how Cheong Myeong wished to hear once more. He can see it....the person's smile with their dimples showing. A rustle was heard as the person turned around blocking the light. Cheong Myeong can finally see their back, all too familiar for his eyes....especially the pink hairpin that is placed on their bun.

They turned towards him and clasped Cheong Myeong's hands. Cheong Myeong looked at their hands....black fingertips and nails. The person leaned in near their ear and said.

"You're about to wake up.... don't forget me."

Cheong Myeong's eyes widened as he looked up and met with green eyes before the person in front of him disappeared like dandelions blown by the wind. Only then a blinding light ahead before his surroundings went white.

Cheong Myeong fluttered his eyes open a single tear fell as he reached his hand up in the air as if reaching onto something, wishing that, that person were to held his hand when he wakes up, sadly his hand hang untouched. He sighed with a heavy heart and muttered....

"Tang Bo"

Baek Cheon then looked at him. "You good?" He casually asked making Cheong Myeong grit his teeth and punched Baek Cheon as he got out of bed and left the room.

Baek Cheon was on the floor nursing his cheek as he cried crocodile tears making Jo Gul laugh. "What the heck did you do?" Jo Gul asked still laughing.

"I DID NOTHING! I ASKED IF HE WAS DOING GOOD WITH HIS HAND UP HIGH WHEN HE JUST WOKE UP AND THEN PUNCHED ME!" Baek Cheon explained as he wiped the blood away from his lips. He might've bit the inner walls of his mouth when Cheong Myeong punched him.

Jong Yoon sighed as he helped Baek Cheon up. "Maybe he just woke up on the wrong side of bed. Let's not provoke him." He said before the three heard a scoff behind them. There it was Jin Geumryeong looking down at them as always.

"Funny how you let your junior mistreat you. This is why you never grow up, and never get to improve." Jin Geumryeong said venomously at his younger brother. Behind him we're Yubaek and Manjeok chuckling as they followed Jin Geumryeong downstairs possibly to eat breakfast. Lee Songbaek was left with the 3.

"What are you looking at---!?" Jo Gul yelled midway when Lee Songbaek bowed towards them. "I apologize in behalf of their behavior." He said respectfully with a solemn look before he went downstairs.

Everyone was ready. They're already packed up and ready to go. Although before that Sizhui decided to merge the Mount Hua disciples and Southern Edge disciples and split them all into four groups.

While they were grouping Yoo Iseol was the last one to leave the inn. As she walked over the others, a small man covering their face with a handfan passed by her. She was entranced my their smell. They smelled like cedarwood (both woody/earthy, warm/balsamic, dry/slightly spicy.) despite that..there's a hint of  light floral—Jasmine or lotus. She looked back at them seeing them wearing all green or was it sage? She can't fully tell, all she knows it that they smell great. She proceeded to walk to the head disciples getting ready to be sorted.

"S--SHIT! ARE WE EVEN THERE YET!???" Cheong Myeong groaned and whined his legs almost like jello. The stairs to Cloud Recesses were too much and too many unlike the amount of stairs at Mount Hua.

"I....I t-think we'd die first b-before we get there." Jong Yoon said as he fell down on his knees. Ouyang Zizhen chuckled as he looked at everyone that was befallen. "We're technically here already." He stated, pointing at the entrance pillar with his finger. Everyone's faces lit up as they all gathered by the pillar.

"This pillar holds as a gate around Cloud Recesses if you are not a member of the Cloud Recesses the barrier pushes you back. That's why...this comes in handy." Sizhui showed a jade pass. The exact jade pass the 1st grade disciples had on their waist belts.

The four started handing the jade pass to everyone. Cheong Myeong stared at it and intrusively stated. "How much would it be if I were to sell it?" His crew glared at him for saying such outrageous things while Lee Songbaek chuckled.

"It costs a million grand of gold taels." Jin Ling plainly replies as he hands the other jade pass to the other disciples. Heads whipped in his direction, even his friends. He looked at them as they all went quiet. "What???" He asked.

"How would you know the exact amount of it if it were to be sold? It's a jade pass for the Cloud Recesses, I've never heard of someone trying to sell it to someone now knowing it's that pricey." Sizhui said in disbelief.

Jin Ling then looked at Sizhui more confused. "Wait...what's going on?" Cheong Myeong was also confused.

"Did....someone tried to sell the Jade Pass?" Lan Jingyi asked with an amused smile on his face. Ouyang Zizhen shook his head in disbelief. Who would do such a thing?

"That person must be crazy for doing a stunt like that." Zizhen said as he finished handing the jade pass to half of them. "You'd regret saying that." Jin Ling shot at Zizhen. "What do you mean?"

Sizhui then thought about it and then gave Jin Ling a shocked expression. "He wouldn't...." He said. Cheong Myeong and Jin Geumryeong squinted their eyes in confusion.

Jin Ling nodded. "He would. He did. And had done it." Jin Ling said making Sizhui sigh. Zizhen finally realized who they were referring to and laughed hysterically, Jingyi realized it as well and laughed shaking his head in disbelief.

The younger grade disciples were....confused. Sizhui sighed yet again before leading everyone inside the entrance of Cloud Recesses.

A/N: Do comment. Idk I like reading comments even if it doesn't make sense. I was actually planning on updating this yesterday but I got lazy and fell asleep. I bought a windows 11 pro that can be both a laptop and tablet and thought "Hey, I can never be lazy if I have this to type on", but that didn't really help me at all and here I am still typing it on my phone.

Hope y'all are liking the story so far, although I don't really know where it's heading. I'll just go with the flow. And YES....it obviously contains ships. I'm a sucker for it.