The Endless Promise

40. Plans...

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Yue City...

Sect Leader Xu was pleased to find that Zhang Luoyin was safe at home.

As Luoyin had instructed before he left, Yinying had hired a Head servant to manage the household, and the young man, Meng Qiu, stared in awe, a bit intimidated as Lord Xu and Xu Weiyan personally arrived for a visit!

After Lord Xu ensured that Luoyin was on the way to recovery, he asked Meng Qiu about the immortal who brought Luoyin back home, but Meng Qiu had no answers.

"I woke up and the servants were chattering about how the master was back home!"

The servants had no answers either...

With Yin Xing and Yinying invisible, a servant had simply found Luoyin lying in his bed!

"How odd..." Lord Xu mused.

In the cave, Weiyan had assured him that the Immortal meant Luoyin no harm, but it was still odd that the Immortal had simply vanished.

After ensuring Luoyin was recovering, Lord Xu left, but Weiyan was reluctant to follow.

It was clear the servants were taking adequate care of Luoyin, so she knew he was fine, and yet she lingered.

But she also knew that her father, being the Sect Leader, would need to visit the family of the late disciple, and organize a central mourning and funeral for him.

As the two leaders of the mission, she and Xu Haoyuan would need to pay their respects, even if the disciple hadn't been in her own group, and as the disciple's comrades, the entire Sect would need to pay respects.

It didn't end there. The 'mission' had also led to the death of an entire settlement, and the responsibility fell on the Sect, who would need to control the damage and panic across other cities.

Most of all, as it involved a demon, the Sect would need to report the entire incident to the Wulin, and Weiyan was right in the middle of it, with new information concerning the 'Black Dragon'.

Lord Xu would never ask or make demands, but the least she could do was stand by him at such a time, ensuring everything went seamlessly...

So with a sigh, and one last glance at Luoyin, Weiyan turned her back.

"I know you're still here." She suddenly spoke aloud, as she followed after her father. "It's a long journey to immortality, but I'll do whatever it takes to get there and destroy you, if anything happens to him..."

Hidden in a corner of the room, Yin Xing froze in shock.

Almost literally too! Carps froze whenever they were endangered, and something about Xu Weiyan's words nearly awoke that long surpassed instinct!

'How can a mere mortal threaten me?! And how did she detect me?!' Even Lord Xu didn't sense his presence.

Yin Xing wasn't sure whether to be angry, offended, or relieved.

'Elder brother's love affairs are really something else!!'

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It was a few days later, after the central funeral, that news of Zhang Cheng's bullying and cowardly escape spread amongst the disciples.

Not only had he escaped, before doing so, he had harmed two Inner disciples, including the Head disciple, all because he wanted to attack Zhang Luoyin, his own brother.

As punishment, Sect Leader Xu temporarily banned him from all Sect duties, pending a proper decision by the Clan and Sect Elders.

Speaking of 'Elders', Sect Leader Xu had threatened the Clan Elders, which brought the Mission's sickening plot to light.