Chapter 31

"Ah, ah."

For some reason Ming Yongnian and Mo Huijun felt that their baby had just praised Kaijun. It felt like they were chewing on a piece of unpeeled lemon. The taste of bitterness and sour lingered.

Ignoring the two extremely sour men, Kaijun asked the baby, "Xiaobao, who will you choose? Nian or the big baddy, Mo Huijun?"

"Ah? Ahn…"

Kaijun nodded his head in agreement. "Yes, yes, you are right."

Meanwhile Ming Yongnian who could actually hear his child and feel her feelings, had his face gradually darken.

It was not only Ming Yongnian, but Mo Huijun seemed discontent, the man himself did not know why he was feeling such emotions.

While Feng Delun who knew nothing watched the three men with a great headache. Something told him this would not end well for him.

Kaijun finally said, "Well, Xiaobao was saying that since she had spent more time with Nian it would be unfair for Mo Huijun. But—"

"She wants you to live with us for a while." Ming Yongnian was shrouded with an intense gloominess.

Mo Huijun's brows were raised. "Live with us? Who is us?"

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Cheeks dusted with pink Wu Jinjing had entered cloud nine. "A child originating from the two strongest men alive in this era. One of the righteous path and the other of the devilish way… could you imagine it Lai Meihui? Ah, this is fantastic! Amazing! Just the thought of it makes my heart beat faster."

"I wouldn't really call eldest brother a righteous cultivator…" Lai Meihui mumbled. Seeing Wu Jinjing who was overcome with ecstasy, Lai Meihui felt that Wu Jinjing had taken her role as a dual cultivator. Was she not the dual cultivator out of the three of them sisters? Look at Wu Jinjing's face, pink blush, watery eyes, shivering red lips, it'll entice men to sleep with her with a simple glance.

I feel like a fake dual cultivator, Lai Meihui thought.

Luo Huifang sighed. "Forget it, this is eldest brother's personal matters. If we intervene I'm afraid he would not like it. Remember that incident where Xiaotong got really curious of eldest brother's past?"

Of course they remembered, how could they not. It was the first time they saw another side of Ming Yongnian. Lai Meihui was too terrified to recall that time. Clearing her throat Lai Meihui put the conversation on the right road once more, they were here to tell the old ghost their secrets, and they had done just that. Now was the best time to excuse themselves. "A-Anyway," Lai Meihui stuttered, "we are planning to sell the loot we earned from the Da dynasty secret realm. So I'm afraid it is high time we take our leave."

Mimi smiled knowingly, even a blind person could tell that the three women had enough tea for the day. It was sad that the ghost had no way of holding them back any longer. "Hmm, the tea had indeed grown stale." So he had no choice but to let them leave.

The four of them stood from their chairs, the three women paused. With their sensitive senses they caught another presence that had entered the building.

A small ghost boy around the age of four stepped into the tea shop through the back door. A small ghost that knew the old ghost?

"Grandpa, I'm back." The boy did not bat an eye at the three women's presence. He was used to seeing his grandfather performing his "business".

"Oh, little Lord you have returned!" The old man hurried to the boy's side.

Even after coming to Mimi's shop for many years this was the first time Luo Huifang saw the child. "Little Lord? I had never seen him before." The ghost cultivator shot the old man with a look.

The twinkling in Luo Huifang's eyes was undeniable. Lai Meihui and Wu Jinjing knew what it meant, the two of them sighed heavily, it was about to start.

"Ho, ho, ho of course you have not seen little Lord, I've only recently taken him in. Little Lord is just the nickname I give this child."

Luo Huifang smiled sweetly, she was up to no good. Well it was bad news for Mimi, and good news for Luo Huifang herself. "Then you would not mind if I ask him to be my ghost will you? He has a lot of potential!" There were litteral stars in her eyes and around her. Luo Huifang was like a beaming star.

Burrying her face into her palms Lai Meihui groaned, "Oh boy."

Eyes widened, Mimi shook his head. "Ghost cultivator Venerable, your old awful habit is showing itself, again. You're not stealing one of my people, again. How many times have you done this?"

"Umm, I have not taken many of your people."

Smoke rose from Mimi's head like a volcano about to erupt. "Absolutely not! You've taken at least fifty! FIFTY! Of my people!!!"

Waving her hand in clear dismissal, Luo Huifang said, "It's not that many."

"Not MANY?!" Smoke rose from the old ghost's head.

"Yes, I'm certain you have another one hundred talented ghosts at your service. Me taking fifty of your fellow ghosts, is not much."

Like a hissing angry cat Mimi's beard was puffed up, the old ghost had just opened his mouth when the young ghost the two was fighting over spoke, "I'm sorry ghost cultivator Venerable, I'd like to be my own master. I want to be my own ghost cultivator in the future."

The child was very innocent looking despite the boy being a ghost. His eyes was indeed adorably large, round filled cheeks, and there was no dark circles around his eyes. Much like that black and white bamboo eating bear, that Jiang Xiaotong called "Panda". But his skin remained an unhealthy waxy white. Thus he was "adorably terrifying", Lai Meihui concluded.

Defeated Luo Huifang's shoulder slumped, while Mimi proudly stroke his beard. But then the child ghost spoke again, "But I am willing to follow you as your disciple."

"..."

Mimi was sputtering, the old ghost almost fell flat face first on the ground. Luo Huifang's mouth was slightly parted. Lai Meihui thought her ears were broken.

Wu Jinjing was the only one to comment, "This boy is daring."

The little ghost's took a step towards Luo Huifang. "Mimi taught me that if there was something good I should refuse it, but if it's really good I should chase it."

Lai Meihui nodded her head and shrugged her shoulders. "That's a very sound thinking."

Perhaps thinking he was being praised by Lai Meihui, the little ghost was smiling happily.

Unfortunately the happiness the little ghost felt did not extend to Mimi, the old ghost was touching his nose, part embarrassed, part angry, part proud.

Luo Huifang's eyes narrowed at the little ghost. The reason she was interested in turning the ghost into one of her very own ghosts, was because of the potential this little ghost had. As a ghost cultivator who had been dealing with ghosts for hundreds of years, Luo Huifang could quickly distinguish between a rotten egg of a ghost, and a golden egg of a ghost. This child ghost happened to fall in the latter category.

This child ghost was newly deceased, it means he was a newly born ghost, to top it off he was still a child. Newly born ghosts typically had no solid appearance, they would be transparent in appearance like Mimi. But this child was not transparent, his foot was touching the ground, his body was solid, and he had a shadow. And yes Luo Huifang was incredibly certain that this child ghost was not possessing a dead body of another, nor was he an undead. He was purely a ghost, a one in a million ghost.

And this child was asking her to take him in as her apprentice. They were building a sect, taking this child as her apprentice would only mean he'll be their sect first student. But, it's exactly because this child was newly born, was a child, and has a physical body that she was afraid of. Only ghosts that had reached the level of calamity would have a physical body. This made the young ghost in front of her a calamity wrapped up in a small body.

Though there was Feng Delun, Li Jiayi, and Jin Liwei. Those three should be able to draw a strict binding contract. It'll be a waste to let this child ghost off the hook and wander off with someone else, and potentially sow a seed of hatred in the child's heart against her because she refused him as her disciple.

So Luo Huifang agreed, "...Why not. But I'll be accepting you as my apprentice or disciple through our sect."

"Oh, is he going to be our sect first disciple?" Lai Meihui was not expecting the turn of events.

Wu Jinjing was smiling from ear to ear. "A little ghost as our first disciple? Interesting."