[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 37

Chapter 37: The Calamity of Family Extermination

“There are really too many people walking around in the backyard, Master. It seems we need to go to an open space to practice kung fu.”

Holding a freshly braised duck leg in her hand, Xue Mu strolled leisurely to the counter and suddenly reached out to flick Xue Duanhun’s abacus to cause trouble. Before she could see clearly, her head was lightly flicked.

“As the Tower Master, you are only responsible for eating, drinking, and playing every day. I have to worry about matters big and small in the tower. What use are you?”

Xue Mu leaned against the counter and held the duck leg to Xue Duanhun’s lips. The latter glared, but Xue Mu wasn’t afraid. She withdrew her hand and continued to gnaw on the leg meat. “Master, after all, you are deeply experienced in the world. My parents won’t let me run outside, so I can only eat, drink, and play.”

“Now that you are someone with a wife, can you still continue to eat, drink, and play?” Xue Duanhun sighed. “Look at you, why are you back causing trouble again? Where is your wife?”

Xue Mu also sighed. “My wife said she wanted to go into seclusion and told me not to cause trouble in the Dugu Manor. Master, talk about her. She won’t even let me stay. So this morning at the Hour of the Rabbit, I came to soak in the cold pool at the Xue Star Tower to dissipate heat.”

Xue Duanhun flicked the abacus beads loudly. Hearing this, she said, “You should have stayed there and guarded your wife properly. Breaking through in seclusion is very dangerous. She now…”

She suddenly lowered her voice so others couldn’t hear: “Her internal energy cannot flow smoothly in the Three Yin Meridians of the foot. Forcing a breakthrough will only lead to Qi Deviation. If other meridians go wrong, think about the consequences.”

Xue Mu’s face changed slightly, and the duck leg didn’t taste good anymore. She lowered her head and thought for a long time before saying, “But Yuan’er won’t let me stay in the Dugu Manor. She must not want me to stay there, lest she gets distracted and finds it harder to break through. Besides, Hero Dugu and Madam Dugu are still in the manor.”

“Mu’er, what do you think about what happened yesterday?” Xue Duanhun said faintly.

Xue Mu was stunned. Her mind moved, and she asked tentatively, “Does Master want to ask about the Blue Wind Mountain Sect, or that guest who escaped?”

She thought that the guess about the Soul Cold Twelve Arts had already been confirmed by Xue Duanhun and Yuan’er, so that wasn’t the topic for today. Yuan’er now bore a blood feud, and she was terribly distressed. Her own Fire Poison and Yuan’er’s Cold Poison must be resolved as soon as possible.

Xue Duanhun said, “The disciples of the Blue Wind Mountain Sect are going to Huangding Mountain to meet with disciples of other sects, to show that their sect will participate in the Discourse on the Dao Conference at Huangding Mountain on time. Mu’er, do you know what happened at the last Discourse on the Dao Conference?”

When Xue Mu was thirteen or fourteen, she had heard her parents talk about the Discourse on the Dao Conference. She only knew that the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain displayed the power of their unique secret skills at the conference, and not long after it ended, people with evil intentions went up to Jin Mountain and exterminated the entire clan.

At that time, opera troupes quickly composed operas and started singing. The operas also reached Hanfeng Town, but not long after, those troupes suddenly disappeared from the town. Thinking about it now, it must have been done by the Dugu couple. Not wanting Yuan’er to hear those operas and feel sad, they used some means to drive all those troupes away.

Xue Mu nodded hesitantly and whispered, “Master, do you think something will happen at this Discourse on the Dao Conference?”

Xue Duanhun pondered silently. After finishing calculating on the abacus and writing some words in the account book, she signaled Xue Mu to follow her to talk elsewhere.

The two arrived at the corridor where they talked yesterday. Xue Duanhun said, “Mu’er, the Discourse on the Dao Conference is held once every fifteen years, and it has been held six times now. Every time, a sect is responsible for offering a certain martial art they found as a reward for the conference. If a disciple of a sect wins the conference, the martial art belongs to that sect.”

Xue Mu said, “What if a lone hero of the Jianghu wins?”

Xue Duanhun said, “Naturally, the winner takes the martial art.”

Xue Mu understood.

At the last Discourse on the Dao Conference, the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain won, so they took the reward of that conference. And because their own unique secret skill was too powerful, it brought about the calamity of family extermination.

“The culprit who exterminated the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain might have come for that reward, or for the Soul Cold technique, or perhaps both.”

Who exactly had the strength to exterminate the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain? If his strength was really that great, why didn’t he win at the Discourse on the Dao Conference, defeat the people of the Yu Clan, and take the reward at that time?

“Mu’er, the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain was exterminated. Even death would be too cheap for the culprit to atone for their crimes,” Xue Duanhun said softly. “Dugu Yuan’an is the only surviving descendant of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain. You need to protect her well.”

Xue Mu nodded vigorously and said awe-inspiringly, “Naturally! Yuan’er is now my wife. I will definitely guard her and cherish her. When the culprit is caught one day, I will let Yuan’er take revenge!”

Xue Duanhun gazed at her quietly for a moment, strange colors flashing in her eyes. Finally, she just sighed loudly, “Good! Good! Mu’er is a good child, and Maiden Yuan’an is also a pitiful child. Seeing you two tie the knot and depend on each other, Master has no regrets in this life!”

Xue Mu blinked and said, “How can Master have no regrets? Master’s regrets are boundless.”

Xue Duanhun was stunned, only to hear Xue Mu laugh, “Master hasn’t taught me the ‘Following the Wind Sword Technique,’ ‘Life Lost in the Yellow Springs Claw,’ and your extremely powerful palm technique yet!”

Xue Duanhun didn’t know whether to laugh or what. A strange expression appeared on her face, and finally she slapped Xue Mu’s shoulder abruptly. “You little slippery head!”

Xue Mu cried out, rubbing her shoulder aggrievedly. “Master is abusing the disciple. I’m going to tell Yuan’er!”

Xue Duanhun said amusedly, “Master taps you once, and you want to tell your wife. Then if someone snatches your food one day, will you also go complain?”

Xue Mu said, “Naturally! Yuan’er will dote on me when she hears it!”

Xue Duanhun laughed a few times, then suddenly became serious. “Alright, get ready today. Master is going to teach you the ‘Life Lost in the Yellow Springs Claw’ first.”

Xue Mu was overjoyed. “Good! Master, shall we practice right here?”

Xue Duanhun said, “Where do you wish to practice?”

Xue Mu looked around and said, “Master, let’s go practice by the Han River, okay?”

Xue Duanhun said, “That’s fine too. It’s quiet there. If the heat of the Fire Poison in your body rises, you can also go directly into the river for a soak.”

Xue Mu laughed loudly. Just as she was about to walk towards the direction where the corridor connected to the main building, Xue Duanhun grabbed the back of her outer robe, took her leaping from the six-story-high corridor onto a tree, and then jumped from the tree back to the ground.

“Master might as well tell you, the Secret Heart-Protecting Technique taught to you before is the ‘Ling Heart Secret Technique’ of the Blue Wind Mountain Sect. And now, Master is also going to teach you the Blue Wind Mountain Sect’s lightness skill ‘Wind Light Art.’ You must learn it well!”

Xue Mu was beside herself with joy. “Yes!”