Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 1589: Chapter 365: Duozhi Fox and Mountain Descending Tiger (Part 3)

Hearing this, a voice from inside the carriage said, ”Standard Bearer, you’ve worked hard. I didn’t expect you to personally come to receive me.”

Xing Ran replied, ”The situation is special now. We’ve received intelligence that three branches of the court’s army and the Six Great Sects are preparing to confront our Holy Sect. We have no choice but to strengthen our defenses.”

Hearing this, Liu Caidie said, ”Yes, I know about this matter, that’s why I rushed back. By the way, is Grandpa on the mountain?”

”He is.”

Xing Ran answered, and Liu Caidie said, ”Then quickly let me go up the mountain.”

Xing Ran responded, ”Yes, but miss, please step out of this carriage and transfer to one of the Holy Sect’s carriages. Mr. Guan has ordered that no outsiders’ carriages or horses are allowed inside.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Caidie frowned and said, ”Am I no exception?”

Xing Ran said, ”Miss, the Bright Peak is already in wartime management mode. You know I am not joking with you.”

With that, Xing Ran signaled, and a Holy Sect carriage came down the mountain. Hearing it was wartime management, Liu Caidie realized it was no joke and obediently stepped out of the carriage.

At this time, Xing Ran looked towards Chen Jie and asked, ”Who is this?”

Liu Caidie said, ”This is a servant my grandpa assigned to me; he’s been with me for some years. Is he to be detained too?”

Xing Ran looked at Liu Caidie and replied, ”How would I dare? Since a Master arranged it, we only need to keep a simple record.”

Xing Ran gestured, and someone quickly came to inquire Chen Jie for some related information, which Chen Jie disclosed according to what Liu Caidie had taught him.

Liu Caidie switched carriages and, under Xing Ran’s guidance, proceeded straight to the mountain top.

As they passed the three passes, Chen Jie witnessed the Bright Peak’s formidable defensive power. No wonder the court didn’t dare to attack Bright Peak easily; with its robust defenses, even the court’s army would find it hard to capture.

Thus, the party passed through the three passes and arrived at the main peak of Bright Peak, the Holy Fire Peak.

At this point, Liu Caidie got off the carriage and saw that someone had already notified those on the mountain. A middle-aged scholar, holding a folding fan and dressed in white, waited with a cheerful smile.

Liu Caidie saw the middle-aged scholar and immediately jumped off the carriage, rushing towards him and hugging him when she got close.

This was actually quite a disrespectful behavior in terms of etiquette, but the middle-aged scholar just smiled and said, ”You’ve grown into a big girl and still act so recklessly. This is unbecoming.”

”Uncle Guan, I missed you.”

Liu Caidie said with a cheerful smile, while the middle-aged scholar shook his head helplessly, as if the young girl just couldn’t grow up. At this moment, his eyes brushed over Chen Jie and said, ”You returned with just one old servant this time?”

Liu Caidie said, ”Oh, I ditched those my grandpa assigned to me, and kept only the one pleasing to the eye, hehe...”

Mr. Guan said, ”Nonsense.”

Liu Caidie looked aggrievedly at Mr. Guan, who, unable to bear scolding her, said, ”No more of this next time.”

Hearing this, Liu Caidie said, ”Yes, Caidie obeys Uncle Guan’s command.”

Mr. Guan shook his head helplessly, and just then, a voice suddenly came over: ”Sister Caidie.”

At these words, Liu Caidie’s face instantly darkened; the annoying person had arrived.

Sure enough, as the voice came closer, a burly, tiger-backed, dark-skinned young man approached, smiling ingratiatingly at Liu Caidie.

Seeing Liu Caidie’s disgusted face, Mr. Guan smiled without saying anything.

The dark-skinned youth came over and said, ”Sister Caidie, you’re back, hehe...”

Liu Caidie didn’t want to respond to the dark-skinned young man, but Mr. Guan said, ”Caidie, Ah Xiong is greeting you. Why aren’t you speaking?”

Caidie looked at Mr. Guan, then reluctantly said, ”Yeah, I’m back.”

The dark-skinned Ah Xiong saw Caidie’s disposition, but didn’t mind and continued like a nagging puppy, saying, ”Caidie, you don’t know how much I’ve missed you these two years. Let me tell you, my axe technique has improved a lot. Now you certainly can’t beat me.”

The dark-skinned youth boasted with pride while Liu Caidie glanced at him with displeasure, deliberately ignoring him, though the dark-skinned youth kept talking incessantly by her side.

At this moment, Liu Caidie immediately spoke up, ”Uncle Guan, where is my grandpa?”

Mr. Guan hesitated for a moment, his attitude noticeably changed, but then still smiled and said, ”The Venerable is in closed cultivation and can’t see you. You should stay here with Uncle Guan for a few days until your grandpa comes out of seclusion, and then I’ll take you to meet him.”

Liu Caidie, hearing this, was quite surprised and looked at Mr. Guan, asking, ”In closed cultivation? With enemies at the gates, how can my grandpa go into seclusion?”

With these words, Mr. Guan replied, ”Precisely because there are enemies at the gates, your grandpa is considering how to repel them, so he went into seclusion to devise a strategy to defeat them.”

”Yes, Caidie, while Grandpa Liu is in seclusion, I can accompany you to play.”

Hearing this, Liu Caidie glared at Du Xiong, having no fondness for him at all, her face darkening, though Du Xiong remained oblivious.

Just then, someone suddenly approached from a distance, half-kneeling in greeting: ”Dharma King.”

Everyone turned to see a strong man in purple clothing, draped in a black cloak, with a tiger-back and bear-waist, striding over with eyes penetratingly cold. Indeed, he was none other than the second-ranking of the renowned Four Great Dharma Kings, the Mountain Descending Tiger, Du Zundao.

Du Zundao surveyed the crowd, his gaze pausing on Chen Jie, but ultimately landing on Liu Caidie, and said as he looked at her, ”Caidie has returned.”