Chapter 195: Clear Sky Sect's Fury, Ambiguity in the Elegant Room
Tang Yuehua looked at the overwhelming flood of questions in the chat group. After a moment's thought, she decided to tell the truth to everyone.
After all, since the system could issue her such a mandatory task, it could naturally issue similar tasks to others as well.
This kind of major matter involving new system functions was definitely impossible to hide from the group members.
So she organized her thoughts and spoke the truth in the chat group.
[Elegant Noble Lady: Stop guessing, everyone. A few days ago, the system suddenly gave me a mandatory task, requiring me to sever ties with Clear Sky Sect.]
[Elegant Noble Lady: If I complete the task, I will receive rewards. But if I choose not to complete it or refuse to accept it…]
[Elegant Noble Lady: Then I will lose my qualification for the diary copy, and all the rewards I previously obtained will be forcibly taken back. I will also lose all memories related to the diary.]
After Tang Yuehua explained it this way, the girls in the group instantly understood.
This exclusive task left Tang Yuehua with no room for choice at all.
Either she obediently accepted the task, or she would completely lose the qualification to bind with the diary copy and be unable to defy fate.
Having already tasted the benefits of being able to cultivate, Tang Yuehua faced this life-or-death decision and could only grit her teeth and choose to accept the task.
At this moment, Xiao Wu, whose thoughts tended to jump unpredictably, raised her own deep suspicion.
[Bunny Who Loves Candied Hawthorns: Aunt Tang, you're not planning to fake completing the task, are you?]
[Bunny Who Loves Candied Hawthorns: After getting the system rewards, are you thinking of secretly continuing to provide material support to Clear Sky Sect behind the scenes?]
Looking at Xiao Wu's question, Tang Yuehua let out a helpless, bitter smile.
[Elegant Noble Lady: Do you really think that if I dared to act so duplicitously in secret, the system wouldn't notice?]
Ah Yin, who had been silently observing, also felt that Tang Yuehua's words made sense. She reminded her with concern:
[Ah Yin: If you do this, once the news reaches Clear Sky Sect…]
[Ah Yin: They will probably send someone down the mountain to trouble you very soon. With your strength, you likely won't be able to handle it. You need to prepare in advance.]
[Elegant Noble Lady: Yes, so I've already made plans. I'm going to move Moon Pavilion directly into the academy.]
[Elegant Noble Lady: There are many powerful experts within the Royal Academy. As long as I stay inside the academy, nothing should happen.]
As soon as Ning Rongrong heard this, she instantly realized something and immediately exposed her in the group.
[Seven Treasure Little Rich Lady: What do you mean by seeking protection from the academy? You clearly want to seek protection from Uncle Zhao Yun!]
Faced with Ning Rongrong's teasing, Tang Yuehua admitted it frankly without hesitation.
...
Time flew by.
Half a month later, with the delighted approval of Emperor Xue Ye, Tang Yuehua smoothly relocated Moon Pavilion entirely into the Royal Academy.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Clear Sky Sect.
The letter Tang Yuehua had sent finally arrived in the sect's hands.
Inside the council hall, the atmosphere was oppressive, to the extreme.
Tang Xiao and several powerful elders circulated the letter written in familiar handwriting. Every face was filled with deep confusion, dissatisfaction, and anger.
"Bang!"
The most hot-tempered Seventh Elder, Tang Lie, smashed the stone table with a single palm strike.
Fuming with rage, he roared, "This is outrageous! Has Tang Yuehua gone mad?! She actually dares to betray the sect openly!"
Everyone's expressions turned grim as they discussed what to do next.
Tang Lie strongly suggested, "I propose that I immediately leave the mountain in secret and go question Tang Yuehua face-to-face!"
"I want to see whether she was forced into this or if she truly intends to establish her own faction!"
This decisive and forceful proposal was instantly approved unanimously by all the elders present.
Sitting on the head seat, Tang Xiao sighed and instructed, "Seventh Elder, you must restrain your temper as much as possible on this trip. Yuehua is, after all, a direct member of the sect."
"I trust her character. If she did this, she must have been coerced by something outside or have some unspeakable hardship."
Tang Lie nodded upon hearing this and agreed on the surface, "Sect Master, rest assured. I understand."
However, deep in his heart, Tang Lie coldly thought, 'If I discover that Tang Yuehua truly intends to establish her own faction and that it was her own voluntary decision…'
'Then I will personally clean the house and capture this traitor back to the sect!'
This matter inevitably reached the ears of Tang Hao, who was far away in Nuoding City.
In a dark corner, after learning the news, Tang Hao was equally furious and deeply puzzled.
No matter how much he racked his brain, he could not understand why his own younger sister would make such a decision, why she would betray the sect.
He thought to himself that since Xiao San was doing well at the academy in Nuoding City, and nothing strange or unlucky had happened to him recently, there was no immediate cause for concern.
Perhaps he should also go and personally ask Tang Yuehua what exactly had happened.
What Tang Hao did not know was that the foul and unlucky incidents that had befallen Tang San over those past few days had not truly ended with time.
What Tang Hao didn't realize was that the terrifying causal power of the misfortune card Lin Yuan used through the system went far beyond that.
The previous incidents that happened to Tang San, such as suddenly tripping on flat ground or being drenched in falling filth, were nothing more than minor disturbances.
The reason everything around Tang San seemed calm for now, without any more fatal misfortune erupting…
It was merely the brief calm before the storm.
...
Inside the Moon Pavilion.
Within an exquisitely decorated, elegant top-floor room filled with a faint fragrance.
Using the excuse of having Tang Yuehua help cleanse the killing aura of the God-Killing Spear from his body, Lin Yuan stayed alone with her.
The atmosphere in the room was strangely quiet, with a subtle hint of ambiguity.
Lin Yuan sat on a soft cushion, not immediately releasing his martial soul. Instead, he looked at Tang Yuehua with a teasing expression.
"Master Tang, since you've moved this entire Moon Pavilion into our academy and made such a decisive choice to leave the Clear Sky Sect…"
His gaze swept unabashedly over her full and alluring curves, a wicked smile curling at his lips.
"Then can I reasonably assume that you've already agreed to the 'price' I mentioned earlier?"
Hearing such blunt and undisguised words, Tang Yuehua's body trembled slightly, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
Before she could respond, a strange spatial fluctuation suddenly flashed across Lin Yuan's body.
With a soft "whoosh," Lin Yuan instantly appeared beside Tang Yuehua out of thin air.
In the next moment, without any restraint, Lin Yuan extended his arm and tightly wrapped it around her slender, soft waist.
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