Hua Qianqian secretly gave her token to Mo Hua, then coquettishly pleaded to a sect-guarding female elder:
"Auntie, I forgot my Hundred Flowers Order, please let me in~"
The female elder was very troubled, refusing:
"Absolutely not."
"Please let me in~"
"No, the rules don’t allow it."
"Auntie~"
The female elder glared at her, "Even if you call me grand-aunt, it’s not allowed. At your age, forgetful mistakes, forgetting even the Hundred Flowers Order, go back and fetch it."NovelFire
"I just need to go in and fetch a Pill Scripture and come out soon," Hua Qianqian was somewhat aggrieved, "otherwise going back and forth would be so much extra effort. Auntie, you told me yourself; a cultivator’s time is the most precious..."
The female elder was left helpless.
Hua Qianqian then said, "Auntie, let me in. You’ll forgive me this once, and I promise this time in the sect exam, the formation can get... grade B!"
"Useless," the female elder scrutinized Hua Qianqian, "you don’t even dare to promise a grade A."
Hua Qianqian muttered, "I must be able to get grade A first..."
"Fine," the female elder saw Hua Qianqian boast big and set such ambition, saying, "Just this time, next time without a token, no getting in even if you explain to the sky."
Hua Qianqian joyfully said, "Thank you, Auntie!"
The female elder turned to Hua Qianqian’s side, looking at Mo Hua with brightened eyes, just about to ask something.
Hua Qianqian meanwhile dragged Mo Hua up the mountain.
"Junior Sister, hurry up!"
Mo Hua clutched the Hundred Flowers Order, pulled uphill by Hua Qianqian.
The female elder seeing this, could not stop them and could only sigh helplessly, murmuring, "That girl, always so unruly..."
...
After entering the sect, Hua Qianqian took Mo Hua to a secluded valley with no one around and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally sneaked in, luckily not discovered..."
Her heart too was beating rapidly.
If exposed, it would end up "mission failed before it even started."
Mo Hua, seeing her like this, also became nervous.
If exposed, hard to say about physical death, but surely a "social death."
"Now I’ll take you to Sister Ye Jin’s Disciple’s Residence; follow me." Hua Qianqian told Mo Hua.
"Okay." Mo Hua nodded.
Thus, Hua Qianqian held Mo Hua’s hand, walking along the Hundred Flower Valley’s stone steps, toward the back mountain’s Disciple’s Residence.
Meanwhile, in the depths of the Hundred Flower Valley.
At the top of a pavilion.
An exceedingly beautiful woman with a cold expression was frowning, looking at a Hundred Flowers Divination Disk, her gaze focused.
The exceedingly beautiful woman also wore a Hundred Flowers Sect Taoist robe.
But this Taoist robe was dignified and elegant, yet extremely luxurious, truly embroidered with hundreds of different flowers, dazzling and splendid, each vying for beauty yet complementing each other, it was the highest grade "Hundred Flowers Taoist Robe."
The woman watched the mechanism disk spin, flowers withering one by one, her expression growing increasingly heavy.
Finally, she sighed, turned around, gazing into the distance from the pavilion, her gaze taking in the whole Hundred Flower Valley, entering a trance.
In the Hundred Flower Valley, vibrant and colorful.
On the mountain path, female disciples came and went, luxuriant as bustling.
It appeared exceedingly beautiful.
Just then, her gaze tightened, seeing on the mountain path, a pretty female disciple holding hands with another fresh and ethereal as a hibiscus junior sister, whispering as they walked.
The woman’s icy expression flickered with momentary surprise.