Chapter 162: The Peerless Black Widow (4)

Now Yu Yan felt she could not wait. She had to get Li Yingying into the ranks of martial artists as soon as possible, and make her realize the little Three Great Families of Golden Mountain City were nothing, so she could cut off her thoughts of Wang Yue.

So before Li Yingying started work, she had someone call her over.

"Boss, you wanted me?" Li Yingying came to Yu Yan’s room and asked, a little worried. The boss had never called her at this hour. Had something dissatisfied her?

"Sit and talk." Yu Yan had Li Yingying sit across from her and asked mildly, "Yingying, you’ve worked here a while. What do you think of me?"

"Boss is very good. Thank you for giving me this job." Li Yingying said quickly, "And Boss, you’re very good to me. If I can say something above my station, you’re like my elder sister."

"What elder sister. My age is young even to be your grandmother." Yu Yan smiled.

"Ah?" Li Yingying exclaimed. "You... you’re a martial artist?"

From the outside Yu Yan looked only about thirty. Li Yingying had thought that was her real age. Hearing this, she knew the boss had simply frozen her age.

Only a martial artist could do that.

"Right. I am a martial artist." Yu Yan nodded. "And you. Do you want to become a martial artist too?"

"I can too?" Li Yingying’s heart pounded wildly. If she became a martial artist, wouldn’t that close the distance with Wang Yue?

Yu Yan had no idea Li Yingying wanted to become a martial artist for Wang Yue. Seeing her look very tempted, she took the chance. "As long as you take me as master and inherit my mantle, you can not only become a martial artist. You can become a top martial artist who makes the great majority of martial artists bow."

"Take you as master?" Li Yingying almost could not believe her ears. She said it as if in a dream. "I can?"

"Of course. These years I’ve been to quite a few places. Only you fit my requirements." Yu Yan said.

Seeing Li Yingying still did not understand, Yu Yan explained, "You stand on your own, won’t bow to reality, and never thought of relying on those with money. That quality is rare."

"But there are quite a few girls like that." Li Yingying said.

"On behavior, quite a few. Do you think they don’t want to?" Yu Yan said, scornful. "They just don’t have outer conditions as good as yours. These years I’ve seen quite a few girls of decent quality, and pretty, who in the end could not stand the test of money and status and fell. You didn’t. Otherwise, as long as you nodded, that Liu Sheng could give you, even your whole family, a life of wealth and honor."

This age was different from a few hundred years ago. The Martial Artists Alliance held the overall situation, but the ferocious beasts watching still put enormous survival pressure on humanity as a whole.

So people of this age were far more realistic than before. To live better, selling oneself and bowing to wealth and honor had already become normal. Never mind the law. Even moral condemnation did not have to be endured.

Because of that, someone like Li Yingying was especially rare. Yu Yan had taken a liking to exactly this, and decided to pass her mantle.

Sure Yu Yan was not joking with her, Li Yingying was so happy she almost fainted. She asked quickly, "Then what should I do? Kowtow and take you as master?"

"No rush on taking a master." A gentle smile showed on Yu Yan’s face. "I’ll tell you my identity clearly first. After you hear it, rot it in your stomach. It must not be told to a third person besides you and me. Otherwise you, I, and the person who hears it may all draw a killing disaster."

Li Yingying jumped and said quickly, "Then don’t tell me."

Yu Yan sighed. "If I don’t tell you, how will you know what to watch for, what to guard against? Listen. Yu Yan is only my alias. My original name is Yu Suxin. In the jianghu I have a nickname. Black Widow."

"Black Widow?" Li Yingying’s expression was a little odd. Boss was this pretty. How did she have such an ugly nickname?

"Curious why I have a nickname like this?" Yu Suxin asked. Seeing Li Yingying nod, she explained, "Because, on the day of my own wedding, I killed my husband’s whole family."

"Ah?!" Li Yingying was truly frightened this time. This boss, always so gentle, was this vicious?

She did not believe the boss was that kind of person. She said, "There must be another reason?"

"Right. I did it because they killed my whole family first." Yu Suxin said, "I was born in a force called the Xuan Su Sect. That is a martial sanctuary. Do you know what a martial sanctuary is?"

Li Yingying shook her head, blank.

Yu Suxin was not disappointed. Li Yingying was only an ordinary person. Not knowing martial affairs was normal. She asked again, "Then you should at least know the Martial Artists Alliance?"

"I know. That’s the organization that manages all the martial artists under heaven." Li Yingying nodded.

"Silly child. That’s only the surface saying. The Martial Artists Alliance cannot manage all martial artists. Some forces stand above the Martial Artists Alliance. Those are the martial sanctuaries." Yu Suxin said.

"That strong?!" Li Yingying could not help exclaiming.

"Of course strong. Otherwise how could they be called sanctuaries." Yu Suxin said, "Things like the Three Great Families of Golden Mountain City, next to a martial sanctuary, the gap is even larger than between an ordinary person and a martial artist."

Yu Suxin said it only to make Li Yingying recognize her status, to tell her that later the Three Great Families of Golden Mountain City were not even worthy of carrying her shoes.

What Li Yingying thought then was, if she became a disciple of this martial sanctuary, wouldn’t she be able to help Wang Yue later?

"Back then my father was one of the elders in the sect, and that enemy house of mine also came from the Xuan Su Sect, and had a very good relationship with our family." Yu Suxin went on. "The year I was twenty, my parents were suddenly killed. I was at a loss. Those people found me and said they could help me trace the killer, and had me marry their son. I had long known their son. His character was nothing much. I did not like him at all. At that time I only wanted revenge, so I agreed at once. On the day of the wedding I happened to find out the killers of my parents were that whole family."

Li Yingying asked, strange, "Didn’t your two families have a very good relationship? Why would they still harm your parents?"

"You think martial sanctuaries are all transcendent experts?" Yu Suxin sneered. "No. The scheming there is no less than the ordinary world. They harmed my parents only to seize a heaven-and-earth strange fruit that could greatly advance cultivation. After I knew the truth, I pretended to keep holding the wedding with their son, then rose suddenly while offering tea and killed all three of them at home. I myself became a target wanted by the Xuan Su Sect because of it."

"Then why didn’t you explain it to the Xuan Su Sect?" Li Yingying could not help asking.

"After my parents died, I was a rootless weed in the Xuan Su Sect. Who would still care what I said? And that year my martial talent was first among my peers. If I stayed in the sect, I would invisibly block the road of many big figures’ descendants. They naturally wanted to use the chance to remove me." Yu Suxin said faintly, "These decades, every few years I change cities. One reason is to dodge the Xuan Su Sect’s pursuit. The other is to find a successor and pass this body of martial skill down. Now you know why I told you my origin."

"I know." Li Yingying nodded. "So I’ll understand what to watch for, and also try not to show the skill in front of people."

"Close enough. The skill, though, you don’t have to fear showing." Yu Suxin said, "The Xuan Su Sect is called the Xuan Su Sect because the sect has two Heaven-rank methods. One is the Xuantian Art. One is the Pure Woman Art. Anyone can practice the Xuantian Art. People who can practice the Pure Woman Art are extremely rare. In my generation there was only me. So after you master it, even if you use it in front of others, no one will recognize it."

"That hard to practice. Can I?" Li Yingying was a little short on confidence.

"Of course. After decades of research I’ve improved it. Now anyone can practice it too." Yu Suxin said, "All right. What should be said has been said. Take me as master!"

...

Wang Yue, after leaving the restaurant, did not know where to go for a moment. He thought. This was not far from the Golden Mountain Adventurers Association. Better to go see Little Aunt and the others, and ask about going to sea while he was at it.

So Wang Yue drove straight to the Adventurers Association.

Everything here was decided by Little Aunt, but it was still an official body, so things still had to be done by the rules.

After the staff in the hall notified Su Mengqing and got her agreement, Wang Yue went up to the top floor and came to her office.

In the office now it was not only Su Mengqing. Hong Ling and the other three were there too. A dining table stood in the middle of the office, full of food. Clearly they were about to eat.