The Mysterious Hideout (4)

After Supremacy Wen Hongguang and Celestial Bai Laoxiong had left, Qin Keqin had also got up from watching the profound crystal ball.

Qin Keqin was smiling wryly to Feng Minyue, Xuan Danfeng and Lu Qingyun. "Mm, so they are trying to plot against me. Interesting."

 Feng Minyue asked nonchalantly, "So what are you planning to do about it?"

 Qin Keqin gave a faint smile before she had turned to look at Lu Qingyun, "Qingyun, what do you think?"

All of a sudden she had noticed that Lu Qingyun was looking very flustered and rosy. "Are you alright?" She gasped softly.

 Lu Qingyun was actually alright. He was more than alright. It was just that throughout the profound viewing of the crystal ball, Keqin had been unconsciously moving closer to closer to him as she was leaning forward for a closer view.

 When Xuan Danfeng and Feng Minyue saw Lu Qingyun's flustered face, they immediately knew what was wrong and they were trying very hard to suppress their smiles.

 Qin Keqin was in such a situation where sometimes a person in close proximity was blind to the obvious. Her first thought was that of panic and concern as she had thought that Lu Qingyun was sick. After all, only fifth realm cultivators were immune to sickness and he had not attained to the fifth realm yet.

 Lu Qingyun stammered, "I am… really alright…"

 Qin Keqin looked at him curiously as she put her hand on his forehead, "Are you having a fever?"

 All of a sudden Qin Keqin had frozen; it was because she had suddenly realized that their bodies were touching and that they were looking at each other in such close proximity.

 She had a slight flush on her countenance as she quickly got up and she could feel that her back was burning hotly, even more so when her saintess sisters were suddenly chuckling behind her back…

 Qin Keqin cursed them silently as she quickly got up with an awkward expression.

 Lu Qingyun had noticed that Qin Keqin was awkward all of a sudden and that she must have been aware that their bodies were touching.

 He quickly said when he remembered Qin Keqin's question for him earlier as he tried to put off his awkwardness, "I didn't expect that Celestial Bai Laoxiong is such a man. We should confront him and drive him out of the Heavens Ridge Villa."

Qin Keqin chuckled, "Not yet because we don't have any proof." 

Lu Qingyun was startled, "This isn't proof enough?"

Qin Keqin sighed softly, "I've forgotten to record it in my memory stone. How should I know that this would be so interesting and it will also be a ploy against me?"

Lu Qingyun: ...

When he had heard that, he was smiling bitterly. 

He tried to find a topic to distract them from both their awkwardness by asking, "Erm, what kind of a place is this teahouse? Master, you are actually spying on the guests?"

 After he had asked this question, he had suddenly realized that he was asking an awkward question. He did not want to make it sound like he was being disrespectful to his master by questioning her but he had already asked. 

 But Qin Keqin replied with a chuckle, "Qingyun, do you know something? This teahouse is actually the most expensive place in the entire city."

 Lu Qingyun was startled by her reply which sounded unrelated to the question that he had asked, "Oh?"

 She was smiling as she added, "All the most influential people always like to have a secret meeting at the most expensive place because this shows how influential they are. This will also gives them plenty of faces. In this teahouse, I have many rooms that can listen into the greatest gossips of the city."

 Lu Qingyun: …

 This sounded like his master was part of a secret organization? Maybe she was even a dark celestial from an unorthodox cultivation sect that was sent to infiltrate the orthodox celestial fraternity of the Nine Celestial Fraternity…

 He was about to say that this did not sound right when Qin Keqin added with a wry smile, "Now you are part of us. Only the four of us knows about this secret hideout. You are not to tell anyone else. In the future, you will be able to enter this place freely."

 Lu Qingyun was shocked and he was also smiling bitterly. Now he was part of their secret organization…

He had heard that if a person wants to leave a secret organization, it was quite impossible and a heavy price has to be paid for leaving the secret organization. Often, only a dead person would be able to do so.

Just like that, he had joined a secret organization and he was expected to keep their dark secrets. 

He had come to New Empyrean City to be a cultivator and not a dark cultivator or a villain...

Lu Qingyun muttered weakly as he looked at Qin Keqin, Feng Minyue and Xuan Danfeng. "Erm, may I know the purpose why you are eavesdropping on them?"

 Qin Keqin laughed softly, "Because it is more fun than cultivation."

 Xuan Danfeng had also replied at the same time, "Nothing beats a good gossip."

 Feng Minyue added with a faint smile, "It is entertaining."

 Lu Qingyun: …

 He was thinking: If I'm the good-for-nothing cultivator then my master is a good-for-nothing master…

 Qin Keqin was looking at him earnestly and she was smiling warmly, "Welcome to our group!"

 Lu Qingyun could only smile bitterly. It was because he did not have a choice at all. He was silently thinking: It is better that I don't come to this hideout as much as possible. I can choose to hole up in the cultivation sect to cultivate.

 Still he was quite worried for Qin Keqin so he said, "Master, that Supremacy Wen…"

 But Qin Keqin interrupted him with a wryly smile, "Let see what he wants first. Don't worry for me."

 Then she had turned around to say to Feng Minyue with a wink, "We're going to pay Tang Bufan a visit real soon."

Lu Qingyun was startled, "Tang Bufan? Master, are you going to punish him?"

Qin Keqin laughed mysteriously as she winked at Lu Qingyun, "Punish him? Of course not. It'll be something fun."

As she said that, there was a flash in her golden eyes as she looked at Feng Minyue and Xuan Danfeng. 

Unknown to Lu Qingyun, Qin Keqin was actually the most dangerous villainess in the entire Nine Celestial Fraternity and she was also had a ruthless reputation as the Devil Goddess. 

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Author Note:

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