The Legend of Min Hong

"Alright, you leave me no choice then…"

Min Qing rose her hands and tried to touch the boy's forehead, but she suddenly spoke whilst looking at the boy;

"Stay still and calm, then perhaps, you all might live long enough to see another day…"

Bai Fan, Pi Xi and Su San blanched in fear as their cultivation went dormant and stopped rotating;

"Good; that's more like it…"

Min Qing spoke so indifferently that the trio could only lower their heads in defeat, and the shame that came with it...

Min Qing stretched her index finger and when it reached the boy's forehead, it shockingly phased into his head as they boy's eyes rolled into its socket leaving the white aspect, whilst the two concentric pupils in Min Qing's eyes added another one to make it three;

"Oh, so you are his disciple…"

"He can defeat a Nirvana Stage expert!?"

"What is that bitch doing!?"

"Argh!"

Min Qing read through the little kids memory, and when he reached the point where the Princess was taking Min Hong into the hot springs, she lost her cool for a bit and she used too much strength which cause the little kid to yell agonizingly;

"Not important…"

"Eh? A Coup?"

When Bai Fan and the rest heard this, they began to feel worried, if the secret message they were supposed to deliver directly to the Sect Leader gets hijacked by this little witch, they might end up not only causing irreversible problems, but also end up spooking the people trying to cause this coup…

Thus, they began to rotate their cultivation once more as Min Qing became more engrossed in the memories she was watching, going after every little scene where Min Hong and the Princess had been together, intimate, and laughing together as tears began to stream down her eyes;

'I told you kid… I'm sorry you have to find out this way…'

'That is how fickle and hateful the men of this world are… you give them everything you have and even sacrifice a lot for them, but in the end, they run after another and leave you in the abyss, of regret, pain and loss…'

The voice echoed once again, but this time, it was also slightly, sad and melancholic, almost as if it was reminiscing and reminding itself of its own past…

'It's okay, there is no point in plunging yourself into deeper agony that you are already in…'

'Let's leave this place… It has so many agonizing memories for you… It's not like we need all of them anyways, and I am very sure we will do perfectly fine on our own…'

'He has eloped with that which beneath the guise of going on a cultivation journey… I guess it is time for you to go on your own cultivation journey, after all, you have never made one before…'

'That way, I can see the outside world whilst you train, and I have just the perfect location for you to train till your blood dries up and improve your cultivation by leaps and bound…'

The voice suggested as Min Qing finally removed her finger just in time before the Bai Fan trio could attack…

Tears streamed down her eyes as she looked to all the people Min Hong had sent back to the sect, and then she vanished from the spot and reappeared within her room, on the bed, and broke down in tears as Qing Tan opened the door and strutted over to her, and hugged her from behind;

Min Qing cried a little bit more before sniffing and turned to look at Qing Tan;

"He is not back Little Qing… I think it would be better if we all moved on with our lives…"

"Eh? Did they tell you all this?" Qing Tan asked with a stunned expression;

"I saw this with my own eyes, he has moved on with the princess…"

"W-what!?"

"N-n-no, y-you are just saying this because you are tired and b-because y-you miss him!"

Pa!

A loud slap rang out within the room as everything went dead silent;

"You are too little to throw away your heart like I have done to mine, and it is better you forget about him from now henceforth, am I clear!?"

Min Qing bellowed at Min Qing as her aura activated and frightened the little girl into submission;

"Y-yes, Big Sis…"

"Good, now go get me dinner!"

She added as Little Qing bolted out of the room like a frightened cat, and in less than ten minutes, she came back with a full buffet on a tray and knocked on the door;

"Big Sis, are you in?" Qing Tan called out, but there was no response…

She tried two more times, and when she didn't get any response, she entered the room, and found it empty, except for the note that was placed on the king sized bed with a ring to hold it in place…

Bang!

The tray on Little Qing's hands dropped to the ground with all its contents spilling all over the place as she rushed to the bed and picked the letter to read…

Meanwhile…

Outside the 21st District, Min Rou finally reached the Bai Fan trio and the group behind them who were finally heading towards the core court, but with an aura of terror and fear hanging over their entire group, then she sighed in relief as she increased her speed…

She had seen the corpse of over ten Peak Nascent Soul experts on her way here and was scared that there might be more, because should Min Qing actually kill any disciple of the Sect, then that might negate the opinion the sect has towards them;

After all, the sect was still settling the scuffle that arose from her killing the Princess of the Xi Super Clan…

"I am Fei Hong's aunt… are you all heading towards the Core Court?"

Min Rou asked an extremely obvious and somewhat stupid question, but based on what these people had faced witness just now, she had to approach them in a very harmless and caring manner, and that was the first question that came to her mind…

"So you know that little witch!?" Bai Fan was the first to blurt through gritted teeth;

"Yes I do, and I am sorry for however she might have treated you, but she hasn't always been like that…"

"They have been together all their lives and basically do everything together…"

"They came into the sect together and ever since their parents died, they have only got one another, at least, that was till I came around…" She explained trying to ease the tension in the area;

"But due to a little disagreement they had, they didn't see each other before Fei Hong left, and when she heard that he took a Princess on the cultivation journey instead of her, she felt he had abandoned her and it really broke her heart since Fei Hong was the closest thing to her, causing everything to look like a massive betrayal scheme than the little misunderstanding it was…"

"But if you all want to hate someone or blame anyone, let it be me, because Fei Hong told me to explain everything to her, but I thought the way everything was playing out would force her to channel all that emotions into a driving force to make her stronger..."

"But I guess I had gone too far and placed too much expectation on a 17 year old who had just lost her parents a few years ago…"

Aunt Lin narrated and she could tell by their looks and change in expression that the core court disciples were all becoming apprehensive of the entire situation, and thus, she continued;

"This sad rain is being caused by Fei Qing's emotional imbalance, and currently it seems to be subsiding, so if you all can move over to District 21, then I can allocate a residence where you can be welcomed the right way you were supposed to be welcomed; As Fei Hong's friends and colleagues…"

Min Rou was soft with her tone and spoke as warmly and kindly as she could muster, whilst adding a tinge of her 'Medusa Effect' which she had begun to exude the moment she reached their location;

"We were wrong to have allowed what she did get in the way of the instructions Fei Hong gave us…"

"Yeah, I agree… Moreover, we still have to get Ta Mi to the Sect Leader…"

Su San and Pi Xi looked towards Bai Fan who finally relaxed his pissed off frown with a sigh;

"Fine, we will accept your suggestions and go with you… First thing tomorrow morning, we will get Ta Mi to the Sect Leader, whilst the rest of you can stay in District 21, and await his return…" Bai Fan responded as they all left with Min Rou…

Then after settling them in and launching an entire buffet for all of them, Min Rou returned to the main apartment to find Qing Tan staring at the open window looking at the clouds which was clearing up and finally revealing the moon hidden above it…

But when she realized that Qing Tan didn't react to her entry and saw a paper with some scribblings on it, she asked;

"Are you alright?"

"Where is Fei Qing?"

But Qing Tan barely reacted or tilt her head as she looked on like a being with a lost soul, and it was until Min Rou reached her front that she realized she was lost in thought, but she opted not to break her thoughts as she picked up the letter and read it…

Hu!

"Why does things have to be this way?"

"Am I bringing bad luck to these kids with my presence?"

Min Rou sighed in pain and loss as she sat on the bed and brooded over the entire situation;

"Hong'er would be extremely pissed off if when he learns that Min Qing had left under my watch, especially with the manner at which she did so…"

She fell on the bed and looked to the ceiling, lost in thought as she joined Qing Tan…

The entire room was quiet for about half an hour until Qing Tan finally quaked;

"Aunt Rou?"

"Unh?"

"Do you think I have brought bad luck into your family?" Qing Tan asked whilst staring outside the window;

"Come on, not you too…"

"No, you didn't bring any bad luck into the family, but the contrary…" Min Rou replied;

"I have contacted my personal guard to come take me home, so I might be leaving in three days…"

"What?"

"Why would you do that to me?"

"Do both of you not care about how I feel?"  Min Rou abruptly rose up from the bed and confronted Qing Tan;