Chapter 557: Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty-Three: The Coming Trouble

“Cunfu really is lucky.” The Second Elder nodded continuously, sighing in admiration.

Ever since the Yun Family fell into ruin twenty years ago and Yun Piaopiao closed her instrumental case and retreated from the public eye, Xiling had never again heard the melody of “Cheng Xin”. However, not only has Tang Cunfu bagged a beautiful woman but he also managed to persuade the Yun Family to allow their disciple to play “Cheng Xin” again.

After twenty years, hearing the first divine melody of Xiling again stirred some nostalgia within the elders.

The procedure of the Inauguration Star ritual was no different from a typical night banquet – a performance of the pipa to start the event, followed by song and dance.

No matter when you saw them, the dancing girls from Miaoyin Square were always tantalizing. And when Zhao from the reputed family finished playing the pipa and started the drum performance, the atmosphere of the song and dance escalated to another climax.

Tang Luo wasn’t particularly interested in the pipa or the song and dance. After observing for a bit, he turned his head, focusing his attention on the delicacies on the table.

In rich households, meat and wine were often luxuries, but people on the streets could be starving to death. Tang Cunfu’s Inauguration Star ceremony was full of meat and wine, the table filled with spiritual food.

For civilians, a natural disaster like a flood was catastrophic, but for a powerful family like the Tang Clan, it merely meant relocating and living in a new place, with almost no significant impact on their standard of living.

Just one representative of a pseudo-lineage could create such a spectacle. To emphasize the corruption of the clan leaders, Tang Luo, thinking of the common people of Red Cloud Mountain, angrily had three big bowls of food.

“Bring another set!”

The song and dance hadn’t ended, but Tang Luo had finished most of the food on the table, ordering the waiter to bring more.

Actually, possessing a Void Stomach, he could digest anything he ate, and the Innate Qi born from his organs could provide self-sufficiency without relying on foreign substances, overeating was just to satisfy his taste buds. That’s because he discovered this representative Tang Cunfu seems to know how to enjoy life more than even the First Head of the Martial Hall. Although the ingredients might not be better than at his own home, the delicacy of the dishes prepared by the house chef far surpassed that.

Eat him out of a big meal – this was the most simple wish in Tang Luo’s mind.

The singing girls withdrew, the drumming gradually subsided, and the guests all stood up as the hero of the Inauguration Star ceremony finally arrived.

Dressed in an official’s robe, a beaming Tang Cunfu led the elegantly dressed Yun Piaopiao from a side door into the hall. Despite her age, one could still see from her clear eyes the charm she possessed in her youth.

From the moment the couple entered, the guests went crazy. Although they knew that Tang Cunfu was to marry the first beauty of Xiling, when they saw the goddess of their dreams being led by him, it still felt surreal.

In a way, men don’t really grow up, they just age. So Tang Luo could hear the resentment in the applause and cheers.

But the current Pride of Xiling didn’t place his attention on anything else, but he was worried that Yun Piaopiao, the delicate lady held by Tang Cunfu, might suddenly slap Tang Cunfu to death.

Tang Luo even doubted whether the lady of the Yun Family was really just an instrumentalist, then who could explain where her 52,134-point spiritual power came from.

“Master, how old is Yun Piaopiao this year?” Tang Luo secretly asked Elder Tang Hongtao through a sound transfer spell.

The elder was not attracted to women. Looking at the lady from a distance was more like admiring a piece of artwork. After all, as a senior martial artist, he understood how difficult it was to blend the soul into the melody, so he admired her greatly. But seeing a beautiful woman aging, he couldn’t help but sigh.

As he heard the sound transfer spell, he realised his disciple was questioning him. Assuming Tang Luo was marvelled by Yun Piaopiao’s beauty – after all, a young man adoring a beauty is natural – he replied through the spell unnoticed, “I think Yun Piaopiao should be over forty this year.”

“Over forty!?” Tang Luo’s eyebrows knitted together. He watched Tang Cunfu and Yun Piaopiao walk towards the main seats, a myriad of thoughts rushing through his mind.

According to the current standards of a genius, even if Yun Piaopiao had built her Foundation at eight years old, she should have almost reached the Transcendent Realm at fourteen years old.

To reach Transcendent Realm at fourteen, one should have achieved the standard of accumulating 30,000 points of spiritual power in Fierce Realm at forty-four. Yet the spiritual power he saw was 50,000 points. So how strong is this person’s aptitude, could it be 2.0?

More importantly, for such a female genius who was devoted to martial arts, playing melodies every day, Tang Luo found it hard to believe.

Moreover, from the moment she walked out of the side door until she took her seat, the woman’s swaying figure and her soft and boneless look warned that she was frail and weak, with a weaker spirit than an average woman.

Who would know that this woman was a Fierce Realm expert? Only a few elders and his master could suppress her.

True love is invincible indeed, but if you tell Tang Luo that Tang Cunfu tamed a female genius, he would not believe it. But looking at the way he was carefully assisting her, if he didn’t know any better, he would think that he had depleted the woman last night!

The triumphant Tang Cunfu, completely unaware of the astonishing identity of the delicate woman he was supporting, raised his wine cup and said to everyone, “Thank you all for gracing my Inauguration star ceremony with your presence. Honestly speaking, even till now, I can hardly believe my good fortune.”

Tang Cunfu looked at the wife beside him who was also raising her glass, put his arm around her then spoke in a tone that all men would understand, “I can hardly believe that the first beauty of Xiling would actually take a liking to me. This is a fortune that can’t be obtained even through generations of cultivation!”

As it was the Inauguration Star ceremony, there were none of the procedures of a marriage ceremony. Tang Cunfu acted as the ceremonial officer besides being the groom. Watching the lovey-dovey couple, the guests broke into applause again.

Taking advantage of the noise from the guests, Tang Luo quietly sent a message to his master Tang Hongtao via sound transfer, “Master, there might be something wrong with Yun Piaopiao’s origins. Could you talk to me about her life?”

Knowing well that his disciple never made careless remarks, Tang Hongtao was startled, he replied, “What’s the issue?”

“Yun Piaopiao’s cultivation level is very high, no less remarkable than an ordinary Martial Ancestor. But when everyone talks about her, they discuss her musical skills, and she seems to have no cultivation base at all, which is very suspicious.” Tang Luo relayed his judgement to his master, “I think either she is not from the Yun Family, if she is, then her plots are probably not small. After all, Cunfu, as the representative, is currently the chief administrator of all the construction works in the North Mountain. Do you find it strange that at this time, the first beauty of Xiling suddenly took a liking to him?”

The timing was just too perfect. From what the guests were saying, Yun Piaopiao was originally the daughter of the Yun clan in Chaochang and later married into the Huang Family in Xiling. However, the Huang family’s head died less than two years after marrying Yun Piaopiao. Once the backbone of the house was gone, the Huang Family was in a precarious situation. It was Yun Piaopiao who stepped forward to handle all properties, convert and process the Huang family’s business, turning it into an entertainment industry family.

Training musicians and dancers as their main business, they were free from worldly troubles and they could communicate with all the noble families in Xiling. Moreover, her melody of “Cheng Xin” further crowned Yun Piaopiao as the number one beauty and unmatched musician in Xiling.

However, after the Yun Family was destroyed, Yun Piaopiao was heartbroken, retired and sealed her instruments. The Huang Family gradually declined.