"Why do they trust us so much? Just because of Sister Yiniang... doesn't seem likely, right?" Chu Mo was a bit puzzled, after all, so many years had passed. Most of this group should have settled down by now.

"They have not been doing as well as you might imagine." Chu Yan sighed lightly: "In the past ten-plus years, these people have been constantly hiding and fleeing. Compared to Sister Yiniang, they were even worse off. If it weren't for you causing such a commotion in Yanhuang City, they might still be living in constant dread."

Upon hearing this, Chu Mo couldn't help but lament in his heart: How glorious was the Piaomiao Palace back in the day? There was more than one ancestor who had cultivated to the peak of the innate realm and ascended. In the end, none of their disciples were able to maintain the facade of the sect, which was a great tragedy and irony.

"After my investigations, I found that the higher-ups of the Piaomiao Palace made a deadly mistake." Chu Yan sighed lightly: "Perhaps it's not so much a mistake. The capacity of the storage rings of the Piaomiao Palace was limited. Furthermore, those twelve storage rings were all that the Piaomiao Palace had. Aside from the legacy books, they couldn't store anything else. Therefore, these disciples had hardly any primordial stones on them."

"A group of young girls trying to cultivate under the watch of a sea of enemies after leaving the shelter of their sect... it's not easy for them." Chu Mo sighed.

No matter what, it was truly good news for Chu Mo.

That night, Chu Mo secretly met with the ten disciples of the Piaomiao Palace who retained its legacy. To his surprise, these ten female disciples of the Piaomiao Palace knelt and paid homage to him, calling him the Palace Master, as soon as they saw him.

Then…

They directly handed over their ten storage rings to Chu Mo.

"What... what are you doing?" Chu Mo looked at the group in surprise: "When did I become your Palace Master? And... Aren't you afraid that I'll sell you out? Don't you know the value of these legacies?"

A tall and extremely beautiful woman, the oldest among these twelve disciples, was their eldest sister named Xiao Yiyue.

Xiao Yiyue, along with everyone else, knelt on one knee and said to Chu Mo, "The Piaomiao Palace of the past is gone. Before we left the Palace, the Palace Master had said that if one day someone appears who can change your fate and rebuild the Piaomiao Palace, then serve him as your master."

"You think... I can change your fate? Can I rebuild Piaomiao Palace?" Chu Mo looked at Xiao Yiyue somewhat unconfidently.

Xiao Yiyue nodded: "Yes, Palace Master, you have done it!"

Next to Xiao Yiyue, a slightly dark-skinned but equally beautiful woman named Guo Yixiao, the second sister among the twelve disciples, took over, "The Palace Master was able to protect Sister Yiniang, establish the Piaomiao Palace Royal Academy, and survive the pursuit of thousands of sect powerhouses in the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird continents. Actually... you've already done it!"

"But..... but your Piaomiao Palace..." Chu Mo's mouth twitched.

Xiao Yiyue giggled: "You mean the Piaomiao Palace is all women, right?"

Chu Mo nodded.

Putting aside whether these Piaomiao Palace disciples' choice was right or a bit rash, the Piaomiao Palace had always been a sect ruled by a woman. Although there had been male disciples before, Chu Mo was told by Yiniang that all past Palace Masters of the Piaomiao Palace were women!

Xiao Yiyue sighed lightly, "If... the Palace Master back then was a man, a decisive man, the Piaomiao Palace would not have suffered such a catastrophe. There were many opportunities to strangle all the dangers in the cradle, but she... because of her soft heart, gave up."

Guo Yixiao added, "When the Palace Master sent us away, she said something. She regretted... if she were a resolute and decisive man, how would the Piaomiao Palace have fallen to its present state?"

"..." Chu Mo was at a loss for words, he couldn't say that their understanding was wrong. Men and women do handle problems differently at times.

Thinking about it, Chu Mo looked up at these ten extraordinarily beautiful women and said with a bitter smile, "Aren't you afraid that I'll lead you astray? That I can't live up to... your expectations, to give you the future you want?"

A seemingly only a few years older than Chu Mo, a girl with a sweet smile said softly, "Palace Master, my name is Zhao Xiaoxiao..."

"Your name is a little different from theirs." Chu Mo smiled.

"Back then, before I had time to name myself according to the order of seniority, I was kicked out! At that time, I was only seven years old..." Zhao Xiaoxiao pouted slightly and said pitifully, "When I left the sect, carrying that ring, I was directly transported to a strange place. It took me three days to see a small town. I was adopted by an old couple without children there..."

As Zhao Xiaoxiao told her story, Chu Mo understood why the women trusted him so much and why they were so willing to hand over their invaluable legacies.

Indeed... in these past years, the hardships and scares they had endured... were too many and too deep!

Zhao Xiaoxiao was given so much attention as soon as she entered the sect mainly because her talents were just too good!

If Fan Lizhi, who Chu Mo saw last year in Longevity Heaven, was an unmatched genius of Longevity Heaven, who broke through the Primordial Pass before he was eight; then, Zhao Xiaoxiao, was a rare genius that the Piaomiao Palace could produce in hundreds of years.

She entered the Piaomiao Palace at the age of six and left at the age of seven. She broke through to the Primordial Pass realm in just one year!

If the Piaomiao Palace hadn't suffered the disaster back then, Zhao Xiaoxiao would have become the head disciple of the Piaomiao Palace in no time!

She was once hailed as the Star of Hope for the future of Piaomiao Palace.

Unfortunately, this Star of Hope turned into a shooting star with the collapse of Piaomiao Palace!

Now, more than ten years have passed, Zhao Xiaoxiao, who broke through the Primordial Pass at the age of seven, just made it to the Iron Bone Realm last year.

Her experiences were truly heartbreaking.

The old couple had only given Zhao Xiaoxiao a few years of stability before they both passed away. After burying the de facto grandparents, Zhao Xiaoxiao started her drifting life.

Over the past ten years, she has been to many places and never stayed long in any of them.

The power of the Vermilion Bird Association was simply too strong, it was almost omnipresent.

If she had a large force backing her up, today's Zhao Xiaoxiao would at least be an expert in the Iron Blood Realm, and even be at the peak of the Iron Blood Realm!

After all, Zhao Xiaoxiao was also only seventeen or eighteen years old!

Such a girl, put in any place on the Four Symbols Continent, was considered a peerless genius.

As Zhao Xiaoxiao spoke softly, her face still wore a sweet smile, but tears couldn't help falling. She looked at Chu Mo, her voice soft and gentle: "Palace Master, we have been waiting for this day… for too long!"

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