「Phew...」

The boy took a deep breath.

He reached out to knock on the door, but stopped just before his fist hit it.

 「Why me...?」 Discontent and helplessness swirled in the boy’s heart. The boy’s name was Zhenyu. He had been her disciple for less than three months since he first joined the Edge of Taixuanpai faction, but she sent him to his room on top of Heavensky Peak so that they could get a good scolding from their family head （Pushing the role of being scolded by a family head onto me? Both my older sister and apprentice are terrible...） The boy imagined the headman’s angry appearance, feeling uneasy and restless.

The head of the Taixuan Faction—『Willowfoil』, also known as Lin Zhaoyu.

She’d turned fifty-six this year, and she was past the age of knowing Celestial

The elite Celestial ascended to the heavens engulfing in golden light, and Mount Taixuan was consumed by flame.

After that, she and her six brother apprentices—who had been the first disciples of a Celestial — remained here at Tensomine

He rebuilt the Taixuan school.

After a little over ten years, the Taixuan Faction came back to life splendidly

He was one of the six great schools in Shinshu martial arts.

Because of that, Lin Zhaoyu's fame was also very high and her husband 『Tsukkomaken』.

Together with Ma Feima, they had become a married couple of martial artists that everyone in the world envied

As the master of his family, Lin Zhaoyu was by no means an eccentric person.

Quite the opposite, she was kind and gentle to everyone

We treat each other equally.

Except for a few exceptions.[\s]

Whenever I interacted with those exceptions, Lin Zhaoyu was always there

She went mad with rage, as if someone had changed.

 When the boy first came to Tianqiu Peak, his caring older brothers told him all about it.

「You just got here, Zhenyu. I'll teach you the rules of this place!

In front of the family head, I absolutely mustn't mention a certain topic and their names.」

「By a certain topic, she meant the vice-head.

No matter what you ask, don't tell the head of a family about your vice-head being out there. There is no need for me to interfere with these two」

 「That'll be fine.」

Zhenyu nodded hastily. An outsider shouldn't be interfering with the problem of a married couple

He is not the talkative type. Therefore, he will never make such a mistake

 「I found out about a certain topic. And what's their names?」 「One of them is our master’s teacher—in other words, Master Phoenix...」 The siblings suddenly lowered their voices and looked around. 「You may not have heard this name before, since you're all so young. But once upon a time the Great Teacher was very famous—a god who hasn’t aged even for one thousand years after he went down to Gekai」 「Phoenix returned to the Celestial world twenty years ago. But don't provoke him by saying that out loud, okay? He never took you away when Master Daishi ascended into heaven... so I have been worried about it for some time now!」 「Yeah, yeah.」 Phoenix’s name faded over time, but the boy had heard a lot of stories about her. In fact it was precisely because 『The only true Celestial』 existed that he traveled all this way to Tensomine and became an apprentice in Taixuan Faction 「The other name is 『Musou』, also known as Su Mei. She's a younger sister apprentice of the family head but their relationship has water and oil...」 「Don't say this name out loud, or even hear it in your ears. If you run into anyone from the Musoumon Gate and find them hiding somewhere far away... You can never have anything to do with 'em!」 「Huh?」

Musoumon—it was almost twenty years ago, with the new Taixuan Faction

It was founded around the same time, but on a completely different scale.

Right now, the Taixuan Faction is one of those six great factions

Musoumon is still a small sect.

However, no one dared lay a hand on the disciples of Musoumon.

The reason for that was the head of family, 『Saishoku Kanebi』’s Su Mei.

A woman with peerless beauty and superior intelligence.

Su Mei was Phoenix’s second disciple, but in the martial arts world

He was considered to be the most fearsome of The Seven Great Void Swords, and he revered him with awe

It was called 『Onna Zhuge』 or『Musousennin』.

 「...Is it really that scary?」 The brothers looked at each other and nodded in unison. 「It's terrifying.」 「......」 As he stood there in a daze, the headman’s voice came from inside his room. 「What are you spacing out for outside, Zhenyu?」 「Ah... Yes! My apprentice, Zhenyu. I'm coming in」 The boy was nervous, but at the same time excited. 「Master... How do you know me?」 「Why? I'm not old enough to even remember the names of my disciples.」

The head of the family answered.

There was a hint of self-derision in her voice rather than condemnation.

 「217 members of the gate faction remember everyone.[\s]His internal breathing is ragged, and his steps are unsteady. He clearly hasn't built up the basics yet—the only one who can do that would be someone like you just introduced to this school」 「...Ah, y-yes. I'll keep training from now on!」 Zhenyu instantly broke out in a cold sweat.[\s]It had only been three months since he became a pupil, and 『Tai Yijing』 was still learning how to become an introductory student at『Edge of Taixuan』. That's why just climbing the Irimo Floor made him out of breath My master’s words were indifferent, but Zhenyu sounded like she had pointed out my lack of training and I suddenly felt embarrassed. 「Climbing up to the top of this cloud floor is pretty impressive. Don't scare her like that, okay?」 Zhenyu felt a little strange. That voice didn't sound like it belonged to the head of our family just now The door suddenly opened. Inside stood a woman more beautiful than the boy had ever seen before, smiling faintly 「......」 The head of the family behind her, Lin Zhaoyu—had a dark look on his face. 「Su Mei... Since you're a Musoumon, how long has it been since I started appraising my disciples?」 「Oh, did I say something unnecessary?」 The stunningly beautiful woman turned toward Zhenyu and blinked. At that point, Lin Zhaoyu finally turned to look at the boy. 「What do you want, Zhenyu? Tell me.」 「Ah...」 The boy couldn't help but hesitate. He had come to apologize for his master in place of a disciple and older sister

It's early morning. 『Musousennin』, also known as Su Mei suddenly came to Tensomine...

He’d said he needed to tell the headman what his vice-head had told him.

The older disciples and elder brothers were afraid of incurring their master’s wrath

No one tried to climb the mountain with Su Mei.

While we were doing that, the head of Musoumon Gate was gone...

...No one would have thought he was already in the cloud of dust.

 Not knowing what to do, the boy decided he should just tell her as it was. 「Yes, Master. The head of the Musou Gate Resurrection would like to meet with you again! My second disciple Nee-san and Brother Xuanli can't decide on their own so I was told that they should go up a mountain for my report...」 「Hehe.」 Su Mei, who was off to the side of it all, laughed out loud without thinking. The head of the family made a clearly unamused face as he spoke coldly. 「Why would you report something like that when she's right here? Go back.」 「Yes... Excuse me.」 Zhenyu hung its head and bowed. 「And then...」 The head of the family sighed and spoke in a gentle voice 「You don't have to come here on errands anymore. Genri will teach you the secrets of Taixuan, and make sure that your foundation is solid enough for both tai-chiehyun (Taixuanitsuyuu Tingling), as well! That way climbing up a mountain should not be too tiring after all...」 「Understood.」 The head of the family was thinking about him—Zhenyu moved from his heart, but he didn’t know what to say. He just bowed and said: 「Thank you very much.」 「Go.」