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Chapter 32 Mentor for A Day, Father for Life
The Imperial Palace.
Under an unfrequented quillaja, a slender dark shadow lingered. He looked up at the trunk, with his hands folded behind his back.
After the morning ritual, Leng Qingtang did not return to the Eastern Depot right away. Instead, he stayed here, waiting for someone to arrive.
Not after long, a young man wearing a crimson taoist tunic and a tall purple hat walked slowly from the corner of the palace wall, looking spiritual and extraordinary.
When he stopped before the quillaja, he saluted Leng Qingtang,
"I'm the Taoist priest Yu Xuanji. Good morning, My Master." His clear voice was elegant and cadenced as if one jade had been dropped on another.
Leng Qingtang looked back in response and pursed his thin lips into a smile,
"You are too kind, High Priest."
Good-looking and well-mannered, Yu Xuanji originated from the Imperial Taoist temple, the Pengxian Temple
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