The Urban Dao Child

Yue Jiren gazed at the young boy standing in front of him with narrowed eyes. He looked like a snake staring at prey. However, the young boy stood in front of him as if looking at a rabbit. In normal times, the man would have tried to intimidate him more with his aura or something but Elder Jing behind him was gazing at him like a hawk.

Yang Dao said, "Where is my cousin?"

Yue Jiren said, "He is in the training field of the Olympus family, learning things from the people here. You should try to learn how to lay low as well."

The boy smiled and said, "I am not one of those who learn from the others, given my track record, others learn from me. Also, Uncle, I know that you speak out of good intention, but do not find me to be arrogant, it is my skills and talent that does not allow me to lay low."

His words were like a needle prickling to Yue Jiren. He wanted to say something to Yang Dao when the boy cut him off, "I will now go and visit other people. Goodbye Uncle, have a good stay."

Then he bowed slightly and left the room with Elder Jing. Yue Jiren only sat at his spot with his jaws clenched. He had no chance to refute the boy as the former just walked out of the room. Elder Jing did not spend another moment inside and followed Yang Dao hot on his heels.

The two came out of the room and the boy asked the maid standing outside, "Excuse me could you please lead us to the guest room of the other people from Yue Overlord?"

The maid was a middle-aged lady and she bowed to him slightly and made a gesture. Yang Dao said, "Auntie, I would have not minded walking forward but I do not know the way around, you can lead me."

His polite tone and mannerism made the lady experience surprise which quickly become adoration as the boy gave her a smile. She nodded and led the boy through the corridors and Edler Jing said, "I did not know that you could utilize your charm like this, Dao."

She lowered her voice so that only the two of them could hear it. The lady in front had a cultivation level as high as the service disciples inside the sect.

Yang Dao smiled and said, "My cousin used to have the males revolve around herself. I used to observe how she would do that. It becomes something I do subconsciously now to get them to do something along the lines of my preferences."

Elder Jing shook her head and said, "I was aware that you were not a normal child and here you prove my hunch correct. Just do not betray my disciple."

Yang Dao said, "I am not a cheater."

The two people bickered with each other, it was not as if they were a pair of a disciple and a sent elder but a pair of friends. Soon the two people arrived in front of a door. The middle-aged maid bowed her head and said, "Young Master, this is where they are staying."

Yang Dao said, "Thank you for your help aunty."

Then he knocked on the door and said, "Granny Yun..."

His words had not yet completed when the door flung open and he was scooped up in a tight embrace. Yang Dao did not resist and he was aware of this touch and scent. He hooked his hands around the neck of the person hugging him and said gently, "I missed you too granny Yun."

The person who hugged him was none other than Yue Yun, she said, "I have missed you a lot, my child."

The boy snuggled close to her, they have not seen each other for months and were away from each other for the first time in his life so a warm reunion was called for. After a few minutes, the boy said, "I am going to be squeezed out of the air from my body, Granny Yun."

Yue Yun chuckled as she let him down. Yang Dao said, "The lady behind me is Supreme Alchemist of the Sovereign Sect, Jing Shui.

Elder Jing Shui this is my grandmother, Yue Yun. That lady behind her is the stewardess of the Yue Family's matriarch, Sister Jill."

Then he walked around Yue Yun and came to greet Jill, who stood inside the room with a smile. The lady bowed and said, "Long time no see, Young master."

Yang Dao smiled and said, "Long time indeed, Sister Jill."

Elder Jing Shui nodded and greeted everyone and said, "Dao, you just enticed Yue Jiren, do you think it is a wise move?"

The boy did not answer her but looked at the game of chess set on the table. He said, "You worry too much elder. He came here without telling the elders of the family. He will not cause too much of a mess here as to not incur too much attention to the Yue family."

Elder Jing asked, "How are you so sure?"

The boy said, "It is simple, he is so strong yet he competes for the seat of the patriarch from the shadows and this whole thing is a public secret. He makes moves from the shadows. What does that mean?"

He paused and moved a piece on the chess board, then he continue, "It means the man is trying to avoid attention. He likes to lay low and slither his way around his obstacles to swallow his target. Another thing is that this is not Yue Overlord. He cannot act too pompous and entitled to power here."

Yue Yun smiled as she sat across him to play the other side of the chess. Elder Jing Shui sat on the side acting as a spectator and the other three ladies were standing around the table. The elder asked again, "What was your intention of enticing him?"

The two people began to move pieces at a fast speed as Yang Dao said, "We came here to show my strength to get Athena betrothed to me, that is pretty much set in stone... You know elder, a game of chess is never as simple as it may seem to you. For example, while Granny Yun is smartly lining up her pieces to capture my queen, I have blocked all her paths, and this turn."

He moved his knight and said, "Checkmate, Granny. Though you have improved."

Yue Yun smiled at his cheeky comment and said, "You clever rabbit."

Yang Dao smiled wide at this. He turned to Elder Jing and said, "I will be posing to the Olympus household, while Big Sister Jing will be stepping in and gaining recognition among the outside forces as a genius that she is to get herself a firm foothold in the race to the throne of Yue Overlord."

Elder Jing Shui opened her eyes wide and said, "Are you sure that you are a child?"

Yang Dao flicked his hair and said, "I am a millennium genius, mind you, elder."

The room echoed with laughter and the time flew away.

...

Yang Dao was dressed in an azure blue hanfu robe. He looked very dashing for his age. He wanted to tie his sword to his waist but Yue Yun said, "This is a formal dinner, Dao, no weapons allowed."

The boy could only sigh and gave up. Then the group gathered in front of their room and they were led to the banquet hall of the Olympus family. Yue Yun was dressed in a royal blue hanfu and she walked behind Yang Dao. The boy asked, "Why do we have to walk in this fashion?"

He did not wait for anyone to respond and directly took Yue Yun's hand. He did this just a moment before they entered the banquet hall. Their arrival gathered a lot of gazes. Even Yue Jiren was sitting among the crowd.

Decorations of the banquet hall were all lavish. A big table in the back of the room, set up in front of floor to ceiling windows, with painted glass forming the sigil of the Olympus family. The sign of the Omega.

On this table sat Troy, Shalina, a young man Yang Dao did not know, and a few people with white hair and long beards. In front of the big table, a lot of small tables were placed. Yang Dao saw that one of the tables was left empty at the back of the hall. He raised his head to meet the gaze of the people looking at him.

He asked in a calm manner, "Is this how the guests are treated at Olympus family? A table at the back of the banquet hall?"

Troy had yet to speak when an old person said, "You do not qualify to teach the Olympus family about how they should treat their guests. The family has a rule only with enough strength are you allowed to sit in the front."

Yang Dao chuckled and said, "With all due respect elder, are the rules the same for everyone?"

"Indeed." replied the old man.

The people did not notice something fishy until the boy said, "Hypocrites."

Elder Jing, Athena, and everyone was surprised at this, they did not expect this young boy to say something like this while he stood on the grounds of the Olympus family. The crowd erupted in uproar they all called out loudly.

"Blasphemy..."

"Astrosuious..."

The calls in the room made the guests wary, while Yue Jiren was sitting at his table with Yue Ming and acted like this all did not affect him.

Suddenly, Yang Dao took a step forward and said, "SHUT UP."

His voice was calm, but it drowned every other shout in the room.