Chi Yun felt that ever since he boarded the Han family's ship, nothing had gone smoothly for him.

Encountering the Meng family was merely a minor incident on his journey. What truly infuriated him was that he gained nothing from the rumored Poison Fog Forest.

Not only did I not get it, but I also got really angry.

He felt that he had been tricked by the Han family.

The two groups of people, one on the left and one on the right, slowly ascended the curved staircase.

Since arriving in this place, these cultivators have experienced hardships they have never felt in the past hundred years.

Unable to use spiritual power, they had to rely on their own two legs for everything.

Even when there are conflicts, you can't resort to violence; you either endure it or engage in verbal sparring.

Frustrated.

This was truly the worst experience I've ever had on a secret realm trip.

As everyone slowly ascended, the light at the very top grew ever brighter.

There should be a large gate above the dome, but they don't know where it leads.

Perhaps, that's where the Han family is headed this time.

"There are people in higher positions."

Shangguan Liuyue, who was walking at the front, stopped. There were only a few more steps to go before reaching the platform.

Meng Wanwan quickly ran forward two steps and saw a person standing at the door with his back to the light. He was holding a bloodstained sword in his hand, the tip of which was touching the ground beside him, and blood was flowing down the blade.

Many people, all members of the Han family, were lying haphazardly at his feet.

Even with his back to them, Meng Wanwan could still recognize the person standing in the light.

Thin, desolate, aloof... and confused.

"Brother Lanqiao..." Meng Wanwan called softly.

The figure did not move.

Meng Wanwan was picked up by Meng Xiuyi and stepped forward, but was stopped by Helian Xiao.

"Uncle Meng...this person has a very strong murderous aura. Do you know him?"

If he wasn't mistaken, this person should be the one who had been targeting the Han family. Helian Xiao had thought it was just an excuse the Han family made up to lure them here.

Surprisingly, this person really exists.

Moreover, the person who killed Bai Meng back then should also be this person.

Meng Xiuyi pushed his hand away and walked straight ahead.

He knew very well that once he took that step, many things would become unclear.

If this person really is Lan Qiao...

But he had to take this step.

Although they spent very little time together, Meng Xiuyi believed he understood the child.

As long as his mind is not in accordance with the law, he will still be his child.

He cherished Meng Wanwan and walked away calmly and fearlessly.

Meng Wanwan rested on Meng Xiuyi's shoulder, quietly watching the motionless figure.

"Father, do you think it's him?"

Meng Xiuyi was unable to answer this question at the moment.

But in her heart, Niannian gave her the answer.

“Master, he is Lanqiao.”

A bad feeling kept growing in Meng Wanwan's heart, and she looked at Meng Xiuyi with some helplessness.

Meng Xiuyi gently patted his back with her large hand, seemingly offering silent comfort.

The Shangguan family members and the Mirage people who had caught up drew their swords and pointed them at the figure.

"Who are you? Why are you trying to assassinate the Han family?" Chi Yun shouted.

However, they dared not take a step forward. This place could suppress spiritual energy, but it could not suppress malevolent energy.

The bloodstains buried in the mountains outside can be transformed into malevolent energy that the person in front of them can exploit.

Shangguan Linglong looked around: "Where are the rest of the Han family? Han Chao and Miss Han aren't here. Where are the Helian family members?"

Helian Xiao knew that the Helian family was unharmed. He had already found the mark left by Captain Helian nearby, but he didn't know where it had gone.

The Shangguan family members and the Mirage people separated, aiming their weapons at the figure standing motionless in the center, and surrounded him.

Meng Xiuyi carried Meng Wanwan and kept walking forward until they reached him.

He wore a dark cloak, just as they had when they first met; his clothes were pieced together to cover various parts of his body.

The huge hat completely covered his face. When Meng Xiuyi and Meng Wanwan stood in front of him, he lowered his head and shook it back and forth, seemingly at a loss, as if trying to avoid them.

Helian Xiao frowned, seemingly lost in thought.

Shangguan Liuyue walked over step by step and stood beside Meng Xiuyi, quietly watching the young man.

"Obsession..."

Meng Wanwan turned to look at him: "Uncle, what did you say?"

Instead of repeating his own words, Shangguan Liuyue asked Meng Wanwan, "Little girl, do you know him?"

Upon hearing this, the wary people surrounding them immediately erupted in uproar.

"Does this rogue cultivator know this demon?"

"No wonder, no wonder they insisted on following us in. They must be accomplices of this demon race, right?"

"They came here to find him, didn't they? Sure enough, we should have killed them long ago."

"These members of the Han family, he killed them all, right? Based on that alone, we can execute him on the spot, regardless of whether he is a demon or not!"

People were in an uproar, voicing their grievances. It seemed that the pent-up frustration of many days had finally found an outlet, as they speculated on what they believed to be the truth.

Chi Yun couldn't resist a sneer: "Young Master Helian won't protect these two rogue cultivators this time, will he? You can know a person's face but not their heart... How does Young Master Helian know that they followed us in not because of this murderer?"

Helian Xiao turned around and snapped at him, "What's it to you?!"

Chi Yun scoffed, looking at him as if he were a clown.

Shangguan Jinghong looked at them in disbelief, but she couldn't utter a word.

He had seen that child.

That beautiful child, who seemed almost unreal.

Could this child be him?

Psychologically, he really didn't want to believe it.

Shangguan Linglong noticed the change in his expression and asked in a low voice, "Do you know him?"

Shangguan Jinghong hurriedly shook her head: "I don't know him, I don't know him."

lie!

Shangguan Linglong sneered, but did not expose her.

Now she just wants to know what the Han family is up to.

Everyone watched the motionless figure warily.

If anything goes wrong, I will kill him, even if it costs me my last bit of spiritual power.

They watched as Meng Xiuyi, holding Meng Wanwan, moved closer and closer to that figure.

Then they saw the little girl reach out her hand to the figure.

"Brother Lanqiao, hug me."

He suddenly stopped shaking his head to avoid being seen, and a bony hand emerged from under his black robe, gently removing the hood from his head.

Chi Yun gave a signal, instructing the people surrounding the three to move to the other side, thus forming a circle that encircled the Meng family trio.

Then many people saw the man's face.

They all gasped in shock.

Even though he looked thin, as if a gust of wind could blow him over.

His face was as pale as paper, his hair dry and messy, yet it could not conceal his stunningly beautiful features.

His eyes, though seemingly filled with autumn water, held an icy and indifferent depth. His flawless face displayed a strange mix of helplessness and bewilderment.

He stared blankly at the small hands reaching out to him.

Her little hands have grown a bit, and so has she.

Her hair had grown longer, unlike when he left when it was just pigtails.

Now, her long braids are black and shiny.

She's become even cuter.

The sword in Lanqiao's hand suddenly fell to the ground.

He pulled this sword from the body of a ferocious beast. He didn't know how many people or beasts he had killed to grind the beast's bone into a sword.

He has never parted with this sword since it was completed.

Only now did he realize that the bone sword was covered in blood and extremely dirty.

Her small hands were as white and flawless as jade, and should not be defiled.

"Dirty." The voice was low and hoarse, muffled, and somewhat helpless.

Meng Xiuyi took a step forward, wrapped her little hands around his neck, and said happily, "Brother Lanqiao! Don't leave me again, okay?"

The fluffy head turned back and forth beside his ear. Lan Qiao was stunned. Something gradually melted in his icy eyes. Something returned.

"I...I killed someone."

Lanqiao said.

He lowered his eyes and held Meng Wanwan in his arms, just as he had done long ago.

Meng Wanwan smiled: "That must be someone that Brother Lanqiao must kill."

She believed in Lanqiao, and she also believed in Niannian.

From the day Lan Qiao appeared, Niannian never said that Lan Qiao had any evil intentions. And that remains true now, so even though he killed someone.

The one who is wrong is definitely not Lanqiao.

Lan Qiao couldn't hide his joy as he looked at Meng Xiuyi.

Meng Xiuyi smiled at him: "It's alright, I'm here. Silly child, don't leave by yourself this time."

Lan Qiao nodded slightly and shyly rested her head on Meng Wanwan's shoulder.

The others never expected that they had come to kill the demon.

I never expected to witness a family reunion drama.

Chi Yun was furious: "They are really arrogant! They have killed so many cultivators from righteous families, and they don't even have the slightest remorse."

"Young Master Helian, are you going to protect these people again this time? If so, don't blame me, Mirage Tower, for being irreconcilably opposed to Little Mountain Netherworld!"

Helian Xiao was already annoyed when he was suddenly called out again, and he immediately exploded: "So what if we're irreconcilable enemies? Do you think I, Xiaoshan You, am afraid of you? You old man, you're not very capable, so why are you so talkative? What are you doing with your free time?"

"Instead of wasting your time, you should go find out where those three from the Han family are. Stop spouting nonsense here. You see him standing here, holding a sword with blood on it and corpses at his feet? Does that mean he killed them?"

Chi Yun: "What...what did you say?"

Chi Yun felt that his worldview had been shattered.

Not only him, but even Shangguan Linglong almost choked on her own breath.

Chi Yun laughed in anger: "Young Master Helian, come and tell me, if he didn't kill him, then who did?"

"Could it be that they framed this person for their suicide?"

"Was it someone from the Han family who killed him? Are they trying to frame this person by using the lives of their own people?"

"Are you out of your mind?"

Helian Xiao immediately took off his shoes and threw them over: "You're the one who's out of your mind! I don't believe there's no recording stone. What? Even I, Xiaoshan You, am not sure about something, and you try to confirm it for me!"

Chi Yun flung his shoe away, trembling with rage: "Ignorant brat! Ignorant brat! The evidence is irrefutable, do you, Xiao Shanyou, intend to join forces with the demons?"

Helian Xiao took off his other shoe: "You son of a bitch, I've had my eye on you for a long time, next time I'll put the household registration notice on your forehead..."

Those present were probably seeing such a cultivator for the first time, especially the renowned Young Master of Xiaoshan You.

They were all so shocked they couldn't speak.

This sounds like something a scoundrel would do.

Meng Wanwan and Lan Qiao both looked at Helian Xiao with curiosity.

Can cultivators really attack with their shoes off?

Chi Yun roared in fury: "Ah!!! I can't take this anymore! How dare you insult me ​​with our clan's taboo! I'll kill you first!"

Helian Xiao slammed his greatsword into the ground: "Come on! Let's fight for two hundred rounds first, I have plenty of spirit stones!"

Everyone...

Shangguan Liuyue explained: "The people in the mirage are basically from the Sand Sea Clan. The Sand Sea Clan seems to be descendants of a legendary god, or maybe they just claim to be. They believe that it is a great disrespect for someone to take off their shoes in front of them."

"Hey, what are you three standing there for? He's buying you time so you can run away!"

Shangguan Liuyue said earnestly, "I didn't expect this kid to be so loyal."

He closed his fan and sighed, "It's so good to be young!"

Meng Wanwan looked at him with a surprised expression.

What did you remember this time?

Shangguan Liuyue tapped her head with her fan: "What are you looking at? Can't you see they've already attacked? You didn't run away just now, but you can't run away now. Let's fight."

Meng Wanwan turned around and saw that Meng Xiuyi had also raised her sword and was facing Chi Yun.

Shangguan Linglong also drew her sword and attacked.

Shangguan Liuyue said, "I'll take care of the Shangguan family members, and you can take care of the rest of Mirage. Hmm... there are only about thirty people. You should be able to handle them, right?"

After saying that, Shangguan Liuyue took a step forward.

A green light array appeared beneath his feet, directly encircling the Shangguan family members, while the Mirage members mixed in were ejected.

A shrill scream suddenly rang out in the air.

With a smile playing on his lips, Shangguan Liuyue flicked open his fan and waved it with an air of elegance, looking every bit the dashing young master of a powerful family.

As soon as the Shangguan family members raised their swords, they found themselves in a space where heaven and earth were indistinguishable. In this space, beneath their feet was a slowly rotating emerald green light array, and they were standing on that light array.

They couldn't see what was happening outside at all; even if they reached out, it was as if they were touching an invisible wall, unable to move an inch.

A helpless sigh rang in their ears.

"After all these years, the Shangguan family... remains the same. How many more years will you bear the name of unworthy descendants?"

The Shangguan family was shocked, and Shangguan Linglong's eyes were filled with surprise and joy: "Ancestor? Is it you, Ancestor?"

This answers one of her questions.

"Huh? What did I just say?"

Outside, Meng Xiuyi greeted Chi Yun alone.

Meng Wanwan and Lan Qiao were facing more than thirty cultivators, the lowest of whom were at the Foundation Establishment stage.

The man from the mirage who had a grudge against Meng Wanwan laughed loudly: "You brat, you're still going to fall into our hands after all. Hehe, let's see how the two of you deal with more than thirty of us."

Meng Wanwan smiled: "Still so confident!"

"It's indeed a bit difficult for two people to deal with you, but who said there are only two of us?"