Helian Xiao crossed his arms and squinted at her.
"Little girl, I feel you have ill intentions."
Meng Wanwan covered her chest and puffed out her cheeks.
Helian Xiao: "Fine, fine, I give up, okay? Let's go?"
Meng Wanwan lay down on the ground again: "Ouch, my injury is worse now, your medicine is poisonous..."
He took a deep breath and picked Meng Wanwan up: "Tell me, where is your father?"
Meng Wanwan chuckled, "Thank you, Uncle."
Then she skillfully sat on his shoulders.
Helian Xiao was speechless, but he didn't pull the person down.
"Turn left, then go straight."
Helian Xiao could only carry the sword on one shoulder and Meng Wanwan on the other, following the direction she pointed.
The pitch-black night did not become lively because of the fight just now. As I walked along, there was still the sound of insects chirping and all was quiet.
Only the little girl's clear voice echoed.
"Uncle, who are those people chasing and beating you up?"
Helian Xiao finally waived the use of the word "uncle" and casually said, "The Bai family, oh, their surname used to be Baili. They did something wrong a few hundred years ago and were almost wiped out, so they changed their surname to Bai."
Meng Wanwan said "Oh," and then asked, "Is the uncle going to wipe out their entire family?"
Helian Xiao tapped Meng Wanwan with the blade of his sword: "Little kid, don't ask so many questions. You asked me to take you home, not just to find out about me, right?"
Meng Wanwan said with a grin, "How could that be? I'm just curious about the Bai family. What mistake did they make that has led to your family chasing you like this?"
Helian Xiao chuckled, but said nothing.
He couldn't tell this little girl that he didn't know either; that would be incredibly embarrassing.
Meng Wanwan asked Helian Xiao to take her home because she wanted to find out about the Baili family, but it was clear that Helian Xiao didn't want to talk about it.
So Meng Wanwan didn't press the matter any further and asked Niannian, "Are we almost there?"
Niannian: "It's just ahead, but Master..."
Niannian's voice sounded somewhat puzzled.
Meng Wanwan: "What's wrong?"
At this moment, Helian Xiao seemed to realize that something was wrong.
He took a few steps forward and saw a woman in white lying on the ground, clearly lifeless.
Meng Wanwan jumped off Helian Xiao and ran to the woman in white, where she picked up a red fruit and hid it.
Helian Xiao's attention was focused on the dead woman, and he did not notice Meng Wanwan's actions.
He looked at the woman, frowned, and said, "Bai Meng?"
Meng Wanwan crossed her arms and shook her head: "Oh dear, it seems we're too late. They're already dead."
Helian Xiao looked at her: "Little girl, did you bring me here on purpose?"
Meng Wanwan shrugged: "Uncle, what are you talking about? I'm going to find my father. How would I know this woman is here?"
Helian Xiao was filled with doubt. Could it really be a coincidence?
However, Bai Meng's death can also be considered one of his achievements.
So Helian Xiao touched Bai Meng's waist, and a storage bag appeared in his hand.
Meng Wanwan chuckled and said, "Oh my, even uncles can rummage through corpses."
Helian Xiao rolled his eyes at her and tossed the storage bag to Meng Wanwan.
Consider this compensation and a thank you gift.
Meng Wanwan asked in surprise, "A thank-you gift for me?"
While observing Bai Meng's cause of death, Helian Xiao said, "In our family, killing a member of the Bai family will earn a reward. Although I didn't kill Bai Meng, as long as I bring the body back, it's mine. Compared to the things in that storage bag, the corpse is more to my liking."
Meng Wanwan asked in confusion, "Didn't you want what was on Bai Meng?"
Helian Xiao sneered: "I don't want that thing, I just can't let it end up in the Bai family. As long as it's not in the Bai family, it's fine wherever it is."
Niannian couldn't help but say, "He's such a strange person, it's like..."
"It's as if we want to completely isolate the Bai family from certain people and things in this world," Meng Wanwan added.
Niannian: "Yes, that's the feeling."
After examining Bai Meng's corpse, Helian Xiao laughed: "Interesting, isn't it? A malevolent aura?"
Just as Meng Wanwan was about to ask Niannian if there was any Zhutian Jade in her storage bag, she heard Helian Xiao suddenly say that.
Her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Helian Xiao didn't notice the change in her expression and continued, "The Bai family wanted to turn their fortunes around with this painting appreciation event. Now, one of the people they sent has died. I'm curious what that old hag Bai Changxue is going to do."
With that, he waved his hand and put Bai Meng's body away.
"Come on, little girl, I'll take you home."
Meng Wanwan climbed onto Helian Xiao's shoulder again, but this time she was less inclined to joke around.
She gave him the address of Xiaoyue Inn and asked Helian Xiao to take her there directly.
Although Helian Xiao didn't understand why Meng Wanwan had suddenly fallen silent, he didn't care.
Neither of them noticed that after walking a hundred meters, a black figure gradually appeared behind them, staring intently at Meng Wanwan's back until their figures disappeared into the night before turning and vanishing.
The two arrived at the entrance of Xiaoyue Inn. Meng Wanwan thanked them and rushed into the inn.
Helian Xiao scratched his head, chuckled helplessly, and turned to leave.
Since we were just strangers who met by chance, there was no need for a formal farewell.
Besides, this little girl was strange, and Helian Xiao didn't really want to deal with her anymore.
"Niannian, quickly sense if Lanqiao is still in the space."
Meng Wanwan said to Niannian as she ran.
Niannian: "Master, I can't feel it."
Meng Wanwan ran to the second floor of the inn, pushed open the door, and found that the original space had disappeared, with only two senior brothers meditating.
Meng Wanwan turned to run out again, but bumped into Meng Xiuyi, who had just returned.
Meng Xiuyi caught Meng Wanwan, who had bumped into her, and picked her up, saying gently, "Baby, what's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry?"
Meng Wanwan was stunned for a moment before anxiously saying, "Father, Brother Lanqiao, Brother Lanqiao is missing."
Meng Xiuyi carried her around the room before realizing that the space was gone and the pendant was in Yun Zhao's hand.
Meng Xiuyi comforted her, "They probably went out on business. It's almost dawn, so it's perfectly normal to go out now."
Meng Wanwan shook her head repeatedly: "It's not normal, Father. I just went out to look for you and found someone who had been killed. I found this next to her."
Meng Wanwan opened her palm, revealing a red fruit—the Fiery Vermilion Fruit that grew in the space.
Meng Xiuyi took her hand and whispered, "Baby, don't tell anyone about this."
Meng Wanwan nodded gently: "I understand, Father."
Lanqiao's sudden departure left the entire team depressed for half a day.
However, I never thought of going to find him. The path of cultivation is all about fate. Everyone has their own fate, and you can't force it.
Meng Xiuyi originally intended to take Lanqiao to buy a suitable cultivation technique today, but this time, she saved money.
Meng Wanwan gave Bai Meng's storage bag to Meng Xiuyi. Meng Xiuyi was already used to her little girl's money-grubbing nature. After severely criticizing her and forbidding her from going out alone in the future, Meng Xiuyi reorganized the finances she had acquired.
Chen Shijin had his two disciples buy things to build a house in the space. Luckily, they now had storage bags, so they didn't have to carry stones and wood around everywhere.
As for spirit stones, Meng Xiuyi bought two sets of cultivation manuals suitable for her two disciples.
Meng Xiuyi is, after all, a rogue cultivator, and his cultivation methods are not systematic, so let them practice these things for now, and we'll talk about the rest later.
As for Meng Wanwan's cultivation, Meng Xiuyi stopped caring about her after learning that Meng Wanwan had a cultivation method that involved telepathic broadcasting.
Since she doesn't need to cultivate cultivation techniques, only magic, the possibility of her going into qi deviation is relatively small.
Soon, the busy life dispelled the somber atmosphere of Lanqiao's departure.
The three men were busy building houses and cultivating their skills, while Meng Wanwan was responsible for planting flowers and decorating the house. In short, the Meng family's path to immortality was somewhat out of step with the ways of the world.
It seems like they're not doing their job properly.
A month later, when the modern two-story villa in the space was completed, the art appreciation event also began.
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