"Your Excellency!" Lin Feng and the other two, finally able to move, knelt down before You You, each with an expression of utter shame. "We have implicated Your Excellency. If it weren't for our existence, Your Excellency wouldn't be in this predicament. We deserve to die ten thousand times over for our sins!"
The more he spoke, the more he felt deeply guilty. In truth, long before he possessed a spiritual root, he had tried to stop You You from awakening the spiritual roots of others, foreseeing that one day it would happen. However, later, in an emergency in Shangyang City, You You insisted on saving people, and the one seriously injured was his own younger brother. He simply couldn't bear to watch his younger brother die. In that moment of weakness, You You ended up with these—completely useless relatives.
When the three family heads asked them to leave, he had actually expected it and was willing in his heart. The Venerable One had already done so much for them. Let alone just leaving, even if they disappeared, as long as it could help her even a little, it would be worth it. He just didn't expect You You to react so strongly.
Lin Feng felt both ashamed and worried, but he had no choice but to continue to persuade him in a deep voice, "We will remember Your Excellency's kindness in protecting us forever. However, the matter of establishing a sect is of great importance, and we are insignificant in comparison. You..."
"Lin Feng!" Before he could finish speaking, You You suddenly interrupted him, calling him by his full name for the first time. You then walked down from the head of the table, squatted down, and looked directly into the eyes of the three of them, saying, "Do you know why I established a sect?"
The three were taken aback, looked at each other for a moment, seemingly wondering why she suddenly asked this, and subconsciously blurted out, "Your Excellency... is a celestial maiden."
"Does every celestial maiden have to establish a sect? Who decided that?" You You continued to ask.
The three were even more confused. Haven't all celestial maidens been like this since ancient times?
You You sighed and looked at them seriously, saying, "Actually, I never wanted to know anything about celestial maidens, nor did I care about building any immortal sects. I didn't have much of a concept of ascending to immortality. It's just that you said I was a celestial maiden, so I did it; you said celestial maidens need to establish sects, so I did it. I don't know many people in this world, and you are some of them. I don't care about celestial maidens, immortal sects, or cultivation from the bottom of my heart, but... I believe in you! I believe you are doing this for my own good, and I believe in the path you have chosen for me."
"..."
"Lin Feng, Yin Fan, Liu Qing, I always tell you that we are good brothers. This has never been a joke; I truly consider you brothers. In my eyes, you are not ordinary people, extraordinary individuals, or even disciples; you are my family. We have shared life and death experiences, whether in the border town or that grassland ruins, you have protected me with your lives. So, isn't it only natural that I repay you with the same trust?"
"..."
"Whether I'm an ordinary person, a cultivator, or a celestial maiden, I'm still a human being, right? As a human, I can't be ungrateful. I can't abandon my brothers for my own future. You left the border town without hesitation because of me, giving up everything you had accumulated. So I should be responsible for you. My desire to establish a sect has never been for the sake of cultivating immortality or seeking the Dao; it's simply to give my brothers a future. I want you to feel that your sacrifices were worthwhile!"
"..."
"So you have never been a burden, not in the past, not now, and not in the future! Stop saying anything about dragging me down. No matter how many powerful families and relatives there are, or how much resources there are to build a sect, none of them are more important than you. You are the fundamental reason why I founded this sect. If you are all gone, what's the point of me building this useless sect?"
"..."
The three of them were stunned, staring at her in shock. They had never known that You You would think this way. For a moment, no one knew how to respond. Even the usually calm Lin Feng could not suppress the turbulent emotions in his heart. He felt a warm current surging up from the bottom of his heart, making him dizzy and his eyes sore. He could not find the words for a long time.
"Waaah..." Liu Qing, standing beside him, couldn't help but sob and burst into tears. The burly man, over six feet tall, wiped away his tears and sobbed, "Waaah, it's so touching! Your Excellency's words... they make me... I really want to cry! I haven't cried in so many years. Actually... actually, I didn't want to leave either! Your Excellency is so good, who the hell wants to leave? It's all because of those people who said... that our staying would cause trouble! I just thought... we can't hold them back! You don't mind me... that's so kind of you!"
The more he talked, the more tears he shed. He wiped his rough face until it turned red, crying like a 200-pound child with snot and tears streaming down his face. He was both crying and laughing at the same time.
Youyou: "..." To be honest, she's starting to feel a bit disgusted.
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Liu Qinghao's shout made the other two realize what was happening. They seemed to have been relieved of a heavy burden, and their faces, which had been contorted like bitter gourds, relaxed. Yin Fan even scratched his head and said somewhat embarrassedly, "Your Excellency, we misunderstood this matter. We... sigh! As long as Your Excellency needs us, we will always stand by your side."
Lin Feng also smiled, then, as if remembering something, said worriedly, "Your Excellency, now that you've offended those three powerful families for our sake, what if they..."
"Are you afraid they'll retaliate against me?" Youyou interjected. "Don't worry, they'll be more anxious than I am since we're not related."
“Your Excellency is right!” Ling Qi, who had been observing from the sidelines, glanced at You You with shining eyes and said, “This time, the aristocratic families have waited for hundreds of years to welcome the new Heavenly Maiden. Although the Ji, Jian, and Yu families have some strength, if they fail to become relatives this time, they cannot afford to wait another few hundred years!”
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