Just then, Nangong Cheng led Lu Yunli in from outside. As soon as they entered, they felt the terrifying pressure emanating from the two Void Refinement stage experts, causing them to pause in their steps.
The head of the Nangong family and Lu Xiuwen looked at them and simultaneously concealed their auras.
Nangong Cheng stepped in and casually bowed to his father, saying, "Father."
Then he bowed to Lu Xiuwen again:
"Senior Lu!"
Lu Yunli also bowed to his father first, saying, "Father."
Then he clasped his hands in a fist salute to the head of the Nangong family and said, "Senior Nangong!"
Lu Yunli came to the Nangong family to plead for Lu Xuening, but before he could even speak, Lu Xiuwen interrupted, "Yunli, what brings you here? Is there an emergency at home?"
Lu Yunli wanted to speak, but it seemed as if an invisible hand was gripping his neck, preventing him from making a sound. Lu Xiuwen said to him, "Since it's urgent, I'll take your sister with me back home!"
Lu Yunli: "...?"
Lu Xiuwen turned to the head of the Nangong family, a slight smile on his face: "I'm really sorry, Brother Nangong, let's continue this game another time!"
"Let's go, Yunli, let's go find your seventh sister."
A burst of light emanated from Lu Xiuwen's body, enveloping Lu Yunli. The father and son transformed into a long rainbow and shot out of the window, flying towards A Yao and Nangong Qi.
"you……"
After uttering the word "you," the head of the Nangong family immediately transformed into a long rainbow and chased after him.
Nangong Cheng hesitated for a moment, then followed.
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Golden lotuses bloomed in the rippling blue pond, and elegant cranes frolicked in the water. Beside the pond stood a young girl in a purple gauze dress and a young man in white, admiring the golden lotuses, when suddenly a long rainbow descended to the ground.
After the rainbow landed, it transformed into two men dressed in white.
“Father.” Ayao called out to Lu Xiuwen when she saw him. Of course, she also saw Lu Yunli, but she ignored him.
"Senior Lu!" Nangong Qi greeted Lu Xiuwen with a cupped hand.
Then two more long rainbows landed, and Nangong Qi saw that his father and second brother had also arrived.
Lu Xiuwen said to the head of the Nangong family, "Brother Nangong, I see that your third young master is now full of energy, so I think my daughter and I will not disturb you here any longer."
"Brother Lu, wait..." The head of the Nangong family naturally did not want A Yao to leave like this.
But Lu Xiuwen ignored him and said to A Yao, "Xiao Qi, let's go home!"
After speaking, Lu Xiuwen unleashed a burst of icy blue light, which enveloped A Yao and Lu Yunli. The three of them merged into a long rainbow and soared away into the sky.
Nangong Qi: "..."
Why does it feel like Senior Lu doesn't like him?
The head of the Nangong family stomped his foot on the spot, angrily shouting, "That damned Lu Xiuwen..."
The head of the Nangong family clenched his fist, then suddenly turned to look at Nangong Qi, his gaze intense: "Qi, do you like Miss Lu Qi?"
Nangong Qi was taken aback, clearly not expecting his father to ask him that question so suddenly.
The head of the Nangong family grabbed his shoulders with both hands and asked again, "So, do you want Lu Xueyao?"
Nangong Qi thought for a moment and said seriously, "My son admires Miss Lu Qi!"
He felt a connection with her from the first time he saw her, and the time they spent together over the past few days only intensified his admiration for her. She was the most beautiful and intelligent woman he had ever met.
Upon hearing his son's answer, the head of the Nangong family laughed and said, "If you like her, I will definitely help you get this wife."
Nangong Qi chuckled to himself.
Father, your choice of words is truly...
Nangong Cheng said from the side, "It seems that the head of the Lu family doesn't like the third brother."
"Whether he likes it or not is unimportant, as long as his daughter likes it. What's the use of his father objecting if the girl wants to marry him?" said the head of the Nangong family.
After saying that, he looked at Nangong Qi and grabbed one of his hands: "Come here, let me teach you the secret of how I seduced your mother back then."
Nangong Qi: "..."
Father, could you please use a more tactful way of saying this?
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A long rainbow fell on a certain place in the Kunshan Mountains. After the light dissipated, three figures could be seen.
Ayao blinked and looked at her father.
What were they doing? They suddenly brought her back. However, she really couldn't stay in the Nangong family any longer, mainly because everyone there was too overly enthusiastic. Her purpose in staying was primarily to find out if Nangong Qi was Luo Bai's alter ego. After so many tests, she felt it was unlikely he was.
Since that's the case, there's no need for her to stay there, lest Nangong Qi misunderstand that she likes him.
Lu Xiuwen looked at his eldest son, Lu Yunli, and asked, "What urgent matter do you have that you can't send a message via jade slip and have to come all the way to the Nangong family?"
Lu Yunli opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
Lu Xiuwen then remembered that he had "silenced" him. With a flick of his sleeve, Lu Xiuwen released the restraints on Lu Yunli's body.
"Father, Father, please spare Xiao Ba! Father! Xiao Ba is so weak, how can she endure the suffering in the water dungeon?" Lu Yunli knelt on one knee in front of Lu Xiuwen and pleaded.
Ayao looked at Lu Xiuwen with some surprise. He really did throw Lu Xuening into the water dungeon.
Lu Xiuwen glanced at A Yao, who remained expressionless. He then lowered his head and said to Lu Yunli, "She is a Foundation Establishment cultivator, after all. She is not so weak. Locking her up for a few days will not cause any harm."
"Father……"
“Xiao Ba has caused a huge disaster this time. If she is not severely punished, it will not be enough to appease the public. If you plead for her again, you will go to the water dungeon to keep her company,” Lu Xiuwen said with an iron face.
Upon hearing these words, Lu Yunli looked at A Yao, his heart filled with rage. It must be Lu Xueyao who did this.
At this moment, several streaks of light flew towards this direction.
Xu Lianxin sensed Lu Xiuwen's presence and brought Lu Yunchuan and the others over.
"Husband, husband, please spare Xiao Ba! How could she endure a place like the water dungeon?" Xu Lianxin pleaded, grabbing Lu Xiuwen's hand. She went to the water dungeon to ask Lu Rong to release her, but Lu Rong refused, saying that it was a decree personally issued by the patriarch, and he dared not release her without the patriarch's order.
Xu Lianxin was furious and almost hit him.
Lu Xiuwen knew that if he released his adopted daughter, his biological daughter would definitely resent him. Thinking of the Shenmeng Sect and the Nangong family, who were eyeing his daughter covetously, and how this girl was not close to him to begin with, and even more resentful towards her biological mother, if he were to make her hate him, she might really elope with someone else.
Therefore, he will not let Lu Xuening go easily this time.
“You used to see Xiao Qi locked up in the water dungeon all the time, and I never saw you, her own mother, so nervous. Why are you so worried about Xiao Ba?” Lu Xiuwen’s words were like a knife to the heart, leaving Xu Lianxin speechless.
Her gaze fell on A Yao, and A Yao's gaze made her heart skip a beat, and she involuntarily took a step back.
That gaze seemed to say:
You don't care at all that your own daughter is locked up in a water dungeon, but you're already so anxious about how long your adopted daughter has been imprisoned? How biased you are!
Her heart suddenly tightened, and she couldn't say a word.
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