After hearing Xiao Chen's words, Xiao Sheng was silent for a long time and shook his head.
Xiao Chen frowned when he saw Xiao Sheng's actions: "Why don't you say it?"
"I don't have any hardship. I was wrong back then."
Xiao Sheng looked at Xiao Chen and said slowly.
"What you saw is everything. I don't ask for your forgiveness, I just hope... you can return to the Xiao family!"
"I told you that you didn't keep me when I left. Now you want me to return to the Xiao family with just one sentence. Why?"
Xiao Chen's voice became a little colder.
"At that time, it was better for you to leave than to stay... At least, if you leave, your safety can be guaranteed."
Xiao Sheng said seriously.
"Oh, you mean, you let me leave the Xiao family in order to save my life? In that case, I should thank you for saving my life?"
Xiao Chen sneered.
Xiao Sheng shook his head: "I didn't mean that. I was just telling you that back then...leaving the Xiao family was the best choice for you."
"I'll ask one last time. I want to know what happened back then."
Xiao Chen took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and said in a deep voice.
Xiao Sheng still shook his head. He wouldn't tell.
"Okay, if you don't tell me, I'll check it myself... Let me ask you one more question, is my mother still alive?"
Xiao Chen looked at Xiao Sheng and asked.
“Not anymore.”
Xiao Sheng hesitated and said.
"Gone?"
Hearing Xiao Sheng's words, Xiao Chen trembled.
"How did she...die?"
"It has nothing to do with the Xiao family. It's a serious illness."
Xiao Sheng replied.
"So where is she buried?"
Xiao Chen asked again.
"Why wasn't he buried in the Xiao family?"
"At her request, she stayed in her master's sect, which was in an independent space. Later, that independent space collapsed."
Xiao Sheng said to Xiao Chen.
"Space collapse?"
Hearing this, Xiao Chen trembled again.
He had experienced the collapse of space, and everything would be reduced to ashes.
In other words, no remains left?
Just when he was about to ask something else, there was a noise.
"Xiao Yu is back. I'm leaving first. We'll talk later in the evening."
Xiao Sheng glanced at the road ahead, and after he finished speaking to Xiao Chen, he flashed and hid in the nearby woods, and soon disappeared.
Xiao Chen looked at the direction where Xiao Sheng disappeared and frowned. He was so fast?
What exactly is his strength?
Could it be that he was hiding his strength?
Then, Xiao Chen thought of what Xiao Sheng had just said, the space collapsed, and no corpse was left.
No wonder when he was a child, he searched all over the cemetery behind the mountain but didn't see his mother's grave.
At that time, no one answered him where his mother was or whether she was alive or dead.
Although he had guessed it a long time ago, getting the definite answer from Xiao Sheng at this moment still made him feel quite uneasy.
Even though they had never gotten along or met each other, she was still his mother.
Now that I know she is gone, I can put my mind at ease.
"Brother, I'm back."
Just when Xiao Chen was wondering, Xiao Yu came back.
"Um."
Xiao Chen nodded.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Xiao Yu noticed that Xiao Chen seemed to be a little abnormal and asked.
"nothing."
Xiao Chen shook his head, put away his messy thoughts, and looked in the direction where Xiao Sheng left.
"Xiaoyu, let's get started."
"good."
Xiao Yu nodded.
"Brother, what are you going to teach me today?"
"You also use a knife, right? Let me teach you some knife skills."
Xiao Chen thought about it and said to Xiao Yu.
"Ah? But I forgot to bring the knife..."
Xiao Yu frowned.
"Haha, I have plenty."
As Xiao Chen spoke, he took out seven or eight knives from his bone ring and threw them on the ground.
"See if there's anything that's handy. If not, I have some here."
“…”
Xiao Yu looked at the knife on the ground, speechless, but also very envious. He carried a treasure bag with him, which contained everything.
He selected a knife and waved it a few times: "This is it."
"good."
Xiao Chen nodded, picked a knife at random, and put the other knives away.
"Look here, I'll show you first."
"Uh-huh."
Xiao Yu perked up and looked carefully.
Xiao Chen took the knife and began to demonstrate, the knife light flashing and the knife wind whistling.
At the same time, Xiao Sheng, who left the waterfall, found Xiao Lin.
"What? Did you just meet Xiao Chen?"
Hearing Xiao Sheng's words, Xiao Lin widened his eyes and looked him up and down.
"What are you looking at?"
Xiao Sheng frowned when he saw Xiao Lin's actions.
"Let me see if he hit you."
Xiao Lin replied.
“…”
Xiao Sheng was speechless.
"You don't look injured. What did you talk about?"
Xiao Lin retracted his gaze and asked curiously.
"We didn't talk much, just a few simple words."
Xiao Sheng shook his head.
"Ah Lin, I came to see you because I have something to tell you."
"What's up?"
Xiao Lin was curious.
"He asked me what happened that year. Did you tell him anything?"
Xiao Sheng looked at Xiao Lin and asked.
"Well, no, I just said, tell him not to blame you, you actually have your own difficulties or something."
Xiao Lin shook his head.
"Don't say anything to him. That guy will probably come to find you. When that happens, you mustn't say anything more. Got it?"
Xiao Sheng warned.
"Yeah, I know what's going on."
Xiao Lin nodded.
"I said I wasn't there at the time and I don't know the details."
"Well, now he knows too much, which is not a good thing for him."
Xiao Sheng nodded.
"Although he is very strong now, it is still not enough."
"You are leaving the Xiao family, are you going?"
Xiao Lin looked at Xiao Sheng, thought of something, and asked.
"You said he wasn't good enough, what about you? Go and die?"
"No matter if I die or not, I have to go...Before, I couldn't leave because of the Xiao family, but now it's different."
Xiao Sheng said in a deep voice.
"Don't worry about my business, just take care of the Xiao family."
“…”
Xiao Lin opened his mouth, but in the end didn't say much.
"By the way, that kid also asked me about his mother."
Xiao Sheng thought of something and said.
"Hmm? What did you say?"
Xiao Lin was startled and asked quickly.
"You told him? No, if you had, you wouldn't have come to me."
"No."
Xiao Sheng shook his head.
"He asked me if his mother was still alive, and I said no."
"ah?"
Hearing Xiao Sheng's words, Xiao Lin's eyes widened.
"You lied to him?"
"What else can I say? Only by saying that I'm gone can I stop him from thinking about it and not disrupt his current life."
Xiao Sheng smiled bitterly.
"Tell me, if he knew the truth, what would he do?"
"Yeah, that's right."
Xiao Lin scratched his head.
"It's very troublesome. I can't explain it."
"So I can only lie to him for now. As for the future... let's talk about the future later."
Xiao Sheng said slowly.
"Have you ever thought that one day he will know the truth, that he will never forgive you if he finds out that you lied to him?"
Xiao Lin looked at him and said seriously.
"Ah... let's talk about it later. It's not certain whether I will be there when he finds out the truth."
Xiao Sheng sighed and said softly.
“…”
Xiao Lin frowned.
"Okay, don't persuade me. There are some things I have to do... It's been many years too late, but it's better to do it late than to do nothing!"
Xiao Sheng seemed to know what Xiao Lin was going to say and waved his hand.
"Even if it costs me my life, I won't regret it."
"Then when can I tell him?"
Xiao Lin thought for a moment and asked.
"When he dies, or...I die."
Xiao Sheng hesitated and said.
"I see."
Xiao Lin nodded. In fact, he was not very clear about some things.
But he knew that there were some things that had to be done even if it was life-threatening.
Therefore, he couldn't persuade Xiao Sheng, even though he wanted to stop him.
"Okay, just do your thing. He's here to see you, so you know what to say."
Xiao Sheng planned to leave.
"Oh, and he also asked why his mother wasn't buried in the Xiao family. I said she was buried in her master's space, and then that space collapsed."
"You... your lie is quite thorough."
Xiao Lin looked at Xiao Sheng, speechless.
The most difficult part of telling a lie is covering it up. One lie requires countless lies to cover it up.
In Xiao Sheng's case, the space collapsed directly, and no body was found... In this case, even if Xiao Chen wanted to go and see, he couldn't, and there was naturally no way he could tell lies to cover up his lies!
Clothes!
Xiao Lin was truly convinced.
"No, brother, how did you do it? When he asked you, you could come up with such a lie right away?"
Xiao Lin humbly asked for advice, but he couldn't do it.
"After being the head of the family for a long time, you will be able to do it. I believe in you."
Xiao Sheng smiled, patted Xiao Lin on the shoulder, turned and left.
“…”
Xiao Lin looked at Xiao Sheng's back, speechless.
"Brother, is this the end of your meeting with Xiaochen? That's it?"
Hearing Xiao Lin's words, Xiao Sheng paused and turned around: "I have an appointment with him tonight, let's talk then, do you want to come?"
"I won't go. I'm afraid I won't be able to cooperate with you if you tell a lie..."
Xiao Lin shook his head.
“…”
Xiao Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He waved his hand and walked away.
"That's right... But I hope you and your son can reconcile."
Xiao Lin looked at Xiao Sheng who was getting farther and farther away and muttered to himself.
Then he turned around and went back to work.
Two hours later, Xiao Chen and Xiao Yu finally stopped under the waterfall.
"Have you mastered it?"
Xiao Chen looked at Xiao Yu and asked.
"Yeah, that's fine."
Xiao Yu nodded.
"Brother, how did you make that several-meter-long sword? It looks really cool."
"Xuanyuan Zhan? Haha, I gave it the name myself."
Xiao Chen smiled.
"I can't teach you that for now. It was taught to me by a senior. Without his permission, it cannot be passed on to others... Besides, you can't use it. You have to wait until you are at least half a step into the innate realm before you can use it."
"Oh, okay."
Xiao Yu was helpless.
"I am half a step into the innate realm? It will probably take at least ten or twenty years."
"How old are you? If you can reach half a step into the innate realm in ten or twenty years, you will be a super monster in the ancient martial arts world... Look at Uncle Qi, isn't he only at the peak of the middle stage of Huajin?"
Xiao Chen said with a smile.
"Brother, if you say that about Uncle Seven, won't he beat you?"
Xiao Yu glanced at Xiao Chen.
"Qilinzi, it seems to be very bad when it comes to your mouth."
"Haha, that's enough, that's enough for today."
Xiao Chen laughed a few times. It’s just very bad. I wasn’t wrong.
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