Chapter 089 Father and Son Meet
That night, the entire imperial capital was in turmoil, and the Qi family was almost in chaos.
The Qi family's head's face was extremely pale at this moment. "Tell me again, you didn't find anything? You were guarding outside the door the whole time, how could you not find anything?"
The guards in front of the head of the Qi family were pale and kneeling on the ground, looking very embarrassed.
"Master, the young master and the young lady have been inside the whole time. No... no one else has been in there. We, we really don't know what happened. Master, we really did keep watch, but, but..."
For the first time, the Qi family's patriarch was so angry that he almost wanted to kill someone. Two children who were alive and well in the ancestral hall had disappeared just like that! And damn, the guards responsible for guarding there couldn't say a word. They didn't know when the children disappeared, nor did they know if anyone else had entered. This was really damnable!
Luo Jiulian walked in from outside. She also came hurriedly after receiving the news. The head of the Qi family hurriedly went to greet her when he saw his wife.
"You're here."
"What's going on? The ancestral hall is heavily guarded and has set up many restrictions. There are even guards right outside the door. How could they not even know that the child is missing?" Luo Jiulian was also angry and furious.
The Qi family's head laughed bitterly. "I've already asked the guards over there, and they found nothing. I just went over there and checked the various restrictions, and there's no sign of any damage. Madam, this... I really don't know what's going on."
Luo Jiulian's face changed, and she suddenly thought of a possibility, and that possibility made her face turn pale quickly.
"Madam, what's wrong with you?
Are you okay? "The Qi family's patriarch quickly supported Luo Jiulian. He had just seen that the other party's body seemed to be shaky.
Luo Jiulian pursed her lips and asked the guards here to go down first. The guards quickly took their leave, feeling like they had saved their lives.
"Madam, what's wrong?" The head of the Qi family looked at her worriedly.
Luo Jiulian's face was extremely pale. She stared at her husband closely and spoke in a very soft voice: "Husband, do you think... are they here? Apart from them, I can't think of anyone else who could take someone away so quietly..."
The Qi family's head's expression changed upon hearing this. After a long pause, he shook his head, "Madam, I don't think it was them. Those people treat everyone like ants. If it were them, they would have taken the two children away in a very high-profile manner, and they wouldn't have spared our entire Qi family. In their eyes, our Qi family is nothing more than an ant. What happened today... I think the two children did it themselves. Back in the Snow Moon Forest, there were so many Martial Emperors guarding outside the tent, but didn't the two children disappear without a trace? And this isn't the first time they've escaped in the past two months."
"But...wasn't this the ancestral hall? The ancestral hall is heavily restricted. Even if their contracted beasts were special, could they break through the restrictions there? And do it without anyone noticing? Could their contracted beasts be that powerful?" Luo Jiulian was a little skeptical. She had also seen the reptile and the chick before; they seemed very well-behaved and listened to the twins. She had never guessed they could be so powerful!
Fortunately, the reptiles and chickens were not here, otherwise they would probably feel very uncomfortable about Luo Jiulian's evaluation of them.
"Perhaps we've made a mistake. Those two contracted beasts might really be that strong. Besides, Madam, don't forget, something happened back home! Apart from those two little ones from our family, I really can't think of anyone else."
Luo Jiulian gasped when she heard this and looked at her husband in disbelief, "Are you saying that the death of the brothers who left home is related to our child?"
"Madam, do you think it's okay? Don't forget, these two little ones in our family have been targeting that place these days, and they've even set fire to it several times in the middle of the night."
Luo Jiulian was speechless when he heard this.
This... seems to be...
"But, my dear... these two children of ours, along with their contracted beasts, were able to assassinate two of the Li Family's direct descendants in a place like the Li Family, and even manage to hit them with one strike and escape undetected?" Were our children too powerful, or were the Li Family's too useless? They were just two children of a few years old!
The head of the Qi family: "..."
This, this does sound a bit weird...
The Qi family patriarch was silent for a moment before he said, "If they really left the ancestral hall on their own, then it must be them."
Luo Jiulian was speechless, but after hearing these words, she finally felt a little relieved. "Husband, if what happened back home is really our child's doing, then the whole city is hunting for the assassin. We can't let them find the assassin."
"Don't worry, Madam. I felt something was amiss from the beginning, so I ordered people to stop them secretly. The people from Li's side will definitely not be able to find the assassin they are looking for."
Luo Jiulian nodded, "That's good."
…
At this time, Qi Xiuyuan and Shen Yichuan had no idea how much trouble their twins had caused. Now, they had come underground.
"Come to me... Come to me quickly..."
"I'm right here... Come find me..."
After coming to this underground, Shen Yichuan heard this voice that sounded like a call. At first, he thought that everyone could hear it, but he didn't expect that after asking Qi Xiuyuan, the other party said that he didn't hear it. He then asked the newly recruited guards, and those guards also said that they didn't hear it.
So, he is the only one who can hear this sound?
As he went deeper underground, Shen Yichuan found that he could hear the sounds more clearly, and sometimes it seemed as if the sounds were ringing directly in his ears.
This underground is also very complicated, with many narrow alleys, like a maze, and the place is very large. Shen Yichuan always feels that the area of this underground maze may exceed the area of the entire isolated island on the ground, so he suspects that this underground is either a space of its own, or it may be connected to the vast ocean outside. He doesn't know which case it is.
"Come to me... Come to me..."
The sound continued, and Shen Yichuan was so annoyed that he almost wanted to block it out. However, the crisis here was unclear, and blocking it out was obviously not going to work. You never know when a powerful enemy might pop out from any corner.
Qi Xiuyuan suddenly stopped, and Shen Yichuan looked over. "What's wrong? Did you find anything wrong?"
"We're lost. We've been here before." Qi Xiuyuan said lightly.
"Huh?" Shen Yichuan followed Qi Xiuyuan's gaze and found that there was indeed a mark left here not long ago. They had returned again. This reminded Shen Yichuan of the isolated island above. He and Qi Xiuyuan had flown there for a long time before, but they still returned to the same place. So it seemed that here, whether on the ground or underground, it was the same.
The same maze that makes it impossible to get out.
The guards were a little nervous, but they remained calm.
"Come to me... Come to me..."
The voice continued, and Shen Yichuan's heart couldn't help but move slightly. Since they couldn't get out by themselves, they wondered if they could get some help from outside.
He told Qi Xiuyuan about this idea, and Qi Xiuyuan glanced at Shen Yichuan, "How do you want to use external forces?"
"Of course, it depends on whether the voice can communicate."
"Then you try it." Qi Xiuyuan said finally.
Shen Yichuan smiled and nodded, then took the initiative to contact the voice for the first time.
"If you let me go, then you should at least tell me how to get to your place, right? I'm new here and I don't know the way."
"Come to me... come to me... here... go forward..."
"Forward?" Shen Yichuan walked in front. "Okay, I'll go forward now. Then what?"
"Keep going...keep going...come to me..." The voice seemed a little ethereal.
Shen Yichuan simply followed the voice and walked forward. If he still ended up back where he came from, he could just start over.
They walked for a quarter of an hour, and after a quarter of an hour, they found a three-way fork in the road ahead. They had never been to such a three-way fork in the road before, so at least the road they took this time was different from the previous one!
Shen Yichuan narrowed his eyes and said, "I have three roads in front of me now. Which way should I go?"
"Go straight, go straight... keep going..."
Go straight? That's the middle path. Shen Yichuan and Qi Xiuyuan exchanged glances, and then they walked along the middle path together. However, when the guards behind them tried to catch up, an invisible barrier blocked them.
The guards' faces changed slightly. They instinctively tried to break through but failed.
Shen Yichuan and Qi Xiuyuan in front also found that the guards following behind were missing, and Shen Yichuan frowned slightly.
“The people behind us couldn’t keep up.”
"It might be that voice that did it." Qi Xiuyuan said, and he released the fire spirit beast.
Seeing this, Shen Yichuan let Luyin walk in front.
"Keep going...keep going...faster..." Yu Xi was alone.
The voice actually thought Shen Yichuan and the others were walking too slowly and began to urge them on.
Shen Yichuan squinted his eyes and did not speed up, but walked at the same pace as before, neither fast nor slow.
This time, it took about an hour.
Along the way, the voice kept saying "keep going". During this time, Shen Yichuan encountered three forks in the road and chose the one in the middle each time.
Finally, an hour later, Shen Yichuan and Qi Xiuyuan stopped at the same time because there was no road ahead.
"Where are you? I'm already here, why can't I see you? There's no way forward."
"There is a road, keep going... keep going..."
The voice was still vague, but it seemed a little clearer. Only Shen Yichuan could hear it. Qi Xiuyuan couldn't help but ask, "How is it? What did the voice say?"
Shen Yichuan looked ahead a little strangely and said, "That voice still told us to keep going. I said there was no way out, but he still told us to keep going."
Qi Xiuyuan was stunned and looked ahead. Keep walking?
After thinking for a while, the two looked at each other and decided to just listen to the sound first. So they closed their eyes and didn't use their naked eyes to check whether there was a path or not. Instead, they really kept walking...
Boom, the barrier was broken.
Qi Xiuyuan and Shen Yichuan only felt their bodies lighten, and then they suddenly found themselves in a pitch-black world. There seemed to be a little light in the distance, but Qi Xiuyuan and Shen Yichuan were shocked to find that at this moment their bodies... seemed to be gone.
In other words, they are now in the state of soul bodies!
The soul of a cultivator is very light. Whether it is a soul or a body, the two cannot mistake their own state, so they are absolutely sure that they are in the state of soul body at this time.
Shen Yichuan murmured, "Xiuyuan, we won't play too hard and lose our bodies, right?"
Qi Xiuyuan's face looked a little grim. He pondered for a moment and said solemnly, "There's a light ahead. Let's go check it out."
"Okay, let's go and take a look." Shen Yichuan agreed immediately. He was still worried that he had really messed up.
The souls were flying very fast, and soon they arrived at the light source. From here, they could sense... the smell of space.
It's a wonderful flavor.
The two looked at each other and stepped in.
The next moment, it was daybreak, and they... actually saw the twins!
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