Xie Xinyao was conflicted. She clenched her fists, slowly knelt down, and explained, "Patriarch, my senior brother was unaware of this matter. Please be lenient and I am willing to accept the punishment."
Xie Aotian gave a wicked smile: "Very good."
Wang Xia finally snapped out of his shock and asked helplessly, "Xin Yao, is that you? Is it really you? Why...why didn't you tell your senior brother? Why didn't you tell your brother?"
"Senior brother doesn't like Shuang Feiyan, he likes you!"
"It's just... I just mistakenly thought that the person who saved me in the Poison Abyss Secret Realm was Shuang Feiyan, and that's why I've deliberately ignored my feelings for you all these years."
"I...I was confused." Wang Xia squatted down, banging his head with both hands, his face full of pain and regret.
Xie Xinyao couldn't bear to see him tormenting himself like this, so she stepped forward, grabbed his hand, and said softly, "Senior brother, please don't do this."
Xie Aotian said coldly, "You two shouldn't be so lovey-dovey. Let's hear what kind of punishment you'll face first!"
"Hmph, you'll have plenty of time to spend together from now on, and you'll have plenty of time to pour out your hearts to each other."
Wang Xia looked up at Xie Aotian and pleaded, "Patriarch Xie, please don't make things difficult for Xin Yao. You can punish me however you want. I am willing to accept the punishment without a single complaint."
Xie Aotian smiled and said sarcastically, "It's good that you have this awareness."
"However, even if you don't have this awareness, I, Xie Aotian, have plenty of ways to make you realize it."
"You will be punished by forging magical artifacts in the forbidden area behind the family mountain."
"I won't make things difficult for you. You can come out whenever you can forge the fifth-grade combined swords of the same heart."
"If you can't refine it, then you'd better stay inside and never think about coming out."
Xie Xinyao looked up in surprise upon hearing this. This was hardly a punishment; it was more like a reward.
The place where the Xie family refines magical artifacts in the back mountain is actually the Xie family's ancestral home.
Only those who are not direct descendants of the Xie family, those who are not exceptionally talented, and those who are not approved by the family head are allowed to enter.
Moreover, the perfect pair of swords can only be forged by two people who share the same mind and intentions.
The fifth-grade Twin Swords of Unity require at least the cultivation level of the Nascent Soul stage to forge, which means she will have more time to spend alone with her senior brother.
A thought flashed through Xie Xinyao's mind: Xie Aotian was making things happen for her and her senior brother.
Although it sounds absurd, it is indeed the only plausible explanation.
Actually, she and Xie Aotian didn't have any connection.
She had been practicing at the Wanfa Sect since childhood and rarely returned home. She had only met Xie Aotian a few times and had no affection for him. However, she never deliberately made things difficult for him.
She couldn't think of a reason why Xie Aotian would help her, unless... unless it was for his brother's sake, then everything would make sense.
Xie Xinyao looked up at Xie Aotian, who had already turned his back to them and said calmly, "After the cultivation world competition ends, you will go to the forbidden area to accept your punishment."
"You have one month. After one month, I want to see you two in the forbidden area. Otherwise, the consequences will be something you can't even imagine."
Suppressing the bitterness in her heart, Xie Xinyao replied, "Yes."
Only now did she truly accept her half-brother from the bottom of her heart.
Wang Xia fearlessly promised, "Patriarch Xie, rest assured, Junior Sister Xin Yao and I will definitely go to the Xie family's forbidden area to accept our punishment within a month. We will not trouble Patriarch Xie at all."
Xie Aotian replied indifferently, "Hmm."
After Xie Xinyao and Wang Xia left, Xie Aotian looked at Xie Lanzhi, who was smiling happily at him, and thought to himself, "You are really happy with my decision, even though you don't remember her anymore."
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