After a while, the banquet was prepared and everyone sat down to eat.
Xiying was forced by her father to sit between him and Ximen Rui, while Yuan Ming was arranged to sit a little further down.
During the dinner, Xi Zheng kept talking, but still did not forget to bring Xi Ying and Ximen Rui together.
Xiying really couldn't listen anymore, and after a while she complained of discomfort, got up and left the banquet.
Yuan Ming happened to leave as well.
But before the two of them could get far, Xi Zheng chased them out with an unhappy look on their face.
"Xiaoyou Yuan, could you please stay in the guest room for a while? Xiaoying and I still have something to discuss." Xi Zheng said without looking at Yuan Ming.
When Yuan Ming heard this, he did not move, but turned his attention to Xiying.
Xiying looked helpless and nodded to him, and then Yuan Ming turned and left.
On the way out, Yuan Ming felt a little ridiculous when he thought that a strange woman like Xiying would be shackled by such a thing.
"Follow me." After Yuan Ming left, Xi Zheng's face darkened and he said.
Xiying followed him without saying a word.
"You finally got out of seclusion, why are you going to confront me as soon as you get out?" After the two came to a secret room, Xi Zheng looked at her daughter whom she hadn't seen for many years. After all, she couldn't bear to speak harshly and said with a calm expression.
"If you don't force me, there won't be any confrontation." Xiying's expression remained unchanged and her tone was unhurried.
"Forced? This is your mission as a member of the Xi family." Xi Zheng said dissatisfied.
"When did the Xi family fall to the point where the marriage of women is their mission?" Xi Ying raised her eyebrows and glanced at her father before asking.
"Bastard, Xiaoying, you have been very talented since you were young, but I have been too indulgent and pampered towards you, which makes you so willful! Do you really not know the current situation of our Xi family? Do you really want to ignore the interests of the family?
Xi Zheng said angrily.
"Is the current situation of the family caused by me?" Xiying asked coldly.
"You..." Xi Zheng was furious for a moment.
"Dad, do you really think that we can get out of our current predicament by marrying the Ximen family?" Xiying continued to ask.
"At least Venerable Jiuyin is the most powerful among the six great lords. Marrying with his family is the most beneficial to our Xi family." Xi Zheng hesitated for a moment and still said.
"Dad, continuing to join the Wuyue Sect is a wrong path of no return. Marrying with the Ximen family is just drinking poison to quench thirst. If the Xi family wants to be truly strong, the only way to get rid of the control of the Wuyue Sect is to get rid of it," Xi Ying said coldly.
After saying these words, he turned around and left.
No matter how Xi Zheng drank behind her, she didn't stop at all.
The father and daughter broke up unhappy. Xiying directly found Yuan Ming, and they immediately left the villa and went to Honglian Island.
…
About a month later, Honglian Island, Xiao family.
Outside a magnificent mansion, Yuan Ming and Xi Ying stood side by side, and beside them stood a woman wearing a navy blue dress and a curtain hat.
"Is it okay to just let her go back?" Yuan Ming glanced at the woman beside him and asked with a frown.
"Don't worry, Xiao Ying's spirit has become stronger than before after being nurtured by me. It's just that there is nothing she can do about her cultivation. Without the support of my magic power, she will fall back to the early stage of foundation building. However, with the foundation I laid, she can
In the future, the path of cultivation will only be smoother and there will be no sequelae." Xiying said.
"What to do with her memory?" Yuan Ming asked.
"According to normal circumstances, her memory will stay at the time when she came to Biluo Cave. However, over the years, I have been weaving dreams for her using mystical skills. When she wakes up, those dreams she has experienced will be
It became her memory. The time and place were roughly the same as mine, but the things she experienced were different. Without advanced soul cultivation, it would not have been discovered." Xiying smiled and said.
When Yuan Ming heard this, he nodded and asked no more questions.
"It's almost done. You can let her go back." Xiying glanced around and then snapped her fingers.
Xiao Ying, who had been standing aside, suddenly trembled.
Under the curtain, her originally empty eyes lit up little by little, as if she was gradually regaining consciousness.
Under the cover of the illusion, she couldn't even notice that there were two people standing next to her.
Yuan Ming saw that her expression gradually changed from dull at the beginning to joy, and then her eyes gradually became moist, and she ran towards the magnificent mansion.
"Who is she?" Yuan Ming asked in surprise.
"The last memory I weaved for her was when she left home to travel to the East China Sea, but was attacked by an unknown person, causing her state to fall. After a lot of wandering, she returned to the Xiao family on Honglian Island." Xiying explained.
"You've thought it through very carefully." Yuan Ming was stunned when he heard this, smiled and nodded.
In the distance, a burst of cheers came from the door of Xiao's mansion. The concierge, steward, and maids surrounded Xiao Ying and entered the mansion.
"It's over, let's go." Xiying retracted her gaze and said.
The two of them turned around and left, heading towards the outside of Red Lotus Island.
However, before the two of them took a hundred steps, they saw a tall woman wearing southern Xinjiang clothing walking towards the Xiao Mansion.
He has a delicate face and three-dimensional facial features. He wears a braided braid that is gathered at the back of his head. He has obvious characteristics of southern Xinjiang people, but his whole body exudes a sassy aura.
When the three of them passed each other, Yuan Ming's pupils suddenly shrank and he paused.
The woman left quickly, but he suddenly turned his head and looked at her back from a distance.
Seeing this, Xiying frowned slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I seem to have met an old friend..." Yuan Ming said hesitantly.
He didn't recognize that figure, he just thought it looked familiar, but the aura emanating from it gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"Old friend?" Xiying looked carefully and asked.
"Forget it, it's better not to bother you." Yuan Ming shook his head and said.
"If she is really an old friend, we can't just let it go. She has the aura of the Soul Locking Array on her body." Xiying frowned and said.
"Spirit Locking Formation?" Yuan Ming said in surprise.
"A magic circle that prevents mana from escaping. It is generally used to help people who have been seriously injured or whose Dantian has been destroyed to consolidate their mana." Xiying explained.
"She doesn't look like she was seriously injured?" Yuan Ming asked doubtfully.
"That's the problem. Generally, monks who don't have problems with mana leakage will never be able to imprint a spirit-locking formation on their body, because this formation will affect the movement of mana. In severe cases, it will lock mana, making it impossible to perform spells.
." Xiying said.
When Yuan Ming heard this, he couldn't help but have a look of hidden worry in his eyes.
"Is there a way to solve it?" Yuan Ming asked.
"Of course there is, but you have to tell me first, who is she to you?" Xiying asked, raising her eyebrows.
"Do you still remember Ha Gong?" Yuan Ming asked.
"When we were in Biluo Cave, that friend of yours who turned into a mandrill?" Xiying also had some impression of him.
"The woman who passed by just now seems to be his daughter Tuya." Yuan Ming said in a deep voice.
"If it's her, then she really can't stand by and watch." Xiying heard this and nodded.
"But I remember that she has been admitted to the sect to practice, so how could she appear in the Xiao family?" Yuan Ming was confused and thought deeply.
He vaguely remembered that when his soul possessed Tuya, he saw the veiled woman who had saved him and took Tuya into her sect.
Could it be that that woman is also from the Xiao family?
Yuan Ming's eyes lit up, and he felt unexpected joy in his heart.
Over the years, he had also thought about finding this person to repay the life-saving grace of that pill on the river bank, but he had been wandering around in order to survive and never got what he wanted.
"Go and ask her and you will know." Xiying said.
"Okay." Yuan Ming nodded immediately.
The two of them quickly arrived at the door of Xiao's residence. Xiying took out an antique-looking bronze oil lamp without haste, lightly rubbed the wick with his fingers, and lit a small flame.
As the firelight lit up, a layer of vague spiritual power spread from it, covering the bodies of Yuan Ming and Xi Ying.
"Let's go." Xiying said.
"You just walk in so swaggeringly?" Yuan Ming said in surprise.
"This is a divine hidden lamp. Under the support of my magic power, the fluctuations it emits can obscure the breath of your soul and mine. It can also distort the perception of the people around you through the fluctuation of soul power, so that they cannot detect our existence." Xiying.
smiled.
After saying that, she took Yuan Ming and rushed to the door of Xiao's house.
After a try, it was true as she said, no one she met along the way could see their figures or sense their existence.
"Don't worry, this is a magic weapon of extremely high rank. It is supplemented by my soul power. Unless you are a monk in the late Nascent Soul stage or someone whose soul power is better than mine, you will not notice it at all." Seeing that Yuan Ming was a little nervous.
, Xiying said through a message.
The two of them walked towards Xiao's residence in such a swaggering manner.
When Xi Ying took possession of Xiao Ying's body, she lived here for a while and was very familiar with the situation in this mansion. She soon brought Yuan Ming to the place where the guests were accommodated.
However, after arriving at this villa, the two of them searched for it, but could not find Tuya.
Just when Yuan Ming was hesitating whether to use the White Jade Lotus Platform to comprehensively investigate the situation of the entire Red Lotus Island, there was a burst of footsteps outside the hospital.
Immediately afterwards, two figures walked in.
That sassy woman with braided hair and southern Xinjiang attire is none other than Tuya.
Following her was a tall young man with a flattering smile on his face, wearing a luxurious green robe, reaching out to pull Tuya's sleeves.
"Uncle Xing Rong, I appreciate your kindness, but there's really no need for it. I have to concentrate on studying formations recently, and I really don't have time to go out with you." Tuya avoided it with a face of resistance, but still maintained the basics.
politeness.
"Tuya, Third Senior Sister, she asked me to take care of you, not only to protect your safety, but also your mood is also very important. Seeing that you have been depressed recently, I feel very uncomfortable, uncle. You might as well talk to me
I'm going to the Beisha Sea just to relax." The tall man whom Tuya called Xing Rong still refused to give up and persuaded.
This chapter has been completed!