Chapter 379

"Be good, Qingxia. You are still young, and there are many things you cannot see clearly."

Yu Jing patted Qiu Qingxia's slender back with her hand and continued to comfort her in as gentle a tone as possible: "Mother knows you like Shizi Shizi Jun Zhan Tian. Actually, when Mother was your age, I was much the same, but later Mother gradually understood that there are many men who cannot be yours just because you want them to be."

She said these words for her daughter to hear, but weren't they also for herself?

"Shizi Shizi Jun Zhan Tian is indeed very outstanding, but like his father Jun Wuhui, he is headed toward that ethereal Immortal path; he is simply not an existence that an ordinary woman can possess. This world is vast, and there are countless young talents with better talent and higher status than Shizi Shizi Jun Zhan Tian. Why bother wasting your time on him?"

Yu Jing's words were actually just to comfort Qiu Qingxia; in truth, even she herself didn't believe there was any man in this world who could surpass the talent of the Jun father and son.

If it were otherwise, she wouldn't have been so infatuated with Jun Wuhui for so many years, unable to extricate herself.

"But..."

Qiu Qingxia still wanted to say something, but Yu Jing gently pressed her finger against her red lips; the words she had intended to ask about how to pursue a man were also stuck in her throat.

Yu Jing didn't want to hear Qiu Qingxia's explanations, because even she, as a mother, knew that unless Jun Wuhui wasn't inclined toward her, he was simply impeccable to any woman.

Handsome, mysterious, powerful, confident—every one of these traits could make the women of the world go crazy for him, and even though she had long since passed her naive years, she still couldn't let go of Jun Wuhui.

Last night, she had also tossed and turned, unable to sleep, even impulsively wanting several times to disregard her dignity and beg Jun Wuhui to favor her, let alone her daughter's current naive infatuation with Shizi Shizi Jun Zhan Tian.

To put it bluntly, she was lonely too.

Shanghe City.

Li Chen had also been living quite freely for a while; remembering his mission, he took Luo Qimeng and Luo Zixi to the ruins of the Luoshui Manor.

That was a place that made the two of them sad; one could say it was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, filled with painful memories.

If Li Chen hadn't accompanied them, they wouldn't have been as relaxed as they were now.

As for Jiang Mo, she had already returned to her sect; her strength had improved, and she had likely gone to take on some position.

Jiang Rong was the same as ever, organizing the Chamber of Commerce and the Jiang family's assets in Shanghe City.

As for Wei Manping and the women of the Wei family, they naturally went to the Imperial Palace to report, waiting for Li Chen's return.

On the way to the Luoshui Manor, Li Chen was thinking about what the meaning of this mission was.

If the system judged that he should be at the Mid-Stage Piercing Void Realm, this mission shouldn't be very difficult.

"In your Luoshui Manor, over all these years, have there been any particularly special people? That is to say, direct descendants of your Luo family—it doesn't have to be someone alive; dead or missing is fine too."

Hearing Li Chen ask this, Luo Qimeng pondered for a moment and replied: "Your Majesty, since you put it that way, I remember there seems to be a girl named Luo Xi, but Luo Xi has problems. Although she is a Sacred Body, it belongs to a 'waste' Sacred Body; she cannot cultivate and has been ostracized by the family since she was a child, so her mother took her and left the family."

Here, Luo Qimeng began to add a piece of 'knowledge': according to Sacred Body genetics, the women of their Luo family could indeed give birth to children with Sacred Bodies, but if the man wasn't up to the task, there was nothing to be done.

Luo Xi's mother was from the Luo family, but her father was very mysterious; Luo Xi followed her mother's surname.

It was said that her father had hopes of breaking through to the Sage Realm, but that was only hearsay; no one knew who he specifically was.

Moreover, in the May Tian Ce Dynasty, it was said that people with hopes of breaking through to the Sage Realm were everywhere, but whether they could actually break through was another matter.

Luo Xi's mother had never said who her father was, only saying that the day Luo Xi's father reached the Sage Realm, he would definitely come to pick up the mother and daughter.

It sounded like a grand love story, and also like a story of a naive girl being deceived.

According to Li Chen's understanding, Luo Xi's father must be powerful; otherwise, how could the women of the Luo family, who were so beautiful and had such high standards, possibly have taken a fancy to him?

At the time, the family head had said Luo Xi's mother was unchaste, and many disciples of the family were also cursing Luo Xi as a bastard.

Hearing this, Li Chen felt it was on the right track.

In his view, Luo Xi's constitution was definitely unusual, because when she was just born, an infant couldn't withstand such great destiny, so the Heavenly Dao would manifest shackles.

As Luo Xi continued to grow, the shackles would loosen; once they were undone, it would definitely be earth-shattering.

Of course, if they couldn't be undone, she would just be a useless person.

It seems the system is asking me to find this person and take her as a woman? A heroine matched to me by the system?

This wasn't Li Chen just letting his imagination run wild, because Li Chen possessed the power of the Heavenly Dao—wasn't that the key to unlocking the shackles of the Heavenly Dao?

As long as he helped Luo Xi remove the shackles, she would definitely be grateful, and it would be perfectly normal for her to offer herself to him then.

And most importantly, the Luo family was destroyed by the Wang family; whether Luo Xi wanted to avenge her family or find the Luo family's 'inheritance', being with the 'Imperial Prince' was definitely a good choice.

Wasn't this a match made in heaven?

But now Li Chen was the Emperor; he just needed to find Luo Xi.

Since the system called him to this place, there must be a way to find Luo Xi.

Just as Li Chen was thinking about how to find Luo Xi, cultivators kept appearing all around.

Luo Qimeng, who was beside him, sensibly went forward to ask what was happening, and these cultivators indicated that the Hong Sect Manor's Talent Assembly was about to begin; it was said that the champion this time would also gain the qualification to enter the forbidden grounds of the Hong Sect Manor.

The next day at dawn.

Qiu Qingxia woke up leisurely from her embrace; she shifted her body to press herself closer to Yu Jing's heart, causing that graceful figure to be deformed by the pressure.

"Is Qingxia awake?"

Yu Jing reached out and stroked Qiu Qingxia's hair.

That night, the mother and daughter talked all night long, and Yu Jing could clearly feel that the shackle in her daughter's heart, which had been like a dead end, had loosened slightly.

It is hard to persuade oneself even when persuading others; even though Yu Jing had talked her daughter through it, the position in her heart belonging to Jun Wuhui had never loosened.

"Mother, I still want to go to the Hong Sect Manor to watch the Talent Assembly."

Qiu Qingxia pressed tightly against her mother, her large eyes sparkling.

She had taken in some of Yu Jing's persuasion, but she simply didn't believe there was a man in this world more outstanding than Shizi Shizi Jun Zhan Tian.

What's more, those women by Shizi Shizi Jun Zhan Tian's side were just his followers, not sleeping in the same bed as him—why didn't she have a chance?

"Why must you be like this?"

Yu Jing was taken aback upon hearing this. Could it be that her daughter was as stubborn as she was? So last night was all a waste of breath!

"Even if there is no man in the world as outstanding as the Divine Son Jun, the one who catches my eye must at least be half as good as the Divine Son Jun. If he isn't even half as good, Daughter would rather stay single and accompany Mother."

Qiu Qingxia twisted her little head in Yu Jing's arms.

"Fine, Mother will just pretend you are coaxing me to make me happy."

Yu Jing raised her hand and gently flicked Qiu Qingxia's nose, her face full of a loving mother's gratified smile.

But the problem was, Shizi Shizi Jun Zhan Tian was as outstanding as his father; was there really anyone of the same generation who could catch up to even half of him?

(End of chapter)