Chapter 305: The Departed Sister

After eliminating the curse, Liu Xuan did not stay at Lingyun's Villa for long before leaving in a hurry; judging by her manner, it seemed she was going to prepare something to thank Lingyun.

After walking a distance from the Villa, Xuan Feng suddenly turned his head and stared blankly at the three villas where Lingyun and the others were located. His intuition had been telling him that these three villas were absolutely not as simple as they appeared to him now.

"Big Brother, what are you looking at?" Xuan Lei asked with some curiosity.

"Shh, be quiet, wait until I've finished looking," Xuan Feng said.

After staring fixedly at the villas for a while, a cyan light slowly emerged in Xuan Feng's eyes. This was Xuan Feng's innate divine ability, named Qingming Divine Eye, but this ability was extremely incomplete and could not be used at will; it could only be triggered by luck. However, once triggered, he could possess the ability to see through many things for a short period of time.

After triggering the Qingming Divine Eye, Xuan Feng once again cast his gaze toward the three villas. This time, he finally saw what he had not seen before. On the perimeter of the three villas, they were covered in dense Array Patterns.

Under his careful identification, he finally found the Array Patterns of a Spirit Gathering Array. But he was horrified to discover that among these Array Patterns, the Spirit Gathering Array was merely the foundation; there were even more Array Patterns that he could not understand.

As his gaze fell upon those Array Patterns, he felt a chill rise from his heart. In his eyes, these Array Patterns all turned blood-red; this was a warning from the Qingming Divine Eye, signifying that these Array Patterns could put him to death.

"Illusion Array, Trapping Array, Killing Array—all three types of Arrays are complete, and each type has at least three mutually reinforcing Arrays superimposed..." Looking at the dense red Array Patterns, Xuan Feng could not help but gasp, and a cold sweat broke out on his back. "Could the Arrays laid out around the Villa be prepared for slaughtering Golden Core experts?"

Just as he intended to study the Arrays around the Villa carefully, a faint light suddenly rose around the Villa, and afterward, he found that he could no longer see the Arrays within; even if he exerted his full strength to activate the Qingming Divine Eye, it was to no avail.

"To think that the person who set up the Array could actually block the Qingming Divine Eye; even in the secular world, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers!" Xuan Feng sighed softly and shook his head.

"What is it, Elder Xuan Feng?" Liu Xuan asked with some confusion.

"It's nothing. I just have one thing to tell you: the owner of this Villa can only be befriended, never made an enemy of," Xuan Feng said.

"Why?" Xuan Lei asked, somewhat puzzled.

"You will understand in the future," Xuan Feng said gloomily.

Just after Liu Xuan and the others left, Lingyun slowly opened his hand; in his palm, a blood-red stream of Qi was charging back and forth, seemingly wanting to break free from Lingyun's control.

"Is this the tracking mark left behind by that Vampire Duke?" Lingyun smiled faintly, then closed his hand, completely shattering this stream of Qi.

"Master, Xiao Xiaoxiao is here," Luo Yexi said to Lingyun after answering a phone call. "I'll go bring her in."

"Mm," Lingyun nodded slightly.

Xiao Xiaoxiao stood in front of the Villa gate, feeling somewhat uneasy in her heart. At first, she became friends with Luo Yexi because the two of them got along well, and she also harbored a desire to protect Luo Yexi from the Four Young Masters of Huaxia. But only in these past few days did she discover that Luo Yexi was not the little girl from a mountain village she had imagined, but a top-tier expert whom even her father could not compare to.

This shift in status left her unable to process things even now. Recalling that before coming here, her father told her she must build a good relationship with Luo Yexi and the others, it made her heart feel even more uneasy.

"Xiaoxiao, you're here," the Villa gate was pushed open, and Luo Yexi's figure appeared before her.

"Mm," Xiao Xiaoxiao responded somewhat awkwardly.

Luo Yexi smiled, then reached out to take her hand: "Let's go, my Master is still waiting for you."

Looking at her right hand being held, the corners of Xiao Xiaoxiao's mouth curled into a slight smile; although Luo Yexi's strength had changed, the relationship between them was still the same as before, and it had not changed due to the disparity in strength.

"Ye Xi, what does your Master want with me?" Xiao Xiaoxiao asked Luo Yexi somewhat cautiously.

"I don't know either, but don't worry, my Master is a very easy person to get along with," Luo Yexi comforted her.

Xiao Xiaoxiao nodded, but she still felt some unease in her heart.

After stepping into the hall, Xiao Xiaoxiao saw Lingyun sitting in the hall.

"Junior Xiao Xiaoxiao pays her respects to Senior," Xiao Xiaoxiao bowed respectfully to Lingyun.

Seeing Xiao Xiaoxiao's actions, Lingyun raised his eyebrows slightly, then said somewhat helplessly: "You don't need to be so formal here; you can call me Lingyun. After all, you are still my schoolmate, aren't you?"

"This..." Xiao Xiaoxiao looked at Lingyun hesitantly, then looked at Luo Yexi, and only after seeing that the latter had no objections did she breathe a slight sigh of relief. "Then I won't stand on ceremony, Lingyun."

"I told you, Master wouldn't mind such things," Luo Yexi said with a smile.

"But if I do that, wouldn't I be a generation older than you?" Xiao Xiaoxiao said hesitantly.

"Can't we just treat it as each to their own?" Luo Yexi said.

"Mm. By the way, Lingyun, is there something you wanted to see me about?" Xiao Xiaoxiao asked.

Lingyun pondered for a moment, then said: "Xiao Xiaoxiao, do you have any other sisters?"

"Eh, Master, didn't I already tell you before? Xiaoxiao is the only girl in her family," Luo Yexi said with some confusion. "Why are you still asking this?"

However, upon hearing Lingyun's words, Xiao Xiaoxiao's expression changed slightly, and the look she cast toward Lingyun was also filled with surprise and suspicion.

Seeing Xiao Xiaoxiao's expression, Lingyun knew there was a hidden story here. He picked up a photo from the tabletop and handed it to Xiao Xiaoxiao.

Xiao Xiaoxiao took the photo with some confusion; when she saw the person in the photo, her expression changed drastically. The person in the photo looked just like Xiao Xiaoxiao when she was a child, but if one were to look carefully, one could also tell that the person in the photo was not Xiao Xiaoxiao, yet she definitely had an extraordinary connection to Xiao Xiaoxiao.

"This, where did you get this photo?"

"This photo is one of the few keepsakes I kept from the orphanage back then," Lingyun said without blinking.

In reality, this photo was taken by Lingyun of Youruo in the Heavenly Dao Space and formed after time acceleration. But given Youruo's current size, no one would doubt that it was something left over from the orphanage back then.

Xiao Xiaoxiao took a deep breath and carefully held the photo in her hand: "That's right, I do have a younger sister."

"A sister? Then Xiaoxiao, why have you never told me about it?" Luo Yexi asked.

"Because my sister has already passed away," Xiao Xiaoxiao said with a grim expression.

"Passed away?" Lingyun frowned slightly.

"That's right, passed away, in a car accident," Xiao Xiaoxiao nodded. "When I was seven years old, my family was in a major car accident, and that was when my sister passed away."