Chapter 120: Running Away

Seeing that Qintai He looked somewhat dejected, Ruan Xing wanted to comfort him, but she wasn't very good at comforting people. After thinking for a long time, she said, "Aren't you and Senior Sister Meng Hui not on very good terms?"

Qintai He choked after hearing this and said gloomily, "That is only in comparison to others; it's not that bad."

Distracted by Ruan Xing, the bit of self-destructive emotion he had just been brewing dissipated.

"Then are you going to go talk to Senior Sister Meng?" Ruan Xing asked.

People had just about all arrived earlier, and the female cultivator from Tianyan Peak had given the Huiyang Pill to Meng Hui to take. After a few minutes, Meng Hui had already woken up.

She spoke to the others in a somewhat weak tone, expressing regret over her recklessness during the tribulation.

Qintai He hesitated for a moment, then said dejectedly, "Forget it, there's nothing to say. Let's go."

To him, apart from his master and Yinfeng, Meng Hui was the person he had spent the most time with and spoken to the most over these years.

But to Meng Hui, he was merely a reclusive, difficult-to-get-along-with fellow disciple.

The two returned to Yaoguang Peak, and Qintai He said he wanted to be quiet for a while, telling Ruan Xing to take Yinfeng out to play. Yinfeng's claws scratched at Qintai He's door, not letting it close, and it let out a whimper while looking at Qintai He inside.

Ruan Xing's eyes darted, and she had a new idea. She opened the Real-scene Simulation and, ignoring Qintai He's obstruction, joined forces with Yinfeng to push the door open.

"What else do you want to do?" Qintai He's tone was somewhat unpleasant.

Tsk, no wonder he wasn't close to anyone. When he spoke like this to someone who wanted to care about him, who could stand having their warm face constantly pressed against a cold butt?

However, considering that Qintai He thought his life was about to end, Ruan Xing didn't bicker with him about it. She leaned against the door and got straight to the point, "Hey, I have a good idea. Have you ever thought about running away?"

Qintai He frowned with a cold face, "What kind of good idea is that? I will not run away. Master raised me, and I will never betray her."

"Don't confuse the concepts. Running away is not the same as betrayal. Think about it carefully: the Peak Master doesn't want you to die in her heart, but this is a decision within the Sect. She has no say in the Sect, so she had to choose the next best option of swapping people. Now that the candidate for the swap is gone, the Peak Master must be in pain and conflicted. But as the Peak Master of Yaoguang Peak of the Xuanbing Sect, she cannot take the initiative to tell you to run. But if you really run, she will definitely turn a blind eye. Do you believe me?"

Ruan Xing spoke eloquently, but in reality, she wasn't sure if Qinghong Zhenjun would violate Sect rules to let Qintai He escape.

But it was a simulation, after all; one had to try paths not taken. What if it worked? Qintai He was stunned for a moment, began to ponder, and then shook his head, "No, if I run, Master will have violated the Sect rules and will be punished. I cannot do that."

Ruan Xing coaxed him, "The Peak Master is, after all, the master of a peak. If you really run, she will definitely notice. If she doesn't stop you, that is her tacit approval for you to run. If you don't run, that is what would be letting the Peak Master down and failing to live up to her good intentions. Besides, have you never been back to Xizhou? Don't you want to go back and take a look?"

She had guessed this point as well. Through her understanding of Qintai He during this time, she knew he was arrogant on the surface but inferior in his heart, which was why he wasn't good at getting close to people and spent all day with a cold face, pushing people away. But when Ruan Xing truly clung to him, he wouldn't beat her up in a fit of rage, but rather suppress his temper.

This was very different from those Clan disciples in Xizhou. Their cultivation techniques were inherited from their bloodlines, and every Cultivator was a precious member of the family. Even children born to mortal servants wouldn't be treated too poorly; they were all children who could receive the love of their elders and be valued. Their personalities would never be as awkward as Qintai He's.

Therefore, she felt that although Qintai He didn't arrive at Yaoguang Peak until he was seven, the place where he lived before seven was definitely not Xizhou. Qintai He suddenly fell silent.

His expression became dazed. Could he really go to Xizhou to take a look at those relatives of his bloodline? He had clearly been abandoned long ago.

"You might not know," Qintai He said with some difficulty, "My father was a member of the Qintai Family, a noble clan in Xizhou, but I was a posthumous child. I never saw him from the moment I was born. My mother was a disciple of the Xuanbing Sect. Before she passed away, she brought me back to the Xuanbing Sect, but the people of the Xuanbing Sect didn't like me because... my grandmaster died because of my mother."

"Currently, all the True Monarchs and Dao Monarchs with titles starting with 'Qing' are disciples of my grandmaster. Except for my master, most of them don't want to see me. They have sent messages to Xizhou many times asking them to take me back, but there has been no news from Xizhou. I am a person abandoned by everyone. I... Xizhou is not my home either."

"Since that's the case, then you should go to Xizhou even more." Ruan Xing stood up with a 'whoosh' and said with conviction, "You should go and properly question them: why didn't they want you? By what right did they not want you? You are not even thirty and you are already at the Golden Core stage. Looking across the Five Prefectures, isn't that something to be proud of? Ask your uncles, aunts, grandparents, elders, and cousins: by what right?"

Qintai He still cared quite a bit about the Qintai Family. When he was young, his mother often described that perfect father to him. He had yearned for it since he was a child and was proud of the Qintai Clan, otherwise, he wouldn't have emphasized his double surname to others.

Seeing Ruan Xing looking even more excited than himself, Qintai He said weakly, "Maybe they don't remember that I exist anymore, and besides, I have never left Xianyuan City..."

Seeing that Qintai He was no longer so resistant to her suggestion, Ruan Xing directly grabbed Qintai He's hand and walked outside, "If we hesitate any longer, it will be dark. We have to set off for the space-time rift tomorrow; if you want to run, it will be too late. Come out of the city with me now. If the Peak Master doesn't agree, she will definitely appear to stop us. If she doesn't stop us, that means she agrees to let you run. Don't defy your master's orders at this critical juncture."

"Wait..." Qintai He wanted to say something else, but Yinfeng was already jumping around excitedly at the door. Ruan Xing immediately said, "Yinfeng, go!"

Yinfeng lowered its body, and Ruan Xing pulled Qintai He to sit on it together. As if it knew that in an emergency one must act accordingly, Yinfeng didn't express any opposition to Ruan Xing and directly carried the two of them toward the foot of the mountain at top speed.

Qintai He couldn't help but question, "Is this too conspicuous... going out like this, as long as they aren't blind, everyone will know I'm running, right?"

"Why do you care if they saw or not? As long as the Peak Master is willing to pretend to be blind, what difference does it make if others saw or not?" Ruan Xing said, holding the white wolf's neck tightly, her words slurred.

The strong wind kicked up by the white wolf's rapid running made its fluffy fur almost blow into Ruan Xing's mouth.

Ruan Xing had no choice but to expand her Spiritual Power shield, moving it from the surface of her skin to ten centimeters away from her body, which increased her consumption of Spiritual Power.

But it was no big deal. She had a premonition that no one would come to stop them this time when leaving the city.

Although Qinghong Zhenjun might not be watching Qintai He every moment, the monitoring on her hadn't been removed yet. Qinghong Zhenjun must already know that she was taking Qintai He to run away.

Now it just depended on whether Qinghong Zhenjun would appear.

In previous simulations, whether she went in Qintai He's place or went secretly, she would be stopped by Qinghong Zhenjun. She didn't know what the result of this attempt would be.

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