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Chapter 560 - 180: Aftermath, Turmoil, Taming, Family Reunion
Two days later.
A beam of white light shot towards a certain town in Mianzhou Path.
Wrapped in the white light was a female sword warrior with cold eyes—Gu Xuejian.
Gu Xuejian appeared calm, but her eyes held a trace of hidden anxiety. In her left hand, she held a fragment of jade the size of a bean, which was emitting a faint glow, growing brighter as she approached the town.
This jade was called "Moonlight Jade," split in two, holding one could sense the other.
Moreover, when the other party removed their jade pendant, this "Moonlight Jade" would produce a strong premonition.
If the other piece of Moonlight Jade was found, one could see the last scene before the other party left.
One piece of this "Moonlight Jade" was in Gu Xuejian’s hand, and the other was in Li Ping’an’s hand.
However, the master and disciple were very familiar with each other.
Gu Xuejian knew that if Li Ping’an was outside, he would never be without the jade.
If he was in the city, then at night he would either be in meditation or engaging in conjugal activities.
If engaged in conjugal activities, the jade pendant would be removed at midnight and would return by morning or noon.
Removing the jade pendant at midnight had become a way for her disciple to report his safety.
So, a few days ago, when the jade pendant was removed at midnight as usual, Gu Xuejian didn’t think much of it.
But now, she was about to go mad.
Because the jade pendant had not been worn for more than two days!
She put aside everything and rushed madly towards the location of the jade pendant.
Like a thoroughly provoked lioness, she flew rapidly, compressing several days’ journey into a single day.
By now, she had arrived at where the jade pendant was.
She looked down cautiously at the location of the jade pendant—the ruins of a temple.
Gu Xuejian sensed briefly and felt no one, yet still activated the Blood Domain first.
Instantly, scorching blood shot out like red swords, tearing the ruined temple apart.
Amid the swirling dust, Gu Xuejian sensed where the jade pendant was, and as it fell, the jade drifted upward, landing back in her hand.
Yet no danger occurred, leaving Gu Xuejian slightly bewildered.
The "trap" she had imagined dissolved without a trace.
She overlapped her "Moonlight Jade" with Li Ping’an’s piece.
Immediately, a scene entered her mind.
It was Li Ping’an in the ruined temple, facing the jade pendant, speaking softly: "Master, by the time you see this scene, I should have already left with my wife and daughter, along with my Third and Fourth Ladies, and Aunt Yao.
Actually, I wanted to take you with us, but I know you wouldn’t come with me.
I’m not leaving to be a deserter; there are other reasons.
Alright, you’re my master and my father thinks I can tell you this.
Yes, my father is still alive, he has broken through to the Fifth Grade,
My mother is also alive, but she’s not well... as their son, I have to see them.
But that’s not the only reason.
Another reason, which you might not believe, is that... Qing Hancheng has colluded with the Lotus Sect.
This is information we have confirmed, but this might just be the tip of the iceberg of many dangerous pieces of information.
You must know better than I do what this means.
Master, I don’t want anything to happen to you... but my father doesn’t allow me to say more.
Take care, perhaps we’ll meet again."
After Li Ping’an spoke, the image of Yaojue appeared again.
That silhouette faced the jade pendant and said: "Sister Xuejian, I left without saying goodbye because my man came, I must go with him.
Besides... even if I told you in advance, you being you, wouldn’t have come with us.
But don’t worry, we’re all fine, it’s Sister Xuejian who needs to start worrying now."
The scene flashed and gradually disappeared.
Snap...
Gu Xuejian separated the two pieces of "Moonlight Jade" again, her mind shaken and difficult to calm.
Logically or emotionally, she couldn’t believe Qing Hancheng had betrayed them.
Suddenly, she recalled the scene from over ten years ago when she first reached the Fourth Grade and entered Shanbao County.
On Xiao Mo Mountain, amid barren rocks, a mysterious person saved her and before parting, gave her a brocade pouch.
The mysterious person said, "If you wish to leave the Divine Wood Hall, be sure to open the brocade pouch beforehand, or disaster will follow."
Gu Xuejian had left the Divine Wood Hall many times for errands, and the first time she did, she opened the brocade pouch, which had four words written on it: "Beware the Hall Master."
She was on guard for quite some time, but nothing ever happened.
Gu Xuejian found it both amusing and exasperating, and eventually forgot about it.
But now, the words "Beware the Hall Master" suddenly connected to "her own disciple," causing her pupils to contract.
The mysterious person who left her the brocade pouch must have known something, but was not all-knowing, so could not predict precisely, and merely left her a Heart Eye.
And this Heart Eye might correspond directly here.
In name, Gu Xuejian and Li Ping’an were master and disciple, but in reality, their relationship was not much different from mother and son.
She absolutely trusted Li Ping’an’s words.
She also believed Li Ping’an’s judgment about his parents still being alive.
After all, it wasn’t just Li Ping’an; there was also Yaojue, Cui Huayin, and Jing Shuixiang.
"Li Yuan..."
Gu Xuejian muttered to herself.
The image of that man flashed through her mind.
Suddenly, she realized she perhaps never truly understood that man...
Thinking it over carefully, that white-haired Forged Soldier guise might just be a Golden Cicada’s Shell, a Long entering the sea strategy.
The man standing in the wind, wielding the Sun and Moon in the Sky, his three thousand silver strands in the mountain breeze like an old majestic lion, was now enveloped in an aura both mysterious and dark.