Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 851 - 534: Heart

Chapter 851: Chapter 534: Heart

After coming out of the prison, Qing silently locked the door with the soul key and left without a word.

Every time she saw Xu Yuan, she would remember her own sunlight, and she would think that Xu Yuan was the offspring born from his pleasure with that woman. Each time she realized this, her two hearts would feel excruciating pain.

So, she hated Xu Yuan, hated him so much that she wanted to tear him apart.

But she could not do that, so she could only stay away.

Watching the tall sister in black robes leave, Ran Qingmo silently shifted her gaze to Xu Yuan.

After coming out, Xu Yuan stood silently in front of his grandfather’s prison cell, lost in thought.

After staring at his thoughtful profile for a few moments, Ran Qingmo habitually thought about taking out the Source Crystal to cultivate, but stopped when she remembered his advice. Her dark eyes wandered around the corridor, and she became somewhat listlessly lost in thought as well.

She watched him while he focused on the floor tiles.

Xifeng Mountain, the secret temple of the Feng Family, the thirteenth spirit tablet stained with blood at the end of the ancestral temple, would open a secret passage.

That was the clue his grandfather had given him before he left.

As for what could be obtained after entering the secret passage, the grandfather had simply said, "You will know when the time comes," and had sent him out.

An old riddler indeed.

If Xu Yuan didn’t have the information from the Cangyuan Chronicles, he might not have known what this grandfather would give him. However, what puzzled him was that the Nameless old man, this grandfather in the Cangyuan Chronicles, had left the treasure quest location not in the Feng Family Ancestral Land, but in the Great Desert. Otherwise, merely with the clue of the Feng Family Ancestral Land, he wouldn’t have been able to deduce this grandfather’s identity as soon as he entered the room.

So,

Was the clue given by this grandfather not the direct location of the treasure, but a prerequisite task to get the token?

But why did this grandfather like to be a riddler?

After pondering for a moment, Xu Yuan suddenly understood what this grandfather was trying to do, which seemed to have no deep intentions, and appeared somewhat simple and naive.

Without this grandfather’s guidance, even if he, Xu Yuan, obtained the token, he likely wouldn’t know how to use it, so he would inevitably return to find him.

In doing so, he could spend more time with his family.

With a hint of strangeness in his eyes, Xu Yuan whispered softly,

"...Is it just that you want me to get the token and then come back to spend time with you?"

Slowly raising his eyes, he saw Big Ice Lump blinking at him.

Exchanging a glance, Ran Qingmo quietly withdrew her gaze.

Xu Yuan smiled slightly, raised his hand pointing deep into the corridor, and suggested as they walked,

"If you have anything to ask, just ask."

"I don’t..."

Although Ran Qingmo had a bellyful of questions, she shook her head as it was Xu Yuan’s family matter, and her master had once said that one should refrain from getting too involved in family matters concerning relatives, no matter how close they are.

Staring at Ran Qingmo’s dark, bright eyes for a few moments,

"Really?"

Ran Qingmo pursed her lips, blinked, and still couldn’t resist asking tentatively,

"Um...will the Sect definitely turn out the way your grandfather said, Xu Yuan?"

Xu Yuan was momentarily stunned, then chuckled softly,

"Why suddenly ask this question?"

Ran Qingmo’s eyes were very serious,

"The Mistress said, relatives and couples should help each other, but your grandfather killed your grandmother and so many other relatives."

Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, then responded with a faint smile,

"That is indeed a problem..."

The current harmony amongst the Xu family brothers largely stemmed from the cold-blooded actions of their grandfather in the past.

If it wasn’t for Feng Yuanqin clearing the path for his mother and maternal uncle with his blood-stained hands, if those direct lineage elders of the maternal clan had stayed, based on the extent of the Prime Minister’s Mansion’s purge that night, those from the Feng family’s direct lineage who chose the wrong path would likely have been dealt with by his mother or maternal uncle.

Once the precedent of patricide was set, that harmonious atmosphere would be irrevocably gone.

Perhaps Feng Yuanqin’s recount of his past was a warning to him, the later generation.

The succession rights of the Prime Minister’s Mansion could fall unobstructedly to him, Xu Yuan, partly because his father married only his mother in his lifetime, counting the adopted children, there were only four descendants. Secondly, because the brothers did not have strong desires for power and were vying to be the ones who could wash their hands of the estate’s management.

This generation might be like this, but what about the next?

History is a circle.

The children of Big Ice Lump, Washboard Saintess, Wrapped Chest Princess, and even those of the Shameful Succubus, would they have as diluted a desire for power as their generation?

What would become of the Prime Minister’s Mansion if they chose to fight?

Taking a deep breath, Xu Yuan looked at the young girl before him with equally serious eyes,

"Ran Qingmo, everyone has their own way of doing things, I don’t know how others will handle it, but I won’t let such things happen, even if it means breaking their legs, I definitely won’t."

"Really?"

"Really."

"But what if you aren’t strong enough?"

"..." Xu Yuan.

Don’t bully the wall-mount when poor.

After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan snorted with a laugh,

"Isn’t that why I have you to help me?"

"...."

Ran Qingmo’s eyes flickered, seemingly realizing something, and she lowered her eyelids with her lips pursed and appeared to be smiling.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan didn’t say more and murmured softly,

"Then let’s go, we need to find Xinyao."

"Uh-huh."

As their conversation concluded, nothing but flickering flames could be heard in the corridor.

Black Prison, when entering from the outside world, required passing through several stringent checks, but entering from the inner courtyard was devoid of these cumbersome procedures. Moments later, the two arrived unobstructed at Xu Xinyao’s secret chamber.