Chapter 553: We Need Your Help
However, Han Jing shamelessly thought that if Lian Xichen agreed to help them for Xiao Xue’s sake, then she wouldn’t have made the trip in vain.
It’s not that she lacked confidence, but the look Lian Xichen gave her just now wasn’t very good.
Han Jing felt a bit frustrated, what on earth does Han Litong’s misdeeds have to do with her? She never received the slightest favor from Han Litong and might have been abandoned by her. She felt she suffered wrongfully!
"Brother Xichen, how have you been here all these years? Why haven’t you returned to the Spirit Cultivation Realm? Five years ago... there was a big incident in the Spirit Cultivation Realm, did you hear about it?" Fortunately, Lan Ling smartly started to get close to Lian Xichen.
Lian Xichen frowned, looking at Lan Ling: "Sit down and tell me, what happened?"
"Old Man Yun was harmed by that old witch Xia Ji... trapped in the Delusion Void Array under the Illusion Sea’s seabed. My master says there’s no way they can rescue him." Lan Ling intended to talk to Lian Xichen about Su Yu, but since Qin Shutong was still here, he omitted the details.
"Master is trapped in the Delusion Void Array?! Damn it!" Lian Xichen’s face immediately darkened. Although his foster father treated him with deep affection, besides his foster father, the most important people to him were his master and senior brother. During those years in Spirit Flame Sect, thanks to his master’s teachings and senior brother’s guidance and care, he achieved what he did later.
If his master was in trouble, he couldn’t stand by idly no matter what.
"Now Lingyou Hall dominates, the entire Spirit Cultivation Realm... we really need Brother Xichen’s help, so we specially came to Yanjing City to see if you could return with us to the Spirit Cultivation Realm?" Lan Ling straightforwardly stated their purpose for coming.
Lian Xichen tightened his lips but remained silent for a long time.
Opposite him, Qin Shutong was slightly surprised to hear their purpose. Seeing Lian Xichen’s face looking very displeased, he understood the matter wasn’t simple and couldn’t help but persuade: "Xichen, since it’s your master who’s in trouble, surely they urgently need your help, or they wouldn’t have come such a long way personally to find you. Over the years in Dong Qin, you’ve fulfilled Old Duke Jing’s wishes and helped me greatly. Now that Dong Qin is peaceful and prosperous, if you need to leave, it’s alright."
He knew Xichen valued loyalty greatly; otherwise, he wouldn’t have stayed to help him back then. Though part of it was due to Old Duke Jing’s dying wish for Dong Qin to settle down. Old Duke Jing spent half of his life as a warrior, most of his days along the Donghai Jingbian, and no one wished more than him to see peace in the East Sea. However, with rampant sea bandits, the East Sea’s people suffered immensely, and after the court’s internal turmoil, no competent general, within less than a dozen years of his departure, the East Sea fell into distress. Thus his dying wish was for Xichen to lead troops eastward to ensure peace in the East Sea.
Coupled with ascending the throne young and just taking charge, he desperately needed Xichen’s help, so he stayed. This stay lasted more than a dozen years.
Later, with the East Sea completely stable, no enemy dared invade again, he wished to make amends to Xichen but didn’t know what to offer. Being longtime friends, he knew Xichen didn’t care for power or fame; what he held dear was always those rare past bonds.