Chapter 84 – The Only Possibility

“Really? Elder sister are you telling the truth?” When Xia Yuanba, who was originally terrified inside, heard these words from Lan Xueruo, his eyes instantly lit up and he shouted with incomparable excitement. It was as if he had suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw in the midst of despair.

“When has senior sister ever lied to you.” Lan Xueruo smiled, “Luckily, Qin Mansion Master didn’t hand you over right away, but instead fought for ten days for you, otherwise, even if I had a way, there’s simply no way I could have made it in time.”

“Great!” Xia Yuanba’s face was filled with redness as he touched his internal injuries under his excitement, and he grimaced in pain for a while.

Yun Che looked at Lan Xueruo with a face full of astonishment for a long while, then smiled ambiguously, “Senior Sister Xueruo, if you’re being so nice to me, it can’t be that …… you’re looking at me, right? Although I know that my appearance is considered perfect amongst men, and I like Senior Sister Xue Ruo just as much, but after all, I am a family man now, does Senior Sister Xue Ruo really not mind at all?”

“I mind your ass!” Lan Xue Ruo cried and laughed as she flicked her lips, “I, Lan Xue Ruo, wouldn’t be interested in a little brother who is younger than me and has a family! I’ll help you simply because I’m a senior sister and it just so happens to be by the way.”

“Uh-huh uh-huh!” Xia Yuanba nodded his head for a while and said heartily, “Senior Sister Xue Ruo has always been this kind of person, no matter who she treats, she is especially gentle and caring. When I first arrived at the Crescent Moon Xuanfu, I didn’t recognize a single person around me. Moreover, my Xuan power was low and I even entered the first class, and I was met with a lot of criticism and ridicule, but it was Senior Sister Xue Ruo who gave me a lot of care. Senior sister Xue Ruo, is the most gentle and kind person I’ve ever met.”

Every time Xia Yuanba mentioned Lan Xueruo, his eyes would flash and his face would be filled with love and admiration, he was practically on the verge of treating her as a perfect goddess-like figure, and Lan Xueruo did indeed have this kind of gentle and soft temperament, disposition and charisma.

“That’s for sure.” Yun Che also nodded his head deeply, “Senior Sister Xue Ruo is so beautiful, she must be the embodiment of an angel from the heavens, that’s why she’s so gentle and kind… …… However, Senior Sister, do you really not consider people who are younger than you at all and have started a family? In fact, men who are younger and already have a family have many advantages that a single uncle will never have, such as ……”

“Within ten days, do you want to return to Pale Wind Imperial City with me or not?” Lan Xue Ruo really couldn’t listen any longer and pretended to put on a stern face.

“To be to be! Of course I want to!” Before Yun Che could answer, Xia Yuanba had already panicked and nodded his head in agreement, lest Lan Xueruo would back out. Originally, Xia Yuanba was deeply worried that there was no way for Yun Che to escape this catastrophe at all, and this proposal from Lan Xueruo was tantamount to a heavenly surprise, and he had to grab it by the balls no matter what he said.

Yun Che, however, thought for a moment and said with some caution: ”Senior sister, I am very grateful for your good intentions. However, in this matter, it’s possible that the one I’ve gotten into trouble with is the Xiao Sect’s General Sect, so if Elder Sister takes me away when the time comes and they insist on pursuing the matter …… I don’t want to involve Elder Sister, as well as Elder Sister’s family.”

Lan Xueruo guffawed and said, “Counting on you having a conscience, you still know to think for senior sister. However, since I dared to help you escape Crescent City, I certainly have enough certainty that I won’t draw fire. You can completely rest assured on this point, I wouldn’t be foolish enough to joke with my own life and the lives of my loved ones.”

“Although the Xiao Sect’s people have left, there are definitely still people staking out the door, if you go out, you might immediately fall into their hands. So these days, you should honestly stay in the Xuan Mansion and don’t go anywhere. When my family arrives, I will take you away immediately. Once you reach the Cangfeng Imperial City, you should be completely safe.”

Lan Xueruo spoke with certainty and ease, clearly allowing Yun Che to feel relieved and at ease as much as possible. Yun Che also didn’t hesitate any longer and said gratefully, “Then …… Senior Sister, I’ll be relying on you when the time comes. After escaping this calamity, I will definitely properly repay senior sister for saving my life.”

Lan Xue Ruo’s pink lips were slightly hooked, her eyebrows curving into two delicate crescents, “If you want to repay senior sister, you should stay here safely and securely and protect your own life. Only if you have a life, can you have a day to repay me oh.”

“Uh-huh! I’ll listen to Senior Sister’s words.” Yun Che gave a very forceful nod of his head, then his voice changed and suddenly asked, “Senior sister, does that …… you have any Xuan Beast’s Xuan Dan on your body? A low-grade one would be good. If not, which place in the mansion can I find it?”

“Xuan Dan? What do you need Xuan Dan for?” Lan Xueruo questioned.

“Keep it a secret for now. Could it be that Senior Sister really has it on her?” Looking at Lan Xueruo’s expression, Yun Che’s eyes lit up.

Lan Xueruo reached out and fumbled in the spatial ring on her slender finger for a while, and took out a dull-colored orb: “There’s only one lowest-grade Sub Xuan Dan on my body, which I obtained from a Red Training Lizard some time ago. However, there should be a few True Xuan Beast Xuan Dans at the Qin Mansion Master’s place, if you need them, I’ll go ……”

“Sub-Xuan Dan is enough.” Yun Che reached out and took the sub-Xuan Dan in Lan Xueruo’s hand, and his heart was instantly certain.

Mortal beasts did not have Xuan Dan in their bodies, and starting from Sub-Xuan Beasts, adult Xuan Beasts would have the existence of Xuan Dan in their bodies, just like the core of Xuan Veins in the bodies of humans. Among the Xuan Dan, the Sub Xuan Dan was the most readily available, and accordingly the price was the lowest, generally only a few dozen to a few hundred Huang Xuan Coins, while the price increased geometrically for every level of grade. In the Cangfeng Empire, any Earth Xuan Dan would fetch a heavenly price, and by the time it reached Heaven Xuan Dan, it was already priceless. The King Xuan Dan, on the other hand, was basically something that could only be found in legends.

On the way to Crescent City, Yun Che did harvest a few lowest grade Sublime Xuan Dan, but they were all used by him to refine the more efficient Hui Xuan Dan. He had carried raw iron on his back the entire way, and the Return Xuan Dan had almost always been used as his meal.

“Senior Brother Yun, you’re also tired today, so rest early. There’s no need to think about anything else. With Mistress Qin here, Xiao Zong won’t mess around these ten days. As long as you pass these ten days, I have absolute certainty that I will keep you safe.”

“I know Senior Sister …… Senior Sister also rest early.”

Lan Xueruo slowly left with an ethereal fragrant breeze, leaving Yun Che there in a moment of contemplation.

“That’s great, brother-in-law! Since Senior Sister said it with such certainty, she will definitely be able to get you out.” Xia Yuanba said with an excited face, “Eh…… brother-in-law? Why don’t you look very happy? Is it because you don’t believe Senior Sister Xue Ruo?”

“Yuanba, are you related to Senior Sister Xue Ruo?” Yun Che asked coldly.

“No. Why is brother-in-law asking that?” Xia Yuanba rubbed his brain.

“Then, have you, or any of your family members ever saved Senior Sister Xue Ruo, or her family or anything?”

“Not really! I haven’t even met her family. Besides, it’s impossible for me to save Senior Sister Xue Ruo with such a low Xuan power. There’s even less to say about my family.”

“That’s strange.” Yun Che tapped his right hand on his chin with a thoughtful expression, “Non-family, no reason, a total relationship of just a few words of conversation, why would she want to help me?”

“Oh! You say this ah, brother-in-law you really overthink it, I’ve said it all, Senior Sister Xue Ruo was originally such a kind person. When I first arrived at the Crescent Moon Xuan Mansion, I was also not related to her, and she gave me much, much help and care. The senior brothers and sisters in the Xuan Mansion all love her.”

“No, this is different.” Yun Che, however, shook his head and said with a serious look on his face, “The help she gave you could be from her heart, and I wouldn’t find it strange. However, her bringing me to escape from Crescent Moon City is completely different! She knows very well that the trouble I have caused this time has already involved the Xiao Zong General Sect …… Although I am not too happy with the people of the Xiao Zong, I have to admit that the Xiao Zong General Sect has a huge power in the Cangfeng Empire that covers the sky, and there are a few people who can’t be shocked when they hear the word Xiao Zong in the entire empire! How many people dare to provoke the Xiao Sect? How many people would dare to risk being implicated to help a person who has offended the Xiao Sect to break away from the Xiao Sect’s sanctions.”

Xia Yuanba opened his mouth, but was unable to speak.

“If it’s a life and death friendship, there’s no excuse for doing so. But she and I have known each other for just a day, and have only spoken some words to each other, and have no favor or grudge against each other, yet she wants to take such a great risk to go and take me away from Crescent City. It’s really too strange.”

“Also …… Yuanba, you guys are in the same class, in the past few days, have you heard her talk about returning to Cangfeng Imperial City recently, or signs or anything like that?” Yun Che asked.

Xia Yuanba was confused for a moment, then thought seriously and shook his head, “As if, not really. But if she wants to go home, there shouldn’t be a need to tell us in advance.”

“I didn’t say that I wanted to return to the Imperial City before, but now I suddenly said that I want to return, the time is ten days later, and the time that Mistress Qin has secured for me just happens to be ten days as well……. This is more or less a bit of a coincidence too much.” Yun Che mused.

After hearing Yun Che say such a thing, Xia Yuanba also began to feel that it was a bit fishy. He certainly knew of the Xiao Sect’s prestige, and risking the great danger of offending the Xiao Sect to save someone he had only known for a day and could be said to be irrelevant, thinking about it like that, it was indeed too abnormal, because the slightest carelessness could potentially invite a disaster of annihilation! He scratched his scalp vigorously before shaking his head violently, ”No, no, no! Senior sister Xue Ruo is such a good person, it’s impossible for her to have any other designs on brother-in-law, and besides …… besides, brother-in-law, you’re not a rich man, and you’re not an expert, so if it’s to save you for any purpose, what purpose can it have?”

“This is also the strangest place for me ah.” Yun Che raised his eyes, reached out and touched his face, and said in a low voice, “So …… the sentence I just asked Xue Ruoworld, ‘Do you have your eyes on me’… …could not be a joke at all. To be able to make a girl do that for a man she’s only just met, the only possibility I can think of is that Senior Sister Xue Ruo has fallen in love with me …… well, at first sight.”

“What!?” Xia Yuanba’s legs went limp, and he almost didn’t kneel directly in front of Yun Che in shock.

“I have no power, no strength, no background . Scenery, even the most vulgar money, and instead, I have caused a great deal of trouble. Then the only thing Senior Sister Xue Ruo can covet from me is beauty. A woman is a sensual animal, if she has a heart for a man, then for him even the most exaggerated and crazy things are possible to do. It’s only normal that she would risk great danger to save me.”

“Hohoho …… Indeed, no matter which realm one goes to, one can’t change this era of looking at faces. Being good-looking is not only a strong capital, but sometimes it can also save lives.” Yun Che pinched his face, not knowing what came to his mind, and grinned.

Yun Che’s smile at this moment, how Xia Yuanba looked at it, had a lewd connotation. He stared wide-eyed and stammered, “But …… but …… Senior Sister Xue Ruo she’s so beautiful, so gentle, and there are so many people who like her many! How could she …… And Senior Sister Xue Ruo also said that she has no interest at all in those who are smaller than herself, and those who are already married, this …… this …… ”

“~! @#￥%…… “Xia Yuanba freaked out, “That’s definitely not the case! Just now when Senior Sister Xue Ruo was there, why didn’t Brother-in-law ask him directly?”

“Can’t ask.” Yun Che wiggled his finger in front of Xia Yuanba’s eyes and said in a serious manner, “Men don’t like women who are too smart, and women, likewise, don’t like men who are too smart. If I ask, it would be too much of a scene.” Speaking here, Yun Che’s eyes became unusually deep, “The speculation just now is the only possibility I can think of at the moment, and I don’t know if it’s right or wrong. But what is certain is that she wants to capture me and become some sort of ‘prey’ for her, and I ……” Yun Che’s mouth hooked at the corners, “am the same! Next, it depends on who wins first! If she wins, I’ll do what she wants, and if she loses, hey hey hey hey ……”

Xia Yuanba: “……”