Master Guan used to stay with Ye Xiao for a long time, and he always had faith in Ye Xiao. Even after Ye Changqing appeared, Master Guan still supported Ye Xiao. When he had to leave the Monarch’s Hall to join the Great Ye Army, he still sent a lot of his good men into the Monarch’s Hall!
After surviving the fight, he finally had the hope to return to Ye Xiao’s side again, but Ye Xiao broke his hope and told him that it was just an illusion. It seemed to him that he still had to live in the nightmare…
The despair after hope was the most heartbreaking thing. Master Guan got stricken again and again, so he passed out!
“As a matter of fact, I invited you to come because I needed to tell you something about this matter…” Ye Xiao said, “However, I didn’t know you would get into that fight… Ye Changqing was crazy. I never thought that he would do such an unforgivable thing.”
The six old masters who were still sober looked distressed.
They thought they could finally be free, but they couldn’t.
The invisible chain had never disappeared!
What they suffered, they suffered for nothing!
They wished this was just a bad dream. They wished they would wake up and somebody would tell them there was still something they could do. They even envied Master Guan, because Master Guan had passed out, so he didn’t need to face the despair. They wished they didn’t have to face the cruel reality…
“Guys, you don’t have to be pessimistic. I watched the real Young Master Yunduan.” Ye Xiao said, “He is much better than the fake… You don’t need to worry.”
“Sigh…”
The old men breathed a sigh at the same time. They were truly so sad about it.
‘We definitely won’t break a vow, but… We are looking at a real dragon right in front of us, yet we can’t dance with it… The only choice we have is to go with some stranger… It is difficult to accept…’
The old masters didn’t even want to talk anymore…
They just rested on the bed like zombies. Their eyes were hollow, and their hearts were in a mess… They were disappointed…
Master Guan slowly opened his eyes, and he immediately felt the sadness. He even wanted to pass out again.
Ye Xiao stayed silent for a while, and then said, “Just take some rests.”
He left.
The seven old men didn’t give him a response and just laid on their beds. They looked lifeless.
…
Three days later.
The old masters were recovered. With their guards, they quietly left the Hall of Life and Death, making sighs, heading back home.
The old masters of the seven clans came and left, but the Great Ye Clan people didn’t know.
“The Great Ye Army is gone. What I was going to tell you becomes not important anymore. Nobody needs to know that you are saved here. We should just keep it a secret.” Ye Xiao said.
The seven old masters knew that Ye Xiao didn’t want troubles, and he didn’t want the old masters to get into trouble. They were grateful, but they felt lost.
Two days after, Ye Yunduan and the three guards left the Hall of Life and Death.
Before they left, Ye Yunduan thanked Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao watched the four men off, and his eyes looked profound.
“Master, you made your choice.” Xuan Bing stood by Ye Xiao’s side and talked in a low voice.
“I am good enough to reach the top of the Human Realm Upon Heavens by myself! I don’t need their support! I don’t want to play intriguing games!” Ye Xiao smiled and looked casual.
“Master, you are consoling yourself. It is a good reason to persuade yourself, isn’t it?” Xuan Bing looked at Ye Xiao and said, “There is one reason why you made this decision… You just didn’t want to do it! You didn’t like it! You are an honorable person who would never do dishonorable things!”
Xuan Bing looked at Ye Xiao with admiration and deep affection. “My man is a hero!”
Ye Xiao laughed and said, “Hero… You are trying to console me, silly girl!
“However, Bing’er, if being a hero will lead me to a miserable end, you won’t be proud of it… Hah hah…”
“No. Master, you will always be my hero, and I will always be proud of you!” Xuan Bing leaned on Ye Xiao and said, “I love you just like this… I will stand by yourself, supporting you to be the man you want to be!
“I will stay with you…”
Xuan Bing said, “If we win, I will reach the top of the world with you and look down upon the world. If we lose, I will go down to the bottom of the world with you. I just… I just want to stay with you, as a woman. That is all I want!”
Ye Xiao said, “If I win, we reach the top of the world. If I lose, we go down to the bottom of the world…”
Suddenly, he said, “I am not going to lose! I won’t!”
He sounded confident.
It seemed he was making a vow.
After his voice faded in the sky, he had held Xuan Bing up and walked into the door.
Xuan Bing struggled, trying to get off, but then she gave up struggling. Ye Xiao was laughing.
After a while, he spoke again.
“Bing’er, if I took your advice, would you think differently of me?”
“No.”
“Why not? Didn’t you just say…”
“If you change, I will be glad that you finally start to consider yourself. We will be more likely to win…”
“Ah…”
“However, if you don’t change, you are still the same. You are my master.”
“Oh?”
“I don’t care if you change or not, I love you just the man you are… You change, I will change with you. You want to be a hero, I stay by your side. You want to be a demon, I will be your servant…”
“My Bing’er…”
“Hmm…”
…
Time flew.
Suddenly, six months were gone.
For ordinary people, nothing changed in half a year. For people in the martial world, things could be completely different in half a year.
