Chapter 110: The Promise

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“Big Brother, I understand.” Ji Jiuxuan stood before him, meeting her eldest cousin’s gaze, her heart filled with emotion.

By pretending to be weak while secretly remaining formidable, letting others stand in front of her and refusing to act unless absolutely necessary, no one would ever be able to discover her true strength.

Ji Xiuqi watched her for a while. Once he was certain that she truly understood, he said nothing more.

He rose and withdrew the barrier. “Ajiu, will you attend tomorrow’s auction with Big Brother?”

Ji Jiuxuan had already asked her martial uncle about it. This time, they had come under the name of her second martial uncle, so they were staying elsewhere.

She shook her head. “No. I’ll be going with Martial Uncle. I’ll come find you another day.”

Ji Xiuqi had anticipated this, but it would certainly have been better if they could go together. In the end, he could only nod helplessly. “All right. Big Brother will take you out another day.”

After Ji Jiuxuan left the Ji family’s separate residence, Ji Xiuqi immediately informed his father and grandfather of what had happened that day.

He knew that, all these years, both his grandfather and father had been searching for traces of his youngest uncle. Judging from that person’s actions today, he had clearly been targeting his little sister.

Her safety had to be their highest concern.

At that moment, what came to Ji Xiuqi’s mind was the inheritance at the ancestral temple, as well as the clan’s secret realm.

If his little sister could return to the Ji family, receive the inheritance of her bloodline, and then enter the clan’s secret realm, her cultivation would certainly rise by an entire level.

Aside from external protection, if Ajiu could improve her own cultivation, she would have another safeguard for her safety.

What exactly was that mass of black aura? There had been too little time, and with his little sister’s safety threatened, he had not had the chance to investigate.

What if it appeared again next time and took Little Jiu away before they had any chance to prepare?

At the thought of this, Ji Xiuqi was even more eager to tell his grandfather and father everything.

Meanwhile, Ji Jiuxuan left the Ji family’s separate residence under Uncle Fang’s escort. As soon as she stepped outside, she saw her senior sister, Meng Jiao, leaning against a tree trunk nearby, waiting for her.

“Senior Sister.” Ji Jiuxuan felt inexplicably guilty. Her senior sister had told her that if she wanted to go out, she had to inform her in advance and wait for her to accompany her. Yet, because she had been anxious, she had neither said anything beforehand nor waited for her senior sister to wake up.

“Are you ready to go back?” Meng Jiao still wore a bright smile. Seeing the little girl’s expression, she could not help smiling even more deeply.

The little girl knew that she had done something wrong. Meng Jiao, however, did not mind. As long as she was safe, that was all that mattered.

“Uncle Fang, you can go back. Senior Sister has come to get me.”

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Now that the man in black had been eliminated, and the others had either not appeared or had yet to reveal themselves, there was no immediate need to worry about their safety.

“Miss, allow me to escort you back. Otherwise, the young master may punish me.” Uncle Fang did not obey her. The young master had ordered him to deliver her safely, without fail.

Therefore, his task was to see her safely to her destination.

She was a treasured member of the Ji family, after all.

Others might not know it, but he had witnessed everything with his own eyes over the years. Every member of the Ji family longed to meet her, and the importance they placed on her was beyond comparison.

“If you want to follow us, then follow us.” Meng Jiao was completely indifferent. Why refuse a free bodyguard? Besides, the few people hidden in the shadows had been following them all along. One more made no difference.

“Thank you for your trouble, Uncle Fang.” Ji Jiuxuan was extremely respectful toward him, and exceedingly friendly as well.

“There is no need to be so polite, Miss.”

Although he was a great cultivator in his own right, he was entirely willing to serve the Ji family. The family had treated him with warmth and sincerity.

They did not linger on the way back.

When they quickly returned to their guest room, they opened the door and saw her junior martial uncle sitting in his seat, apparently lost in thought.

“How did it go?” Nie Xingyuan asked only after setting up a soundproofing barrier.

At that moment, Ji Jiuxuan remembered the message she had sent her junior martial uncle before leaving. Afterward, she had been busy dealing with the man in black, and half a day had passed without her reporting anything to him.

“The other party knows where my parents are. The familiar aura I sensed is connected to them as well.” What a pity about the jade pendant. After the black aura vanished with the man in black, it had shattered into powder. Otherwise, she could have brought it back for her junior martial uncle to examine.

Nie Xingyuan had made countless guesses beforehand, but he had never imagined that this would be connected to the disappearance of his senior brother and sister-in-law.

“What happened to that person? Did you capture him?”

The Ji family had even sent Fang Huai into action. When Nie Xingyuan received the message, he had investigated the little girl’s location and discovered that the separate residence was protected by a barrier, with Fang Huai guarding it.

He could have investigated further, but there was no need to pry into the Ji family’s affairs. As long as Little Ajiu had not encountered danger, that was enough.

“We caught him, but a mass of black aura transported him somewhere unknown.” Ji Jiuxuan then recounted everything that had happened to her junior martial uncle.

“Martial Uncle, I couldn’t locate that place with the tracking talisman. The talisman itself was burned to ashes.” The tracking talisman she had used was a high-grade one. Under normal circumstances, even if it could not find the other party’s location, it would never simply burn up.

Yet today, the tracking talisman had turned directly to ash. This meant that the place to which the man had gone existed on a different spatial plane from their own.

“Black aura? That person was also afraid of going there. This proves that he knows what kind of place it is.” It was a pity that the black aura had taken him away directly. Otherwise, they might have been able to learn something from him.

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The person behind the scenes was meticulous. Either he would take Little Ajiu away, or he would bring back the person he had sent. By ensuring that no evidence remained in anyone else’s hands, he greatly reduced the chances of being exposed.

“Martial Uncle, do you know what mission my parents left for back then?” Ji Jiuxuan still remembered the first thing she had seen when she arrived in this world. At the time, her father had not intended to let her mother accompany him, but because her mother insisted, the two of them had gone together.

She remembered clearly that they had said they had to leave because of some mission.

Nie Xingyuan looked at Ji Jiuxuan. The little girl before him had grown tremendously during this period and now looked almost like a miniature adult.

Should he tell her? If Ajiu learned about this matter, then given her personality, she would certainly try to investigate it.

With her current strength, however, she was still lacking.

“If our Ajiu can win the sect competition five years from now and obtain a place in the secret realm trial in the imperial capital, then Martial Uncle will tell you. How does that sound?”

The foundation-building division of the sect competition would begin soon. Only those who placed among the top one hundred in this competition would be eligible to compete again in the grand competition five years later.

Only then would they qualify to travel to the imperial capital and participate in the secret realm trial.

Ji Jiuxuan looked at her junior martial uncle, her expression solemn. “Martial Uncle, it’s a promise. You must tell me when the time comes!”

Judging from her parents’ life tablets, there was no danger to their safety.

Although her junior martial uncle did not say so, Long Xuan had mentioned that the black aura this time was somewhat connected to the aura released when Yu Heng disappeared.

At the very least, if she encountered Yu Heng again, she would be able to obtain some information from him.

She believed that, given Yu Heng’s petty and vindictive nature, he would return to seek revenge against her.

Once her cultivation had improved, if Yu Heng still failed to appear, she would reveal her abilities in formations.

She refused to believe that even this would not be enough to lure Yu Heng out.

“Martial Uncle remembers.” After checking the time, Nie Xingyuan said, “Get some rest early. Tomorrow, Martial Uncle will take you to the auction.”

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