Soul Emperor Martial God

Chapter 2203: Chapter 2200: Another Answer

Xiao Yi paused, exhaled the words ’quite satisfied’.

However, he still needed to prepare to leave.

The purpose of coming to the Black Demon Hall to find Senior Luoo today was barely achieved.

”Wait.”

Xiao Yi prepared to leave.

Senior Luoo called out lightly.

”Is there something else?” Xiao Yi turned around and asked in confusion.

”Sit down.” Senior Luoo said in a deep voice, ”I answered the questions you asked me.”

”But I haven’t finished talking yet.”

”Answered?” Xiao Yi’s face twitched slightly.

Today, he heard many ancient secrets that shook him to the core.

However, Senior Luoo always seemed hesitant, making these secrets feel incomplete and vague. Every time they reached the critical point, Senior Luoo would withdraw.

This feeling made one quite uncomfortable.

But Senior Luoo had his reasons for not speaking; and since he insisted on not speaking, Xiao Yi was also helpless.

”Talk about what?” Xiao Yi asked in confusion.

If it was to discuss his inheritance, he wasn’t very interested.

”Your matters.” Senior Luoo said solemnly.

”My matters?” Xiao Yi frowned slightly.

Senior Luoo said in a deep voice, ”You’ve been traveling outside for a year and a half. Today I ask you, how much longer do you want to roam? Your answer was that it’s still not enough.”

”I’ll ask you again, how much longer do you wish to travel?”

”So that’s what you’re asking about.” Xiao Yi chuckled, glancing at the high sky outside the window.

”Senior Luoo already knows the answer, why bother asking me.”

Senior Luoo nodded, his expression indifferent, ”I have an answer, but it’s not accurate, still need to hear it from you.”

Xiao Yi chuckled, choosing not to sit down as Senior Luoo had suggested, standing instead.

”My answer doesn’t matter.”

”Senior Luoo should know, I can’t change anything, nor can I help much.”

”Given that, what significance does my answer hold?”

”I rather wonder why Senior Luoo wants my answer.”

”Ha.” Senior Luoo chuckled lightly.

Unknown when it started, Senior Luoo had returned to his usual gentlemanly demeanor. Although his expression remained cold, it was more relaxed than usual.

”Reversing the questions you asked me just now is my answer.”

”You said you can’t change anything, I admit; you said you can’t help much, I don’t agree.”

”You said your answer isn’t important, I also deny that.”

”It is precisely because you can help much, that I need your answer.”

”Of course, I should also ask you, why do you keep running outside, wasting your time?”

”No.” Senior Luoo poured out a tirade, then suddenly uttered a ’no’.

”You are not wasting your time.” Senior Luoo stared seriously at Xiao Yi.

”Everyone, perhaps including your old friends, thinks you are wasting time, squandering your prime talent.”

”Everyone thinks you enjoyed leisure during this year and a half, not paying attention to serious matters.”

”But now, the situation in the Central Region is increasingly dire, the sky becoming increasingly ominous, yet you choose to ignore it, choosing to fall into degradation.”

”Everyone thinks you’ve changed, that you’re no longer the Xiao Yi they once knew.”

”But I am not blind, and you can’t fool me.”

Senior Luoo smiled, ”You haven’t wasted time. On the contrary, during this year and a half, you are racing time more than anyone.”

”You are still the same Xiao Yi as before, even bordering on madness.”

”Did I say anything wrong?”

Xiao Yi squinted slightly upon hearing this.

The light chuckle had already faded, replaced by a trace of solemnity.

Senior Luoo noticed the change in Xiao Yi’s expression, smiled and said, ”Now, do you still want to tell me your answer isn’t important?”

Xiao Yi shook his head, said in a deep voice, ”Indeed, it’s not important.”

”But, since Senior Luoo wants to know, I can tell you.”

Xiao Yi looked back at the high sky again, took a deep breath.

”When the sky truly changes, if I’ve read it right, there are only a few days left.”

”At shortest, half a year; at longest, seven or eight months.”

”Meaning everyone’s time is limited.”

”I’m just trying my best to make this limited time more meaningful.”

Senior Luoo squinted slightly, ”By meaningful, do you mean spending the time accompanying your maidservant?”

”Let me tell you precisely, the day the sky changes is about half a year away, just over, not reaching seven months.”

”I guessed wrongly, that you would stop traveling after one or two months at most.”

”Now it seems, it will be longer.”

Senior Luoo’s cultivation level is higher, naturally more accurate about the exact time of the sky’s change.

Hence, saying he has an answer that is inaccurate.

The inaccuracy means not knowing precisely when Xiao Yi will settle down.

He speculated one or two months, but clearly guessed wrong.

Xiao Yi shook his head, ”I am ultimately a martial artist of this land, if the sky changes, I will ultimately contribute my part.”

”Thus, I choose to return to the Eight Palaces at the last moment, doing the best I can.”

”Now there’s accurate timing, I choose to travel for another half year, then return for sure.”

”Why do you go to such lengths?” Senior Luoo squinted, clearly hinting at something.

”Ha.” Xiao Yi chuckled, ”I must.”

”Why must it be?” Senior Luoo said coldly, ”Your choice to spend your remaining time with your maidservant is not a necessary choice.”

”Even though she yearned in the Holy Moon Sect for ten years, she wasn’t truly wronged.”

”You don’t have to go out of your way for her.”

”At least in my view, it’s foolish.”

”Moreover, you don’t owe her.”

Xiao Yi shook his head, his expression somewhat complex, lowered his head slightly, after a while, a slight smile lingered on the corners of his mouth, ”No, I do owe her...”

”Much.” Xiao Yi chuckled, uttering two words.

Senior Luoo remained silent.

Xiao Yi raised his head, his expression light, a smile still tucked in.

”Everyone believed, a year and a half ago, I went to the Upper Sacred Moon Sect to find her, simply to vent for myself.”

”Simply to prove to everyone the young lad looked down upon by the Saint Lord, has the power to shake her Holy Moon Sect.”

”Simply to take back the maidservant who is better than anyone.”

”Simply because ten years ago, we had a deep affection, she risked her life for me, and I didn’t want to fail her, hence I spared no effort over ten years, endured countless storms, and crossed thousands of miles to find her.”

”Some things, I don’t say, not wanting her to know.”

”She has lived over ten years, enough exhaustion, I want her to live more freely and easily.”

Xiao Yi shook his head, ”I do owe her, and the Xiao Family owes her too.”

”As the Saint Lord said that day, the Saint Lord saved the Xiao Family entirely, Yiyi was the bargaining chip for that transaction, I had no right to go to the Holy Moon Sect to demand her back.”

This was actually one of Xiao Yi’s reasons for going to the Upper Sacred Moon Sect.

”She originally lived more freely than anyone, at least then, that was the life she wanted.”

”She thought very simply, so simply that it’s irrational.”

”But it was to save the Xiao Family that she agreed to the Saint Lord’s terms and went to the Holy Moon Sect.”

”She paid ten years for it, was trapped for ten years, and now I compensated with a year and a half, which may not be too much, but also not enough.”

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