C35 This too Was Her Home

"Qi, what's the matter with Lo Qing not returning to the palace yet?"

Compared to the change in their relationship, she cared more about Lo Qing's safety.

"Uncle-master, did you tell the young grandmaster?"

Qi Qiqi's expression froze as she questioned Ye Zhen with an unfriendly tone.

"Young Master Ancestor will find out sooner or later. Since that's the case, what's there to hide?"

The more Xue Qilin heard, the more it felt that something was amiss. Without realizing it, it started to frown.

"Qi, what exactly is going on?"

"This..." Qi Qiqi seemed to be extremely hesitant.

What was she hesitating about?

No, she was worried about me!

When it saw the worry in Qi Qiqi's eyes, the Snow Qilin made such a conclusion, so she spoke in a soft voice that sounded like both comfort and a plea:

"Tell me."

Qi Qiqi widened her eyes in shock, and the Snow Qilin smiled back at her.

"I see." Qi Qiqi's expression was relieved. "Senior Sister Lo has stayed behind to defend us from the pursuers and hasn't returned yet."

At this point, Qi Qiqi took a deep breath.

"Senior Sister Lo is probably in danger."

When it heard Qi Qiqi's reply, the Snow Qilin was stunned.

When she heard Ye Zhen say that Lo Qing had yet to return to the palace, she had a bad premonition. However, she did not expect it to be a disaster.

At that moment, Lo Qing's smile flashed across her mind, forcing the Xue Qilin to calm its restless heart.

..."Did you send anyone to look for him? Why did it end up in a disaster?"

Qi Qiqi wanted to say something but stopped herself from doing so.

"Palace Lord." Ye Zhen urged with a frown.

"I know, I know."

Qi Qiqi shook her head lightly as if she was trying to convince herself.

Finally, she took a deep breath and revealed a complicated expression.

"Martial Uncle Ye, please bring me the sword."

"Yes."

Ye Zhen answered. Under the gaze of Xue Qilin, he opened the bag that was placed on the table.

Inside the bag was a sword.

Xiao Qing's sword! The Xue Qilin's eyes widened.

Ye Zhen brought the sword in front of the Snow Qilin and received it with trembling hands.

The sword sheath was no longer there. The blade was still faintly green, and there was a glaring dark red color on the blade. The Snow Qilin seemed to have smelled the disgusting stench.

..."Why?"

"Luo Hong asked someone to bring it back. He even said that ..."

"What did he say?"

"Senior Sister Lo has already..."

The sound of a string being snapped sounded in his mind, and Xue Qilin felt dizzy.

It quickly held its forehead to prevent itself from fainting.

"Who killed him?"

..." Hwa Tianji."

..."Where is the little Qing?"

Qi Qiqi shook her head lightly, indicating that she did not know.

The Snow Qilin stared at Qi Qiqi's sleeves, and no one knew what it was thinking.

After a long while, she suddenly lifted the blanket.

"No, I have to go and find her!"

Perhaps it was due to the fact that it had been lying on the bed for a long time and had yet to move its body, but the moment the Snow Qilin stepped on the ground, it staggered and almost fell. Qi Qiqi quickly supported it when she saw this.

"You can't get out of bed yet!"

"Young Martial Ancestor, calm down."

"Calm down?"

The Snow Qilin was enraged. It pushed away the hand that Qi Qiqi was using to support it and stood up shakily.

"I don't know what a sect is. Little Qing said that a sect is a home, so I treat you all as family. And now my family is nowhere to be found, whether they are alive or dead, and you want me to calm down? "

..."Family members?" Qi Qiqi, who had a blank look in her eyes, thought back to this word.

"What a family!" Ye Zhen praised in surprise. "A sect should consider itself to be a family. Isn't everyone in the sect our family? If the Palace Lord and I had known about this from the start, why would we be suspicious of each other..."

"No matter what, I must bring her back."

Leaving those words behind, the Snow Qilin picked up the new clothes that were placed at the side and started to take them off without caring whether Ye Zhen was there or not.

"Are you crazy?"

Qi Qiqi exclaimed as she quickly grabbed the hand of the Snow Qilin, who was undoing the button.

At this moment, two buttons on the collar had already been undone, revealing a large patch of snow-white skin.

"Let go of me! What are you so nervous about!"

The Snow Qilin was very impatient, but she didn't struggle and allowed Qi Qiqi to grab her hand.

"I need to get out of the way first."

Ye Zhen coughed lightly and pushed the door open before walking out of the room.

Qi Qiqi shot a sideways glance at the closed door before turning around to question Xue Qilin:

"Where are you going to change your clothes? You said you wanted to find Senior Sister Lo, so where are you going to find her?"

"Of course it's the Heavenly Sword Sect!"

Xue Qilin said indifferently, as if it was just talking about a small matter.

"No, I won't allow it!"

...""

"Heavenly Sword Sect's sect master, Hwa Tianji, is not an idiot! Heavenly Sword Sect must be on guard right now. If you go alone, it's no different from courting death!"

The Snow Qilin raised its head abruptly.

There seemed to be some sort of emotion burning deep within its bright yellow eyes. It was a kind of urgent desire, a kind of thick obsession.

Qi Qiqi could not help but let go of her hand. She had never seen such a look in her eyes before.

"If Xiaoqing is really dead, I want to see her again."

The Xue Qilin did not want anyone to lie in front of it like her niece, nor did it want them to turn into cold corpses and return to its side like its parents.

- Not even once.

He didn't want to feel the feeling of suffocation anymore and he didn't want to do it ever again.

However, things didn't always go as he wished. If he really lost the man beside him again, at least... at least, he wanted to see him again.

"If we can't even see each other for the last time, it will be so sad."

Qi Qiqi's eyes widened as she retracted her hand in a daze.

After a long silence, Qi Qiqi said softly:

"You're selfish. You're talking so much, but you don't even consider the feelings of others. If you do, then tell me, what am I feeling - what am I feeling, watching you die?"

'That must be very sad and helpless,' Xue Qilin thought.

However...

"Qi... Xiao Qing hasn't returned home yet." The Xue Qilin's smile was very ugly. "That kind of feeling is very uncomfortable. Do you know?"

Qi Qiqi naturally knew what that feeling was. Her father who had died five years ago was like this.

The person who had given up everything to protect and grow up had gone deep into the tiger's den alone in order to fight against the imperial court. After that, he never returned.

Until now, Qi Qiqi still did not know whether her father was still alive or not.

If he was alive, where would he go? And if he died, where would he sleep?

Nothing was more painful than not knowing the life and death of one's family, and nothing was more painful than not being able to bring him home when one's family was dead.

She knew all of it, but...

"I... I don't know."

"No, you know, but you don't want me to go, that's why you said 'I don't know'."

"You are truly despicable and annoying. You never have a proper appearance, but why do you have to act as if you have seen through everything at this moment?"

Most importantly, she had really seen through him.

"It can't be helped. Who told me to be that'Strange fellow' that a certain Palace Lord spoke of?"

Qi Qiqi lowered her eyes and did not answer. The Xue Qilin did not make a sound and only looked at her quietly.

..." Promise me that you will come back."

"Heh, this is my home! Where else can I go?"

There was probably only one place where the Xue Qilin could stay, the place called the Heavenly Jade Palace. This was because there was her first encounter in this world here, and it was also the place where she had agreed with Qi Guiyuan.

"No, that's not what I meant!" Qi Qiqi looked up in dissatisfaction.

"I know." The Snow Qilin revealed a rare gentle smile. "Thank you, Qi."

Qi Qiqi looked away and didn't say anything.

"I want to see her alive and see her corpse! I don't care if Xiao Qing is alive or dead, I want to bring her back."

The Snow Qilin looked out of the window and said firmly:

"Because this is also her home."