"Brother Lin Bai, didn't you say before that you were helping Lin Duo because your Lineage had once received a favor from him? Was all of this a lie?" Wen Jia asked in shock.
"In this long, drawn-out lie, you weren't the only victim, nor will you be the last..." Lin Bai said bitterly. Along the way, even he had been kept in the dark by Xun Zhizang and the others.
"Wen Jia, think carefully. If I were your enemy, I wouldn't have brought you out of Exiled Immortal City, much less brought you into the Eastern Continent Academy and had you become Fang Yiyun's disciple!" Lin Bai said earnestly. "Think about everything that happened after you met me in Exiled Immortal City. Have I ever used you? Have I ever harmed you?"
"Because your parents were two of the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals, we're brothers too!"
"I won't hurt you!"
"Come with me. We'll avenge your parents together!"
Lin Bai looked at Wen Jia and spoke seriously.
Wen Jia's eyes were unfocused, his face filled with disbelief. He backed away repeatedly and said, "No, no, no! Brother Lin Bai, I've heard too much today. I can't accept it all!"
"If what you're saying is true, then Mo Wenshen is my parents' killer!"
"But why would he come looking for me? And after finding me, why would he go to such lengths to nurture me?"
This was what Wen Jia had never been able to understand.
Su Xianmei chuckled. "It's very simple. Aside from the wolf-hearted, ungrateful Mo Wenshen, the rest of the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals are all people of deep feeling and loyalty. As long as you remain in Mo Wenshen's hands, he can use you at any time to lure out the surviving members of the Peach