"Wangshu!"
"Wangshu, you're here! Come on, come on in..."
Seeing Ning Wangshu appear at the doorway, the Xiao family members immediately perked up. Xiao Jianguo, Xiao Jianjun, and the others hurried to their feet and ushered Ning Wangshu inside.
Ning Wangshu smiled faintly. "Uncle, Second Uncle... have you been doing all right lately?"
At that, Xiao Jianguo smiled. "We're doing okay. Aside from being dismissed from our posts, nothing much has happened to us. As long as you're all right and made it back safe and sound, that's good enough!"
"That's right. Seeing you come back safe and sound puts our minds at ease."
Xiao Jianjun smiled too.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Xiao Jianguo and the others hurriedly invited Ning Wangshu to sit down.
Then Ning Wangshu chatted with Xiao Jianguo and the others for a while, asking how the Xiao family had been faring lately. Xiao Jianguo and the others were also curious and asked about Ning Wangshu's experiences during this time.
When they learned that Ning Wangshu had deliberately allowed people from Shangqing Palace and the Supreme Immortal Gate to trap him with an immortal artifact, using it to break through to a higher cultivation level, the Xiao family members were stunned.
They had assumed that although Ning Wangshu had returned safe and sound, he must really have run into serious trouble and been held captive.
They never expected that he had deliberately arranged all of it himself...
Ning Wangshu did not stay long at the Xiao family's home. After chatting with Xiao Jianguo and the others for a while, he got up and left, intending to pick up Lin Qingzhu and the others and take them back to Jiangnan City.
Though Ning Wangshu had left Kyoto, the shockwaves from the bloodbath he had unleashed that day