"Where is the City Lord?" Lu Ye looked at Lian. Strangely enough, ever since returning this time, he had not seen Yuan Xi. In the past, she would have appeared at once, then looked at Lu Ye, who had already advanced to Uniting Dao, and praised him: "As expected of my City Guard Grand Commander!"
Lian avoided Lu Ye's gaze and sighed softly.
Lu Ye's expression abruptly darkened. "What happened?"
He had assumed Yuan Xi had gone to the Hehe Realm, but judging from Lian's expression, things were clearly not as he had imagined.
"She went back to Chiluan City." Knowing she could not hide it, Lian simply told him the truth.
Lu Ye raised his brows, and the stone weighing on his heart fell away. Seeing Lian's expression just now, he had thought something had happened to Yuan Xi. If she had merely returned to Chiluan City, then it was nothing serious.
He had already roughly understood Yuan Xi's relationship with that person in Chiluan City.
"When will she return?" Lu Ye asked again.
Lian shook her head. "She will not be returning."
"What do you mean?" Lu Ye could not help frowning.
Lian said, "Do you remember how Chang Ming plotted against us in the Snow Plain back then?"
"Of course."
"Chang Ming acted under Ni Chiluan's orders. Yuan Xi had essentially run away from home back then. For certain reasons, she and Ni Chiluan disagreed, so she left Chiluan City with the intention of building a Uniting Dao City of her own. She told me that she had once boasted before you that Yuan Xi City would one day stand at the summit of the Inner Realm and trample all the Top Ten beneath its feet."
How could Lu Ye possibly forget those words?
Back then, Yuan