"You don't want it? Although Baigu City cannot compare to..."
Wen Xu was utterly perplexed. "Household Head Wei, why are you leaving Baigu City?"
Since he was leaving anyway, Wei Mian knew they would have no further dealings after this. Naturally, there was no need to lie, so he revealed his true intentions.
"After hearing my reasons, you still do not want it?"
Yet Wen Xu merely shook his head again. "Since you feel guilty, you have even less reason to leave."
"Why?"
Wen Xu had never been one to flee from things. "You may take the Wei Household and leave, but the knot in your heart will remain here. Do you think going somewhere else will make it unravel of its own accord?"
It would not. Wei Mian knew that all too well.
"But..." Wei Mian covered his face in self-abandonment. "Other than this, I do not know what I should do that would be right."
Just as the old ancestor had once been deceived by the ancestors of the six clans, he too could not distinguish the good and evil in people's hearts. The dignity and peace he had believed in had merely been a handout bestowed by those controlling the chessboard.
The power of life and death he had wielded these past few days had not healed the hollow within him. Instead, it had only caused the fear in his heart to spread further and further.
Wei Mian looked at the masked young cultivator before him. Clearly, he possessed only Foundation Establishment cultivation, yet he advanced and retreated with perfect measure, with every plan already in his grasp. He thought that if it were this person before him, Baigu City would surely be governed in impeccable order. With Yonglu Mountain behind him as well, even if the