"Do you truly wish to go?"
Wen Xu nodded steadily. "This disciple is willing. Besides, if I do not go, my heart will never be at ease." When the nest was overturned, no egg remained intact. If he wanted to protect Yonglu Mountain, protect his friends, fellow disciples, and elders, he could not keep shrinking back like a turtle. If he waited until true calamity descended before rushing to meet his fate, it would be far too late.
His Dao was the Dao of Control. Since he already knew the danger could not be reversed, what was the point of running from it? His elders could protect him for a time, but could they protect him for a lifetime? Wen Xu was not so afraid of death. Besides... he did not want to die either.
He was entering the city to seek a path to survival, not to march toward death.
"Master, have a little more faith in your disciple. Though we came close to death several times, we still made it out of Pill Fragrance City." At the very least, before the Pill Fragrance City formation broke, no one had expected the key to breaking it would rest on the shoulders of the three newly advanced Nascent Souls.
And this time, after circling around for so long, they had ultimately arrived outside Mingxuan City. Chunchou's kin-seeking talisman also indicated that the person he sought was within the city.
Cheng Wei could not help reaching out to stroke his disciple's head. In just twenty years, A-Xu had grown from a sensitive young man who bound himself with constraints into who he was now. The world said his youngest disciple was a peerless genius favored by heaven, but only those who knew the truth understood what Little A-Xu had experienced along