The Mirror Legacy - Chapter 1477: Yuanbian (II)
Chapter 1477: Yuanbian (II)
After just two days and nights, a commotion arose outside, and someone called out, “Is Senior Fuxun present? Yuanbian has come to pay a visit!”
The voice made Li Ximing lift his head slightly. He frowned faintly, a strange and indescribable doubt rising in his heart.
That is indeed a Jiangnan accent… even somewhat familiar…
Hearing this, Fuxun knew the long-awaited help had arrived. Overjoyed, he hurried out of the building and called, “Brother, you have come!”
The doors opened, and a middle-aged cultivator flew in. His features were not particularly striking, yet he wore a white fur cloak with a jeweled belt, giving him an air of refined elegance. At the center of his brows were three vertical markings, short on the sides and longer in the middle, gleaming with a silvery sheen.
His eyes were bright. Smiling, he entered the building and said modestly, “You are too courteous, senior. You are much older than I am. I dare not call myself your brother. Just address me by my Dao title.”
Only after saying this did the white-cloaked cultivator notice there was another person in the room. He jolted slightly, then slowly turned. His pupils suddenly widened, as if he had seen something utterly shocking.
The cultivator in white golden robes had already risen from his seat and stepped forward. Their gazes met.
Compared to the man’s disbelief, Li Ximing’s gaze wavered with uncertainty, as if he could not quite confirm what he was seeing. His eyes kept sweeping over the man’s face as the atmosphere froze solid.
The smile was still on Fuxun’s face when his mind suddenly sharpened in that instant, alarm bells ringing wildly within, Not good! These two are enemies!
The moment this thought arose, faint fangs began to push through beneath his refined, scholar-like facade. Only one thought remained in Fuxun’s mind, What a pity! It will be hard to find such a fine alchemist again!
But in the very next instant, the eyes of the middle-aged man in the white cloak beside him had reddened, tears of joy spilling forth. “Ximing!”
That single cry made Fuxun’s surging fangs vanish at once as he turned his head away in slight embarrassment. Li Ximing’s pupils were filled with disbelief, and only when the man approached did he murmur in a daze, “Senior Changdie…?”
This man was none other than Liu Changdie!
Li Ximing was more than familiar with the name Liu Changdie. This man had close ties with several of his elders and had long ago built formations for his family. Before their rise, nearly every formation had been constructed by this formation master. Even now, Mount Qingdu still used the [Heaven-Guarding Formation of Five Waters] that he had set up.
It was said that he had been as close as brothers with his uncle Li Yuanjiao. Back then, he had wept bitterly before the grave, more fiercely than most relatives. Yet Li Ximing, having cultivated in the Xiao Family in his early years, had never met him. When Liu Changdie had last come to construct formations at Mount Qingdu, Li Ximing had been in seclusion, attempting a breakthrough.
Thus, among all the brothers, only Li Ximing had never met him. At the time, Liu Changdie had deeply regretted it and even asked Li Xijun about him. He never charged a single coin for constructing formations, out of past gratitude. When Li Ximing came out of seclusion, Li Xuanxuan had specifically shown him a portrait, so he would remember.
He had actually, without a sound, reached the Purple Mansion Realm in the southern border! And as a mere rogue cultivator… truly remarkable!
He knew this man carried some peculiarities, but there were many in the world with secrets. However, how many of them ever reached the Purple Mansion Realm? Yet Liu Changdie had done so in such a remote and desolate place?!
He understood his family’s ties with Liu Changdie and felt both shock and joy, yet the man before him was far more conflicted…
Li Ximing had never met Liu Changdie, but Liu Changdie had seen him! In his previous life, Li Ximing’s concubine had been Liu Changdie’s daughter! Seeing him now, how could he not be shaken?
His voice caught for a moment as he spoke, emotions of joy and sorrow mingling. “Seventh Young Master!”
Li Ximing felt as though a lifetime had passed and thought, How many years has it been since anyone called me Seventh Young Master? Who would even dare to call me that now?
With just that one line, he could all but confirm the man before him was Liu Changdie. For a moment, he did not know how to react and could only sigh. “Congratulations, senior. I truly never expected this…”
Liu Changdie gazed at him deeply.
I have memories of my previous life, giving me advantages at every turn, yet even so I suffered greatly before barely managing to find a spirit item in the southern border to break through. Without a bit of luck, I might not have succeeded even now!
But he had to carry an entire family on his shoulders, cultivating in a Jiangnan filled with danger and killing intent. He reached Purple Mansion Realm at an even younger age than I did… who knows how much he suffered…
He let out a long sigh before finally saying, “If Brother Yuanjiao could know this in the underworld, he would rest in peace!”
Those words stirred the emotions Li Ximing had just suppressed. He let out a soft breath as the man before him said with evident agitation, “Is Lord Xuanxuan in good health? How is Miss Yuexiang? Is Third Young Master still well at the Azure Pond Sect? Has Xicheng reached the Foundation Establishment Realm? And Xijun should be approaching his attempt at Purple Mansion Realm by now, yes…?”
Li Ximing listened carefully to the end, then said quietly, “The old elder is well, and Third Brother has gone to cultivate in the Eastern Sea. As for Yuexiang, Eldest Brother, and Eighth Brother… they… are no longer with us.”
“Oh!” Liu Changdie turned his head away and sat there, almost suffocating in his grief. Li Ximing forced out a faint smile and said, “Let us speak of business first.”
Both of them were now Purple Mansion Realm cultivators, and with an outsider, a demonic creature, watching from the side, they regained composure within a few breaths.
Fuxun looked from one to the other, overjoyed. “So you two have known each other for a long time. That makes things much easier!”
