From the Heavens Descended an Immortal Sister

Chapter 175: Chapter 173: Just a few words of reassurance_1

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Outside the restaurant, Fang Ren led the woman in the white dress a long way, only pulling her into his embrace when they passed by a small park.

Fang Ren removed the straw hat from atop her head, her white hair cascading down like a waterfall, her stunning face adorned with a joyful expression.

"How did you end up coming here?" Fang Ren pinched her face, his own feeling an unstoppable flow of happiness.

Mu Huanqing smiled and glanced at him, "If I didn't come over, my husband would have been snatched away by someone else."

"That's not true," said Fang Ren.

Mu Huanqing reached out and grabbed his ear, smiling as she spoke, "I heard every single word you two said outside, clearly and distinctly. For instance, her willingness to accompany you anywhere, and then there's the part about you going to the hotel with her, right? What for, to discuss the great matters of life?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Ren panicked and immediately tried to explain, "That wasn't my fault, the girl just overimagined things and I was helpless. When she asked where I was going, I just subconsciously uttered... and I mentioned the hotel because we needed to seize the time to cultivate, not to discuss any great matters of life, okay?"

"Sure, sure."

Mu Huanqing looked at his frantic explanations, then let go of his ear and gently touched his head with a smile, "Xiao Xi wouldn't fall for a dummy like you."

"Xiao Xi?"

Fang Ren paused, then realized that Bai Qi often called her Sister Hui Qing.

"Are you two really close?" asked Fang Ren.

"Very close. I used to take her out to play when we were little," Mu Huanqing said with a smile. "But we only spent just over four years together before I was called back to my family to focus on cultivation. After that, we had less contact. The last time I saw her, she was eighteen and went to the battlefield for trials, and I went with her again."

"Then why didn't you tell me about your relationship with her when you learned about my marriage engagement with her?" Fang Ren was baffled.

"There was no need. At the time, she must have thought I was dead, and you also said you wanted to break off the marriage engagement with her to be with me. At that time, we wouldn't have had any more interactions with her, so I didn't mention it." Mu Huanqing continued, "But unexpectedly, you two met."

"It's quite an annoying situation. Her grandfather doesn't agree to breaking off the engagement, and her coming to my school was also her grandfather's arrangement. He said to see how things go without feelings between us for two years," explained Fang Ren.

He certainly couldn't tell Mu Huanqing directly about the unspeakable secret of the Cultivators' marriage engagements in the Central Area and that he and Bai Qi were obligated to have a child.

If he did tell her, she definitely wouldn't be able to accept it for a time since she was the Great General of the Central Area, and having lived there for so many years, she certainly had feelings for that place.

"What is it?" Mu Huanqing asked, leaning gently on his shoulder.

"I heard that Xia Fu Lan from the Tiandao Sword Sect will be coming to this Alchemy competition," Fang Ren said.

Upon hearing that name, Mu Huanqing's mood fell a bit.

Xia Fu Lan was a fellow clanswoman and comrade-in-arms that she had treated with true heart. However, it was Xia Fu Lan who had almost caused her death on the battlefield and led to so many of her sisters in the Nine Heavens Corps losing their lives, causing her immense pain.

"Don't bother with her," Mu Huanqing said.

"I want to help you get revenge," Fang Ren declared.

Mu Huanqing immediately stood up upon hearing this, frowning, "No."

"Why not? She almost got you killed on the battlefield. Doesn't she deserve to pay with her life?" Fang Ren argued.

"There is no evidence for that, even if a part of people are clear in their hearts, there's no way to convict her," Mu Huanqing continued, "To say she should pay with her life, I myself could kill her ten thousand times, but I cannot kill a clanswoman. It would cause division among our ranks, especially now that the Void Hole is becoming more and more peculiar.

If humanity begins to fight within while facing this, the consequences would be unimaginable."

Fang Ren's expression turned serious as well, and he said, "It's precisely because you care too much about the big picture and cannot bring yourself to act that she should be killed by me."

"But if you kill her, you will be convicted, and every human will see you as a cancer that must be eliminated," Mu Huanqing immediately grasped his hand, anxious, "Please don't do this, okay? Our child isn't even born yet; don't do such dangerous things... "

Fang Ren pulled her into his arms, stroked her hair softly, and whispered, "I haven't said how exactly she needs to pay with her life. Don't worry; I will just ensure all the debts she owes will be repaid, based on ensuring my own safety."

"But I'm so worried... Don't go..."

Mu Huanqing suddenly realized how vulnerable she felt. This matter involved too many things, and she was about to become a mother. The father of her child was about to do something dangerous, which threw her mind into chaos.

"Well then... I guess I just won't do it," Fang Ren said.

Not do it?

Impossible.

It was just a comforting lie.

If the world would not refrain from anything against him, why would he treat the world with any courtesy!