Farewell

Already at his cave abode, Wu Xue received a visit.

"Were you okay?" Wu Qing asked with a strange expression, there was both confusion and worry, "I heard you received quite the beating."

"It's okay, I know she was just angry at me and didn't truly hurt me," Wu Xue giggled, "See? My body is all right, there isn't a single problem with me."

Wu Qing sighed, "You are too rash, what could you possibly gain from offending so many people?"

"The same thing they gain from calling me 'trash'," Wu Xue answered, "I felt quite good."

Wu Qing couldn't hold back and laughed, "I'm beginning to remember this rash nature of yours."

"I'm not rash at all," Wu Xue shook his head, "I never had as a goal to maintain a good relationship with my clan just because we share some blood. I hate this kind of thing."

"It's not so easy to ignore blood relationships," Wu Qing shook her head, "Can you ignore your parents? They clearly don't plan to leave the clan. Are you going to leave your parents, then?"

"Well, they are not kids, do I really need to be by their side forever?" Wu Xue asked back, "Leaving their side doesn't mean I will stop loving them."

"What the hell, do you really plan to leave?" Wu Qing frowned.

"I will be traveling outside for an unknown amount of time," Wu Xue said, "I will take this opportunity to make a public declaration about my relationship with the class."

"You don't mean–" Wu Qing was shocked, "Your parents will never agree! And you are just angry right now, you aren't thinking straight."

"You are wrong, it's not a decision I made recently," Wu Xue shook his head, "I always planned to cut my ties with the clan."

"Why!?" Wu Qing raised her voice with visible rage.

Wu Xue looked calmly at her and asked, "Why should I tell you?

"Not only do I have no guarantee you will understand me, therefore turning my spoken words into waste, but I also have no such deep relationship with you."

"I'm you cousin," Wu Qing slapped the table hard, crushing it into small particles, it showed her power clearly since the clan's guardian formation was still working. The tableware that was on it was also crushed.

"So?" Wu Xue asked, "I thought I already made it clear I don't value my blood's surname."

Wu Qing took a deep breath and left his cave abode without saying another word.

"Still hot-tempered," Wu Xue smiled, "I'm slowly remembering some things, it's a pity those memories probably will be buried again."

He got up from the seat and went to his private room, there he sat on his cushion cross-legged and closed his eyes.

"Finally, some peace," a turbid breath left his mouth. He made a gesture with his hand and closed his cave's formation to avoid being disturbed.

Outside a few hundred meters away.

"He is going to enter seclusion, are you going to allow him?" Ru Meng asked Xu Ling with a voice transmission.

"Let him be, I gave him a month to prepare for his trip," Xu Ling said, "If he wants to spend this time like this, why not?"

"A month? I thought you wouldn't give him a single week, what made you change your mind?" Ru Meng asked.

Xu Ling didn't answer.

"Don't tell me, feeling guilty for beating him so badly?" Ru Meng began to laugh.

"I'm his master and can do whatever I want about him," Xu Ling snorted.

"Aren't you being too possessive?" Ru Meng changed her tone, she was truly surprised, "He is who he is, it's not our duty to fully control his life."

"Stop being so annoying," Xu Ling said and stopped receiving her voice transmissions.

In her courtyard, Ru Meng frowned with a shadow of concern under her eyes.

Meanwhile, Wu Yan was comforting her daughter, "Stop crying, you big brother is okay! Didn't you already see it?"

"I'm not crying because of it," Wu Wan'er tried to contain her tears, "I'm crying because he has such a cruel master and I couldn't do anything at that time to help."

Wu Yan forcibly held back a laugh and said, "His master wants the best for him, don't worry!"

"I won't stop worrying!" Wu Wan'er shook her head, making her tears fly out of her face, "I will be stronger and defend him next time!"

"Is that so?" Wu Yan lifted one of her eyebrows, "I hope you put in effort in your motivation from now on."

At Wu Xue's cave abode, black and white energy strings began to appear around his body and fly around him like silk, it was a phenomenon caused by his overflowing Yuan Qi, which inherited the same black and white colors from his Blood Qi.

It wasn't a nice thing, it was a sign of a lack of proper control over his energy. Each time his body's secret treasures were opened, the greater would be his control over his Yuan Qi.

Furthermore, because his foundation was ridiculously deep, the amount of Yuan Qi he possessed was gigantic, dozens of times greater than the average, and it became more difficult for Wu Xue to control it.

After a few minutes, he stopped cultivating his pillar paths and focused on his main literary path, the Yuan Qi around him returned to his body.

He began to call the Qi Cultivation, Body Refining, and Soul Refining paths, his pillar cultivation paths, while calling his literary path his main cultivation path. He made this distinction because of the nature of his self-created cultivation technique.

He spent a few days cultivating his literary path but also decided to temporarily give up.

He took a deep breath and opened his eyes, there was a flash of helplessness in them. His literary power was increasing too slowly, he was losing the mood to continue practicing. He was simply used to increasing his powers much faster.

He decided to write a few poems to pass the time and calm his mind, but ended up spending the rest of the month doing just that.

When he was still with a pen in his hand, he felt his cave's formation being touched, he knew it was his master Xu Ling.

He put down his pen and got up from his cushion. He left his cave abode and noticed his whole family was waiting for him outside.

"What are you doing enclosing yourself like this?" Wu Ying went to him and twisted his ear, "You should have been spending time with us!"

"I love you too mom," Wu Xue sighed, "I was just thinking it would be better for me to stay a bit distant from you to prepare myself, I was afraid of losing strength at the last minute."

"No excuses!" Wu Ying said and twisted his ear even more, causing his red to turn red.

"Stop it," Wu Cang sighed and stopped his wife, "He wasn't doing it out of bad intentions."

"Hmph!" Wu Ying snorted and then began to cry, "He is leaving! Can you believe it!?"

Wi Cang smiled bitterly and embraced her, "He will come back, don't worry too much."

"Big brother!" Wu Wan'er was crying and jumped into Wu Xue's embrace, "I can't believe you are leaving without even warning me!"

"She is quite upset by it," Wu Yan added with a dangerous look, "You better comfort her properly."

Wu Xue twitched the corners of his mouth and began to try his best to comfort her, "We will still be seeing each other, I'm not abandoning you!"

"Liar!"

"I'm not lying, it's just a trip for me to gain experience, your big brother has to learn new things to teach you!"

"Liar!"

"I will give you a big surprise when I come back."

"...What is it? I mean, liar!"

Wu Xue kissed her forehead and said, "I will bring back the most adorable animal in existence, do you know what is it?"

"...Will you really bring a small puppy to me?"

"I will!"

"Hey, I didn't agree!" Wu Yan was angry, "I already said I don't want her to have a pet!"

"Don't be stubborn!" Wu Xue snorted.

"How dare you disrespect her!" Wu Cang was furious with his son's words and smacked the back of his head hard, making him fall to the ground.

"...You better learn how to control your feelings better, father," Wu Xue got up from the ground and patted the dust off his clothes, "I don't want to come back and suddenly see a third mistress."

Wu Cang was about to hit him again but sensed two deadly stares aiming at him, they came from Wu Ying and Wu Yan.

Wu Cang clenched his teeth and took a deep breath, "You better take care of yourself and not bring back a baby with you!"

"You won't dare!" Wu Ying exploded, "You better not have children without presenting us with your little lover, I want to know her first!"

"You better not follow the same path as your father," Wu Yan warned with eyes without any luster, she was looking very scary for Wu Xue, who unconsciously gulped saliva out of fear.

"Big brother!" Wu Wan'er suddenly shouted and escaped from his embrace, "You aren't allowed to marry anyone!"

Wu Xue's face turned dark. He could accept his elders and seniors warning him, but not his younger sister.

"I'm the one you will be marrying!" Wu Wan'er made a bold statement, making the whole family almost puke blood.

"You brat!" Wu Yan'er twisted Wu Wan'er's ear, a move she learned from someone, "You better erase this little idea of your head, you are both brother and sister!"

"I don't care!" Wu Wan'er threw a tantrum.

It was then that everyone recuperated and calmly assumed that she was just angry and afraid of losing her big brother. It wasn't unexpected, since they grew up very close and always played together.

"Your master said you will be outside until she thinks it's enough," Wu Cang sent a voice transmission, "You know what it means."

"She said I would be outside for a few years at most," Wu Xue was confused and sent a transmission back.

"I fear she changed her mind for some reason, good luck."

After the whole family talked a bit more, Zh Ling and Ru Meng appeared.

"It's about time," Ru Meng nodded to everyone, "Don't worry, we will be casting a powerful protection spell on him, we will be warned in case he is in danger."

"I cast one too," Wu Ying said.

"I too," Wu Cang added.

"I too," Wu Yan also said.

"...Me too," Wan'er said with a red face.

'I can't believe I couldn't feel my younger sister casting a spell on me,' Wu Xue was about to die out of embarrassment, 'I'm really useless.'

"You better dissolve them," Xu Ling warned, "The lower world I will be sending him has a quite complex river of causality, too many spells on him might make that world enter a great tribulation or even collapse directly."

"So extreme?" Wu Xue was shocked.

"You underestimate the power of spells of someone at our level," Wu Cang sighed and dissolved his spell, "Just by existing, they put pressure on the world they are."

The others also dissolved their spells.

"You don't want to see anyone else?" Xu Ling asked Wu Xue.

"Nah, just tell Wu Qing that it was good to meet her again," Wu Xue shook his head.

Xu Ling made a gesture with her hand and a portal appeared close to them.

Ru Meng pointed her finger at Wu Xue and transferred lots of information directly into his mind, surprising him.

After a few seconds, Wu Xue recuperated and said to his family, "I will miss all of you, but we will meet again soon."

"Goodbye, son!" Wu Cang nodded to him with a smile.

Wu Ying simply cried.

Wu Yan smiled and nodded at him, "Good luck."

"If you dare marry anyone there, I will kill both you and her!" Wu Wan'er shouted, throwing the whole family into disarray again.

"Who taught you to threaten others!?" Wu Yan reprimanded her and twisted her ear again, "You better prepare for a good lesson when we arrive home."

Wu Xue laughed dumbly and nodded to his masters a final time before entering the portal.

Just before he disappeared, he shouted, "Give my poems to those who I was close to, I put my heart into them."