Bai Xi felt quite uncomfortable hearing this, so she chose to sulk and ignore everyone.
After all, she was just a ten-year-old child now, a poor little thing who had almost been beaten to death by her scumbag father—she could afford to be a bit willful.
Long Xingyu was being ignored, but he couldn’t get angry. He could only cast a pleading look toward Bai Yue.
“Xi Xi, Dad is just worried about you, afraid something might have gone wrong during your awakening. Mom and your brother are also very worried about you, hoping everything is alright.”
Receiving the pleading look, Bai Yue immediately softened her voice to comfort her.
“No one awakened me. After I fell into a lake, I ended up in a strange place and obtained that Spirit Furnace and the sword called Chengying.”
“If he hadn’t said I awakened my Internal Spiritual Power, I wouldn’t even have known I had awakened.”
Bai Xi spoke somewhat reluctantly, concealing the fact that she was lying.
She was aware of the awakening of Internal Spiritual Power—her Internal Spiritual Power had fully awakened when the second seal was broken.
It was also because of this that she was able to smoothly obtain the Spirit Furnace and Chengying Sword after clearing the trial.
“How could this happen?”
Long Xingyu exclaimed in surprise, never expecting such a thing to occur.
“Can you take out the Spirit Furnace and let me have another look?”
This time, Long Xingyu’s tone was much gentler. Bai Xi was still somewhat unwilling, but Bai Yue wrapped an arm around her and patted her silently, offering comfort. This made Bai Xi take out the Spirit Furnace anyway.
“Here, take a look.”
When Bai Xi’s Spirit Furnace first appeared without being activated, it was pure and colorless, and its design was ordinary and unremarkable.
Long Xingyu examined the Spirit Furnace carefully and realized he didn’t recognize it at all—it wasn’t any of the known types in existence.
However, he could sense a pure Light Power emanating from the Spirit Furnace.
“What is this Spirit Furnace called?”
Long Xingyu asked again, directly making Bai Xi impatient.
“I don’t know.”
“I need to rest. My whole body hurts.”
As she spoke, Bai Xi pulled the blanket over herself and lay down.
She wasn’t lying—she really was uncomfortable all over, aching everywhere as if covered in countless invisible small wounds.
This was the side effect of breaking the third seal too quickly.
The fierce battle with Long Xingyu had forced Bai Xi to break the third seal ahead of time. With two seals broken on the same day, a massive amount of power surged into her body.
Her physical strength couldn’t keep up, leaving her in pain from being overwhelmed.
“Alright, alright, don’t ask any more questions for now. We’ll find out eventually. Let Xi Xi rest first—she’s just been injured.”
Long Xingyu was about to ask more, but Bai Yue stopped him. Her tone carried a hint of reproach, so he had no choice but to let it go.
Just as the three of them were about to leave, Bai Xi turned over and glanced at Long Haochen.
That night, when it was time to rest, Long Haochen quietly came to Bai Xi’s room.
“Xi Xi, did you have something you wanted to say to me alone?”
This was the tacit understanding.
“Xi Xi, why are you suddenly asking this? Do you suspect he’s not our father? But Mom wouldn’t lie to us. He should be our father.”
“Even though we can’t accept it right away, this is the truth.”
Bai Xi shook her head, “I believe what Mom says. Mom wouldn’t lie to us; she’s telling the truth.”
“But I feel like he doesn’t really want to be our father, especially not mine.”
As she spoke, Bai Xi cupped her face in her hands.
“A big reason for that probably lies in this face of mine. Since we’re fraternal twins, this face of mine—similar to yours yet different—must look exactly like one of his enemies.”
If Bai Yue had heard Bai Xi’s doubts, she might have replied in her heart: “This still-young face of yours not only looks exactly like my biological mother, whom I’ve never seen in person but only in portraits, but also resembles that biological father of mine whom I’ve only met once and refuse to acknowledge. Yet it doesn’t look like me or Xingyu at all. Is this what they call skipping a generation?”
Long Haochen was already stunned by Bai Xi’s words.
“He can’t be that extreme, can he? Just because of your appearance, he’d dislike you and refuse to acknowledge you?”
“You’re his daughter!”
“If he won’t acknowledge you as his daughter, then we won’t acknowledge him either! Anyway, we’ve lived perfectly well without him these past ten years. We don’t need him!”
The doting brother Long Haochen immediately retorted in frustration.
He didn’t want his little sister to suffer even the slightest grievance. No one was allowed to make her feel wronged—not even the biological father he had longed for all this time.
“Right, the three of us can be perfectly happy as a family. We don’t need him!”
Bai Xi picked up Long Haochen’s words, proudly raising her head.
Though her words lacked some conviction. Previously, she thought Bai Yue had been in much better spirits over the past year because of her and her brother. But now it seemed a large part of that was due to Long Xingyu.
They might not need Long Xingyu as a father, but Bai Yue needed Long Xingyu as a husband.
“Chen Chen, I want to leave here for a while. It might be three to five years, or as short as one or two years before I return.”
After the joking, Bai Xi got down to serious matters.
And this statement immediately left Long Haochen dumbfounded.
It took him a long moment to regain his composure before he spoke, still somewhat disbelieving:
“You want to leave home?”
“And for that long?”
“Where are you going? I’ll go with you!”
Shocked by Bai Xi’s decision to leave home, Long Haochen intended to stop her. But as a doting brother, he couldn’t bring himself to say the words to prevent her, so he decided to go with her instead.
“Wherever you go, I can go with you. We can’t be separated.”
“That won’t work, Chen Chen. The place I’m going isn’t suitable for you. Besides, if I leave and you leave too, what will happen to Mom? She’d be heartbroken.”
As she said this to stop Long Haochen, Bai Xi couldn’t help but feel a sense of guilt.
She was emotionally blackmailing Long Haochen.
Taking advantage of his soft heart and his deep care for her and Bai Yue, she was openly manipulating him with guilt.
Just the phrase “Mom would be heartbroken” made Long Haochen hesitate.
His blue eyes filled with sorrow as he gazed directly at Bai Xi, a look that could easily soften anyone’s heart.
“But being separated from you would make me heartbroken too.”
That one sentence nearly brought Bai Xi to tears as well.
“But I have reasons why I must leave. I’m sorry, Chen Chen.”
Long Haochen only wanted to be a Knight, and Long Xingyu was already more than enough to teach him.
But Bai Xi didn’t just want to be a Knight; she wanted to carve out her own path. What Long Xingyu could teach her was truly quite limited.
Only by temporarily parting ways to seek her own path could she grow stronger as quickly as possible.