"Are you really sure you can get me out of here?"
Chu Lingwei wasn't foolish; she wouldn't believe everything she heard.
"Miss Chu, you don't trust me?" Meng Wanyang's expression changed. Chu Lingwei hadn't been like this earlier. "Or do you want to stay by Qinghe's side forever?"
"Of course, I don't want to stay here. It's just, why should I believe you?" Chu Lingwei looked at Meng Wanyang steadily. "Senior, please don't be offended, I'm just thinking about my own safety. After all, to leave here, one must have the life to leave."
Hearing Chu Lingwei's explanation, Meng Wanyang smiled. This reaction was normal.
"Since you don't trust me, then there's nothing I can do. You only get one chance." Meng Wanyang believed Chu Lingwei didn't want to stay here. After all, even she herself didn't want to stay, let alone cultivators who had seen the prosperity of the Xuan Tian Continent.
This place was like a cage; no one would want to stay.
"Senior, please wait."
Seeing Meng Wanyang about to leave, Chu Lingwei's expression turned anxious. She said respectfully, "Please senior, help me leave. Just now, I was worried..."
"Let's go. Our Meng family doesn't want to be enemies with the Cultivation Academy. If you didn't have the Cultivation Academy behind you, I would have killed you directly." Meng Wanyang spoke with a gentle voice, her back to Chu Lingwei. To Chu Lingwei, it sounded filled with killing intent.
It seemed, just as she had thought, Meng Wanyang had no intention of taking her away.
"Thank you, senior." Meng Wanyang could even hear the relief in Chu Lingwei's voice. "My master and senior brother once told me that I could walk freely across the entire Xuan Tian Continent. If any sect or family dared to harm me, they would make all the disciples of that sect and family pay with their lives."
Meng Wanyang had underestimated the Leng family. The Leng family's strength surpassed the Meng family's.
The Leng family!
Hearing the Leng family, Meng Wanyang's body trembled slightly. She knew the Leng family's power and her heart became worried.
If Chu Lingwei died, and the Leng family and the Cultivation Academy came seeking revenge, their Meng family might not be able to withstand it.
No, absolutely not.
No one would make such a fuss over a dead person.
As long as Chu Lingwei died, she would have no more value. The Cultivation Academy would not choose to be enemies with their Meng family.
"Yes, I almost forgot. You have many senior brothers." Meng Wanyang smiled even more gently. "I suppose they treat you very well, don't they?"
"Yes, if they didn't treat me well, why would they follow me to Song City? You brought me here, I wonder if my senior brother knows?"
Chu Lingwei sighed. "I heard that once an outsider enters here, they can never leave. What a pity."
Leng Xingzhi was in Song City. Why hadn't she received any news?
Qinghe was truly too audacious.
"Leng Xingzhi is in Song City?" Meng Wanyang didn't believe Chu Lingwei. In the cultivation world, no one's words were trustworthy.
"Yes, you don't know?" Before Meng Wanyang could answer, Chu Lingwei replied, "You should know. You all know I went out to sea to search for the Water Jade Qilin, so you should know my senior brother is in Song City. It seems you are truly powerful."
Meng Wanyang's expression turned cold. She hadn't received any news at all. This meant there was only one possibility: Qinghe had cut off all her sources of information.
This truly was her good nephew.
"Senior, what is this place?"
Chu Lingwei felt she had provoked Meng Wanyang enough. She looked around. They had already left the lively streets of the underwater city and were descending deeper. The surroundings grew darker and darker. It was truly a good place to kill someone.
"This is the exit. We'll be there soon." Meng Wanyang, greatly agitated by Chu Lingwei, strode forward, disregarding Chu Lingwei behind her.
If she dared to follow, it would be a dead end. If she didn't, it meant she was someone with a strong will to live.
Chu Lingwei watched Meng Wanyang quickly move away. It seemed she had given her the choice.
"Master, should we still follow?"
"Of course. I must leave this place." Chu Lingwei's eyes flashed, a smile appearing on her lips. The main person had followed; she might as well let the show continue.
Chu Lingwei sped up her steps and soon caught up with Meng Wanyang.
"Chu Lingwei, you want to get out that badly?" Seeing Chu Lingwei catch up, Meng Wanyang could no longer maintain her pretense of a good demeanor, her eyes filled with killing intent.
"Yes, this wretched place. No one would want to stay here forever." Chu Lingwei nodded, surveying the surroundings. "But this doesn't look like a place from which one can leave."
"This is definitely a place from which you can leave, but it will be as a corpse."
Meng Wanyang took a step back, her spiritual energy transforming into streaks of incantations and striking towards Chu Lingwei.
Shui Yi swiftly stepped forward to counter.
"Senior, what is the meaning of this?" Chu Lingwei's face was cold. It seemed she truly intended to kill her.
"Chu Lingwei, as long as you are alive, Qinghe will always think of you, and our Meng family's rules will be broken by him. Our Meng family's rules must not be broken."
Meng Wanyang's eyes were filled with hatred. "If it weren't for you, my elder brother wouldn't have died. I want revenge for my elder brother."
"What are you talking about?"
Chu Lingwei averted her gaze. Could the death of the Meng family patriarch have another reason? Was he killed by this unfilial son?
"I'm not talking nonsense..."
"Aunt!"
Just as Meng Wanyang was about to continue, she was interrupted by a young voice. Meng Qinghe appeared before them. "Aunt, what are you doing?"
"Qinghe, you have truly disappointed your aunt."
The moment Meng Wanyang saw Meng Qinghe, her heart was filled with regret and helplessness. She was too useless. Why had she been soft-hearted and believed his words?
"Aunt, why did you bring Miss Chu here?" Meng Qinghe didn't listen to Meng Wanyang, his face full of gentleness. "It's cold here. Even cultivators cannot endure the chill."
"Meng Qinghe, if you still have even a shred of feeling for your father, then kill the person before you." Meng Wanyang pointed at Chu Lingwei. "If it weren't for Chu Lingwei, your father would not have died. You can't explain this, can you?"
Meng Qinghe smiled faintly, then turned to look at Chu Lingwei. "Miss Chu, it is cold here. If you stay here for too long, the chill will enter your body and affect your cultivation."
"Alright, I'll leave now."
Chu Lingwei was tactful, turned around, and left with Shui Yi.
"Meng Qinghe, why did you let Chu Lingwei leave? You are a disobedient son! How could our Meng family have descendants like you?" Meng Wanyang was in a panic, watching Chu Lingwei leave with nothing she could do.