17 Dai Jingyi (1/2)

”Will he dream about me?” Another girl thought that night.

”Huh?” Dai Zhi, who was lying on her bed, heard a noise and people running. When she looked out the window, she saw some of her family's best cultivators heading towards the mansion's entrance. Dai Zhi was very curious, so she left the room and headed towards the street to see what was happening there.

”It's him!?” It didn't take long for Dai Zhi to see the group of cultivators led by her father surrounding a man holding an injured woman. Dai Zhi was going to look at her father again for answers when she recognized the man. She was thinking about him less than a minute ago.

Dai Zhi couldn't even imagine how the situation got to that point. She was about to speak to her father, that knew Nero when she heard two voices that she knew well and left her perplexed.

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”But what the hell is going on here!?” Dai Dong could not understand where came from this strange white-haired young man who is both protected from the Xun Family and disciple of Elder Xiong. But the most important thing was not where he came from but that he seemed to be hostile to his Dai Family. ”So now, how to proceed?”

”Calm down, Dai Dong. He is my disciple, and this injured woman is his slave, so it is normal that he had problems with your men who were taking her.” Xiong Zhelan wanted to use his authority as the Elder of a great sect to solve the problem quickly and take Nero away.

”So, where's Wei Ping!?” Dai Dong asked because he couldn't see any pieces of Wei Ping's body and only saw the corpse of one of his men on the street.

”He is dead. But without a body, because the boy used a special technique that killed him without leaving a trace except for the blood on his clothes.” Xiong Zhelan saw Wei Ping's body mysteriously disappear when Nero touched him. Xiong Zhelan had no idea how Nero did it, but it made him think it was increasingly worth taking the mysterious young man to his sister.

”Do you understand how difficult this situation is for me? This young man comes here and kills my friend. Wei Ping was an important person to my family, and I cannot leave his death ignored.” Dai Dong didn't know what to do, but he wanted some punishment for Nero.

”Elder Xiong has already said that Wei Ping was taking Nero's slave. He tried to reason with him, but his family does not understand the side of the others, and the situation ended up in a fight, but it was not Nero's fault that he only defended himself.” Xun He spoke in defense of Nero but lied about how the fight started because he saw it when Nero attacked Wei Ping's group by surprise.

”And what do you have to do with that young man!?” Dai dong was not as smart as his wife, but he thought that Xun He just wanted to bond with Nero because of his strength and connection with Elder Xiong.

Dai Dong knew it would be the end of his family if they fought Xiong Zhelan, but he also feared that the Xun Family, together with Nero, would still be enough to beat them.

”He's a friend of my daughter, and maybe in the future, they'll be even more than friends, so it's normal for him to be with us.” Xun He talked about Nero and Xun Lan as if he was very much in favor of the couple being together. Of course, Dai Dong understood that he would also want such a talented son-in-law.

”Really!?” Xun Lan and Dai Zhi exclaimed together, but it was very low, so hardly anyone heard. Xun Lan was pleased that her father had nothing against Nero but in favor, but Dai Zhi was dying of jealousy without knowing how to fix things between Nero and her family.

”I know what you want to do here, Xun He! But what about you, Elder Xiong? Do you want to join the Xun Family to destroy us? I thought that the people of the Black Sword Sect were always fair and didn't get into other people's disputes.” Everyone thought those words made a lot of sense. But it was not Dai Dong who spoke, but his daughter. Not Dai Zhi but Dai Dong's younger daughter, who was still a child.

Dai Jingyi was already listening to the conversation since Dai Dong arrived. She followed him even before Dai Zhi and was thinking about how the situation got to this point and how her family could survive this storm.

Even though the story of the taken slave seemed to be true, there were still things left unsaid. Dai Jingyi thought so because she was sure that Nero had a particular hostility towards her family.

Dai Jingyi was very cunning, even at such a young age. She knew it didn't make sense for Wei Ping to start a fight for a non-human slave, so Nero should have started the fight. But why? Nero's motivations were still a mystery to her.

When Dai Jingyi thought about how important this non-human was to Nero, she saw her father trying his best to resolve the situation. Still, his intelligence was limited, and Dai Jingyi thought it was time to get into the discussion.

”Jingyi! You must not stay here as it is dangerous right now.” Dai Dong knew that his daughters were brilliant. Even though Jingyi was very smart, he was still a child, and there was a difference between accepting her advice at home and letting her lead things in a dangerous moment of emergency.

”Dad, don't treat me like a child and let me speak.” Dai Jingyi entered the middle of the circle formed by the cultivators around Nero, who still kept the non-human like a mountain with infinite determination. Dai Jingyi was increasingly sure that Nero had a lot of affection for the alleged slave.

Dai Dong was about to send one of his henchmen to take Dai Jingyi, but when he looked at the man, he shook his head in disapproval. Dai Dong was confused and looked at another man on the side, but he also told him with his head that it would be a bad decision. Then Dai Dong could only hope that his daughter would be able to help them.