Volume 3, Chapter 69 – Something’s Wrong with Aisha… Who Are You Really?

“You drunkard? You’re really a First Celestial Augur Knight? You look way too unreliable!”

“Your friend was murdered? Then go find the killer! Don’t worry, I’ll help you find them!”

“Hmm? My name is Aisha-Lingyuan, just call me Aisha.”

“Stop drinking all the time and do something proper. Don’t waste your abilities. Your comrades definitely wouldn’t want to see you continue muddling through life like this.”

“Worried about not doing well? Haha, it’s fine, I’ll teach you! I’ll use my brain, you use your hands, and we’ll be invincible~”

“Watermelon Head Brotherhood? What an interesting name.”

“Xuan-zi, give me a child?”

“Hehe… it’s a boy. I’ll give you a chance… hehe, give him a name? Remember, absolutely can’t be too uncouth, or I’ll beat you to death.”

As that figure came into Xi Xuan’s view, countless memories sealed within his mind replayed like slides in Xi Xuan’s brain, causing this usually strong and brave Celestial Augur Knight to tremble all over, with tears even faintly glimmering in his pupils.

“……”

At this moment, Xi Xuan seemed to not dare believe his own eyes.

He couldn’t believe that Aisha-Lingyuan, his wife, would appear before him again.

One must know that since Aisha’s disappearance over thirty years ago, Xi Xuan had never given up searching for her. After Luo Fei had grown up a bit, Xi Xuan had led the Lingyuan family’s elite search teams, constantly traveling between various countries, searching for traces of Aisha.

Although many people believed Aisha had already died in the attack, Xi Xuan, who hadn’t seen his beloved’s corpse, refused to accept this explanation.

He didn’t believe his beloved had just died like that.

However, after over thirty years of arduous searching, Xi Xuan still hadn’t found any information about Aisha.

The continuous failures gradually wore down Xi Xuan’s will, and he had almost once given up the thought of finding his wife.

—”Aisha, isn’t she really… gone?”—

Extremely despondent thoughts uncontrollably surfaced in Xi Xuan’s mind.

However, at this moment, upon seeing that familiar figure in an instant, all despondent and uneasy thoughts immediately vanished, replaced by unprecedented excitement and agitation.

“Aisha!!!”

After a moment of stunned silence, Xi Xuan’s eyes trembled, and he quickly ran toward that graceful silhouette.

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The next moment, after dispersing the flock of crows that had appeared around them at some point, Xi Xuan, surrounded by silver light, directly rushed to his wife’s side.

“Aisha! Great, you, you’re okay! Really, really, so, so good!”

The excited Xi Xuan trembled all over, his hands tremblingly reaching toward Aisha’s face, gently caressing the silver-haired woman’s cheek as if touching a priceless treasure.

Feeling that familiar breath, that familiar touch, tears began to flow uncontrollably down Xi Xuan’s cheeks.

“……”

Facing the excited Xi Xuan, the silver-haired woman’s lips slowly curved upward, revealing a sweet and loving smile.

“Little Xuan.”

While softly calling Xi Xuan’s nickname, Aisha slowly reached out and pressed against Xi Xuan’s small hand that was touching her face.

Just like when the couple had intimately spent time together in the past.

“Sorry for making you worry.”

“No, no need to apologize. It’s good that you’re back, good that you’re back…”

Xi Xuan hurriedly shook his head.

“But, Aisha, back then, why did you suddenly disappear? Where have you been all these years? Why couldn’t we find you no matter how hard we searched?”

“……”

The moment this topic was mentioned, Aisha’s expression visibly dropped, bitter emotions clearly showing in her pupils.

“Back then… the private jet I was on encountered those guys from Paradise Manor when passing through Philo Canyon.”

“Paradise Manor?!”

“Yes. They probably wanted to capture me and then use me to threaten you and the Lingyuan family.”

“What happened after that?” Xi Xuan anxiously pressed.

At the same time, this First Celestial Augur Knight’s fists had already clenched tightly.

Although he had long suspected that his wife’s disappearance was Paradise Manor’s doing, when Xi Xuan personally received confirmation from his wife, he still couldn’t help but emanate murderous intent.

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“Were you captured by Paradise Manor?”

“No.”

Aisha shook her head:

“Wagreling and the others sacrificed themselves to help me successfully break through. But… afterward, those Paradise Manor lackeys kept pursuing me. Because I felt it was impossible to escape, I froze myself and sank into the swamp area of Boren.”

“Sank into the swamp area?! How could you do something so crazy?”

“Sorry, Little Xuan. I had no choice. Even if I really died there, it would be better than being captured by Paradise Manor to threaten you all. However, originally, I hadn’t planned to commit suicide. I was still hoping you could find me through the ring.”

Speaking thus, Aisha looked at her right ring finger with particular regret, at the pink diamond ring on her ring finger.

The diamond ring was quite beautiful, the only flaw being the cracks that had appeared on that huge pink diamond.

After taking in these cracks, Xi Xuan’s heart suddenly trembled.

“I see… the positioning array in the pink diamond was damaged. No wonder I couldn’t find you back then no matter what.”

“Yes, I actually didn’t notice this point either.”

“Then, Aisha? How are you here now?”

“Well… I’m not too sure. While I was in a frozen state, I seem to have been brought to this city by someone.”

Looking around, Aisha said thoughtfully.

“Honestly, if it weren’t for the aura from your battle with those two vassals reaching the basement and shattering my ice block, awakening my consciousness, I don’t know how much longer I would have been frozen.”

Saying this, Aisha couldn’t help but show an uneasy expression.

“Forget it, in any case, it’s good that you’re okay, good that you’re okay.”

“Little Xuan.”

Aisha spoke softly, looking around with some confusion. After taking in this scene of cruel urban devastation, Aisha’s body instinctively trembled.

“What’s going on around here? What was that Corrupted Beast aura just now… what’s happening here now…”

“The Vassals of Sky, those monsters invaded the Kingdom of Qingyun. I’m leading the allied forces to provide support.”

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“Vassals of Sky? You’re going to fight such dangerous monsters?”

“Yes.”

Xi Xuan nodded solemnly.

“Sorry, Aisha. Although we’ve just reunited, I’m afraid I have to send you back to Wishaven first.”

“No, don’t!”

Aisha instantly showed a terrified expression and tightly grasped Xi Xuan’s sleeve.

“It’s too dangerous! I finally got to see you, I absolutely won’t allow you to do such dangerous things again! Come with me, let’s go back to Wishaven together.”

“Aisha, I’m afraid that’s not possible. I’m the main force of this allied army. I can’t leave.”

“You’re a First Celestial Augur Knight, many monsters from the Vassals of Sky are targeting you! If you don’t leave now, you won’t be able to leave later!”

“But the allied forces…”

“What do they matter?! Your life is more important!”

Aisha said somewhat hoarsely, her tone full of worry, even carrying a hint of pleading.

However, facing his wife’s entreaty, the moved Xi Xuan inexplicably fell silent. As some memories surfaced, this First Celestial Augur Knight’s smile gradually faded at this moment, replaced by a trace of strangeness.

Seeing Xi Xuan suddenly fall silent, the silver-haired woman looked up with some confusion at the man holding her.

“Little Xuan?”

Faced with this question, after a deathly silence, Xi Xuan slowly spoke:

“Who… are you?”

“Huh? I, I’m Aisha, your wife?”

“No, you’re not Aisha.”

Xi Xuan shook his head somewhat tremblingly.

After that silver-haired woman’s ‘pleading’ words reached his ears, Xi Xuan felt as if he had been struck by lightning and immediately snapped back to reality.

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Because he knew very clearly that Aisha could never say such words. Aisha would definitely insist on joining him, clamoring to fight the Vassals of Sky together with him, rather than thinking about taking him to escape…

After coming to his senses and stabilizing his excited emotions, Xi Xuan suddenly discovered… the Aisha before him was very strange.

Although the appearance, aura, tone, demeanor, and even many details in the speech of the woman before him were identical to the Aisha in his memory… Xi Xuan just felt extremely strange.

The appearance of the Aisha before him was the most perfect one in his memory.

But when Aisha had departed by private jet back then… she had cut her hair short and was wearing a dress… not the Lingyuan family uniform.

Not to mention, this uniform had no trace of cold air remaining.

Hadn’t she just broken out of ice?

“Who are you really?”

As the interrogation left his mouth, surging spiritual power suddenly gathered in Xi Xuan’s hands.

However, before Xi Xuan could react, his body suddenly trembled, blood involuntarily sliding from the corners of his mouth, and intense pain suddenly rushed to his brain at this moment.

??!

Tremblingly lowering his head, Xi Xuan followed the pain to look at his chest. Then he discovered… Aisha’s hand that had originally been gently caressing his chest had somehow pierced through his chest and was gripping his beating heart.

“……”

Xi Xuan slowly raised his head, looking at the silver-haired woman before him in disbelief.

At this moment, the woman who had shown worry and anxiety just a second ago now displayed a trace of gloomy helplessness. Not only that, but a black mandala flower pattern had somehow appeared on Aisha’s forehead.

Although the woman still maintained Aisha’s aura, her temperament had undergone earth-shaking changes.

“Xi Xuan-West.”

‘Aisha’ somewhat regretfully called out the black-haired man’s name softly.

—”If you hadn’t been so sensitive and had obediently come with me, wouldn’t everything have been fine? Honestly… I didn’t want to kill you.”—

Before her words finished, as ‘Aisha’s’ five fingers exerted force, Xi Xuan’s heart suddenly shattered…