After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 399 Bloodstained Affairs Revealed

"Xiao Yi, at the Class B auction that Bai Lu and the others attended last time, a broken jade pendant was sold. Do you know the origin of that jade pendant?" Shen Xu suddenly asked Li Xiao Yi in Tianjian City.

He finally remembered why the jade pendant seemed familiar. When Zuo Chen recruited Li Xiaoyi, he used a similar, incomplete jade pendant.

“Aunt Shangguan said you also made a bid for that jade pendant back then, so why ask when you already know the answer?” Li Xiaoyi said calmly.

"I'm not sure, Xiao Yi. You're always chatting like this, which is likely to discourage other people from sharing."

"Oh? So how do you want me to answer?" Li Xiaoyi looked at him with eyes as calm as a still lake.

"Uh...this is fine." Shen Xu felt that he had gone a bit too far.

"You really do prefer your sister's personality, but unfortunately, my personality has always been like this since I was little, and I won't change it for you."

"Xiao Yi, let's not involve other unimportant people in our conversation, okay? Although you and your sister seem different on the surface, you are actually the same type of person."

And if we have to say who has a better personality, Xiao Yi, your personality is far superior to your sister's. At least you don't say one thing to someone's face and another behind their back. What I hate most is being lied to.

"Then why did you lie to me?"

"Huh? When did I lie to you?"

“You didn’t tell me the truth about what happened in the Blood Central Realm, and I suspect it’s related to a woman,” Li Xiaoyi said calmly.

"I... I did lie a little, but it was absolutely insignificant." Shen Xu lowered his head, not expecting to be proven wrong so quickly.

"Qingyun was right after all. You have a very strong, unfamiliar woman's scent on you."

"Damn!" Shen Xu's eyes widened instantly. Qing Yun, did you misplace your talent points? He initially thought Qing Yun had really forgiven him, but he didn't expect her to be waiting for him here.

Why won't you tell me the truth? What happened between you and that woman?

"How could that be! I'm just afraid you'll get angry. If you get angry, you might have an attack, and I'm really afraid of encountering that situation again. In Heavenly Sword City, I could still go to find your sister, but in the Blood Central Realm, I can't do anything."

Hearing this, Li Xiaoyi's tone softened. "I've already told you that my cold ailment is completely cured, and nothing happened between you and her, so why would I be angry?"

Besides, I'm not that narrow-minded. Last time was just a coincidence. Otherwise, if I saw you and Bailu being all lovey-dovey at Qingling Creek every day, I would have been furious long ago.

"You're slandering me! I spent most of my time cultivating in the Ancient Forest when I was in Qingling Creek, and you spent most of your time away from Qingling Creek. In fact, it's you who always come to the Ancient Forest to disturb my cultivation!" Shen Xu immediately retorted.

"And when it comes to being affectionate, who has gone as far as you?" But he could only think this to himself.

"I don't know about others, but Guanbi must have been doing a lot of things with you in secret. However, she will probably distance herself from you later. She knows Bailu too well, but she doesn't understand Bailu either."

"What do you mean? What exactly happened between Guanbi and Bailu?"

"This is between the two of them; it seems to have nothing to do with you. Tell me about the girl!"

Hearing this, Shen Xu fell silent. The matter between Bai Lu and Guan Bi really had nothing to do with him, and wasn't Guan Bi leaving him on her own initiative exactly what he wanted to see?

"Actually, there's not much to say. If you replace the young man who saved me at the beginning with a girl, that's the whole story between me and her."

She gave me a sword, and in the end I returned it to her, and as promised, I gave her a wooden bracelet.

In Yunyang Kingdom, giving a girl a rattan bracelet signifies giving her a token of love. I didn't know this custom when I gave her a wooden bracelet, yet she accepted it. This is the most important reason why I dare not be honest with you.

“Your concerns are not entirely unfounded. If I had heard about this at the time, you might have been in great danger,” Li Xiaoyi said coldly.

"Is there any difference between now and then?" Shen Xu couldn't help but wonder.

"Now that I have Sister Yunyao, I naturally won't be jealous of a pitiful girl."

Shen Xu felt that Li Xiaoyi's words were particularly sharp today, each sentence both silent and penetrating.

"Now that I've told you about the Blood Central Realm, you should tell me about the jade pendant. Is it the legendary Hanxu Jade Pendant?"

"You guessed right, that jade pendant is indeed the Hanxu Jade Pendant, but I find it a bit strange. Given your personality, even if you guessed that the jade pendant was the Hanxu Jade Pendant, you probably wouldn't spend millions of Yangyuan Pills to gamble on a possibility."

Unless you are absolutely certain you can gather all four Hanxu Jade Pendants, how did you learn that only a handful of people within the Sword Alliance know this?

Upon hearing Li Xiaoyi's question, Shen Xu was taken aback. He hadn't expected Li Xiaoyi to be so perceptive. His mind began to race, trying to find a reasonable motivation for her behavior.

"It's very simple. When Zuo Chen showed you that jade pendant fragment, I saw its shape, and it was very similar to the jade pendant in the auction."

"Since Zuo Chen was able to lure you out with that jade pendant, it means you possess at least one more. Adding that to the one from the auction, it means I know the whereabouts of at least three jade pendants. Aren't three Hanxu jade pendants worth a gamble?"

“I do have a fragment of a jade pendant on me. Zuo Chen also gave me his. It’s a pity that the third jade pendant was bait released by the Sword Alliance. Otherwise, it would have been a great opportunity for you,” Li Xiaoyi said with emotion.

"I don't care about chance or anything like that. I just wanted to take this picture and give it to you," Shen Xu said sincerely.

"Do you think I'd believe that?" Li Xiaoyi looked coldly at Shen Xu.

"No!" Shen Xu smiled somewhat awkwardly.

"Hmph!" A smile appeared on Li Xiaoyi's lips.

"Besides Qin Zhongyuan, I remember there was another person bidding against me at the time. Did he have the last jade pendant?"

“He didn’t have it, but he knew where the jade pendant was. He just couldn’t get it out for the time being. After learning that the Sword Alliance had collected the other three jade pendants, he readily sold the information about the last jade pendant to the Sword Alliance.”

"That's it!"

No wonder he hadn't heard a single word about Hanxu Cave even though the auction was almost over; it seems that's where things went wrong.

In the previous life, the person at the Four Directions Auction must have taken the last jade pendant, thus creating the celestial phenomenon of all four jade pendants gathering together.

"Has the Sword Alliance said how they plan to deal with the Hanxu Cave?"

"We should wait until the matter in the Blood Central Realm is settled before dealing with it. Given the size of the Sword Alliance, we need to prioritize these two matters. Moreover, this period of time is a good opportunity to collect and study the life story of Hanxu Zhenren in preparation for exploring Hanxu Cave."

After all, Master Hanxu is a half-saint; one can't be too careful!