Xu Lan forced out a smile and asked as gently as possible, “Can we talk?”

“About what?” Ka Daiwen folded her arms, looked at Xu Lan with distrust, then asked in disdain.

After getting Xiao Xiao to leave, Ka Daiwen transformed into a human. Her beautiful face and exquisite figure made her seem as though she was in her early twenties. If Xu Lan had not come to terms with his own feelings prior to that moment, he would surely have admired Ka Daiwen in secret. Nevertheless, he was thinking of ways to minimize her interaction with Bai Wu, especially if it was a situation where both of them were alone.

“Uhh, for example, why is Bai Wu traveling back and forth all these dimensions with no way of going back? Why was he framed and lost his position of leadership? And how would he be able to return? Stuff like that.” Xu Lan shrugged his shoulders and asked softly.

She looked at him from head to toe and asked, “Who are you to ask me all this? Why should I even talk to you about it?”

“Haha, don’t be rash. We have a saying that goes, amiability makes you rich, do you know that? And girls also get wrinkles easily if they get angry too much. By then, it might not just be Bai Wu, maybe even the other members of the dragon clan might not like you.” Xu Lan touched the scar above his eyebrow and curled his lips in a smile.

“You!”

Ka Daiwen flung her sleeves all of a sudden and walked angrily out of the ward. Xu Lan promptly went out as well.

“I don’t want to talk about why Bai Wu lost his commanding position.” She relented at last and looked at the colors of the fast-setting sun.

“Mm. I can understand.” Xu Lan leaned on the railings and looked up to the sky in the same manner as Ka Daiwen.

The Koi-colored sunset shone upon the red horizon while a cool breeze brushed through. Xu Lan tried milking his vocabulary for words, but the only two adjectives he could find were ‘beautiful’ and ‘relaxing’. He could not help but smile: a woman’s sensibility was something he could never understand.

After Qiao Yi defeated Bai Wu, the latter – with a ruined constitution – fled to the dragon clan’s borders. Qiao Yi feared that Bai Wu would come back stronger in the future, so in light of that, he ordered all the dragons to do their best and find Bai Wu. Dead or alive, he made every effort to see Bai Wu, and finally, he found a dying Bai Wu in Qinglong Mountain. Whichever way one looked at it, Bai Wu was fortunate enough to bear the purest and noblest lineage among the dragon clan. Qiao Yi did not dare to kill him there and then, so all he could do was lock Bai Wu up to be subjected to daily mistreatment.

Tang was originally Bai Wu’s right-hand man, but after hearing Qiao Yi’s ideology, he too assisted in Bai Wu’s entrapment. He never foresaw that Qiao Yi would disregard their agreement and decide to kill Bai Wu. Distraught at seeing a desperate Bai Wu being persecuted and killed, he secretly rescued Bai Wu out in order to hide Bai Wu in a different dimension.

Once Qiao Yi found out, he flew into a fit of rage. Despite sending out a large number of capable assistants to search for Bai Wu, he was nowhere to be found. In the end, an ancient spell was somehow dug up; utilizing the same bloodline as Bai Wu’s to block up any contact between the dragon realm and other dimensions, a protective screen was set up, isolating Bai Wu from the dragon realm forever. Whatever dimension Bai Wu may be in, and regardless of how long he was in that dimension, he would remain unable to find the dragon realm.

“That terrible, huh? How scared of Bai Wu is he? He doesn’t seem weak to me,” the baffled Xu Lan asked. To him, it was like a battle for the throne, something that seemed so foreign and so exciting.

“In other dimensions, Bai Wu can only use eighty percent of his powers at most,” Ka Daiwen said, then continued, “but the remaining twenty percent is the most menacing.”

“I see. So, that means he’s completely unable to find his way back home?” Xu Lan paused almost imperceptibly as he touched the stubble of his chin, then raised an eyebrow and asked.

“Mm.”

Xu Lan spat out a mouthful. On the one hand, he despised his rejoicing heart, on the other he loathed Qiao Yi’s vicious and sinister methods, for it was ill-fitting of a man.

“Xu Lan, we’ve searched all over for you. Is Elder okay?” Fang Lingzi asked dispiritedly while holding her knees and gasping coarsely.

“We’re fine. And you? Why are you still here?” Xu Lan frowned when he saw some ten plus people coming out in succession from behind her.