Chapter 128: Call Me Father-In-Law

At this time, a handsome, rugged man walked over to Wei Chen. His expression was complicated. He seemed to welcome Wei Chen with a smile, yet his eyes avoided Wei Chen’s gaze, as if he had done something wrong and was in a rather awkward position.

Wei Chen was confused. Who was this guy?

Seeing this, Mo Xingyao stepped back and cleared her throat.

“Ahem… let me introduce you.” She turned toward the handsome, rugged man. “This is my father, the Sky-Severing Demon, Mo Jue.”

Realizing the man was Mo Xingyao’s father, Wei Chen maintained a respectful stance. He cupped his fist and bowed toward him.

“Wei Chen, a vagabond, greets Senior Sky-Severing Demon, Mo Jue.”

“Hahaha!” Mo Jue laughed. “Why so formal? Why so distant? We’ll be family in the near future. Why don’t you call me father-in-law already?”

“Huh?” Wei Chen was stunned. He then looked at Mo Xingyao as if wanting to ask something, but Mo Xingyao’s face was flushed red and she looked awkward.

“Err…” Wei Chen stuttered. He did not know what to do. Why had the lie that this money-grubber girl fabricated suddenly become real? Should he tell the truth, or should he go with the flow?

Thinking about it, this girl was loaded. He would not need to worry about money for his entire life. But wait, that was not the point. Sure, she was beautiful, and her personality was not that bad, even though she was a bit of a money grubber.

But the point was that he was still not ready. Not until he passed probation.

But how should he tell them?

Wei Chen thought as he looked at Mo Jue and Mo Xingyao, who was still blushing. Then he glanced at Dream Butterfly, who was still pouting at Mo Xingyao. She blushed as well when she looked at him.

There had to be something going on between these two girls that he did not know about. What was it? Was it because…?

Wei Chen’s mind wandered. In his imagination, he was sitting on a throne with two gorgeous women beside him. Dream Butterfly, with an air of scholarly refinement and the demeanor of a traditional wife, played her zither to entertain him, while Mo Xingyao, mischievous and energetic, fed him small fruits.

He quickly snapped back to reality when Mo Xingyao nudged him and gestured for him to look at her father, who was waiting for his response.

“C’mon… call me father-in-law,” Mo Jue urged.

Seeing that there was no way out, Wei Chen decided to go with the flow.

“Fa… father-in-law…”

The moment he said that, Mo Jue’s smile widened as he laughed out loud, repeatedly slapping Wei Chen on the shoulder.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, that’s right! My good son-in-law! Hahahaha!”

After satisfying himself, Mo Jue laughed once more and then walked out of the room, seemingly to check on his forces outside.

Seeing that Mo Jue had gone out of the room, Wei Chen turned to Hua Zuixian and said,

“Let me borrow her for a minute, Mr. Hua.”

Then he took the hands of both women and dragged them to a spot with a bit more privacy. He turned to Mo Xingyao and asked,

“What happened? Weren’t you saying it was just a facade? Why did it suddenly change?” Wei Chen asked, wanting an answer.

“Huh? A facade?” Dream Butterfly chimed in. She then looked at Mo Xingyao. “Sister Mo, what does that mean? A facade? Does this mean the thing between you and Lord Wei was…”

Dream Butterfly wanted to continue, but Mo Xingyao quickly covered her mouth.

“Shhhh! Not so loud!” Mo Xingyao gestured for Dream Butterfly to be quiet, and the latter nodded before releasing her hand.

Wei Chen looked at Dream Butterfly and then at Mo Xingyao in confusion. He knew that Dream Butterfly liked him, love at first sight. She was very open about it, open to the point that he felt a bit embarrassed. This was the first time in his two lives that he had received such a direct confession like this.

But Mo Xingyao was different. Wasn’t the whole thing just business? He was only supposed to help her avoid an engagement. Why had it suddenly become real? Even Mo Jue, her father, had approved of it.

This was what he really wanted to know.

“Okay… calm down… both of you, and listen to me first.” Mo Xingyao cleared her throat and wanted to begin, but she suddenly felt like her face was about to give out.

How could she say that this was because her father had destroyed the priceless mysterious artifact that Wei Chen gave her as collateral? Normally, collateral was something people wanted to get back.

And this?

Her father destroyed it completely, turning it into fine silver dust.

She was now trying to find the right words to explain it to him without provoking him too much. Yeah, in her dreams. Anyone would be furious if an artifact like that was destroyed. An artifact that could grant an epiphany of a sword technique capable of cutting through an entire army without any resistance.

“Errrr… Wei Chen, it’s um…. take a deep breath and stay calm before listening, okay?” Mo Xingyao repeated.

“I’m listening,” Wei Chen said.

“So… ummm….. the sword shard, the one that you gave me as collateral is, umm…” Mo Xingyao’s lips curled into a bitter smile as she took out a wooden box and opened it for him to see.

Inside was a pile of silver dust, with traces of mysterious qi.

Seeing the silver dust inside the wooden box, Wei Chen could not help but frown. He already had a guess about what this was.

“Is this the sword shard? What happened?” Wei Chen asked. Even though it had been turned to dust, and he had bought it for a price no different from half a kilogram of fish in the underworld, he still wanted to know.

“Umm… it’s like this…” Mo Xingyao then began to tell Wei Chen everything that had happened.

It started with Yin Lan, who was injured after trying to peer into the sword shard for an epiphany because she did not have a sufficient foundation in the understanding of the sword path. This led her to call Mo Jue, her father, to come and check on her.

After that, her father took the sword shard into closed door cultivation. In the end, he derived a powerful technique from it. As a result, the sword shard was reduced to dust.

Hearing this, Wei Chen felt conflicted. It was not that he had not tried to sense whether there was anything special within the sword shard, since it was a good from the underworld. He had tried, but he did not sense anything, which was why he gave it to her as collateral.

It seemed that the foundation of his understanding of the sword path was not enough to sense anything, just like Mo Xingyao when she tried to appraise the sword shard and thought it was merely a junk trinket.

Now that the sword shard had turned to dust because of her father, and after hearing that she was Wei Chen’s girlfriend, her father decided to approve her engagement with him and treat the sword shard as a dowry gift.

This was because both Mo Xingyao and her father did not believe they could find anything that could replace or compensate for the sword shard. It was an artifact that granted an epiphany, allowing her father to break through in his sword understanding and obtain a heaven defying sword technique. He had even used that technique to handle the combined armies of the Azure Sky Conglomerate, the Heaven’s Spire Sanctuary, and the Sacred Flame Valley.

After listening to the full explanation, Wei Chen finally understood. No wonder Mo Jue had tried so hard to make him call him father in law.

“So… what about you and Meng Yu?” he asked, looking at Dream Butterfly, who was standing beside Mo Xingyao.

“Meng Yu?” Mo Xingyao repeated in confusion.

“It’s Dream Butterfly’s real name,” Wei Chen clarified.

“Oh, I see…” She nodded, then looked at Dream Butterfly, who seemed eager for Mo Xingyao to explain. Umm… how should she put it…

Before she could explain, a disturbance came from another part of the ruin.

Booooom!

“Arrrgghhh!” “Urrgg!” “Aaaaaaarrh!” “The prisoner escaped! The prisoner escaped!”

The explosion from another part of the ruin, along with the entire structure shaking and the screams of the people outside, cut off Mo Xingyao’s explanation.

“Meng Yu, you stay with Yaoyao, okay?” Wei Chen said. He left Dream Butterfly, who was a mortal, with Mo Xingyao to protect her, then rushed toward the commotion.

Wei Chen flew toward the part of the ruin where he noticed a large crowd gathered, along with debris scattered everywhere and a large hole, as if someone had punched through the wall from the other side.

At the scene, Wei Chen saw a white haired old man with a long beard. He was floating above the crowd like an overlord overlooking peasants.

The man was none other than the Azure Sky Elder…

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