Good heavens, the ancestor has gone to confess his love again!

"Holy crap! That's possible!"

"Old Deng went too far!"

"Waaaaah~~ I'm still single from birth..."

"Wife, I'm so sorry!" Xu Yuan cried, tears streaming down his face. "Our whole clan is about to play Candy Crush, and I've dragged you into this!"

At this time.

Pei Xiyue's face turned completely cold, extremely gloomy.

She never expected that this rough old man would actually care about her... tiny little place!

Ever since she mastered the art of swordsmanship and single-handedly quelled the demonic calamity in Yuzhou, everyone looked at her with fear and trepidation. Those young talents who had once pursued her were now like mice before a cat. Even... Mengyao's own father dared not treat her so lightly!

How dare this insignificant ant harass me like this?

Bang!

The chair, the golden sandalwood table, and everything else in front of him were reduced to dust.

"How do you want to die?"

Pei Xiyue's red lips moved slightly, her voice chilling.

Before she finished speaking, a ball of icy, almost tangible power condensed in her palm. The icy blue aura surged with a world-destroying aura, and the glazed tiles on the roof of the palace began to crack inch by inch, with countless tiny cracks spreading out.

The power of a quasi-emperor is terrifying.

"Mother! No!"

At the critical moment, Pei Mengyao rushed forward, spreading her arms to shield Xu Pingsheng, her tone firm:

"Mother, the Xu family's patriarch is just senile. Xu Jia and Brother Fan have always treated Mengyao very well. Please, for my sake, don't make things difficult for the patriarch, okay?"

After saying that, she turned her head and looked at Xu Fan at the back with a resentful expression.

The meaning is obvious:

Brother Fan, I never imagined that the ancestor you so respected was actually this kind of ancestor...

Xu Fan was still young after all, and he couldn't bear his girlfriend's resentful gaze. He silently turned his head away, his face flushed, feeling extremely ashamed.

Our ancestor is usually kind, mature, and steady; why is he like this today...?

He couldn't understand it either. Could it be that his ancestor really wanted to be his... stepfather?

What a terrible thing to do!

Pei Mengyao's words immediately awakened the group of people who were in despair.

Thump~~ Thump~~

The Xu family members immediately knelt on the ground.

Xu Yuan said with trepidation, "Senior Pei, our ancestor is nearing the end of his life and is delirious. Please, in your great mercy, spare him this time."

"Yes, Senior Pei, please don't get angry because of Lao Deng's nonsense. Just treat it as a stray dog ​​barking a few times on the roadside."

"Yeah, let's just ignore Old Deng..."

Several elders and others echoed this sentiment.

"..." Xu Pingsheng was speechless.

for a long time.

Pei Xiyue's eyes flickered slightly, her gaze falling on Pei Mengyao. She withdrew her oppressive aura and let out a sigh:

"Sigh... Mengyao, you can know a person's face but not their heart. You saw it for yourself today. What kind of person is this Xu family patriarch? If the head is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too. This Xu Fan must also be a fickle person!"

"I'll let it go today for your sake, but I'll forget what I promised you!"

Immediately, Pei Xiyue turned around, her expression indifferent, and said coldly:

"I came today to annul the engagement with Mengyao, intending to feel guilty and bestow a great fortune upon your Xu family. But I never expected... haha, to see the true colors of your Xu family. Annulling the engagement was absolutely the right thing to do!"

"Mengyao, let's go!"

He immediately pulled Pei Mengyao toward the door.

[Ding! Host's confession failed. Compensation: 20 years of random cultivation points]

The system's voice arrived late, and Xu Pingsheng, while excited, also breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that Pei Xiyue hadn't made a move.

It seems that everything is as he expected. With Pei Mengyao and Xu Fan's relationship, Pei Xiyue, the leader of the righteous sect in Yuzhou, will not actually kill the Xu family because of his rash confession.

Since that's the case, then—

Let's take another gamble!

"etc!"

An aged voice suddenly rang out.

Upon hearing this, Pei Xiyue suddenly stopped in her tracks.

She slowly turned around, and a chilling aura spread out, instantly enveloping the entire Xu family once again.

But when she turned around, she met Xu Pingsheng's gaze... a gaze so affectionate it seemed he looked at a dog.

Pei Xiyue was slightly taken aback.

In her entire life, she had never seen such a chilling gaze.

At this time.

Xu Pingsheng stood three zhang away from her, his eyes red-rimmed, his body hunched over, yet he stubbornly straightened his spine under the pressure of a quasi-emperor, tilting his head slightly upwards at an angle of exactly forty-five degrees to look at the sky.

Her voice carried a barely perceptible sob, yet was filled with an unyielding tenderness, like a warm spring breeze caressing the earth, each word clearly resonating throughout the void:

Does falling in love with someone take time? Does it need a reason?

"Does sweet love only belong to young people? Don't older people have the right to pursue love?"

"Love arises without warning, and deepens with time. Fairy Pei, do you believe in... love at first sight?"

Pei Xiyue's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.

She had lived for thousands of years and had seen countless partings, power struggles, and hypocrisy, but no one had ever dared to reveal their true feelings to her so openly.

The old man before her, his temples streaked with white, though his cultivation was far inferior to hers, held a deep affection in his eyes that burned more intensely than any of her previous suitors.

In her entire life, she has never fallen in love with a man, not even Mengyao's biological father. Their marriage was an arranged one when they were young, and they never had a marital relationship. The birth of Mengyao a few years ago was just an accident.

At this moment, her killing intent subsided considerably.

When a person is about to die, his words are also good.

In her perception, the Xu family patriarch's life was already on a countdown, and he probably wouldn't live past the next two days.

To be able to express one's admiration for someone at the very last moment of one's life is, regardless of the circumstances, worthy of admiration.

But that's all.

The Xu family members all changed their expressions drastically, their gazes towards their ancestor filled with indescribable emotions.

Ancestor, please stop using your supernatural powers...

At your age, what are you doing playing with pure love stories? I think you just want your whole family to die with you!

Xu Pingsheng's gaze slowly moved down and landed on Pei Xiyue's icy phoenix eyes.

The voice grew gentler, yet carried a heart-stirring power, as if it could melt away the millennia-old ice:

"Before we even met, we smiled at each other; at our first meeting, we pledged our lives to each other. 'Pledge my life' is not only my name, but also a reflection of my feelings for Fairy Pei!"

"I see all living beings as mere grass and trees, but you alone I see as a verdant mountain!"

"I have no desire to become your Daoist partner, Fairy Pei. I am merely expressing my true feelings. In my heart, our meeting is already the best possible outcome. Why should I waste my remaining years longing for you? If we can share the snow today, then we can consider ourselves to have grown old together!"

"If love between two people is meant to last, why should they be together every day? I'm content to have met Fairy Pei before I die!"