Fantasy, starting with a treasure bowl

"Patriarch Lu, please allow me to say a few words."

Composing himself, Lu Feng looked at Lu Jinyuan beside him again, then cupped his hands slightly, "Now that the powerful enemy has just retreated, and Miss Lu herself is also seriously injured and quite shaken."

"In my opinion, we should first send Miss Lu back to her room to rest and recover. As for other matters, we can put them aside and discuss them later..."

Lu Feng's tone was pointed, seemingly intending to use this opportunity to give Lu Jinyuan a way out, so that the Lu family head would not lose face in front of his servants and damage his prestige.

After all, the relationship between Lu Jinyuan and Lu Xiaoxiang, father and daughter, was extremely strained, even comparable to that of long-time enemies.

To resolve the strained relationship between the two, it is clear that things cannot be rushed and require careful consideration.

"Well... alright! Then we'll do as you say, young hero!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Jinyuan was taken aback for a moment, seemingly still somewhat hesitant, but finally nodded.

Because, ever since his wife passed away fifteen years ago, his eldest daughter, Lu Xiaoxiang, has harbored deep resentment towards him, and this resentment has not subsided to this day. The father-daughter relationship between the two is like that of long-time enemies.

This is why Lu Jinyuan has been trying to win Lu Xiaoxiang's favor in every way, but Lu Xiaoxiang has never responded and instead remains indifferent.

"Someone come here!"

"Quickly take the young lady back to her room to rest!"

Lu Jinyuan suppressed his hesitation, then flicked his sleeves and spoke in a booming voice, as if he had regained his former dignity as the head of the Lu family.

"Yes, Master!"

Nearby, several servants of the Lu family also rushed over and carefully took the seriously injured Lu Xiaoxiang from Lu Feng's hands. At this moment, they were all very respectful and dared not be negligent in the slightest.

Although the Lu family had just experienced a great battle with Lu Feng and Yelü Jue, which caused chaos throughout the Lu family, the Lu family was still one of the top seventh-rank families in Yangguan City and occupied the core area of ​​Tianyunfang. It was a large and powerful family with many servants!

Therefore, even though the Lu family is now in ruins and even the four elders have all died in battle, many servants and guards still remain loyal to the Lu family and have not taken advantage of the chaos to escape.

"Xiaoxiang, your father will come to see you later. Please take good care of yourself..."

"Don't touch me!"

As he spoke, Lu Jinyuan reached out to pat Lu Xiaoxiang on the back, but before he could get close, he was interrupted by her angry glare, and she turned and left without looking back.

"Lu Jinyuan, don't think that just because you saved me this time, I'll thank you or even forgive you!"

Before leaving, Lu Xiaoxiang gave Lu Jinyuan a cold glance behind her, her tone still indifferent and ruthless, "You killed my mother back then, and I will never forget that debt, even for the rest of my life. If you want me to forgive you, you'll have to pay with your life...!"

"Xiaoxiang... Eh!"

Watching the other person's cold, departing figure, Lu Jinyuan frowned, seemingly wanting to explain something, but he couldn't bring himself to say it. In the end, he could only let out a heavy sigh.

"Patriarch Lu, speak."

Lu Feng glanced at Lu Xiaoxiang's departing figure, and only after confirming that she had gone far away did he look away, then said in a meaningful tone.

"What?"

Faced with Lu Feng's question, Lu Jinyuan was taken aback, seemingly somewhat surprised, "This... may I ask what you mean, young hero?"

"Patriarch Lu, things have come to this point, there's no need for you to continue hiding it, is there?"

Seeing that the other party was still pretending to be stupid, Lu Feng shrugged and then spread his hands outwards. "I don't know much, just the reason why you and Miss Lu and your father became enemies fifteen years ago."

"If Patriarch Lu is unwilling to speak up, even if I wanted to help mediate between you and your daughter, I'm afraid I wouldn't know where to begin..."

Lu Feng said with a hint of helplessness.

After all, there is never love without a reason, nor is there hatred without a reason.

The fact that Lu Xiaoxiang hated her biological father, Lu Jinyuan, so much that she even severed ties with him and left the family to completely cut off all contact with him suggests there was more to the story behind it.

"Ah! Young hero, you are indeed a clever man. Very well...!"

Upon hearing Lu Feng's words, Lu Jinyuan hesitated for a moment before finally sighing helplessly and slowly saying, "Just as you predicted, young hero, the reason why Xiao Xiang hated me so much in the past was not without reason, but rather for another reason..."

"It all started fifteen years ago, on the day Xiaoxiang's birth mother passed away..."

At this point, Lu Jinyuan shook his head repeatedly, then sighed heavily, his tone becoming somewhat self-reproachful, as if he were recalling a painful memory.

...

Meanwhile, on an official road in Fufeng County of the Great Xia Dynasty...

Bang!

A deafening roar suddenly rang out, and the next moment a figure in white robes crashed heavily to the ground. His face was deathly pale, and his aura was extremely weak, making it almost impossible for him to stand up.

"Damn it...!"

"As expected, the damage to the body from self-destructing one's natal spirit is no less than that from destroying the dantian, and may even be more severe...!"

The white-robed figure gritted his teeth, struggling to his feet as he used his hands to support himself. It was none other than Yelü Jue, who had narrowly escaped from the Lu family in the past.

However, Yelü Jue was no longer as imposing as before. He was not only quite disheveled, but his Yuan energy was also very weak.

Clearly, self-destructing one's natal spirit causes immense damage to a martial artist's body, even for a Yuanhai Realm expert like Yelü Jue.

"Lu Jinyuan, and that brat named Lu Feng...!"

"I swear I will tear you to pieces, skin you alive, and pull out your tendons! You all just wait...!"

The scene of his humiliating escape from the Lu family in the Southern Yue Kingdom flashed through his mind again, and Yelü Jue clenched his fists tightly, his teeth grinding together, as if his hatred was still hard to quell.

After all, he was the number one villain on the list, the Thousand-Faced Young Master, a first-level expert in the Yuanhai Realm. He had never suffered such humiliation before, especially since the other party was a junior in the ninth level of the Lingpo Realm who was only in his early twenties.

...

On the other side, inside the Qingshui Hall of the Lu family mansion...

This place is one of the most important locations in the Lu family compound, and it is also where the Lu family's senior members usually hold meetings. Ordinary people cannot enter, so it is heavily guarded and solemn.

However, the Qing Shui Hall was deserted at the moment. The elders and guests who used to frequent the hall were nowhere to be seen. Only the patriarch, Lu Jinyuan, sat alone in the main seat of the hall, looking worried.

Not far from Lu Jinyuan stood Lu Feng, who looked solemn. It seemed that the two had just been talking about something very serious, which made the atmosphere in the entire Qingshui Hall somewhat solemn.

"Patriarch Lu, may I ask if what you said earlier was all true?"

Lu Feng's gaze returned to Lu Jinyuan, who was seated in the main seat opposite him. His tone was somewhat probing as he asked, "Was it true that Miss Lu's birth mother was truly suffering from fire poison, beyond cure, and ultimately chose to commit suicide to avoid implicating her family?"

Although his question was somewhat impolite, Lu Feng was still incredulous when he heard that Lu Jinyuan's wife had committed suicide.

After all, the plot development of a mother committing suicide by poisoning, and the daughter mistakenly believing that her father was the one who failed to save her, thus harboring resentment, is just too melodramatic!

"That's right, Ping'er died by suicide after being poisoned by fire...!"

Nodding emphatically again, a rare look of sorrow crossed Lu Jinyuan's dignified face, and his tone became somewhat lost and dejected, "Speaking of which, it all started because of me. I, Lu Jinyuan, have wronged them, mother and daughter...!"

"If I had been stronger back then, perhaps I could have saved Ping'er's life, and Xiaoxiang wouldn't have lost her birth mother...!"