A Way to Heal

Part 69

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JinZhu approached, sword in hand. Wang LingJiao's eyes were filled with fear. Kicking her legs, she shrunk back as she shrieked, "Somebody! Help! Wen ZhuLiu! Help me!"

Madam Yu's expression hardened. With one foot on Wang LingJiao's wrist, she unsheathed her sword. Just as the blade was about to fall, it suddenly bounced away.

Hearing that name, as when the said man appeared, the momentary laughter on their faces washed away replacing with a frown.

"Wen ZhuLiu? ", Lan Sizhui asked, "isn't he the core melting one?"

"He is", Lan Xichen replied

Wei WuXian and Jiang Cheng turned to look. The doors to the hall had already been blown apart, and a man of a tall physique barged inside. He wore black clothes and had on him a grave expression. It was Wen Chao's personal guard, a cultivator of very high level, Wen ZhuLiu.

Her sword having fallen, Madam Yu held Zidian across her cheek, "CoreMelting Hand?"

Wen ZhuLiu's voice was cold, "Violet Spider?"

One of Wang LingJiao's hands was still under her foot. She felt so much pain that her features looked twisted, tears smeared all over, "Wen ZhuLiu! Wen ZhuLiu! Help me, help me now!"

Madam Yu snorted, "Wen ZhuLiu? Core-Melting Hand, isn't your original name Zhao ZhuLiu? Your surname clearly wasn't Wen, but you wanted to change your surname no matter what. Everyone's rushing like ducklings. Is the surname of those Wen-dogs really that precious? Turning back on your ancestors—how laughable!"

Wen ZhuLiu remained unswayed, seemingly indifferent, "Each serves their own master."

The expression on SiZhui's face changed at once. "Is it really bad? ", WuXian heard him whispering. "To change our surname is really bad? Am I forgetting my ancestors?", SiZhui's voice was filled with guilt. Up until now he never had a chance to think about this. Growing up as the son of one of the most prominent cultivators, nobody dared to raise a finger on the fact that he is adopted or more importantly he was a wen.

"Lan Sizhui, you didn't abandon your ancestors, did you?", Lan QiRen asked with an insolent ace. "Apart from changing your surname, what do you think you did to forget your ancestors?"

He thought for a moment. He was still a toddler when he got accepted to the Lan Clan and surname changed to Lan. He didn't remember anything until Wei WuXian showed up with ChenQing. So can it be really considered as abandoning his roots?

"Nothing", he heard Lan QiRen say again. "You did everything you could to bury their ashes and complete the rituals", His look was full of adoration for the younger one. If Lan WangJi was one of the best cultivators in his times, his son is the best in his. "Carrying a particular surname doesn't mean anything", He continued, "what is important is how you are carrying it".

Lan JingYi and Jin Ling strongly nodded their heads. Agreeing with whatever Grandmaster was saying. "He sometimes gets too emotional ", Jingyi told his friend. "First it was because he can't remember anything about his past, but now it's because he remembers everything about his birth family"

Jin Ling looked at his friend getting pampered by his fathers. "It's not easy", he says, "when you know them but you can't even remember their face. " I Can't blame him "

"A-Yuan we ... are proud of you",  SiZhui heard a whisper around him only to see nothing. A Chill ran through his entire person.

The two of them had just exchanged a few words, yet Wang LingJiao began to scream again, unable to bear it, "Wen ZhuLiu! Don't you see what I look like?! Why are you chit-chatting instead of killing her right now?! Is this how Young Master Wen told you to protect me?! Watch out or else I'll denounce you!"