Chapter 1281 - 1280: Is My Brother Still Alive

Chapter 1281: Chapter 1280: Is My Brother Still Alive

"Aunt Fei, do you think my little brother is still alive?" Jing Yuansi asked.

Gong Yunfei lowered her eyes. "That’s what we’re all hoping..." But the chances were far too slim.

They investigated for a long time after the incident. Back then, after Nie Xuejiao was injured by the Nie Family, they even poisoned her with a deadly toxin. Killing Nie Xuejiao was secondary; killing the fetus in her womb was their real goal.

Given Nie Xuejiao’s condition at the time, her chances of survival were very small.

And back then, the Pengge Sect wasn’t like it is now, desperate to protect Nie Xuejiao. After she went missing, they exhausted every means to search for her but found no trace at all. Some said she had fled into the mountains, but a pregnant woman, gravely wounded, poisoned, and about to give birth—let alone entering the mountains, she might not even have survived long enough to find a place to rest.

Later, when the Pengge Sect saw there was little hope, they had no choice but to give up on Nie Xuejiao. They couldn’t find any evidence of persecution by the Nie Family, and then the Nie Family even pretentiously came to "reason things out" and settle accounts, thoroughly disgusting the Pengge Sect.

Afterwards, the Pengge Sect searched for Nie Xuejiao in secret many times, but there was still no news at all. In the end, they were forced to abandon the Peng Pavilion’s child they had nurtured!

This pained the Pengge Sect deeply. This pregnancy plan had undoubtedly been a success, but in the end it all fell apart at the last step. With their anger having nowhere to go, the Pengge Sect’s attitude toward Jing Yuansi gradually cooled.

If it hadn’t been for the Gong Family siblings shielding her, Jing Yuansi might not have even lived to grow this big.

Jing Yuansi felt this matter was no trivial thing, and as long as there was even the slightest chance, Aunt Fei and Uncle Yan would definitely try. So she decided to tell them.

"Aunt Fei, I heard Brother Xiao Rui say he has a friend named Jing Changle, who looks a bit like me." Jing Yuansi said.

The term "Brother Xiao Rui" was not the first time the Gong Yunfei siblings had heard it; they just found it amusing. But after processing what she said, Gong Yunfei froze.

"You told him about your little brother and your mother?" Gong Yunfei asked immediately.

She assumed Jing Yuansi had told that Qingyu kid about Nie Xuejiao and her child, and that he’d said this just to tease her.

Jing Yuansi shook her head. "No, I didn’t. I’ve never told him."

Hearing this, Gong Yunfei’s heart started pounding wildly. "Did he... did he say anything else?"

Jing Yuansi continued shaking her head. "He didn’t say anything else. He just said that once we get to Beijing, he’ll take me to meet Jing Changle."

Gong Yunfei stared blankly for a moment. Something obtained this easily was either unrealistic or outright impossible. After searching for Jing Changle for so long, he was just waiting for them in Beijing?

"We’ll set out later today. He saved you, after all, so we need to go and thank him properly," Gong Yunfei said.

Just then, Gong Chengyan walked in, his eyes sharp as he looked at Jing Yuansi and asked, "Yuanxi, there’s word outside that the kid from the Qingyu School can use Spiritual Pointing to create a Spiritual Talisman. Is that true?"

Jing Yuansi was taken aback. "Uncle Yan, you mean Brother Xiao Rui? That can’t be right, he’s younger than me."

She had met Luo Yirui in the mountains and had never seen him use Spiritual Pointing to make a Spiritual Talisman. No one else had gone out of their way to mention it either, so she had no idea.

Gong Chengyan frowned slightly. "At first it was just some rumor outside. We didn’t take it seriously, just treated it as idle talk. But now even the Ancient Families have picked up the same rumor. It’s unlikely to be baseless. Yuanxi, tell me about everything that’s happened these past few days, and focus on this child, Luo Yirui."

Jing Yuansi hadn’t expected the always indifferent Uncle Yan to be curious about Brother Xiao Rui, so she immediately recounted everything that had happened along the way.