Long Aotian’s Beautiful Butler Has Run Away chapter 148

Chapter 148: There Will Be a Way

Where could Shen Bingsi go?

Rong Xie couldn’t think of anywhere else he could go besides Huanxue Villa for a moment.

When Shen Bingsi left, he left Rong Xie with a sentence.

He said he would come back; wait for him.

This meant Shen Bingsi wasn’t entirely without a plan. He definitely went to find a solution. Hiding alone in a place no one knew to quietly wait for death—that wasn’t Shen Bingsi’s style.

Since he went to find a way, he certainly didn’t go to just any random place. The place he went to must be one that could help him.

“Elder Yunfeng, I think what you said makes sense,” Rong Xie said in deep thought.

“Huh?” Elder Yunfeng was stunned. “What makes sense?”

“Shen Bingsi might have gone to find Elder Bai, or he might have gone to another place that can help him…” Rong Xie looked up at Elder Yunfeng. “But why isn’t Sect Leader Xue anxious at all?”

Reasonably speaking, Shen Bingsi resigning from the Adjudicator position and falling into the crisis of a shattered Dao Heart should make Sect Leader Xue very anxious. Now that Shen Bingsi’s whereabouts were unknown, Sect Leader Xue hadn’t sent anyone to search. Why?

Elder Yunfeng sighed. “Young friend Rong, you still don’t understand our Sect Leader. If someone wronged Shen Bingsi and slandered his reputation, our Sect Leader would definitely be the first to stand up and defend him. However, in matters of cultivation, everyone encounters bottlenecks. Whether one can survive it depends only on oneself. Sect Leader Xue won’t help in this kind of matter.”

Elder Yunfeng paused, then added, “Moreover, Sect Leader Xue took Shen Bingsi into seclusion with him before. It was Shen Bingsi who insisted on going his own way, repeatedly going to find… cough, now that he has ended up with a wavering Dao Heart, Sect Leader Xue has no way either.”

“So that’s it.” Rong Xie nodded. “I understand… it’s because of me.”

Before this, Elder Yunfeng had indeed thought so. If not for Rong Xie’s influence, Shen Bingsi definitely wouldn’t have had a wavering Dao Heart. If Rong Xie had handled the matter properly, Shen Bingsi surely wouldn’t have been reduced to this state.

However, after hearing the details of the Lu family case, he changed his mind.

“Young friend Rong, you must not think like that. Sect Leader Xue is just angry with Shen Bingsi; it has nothing to do with you,” Elder Yunfeng said.

“I know. Sect Leader Xue might not even know of my existence,” Rong Xie sighed.

Elder Yunfeng’s expression was odd; clearly, Rong Xie had hit the mark.

“I just… I crossed that line first. If I could have endured, adhering strictly to the identity of a close friend until the end like last time, or perhaps been decisive and left cleanly from the start… things wouldn’t have developed to this point.”

Elder Yunfeng looked at him with some confusion.

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“Sorry, I said something hard to understand,” Rong Xie shook his head, looking at Elder Yunfeng again. “I just want to say, I will take responsibility for Shen Bingsi’s matter to the end. If Sect Leader Xue is washing his hands of it because he has no way, then I have a way. As long as I can find Shen Bingsi, I will think of every way to help him. So… please, Elder Yunfeng, convey this to Sect Leader Xue: Rong Xie is willing to be responsible for Shen Bingsi. Please ask Sect Leader Xue not to give up and to continue searching for news of Shen Bingsi.”

“I will go find Sect Leader Xue,” Elder Yunfeng understood. Rong Xie’s request was clear. “But, young friend Rong, do you really have a way to help Shen Bingsi?”

Rong Xie looked straight ahead, silent for a moment. “There will always be a way.”

“How could he have a way!”

Lingjing Sect Main Peak, Immortals Worship Terrace.

Xue Baoshan paced back and forth violently like a defeated lion, hands behind his back, walking from Elder Yunfeng’s left to his right.

Elder Yunfeng just watched him walk to and fro.

“That is a shattered Dao Heart! A shattered Dao Heart!” Xue Baoshan couldn’t help roaring a few times, making the beast heads on the terrace tremble. “No matter what Dao one cultivates, the most fearful thing is a shattered Dao Heart. Does he even know the consequences of a shattered Dao Heart?! The Five Decays of Heaven and Man! Exploding body and death! Anything is possible! Even I can’t guarantee a solution to this matter; on what basis does he guarantee it!”

Elder Yunfeng listened to Xue Baoshan’s violent roaring.

In fact, Xue Baoshan had been roaring for an hour. From the moment he learned the culprit who caused Shen Bingsi’s Dao Heart to waver was Rong Xie, he couldn’t hold it back. He never expected the sect’s unparalleled genius, the leader of the Ruthless Path, to fall into the hands of a close friend he grew up with. Who would believe this?!

“Actually, growing up together as childhood sweethearts creates the deepest feelings. It also shows Shen Bingsi didn’t waver casually; his nature is tenacious, not someone who can’t withstand temptation,” Elder Yunfeng tried to explain.

Unexpectedly, this drew even greater fury from Xue Baoshan. “It’s the childhood sweethearts part that’s most hateful! You don’t know how much hope the Grand Elder placed in him! After the Grand Elder spoke with him, he came to find me excitedly. The Grand Elder is a person who never shows emotion, yet I saw excitement on his face! He said he found a good seedling for the Ruthless Path. This person was young but saw through love, his heart like an ancient well without ripples. He had already tested him; this person was the best candidate to inherit his legacy!”

“…” Elder Yunfeng had heard this part back then. After all, the Grand Elder suddenly deciding to take a disciple was definitely a major event in the sect, and the details had spread widely.

“Who knew the person who would make his Dao Heart waver was lying in ambush beside him all along! Clearly, he liked him terribly and couldn’t leave him at all, yet he told the Grand Elder he had long cut off love and desire, that he would absolutely never touch emotions only fools discuss in this life! The moment the person left, he couldn’t stand it. The moment the person crooked a finger, his soul flew away. Clearly a saint of love, pretending to be a Ruthless Path genius!” Xue Baoshan cursed more and more foully. The later words became unbearable to the ear; if Elder Yunfeng wasn’t familiar with his temperament, he would have thought it was some idler cursing on the street.

Of course, Elder Yunfeng could also hear that the reason Xue Baoshan was so angry was that he truly cared about Shen Bingsi.

Anyone who cared wholeheartedly about someone, only for that person to be obstinate, repeatedly running out of the seclusion environment painstakingly prepared for him just to be lovey-dovey with someone whose name the Sect Leader hadn’t even remembered—that person would get angry. Let alone the notoriously short-tempered Xue Baoshan.

Elder Yunfeng let Xue Baoshan vent thoroughly. His ears endured quite a bit of torture. Seeing it was getting late and Xue Baoshan had gradually calmed down, he said, “After saying so much—finding him: will you help or not?”

Xue Baoshan’s temper flared again. “Who said I won’t find him? I’m finding him for the sake of the sect’s interests, for the future of the Ruthless Path, not to help some Rong Xie. —Pass my Sect Leader Order: Any Lingjing Sect disciple patrolling outside has an urgent mission to find my sect’s Ruthless Path Sword Cultivator Shen Bingsi. Whether sending a message back or bringing the person back directly, there will be a heavy reward, paid from my private treasury.”

Elder Yunfeng’s eyes lit up. With the Sect Leader Order, things would be easy. “That’s wonderful. I’ll go notify the elders of each peak now.”

“Wait,” Sect Leader Xue called Elder Yunfeng back, pondering for a moment. “If Shen Bingsi refuses to come back, there is no need to force him. But pass one more message: tell him Lingjing Sect will always be his shield.”