Servant?
Bai Zihe subconsciously lowered his head and glanced at the behemoth.
This was a real Land Rover!
Standing on the road, who would dare to be arrogant? Who wouldn't be filled with awe?
Although...
Bai Zihe had always been low-key, but having such a ride would still be quite good.
Most importantly.
This thing was quite powerful. If it were placed at the entrance of the villa...
Who would dare to have even a single wicked thought.
Thus, Bai Zihe agreed: "Fine, I won't kill you."
"Thank, thank... thank you master, for, for not killing me!" Xiao Huzhi said rather honestly.
This surprised Bai Zihe even more.
This guy, though fierce, could speak human words and communicate!
The more Bai Zihe looked, the more he liked it. He silently stroked its fluffy head and said, "You look like a tiger, I'll call you 'Xiao Huzhi' from now on..."
"Roar—"
The strange beast was immediately displeased and roared towards the sky.
"What, still not convinced?"
Bai Zihe snorted coldly and slapped its head.
Xiao Huzhi's ears instantly drooped.
It had clearly resigned itself to its fate.
"Mas, master..."
Where Bai Zihe couldn't see, a strange glint flashed in Xiao Huzhi's eyes: "I, I'll take you, to, to a pla...ce!"
Saying that, it didn't explain further.
It carried Bai Zihe and galloped towards the depths.
This guy was truly fast.
At full speed...
Let alone a Land Rover, even a high-speed train might not be able to see its exhaust, no, its tail.
Soon.
Xiao Huzhi stopped in front of a dense forest.
This forest was very strange.
It was clearly just normal flowers, grass, trees, and wood, with no fog or miasma, but the visibility was very low.
Even Bai Zihe could only see about three Zhang ahead.
"It's... here, here."
Xiao Huzhi stopped about ten Zhang away from the forest, not daring to go any closer.
Just as Bai Zihe was about to scold it, he felt an extremely mysterious aura, and faintly, it was somewhat familiar.
This is...
Bai Zihe's brows twitched. This aura was similar to the ten-sided polyhedron.
For a moment, Bai Zihe's heart surged, and his eyes flickered.
The next second.
Bai Zihe took a step and walked into this mysterious forest.
And behind him.
A trace of human emotion, cunning, flashed in Xiao Huzhi's tiger eyes.
Inside this place was an ancient tomb.
Sealed within the tomb was an extremely mysterious existence, one that gave it no desire to resist or fight.
It could be killed with a single palm strike.
It brought Bai Zihe here precisely because it wanted to use whatever was inside to kill Bai Zihe.
After all.
Having been the "Tiger King" of the path of life and death for so many years, how could Xiao Huzhi willingly become someone's mount...
Absolutely not!
Seeing Bai Zihe walk in, Xiao Huzhi turned and fled back into the path of life and death, letting out occasional tiger roars.
As if proclaiming to all the fierce beasts here...
Your Tiger King has returned!
After Bai Zihe entered the forest, the mysterious aura grew stronger.
He walked forward and finally discovered an ancient tomb.
The aura emanated from this ancient tomb.
The tomb door had long been opened.
However, the visibility inside was even more severely restricted, allowing one to see only about one Zhang.
Therefore, Bai Zihe could not determine what was inside.
"Since it's related to the ten-sided polyhedron..."
Bai Zihe pondered for a moment and stepped in.
He had no reason to retreat.
With this one step...
It was like crossing worlds, directly entering another realm.
Green mountains and clear waters, blue skies and white clouds.
A thousand peach trees, ten thousand lychee trees.
Wisps of cooking smoke, white cranes soaring.
Herds of cattle and sheep, chickens and ducks quacking.
It was a secluded paradise, free from worldly strife and filled with joy.
Bai Zihe was stunned.
This...
Was simply unimaginable.
In the fields, farmers tilled the land with contentment.
On the banks, fishermen fished for pleasure.
Their lives were so harmonious.
Suddenly.
Bai Zihe stood there, motionless.
As if his feet were rooted, bound there, unable to move an inch.
Because, in front of him appeared a woman with a beautiful face.
Her appearance...
Though existing only in memory, it had haunted his dreams, and he had thought of it a thousand times, yet still could not obtain it.
It was Bai Zihe's mother, Lin Wanzhen!
When Bai Zihe saw her, she saw him too!
"He'er..."
"Is it you, He'er!"
Lin Wanzhen was picking mulberries from a mulberry tree.
Upon seeing Bai Zihe, she paused for a moment, then dropped her bamboo basket to the ground and ran towards him.
Her voice was eager, her face filled with a smile.
Gentle, caring, and benevolent, just like the mother in his memory!
Bai Zihe's eyes instantly welled up with tears.
At this moment.
He was not a martial artist who could instantly kill a Grandmaster.
He was not the head of the Bai family, who wielded immense power.
He was merely his mother's son!
He was just Bai Zihe of the Bai family!
"He'er!"
"Mother..."
The next moment, Lin Wanzhen ran to him and embraced him tightly.
Bai Zihe felt the warmth of this embrace, and the fatigue of recent days vanished instantly, leaving no worries behind.
"He'er..."
"You've grown, and you've suffered..."
After a long while, Lin Wanzhen gently released him, her hands stroking Bai Zihe's face, her tenderness reaching an extreme.
Just as Bai Zihe was about to speak.
His peripheral vision caught Lin Wanzhen's hand, and he jolted.
Back then.
When he was being hunted by the Qin family.
To protect him, his mother's fingers were no longer intact.
And on her hand...
She was not his mother.
This was merely a hallucination.
Bai Zihe understood, and a sense of loss washed over him.
Yes.
Mother was gone, forever gone...
Bai Zihe's nose twitched, and he lowered his head.
"He'er..."
"What's wrong, He'er, are you unhappy to see Mother?"
Lin Wanzhen tilted Bai Zihe's face up, her eyes filled with worry and care, her affection as genuine as a true mother's.
"No..."
Bai Zihe said in a low voice, "Mother, I am very happy."
"I am truly happy to see you."
Bai Zihe opened up.
"Mother, do you know..."
"Your son has grown up, and has revitalized the Bai family, becoming the most prominent family in Su Hang City, and even in Jiangdong Province."
"Your son is a man of integrity."
"Little sister has also grown up..."
"I've also healed Father's leg."
"Everything is getting better, everything is returning to order."
"Except... you."
Bai Zihe looked up at Lin Wanzhen before him, his eyes filled with reluctance.
"Me?"
A flicker of confusion crossed Lin Wanzhen's face, indistinguishable from the real person.
Bai Zihe smiled faintly, and a golden light condensed at his fingertip, piercing into Lin Wanzhen's body.
"Thank you..."
As his slightly melancholic voice faded, Lin Wanzhen dissipated like smoke.
The blue sky and white clouds were gone.
The green mountains and clear waters were also gone.
Everything was gone.
The illusion was broken.
And Bai Zihe stood right at the edge of a cliff.
One more step forward would mean being shattered into pieces.