Chapter 476: Long Time No See

The location of Shengdan City is not too close to Jingchuan City…

However, the group was traveling on a Magical Artifact wooden boat, which made the journey quite comfortable and fast—at least much faster than Xiao Fan traveling alone.

It took the group two days to finally arrive at Jingchuan City…

Jingchuan City remained the same as always; located in a remote area, its strongest power level was merely the Tongtian Realm…

On the streets, crowds were surging…

The Magical Artifact wooden boat did not stop at the city gate; such a small city was not qualified for people from the Jixian Sect to stop at its gates.

The Magical Artifact wooden boat flew directly to the Long Family.

It stopped at the entrance of the Long Mansion.

Long Caiwei was the first to jump down, striding over to knock on the door.

"Open the door, open the door, see who's back!" Long Caiwei's voice rang out loudly.

The gatekeepers of the Long Mansion, recognizing the voice, hurried to open the door.

"Second Young Miss…" They immediately saw Long Caiwei.

"Second, Second Master… Second Master is back too!" Then they saw Xiao Fan behind Long Caiwei!

They were instantly shocked beyond words.

Nowadays, Xiao Fan held an extremely high status in the Long Family, and even in Jingchuan City, he was a figure known to everyone.

A small city like Jingchuan City did not yet know the news that Xiao Fan was now a Grade 4 Alchemist.

As Xiao Fan's group entered, Kong Ping and Jiang Yushan followed behind, both looking benevolent—even Jiang Yushan was the same.

The two of them were in a great mood, as Xiao Fan actually had the potential to become a Grade 6 Alchemist in the future…

Therefore, even the usually arrogant Jiang Yushan walked with his head slightly lowered, not looking down on people with his nostrils, as a way to give Xiao Fan some Face…

Lu Yueshan followed at the very back, silent.

Of course, she didn't intend to run away; she had originally thought Xiao Fan would do something to her, but as it turned out…

She had actually been lured by him to this small city.

Xiao Fan and the others went directly into the main hall of the Long Family.

Family Head Long Anhai ran out to welcome them; Xiao Fan had actually returned…

He had originally thought it might be the two clan Elders notifying Xiao Fan of the news that the Xiao Mansion had been wiped out… but he didn't see the two clan Elders.

Seeing Long Anhai's ugly expression, Xiao Fan asked: "What's wrong? What happened?"

"You… you don't know about the Xiao Family?" Long Anhai said.

"The Xiao Family?" Xiao Fan was stunned: "What happened to the Xiao Family?"

"Dad, we just got back from Shengdan City, what happened to the Xiao Family?" Long Caiwei added from the side.

"The Xiao Family… has been wiped out…" Long Anhai said.

"What!" Xiao Fan was shocked; the Xiao Family was wiped out?

"What happened!"

Long Anhai recounted to Xiao Fan the process of the Xiao Family's destruction, though in truth, they didn't know either.

They only knew that the Xiao Family caught fire, and the next day when people went to check, everyone in the Xiao Family was dead…

And it was said that both Xiao Yuan and Wei Xia had their heads chopped off, and they died in a gruesome manner.

Xiao Fan remained silent for a long time, his feelings indescribable…

The Xiao Family wiped out?

He had originally thought he could cut ties with the Xiao Family, but now, hearing the news that they had been wiped out…

…a sense of sadness still arose in his heart.

Kong Ping and Jiang Yushan did not speak, just standing in the back.

Lu Yueshan looked around, very curious about what was going on.

This place was the Long Mansion… she had seen the plaque on the gate when she arrived.

But Xiao Fan's surname was Xiao…

And she had just heard that the Family that was wiped out was the Xiao Family…

It was quite complicated, and she became interested.

"Forget it, forget it…" After a moment, Xiao Fan sighed: "Rest assured, I won't misunderstand."

Xiao Fan looked at Long Anhai, and he understood why the latter had that expression.

He was worried that Xiao Fan would misunderstand and think the Long Family had been the ones to wipe out the Xiao Family.

In reality, the Long Family was indeed afraid of Xiao Fan misunderstanding; this matter really had nothing to do with the Long Family.

Long Anhai shook his head and smiled bitterly, and only then did he notice Kong Ping and Jiang Yushan…

He had met them before and knew they were Elders of the Jixian Sect, so he immediately bowed respectfully.

Just now, he was thinking only about the Xiao Family's affairs and hadn't noticed there were others.

Not long after, the Long Family Ancestor, Ancestor Long Zizai, also arrived, and he also first bowed respectfully to Kong Ping and his companion.

The two of them were also very polite, nodding and smiling…

Even Jiang Yushan said a few words…

The group was invited to the Long Family main hall, with Kong Ping and Jiang Yushan sitting in the seats of honor…

"I'll go see Miaoyin first." Xiao Fan said.

Naturally, no one stopped him, and Xiao Fan went to the separate courtyard alone.

Lu Yueshan wanted to follow, but was stopped by a shout from Xiao Fan…

A hostage should have the awareness of being a hostage; this person had been following him for so many days, why hadn't she contacted anyone to ransom her yet…

When he arrived at the separate courtyard, a servant had just told Long Miaoyin the news of Xiao Fan's return.

Long Miaoyin was incredibly excited; she immediately changed her clothes, intending to go see Xiao Fan.

And she was still the same as before, her Face covered by a veil, preventing people from seeing her appearance.

But before she could go find Xiao Fan, the latter had already returned himself…

"Miaoyin, long time no see."