193: Chapter 193 Your name is Wuji, meaning you have no taboos.

Luo Hao felt his scalp tingle.

On one side was his father's dangerous and unfriendly demeanor, and on the other was his tenth younger brother, who had just been saved and was still merely a wisp of a Soul, standing in direct opposition. Being stuck in the middle was incredibly difficult, alright!

"Wait!" Luo Hao suddenly roared.

Bai Ji's weak Soul body was shaken by the sound wave.

Luo Yunkai expressionlessly set up a permanent spiritual power barrier for his ears.

Damn!

Forgot to set up a surprise attack! The System really should give my eldest son a Lion's Roar! He would definitely master it in one day and reach max level in three!

Luo Yunkai cursed internally, but his outward aura became less dangerous.

Luo Hao felt smug; it had to be him!

As the eldest, he felt it was his responsibility to help his father reconcile with his brothers.

"Tenth younger brother, tell me, why do you think Dad is wrong? He traveled thousands of miles to save you. Killing your mother was because she knew the Bai family wanted to harm you and perform Possession on your body, yet she let it happen..."

"I know." Bai Ji didn't want to hear those painful things again and politely interrupted Luo Hao's rambling.

Luo Hao glared, "You know, and you still blame Dad? That's where you're wrong! Tenth younger brother, this is you being spoiled and presumptuous! Bullying Dad because he treats you well, right?"

It was the first time Bai Ji learned he could be spoiled and presumptuous.

After a long silence, he said calmly, "Big brother, one should not judge without knowing the full picture."

Luo Hao slapped the table where the three talents soul condensing lamp was placed, and a winding crack instantly appeared on the thousand-year-old pear wood table.

"Fine, then tell me the full picture, and I'll judge it!"

But Bai Ji refused to speak.

Just considering that his father rushed to save him before he died and didn't give up after his death, he couldn't let his father's image collapse in front of his big brother.

"Go on, tell me!" Luo Hao urged.

Bai Ji sighed faintly, "It's all in the past, nothing worth saying."

"Hey, you..."

"What did your mother say about me?" Luo Yunkai suddenly spoke up.

Bai Ji was silent.

What did she say?

That Dad, as the adoptive father's brother, took advantage of her while drunk?

That Dad fled the next day when things came to light, leaving Mom alone to face the adoptive father?

That not only did Dad leave, but he also stole all the savings of the adoptive father and Mom from the first half of their lives?

Bai Ji smiled bitterly.

How could he say these things?

Luo Yunkai saw the clues, and a cold chill radiated from him.

"Good! A fine Xu Xiu! A fine Bai Ankang!"

To think they would slander him in front of his son!

Suddenly, Luo Yunkai forgave Bai Ji for his previous lack of restraint.

Even amidst such slander, at the very last moment of his life, he was willing to sincerely acknowledge him as his father. This child... his temperament was so gentle that it made Luo Yunkai feel heartbroken.

"I don't know how they spoke of me to you." Luo Yunkai said calmly, "Why not listen to my version?"

Bai Ji smiled gently, and even though only a wisp of a drifting Soul body remained, he was still full of elegance.

"Okay."

Luo Yunkai lifted his robes and sat at the table, his gaze fixed on a corner of the eaves, lost in memory.

"The matter with your mother happened half a year after I parted ways with Su Ninger. You shouldn't be unfamiliar with Su Ninger."

Bai Ji nodded.

It was more than just familiar; when he was hunting down Su Xin, he had even met Su Ninger.

She was also the woman his younger brother by the same mother was obsessed with obtaining.

A sudden feeling of guilt flashed through Bai Ji's heart. All these years, because of his mother's indulgence of his younger brother, he had nearly... Fortunately, it didn't succeed!

"At that time, because of Su Ninger, I had just broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining."

Luo Yunkai explained the reason to Bai Ji.

The Qingyun Sect was not a Sect with deep foundations, and Bai Ji really didn't know these things.

"But your mother and Bai Ankang thought I had obtained some incredible Opportunity, which allowed me, someone who had been stuck at the Middle Stage of Qi Refining for over a decade, to suddenly break through to the Late Stage of Qi Refining."

Bai Ji listened in silence.

This was very likely.

"So, you and my mother, it wasn't you taking advantage of her while drunk?"

Luo Yunkai laughed out of anger, "I, Luo Yunkai, won't say anything else, but my standards for women are very high. Your mother, heh..."

He didn't want to be too harsh; after all, she was his son's biological mother.

"And I have always liked mutual consent; I cannot do things by force!"

Bai Ji thought of his biological father's female companions.

Su Ninger, with beauty that could enter the Mandarin Duck Pavilion, was absolutely impeccable.

He hadn't met Ye Fan's mother, Rong Xue, but... for her daughter to be noticed by the Mandarin Duck Pavilion, her appearance must be extremely stunning, and as a mother, she couldn't be too ordinary.

Then there was the daughter of the City Lord of Dan City, who was said to be known as one of the two beauties of her era alongside the current owner of Duobao Tower.

And his mother...

As her own son, Bai Ji couldn't lie and say she was beautiful.

Her appearance was extremely ordinary.

Just thinking of Bai Shao's face was enough to know.

Bai Ji subconsciously touched his own face.

Luo Yunkai couldn't help but sneer, "You should be lucky! Fortunately, you have my handsome gene, otherwise, you would look like Bai Shao."

Bai Ji deeply agreed.

Seeing that he had reasoned with him, Luo Yunkai continued: "Back then, I was on good terms with Bai Ankang and had little guard against him, but who would have thought his Dao Companion and he would scheme against me."

"At the time, I didn't react in time and even compensated them with my Storage Pouch and all my Possessions. As such, I don't feel I have any fault towards your mother!"

Bai Ji didn't expect that even this was a lie his mother told him!

"You didn't steal their wealth, but instead compensated them with your own Storage Pouch?" Bai Ji murmured, "So for all those years, it wasn't Bai Ankang raising me, but the 'compensation' you left behind!"

And that compensation shouldn't have been given in the first place!

"The one who raised me, all along, was Dad?" Bai Ji reached this conclusion and wanted to cry.

But a Soul cannot shed tears.

Bai Ji lifted his eyes blankly and looked at Luo Yunkai, "Dad, do you know why I was called Bai Ji?"

Luo Yunkai didn't make a sound.

"She said it was Bai Ankang who gave me a way to live and was willing to raise the two of us, so I must remember the favor!"

"So at first, I was called Bai Ji, the 'Ji' for remembering the grace of the Bai family!"

"Later, I was chosen as a Personal Disciple by the Sect Master of the Qingyun Sect."

"She said that for me to be where I am today, I must thank the Bai family, protect Bai Shao well, and let everyone know that he, Bai Shao, is my younger brother, so no one would look down on him."

"So, so that he wouldn't be looked down upon, my name changed from Bai Ji to Bai Ji."

"She said that looking at it this way, it would look like brothers born of the same mother."

"From Bai Ji to Bai Ji, I felt as if I went from being an appendage of the Bai family to an appendage of Bai Shao."

"I was never truly a person..."

Bai Ji's voice, like his drifting, transparent Soul body, was light and airy, yet it made one's heart ache with agony to hear it.

Luo Hao was on the side, gnashing his teeth, breathing heavily like an ox, showing he was extremely angry.

Luo Yunkai remained silent for a long time with deep eyes, then let out a heavy breath.

"The name Bai Ji is no good, let's not use it anymore!"

Without offering comfort, Luo Yunkai made the decision directly, severing Bai Ji from the first half of his life.

He placed his hand on the transparent shade of the three talents soul condensing lamp, stroking his son's head through the shade.

"From now on, you are called Wuji, unrestrained by anything!"

"No one can ever bind you again, not even Dad!"