C867 To the Western Wasteland!
Xu Baichuan did not expect Fang Shaobai to be so direct. Not only did she frankly admit that she had revealed her true identity, she even gave the Xu Family such a choice. was stunned, the other two seniors of the Xu Family were not much better, they were shocked and did not know how to choose as they looked uneasy.
Honestly speaking, Fang Shaobai's sudden arrival was a hope for the Xu family, and the two choices they had made allowed the three elders of the Xu family to see a light that was able to escape a desperate situation.
However, regardless of which of these two choices it was, both caused the elders of the Xu Clan to hesitate.
To be honest, as long as there was a chance of survival, and even if they had the hope of losing, no clan would be willing to choose to move their entire clan.
Everyone understood that if a person moved, the tree would move to death. At most, he could just move to another place. In short, if he didn't stay here, he would have his own place to stay, and if he walked, he would eventually find a place that was suitable for him. As long as he wasn't too unlucky, he wouldn't be able to live on.
After staying in the same place for so long, even the ancestors had already lived there for generations. From the depths of their bones, they had always cherished the place, no matter how bad the environment was, occasionally leaving the place and completely abandoning the idea of living in the same place, it was just like going back to life as a new mother. Not many people had the confidence to do so.
It was inevitable that some people wanted to leave, while others didn't. Just the unity of thought alone had become a difficult problem for the boss. As an elder of the Xu family, he was the most dignified person. He could force his clansmen to obey his advice and leave together with him, but who could guarantee that their departure would be better than this?
At the end of the day, Wu Fang and the Xu family only had one kind of burning incense, a very faint type. If I don't help you, I won't blame you either. If that was the case, who would dare guarantee that they would be able to follow Wu Fang?
Wu Fang could even guarantee that the Song Family would not come looking for trouble in the Cloud Water City. This had solved a hidden danger for the Xu Family, but the Xu Family's real danger was far more than just the Song Family in the Cloud Water City.
Just the fact that they had lost their backers was enough to send the Xu family from the north into a deep abyss. It was enough for the families from the north to suppress the Xu family from the north, giving them no hope of rising again.
Go, no, not go.
The three elders of the Xu family were in a dilemma.
But after carefully looking at Fang Shaobai's young and handsome face which revealed calmness and indifference which far surpassed her age, Xu Baichuan was willing to believe from the bottom of her heart that this was a person that could not completely support the Xu family, but was definitely a trustworthy person. This kind of person would not and would not be disdained to scam a small clan like the Xu family.
If he had to make a choice, Xu Baichuan would rather choose to follow Fang Shaobai. However, before he left, he had to find out where the Xu Family would go after leaving the Ice City. Whether the place they would go would allow the Xu Family to survive or not, that's right, to survive.
Xu Baichuan quickly exchanged glances with his two brothers from the same clan. Their many years of familiarity had easily allowed them to form a tacit understanding with each other. The two brothers did not speak, but handed over the right to choose to Xu Baichuan.
Xu Baichuan felt gratified in her heart. The Xu family's strength was shallow, and had lived a rather miserable life under Song Mingzhu's pressure these few years, but it had allowed the Xu family to possess a sense of kinship and camaraderie that the other families did not have, and the members of the same family lacked those meaningless schemes and scheming.
This at least allowed Xu Baichuan to see the hope for the clan's rise, but at the same time, it also made him feel heavy. Her trust for her brother was no longer just a matter of being moved, it was more of a burden that would affect the fate of the hundreds of people in the clan. It was a heavy responsibility.
"Mr. Wu Fang, can I ask you where you would go if our Xu Family chooses to follow you out of Ice City?"
Xu Baichuan took a deep breath, and looked at Fang Shaobai with anticipation, a trace of obvious nervousness in her eyes. He was obviously worried that Fang Shaobai would anger him because of this problem that sounded like she did not trust Fang Shaobai.
, however, did not get angry. Trust is a relative thing, it was built up from two different individuals working together for a long period of time, and it had never been created just because you said it was there.
Moreover, the Xu family was not Bing family.
Because Bing family had Ice Jade, and Ice Jade was her woman,he could naturally unconditionally trust Fang Shaobai. Without asking for the reason or where, she directly chose to go with Fang Shaobai, and left with the entire Bing family without a single complaint.
On the other hand, the Xu family was different. Without that powerful foundation of trust, how could anyone listen to him and directly place the entire family's life and death on the line? In fact, if not for the Xu family's situation in Ice City which was not too optimistic, perhaps the Xu family would not even consider the choice that he had made and could just choose the latter. The influence of a family's relocation was simply too great.
With regards to this, Fang Shaobai had already come up with a plan. The reason he had given the Xu Clan two choices was not only to make up for the troubles and losses she had caused the Xu Clan, but also because he needed manpower.
He had already decided to make a trip to the chaotic Western Wasteland and establish a force that truly belonged to him. Plus, with the continuous development of the Western Wasteland, he needed a lot of manpower, regardless of cultivation level, experts had their uses, and low-leveled experts had their uses.
"I've decided to go to the Western Wastelands, a place where all sorts of forces are at loggerheads. I will bring one of my men there to seize a piece of land and truly establish a power that belongs to me, maybe it will be a dynasty then. If you choose to follow me, you will go to the Western Wastelands together and create a world with me."
Fang Shaobai said straightforwardly and honestly, "This choice is a life-and-death decision for me. I cannot guarantee that I will definitely be able to create great splendor in that Western Wasteland world, and can only say that I am betting my life on this. So, if you choose to follow me, it would also be a gamble, whether you bet or not. However, there is one thing. If you choose to follow me, then there will be no other way out. I will not allow a clan that has become glorious because of me to turn around and leave after obtaining a great deal of benefits from me. "
With that, Fang Shaobai poured wine for herself.
He was not in a hurry to answer Xu Baichuan's question.
He could bring a group of cultivation weaklings to wander the Western Wasteland, but he could absolutely not bring a group of cowering weaklings with him to the Western Wasteland. A small clan like the Xu Family, with its cultivation base and its roots, naturally had nothing to gain from going to the Western Wasteland, if they did not even have the courage to go through such a desperate situation and had to come up with a expedient plan to escape from it, he would not hesitate in the slightest and would decisively abandon the Xu Family.
Xu Baichuan was startled. She was shocked from the bottom of his heart by Fang Shaobai's answer and had made all sorts of guesses in an instant. However, he never would have thought that the answer would be Western Desolate, a place that was far away from the Celestial Desolate Domain.2
From the Ice City to the Western Wasteland, one was located in the southern part of the Celestial Desolate Domain, while the other was in the western part of the Eternity Continent. Just by walking in a straight line, one would need to travel at least three hundred thousand kilometers, and traveling this far would take several years.
Just the thought of it sent shivers down one's spine.
When Xu Baichuan was young, she was in high spirits, and wanted to go to the Western Wasteland to see what the entire vast and boundless mountain and river looked like. However, the distance and danger that was present everywhere reminded him that this was a dead end, causing him to lose her courage whenever she had the urge.
Now that he was old, someone told him that they were going to take him to the Western Wasteland, and even to the entire Xu family behind him.
This was too terrifying.
If he did not know that the young man standing in front of him was an expert whose unfathomable strength could stir up the wind and rain, humiliating the entire Pill Alliance, and even causing a chaotic battle between the seven great sects of the Celestial Desolate Domain, he would have definitely thought that the young man was a madman.
Even so, he still felt that Fang Shaobai's idea was too crazy. Her ambition was just too big, she actually wanted to go to the Western Wasteland to steal territory, doesn't she know that the Western Wasteland Realm is a place where there are no rules?
Was this a fierce dragon crossing a river, or was this a young man's fantasy that he could not suppress his desire?
Xu Baichuan was troubled.
He was really in a difficult position. Going to the Western Wasteland was even more difficult than the two choices he had just made.
Logically, he had to remind himself that he could not, absolutely not. The Western Wasteland was a place that ate people without spitting out their bones. Even a small hill robber like the Xu family could eat the entire Xu family in the blink of an eye without leaving a single bone behind.
But for some reason, looking at Fang Shaobai's calm appearance, he couldn't help but recall her own dream of countless times being impulsive when she was young. It was as if there was a deep, long-buried throbbing in the bottom of his heart, as if her blood was boiling.
Bang!
Before Xu Baichuan could make a decision, a heavy kick suddenly came from outside the door. Looking up, she saw a broken door flying high into the air, and with a ferocious speed, it smashed into the room …
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