Revelation of the Way of Heaven

After Zhou Bin left, Qin Xiaochuan meditated in the hall until Guo Shiyi and Xiaoying came downstairs in the evening.

The little girl was as enthusiastic as ever, rushing straight to him as soon as they met.

After Han Kexin came down, the four of them held a temporary meeting in the hall to discuss why Du Peixian bought the church and the purpose of the Japanese man who suddenly appeared today. However, there were too many suspicious points, and after discussing for a long time, they could not find any clues.

"Since we can't find a clue, let's put it aside for now." Han Kexin concluded the meeting with this sentence, and immediately proposed another activity, "We rarely get together today, so let's go out for a meal together."

"Great!" Her suggestion was met with immediate approval from everyone present, with Guo Shiyi and Xiaoying being the loudest voices.

"So what do you want to eat?" Even as the one who initiated the discussion, Han Kexin still had a cold expression on her face.

"Seafood!" the little girl answered decisively.

"Then let's have seafood." Since the little girl had said so, the others naturally wouldn't go against her wishes.

So the four of them went to the most famous seafood restaurant in XY City and thoroughly satisfied their cravings.

This was truly a rare treat for a get-together. Qin Xiaochuan had been feeling quite stifled lately, and although being trapped in the nested doll had been a considerable mental ordeal, it had also given him the opportunity to release all his pent-up frustration. He hadn't felt this carefree in a long time.

He and Guo Shiyi couldn't help but drink quite a bit of alcohol. He didn't know if he was drunk and saw things wrong, or if he remembered things incorrectly, but during the meal, he actually saw Han Kexin smile several times.

She was sitting with Guo Shiyi, and the two of them would point at him and say something from time to time. Qin Xiaochuan didn't know what they were secretly talking about, but he knew that they would laugh as they talked, and sometimes Guo Shiyi would blush with embarrassment.

He sat next to Xiaoying, constantly serving her food, peeling shrimp, and breaking crab shells. He felt that this girl was unusually clingy to him.

They stayed up very late that night before returning to Han Kexin's villa. As soon as Guo Shiyi got back, she took a shower and went to bed. She and Xiaoying were the most excited people that night, so they drank quite a bit.

After Guo Shiyi fell asleep, Qin Xiaochuan privately discussed the issues from the day with Han Kexin. However, Han Kexin told him that it was impossible for humans to know how to use the teleportation array inside the crystal coffin, meaning that it was impossible for humans to enter Crescent City through that crystal coffin.

"What if humans really did go there?" he asked her.

"Then he can only be captured by the Blood Witch Clan and become a member of the Blood Witch Clan," Han Kexin said calmly.

"Become a vampire?" Qin Xiaochuan looked at her in confusion. "Is it like in the legends, where ordinary people turn into vampires after being bitten by one?"

"It's not that simple; it's a more complex ritual." Han Kexin gave him a brief explanation of the process by which the Blood Witch Clan transforms humans into Blood Witches.

Within the Blood Witch Clan, this ritual is called "Blood Sacrifice." This ritual can only be performed between a Blood Witch and an ordinary person. The Blood Witch who performs this ritual is called the High Priest. A person who becomes a member of the Blood Witch Clan through Blood Sacrifice will be one generation lower than the High Priest, and their bloodline purity will naturally decrease by one level.

For example, a person who successfully undergoes a blood sacrifice performed by a third-generation blood witch will become a fourth-generation blood witch. Sixth-generation blood witches cannot perform blood sacrifices; they can only turn humans into mindless zombies.

"So, what generation of blood witch are you?" He finally couldn't suppress his curiosity and boldly asked her this question.

"The second generation, Zhou Bin is the third generation."

Second generation? That means she's only one level below the Blood Witch King. Only then did Qin Xiaochuan realize that she held such a high position within the Blood Witch Clan.

"Hmm, when did you become a blood witch? Was it natural, or did you become a blood witch through blood sacrifice?" Taking advantage of her good mood, he quickly asked all the questions he had been curious about.

"I became a Blood Witch more than 20 years ago, making me one of the youngest in the Blood Witch clan."

It has to be said that Han Kexin has changed quite a bit since the last incident. For example, she has become more patient. Qin Xiaochuan asked her so many questions, but she didn't seem impatient at all.

Twenty years may seem insignificant in the face of eternal life, but even so, the young Han Kexin is already a second-generation Blood Witch. This means that the only person who can perform the blood sacrifice ritual for her is the previous generation of Blood Witch King. Qin Xiaochuan felt that the relationship between the two must be extraordinary to be personally chosen by the Blood Witch King.

"I have another question for you."

"What?"

"Why did the previous Blood Witch King commit suicide?" he asked cautiously. He still remembered that she seemed very agitated when he last talked to her about this question.

Han Kexin didn't seem too excited this time, but she didn't answer him immediately either. Instead, she sat silently on the sofa.

Qin Xiaochuan waited patiently for the other party's answer.

"Actually, I'm not very clear about the reason for his suicide either," Han Kexin said softly at the end. Qin Xiaochuan could sense that she had suddenly become somewhat preoccupied, which made him even more certain of his guess: her relationship with the previous Blood Witch King, or rather, her relationship with Qin Xiaochuan in his previous life, was unusual.

Seeing that she had no intention of continuing the conversation, Qin Xiaochuan had no choice but to change the subject. He thought of Xiaoying's mother and asked her, "Xiaoying's mother should be your older sister, right? Did she grow up very young...?"

"That's right, she passed away a long time ago, more than twenty years ago."

"Then how come Xiaoying is..." He looked at her in confusion. If what she said was true, Xiaoying was at least twenty years old this year.

"Xiaoying has had a very hard life. She lost her mother when she was five and her father when she was eight. Not only that, she also has a strange illness that has kept her physical and mental age stuck at eight years old forever." Han Kexin's voice sounded a little tired as she said this.

This result was something he never expected. Who would have thought that such a lively and adorable little girl would suffer so much hardship? Moreover, this little girl usually clung to him so much. He suddenly felt a tightness in his chest and didn't know what to say for a moment.

He looked up at Han Kexin and found her staring intently at him. The sudden sight of her gaze made his heart skip a beat.

"What's wrong?" He looked at her, puzzled, feeling as if her gaze had seen right into the depths of his heart.

"You seem to care a lot about Xiaoying?" Han Kexin said calmly, still looking at him as she spoke, as if to confirm whether his next words were sincere.

"After all, she's always been so enthusiastic towards me," Qin Xiaochuan explained helplessly. He really didn't understand what Han Kexin was trying to do. Surely she didn't suspect that he was going to kidnap Xiaoying? Did he look like such an evil person?

"If I asked you to be Xiaoying's older brother, would you be willing?"

"Of course I would. Who wouldn't want such a lively and adorable little sister? But you have to get her to call me brother first," he said with a smile.

"She can call me whatever she wants, I can't control her." Han Kexin didn't buy his argument.