Kong Rui looked at the child. “Don’t you have a wish?”
The child was silent for a long time before asking, “Can you take me back to see my parents and brother?”
Kong Rui immediately fell silent.
She turned to look at Chao Bai, who had remained silent.
Chao Bai shook his head. “As long as they leave this coffin, they will be reduced to ashes.”
Kong Rui paused for a moment before looking at the child. “I can’t agree to your request.”
The child seemed to hesitate for a moment before speaking again. “Can you help send them a message?”
Kong Rui didn’t refuse this time.
She nodded heavily. “Okay! Tell me!”
“I’m the youngest daughter of Lin Yanghua’s family. My name is Hua Xing,” the little girl said softly. “I hope you can send a message to my family and tell them that I didn’t run away from home on purpose. I was kidnapped by bad people, so I can’t go back. I hope they’re not angry with me!”
As the little girl spoke, she sobbed. “I won’t run around on my own anymore! Help me tell my brother that I love him very much! I didn’t mean to break his bamboo hat…”
Upon hearing the girl’s words, Kong Rui became more and more shocked. “You mean you’re Lin Yanghua’s daughter? Then your brother is Hua Shang?”
Hua Xing grunted and stopped crying. “Do you know my brother?” she asked, sounding confused.
Kong Rui opened her mouth, but she didn’t know how to answer her.
She subconsciously held her breath and asked after a while, “Did the Li family know your identity when they captured you?”
Hua Xing seemed puzzled and she thought about it seriously before saying, “They know that I’m a daughter of the Hua family. They know that my blood can treat my brother’s illness.”
Kong Rui’s eyes widened. The Li family kidnapped Hua Xing because they knew Hua Xing’s identity.
They actually dared to kidnap the Hua family’s daughter. Weren’t they afraid of revenge?
Or were they certain that no one would discover them here?
After knowing Hua Xing’s identity, Kong Rui became even more curious about the identities of the others.
She looked at the woman who spoke first and asked, “You just said that you wanted me to pass a message to your fiancé. Who is your fiancé?”
The woman sobbed. After a while, she said, “He’s not from an eminent family. He’s just a distant relative of the Lei family.”
“The Lei family?” Kong Rui became even more shocked.
She turned to the other coffins and asked, “Are any of you related to the five great clans?”
As expected, in the other two coffins, one had been expelled from the Nie family, and the other was the illegitimate daughter of the Fu family’s old master. Because she couldn’t see the light of day, no one knew about her disappearance.
Kong Rui looked at the few people in front of her in disbelief. She didn’t expect the Li family to secretly hold people from four of the great clans captive here!
Kong Rui restrained her stunned expression and looked at the other three coffins.
One of the people in the three coffins looked like a Daoist priest. One of them had stubble on her face and looked like a country bumpkin. The other woman was dressed in rough linen clothes and didn’t look like she came from a rich family.
After Kong Rui remembered the wishes of those from the four great clans, she asked the priest, “What is your wish?”
The priest closed his eyes. In the next moment, something stained with blood fell from his waist and landed in front of Kong Rui’s feet.
Kong Rui reached out to take it, but Chao Bai grabbed her. “It’s dirty!”
Chao Bai kicked the thing in midair and cast a spell to clean it.
Kong Rui looked at that thing. It seemed to be the nameplate of some sect.
The Daoist priest said to Kong Rui, “Send this to the Profound Heaven Sect. Someone will deal with the subsequent matters.”
Kong Rui looked at the thing and then at the priest. “Are you from the Profound Heaven Sect?”
The Daoist priest didn’t speak. Kong Rui was baffled.
She remembered that Chu Qing’s attire looked completely different from this Daoist priest’s.
The Daoist priest hesitated for a moment before deciding to tell the truth. “I was originally a disciple of the Azure Heaven Sect. Our ancestor was an outer sect disciple of the Profound Heaven Sect, so he could be considered to be from the Profound Heaven Sect. However, the Azure Heaven Sect was attacked, and countless disciples died. As an elder of the sect, I was brought here…”
As the Daoist priest spoke, he sighed heavily. “I can’t take revenge for the sect anymore. I just hope that the Profound Heaven Sect can take in the disciples of the Azure Heaven Sect. That way, our dead ancestor can rest in peace!”