Si Qing immediately grew anxious upon hearing Shao Feng's words: "We stopped fighting long ago. Where did my sister go then?"
Shao Feng truly didn't know where she had gone. He had only seen Qi Yu emerge earlier. As for where she went after that, he hadn't seen. Thus, he honestly shook his head.
An Nuo also shook his head: "It's true we wanted to tease you, but we also genuinely didn't see her. Shall we have someone help look for her?"
"Yes, let's have someone help look. I need to look too," Si Qing said, turning to leave.
Thus, half of the Dragon Palace began searching for Qi Yu's whereabouts.
In reality, after Qi Yu left, she went nowhere. She simply hid inside the mirror, sulking.
The Huiguang Mirror continued to try and tempt her:
"Look, your younger brother isn't thoughtful at all~ He doesn't care about you. How can he be like this?"
"Qi Yu, look, your brother truly doesn't love you. Otherwise, he wouldn't be throwing a tantrum at you now. If I were you, I wouldn't play with him anymore. How wonderful it would be if time could be turned back to the beginning, then no one would have any problems."
"Qi Yu, you actually possess immense power. For example, me. You've signed a contract with me, and the power contained within this Huiguang Mirror is beyond your wildest imagination."
"I can save dying dragons, and even reverse time. Now that you are my master, and you possess such great power, don't you want to use it?"
The Huiguang Mirror was like a broken record, incessantly repeating the same phrases.
Qi Yu lay lazily beside the Huiguang Mirror, gazing at the vast expanse of white around her. She felt an unprecedented sense of peace. If only the Huiguang Mirror beside her could shut up, it would be perfect.
She held a sandglass, calculating the time. She didn't intend to stay there for long, just wanting to quiet her mind.
Little did she know, outside, after people realized they couldn't find her no matter how hard they searched, a full mobilization had already begun.
Si Qing was on the verge of tears from searching.
"Sister..." He stood there pitifully like an abandoned puppy, his eyes red, his voice choked with sobs: "It's my fault. I shouldn't have deliberately ignored her."
Seeing that he was truly worried, Shao Feng couldn't help but comfort Si Qing: "It's not that serious. Qi Yu isn't the type to leave without a word. She might just be resting inside the mirror."
As he said this, An Nuo beside him paused for a moment. Thinking about it, he felt it made sense: "Si Qing, go into the mirror and look for her. She might really be inside."
Upon hearing this, Si Qing immediately entered the mirror to search for her.
The West Sea Dragon King had been watching for a long time. As they left, he couldn't help but turn to An Nuo and Shao Feng and ask: "Are you two really okay with just standing by and doing nothing? If you two had intervened back then and prevented the siblings from arguing, wouldn't there be no problem?"
"What's not okay about it?" An Nuo didn't take it seriously at all: "To be honest, the bond between those siblings, if you really think about it, is probably much deeper than their bond with us. So, they're siblings, are you afraid they'll fall out over a little argument?"
"Exactly," Shao Feng couldn't help but wave his hand towards the West Sea Dragon King: "I'm telling you, you worry too much about Chu Xian's affairs. Little dragon cubs don't have that many problems. Just let him be whatever he needs to be. Whether human or dragon, everyone has experiences to go through."
Hearing this, the West Sea Dragon King thought carefully and had to admit there was some truth to it, but he still shook his head: "Children are not all the same. Chu Xian is not like Qi Yu and Si Qing, who are capable and have good temperaments. He is too weak, and his magic isn't strong. He's easily tricked by bad people. If I do nothing, who knows how many times he'll be deceived? That won't do."
Shao Feng hesitated to speak.
He wanted to say that precisely because Chu Xian had that kind of personality, he needed to experience more.
Only by facing more experiences would Chu Xian not suffer losses when he encountered situations requiring him to make a choice.
Otherwise, with the West Sea Dragon King's method of care, always sheltering Chu Xian under his wing, when would this child ever be able to stand on his own?
Some minor disputes and minor losses, if they need to be experienced, should be experienced; if they need to be suffered, they should be suffered.
However.
The West Sea Dragon King was a straightforward and stubborn dragon. Unless there was a major problem, he would never change his choices.
Therefore, although Shao Feng thought this in his heart, he didn't say it out loud. He merely nodded gently in agreement and then made no further suggestions.
Meanwhile. Inside the Yanzhen Mirror.
Because Qi Yu had bound and merged her Yanzhen Mirror with the Huiguang Mirror, the Yanzhen Mirror and the Huiguang Mirror had become interconnected.
Consequently, as Si Qing searched from his own mirror and wandered into Qi Yu's mirror on the other side, he happened to see someone lying in a blank space within the mirror world, lost in thought.
Upon closer inspection.
It was Qi Yu, whom he had been searching for a long time.