Chapter 79: Former Friends

A quarter of an hour later, the strong man apologized repeatedly in embarrassment.

Tao Zi looked speechlessly at the tail on the ground. She had torn it off from the monster and was holding it in her hand. She didn't know how bad her eyesight had to be to mistake it for her tail.

The sturdy man saw her look, his ears red and he said awkwardly: "Isn't it too dark, I can't see clearly? And this place is too nerve-wracking."

Han Yueshan asked cautiously, "Then when my senior sister stood in front of you, you couldn't see clearly?"

He tried to explain himself: "I didn't have time to take a closer look."

Tao Zi ignored him and was about to leave with Xi Jing and the others.

"Hey, wait, you brought your tail back. Will that cause trouble?"

She said, "I've already taken care of it."

At this moment, a monster was happily chewing the food that was delivered to its door, completely unaware of the coming storm.

The man scratched his head and said, "Meeting is destiny. My friend is nearby. Why don't we become companions?"

“No need.”

"But if you take care of several children by yourself, something is bound to happen."

Tao Ziwei raised her eyebrows invisibly. The man's expression was quite serious and there was no flaw to be seen. How long had it been since she met such a warm, kind and nosy cultivator?

Han Yueshan whispered, "Who is the child?"

The strong man heard it and couldn't help laughing: "You three look like children, your faces are full of childishness."

Xi Jing retorted, "But Senior Sister isn't much older than us."

He was stunned and looked at her carefully. Indeed, the girl looked quite young, but weren't there many young cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation?

Tao Zi interrupted their conversation directly and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but we don't need companions." Especially companions of unknown origin.

The sturdy man scratched his head again and said with a simple smile: "That's fine, just be careful."

She frowned and looked in one direction. Someone was coming.

Five figures appeared on the right. The man in the lead had a gentle appearance, soft eyes, and an elegant and natural temperament, which was out of place in this forest.

The strong man shouted to him happily: "Captain!"

The captain nodded to Tao Zi and the others, then looked at the strong man and asked, "What's going on?"

His voice was as gentle as his appearance.

He recounted the incident sheepishly. One of the team members laughed and jokingly said, "Awei, you're amazing! Last time you mistook a boy for a girl, and this time you mistook a girl for a monster."

The captain smiled helplessly and apologized: "My friend, I'm really sorry, my teammate's eyesight is not good when he gets nervous."

Tao Zi replied with mixed feelings: "Nothing."

He gestured for one of his teammates to take out a demon core, picked out four good ones, and handed them to her, saying, "You three young Taoist friends must have been frightened. This is our fault, but we don't have anything else of value on us, so these are all we can use to calm your nerves."

She didn't extend her hand, so the captain said, "Just think of it as making friends."

Tao Zi slowly let out a breath and took it, but only took one: "Thank you, but these demon cores are really valuable, it's not easy to take more."

The captain smiled and said nothing more.

Han Yueshan and the others took a quick glance at the demon core, then quickly looked away seriously.

She said, "We have something else to do, so we'll leave first."

"Fellow Daoist, please stay."

To everyone's surprise, the captain actually spoke to them and asked, "Fellow Daoist, would you like to join us on this journey? Of course, we can only do so within the forest. I won't disturb you once we're out."

Tao Zi looked back at him, feeling as if it was just as she expected, and said, "No need."

The captain smiled and said, "In this forest, one person can't take care of three little guys. We can help watch them."

This person is as kind as ever.

She secretly calculated the time. It wasn't long before the fifteenth. If she couldn't reach that place before then, she would be in big trouble. The person in front of her was quite reliable.

"I'm going west."

"Coincidentally, we are going the same way."

Han Yueshan and the others were all stunned. How could Senior Sister agree to just a few words? But it was okay to agree. In a place like this, having more people around would give you more confidence.

"My name is Qingya, my last name is Yue. May I ask how many fellow Taoists there are?"

Tao Zi politely replied, "My last name is Tao, and their names are Han, Zhao, and Wen."

Xi Jing was confused for a moment. How did she become surnamed Wen?

Han Yueshan quickly understood that Xi was not a well-known surname in this world, so it was always better to be cautious.

Yue Qingya smiled and nodded, then called everyone over one by one and greeted them.

One of the teammates couldn't help but say, "Captain, why don't we eat first? We can't hold on any longer."

"Okay, let's go together, four of you."

Tao Zi thought for a moment and handed over the tail in her hand: "If you don't like eating white rice, this is a reward."

The captain didn't refuse. He took it and took a quick look. "The tail of the Light Cavalry? This is a great material for making weapons. Fellow Daoist Tao is very generous."

"How about Brother Yue, you can give me the demon core as soon as you ask."

The strong man Awei couldn't help but speak: "Captain, please stop being polite. It gives me a headache. Hurry up and eat something, or you won't be able to hold on any longer."

Everyone couldn't help laughing.

Not long after, Han Yueshan and the others were almost moved to tears when they saw that the food they had received was actually normal dry rations.

Yue Qingya looked at their reactions, smiled gently, and spoke as if coaxing a child: "Eat quickly, we have a lot here, and you can take more if it's not enough."

Zhao Xue said awkwardly: "Thank you, but we are not children anymore."

His smile deepened. Young people are all like this. Even if they are still childish, they can't wait to announce to the world that they have grown up.

Seeing him like this, Han Yueshan couldn't help but emphasize again: "We are really not children anymore."

Awei attacked with a dimensionality reduction attack: "Don't look at our captain's youth, but he is almost two hundred years old."

The three of them were silent, and Xi Jing said quietly: "It turned out to be from the generation of great-grandfather."

Yue Qingya's smile froze for a moment, and a smile flashed across Tao Zi's eyes. Two hundred years old was not considered an old man in the world of immortal cultivation, but being called a great-grandfather was indeed a very complicated thing.

Ah Wei suddenly said at this time: "Miss Tao, you look ordinary, how did you get in here?"

She remained calm and said, "We were originally only at the outermost area, but some daring cultivator caused an explosion, forcing us to rush in."

Suddenly, the people in that team started chattering, "That's right. Usually, we have to practice outside before going in. But this time, a group of monsters suddenly rioted. We were so scared that we ran inside and almost lost people. Fortunately, the captain was there."

Xi Jing and Zhao Xue were so engrossed in their food that they didn't dare look up. Han Yueshan, on the other hand, had a very composed expression: "Yeah, that's right. It was really scary."