After saying that, Xiao Yunyao gave Shang Xiye a quick kiss on the cheek.

Shang Xiye couldn't help but smile, his eyes and brows filled with tenderness and joy as he carried Xiao Yunyao toward the dilapidated temple ahead.

The dilapidated temple was hidden in a mountain forest at the foot of the Danzong sect. With the Danzong sect nearby, the people had no desires and had not offered incense for many years.

Without incense offerings or human habitation, there is naturally no one to rest and repair the place.

The temple was extremely dilapidated, with weeds growing taller than a person inside, and now, in the late autumn season, they were withered and decaying.

The interior was very quiet; there wasn't even a snake, insect, or rodent in sight.

As Shang Xiye reached the entrance of the dilapidated temple, Xiao Yunyao cheerfully called out, "Big brother, Yao'er has come to see you!"

At that moment, Shang Xiye noticed a faint flicker of firelight behind the tall, withered grass by the door.

He carried Xiao Yunyao inside and saw an old man in a scarlet robe blowing out a tinderbox under the equally dilapidated stone statue in the ruined temple. The pile of dry grass in front of the boy had just been lit.

Perhaps it was because it noticed that the shadow cast by Shang Xiye did not resemble that of a child of a few years old.

The boy looked up warily toward the doorway.

Upon seeing the boy's face clearly, Shang Xiye's gaze flickered slightly: "Feng... Yunxiao?"

The young man, "Sect Master Mo," was also somewhat surprised, but he quickly recovered and laughed, "Indeed, apart from Sect Master Mo, there is probably no one else in the world who can teach this little girl to be so clever and adorable."

"Why did you come to the Pill Sect?" Shang Xiye asked, recalling his past memories, speaking the same words as Mo Linxian. Just like Mo Linxian had done back then, he gently pulled Xiao Yunyao behind him to protect her.

Seeing Shang Xiye's deep affection for Xiao Yunyao, a hint of relief flashed across Yunxiao's clear phoenix eyes. He said softly, "I came looking for something, but unfortunately, it seems that thing is not here."

"Big brother, this is my master. My master has come to see you. Why don't you come and visit our Dan Sect? My master is already a Dan Saint. He can definitely cure your hidden ailment." Little Yun Yao didn't know why Shang Xiye was hiding her behind him. She stubbornly peeked out and extended an invitation to Yun Xiao with enthusiasm and sincerity. Then she looked up at Shang Xiye and pleaded, "Master, let's take big brother back."

Shang Xiye also very much wanted to bring Yunxiao back to the Dan Sect.

But just as he was about to speak according to his own will, his mouth involuntarily opened: "Little darling, even if big brother is going to the Pill Sect as a guest, he has to go by himself. He can't go back with us, otherwise no one in the Pill Sect will follow the rules."

Regardless of rank, all private matters within the sect must be conducted outside the sect. It is forbidden to bring people into the sect for personal matters; this is one of the ironclad rules of the Dan Sect.

But in fact, an exception had already been made for them once.

That was the former sect leader, Mo Linxian's father, who took Xiao Yunyao back with him before he died.

However, at that time, Mo Linxian's father used the sect's secret passage, and no outsiders knew about it.

When Xiao Yunyao reappeared, she had become Mo Linxian's disciple and was already a member of the Dan Sect.

When Mo Linxian said those words to Xiao Yunyao, it wasn't a rejection of Yunxiao going to the Dan Sect.

He just didn't want Yunxiao and Xiaoyunyao to appear in front of everyone together.

Shang Xiye understood Mo Linxian's intentions, which also awakened him to the fact that he was currently only in a phantom of the past. He could make minor adjustments to adapt to the past, but he could not change the overall situation of the past, nor could he change Yunxiao's situation and fate.