"Little Jiu Lai, just focus on developing your special abilities. You can give up on developing your intelligence," Xia Xiang patted his shoulder and earnestly comforted him.
"I hate it," Jiu Lai shrugged, dodging Xia Xiang's hand.
"Have you never liked me since we were little?" Xia Xiang suddenly asked, looking at him.
Jiu Lai looked at Xia Xiang in disbelief, her voice cracking as she spoke, "You're only finding out now?"
Xia Xiang: ......
“I understand you.” Xia Xiang patted his shoulder persistently and said, mimicking his sad expression, “After all, someone as talented, good-looking, and loved by everyone as me is indeed quite enviable.”
Now it's Jiu Lai's turn to be speechless.
“At first I really disliked it,” Jiu Lai said. “The Jiu Da Chang Lao family is dwindling in number, and all of them are either obsessed with cultivation and have short lifespans, or they are people who work hard and worry about their jobs.”
"The old man doesn't have a daughter, so he spoils you rotten. He never liked having a second child, especially a boy. Now, he's got the one he wants," Jiu Lai complained, looking down.
"So I also want to try my best to prove myself and win my dad and brother back from you!"
Xia Xiang patted his back comfortingly, and Jiu Lai didn't dodge away anymore. He hugged Xia Xiang and started crying.
"But I was still very sad when you disappeared! Before, my father was working, my brother was cultivating, and you were with me. After you left, I was all alone at home."
"Alright, stop crying," Xia Xiang comforted her. "Don't feel too much pressure about the great battle. I'll leave Jiu Wu in the Iron Dimension to oversee things. You can go with Li and the others to assist him. I won't leave you alone anymore."
"But I still stand by my original opinion: we cannot make our world public."
“Now that we have people, I’m not stupid.” Jiu Lai wiped the snot and tears from his face. “My previous suggestion was based entirely on the worst-case scenario. Now that the situation is much better, I’m going to the battlefield.”
"This won't do either," Xia Xiang refused, her eyes darting around.
"Why?" Jiu Lai asked.
"Because the Iron Dimension needs you, and we need you as our support," Xia Xiang said solemnly.
Jiu Lai: ......
They were in charge of coordinating the major battle, while Xia Xiang focused on completing her own tasks.
——Fire Time and Space——
Xia Xiang stood with her arms crossed on a relatively intact stone pillar, calmly watching as three demons chased after a raggedly dressed boy in the distance.
The boy looked to be about the same age as her, but he had a composure and calmness beyond his years.
The three-headed demons chased after him playfully, attacking him fiercely whenever he stopped, and slowing down when he tried to escape.
Xia Xiang had no intention of contacting him. This spacetime was already surrounded by flowing magma, with only a few superpowered individuals being raised by demons from the demon realm remaining.
She hadn't understood why these timelines could still exist before, but now she did. These timelines were already in apocalyptic conditions, and this would greatly consume the energy needed to maintain them.
The boy seemed to have spotted Xia Xiang and suddenly rushed towards her.
The three-headed demon was also taken aback, then quickly chased after the boy, trying to stop him.
Perhaps it was the instinct for survival, or perhaps it was talent, but the boy was incredibly fast. He rushed to the stone pillar in a few steps, used the momentum to push off, and jumped even higher than Xia Xiang.
Xia Xiang: ......
The boy's eyes were full of pleading as he stretched out his dirty arm to Xia Xiang, trying to ask her for help.
But seeing that Xia Xiang still didn't move, despair gradually filled his eyes. He turned his head to look at the obedient three-headed demon waiting below, and closed his eyes in despair.
The three-headed demon was naturally delighted; if the powerful person didn't intervene, this male superhuman would remain their toy.
Two of the demons had already jumped up, ready to catch their toys.
But Xia Xiang lazily reached out and grabbed the boy's neck.
Xia Xiang firmly grasped the boy's neck with her well-defined knuckles, removing him from the top of the three demons' heads.
The two leaping demons were sliced in half by a beam of white light, and the spurting green blood splashed all over the other, still-living demon.
The demon immediately retracted its true form, transformed into a human, and begged for mercy in demonic language, "My lord, spare my life."
"Name?" Xia Xiang said coldly.
"I...I don't have a name," the boy said with difficulty, as Xia Xiang gripped his neck.
But Xia Xiang was clearly not asking him.
"Ah San," the demon said, looking up in fear.
"Go back and tell Diablo that if he wants to cooperate, he should come and invite me respectfully, instead of playing some threatening tricks," Xia Xiang said casually. "Hurry up, my patience is limited."
"Yes," the demon kowtowed heavily before transforming into its true form and preparing to escape this space-time.
"Wait!" Xia Xiang's pressure suddenly intensified, startling the demon that hadn't gone far, causing it to freeze and stop.
"Is there anything else you need, sir?" The demon could only respectfully transform back into human form and ask, bowing and scraping.
"Do you look in the mirror?" Xia Xiang asked coldly.
Demons and monsters: ......
The boy in Xia Xiang's arms: ......
"Reporting to Your Excellency, no," the demon replied cautiously.
Xia Xiang mentally scoffed, "I knew they didn't even look in the mirror! How could they be so disgusted by their own reflection?!"
"Get lost," Xia Xiang silently rolled her eyes and let him go.
After the demon left, Xia Xiang carried the boy to the ground and released his relatively clean neck.
"Let's go." Xia Xiang raised an eyebrow slightly when she saw his face, then gestured with her chin that the boy could leave.
"Where to?" the boy asked, somewhat bewildered.
Xia Xiang looked at him with a half-smile, without saying a word.
"The clan chief said that a life-saving grace is greater than heaven." The boy looked at Xia Xiang sincerely with his big eyes and said, "Since you saved me, my life is yours."
"So, wherever you go, I'll go."
"I'm going to see the Demon Lord," Xia Xiang threatened.
"Are you in cahoots with the Demon Lord?" the boy asked, a struggle flashing across his face.
Xia Xiang raised an eyebrow and asked him in return, "What do you think?"
"No," the boy said firmly.
"What about the other people in this timeline? Do you think they are good people?" Xia Xiang asked.
"No," the boy said angrily, "they're the ones who brought me here, they're all bad people!"
"Do you wish for this spacetime to be destroyed?" Xia Xiang asked again.
"This spacetime is rotten to the core. If it could be reborn after destruction, I would want it to be destroyed along with those monsters and those rotten people," the boy said, his eyes filled with hatred.
Then, looking at Xia Xiang with anticipation, he asked, "Are you the one who came to destroy this hell?"
“Yes,” Xia Xiang suddenly laughed when she saw his expression, which puzzled him.
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