"We'll have to stay with you for a while to make sure you're alright before you can do whatever you want," Le Xi said. This time, he had changed; he wouldn't object to anything Nian Wanzhou said.
I've missed you terribly since we last met a year ago.
All he wants to do now is be with her, to spend quality time with her.
Nian Wanzhou smiled without saying a word.
After a long pause, he finally spoke: "It's better not to follow me. I want to see everything in the human world on my own. I will return when the time comes. You don't need to come with me. You should focus on your cultivation."
Le Xi's smile was somewhat bitter, and her eyes were a little moist. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't feeling sad.
Wanwan was being too polite to him.
When we met, we would at most exchange greetings, and I assumed that giving a gift meant we were making up.
"Is there anything else?" Lexi couldn't help but ask her.
Silence remained. Nian Wanzhou seemed unwilling to reveal too much about her whereabouts, or perhaps she was hiding something.
“Wanwan, your second senior brother is also worried about you. Tell me, what else do you want to do?” Wei Wenru finally spoke up for Lexi, something that had never happened before.
Perhaps Lexi is truly too pitiful.
Song Yan also wanted to ask her what had happened that made her stay away from the sect for a year, and why her cultivation had risen to an even more unfathomable and vast realm.
But Song Yan actually spoke up: "Wanwan, your second senior brother has suffered a lot on his way to find out your whereabouts. You two are still fellow disciples, so if there's anything you don't get along with, can you... try to let it go?"
Upon hearing this, Nian Wanzhou slowly opened her eyes and looked at Song Yan.
If this person weren't her closest father, she really would have kicked him. In a sense, Lexi was the one who bullied her, and she could forgive him because she didn't want to hold a grudge.
After all, in the beginning, she had deliberately provoked Lexi many times in order to keep him away from her senior sister and prevent him from ruining the official pairing.
Nian Wanzhou's slightly open eyes were like a clear pool of water, without ripples or anger, just quietly watching.
They seem unaccustomed to opening their eyes, and feel even more confused.
Her pale lips parted slightly: "I forgave him a long time ago, but... what I have to do is something I really can't explain to you, and it's not good to take you on this risk. Don't you know what the White Dragon's mission is?"
White Dragon, born with a mission?
That was... being sacrificed on the spot. Le Xi and Wei Wenru both recalled that heart-wrenching and terrifying scene at the bottom of the pool.
Nian Wanzhou placed her hands on her chest and said very peacefully, "Let me put it this way, none of you can face that mission with me now. What I need to do is rewrite it so as not to be a burden to you."
I asked the sect leader to urge everyone to cultivate diligently, not only for the great calamity to come, but also because of the repercussions I might bring.
The three of them were now speechless.
"We will not sacrifice you, nor will we let anyone take you away. Senior Sister's cultivation has already reached the Integration Stage!" Le Xi said firmly. She could not stand by and watch Wanwan perish!
"Then why don't you go back? The sect leader said that it would be safer inside the sect, and we can all work together to find a solution without getting involved," Wei Wenru continued, her eyes filled with concern.
“Nan Yu, Third Senior Brother, Xing Zhu, and Senior Sister Liu Li have already lost their lives because of me. I will not risk everyone’s lives again.” Nian Wanzhou continued to close his eyes and rest.
His divine sense drifted to the outskirts to check on the movements of the Demon Lord and the black mist.
Song Yan: "Their deaths have nothing to do with you. It's all because of the black fog. Wanwan, you don't need to blame yourself or take the blame on yourself."
They knew that Nian Wanzhou felt guilty because of Nan Yu's death and took all the blame upon herself.
Unable to accept it, she ran away from home. She still feels guilty and is unwilling to return to the sect, fearing that seeing things there would remind her of him.
“Wanwan, you really don’t need to do this,” Lexi said.
Nian Wanzhou sighed: "What I said was not wrong, but I don't blame myself too much. It was bound to happen... If anyone is to blame, it's those things that were too cruel, and I didn't have the ability to protect everyone."
But things are different now; I'll soon be able to protect everyone.
A resolute light flashed in her eyes as she opened them instantly, and as soon as she finished speaking, a deafening roar resounded in the sky.
"Rumble..."
As if it were the end of the world, the entire sky was torn apart, and a huge bolt of lightning struck straight down, hitting the ground and immediately cracking deep ravines into the ground.
Upon hearing this, Nian Wanzhou immediately stood up and rushed to the window. Sure enough, she saw the lightning strike that Tiandao had casually tossed down.
Directly opposite is that demon lord.
Only two bolts of lightning struck, and then they all vanished, as if they had disappeared into thin air.
Nian Wanzhou knew that this was a warning from Heaven to the Demon Lord; if things continued this way, Heaven would take action to eliminate him.
What Nian Wanzhou had to do was to take the initiative. After all, Xiao Tiandao wished she could eliminate all dangers for the Chosen Ones so that their path to ascension would be smoother.
It's a win-win situation.
Xiao Tiandao had just woken up and knew that they had come to the Demon Realm, but he didn't suspect anything.
Wei Wenru had come before, but only for training purposes.
Seeing Nian Wanzhou's weakened state, he knew that the blow he had dealt to her had been very effective, and she was now close to becoming a complete puppet.
"What's wrong, Wanwan? What just happened?" Wei Wenru also came over to see.
Le Xi gently pulled on Nian Wanzhou's thin arm to prevent her from leaning too far forward and falling, saying, "Be careful."
Nian Wanzhou turned around and looked at him strangely, not understanding why Le Xi was acting this way.
"Relax a bit, I'm fine." She pulled her arm back, and a white light flew out from her hand, instantly absorbing all the power of the lightning strike, and also bringing back a wisp of black mist.
The black mist transformed into a hideous ghost face before her, which was truly frightening.
But when Nian Wanzhou raised his palm, he unleashed a powerful strike, scattering the black mist with a single slap and completely dispelling the ghostly face.
This wisp of black mist was too dirty and ugly; Nian Wanzhou had no intention of swallowing it. What if she got sick from eating it? Her mother said she shouldn't eat anything unclean.
"Is the black mist beginning to invade the demon race?" Wei Wenru and Song Yan asked in surprise.
Besides Lexi, the two of them also saw the ghost face. It was really ugly, but it seemed to be very afraid of them.
"Yes, that's why I came here. No matter what, we can't let it set foot on the demon race's territory and make it its base. If it manages to control the demon race and becomes its ally, it will be another great calamity."
"Wasn't Master injured like that because the demons attacked back then?" Nian Wanzhou said coldly, as the white light in her hand kept flying out to stimulate the location of the demons.
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