When Xie Lanzhi heard someone calling him, he shifted his gaze from the gray figure to the dark figure beside him.
Only then could they see the dark figure in the cave clearly; it was a young man with thick eyebrows, large eyes, and regular features.
Xie Lanzhi tilted her head in confusion.
Ouyang Changqing continued, "Brother Xie, I...I am Ouyang Changqing. Brother Xie helped me when I was little, in a small alley in Central City..."
After a pause, Ouyang Changqing ultimately didn't ask, "Brother Xie, do you still remember me? Do you still remember that little boy you helped up in the alley?"
Seemingly sensing the sadness and dejection emanating from Ouyang Changqing, Xie Lanzhi stood up, gently patted Ouyang Changqing's back, and whispered soothingly, "Don't be sad, don't be sad."
Looking at Xie Lanzhi so close to him, and hearing her gentle voice just as he remembered, Ouyang Changqing felt a sense of peace and quietly gazed at Xie Lanzhi, unable to look away.
Following the trail of the Soul-Locking Pearl, Xie Aotian, Mu Qing, and Murong Yu arrived at the cave, only to witness the bizarre scene of two souls and a demonic beast living in harmony.
Xie Lanzhi, dressed entirely in white like a white cloud in the sky, looked with concern at Ouyang Changqing, who was dressed in black.
The slender, fair hand gently patted the other person's strong, broad back, giving off the vibe of a child comforting an adult.
In mid-air beside the two, a gray shadow floated, with two large eyes peeking out from within, looking at them with joy, giving off an inexplicable illusion that they were a family of three.
Xie Aotian, who had been looking anxious with a dark expression, was taken aback by the scene and called out, "Brother, come here."
Hearing the familiar voices calling her, Xie Lanzhi raised her head and happily rushed towards the group.
Ouyang Changqing, who was originally beaming with happiness, was speechless.
It's true, happiness comes too suddenly and goes too quickly.
He did not step forward to disturb Xie Lanzhi and Xie Aotian's reunion, after all, he had just heard Xie Aotian address Xie Lanzhi as his elder brother.
"Since the other party is Brother Xie's younger brother, he will also regard him as a friend," Ouyang Changqing thought to himself.
Thinking of this, he gave Xie Aotian a friendly smile.
Xie Aotian already disliked him. In Xie Aotian's eyes, the other party was a pig trying to steal his elder brother's cabbage. He just couldn't stand him no matter how he looked at him.
Xie Aotian was about to leave, holding Xie Lanzhi's hand, when Xie Lanzhi quickly said, "Xiaotian, Xiaotian, and them too."
The demonic soul beast, completely oblivious to its own limitations, stepped forward and happily said, "Yes, yes, me too! I'm Little Soul, and I'll be following Big Brother from now on."
Ouyang Changqing also floated over and followed behind Xie Lanzhi, echoing, "I'll follow Brother Xie from now on."
Xie Aotian: "......"
Don't ask Xie Aotian how he felt. The answer is: angry, extremely angry.
He's clearly his brother, so why is a soul and a magical beast suddenly appearing to try and take him away?
Mu Qing couldn't help but smile as he watched the standoff between the one person, two souls, and one demonic beast. This was nothing compared to what was to come; there would be plenty of chaos to come.
Seeing that Mu Qing was suppressing a laugh, Murong Yu leaned close to his ear and whispered, "What's wrong?"
Mu Qing: "It's nothing."
She paused, then added with a smile, "It's all fate."
Hearing Mu Qing's conversation, Xie Aotian silently added in his mind, "He doesn't want this kind of fate."
No matter how unwilling Xie Aotian was, he ultimately let the soul and the magical beast follow him. However, even if he didn't want to, he couldn't shake them off.
Especially since there's a Soul Beast that specializes in summoning souls, it's impossible to spend every day searching for one's brother.
Thinking that he had only recently found his brother and hadn't even spent time alone with him yet, Xie Aotian felt a tightness in his chest, a sense of suffocation, as his brother didn't want to leave Mu Qing and the others.
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