Xiao Yi

By the time grandfather and grandson flew back to the village, the sun was already sinking west, and night was about to fall. The village that had looked like a tiny black speck from the sky gradually grew larger.

From afar, they saw two or three members of the Defense Force gathered around a cute, dazed-looking girl at the East Gate.

She was about one meter tall, with a fine veil over her face. She wore a goose-yellow jacquard short dress with dark woven patterns, overlaid with a semi-transparent white gauze outer layer. Shen Jiao and Jun Gui were embroidered on her cuffs.

A necklace hung around her neck, with an orange gemstone set into a plum-blossom-shaped pendant. Her hair was a mysterious purple, tied behind her head with a pale-yellow ribbon, and she stared blankly at the carefree flowers by the roadside.

Seeing something flying over from the distance, the Defense Force members on the stone wall began to go on alert. Before long...

"The Clan Leader is back."

The Seven Kill Sword descended slowly, stopping one foot above the ground as dust curled faintly upward. Grandfather and grandson stepped down, and the people at the gate went forward to meet them. Leading them was a female soul master.

As if sensing something, the little girl raised her head and looked this way.

Chen Yu put away the Seven Kill Sword and asked, "What's going on, Xia Lin?"

Xia Lin was a member of the Xia Clan, a follower family known as "Phantom Cherry," and also one of the Vice Captains of the Defense Force. She was the only female Vice Captain, with cultivation at the Soul Saint level, and was usually stationed at the Southeast Gate with two squads under her command.

"Clan Leader, this little girl suddenly