Qu Jianlei said he did not need to rest deliberately. Then, with a thought, he drew the Stone, less than six hundred kilometers in diameter, into his body.
This time, he did not store it in his Abode, but in the space inside his body—he really could not fit it into the Abode.
Then he let out a long breath and looked at the stick in the air. "Many thanks, Senior. This junior is already fine now."
It would have been better if he had not said that. The moment he did, Crystal Ancestor became interested instead. "I'll follow along and watch a little longer, broaden my horizons."
When True Monarch Boping heard that, he got a little choked up again. "Do you find this interesting?"
"I used to hide from things like this," the stick answered very honestly. "Now I'm willing to watch from the side. Isn't that a good thing?"
True Monarch Boping had no way to respond to that. True Monarch Wenshi, however, stated, "You can't watch for free."
"Of course," Crystal Ancestor answered readily as well. "As long as it doesn't deepen the karma of the heavens tilting, I can protect the path."
Protecting the path was not entirely the same as serving as a guardian. It could be understood as: if there were obstacles on the road that had nothing to do with the heavens tilting, he could take action to clear them away.
Hearing this, True Monarch Wenshi quietly connected to the Taiyuan Sea. "This fellow is starting to change."
At the very beginning, Crystal Ancestor had very clearly cut itself off from the heavens tilting. Now, it was willing to protect Qu Jianlei's path.
Wenshi had lived to a ripe old age, so of course he would not be childish enough to think