Shouyang Dao Discussion, Four Emperors Welcome Guests. True Persons Gather, Dao Sect Arrives

Within Shouyang Mountain.

On an azure stone path through the mountains, two figures walked side by side.

The man was tall and handsome, the woman dazzlingly beautiful. Together, they looked like an immortal couple.

"Cai Yi, you've grown much thinner!" The man held the woman's hand, his eyes full of tenderness.

Gu Cai Yi used her other hand to sweep the strands of hair hanging before her eyes behind her ear, revealing her delicate oval face. She smiled faintly. "Compared to the countless dangers you encountered outside, Husband, I merely went into seclusion to cultivate bitterly for a time. What does losing a little weight amount to? Besides, so long as I can help you, I am willing to endure any hardship!"

Luo Chen shook his head and sighed softly.

Back when his realm had still been low and his strength weak, his views on people and matters had been rather utilitarian.

Most of those he befriended were useful people.

The friends around him all had to shine and give off heat for him as much as possible.

To put it bluntly, when he had joined with Sima Hui Niang back then, aside from being half-pushed and half-willing, it was not as though he had lacked the intention of binding Sima Hui Niang, the steward of Luo Tian Sect, through a deeper relationship.

At that time, Luo Chen had urgently needed every kind of cultivation resource, so he had worked hard to squeeze every last bit of strength from the friends around him.

But after Luo Chen cultivated to the Nascent Soul Realm, the world had fallen into chaos, and Luo Tian Sect had actually become a "burden" to him.

By then, Luo Chen was no longer so utilitarian.

Or rather, toward the one beside his pillow, his friends, and