How could she possibly refuse? She immediately agreed.
"Thank you, Young Master. I will remember your great kindness in my heart."
Looking at Quan Gui'er, who was so precocious despite her small size, Quan Yi found it rather amusing.
"You even know how to say things like 'great kindness.' Since it doesn't look like you have any other inheritance, you must have heard those words from humans.
Smart. You're someone worth training."
After heaping praise on Gui'er, Quan Yi raised his head and looked at the completely dark sky.
"It's getting late. Time to go back."
As he spoke, Quan Yi waved toward the Poisonous Barrier. After bidding farewell to Dugu Bo, who had been watching this side, he stepped into the shadow.
The multicolored Flame Array naturally dispersed, leaving only a giant seven-colored pit behind, lingering where it was.
Dugu Bo, who had been observing with Dragon Tooth the entire time, also had a slight twitch on his face from the sheer amount of information he needed to process.
But halfway through thinking it over, he gave up because of his headache.
With a wave of his sleeve, he turned and returned to the cave, shifting back into his own research and no longer paying any attention to Quan Yi's affairs.
The scene shifted. On the rooftop of the Quan Family, Quan Yi appeared above his own house with Quan Gui'er in his arms.
Hearing his family on the first floor talking with Huo Wu, he immediately felt a bit of a headache coming on.
"How am I supposed to go in?"
Bringing an unfamiliar child back from outside all of a sudden—under these circumstances, even Quan Yi could not easily step through his front door.
In his arms, Quan Gui'er looked around in stunned amazement. The sight of