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"All right, Brother. Be careful. I'm worried something might happen to you." Xijun looked at me anxiously. I reached out and rubbed her head. "Don't worry. I'll be fine. Miss Xiao should be fine too. I won't let anything happen to her."
"Brother Tian, how are... Uncle Xiao and Aunt Su?" Long Yue looked at me, her face filled with worry. She was deathly pale now and had fallen to around the Fifth Level of Immortality. Her injuries had yet to recover, and she was holding an immortal crystal to restore her cultivation. Yet she seemed even more concerned about Xiao Qianjian.
I looked at Long Yue and shook my head. Long Yue was not good with words, but how could she not know how to read people's expressions? When she saw me shaking my head in grief, two streams of tears rolled down her cheeks. "I... I..."
I patted her shoulder. "Don't be too sad... I know you lived there for some time and became close friends with Miss Xiao, with nothing left unsaid between you. Sect Master Xiao and Aunt Su must have cared about you very much too... But the Great Dao is rugged, and life is the same. There is no feast beneath heaven that never ends."
Xijun's brows furrowed, and she looked just as sorrowful. But I could not stay to comfort them any longer. I turned around and immediately used the Shrinking Earth Technique to leave.
Whether human or demon, we were all emotional creatures. Human nature was originally kind, and demons were the same. After all, they each had their own thoughts and their own loyalties. They were not lifeless things without feelings. Once bonds formed between them, there was happiness and sorrow between them, which was why demons and humans could