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When I reproached him, Senior Brother Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head. He explained, "I... I was only afraid of causing you trouble. You're the Emperor of Zhongzhou, guiding all the people beneath Heaven, and the sect master of Heaven's Unity, leading tens of thousands of elite cultivators. Now you're also vaguely the leader of the cultivation world. You've traveled across the Nine Provinces, and no cultivator doesn't know your great name. With the Ascension Altar Conference approaching, it's better to have one less matter than one more. How could I make you wear yourself out over something as minor as this?"
"Senior Brother! Whether it was a great matter or a small one back then, you and I always weathered them together. After all these years, how are your major concerns any different from mine?" I replied. I glanced at the little girl Qingzhu, who looked bewildered as she watched us whispering. I patted her head and said, "Qingzhu, your uncles aren't ordinary people. We're cultivators of the Nine Provinces. If anything happens later, don't get too nervous or surprised, all right?"
Qingzhu nodded. "I've seen cultivators before. They can walk along eaves and walls, and they can smash boulders with their chests!"
I chuckled, and Senior Brother Yan seemed suddenly enlightened as well. He laughed. "Look at you. All you can do is walk along eaves and walls and smash boulders with your chest, yet you insist on taking so many matters upon yourself."
"Great abilities call for great deeds. Wherever my heart leads me, there lies righteousness. How could I distinguish between the strong and the weak of my own abilities?" I said freely. Then I snapped my fingers, and Xiaojiao appeared before me in an instant from deep within the forest.
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