While You Enjoy Peaceful Days, Qian Daoliu Bears the Burden

The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape felt nothing at the sight.

They had seen it too many times and had become numb to it.

Lord Lucifer felt nothing at the sight either.

"Tch! It's such a trivial matter. What's there to get angry about?"

Back when he had been a senior Go player in his previous life, those Valorant juniors next door...

Concerned for Qian Renxue's safety, Ah Rou coaxed Xiao Wu for a while before sending the few of them away.

She dug up several tuber-like fruits, picked some wild fruit, and carried them back.

When she emerged from the darkness, Qian Renxue by the campfire sprang to her feet with a whoosh.

Her eyes widened, flickering with an indescribable light.

"You're back!"

"Mm, I'm back."

Ah Rou held out a wild fruit. "Eat it! It's really sweet!"

"Mm!" Qian Renxue took it and gently bit into it.

It really was sweet!

Sweet enough to reach her heart!

Ah Rou first arranged the remaining wild fruit on clean leaves, then placed the tuber-like fruits into the campfire one by one.

Qian Renxue watched quietly from the side.

"I'm not good at cooking meat, so I only picked some fruit and dug up some tubers!"

"But don't worry, these are delicious too, and they're full of energy!"

After putting all the tubers into the fire, Ah Rou explained.

"Mm!" Qian Renxue did not care about that at all.

She had long grown accustomed to delicacies from land and sea, yet none of them could compare to even a fraction of today's wild fruit!

Before long, the tubers were cooked.

Ah Rou used a branch to rake them out one by one, peeled away their charred black skins, and revealed the fragrant flesh within.

Then she half-wrapped each one in a clean leaf and handed it to Qian Renxue.

"Eat it! It smells amazing!"

Qian Renxue accepted it. The rising heat, carrying a sweet fragrance, drifted straight into her nose, making her eyes misty.

Seeing this, Ah Rou hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? Is the food not to your liking?"

Qian Renxue wrinkled her nose and turned her head slightly away. "Nothing. The heat got into my eyes!"

Ah Rou understood at once. She smiled knowingly and did not expose her.

"I'll peel another one for you!" Ah Rou picked up another tuber and carefully peeled away its charred skin.

The carbonized peel stained her slender, fair hands black.

Yet her hands were deft, and not a single black speck touched the fragrant flesh.

Once she had peeled one half, she wrapped it in a leaf before peeling the other half.

Qian Renxue ate in small bites, her eyes filled with the sight of Ah Rou peeling the roasted tuber.

What a beautiful scene, she thought.

Lord Lucifer, hidden in the darkness, was deeply moved!

He truly was a genius!

This idea was brilliant!

The Young Master of Spirit Hall and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast in human form had become entangled!

The destinies of two naturally hostile characters with great weight in this world changing at once would surely increase the Worldline's repulsive force by quite a bit!

"And it will definitely create a butterfly effect, affecting the fates of many people!"

Besides maintaining the Worldline's existence and eliminating the danger to his own life, Lucifer found this quite entertaining as well.

By the time Qian Renxue finished dinner, Ah Rou had already laid out a resting place beneath the tree with dry grass.

"Go to sleep! We still have to continue our journey tomorrow!" Ah Rou patted the crude bed.

"I'll keep watch!"

A motherly figure was calling her to sleep beside the bed, and Qian Renxue's heart trembled.

"Mm!" She did not even know how she had walked over and lain down.

Ah Rou sat beside Qian Renxue for a while. Seeing that the campfire was about to burn out, she rose to add more firewood.

"Don't go!"

Qian Renxue suddenly grabbed her hand.

"I'm not abandoning you. I'm just going to add some firewood!" Ah Rou explained.

"Please! Don't go!" Qian Renxue still murmured.

Ah Rou had no choice but to sit down again. "Sigh, this child..."

She lowered her head and looked at this Spirit Hall Young Master, dressed in luxurious clothes and possessing an extraordinary bearing.

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At this moment, she was especially pitiful and lovable!

She must be a child with a hard life too!

Ah Rou thought that if her family had not been discordant, Qian Renxue probably would not be like this.

It seemed that even those born into wealth did not necessarily live happy lives!

After tidying Qian Renxue's messy hair, Ah Rou sat there quietly and watched the campfire go out.

This small area darkened, with only the moon in the night sky providing a faint glow.

Qian Renxue kept Ah Rou's hand tightly clasped. At some point, she even pulled Ah Rou's arm into her embrace.

That night, she slept exceptionally soundly.

While their days were peaceful here, Qian Daoliu's world had been turned upside down.

Where exactly was his precious granddaughter?

The eight of them had searched every inch within a hundred li and still found nothing!

"Damn Fallen Angel!"

"Damn Lucifer!"

Qian Daoliu threw back his head and let out an enraged roar, yet he still could not vent all the fury in his heart!

In the distance, a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast heard the roar and instinctively answered with a beastly howl, declaring ownership of its territory!

"Hmph!"

Qian Daoliu's face turned cold. With a casual flick, he threw out his Golden Sword, instantly piercing its brain and killing it!

A pitch-black Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring slowly rose from its body.

Yet Qian Daoliu could not even be bothered to glance at it!

Seeing the Great Enshrined so furious, the seven followers all fell silent as cicadas in winter and shrank back.

None of them even dared to ask what they should do next!

Qian Daoliu stood in the air and took several deep breaths.

He could not panic now! Panicking was useless!

He knew this was probably the "do it again" Lucifer had mentioned before!

But he was afraid that Lucifer would truly hide away with Qian Renxue and never show himself again!

He was even more afraid that Lucifer might disappear, leaving Qian Renxue alone and lost in the Star Dou Great Forest...

She was the Qian Family's only child!

He closed his eyes and pondered for a long time before finally saying helplessly, "Return to Spirit Hall and have the Pope send more people!"

"Everyone still in Spirit City—all Spirit Saints, Spirit Douluos, and Titled Douluos!"

"Put down whatever you're doing!"

"Conduct a carpet search of the Star Dou Great Forest!"

Gasp!

Hearing this, the seven followers all sucked in a breath.

This lineup... it truly was...

One of the Spirit Douluos stepped forward. "Great Enshrined, isn't this a little..."

"Mm?" Qian Daoliu's gaze turned icy.

This Spirit Douluo suddenly seemed to hear his great-grandmother calling to him and hurriedly changed his words.

"...a little short on manpower?"

"Reasonable!" Qian Daoliu slowly nodded.

"Have the Spirit Hall branch halls around the Star Dou Great Forest send some people as well. Begin searching from different directions!"

"Yes!"

Thus, a flying Spirit Douluo sped toward Spirit Hall at full speed to request support.

Qian Daoliu led the remaining six to continue searching for Qian Renxue.

At dawn, the flying Spirit Douluo finally returned to Spirit City.

Ignoring his completely depleted Soul Power, he rushed straight to the Pope's Palace.

Inside the Pope's Palace, Qian Xunjie was reading through a piece of intelligence.

As he read, his expression suddenly became stern.

"Tang Xiao has returned to the Clear Sky Sect!"

"Only Tang Hao and that Blue Silver Grass female Soul Master are still traveling together!"

"Why would this happen?"

"Didn't they still have two years left of their training period?"

"Could there have been a change in the Clear Sky Sect's succession, and they now favor Tang Xiao more?"

Then he rejected his own thought.

"Impossible! Tang Xiao's talent is far inferior to Tang Hao's!"

"There must be another reason!"