Strategizing [Two-in-One]

Qian Sanjiang sighed softly and said, "All right, Old Sir!"

He had always addressed Yin Shen Gong as Sect Leader. It had been many years since he last called him "Old Sir."

Now that he said it, Yin Shen Gong's eyes instantly grew complicated.

He said with some distress, "Sanjiang, you know, after all these years as brothers, over the past thousand years or so, how many of those brothers who fought to establish our realm died one after another right before our eyes? So many of them died. Yet all these years, we never had this feeling of growing old. Why is it that Old Mu's death this time affected us so deeply?"

This was something neither Yin Shen Gong nor Qian Sanjiang nor Hou Fang could deny.

All three of them could clearly feel it.

Indeed, the three of them had changed after Mu Linyuan's death.

They had grown increasingly silent.

Yin Shen Gong used to direct his temper at the three of them whenever he lost his temper, but ever since Mu Linyuan died, he had surprisingly stopped losing his temper so easily.

Even when he was furious, he no longer vented his anger on Qian Sanjiang and Hou Fang.

Instead, he took it out on other people with even greater ferocity.

Their occasional drinking sessions had become almost daily ever since Mu Linyuan's death.

They drank in silence.

There was no need to say it aloud. They could all feel that they had become old men.

The change was simply too obvious. They could not even pretend not to notice it.

"Perhaps it's because..."

Yin Shen Gong said softly, "As the Night Demon grew, we gradually gained a great deal of hope. After all, unlike before, when we lived and died with the martial world, we