Beneath the night sky.
After Liao Xiaopao finished clearing away all the corpses, he returned to the campfire and plopped down.
Gu Qingshan tossed him a freshly roasted potato.
"What's this?"
Liao Xiaopao asked warily.
"It's called a potato—don't worry, it's not meat," Gu Qingshan said.
Only then did Liao Xiaopao relax and start eating.
Lola couldn't help saying, "Hey, I'm just saying, you only promised not to kill. You don't have to be so careful about what you eat, too."
Liao Xiaopao declared righteously, "Since I made a promise to Li, I'll definitely keep it—starting with what I eat."
Gu Qingshan and Lola exchanged a glance, then tacitly fell silent.
"Men with unrequited crushes are terrifying."
Lola sent him a telepathic message.
Gu Qingshan, however, was thinking about something else. "Liao Xiaopao is human, while Li is a Saint Spirit. Can they really be together?"
Lola blushed and said, "Who knows? This is my first time in the Dust-Sealed World, too."
Gu Qingshan shrugged helplessly.
Lola didn't know, and neither did he.
Never mind. He'd better ask about something important first.
Gu Qingshan cleared his throat and asked, "Brother Iron Man, do you know how to use world power for defense?"
Liao Xiaopao chewed on his roasted potato and mumbled indistinctly, "It's not a big deal—"
He sat perfectly still, yet the phantom of an iron shield appeared in midair, descended from the sky, and merged into his body.
Liao Xiaopao swallowed his potato and said, "Every kind of world power has a different method of defense. Mine directly reinforces my body. That Big Man just now had a group of beings from the Phase Realm guarding him. As for what yours will be like, you'll have to figure it out for yourself."
Seeing Gu Qingshan's disappointed expression, he