"Bearded Uncle, what's going on? Why have I suddenly felt so uneasy for so long? If you don't come back soon, I'll be miserable."
Qiu Wa leaped up and hung from Xu Yi's neck, looking just like a sloth.
A Li nodded repeatedly too, seeming unable to find the words.
At the sight of the two little ones, the Four Old Demons all gaped. It wasn't that they had seen through Qiu Wa and A Li's disguises.
The concealment technique Xu Yi had obtained from Jingchen Hall was extremely powerful. Combined with the special scent-masking sachet, it made the two little demons' identities difficult to uncover.
What astonished Desolate Ancestor and the others was Qiu Wa's attitude toward Xu Yi—and Xu Yi's response.
They had never imagined that a demon with such overwhelming killing intent could have this side to him, too. Xu Yi patted Qiu Wa's little head. "Did you cause any trouble while I was gone? Did you bully A Li?"
A Li was just about to speak when Qiu Wa glared at him. His round, chubby head immediately sank into his neck.
Qiu Wa made a face, then suddenly fixed her eyes on Yan Zi. With a strange cry of "Oh!" she rushed over and nestled in Yan Zi's arms. "You're Sister Yan Zi! We're both from Guang'an, but we never got to meet. Thank you for staying by Bearded Uncle's side all these years."
Though Qiu Wa and Yan Zi came from the same city, they had never met.
Qiu Wa had turned into a withered Ginseng Baby long ago to save Uncle Mu. Later, during Xu Yi's battle at the Ancient Tomb, he entrusted her to Xue Zihan. He hadn't met Yan Zi yet at the time.
But during the twenty years in Jingchen Hall,