[After Miao Heng visited the West Queen Mother with Tongtian and used the Kunlun Mirror to view the sights across the Prehistoric World, the small desire to travel in her heart grew wildly like weeds.
After returning to Kunlun, she gathered her courage and walked up to the Three Pure Ones, standing ramrod straight. "master, Miao Heng wants to travel down the mountain."
Tongtian sprang up. "No! Absolutely not! Look at you—you're not even as tall as my leg! Any random beast down the mountain could swallow you whole without even chewing!"
Yuanshi said nothing, but the fingers resting on his knee curled inward. Laozi merely asked, "Why?"
Su Miao rattled off three reasons: to verify what she had learned, gather Spirit Planting, and hurry out to see the world before the Witch-Demon conflict fully erupted.
After hearing her out, Laozi uttered only one word. "Yes."
Tongtian's face fell as though he had been struck by lightning. He looked at Su Miao resentfully. "You heartless little thing, abandoning us three old men just like that?"
Su Miao ran over, hugged his leg, and shook it. "Master Tongtian is the best! The strongest!" After three seconds of sweet talk, Tongtian's cloudy expression cleared right up.]
The speed of that change made Duobao's mouth twitch before the water screen.
Taiyi Zhenren said, "Martial Uncle is panicking, he's panicking! Look at that expression—doesn't he look like someone whose pet kitten is going out for a walk for the first time?"
Guang Chengzi said, "No. He looks like someone whose pet bok choy is going out for the first time, and the outside world is full of wild boars."
Taiyi said, "Brilliant. Martial brother Guang Chengzi, I give that analogy full marks."
Bi Xiao was laughing herself silly in the Jie Sect group chat.