He had even placed Xiao Ran in his heart on the same level as the other Ancestor Witches!
Nuwa, however, was displeased.
She took Houtu's jade-like hand and pouted. "Fellow Daoist Houtu, it took you so long to come here!"
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave?"
"There are still so many things I haven't told you!"
"Why don't you stay here for another day before leaving?"
Nuwa's pitiful, pleading expression softened Houtu's heart.
Houtu smiled sweetly. "All right!"
"Then we'll stay!"
"Tonight, Fellow Daoist Nuwa and I will have a heart-to-heart talk!"
Fuxi laughed and chimed in, "That would be wonderful!"
"Fellow Daoist Xiao Ran and I hit it off at first sight!"
"Gold is easy to obtain, but a true friend is hard to find!"
"I don't want Fellow Daoist Xiao Ran to leave either!"
Houtu murmured, "Little Brother Xiao Ran, are you going back today?"
Xiao Ran exhaled. "You should decide, Big Sister Houtu."
Houtu smiled faintly. "Good! Then we'll stay tonight!"
Late at night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, while all things lay silent.
Only the radiant light of the Moon Star spilled across the dojo.
Houtu and Nuwa slept with their feet touching.
Yet neither of them felt sleepy in the slightest.
Instead, they chatted animatedly and aimlessly.
"Huh? We haven't seen each other for only a few years, and they've grown this big already? Let me pinch them and see!"
"Hey, that's annoying!"
"Hee hee hee!"
Their bell-like laughter echoed through the enormous boudoir.
After a long while, the two finally finished fooling around.
Only then did Nuwa sigh with a solemn expression. "Your little brother Xiao Ran really is impressive!"
"By now, his great name has already spread throughout the entire Primordial World!"
Houtu beamed with