"Ah, what a sin, what a sin." Tang Sanzang watched Xiao Jiu's retreating figure and murmured a few times.
What he didn't know was that Xiao Jiu, who had turned the corner and left, was sobbing uncontrollably behind the door.
That was how love was. If you hadn't experienced it yourself, you had no right to judge. Some people said that one encounter could make a girl fall in love with a boy.
How was that possible?
And yet, that was exactly what had happened. Xiao Jiu had given up her chance to attain the Dao and waited here for countless years. Now she had given it up once more, ready to keep waiting until, in some future cycle of reincarnation, Tang Sanzang might be moved by her persistence.
For some reason, last night's great battle hadn't woken a single villager. Sure enough, ordinary people couldn't begin to touch the battles between immortals.
At cockcrow,
Tang Sanzang and his disciples had already begun packing their things. Not a word was spoken as they worked, lest anyone upset Tang Sanzang.
Ye Chen had woken especially early today, too.
Noticing that the atmosphere seemed a little off, he pulled Sun Wukong aside and asked what had happened. Only then did he learn it was because of Xiao Jiu.
"That girl? She wasn't an ordinary person?" Ye Chen was surprised, too. Just then, Yao Yun's voice sounded in his mind.
"I could tell from the start that the girl called Xiao Jiu was no ordinary person. She was the one who shattered my Void Barrier last night." Yao Yun had immense confidence in her Void Barrier. It was supposedly an impassable wall to anyone below the Grand Unity Golden Immortal, yet Xiao Jiu had smashed it to pieces.
"From what Old Mother Li