The starry sky twisted, and Xia Luo and Lu Yin emerged.
Seeing the two of them appear, Domain Instructor and the others relaxed. Xia Luo had won.
Across from them, Xia Meng stared intently at Xia Luo, her gaze filled with conflicting emotions. She didn't know how to regard him. Was he the killer of Jiuyou, or Jiuyou himself? No one could understand what Xia Meng was feeling.
She had always protected Xia Jiuyou. When he was young, he had been kind and innocent, and she had loved him dearly. For his sake, she had even risked offending clan leader Xia Yi by concealing the Nine Body Separation Technique. But now, after the technique had fused, the Main Dao of Consciousness wasn't Xia Jiuyou.
She clenched her fists and stared blankly at Xia Luo. His face looked so much like Jiuyou's.
Xia Luo took a step forward and came to a stop in front of Xia Meng. Looking up at her, he said, "Aunt Meng."
Xia Meng's body trembled. That was what Xia Jiuyou had called her the first time they met. That one word had nearly made her treat him like her own son. But as Xia Jiuyou grew up and practiced the Nine Body Separation Technique, his personality changed completely. He became ruthless and heartless, skilled at putting on a disguise, and he never used that name for her again.
She hadn't expected to hear it again after all these years.
"You..." Xia Meng's fingers trembled as she stared at Xia Luo.
Xia Luo smiled. "Aunt Meng, let's go home."
Xia Meng gazed at him blankly, as if she were seeing the kind and innocent Xia Jiuyou of his childhood. "Oh, all right. All right, let's go home."
Xia Luo turned back to Lu Yin. "Brother Lu, I'll