"Come on, Su Rou. Want a hug too?"
Luo Heng smiled and opened his arms to the girl standing a short distance away.
Su Rou froze for a moment, a blush swiftly spreading across her lovely face. But she did not shy away. After a brief hesitation, she stepped forward and gently hugged Luo Heng.
She said nothing, but that momentary hesitation had already betrayed the stirrings in her heart.
Ling Qingzhu stood to one side, watching with a trace of amusement in her cool eyes.
She had long known how Su Rou felt about Luo Heng. The girl was simply too shy to express it.
But now was not the time to discuss that. It could wait until their world was safe.
Just then, several figures swept in from afar and landed in the square.
Lin Dong strode over, accompanied by a blue-haired girl—Mu Lingshan. Xin Qing followed at his side as well, a gentle smile on her face.
"Brother Luo Heng! You're finally out!" Unable to contain his excitement, Lin Dong looked Luo Heng up and down. Surprise then flashed in his eyes as he asked,
"Brother Luo Heng, how come I can't sense any aura from you at all now?"
After all, he had reached the second samsara tribulation himself, enough to sweep aside most of the Tianxuan Continent's experts. Yet standing before Luo Heng felt like facing a bottomless ocean. He could not gauge his depths at all.
"I made a tiny breakthrough," Luo Heng said with a smile.
Lin Dong's mouth twitched. "You call this tiny?"
"Haha, more or less."
"Brother Luo Heng!" A bright voice rang out as Mu Lingshan hurried up to him and tilted her little face upward. "Long time no see!"
She had grown quite a bit. Though her features still