Xiao Jin did not answer Tou She Ancient God's question right away. Instead, he lowered his head and asked Zi Yan, who looked a little nervous beside him, "Do you want me to stay with you?"
Zi Yan stared blankly for a moment, then finally shook her head firmly.
"You go. He won't do anything to me."
Zi Yan still had confidence in that much. Judging from Zhu Kun's reaction just now, he did not seem like someone who would do anything to his own child.
"Then talk with him first. Whether you want to curse him or hit him, I'll support you." Xiao Jin patted Zi Yan on the head and said gently, "Don't forget, you still have to dig up his coffin money."
Zi Yan burst out laughing, and that little bit of nervousness in her heart vanished completely.
With that, the tense atmosphere immediately loosened by quite a lot.
Zhu Kun understood that Xiao Jin had done it on purpose.
He gave Xiao Jin a grateful smile, then rubbed his hands and carefully approached Zi Yan.
Xiao Jin, meanwhile, followed the old man to a stone pillar not far away.
After the two stood still, Tou She Ancient God stroked the stone pillar and said, "This stone pillar is where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame stayed before."
Xiao Jin did not pick up the topic. Instead, he asked the question he most wanted to know.
"Why are you still alive?" Such a blunt question could hardly be called tactful. Xiao Jin did not even use an honorific.
"Alive?" Tou She Ancient God seemed to have long expected him to ask this and replied with a chuckle, "This old man can hardly be considered alive."
Xiao Jin was stunned.
It was not that he had never seen a