Just like that.
Xu Xing kept an eye on Yuanjun, while Chi Jiuyu watched the two of them.
About half an hour passed.
Yuanjun suddenly lowered her head, burying her face between her knees as she began to sob softly.
Sure enough...
She cried after all.
Xu Xing sighed inwardly.
Beside him, Chi Jiuyu's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
Huh?!
She hadn't seen wrong, had she? Senior Yuanjun was actually crying?!
If only she could record such a precious moment in history...
Smack!
She suddenly slapped herself hard across the face.
No matter how formidable Senior Yuanjun might become in the future, she was still only a girl in her teens right now—a little girl who had just lost her parents.
How could she even think such things?!
She was simply a beast!
Having recognized her mistake, she continually repented in her heart and conducted a profound self-examination.
Because she had put too much force into that slap, her cheek had turned bright red, and tears even welled up at the corners of her eyes...
Hiss~
That hurt so much.
Come to think of it, wasn't she in an "observer" state where she couldn't interfere with anything? Why did hitting herself still hurt this badly?
About three minutes later.
The soft sobbing stopped.
Yuanjun raised her head, wiped away her tears, and sat there for a while longer.
Only after using the lake's surface to make sure no one could tell she had cried did she rise to her feet.
Time to go...
Xu Xing silently backed away, soon vanishing into the depths of the bamboo grove.
Chi Jiuyu hesitated slightly before following him.
Her Divine Sense still remained spread over that area, however.
By the time Xu Xing returned to the clearing in the bamboo