"Martial Uncle, let me go first," Mo Buyu said. He thought his own matter might be more important. "Just now, I..."
He'd only gotten a few words out when he suddenly froze, his expression dazed.
What had just happened?
Mo Buyu felt as though his mind had gone completely blank. Only one sentence flickered through it.
Seeing him suddenly fall silent, the Dao Integration blade cultivator asked with concern, "What were you going to say, Buyu?"
"I was going to say..." Mo Buyu searched his memories with all his might but found nothing. In the end, he murmured the words that came to mind: "A new heart has found its joy..."
A new heart has found its joy?
The Dao Integration blade cultivator's expression shifted. Had Buyu really figured it out?
He sighed.
"Since you've already seen through it, I won't hide it from you."
Huh?
Mo Buyu came back to himself, completely bewildered.
What had I figured out?
"That's right. Ru Yan... is already my Dao partner."
A trace of guilt flickered in the Dao Integration blade cultivator's eyes, but there was relief there, too.
A ringing filled Mo Buyu's ears. His expression went blank, and his already empty mind was now utterly devoid of thought.
Junior Sister... had become Martial Uncle's Dao partner?
"When the Great Desert Blade Sect joined the Righteous Alliance, there was a brief period of unrest. Your master was seriously injured then and fell into a coma."
"That was when Ru Yan came to me. She said she'd long since..."
The Dao Integration blade cultivator explained what had happened back then, but Mo Buyu's mind was still ringing. He couldn't take in a single word.
"Dad!"
The crisp, pleasant voice sounded familiar to Mo Buyu, and it brought his thoughts back.
He looked toward