Battle Through the Heavens: I Can Solidify All Talents

Xiao Qing still held the fishing rod, his expression calm.

"Knowing too much isn't necessarily a good thing."

"Why not?"

Luo Qingxian turned her head and looked directly into his eyes.

"What is Senior afraid I'll learn?"

Their gazes met in the river wind.

Xiao Qing saw many things in those glassy eyes.

Curiosity, gratitude, dependence, and a deeper, fiercer affection that perhaps even she herself had not fully realized yet.

He withdrew his gaze and looked toward the river.

"A fish took the bait."

With a flick of his wrist, a small silver-scaled fish leaped from the water, glimmering like scattered gold in the sunset.

Luo Qingxian froze for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"Senior, that was a terribly clumsy way to change the subject."

Xiao Qing removed the little fish from the hook and casually tossed it back into the river.

"As long as it works."

After saying that, he stood up and walked back with the empty fish basket in hand.

Luo Qingxian sat on the bluestone, watching the figure in green robes stretch longer beneath the setting sun. The smile on her lips gradually faded, replaced by a complicated silence.

Five years had passed.

This man was still a mystery.

A mystery that became harder to see clearly the closer she got.

The Luo God Clan's name truly resounded across the Western Heaven Continent in the third year after Luo Qingxian broke through to Earthly Sovereign.

That year, the three great clans of the northern Western Heaven Continent joined forces to invade. Each had an Upper Earthly Sovereign presiding over them, and they split into three armies that charged straight toward the Luo River.

More than a dozen smaller clans nearby were terrified and hurriedly packed up their belongings to flee south.

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