Battle Through the Heavens: I Can Solidify All Talents

"This wine is strong!"

"I brewed it myself."

Xiao Qing took a sip on his own, gazing at the brightly lit Luo Clan Settlement below the mountain.

"You fought beautifully today."

Luo Qingxian froze for a moment, then the tips of her ears quietly reddened.

"Senior... you watched?"

"Mm."

"From beginning to end?"

"Mm."

Luo Qingxian buried her face in the wine jug and gulped down several more mouthfuls.

Xiao Qing turned to look at her.

"What is it?"

"Nothing."

Luo Qingxian set down the wine jug. The flush on her face was impossible to tell whether it came from the wine or something else.

"It's just... I'm not used to being praised by Senior."

Xiao Qing laughed.

"You fought three Earthly Sovereigns alone today and suppressed all three of them. From now on, who on the Western Heaven Continent wouldn't lower their heads and take a detour upon seeing you? Yet you blush just because I praised you once?"

"That's different!"

Luo Qingxian blurted out the words, then realized what she had said and hurriedly took another gulp of wine.

Xiao Qing did not ask what was different.

He merely looked at the increasingly prosperous settlement below, at the small clan that had once consisted of only several thousand households and now bore some of the grandeur of a great clan. A trace of emotion Luo Qingxian could not understand surfaced in his eyes.

"Senior."

Luo Qingxian followed his gaze down the mountain.

"What are you thinking about?"

Xiao Qing rested the wine jug on his knee.

"Time."

"Time?"

"Mm."

Xiao Qing's voice seemed especially low in the night wind.

"Time is like this Luo River. Standing by its banks, watching it, you feel that it flows slowly. But in the blink of an eye, it has already flowed