"Little Junior Brother has always kept his own cultivation suppressed. Whenever one of us senior brothers breaks through, he follows right after!" Zhang Xiaofan explained.
"Little Junior Brother thinks that if his cultivation is higher than ours, we won't be able to protect him, and he'll have to protect us instead! So... that's how things are."
Xiaobai and Jin Ping'er both stared in astonishment at Luo Yunji, that strange little rascal with the bizarre way of thinking.
"You really are..." Jin Ping'er had no idea what words to use to describe this Big Bamboo Peak little monster, who was rumored to be lazy, gluttonous, and always stirring up trouble.
"I have a way to attain immortality! I dare to say it—do you dare to hear it?" The smile on Luo Yunji's face was strange. For some reason, he had said something to Jin Ping'er that left her unable to help but ponder it.
He usually seemed carefree and thoughtless, but now, beneath the night sky, the firelight cast a red glow across his face, and for some inexplicable reason, Jin Ping'er felt a chill run down her spine. The contrast between Luo Yunji's usual self and the way he was now was so great that Jin Ping'er couldn't react for a moment.
Xiaobai didn't know much about Luo Yunji, but the words he had just spoken instinctively made her want to refuse.
Zheng Dali suddenly raised his hand and vigorously ruffled Luo Yunji's hair. "Don't scare them!"
Luo Yunji heard him and flashed a toothy grin at Jin Ping'er and Xiaobai, who were sitting across from him. The eerie atmosphere vanished in an instant. Jin Ping'er felt as if she had finally surfaced from underwater and gasped for breath, but the shadow left in her heart wouldn't fade so easily.