"You really have to be this stubborn?"
Ye Xiu stood at the end of the long corridor, while Xu Qing stood silently behind him.
"Separate personal feelings from proper conduct. That is the best way to minimize oversights."
Out of habit, Xu Qing brewed Ye Xiu a cup of clear tea.
"You were the one who explained that to us in the third lesson."
Hearing his own disciple use his past words to argue back at him, Ye Xiu was so exasperated that he laughed.
"When it comes to this sort of thing, you're especially sharp."
He fell silent for a while, then sighed.
"You could have told her in a gentler way."
From the Alliance's perspective alone, it would have been more appropriate for Xu Qing to maintain this affection with Sikong Xue.
People said cultivators devoted themselves wholly to the Dao, cutting themselves off from the seven emotions and six desires, but such people were ultimately creatures found only in legends.
Most cultivators, though time gradually buried their emotions deep within their hearts,
would not see things that had once existed vanish without a trace.
Precisely because emotions were difficult to express, cultivators' love, hatred, grudges, and entanglements were often far fiercer than those of ordinary mortals.
After undergoing this miracle that could only be called heaven-chosen, Sikong Xue's prestige throughout the city had risen to its peak.
She possessed strength of her own as well. With Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, she would not fall so easily no matter what.
And after choosing the Sun Fragment, the vitality that had long been suppressed here was about to burst into bloom.
The cultivators who had endured so much suffering would surely do everything in their power to seek a better future for the entire city.
A city in the