Inside the Divine Kingdom.
The brothers were drinking again.
Nothing was more pleasant than having a drink with friends after a great battle.
If there was, it had to be drinking with friends reunited after a long separation.
A copper hotpot sat in the center of the table, the water inside not yet boiling.
Bai Ye smiled as he looked around.
Li Xiao was adding charcoal, Xiao Yi was slicing lamb, Clown was flirting, and Li You was spacing out.
As for An Xiaotong, she was still asleep. Fusing with the Thought Eye fragments was taking even longer than expected.
"Big Brother, what does 'living through' mean?" Little Tangerine asked innocently, holding a cup of orange juice.
Bai Ye had kept her in the Divine Kingdom all this time. Though she possessed supernatural abilities, she was ultimately still a frail little girl.
With her physical condition, let alone enduring the aftermath of a clash with Ten Hands, even the harsh environment of the Abyss alone would have been enough to kill her.
However, Little Tangerine was not lonely. She had Tiny Orange and Shushu to keep her company.
Tiny Orange was an orange person born from the Abyss while they had been searching for Ghost Clown, one only Little Tangerine could see. It was similar to the Ghost Girlfriend.
It was just that Tiny Orange looked somewhat stranger—an orange with human limbs.
Originally, after Clown left the Abyss, those infected humans could no longer see their own "Ghost Girlfriends." Yet Little Tangerine seemed to be an exception.
As long as she wanted to, Tiny Orange would appear.
Bai Ye glanced at Little Tangerine. "Not 'living through.' It's hotpot!"
"Oh." Little Tangerine nodded as if she understood.
"Forget it, they're basically the same thing. After all, you've only truly lived if