Azure Dragon Tears, Calamity-Evading True Person (Part One)

The wonton stall was doing brisk business today.

While Liu Yidao's clone leisurely ate wontons here, Su Che led Little Fox and the Yin-Yang Dharma King out the door, swaying along at an unhurried pace.

The senior Yin-Yang Dharma King was fine—he had long ceased to care much for such mortal flavors—but Little Fox looked like she had never seen the world before, shouting and clamoring as she pestered Su Che to buy this and that.

Hawthorn pot helmets, ox-tongue pastries, freshly pinched sugar figurines, oil cakes straight from the fryer...

If Su Che had not known what her true form looked like, he would have genuinely worried that she might eat herself sick.

"Kongzhu, did you not eat when you came from the Eastern Sea?"

"Cloud-Deep Unknown Place is so boring."

A trace of loneliness surfaced in Little Fox's eyes. "Everyone is busy cultivating, busy refining artifacts. Though we often chatter together, it only lasts for a little while. Most of the time, everyone is still preoccupied with their own affairs."

Though it did not answer his question, Su Che could sense the meanings hidden between Little Fox's words.

Back at her Household in the Eastern Sea, Xu there was a fox who often pulled out that piece of hide, waiting for someone to write a few words upon it. Yet no matter how Xu waited, even if she filled that hide with longing and complaint, she would never receive a single reply from that person.

Even when she gathered with those people of unknown origins in the association, Little Fox would first sweep her gaze over the masked figures seated around the table, hoping to find the one she awaited among them.

Yet no matter when it was, all that ever waited for her was utter silence.

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