Xiao Nannan buried her head against Meng Chuan's shoulder. Her warm breath brushed his neck, making it tickle.
"Don't worry, Nannan. How could you disappear?" Meng Chuan stroked her little head and comforted her gently.
At the same time, he had some guesses about her premonition that she would disappear.
It seemed Ruthless had gained something during her ten thousand years in the Boundary Sea. She now had some confidence in reaching the Ninth Lifetime, and to live out that lifetime, she would have to reclaim this Dao Fruit.
That was why Xiao Nannan felt this way.
But Meng Chuan was not worried. After Ruthless and Xiao Nannan briefly became one, Xiao Nannan would reappear.
If nothing else, Ruthless would do Meng Chuan this favor. She would not absorb Xiao Nannan.
And after the two of them, one grown and one small, became one in the Ninth Lifetime, Xiao Nannan would emerge as an independent life.
She would still be connected to Ruthless, but she would have more autonomy.
Looked at another way, it was a good thing.
Meng Chuan carried Xiao Nannan toward Tai, reflecting as he went.
"Just over two hundred thousand years in the Mortal World, and several hundred thousand in Reincarnation—and she's already gained some confidence?"
Ruthless had attained the Dao over two hundred thousand years ago. After meeting Meng Chuan, she had begun living out each lifetime much faster.
Even so, becoming a Red Dust Immortal in just over two hundred thousand years was wildly unreasonable.
But ever since Meng Chuan established the Six Paths of Reincarnation and successfully set them in motion once, Ruthless's Eighth Lifetime accumulation had accelerated greatly.
Meng Chuan often sent Ruthless into Reincarnation, along with the Emperors other than Wushi and Ji Zi.
After all, he had not established a