Before Ning Xiang could speak, a sudden flash of lightning outside lit up the entire cave. Thunder rumbled in its wake, as though it would split the earth in two.
"See? I wanted to agree, but Heaven wouldn't allow it." Ning Xiang heaved a theatrical sigh, then lectured Mingyuan. "You should learn from me-be serene and free of desire. I have none of those worldly cravings."
Ning Xiang walked away with her little hands clasped behind her back.
She looked as though a holy halo hovered over her head.
Mingyuan clenched his fists in pained frustration.
But some things, once interrupted, could never be resumed.
Mingyuan seethed.
Yet he couldn't lay the blame on the girl.
So he blamed the demonic beast undergoing its tribulation outside instead. It could have broken through earlier or later-why did it have to choose the very moment they came to the Ten Thousand Demons Cave?
On Mingyuan and Ning Xiang's fifth day in the cave, the wind and rain outside finally ceased, leaving a rare stretch of calm.
Ning Xiang contacted her second brother and the others, agreed on a meeting place, and finally reunited with them.
But after just a few days apart, why did the little black lotus seem to have an even darker expression?
At a second glance, the young man's complexion was still as fair as jade. She must have seen it wrong.
Yu Tingchao was furious.
But he couldn't show it, or he would play right into that damned Demon Venerable's hands.
Beside them, Ning Hui said, "Thanks to your attentive care, Demon Venerable, my little sister escaped completely unharmed. Sorry for the trouble."
Having accepted a hefty sum of spirit stones from Mingyuan, did he really need to explain whose side he would take?
Yu Tingchao: "..."
*You