She Chাংলai's head ached terribly, but he had not actually suffered much damage. He shakily rose again, his head swimming and his mind somewhat muddled, yet he dared not speak recklessly anymore.
Hui Mian looked toward the two fox demons beside him. Su Guyan and Su Hongxuan stood there looking rather uneasy.
Perhaps Hui Mian had not noticed earlier, but now, whenever the two fox demons' emotions fluctuated intensely, a faint, restless heat would rise from their auras.
Hui Mian found the sensation somewhat familiar. It resembled the heat around the Alchemy Furnace when his master was refining pills.
"I never imagined the Heavenly Battle Pill's pill-scorching fire poison would be so potent. Even after all these years, it still hasn't subsided. You two certainly were lucky to survive."
Su Hongxuan wanted to say something but did not know how to begin. Su Guyan glanced at her younger sister, clenched her fists, and summoned the courage to speak.
"With respect, Immortal, that is not quite right. It wasn't simply luck that kept us sisters alive. We had no one to rely on, and with the fire poison tormenting us, we could only give everything we had to cultivating diligently. One careless mistake, and we would have burned to death or fallen into cultivation deviation!"
In other words, they had fought for their own lives.
Hui Mian nodded. How could he fail to understand what it meant to have no one to rely on? The strength of these two fox demons truly made him see them in a different light.
But then Hui Mian recalled something his master had once said and could not help asking in puzzlement.
"Back then, I thought you had a master and a lineage. Now it seems you and your sister have only each other to