Ning Ke froze for a moment.
Was Lou Yunxiao protecting me like this because he thought I was A Ke?
After all, their meeting in Ning Family Village three months ago, when Ning Ke had faced Lou Yunxiao as the Demon Venerable, had dealt him a heavy blow.
The hatred Lou Yunxiao had shown him then had frightened him.
And now, stripped of that identity as his enemy, the two of them seemed to have returned to their days together before.
Ning Ke did not know quite how he felt.
He only knew it left a bitter ache in his chest.
He wanted to keep interacting with Lou Yunxiao as freely as A Ke had, but he feared that once their feelings deepened and he returned to being the Demon Venerable, he would not be able to bear it.
Damn it.
Ning Ke pinched his thigh.
He pinched away all those tangled emotions.
Forget it. Deal with what's in front of me first!
"Then I'll kill you first!" the demon woman snapped, raising her claws, wreathed in Demonic Aura, and slashing at Lou Yunxiao.
But when her claws touched his blade, she discovered that Lou Yunxiao had coated it in flames at some point.
The heat forced her back half a step.
Lou Yunxiao seized that opening, his divine swords moving so fast they left afterimages as he slashed at her with sword intent.
In that brief span, the two exchanged a hundred blows.
Lou Yunxiao's boots pressed firmly against the ground. He did not retreat a single step.
His expression was resolute.
The moment he stood in front of Ning Ke, he finally understood the answer to Wugou's question.
He hoped Mingxin was A Ke.
Because he wanted to make amends, to repay him, to do everything in his