"And these!"
"This is my ring, and this is my personal space!"
"They're all yours!"
"Baili Mo, remember this well!" Baili Dachui looked at He Pingsheng and said, "The Book of Seven Curses is beyond your ability to handle. Once you have it, return to the Lineage immediately and present it to the Patriarch. With this in his possession, our Baili Household will become the foremost Lineage in the Divine Realm!"
"As for the items in this ring and my personal space, they're all yours as a reward!"
"And the Patriarch will certainly reward you too!"
He Pingsheng gaped, bewilderedly accepting everything Baili Dachui handed him, and asked, "But... how am I supposed to escape?"
Baili Dachui drew a deep breath. "You certainly can't escape, and neither can I!"
"But if I use the energy of my self-destruction to blast a hole through this Ancient Taisui, I can send you out through it!"
For a moment, a jumble of conflicting feelings actually welled up in He Pingsheng's heart.
A complete stranger, having mistaken him for someone else, had actually let him experience the warmth of an elder's care.
He had not experienced that warmth often. What little there had been, he had mostly left behind in a place called the Great Void Sect.
Holy shit!
Did this have to be so moving?
Fine, fine...
He Pingsheng drew a deep breath and said, "Senior, there's no need for this!"
"I don't want your belongings either. You should take the Book of Seven Curses back yourself!"
"I have a seventh-grade Teleportation Divine Talisman here. Let's activate it and leave together!"
He Pingsheng really did take out the Teleportation Divine Talisman.
But Baili Dachui merely gave a bitter smile and said, "It's no use..."
"I originally had a Substitute Death Talisman on me