Phoenix Woman looked toward Su Mo, somewhat at a loss, and Su Mo immediately helped Du Pingsheng up.
"Senior, there's no need for this. Su Mo saved me too," Phoenix Woman immediately said.
Du Pingsheng smiled and nodded, then turned toward Su Mo, his aged face creased with wrinkles and filled with gratification.
"It's good that you're back. It's good that you're back..."
A breeze rippled the sea of bamboo like waves rising on a placid river, sending the withered yellow bamboo leaves across the mountain drifting through the sky...
Su Mo went into the Bamboo Hut and brought out another bamboo chair. The three sat quietly around the table, sketching a beautiful scene of mortal life.
Phoenix Woman sat beside Su Mo, watching the white-clad man beside her chat with the old man in peaceful contentment. Her heart was utterly still.
It seemed she had never experienced this plain yet warm feeling of the human world.
The breeze swept past, stirring the two men's white hair into a dance.
A few slender, pointed bamboo leaves fell onto the tea table, rippling through an autumn's tranquility...
Du Pingsheng and Su Mo talked about everything that had happened back in the Cloud Sect. Su Mo clapped his hands and stamped his feet; remembering the whole courtyard of medicinal herbs he had planted, he felt it was a shame he had not taken them with him.
Du Pingsheng smiled and shook his head, his expression growing somewhat complicated for some reason.
Seeing the worry in Du Pingsheng's eyes, Su Mo immediately brought up all the ways Du Pingsheng had openly shielded him back in the Cloud Sect. There was how he had forcibly arranged a "heaven-ordained bye" for him in the Inner Sect selection, and how he had extorted supreme treasures from