Xu Qingtong recounted everything he had experienced in the blood pool to Du Siwen, leaving nothing out.
Du Siwen walked over and gently embraced him. "Qingtong, you've suffered!"
Xu Qingtong wrapped his arms around Du Siwen's delicate body and whispered, "Then won't you comfort your husband?"
Held in his embrace, Du Siwen gave a soft murmur and lifted her head, slowly closing her eyes like a blossom waiting to be plucked.
Xu Qingtong's heart surged as he slowly lowered his head...
"Ahem!"
Just as Xu Qingtong's lips were about to touch Du Siwen's face, a cough startled them both out of their reverie!
At the sound, Du Siwen sprang far away like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on. When she saw that the newcomer was the Grand Elder, her pretty face instantly flushed like a fully ripened fruit. She hurried behind Xu Qingtong, turning her back to the Grand Elder and lowering her head without a word.
Xu Qingtong, by contrast, appeared perfectly composed. He smiled slightly and said, "What perfect timing, Grand Elder. I only just escaped from the blood pool, and here you are!"
The Grand Elder glanced at the two of them and teased, "Perfect timing? I feel I came a little too early!"
"Ahem! Er, well, Grand Elder, weren't you chasing down Leng Yuan's Nascent Soul? How did it go? Did you catch him?"
The Grand Elder's expression grew solemn. "I chased him in a full circuit around Qing and Bing Provinces before finally catching up with him in the Thousand-Cloud Mountain Range. Leng Yuan was ruthless, too. In the end, he detonated his Nascent Soul and nearly dragged this old man down with him!"
Hearing that Leng Yuan had detonated his Nascent Soul, Xu Qingtong let out a long breath. "With that fiend