[A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Reborn in the Giant Sword Sect] []
After seeing Qi Yunxiao and his daughter off and sending Xiao Yao back to rest, Xiao Yu summoned Liu Yu.
"Greetings, Senior. Congratulations on your great advancement in cultivation!" Liu Yu greeted Xiao Yu with a graceful bow as soon as she entered, then spoke with utmost respect.
Over a decade earlier, his avatar had used rainbow skirt grass to make the Six-Winged Frost Centipedes devour one another and lay eggs twice. He had then returned the six centipedes, each of which had evolved twice, to Liu Yu and told her she could leave whenever she wished.
Yet she had not left Xiao Yu's Spirit Land. Instead, she seemed intent on settling there permanently, and even now showed no inclination to leave.
"Don't you intend to return to the Spirit Controlling Sect?" Xiao Yu asked, looking at her composed expression.
"I think living here is wonderful, Senior. You wouldn't drive me away, would you?" Liu Yu raised her head and looked at Xiao Yu pitifully.
More than twenty years ago, when Xiao Yu took Liu Yu away from the Spirit Controlling Sect, she had not yet been designated as one of the successors to the Wood Spirit Infant. She had little attachment to the place, nor could she see any hope of advancing her cultivation there. Here with Xiao Yu, however, she felt freer and harbored certain ambitions of her own, so she had no intention of returning.
"This isn't a shelter, much less some blessed grotto paradise. Tell me, what do you want?" Xiao Yu ignored her convincing performance and asked expressionlessly.
"Senior, seeing how well we know each other now, couldn't we take things a step further? How about letting me become your disciple?" Liu Yu