"It's all right, Xiao Qi... As long as we're still alive, we can go on living. Our Huanfeng Mountain Villa... will still have a chance to rise again!" Qi Lian said softly.
"Mmm, you're so good to me, Qi Lian!" Deeply moved, Xiao Qi lowered his voice as well. "Actually... last night... I don't know what happened either. I hadn't planned to keep going forward, but... the feeling... was very strange..."
"Yes, and not just you... I was the same. It was as if all the blood in my body had been stirred up and rushed straight to my head. I didn't think about any consequences at all, nor did I consider whether I had the strength for it. I just charged forward!"
"And there were so many people behind us crowding forward too. They shoved us so hard that we couldn't stop even if we wanted to!" Xiao Qi said, still haunted by the memory. "The key was later, I don't know... what happened, but I... wanted to squeeze through a gap in the crowd. Whenever I saw someone blocking me... I wanted to stab them to death with my sword..."
"Don't say any more!" Qi Lian seemed terrified, her voice trembling. "I... whenever I mention last night... I get scared... I... seem to have killed two people too..."
"I killed... more!" Xiao Qi hesitated somewhat. "But it was especially chaotic then. Who knew who any of them were?"
"Perhaps... even now... Master and the others still haven't returned... Maybe..." Qi Lian said sorrowfully. "How about it... Xiao Qi, let's... leave first... We barely managed to escape to the outermost edge. While there are still few people around... we should preserve our lives first!"
"But... Qi Lian, we finally made it here, and... that immortal mansion... is about to