Thinking that he had once visited the Cai Family back then, Xiao Hua assumed he might have seen them before and paid it no mind. But when the two greeted Cai Haisong, he suddenly understood! The female cultivator had called herself "Cai Mei." Unless something unexpected had happened, she was the little girl Mei'er who had brought him to the Cai Family back then!
Cai Haisong did not care about such matters. Once the pair had paid their respects, he ordered the doors of the Spirit Tomb opened. Xiao Hua, however, asked, "Are you that Mei'er?"
"Immortal Elder Brother..." Cai Mei was overjoyed and gracefully bowed again. "This one never imagined... that Elder Brother would still remember Mei'er!"
"Alas..." Xiao Hua sighed and looked at the somewhat plump, mediocre woman before him. If not for the fact that she had cultivated to the Qi Cultivation third layer, and if not for her place in a Cultivation family, she would likely have become one of those stout, fleshy mortals by now. That childish, crisp voice; that little girl who had stepped out from behind a stone statue in the distance; that frail figure; and those large, dark, gleaming eyes had all been eaten by dogs! Of course, upon closer inspection, those large eyes still retained some traces of the past. Yet... the clarity and innocence they once held had now been stained by the mundane world, revealing a fawning eagerness and expectation that left Xiao Hua inexplicably disappointed.
"Your grandfather..." Though Xiao Hua knew the outcome, he still could not help wanting to ask after that recluse who was not truly a recluse.
"Thank you, Immortal Elder Brother, for still remembering Grandfather!" A mournful expression surfaced on Cai Mei's face. "Although Grandfather took the medicinal pills Elder Brother gave him, his