"Xiao Guo, can you refine pills?" Jade Slip Xiao Hua asked with a smile, his heart stirring.
Xiao Guo's face reddened slightly. Biting his lip, he answered carefully, "This little one cannot! But this little one saw Master sighing and knew Master was tired, so this little one wanted to share Master's burdens!"
"How did you come to understand such things?" Xiao Hua asked with interest, gazing at Xiao Guo softly. After all, Xiao Huang and Xiaohei had spent so long in this space without learning to speak. Even Xiao Yin now only knew how to wander about and was nowhere near as clever and sensible as Xiao Guo.
Xiao Guo smiled and replied, "Master, once this little one saw it, this little one naturally understood. This little one does not know why either."
Jade Slip Xiao Hua looked at Xiao Guo, then at Xiao Yin in the distance, and understood somewhat. Plants and trees found it exceedingly difficult to gain sentience, but once they did, they had no fleshly bodies or bloodlines, and their Spiritual Apertures were innately clear and unobstructed. Humans and demon beasts, on the other hand, easily gained sentience, yet that sentience was blocked by fleshly bodies and bloodlines. Clear Spiritual Apertures were rare, so it was only natural that they became sensible later.
"Xiao Guo, how do you wish to help this old man?" Jade Slip Xiao Hua asked with a smile.
Jade Slip Xiao Hua raised his hand and waved. A blue-green flame appeared in midair, truly blue out of indigo and better than indigo.
"Wood fire?" Jade Slip Xiao Hua laughed the moment he saw the flame. Xiao Guo possessed a spirit-wood body, and by the fundamentals of the Five Elements, he should not have been able to control fire. Yet since Xiao