"Alas..." Gen Yu beside them sighed. "Only today did this junior learn what it meant to relish something as sweet as honey. When this junior cultivated before, there were often things I could not understand, and the master who taught me sometimes could not explain them clearly. It made this junior feel that the road of cultivation was truly difficult. But now, hearing True Person preach the Dao, this junior feels that the road of cultivation is bright with sunshine, and cultivation itself tastes as sweet as honey!"
"You are overthinking it!" Xiao Hua replied, then said to Gen Qing, "Martial Uncle, send the communication talisman. If we wait any longer, other cultivators may come to Fire Fierce Mountain as well!"
"Fine!" Gen Qing glanced at Xiao Hua. Knowing that he had already discovered cultivators elsewhere, he hurriedly took out a communication talisman. Once infused with spiritual power, it flew into the distant crimson mountain range and vanished from sight.
Watching the communication talisman disappear, Gen Qing was about to ask who the other cultivators were when a thought suddenly arose in his mind. He could not help lightly biting his lip, for he had already understood that Xiao Hua's appearance had not merely been a coincidence. It was even... very likely deliberate—Xiao Hua had come to test Chen Yi!
Alas, this is fate! Gen Qing sighed inwardly. Chen Yi spent her whole life plotting against others, yet she never expected that, in the end, she herself would fall into another's scheme today. No, it should be called another's test. If she had held even a little more sentiment for the past, she would not have met such an end of ashes scattered to the winds.
The sentimental Gen Qing once again sank into longing and said nothing. In midair,