Seeing Xiao Guizi hesitate to speak, Xu Zimo smiled. "That doesn't seem like you."
"I want to stay in the Yuanyang Continent." Xiao Guizi drew a deep breath and looked at Xu Zimo uneasily as he answered.
"Then stay," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"You're not going to ask me why?" Xiao Guizi asked.
"Other than following me, there are actually many beautiful things in life," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"For example, your wife, and your newborn child. It's perfectly normal to be reluctant to leave them."
Not everyone on the path of martial arts longed to climb all the way to the peak.
Some people preferred a peaceful life, stopping and going as they pleased. That was enough for them.
"That's right. My parents died early in my life, and I entered the True Martial Sacred Sect in my youth.
"Back then, I thought that roaming the world with Senior Brother was my only joy, and the dream of my entire life."
Xiao Guizi replied, "But later, I had a wife, and then a child.
"I became a husband, and a father for the first time. With more ties weighing on my heart, I became less and less willing to keep moving forward."
"That's quite good," Xu Zimo said, nodding with a smile.
"You don't blame me?" Xiao Guizi asked.
"Blame you for what?" Xu Zimo replied.
"For not being able to follow you all the way, and for the promise I made back then," Xiao Guizi answered.
"I even told several Patriarchs before that I wanted you to stay. You could be considered a witness to my era," Xu Zimo said, shaking his head with a smile.
"You and Ruhu are among the few friends I have. Naturally, I respect your choices."
As he spoke,