"Just tell me what you want to do," Pei Ye said.
"All right, then let's go back to that morning. Now I tell you that I'm going into the Mirage Realm alone to fight the King of Yan's Residence for White Water. What then? What do you do?"
I won't let you go, he thought.
"It's not that I won't let you go," he said.
Li Xizhou rolled her eyes slightly and smiled lazily. "All right, that was my fault."
But he soon thought again that this wasn't merely a question of whether she told him. Just as he was about to pursue that thought, Li Xizhou immediately spoke beside him. "Young Hero Pei, let me offer you a suggestion too. All right?"
"Mm. Go ahead."
"I think that since you've finished being angry, you shouldn't keep dredging up what happened before. Otherwise, as we talk, you might easily get angry again."
"...Fair point." Pei Ye nodded, accepting it. "Then that's behind us. Neither of us will mention it again."
He waved a hand casually and stretched, as though he really had waved his displeasure away.
By now, his wounds had almost healed. Pei Ye turned his head again toward the curtain of water on the other side. The Scale Demons were still packed against it.
This was actually quite a large cavern, not an open expanse, but connected passages ran above, below, and on every side. One hollow led into another. They had rolled quite a distance when they charged in, so their current position was deep inside and low down.
Two zhang to their right, a small cliff dropped quite a long way, making their position rather like a suspended platform.
"I've sealed every passage into this place with Merfolk Silk," Li Xizhou said.
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