"Who said that? Nothing of the sort!" Ye Xingchen immediately denied it.
"I'm a little tired. I'll need to rest for a while first." Ye Wuxia began wrapping her father around her little finger.
"My darling, my good little girl, please tell your father!"
"Since you're being so sincere, I suppose I'll tell you." Ye Wuxia looked thoroughly pleased with herself.
Then Ye Wuxia told him how she had met Li Dalong and Zhou Xue in Illusory Moon City, how they had gone adventuring in the Illusory Moon Mountain Range together, how they had encountered danger and hidden in a cave to escape a Phoenix-Feather Eagle's pursuit, unexpectedly obtained Profound Ice Fruit, and then been chased by its guardian spirit beast.
Later, they had been pursued by a powerful fierce beast and stumbled into a mysterious place, where they had obtained a vast quantity of immortal stones and broken through to new realms, only returning after enduring a thousand hardships and ten thousand trials. She painted those past few months as a tale of extraordinary excitement and peril.
The way her eyebrows danced whenever she mentioned Li Dalong made Ye Xingchen's own eyebrows twitch, giving him a bad feeling.
The tender little cabbage he had raised was about to be rooted up by a pig, and his heart began to tremble. He committed that brat named Li Dalong to memory. As for Ye Wuxia's descriptions of Zhou Xue's outstanding aptitude and sweet, well-behaved nature, he paid little attention.
While telling her father the story, Ye Wuxia had not revealed every detail. Li Dalong had asked her to keep the Immortal Vein and the Profound Ice Fruit Tree secret, and she had said nothing about either.
When she finished, she imperiously tossed Ye Xingchen the Storage Ring containing five Profound Ice