Zuo Xiaoduo's heart suddenly grew many times heavier again, weighing on him until he could barely breathe.
But he still pressed all his worries deep into his heart and said nothing.
"Xiao Duo." Mu Yanyan's voice was gentle. "You just broke through to Martial Master. Don't attempt the Three Touches, Five Evaluations right now. Your breakthrough is fresh, and your state of mind isn't steady. You'll be prone to impulsiveness in the illusions. Let things settle first."
"All right," Zuo Xiaoduo promised earnestly.
"Also, keep the Greedy Wolf's Heart against your chest at all times. Use it, the original vessel, to dissipate the baleful energy contained in the power inside you. After all, that power came from killing. Although you weren't the one who killed them, the baleful energy still exists."
"Once that bloodstain on the Greedy Wolf's Heart disappears completely and the whole thing becomes crystal clear, you can take it off or throw it away."
"All right. Thank you, Senior Mu."
They finally left. As the two strolled in the sunlight, Zuo Xiaoduo badgered her incessantly the entire way-
"Zuo Xiaonian, tell me. Just spit it out. What exactly did you promise Meng Chenyu?"
"Sister Nian Nian, what you're doing is wrong. Bargaining between fellow disciples is wrong in itself."
"Fellow disciples should only help and look after each other. Doesn't doing this mean you're using each other?"
"I heard Meng Chenyu has an older brother who's liked you for a long time?"
"Say something! What's going on? Have you gone mute?"
Zuo Xiaoduo lost his temper.
This was rare. Very rare.
At least, in the seventeen years Zuo Xiaoduo had been alive, he had very rarely lost his temper at Zuo Xiaonian.
"You can find someone and date whoever you want. That's your freedom. But I