"I think I'll go to Kaifeng too. I can't be of much help here anyway!" Duan Siping said.
Hearing Duan Siping say this, Mu Jingfei smiled as well. "Then it wouldn't be very appropriate for me to stay either. I'll go to Kaifeng with you. Whatever else, I was once the Arrest God of the Six Gates. Let this make up for my mistakes back then!"
"Good, Mu Jingfei! Now that's taking responsibility for your actions!" Tong Jiuyang said with a hearty laugh.
"Hmph, am I, Mu Jingfei, someone who shirks responsibility?" Mu Jingfei said, glaring at Tong Jiuyang.
Tong Jiuyang was not angry. Instead, he laughed even louder.
In truth, Tong Jiuyang did not have many close friends left, and Mu Jingfei counted as one. After all, their cultivation was comparable, and they had served at court together back then. Naturally, he was delighted that they had put their past grievances entirely to rest.
"Qingfeng, you stay here. Your injuries are still rather serious, but you are in the half-step martial realm, after all. Even if there's danger down below, the two of you should be fine working together," Old Sun told Qingfeng.
Qingfeng nodded. Although he was also concerned about Kaifeng's safety, so many people were heading there that they should be enough. With Zhuge Zheng going in particular, the people of the Taixuan Sect would presumably know what to do.
"But your injuries?" Huang Xiao asked with some concern.
"These injuries aren't light, but the journey back will take at least a day. That will be enough to recover seventy or eighty percent, so you needn't worry about that," Ling Tianya said. "However, we must cremate Tuoba Ao's corpse first, lest it leave us uneasy."
"That's easy. Although there's no firewood here in the valley, there's plenty