“Xi Xi, I passed the Squire Knight assessment!”
Long Haochen shouted excitedly to the little girl not far away, jogging over to take the medicine basket from her back, his joy barely contained.
“Wasn’t that expected? Why so excited?”
Though the little girl wore a proud expression, she was clearly happy for Long Haochen. Even in her mind, the Squire Knight assessment was nothing remarkable.
It would have been strange if Long Haochen hadn’t passed.
“This is just the first step, but I’ll keep working hard. I promise to give you and Mom a better life.”
Long Haochen adjusted the medicine basket on his back and repeated the words he used to motivate himself every day.
“Before that, let’s fill the basket and hurry home first.”
The girl casually plucked a plant from the roadside, shook off the dirt, and tossed it into the basket.
Long Haochen fell silent, joining her in gathering herbs, though a smile never left his face.
Seeing his somewhat silly expression, the girl shook her head.
It was hard to imagine that this person was her twin brother and also the protagonist of this world.
The girl, Bai Xi, was a transmigrator. When she was still a newborn, she heard her mother in this life name her older brother Long Haochen.
Hearing this familiar name, she guessed she might have entered the world of Throne of the Divine Seal as the protagonist’s sister. As she grew older, she confirmed her guess was correct.
Lost in thought, Bai Xi instinctively tugged at Long Haochen’s sleeve.
At that moment, a soft thud echoed nearby.
The siblings turned toward the source of the sound and saw a petite figure stumbling as if about to fall.
“Chen Chen.”
Bai Xi whispered his name. Long Haochen glanced back at her but continued walking toward the figure, responding softly.
“Let me check first.”
Reluctantly, Bai Xi followed. She couldn’t just leave him alone.
The figure was a girl who appeared to be six or seven years old, with pale purple hair and delicate features, though her body bore multiple wounds.
“Xi Xi…”
With just those words from Long Haochen, Bai Xi knew what he wanted to say.
“She’s badly injured, but I can only treat external wounds.”
As she spoke, Bai Xi picked a few herbs from the basket Long Haochen was carrying and handed one to the purple-haired girl.
“Eat this. It’ll help with the pain.”
But the girl didn’t take it. Instead, she weakly raised a hand and wrote a line on the ground:
“I can’t speak. Bad people are chasing me, and they’ll be here soon. Sister, save me.”
Bai Xi frowned. This kind of scenario was all too common in novels.
The little girl before them was definitely no ordinary person.
She might bring them great opportunities, or she might bring great trouble—or perhaps both.
Yet, when she met the girl’s eyes, Bai Xi nodded.
Long Haochen immediately picked up the little girl, while Bai Xi tossed a few crushed herbs onto the spot where the girl had been before quickly catching up.
She then took a few more herbs from the basket, crushed them to extract their juices, and smeared them on the three of them.
“This will mask our scent. As long as the people chasing you aren’t too powerful, we’ll be safe for now. This way, Chen Chen.”
Bai Xi pushed Long Haochen into a thicket, then agile as a monkey, climbed up a tree.
The view from above was excellent. Bai Xi saw the pursuing black-clad figures, and also saw the white-clad man who effortlessly killed them and disposed of their bodies.
“Come out.”
The white-clad man spoke toward the thicket.
Bai Xi on the treetop immediately thought, This is bad. The white-clad man probably discovered us long ago.
Unfortunately, she knew too little about the plot. She only knew that the male lead was Long Haochen, who had a tragic yet beautiful storyline, even died once and took a long time to revive. But in the end, he became a Divine Knight and ascended the Throne of the Divine Seal.
She had no idea whether this white-clad man was friend or foe.
“Too reckless.”
Watching her own brother dart out from the thicket, Bai Xi shook her head.
When the white-clad man moved toward Long Haochen, Bai Xi instinctively shot three arrows at him.
Unfortunately, her three utterly ordinary arrows, though accurate, were shattered by an invisible force before they could even get close to him.
Long Haochen was also knocked unconscious by the white-clad man.
“You were hiding in the tree earlier.”
Seeing Bai Xi suddenly appear, the white-clad man showed a flicker of surprise.
He had sensed someone on the treetop where Bai Xi was, but before she acted, he had assumed it was just a bird resting there.
Bai Xi ignored the white-clad man, instead helping Long Haochen up on her own and picking up his wooden sword to hold in her hand. Only with something for self-defense did she speak.
“Are you going to kill us to silence us?”
The purple-haired girl in the white-clad man’s arms immediately struggled violently, a dark red glow appearing around her.
“Don’t move. I won’t harm them. They’re just two children. There’s no need to take action.”
Bai Xi breathed a sigh of relief but remained alert, still gripping the sword in her hand.
The white-clad man and the purple-haired girl engaged in communication Bai Xi couldn’t understand or decipher, yet her heart gradually settled. This is fortune, not disaster. We can be at ease now.
“This boy has the makings of a fine Knight, and this girl is a natural-born Assassin. But she might not be willing to leave with us.”
The white-clad man examined the siblings as he spoke.
The purple-haired girl made another gesture. This time, Bai Xi could somewhat understand—she was telling the white-clad man to ask her.
“Little girl, would you like to come with me and learn how to become an outstanding Assassin? You have great talent in this area and could achieve much.”
Without even examining Bai Xi’s bone structure, the white-clad man could assert she had talent.
Based solely on how Bai Xi had hidden on the treetop, blending in like a resting bird, he believed she was born to be an Assassin.
As for the rest, there was nothing that couldn’t be achieved with enough resources.
“I don’t want to. My home is here.”
Bai Xi refused the white-clad man before her.
She wasn’t some easily fooled child; there was no way she would follow someone she had just met.
Her brother and her mother were still here.
“You see, she refused after all.”
Hearing this, the purple-haired girl walked over, took Bai Xi’s hand, and stared at her with large, sparkling eyes, making gestures with her other hand that Bai Xi couldn’t understand.
“What is she saying?”
Bai Xi asked the white-clad man. She truly didn’t understand sign language!
“She says we’re not bad people. We just want to repay you.”
The white-clad man resignedly acted as translator.
“No need for repayment. You arrived so quickly, even without us, she wouldn’t have been in danger.”
At this moment, Bai Xi only wanted to get these two people away as soon as possible.
A certain power within her body, impacted by the white-clothed man’s force, had already begun to erupt and was now raging wildly.
And this was about to break the first seal on her.