If not for Cai’er, when facing that unfathomable white-robed man, Long Xuanye would never have had the courage to accept such a dangerous “high-difficulty mission.”
After all, a certain-death mission where he would not die, and where the enemy even had to protect him in return…
How many times could he encounter something like that in his life?
Not to mention the earth-shaking gains he had received.
Sheng Cai’er’s hands stopped.
She turned her head and smiled at him.
Her already beautiful eyes looked as if countless stars had fallen into them.
Bright and sparkling.
“It’s okay.
We’re family.”
She paused, then added in that slightly doting tone,
“Xuanye is such a polite good child.”
The faint emotion that had just risen in Long Xuanye’s heart was instantly choked back by that sentence.
Only helplessness remained.
Was this right?
You’re calling me a child…
Forget it.
With his current body, calling him a “child” was…
Not exactly wrong.
Yes.
That was it!
He gathered his thoughts, and his expression turned serious.
“We need to change places.
This place isn’t safe anymore.”
That shocking commotion last night would definitely attract countless eyes.
If they stayed, it would be no different from throwing themselves into a net.
Sheng Cai’er nodded without the slightest objection.
She was alone to begin with and had no luggage to bring.
She stood up and walked to the cave entrance first.
Then she turned around and stretched out her fair little hand toward him.
Long Xuanye naturally held it.
The warmth and complete trust in the girl’s palm calmed his chaotic thoughts.
The two walked out of the cave.
The night was deep.
The cold wind cut across the wilderness like a knife, making low whining sounds.
Yet Long Xuanye did not feel even a trace of cold.
The Chaos Spiritual Stove in his sea of qi was like a small sun, constantly releasing warmth and blocking the wind and snow outside.
With strength far beyond before, the two moved extremely fast.
In only half a night, they had already traveled dozens of miles and arrived at an old place.
This was the small town where Long Xuanye had once been asked by the system to go shopping when the system first awakened.
But it had been destroyed by demons.
Now, only a few ruined thatched houses swayed in the wind.
When Sheng Cai’er saw this, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.
She circled one thatched house and discovered that many clay pots, wooden stools, and other daily items were still intact.
So she pulled Long Xuanye along and chose the most complete house.
Just as the two of them finished making simple arrangements and prepared to use this place as a temporary home, Sheng Cai’er’s body suddenly swayed.
Her foot seemed to catch on something, and she was about to fall.
“Careful!”
He stepped forward in one motion, reached out, and steadily supported her waist.
And at that moment, he accidentally met her eyes.
Those eyes, which should have been clear like purple crystal, were now covered in a faint, deathly gray-white layer.
Long Xuanye’s heart sank.
He suddenly remembered.
When resisting the white-robed man, Cai’er had forcefully activated the Samsara Holy Sword and used the power of Samsara that did not yet belong to her.
His heart felt as if it had been gripped by an invisible hand.
His breathing stalled slightly.
“Your eyes…”
Sheng Cai’er was not surprised that he had noticed.
She only blinked.
That gray-white layer did not fade.
“The trial of Samsara came early.”
Her voice was very soft, yet extremely calm.
“The price is my five senses.”
“However, because I activated the Holy Sword’s power, I didn’t go blind immediately this time.
My vision is only slowly declining.”
She paused, then added,
“And I can speak for now.”
Long Xuanye listened as she calmly described such a cruel fact.
His chest felt heavy.
Sensing his tense emotions, Sheng Cai’er instead lightly patted the back of his hand.
“Don’t worry.
‘Mother’ will take good care of you.”
The words that had just reached Long Xuanye’s mouth were blocked again.
That heavy sourness in his heart mixed with a helpless warmth.
In the end, it only turned into an almost inaudible sigh.
Should I refute her?
But with this atmosphere, if I say something wrong, Cai’er might get hurt.
Then I won’t say anything…
Uh.
That doesn’t feel right either.
Long Xuanye felt a little helpless.
The two said nothing more.
In tacit understanding, they began cleaning up the broken little house.
Sheng Cai’er clearly had great experience surviving outdoors.
Very soon, she found a large bundle of clean dry grass outside the house and carefully spread it in the corner, arranging it into a simple bed.
Long Xuanye used the experience of an adult to piece together several broken wooden planks, barely forming a table.
Then he found a relatively intact piece of torn cloth and laid it over the top as a tablecloth.
The little house was crude.
But under their arrangement, it gradually gained a faint sense of “home.”
Sheng Cai’er looked at the scene before her.
Her eyes curved into two crescent moons.
“From now on, this is our home!”
Long Xuanye looked at the thin sweat on her forehead and those eyes that had grown even brighter from joy.
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“Right.
From now on, this is our home.”
He spoke softly.
“This is the border.
The people from the Assassin Temple shouldn’t find us easily.”
Hearing this, Sheng Cai’er quietly tightened her grip on his hand.
If only she could keep living like this with Xuanye forever.
In the Assassin Temple, everyone told her what was “correct.”
Accepting the trial was correct.
Enduring pain was correct.
Becoming the sharpest sword was correct.
She could only endure.
But now, she had chosen Xuanye.
She no longer wanted to be some “correct person.”
She only wanted to be his “mother.”
That was enough.
Just as this warm atmosphere slowly flowed between them, Long Xuanye’s expression suddenly darkened.
A trace of dark aura flashed through the air!
“Move!”
He had no time to explain.
He grabbed Sheng Cai’er and threw himself to the side with her!
Almost at the same instant—
Chi!
An ink-black claw wind brushed past their clothes and roared by, smashing heavily into the wooden pillar of the thatched house behind them!
Bang!
Wood chips flew everywhere.
“You dodged pretty quickly.”
A rough, hoarse voice came from the darkness, carrying a hint of mockery.
Five tall figures slowly walked out.
The leader was a demon nearly two meters tall.
His skin was blue-black, and the sharp claws on his hands glowed coldly under the moonlight.
“Shadow-Erosion Squad, ordered to patrol the border.
Who would’ve thought we’d run into two human brats?
Perfect.
We’ll use your blood as offerings!”
Long Xuanye’s gaze quickly swept over the five demons.
The leading blue-black-skinned demon was a fourth-rank Bone-Erosion Demon.
The pale bone blade in his hand released an ominous aura.
Among the five demons, his aura was the steadiest.
Behind him were three third-rank demons.
One was thin, with faint green mist surrounding him.
A Rot-Mist Demon.
One had especially long claws, with bone spikes growing from his joints.
A Sharp-Claw Demon.
Another carried a bone bow on his back, his gloomy eyes moving through the darkness.
A Dark-Arrow Demon.
As for the fifth one…