Chapter 193: Departure
She gently patted his shoulder. “She stays here and won’t leave with us.”
Wali understood what his master said and nodded heavily. “Good.”
Shi An’an patted him. “Go tell Fei’er that we’re leaving, and say goodbye to Xiao Lu and the others.”
“Yes, Master!” Wali quickly ran toward the star beast group.
Shi An’an watched Wali’s movements, satisfaction flashing across her face.
Ever since this child drew in qi and could use spiritual power, he applied spiritual power to his legs, so he no longer limped when walking.
“What’s wrong?”
Xiu walked over and saw Shi An’an staring at Wali’s back, so he asked.
Shi An’an shook her head. “Nothing.”
Xiu looked at Wali’s back and narrowed his eyes. “By the way, I never asked Wali—how old is he this year?”
Hearing Xiu’s words, Shi An’an smiled. “Guess.”
Xiu looked at Shi An’an’s smile and guessed, “Twelve?”
Shi An’an shook her head.
“Fourteen?”
Shi An’an continued shaking her head.
Xiu’s heart sank. “Judging by his height and physique, he should be quite young.”
“Sigh.”
At this point, Shi An’an felt some heartache for her disciple.
“Wali is two years older than me. He’s twenty-one this year. His height and physique are entirely due to not having enough to eat as a child and poor nutrition.
On top of that, he was later injected with various medicines in that laboratory… causing his body to stop growing.”
Xiu’s suspended heart finally sank, and he probed again, “So his body can’t recover?”
“It can!”
Shi An’an laughed. “If he hadn’t met me, it definitely couldn’t recover!
But he met me!
When he cultivates to Golden Core, he can then shed the toxins in his body, and his body will develop again…”
“His legs, I also told him not to worry about them for now. When he cultivates to Nascent Soul, his body will recover.”
“Didn’t you notice?”
“What?” Xiu looked at Shi An’an in confusion.
Shi An’an pointed to her own face and then to his.
“Didn’t you notice? For cultivators, the higher the cultivation level, the better the physique and the more refined the appearance. It’s basically a complete transformation.”
Only then did Xiu carefully look at Shi An’an. Indeed, she was even more beautiful than before.
“In my heart, you’ve always been the same.”
Xiu looked at Shi An’an affectionately.
Shi An’an looked at him in surprise. “What appearance?”
“The appearance I like!”
“………………”
Shi An’an shuddered, widened her eyes at Xiu, took two steps back, and scolded loudly.
“Who are you! Did you body seize Xiu!”
Xiu’s full affection was interrupted by Shi An’an’s words.
He helplessly played along with Shi An’an. “Yes, are you afraid?”
“Not afraid. I’ll destroy you, and Xiu will be back! Take this!” While Xiu wasn’t paying attention, Shi An’an wrapped vines tightly around him, pinning him in place, then quickly left.
Looking at the fleeing girl, Xiu was full of helplessness and disappointment. She always avoided it like this. Sigh…
Shi An’an felt the gaze behind her. She braced herself and ran behind Xiao Lu. Once Xiao Lu’s body blocked that gaze, she finally relaxed.
“Roar!”
Shi An’an looked up at Xiao Lu. “Yeah, we’re leaving.”
“Aowu aowu…”
Xiao Lu was extremely reluctant.
Shi An’an stroked Xiao Lu. She was reluctant too, but… she had to go back.
“If there’s a chance later, I’ll come see you all again, okay?”
Although this chance was impossible, who knows? What if?
“Roar!”
“Good, definitely!”
“Roar roar…”
Hearing Xiao Lu’s plea, Shi An’an shook her head with a smile. “So, are you reluctant to part with me, or with the green plants?”
“Aowu…” Xiao Lu tilted its head and looked at Shi An’an innocently.
Shi An’an smiled and reached out her hand to accelerate growth of the green plants here.
Xiao Lu turned its head to look at the green plants on the ground. In plain sight, all the green plants grew, matured, produced seeds, dropped them, sprouted, grew…
Cycling like this, the green plants increased, and in an instant, the place was full of green plants…
The star beasts looked at the green plants all over the ground and happily rolled around…
“Roar!”
Xiao Lu saw the crushed green plants and hurriedly roared to stop them.
Fei’er walked over, full of reluctance on his face.
“Sigh, I don’t know if there’ll be a chance to come back…”
Wali stood beside his master, looking at these star beasts with reluctance flashing in his eyes.
“Master.”
Suddenly, Wali thought of something.
“Hm?”
Shi An’an looked at her disciple.
Wali looked at his master and requested, “Master, before we leave, I want to bury those people…”
Shi An’an instantly understood and followed Wali to that deep pit.
It was piled full of corpses, all thrown out from the black hole— all pitiable people.
Shi An’an placed both hands on the ground. The next second, the soil surged, filling the deep pit, and those corpses were forever buried here.
Then, Shi An’an scattered some chrysanthemum seeds on top. Colorful chrysanthemums bloomed instantly, extremely beautiful.
Xiu stood in the distance watching them, while Fei’er stood awkwardly beside Your Highness.
Shi An’an turned around, brought Wali over, and looked at Xiu. “Let’s go.”
“Good.”
The four arrived in front of the black hole, looking at the mysterious black hole, their hearts filled with anticipation.
Shi An’an took out vines and tied the four of them tightly together.
“Roarwu…”
Xiao Lu and all the star beasts reluctantly watched them.
The four turned their heads, waved goodbye to Xiao Lu and the others, exchanged a glance, and decisively jumped into the black hole.
After a feeling of weightlessness, the four were flung out.
“Thud thud.”
Fei’er and Wali were directly flung to the ground. Shi An’an and Xiu steadied themselves and landed lightly on the ground.
“Ouch, damn!” Fei’er clutched his butt in pain.
Wali quickly stood up and walked behind his master.
Fei’er saw that the other three were all standing, while only he was sitting on the ground. Enduring the pain, he hurriedly got up, pretending nothing had happened.
Shi An’an and Xiu quickly scanned the area with their spiritual sense.
“Hey, there’s signal!!!”
Fei’er shouted in surprise, pointing to his optical computer and looking happily at the three.
Wali glanced at it indifferently. He had never had one of those since childhood.
Shi An’an and Xiu came back to their senses and lowered their heads to open their own optical computers.
Various messages flooded in. Shi An’an didn’t look at them first but sent a message in the family group.
“Safe and sound, no need to worry!”
Then she checked their location here.
At this moment, Shi Zhen Guang and Shi Anfeng, who were commanding the battle against the First Legion, had their optical computers vibrate at the same time.
The two exchanged a glance and immediately opened their optical computers.
When they saw the message from their daughter (younger sister), their faces lit up with joy.
“It’s An’an! It’s An’an…”
Shi Zhen Guang’s heart finally relaxed. It had been nearly a year, and he had been thinking of his daughter every day.
Back then, he had watched with his own eyes as his daughter was sucked into the black hole and disappeared, filling him with endless self-blame and regret.
