Chapter 179: Master calls me, I must answer.

There were no tearful, touching reunions.

No surging, repetitive emotions.

It was very sudden.

And also very calm.

It was like a quiet afternoon, having drifted into a deep sleep, only to be awakened from the dream.

Upon waking, time remained the same.

Familiar people remained familiar.

The years had not changed them in the slightest.

Yes.

This was never a reunion after a long separation, but rather an awakening from a dream that had lasted a little longer than usual. Thus, the girl called out naturally, and Xu Xi smiled gently.

"I have awakened, Yingxue."

At the turn of the old year into the new.

Grand Master Xu, who had been sleeping soundly, finally opened his eyes to gaze once more at the Princess.

She smiled, a radiant smile.

Though she should have matured, in front of Xu Xi, she revealed the same lively demeanor as before, hopping over to sit beside him.

Beneath the dim night sky, she sat with Xu Xi, watching the starlight ignited upon the ground.

At the same time, she did not forget to tease Xu Xi about his sleepiness.

"Master, you have slept for far too long."

"I was starting to get sleepy from waiting."

Wu Yingxue said this, making a yawning gesture. Her red and white robes stretched with her, still as fiery as in Xu Xi's memory.

"My apologies, it is my fault."

Xu Xi said with a smile, offering no rebuttal.

He understood.

He had indeed "slept" for too long.

Long enough that the people of the Qiuhuo Army, as well as the Princess who had worked so hard for this, had waited countless days and nights.

Fortunately, the tragedy had already concluded.

Everyone was reunited in a beautiful reality.

After a pause, Xu Xi added: "Yingxue, thank you for waking me. You have worked hard."

Xu Xi's expression of gratitude was so sudden.

It caught the girl off guard.

Her lips parted slightly: "It, it was fine… I didn't really do anything."

The thanks in Xu Xi's words were not just for the earlier call, but for the girl leading the Qiuhuo Army to continue surviving tenaciously during his "slumber."

Wu Yingxue understood this layer of gratitude.

For some reason.

Her nose felt a little sour.

Her eyes were also a bit uncomfortable.

Why was this? The Princess felt it must be the sense of happiness from finally receiving warmth, illuminated by the firelight on a cold winter night.

She grinned, trying hard to put on an indifferent expression, and asked about Xu Xi's recent situation.

"Me?"

"Actually, there hasn't been much change. Just normal Cultivation and life. Occasionally, I chat with everyone in Qingniu Town."

Xu Xi whispered with a smile.

The content was all trivial, daily matters.

But the Princess listened very attentively, with great interest.

When she heard that Xu Xi had given everyone New Year's gifts.

Wu Yingxue teased with a smile: "Master, I want a New Year's gift too. You have to make it up to me, or I will get angry."

The girl giggled.

Her tone was full of teasing.

"Which one do you want?" Xu Xi's response left Wu Yingxue stunned once again.

Which one?

What did that mean?

Soon, Wu Yingxue knew the answer.

Xu Xi took out a spatial ring and poured out many items: a bundle of folded paper flowers, a brand-new spear specifically crafted for her, and even a beautiful set of clothes.

Many.

The items poured out were truly numerous.

So many that Wu Yingxue was lost in a daze.

"Master, are these all… prepared for me?"

The girl's voice carried bewilderment.

Xu Xi nodded: "After all, you weren't here, and I didn't know what to give, so I simply prepared some of everything, so you wouldn't be disappointed."

Night fell, the starry sky reflecting the gentleness of the moonlight, and all things kept silent watch in the darkness.

The sleeping water surface rippled after a long time.

Lost in the depth of the night moon.

Wu Yingxue had never imagined that even if she wasn't on Earth, Xu Xi would have prepared gifts for her, and so many at that.

As expected.

Wu Yingxue smiled and said to Xu Xi: "Master is a big fool."

Only such a fool would do such silly things.

Wu Yingxue hummed and laughed, putting away all the gifts on the ground: "Of course I want all the gifts Master sent. Only children make choices."

"Rest assured, Master, I like these gifts very much."

She stuck out her tongue lightly.

Made a face at Xu Xi.

The girl was full of mischief.

Afterwards, her gaze swept around, and she precisely grabbed a roasted chicken leg from the gifts the commoners had given Xu Xi.

Accompanied by the oily sheen, she chewed it in small bites.

Wu Yingxue's table manners were much more elegant than before.

As if she were deliberately maintaining something.

"Eat slowly, there is more if it's not enough," Xu Xi smiled, watching Wu Yingxue eat.

He noticed a bit of meat crumb on the Princess's mouth, so he wrapped his hand in his element and gently wiped her cheek.

Wiping away the grease from the corner of her mouth.

The night was so deep.

That faces appeared in a dim black.

But the commoners of the Qiuhuo Army had ignited stone towers that burned intensely, the firelight reflecting on people's faces, casting them in orange-red.

Wu Yingxue's face was also somewhat flushed by the firelight.

"Yingxue, can you tell me what happened while I was asleep?"

After she finished the chicken leg.

Xu Xi looked curious and asked Wu Yingxue.

He had asked the people of the Qiuhuo Army, but the commoners knew very little, only remembering that they had been resurrected by Wu Yingxue, and were unclear about more details.

Therefore.

Xu Xi decided to ask the person involved.

He wanted to know how Wu Yingxue had achieved the Supreme state.

"That child Mo Li was slaughtering demonic cultivators the whole way, and Klisa was constantly killing gods. Both of their paths were not simple."

"I wonder what it was like on your side, Yingxue?"

Xu Xi waited curiously for the Princess's answer.

"Master calls me."

"I must answer."

Wu Yingxue did not refuse. After briefly organizing her words, she began to tell Xu Xi the story of what happened after leaving the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Leading the Qiuhuo Army out of the heart of the Yao Race territory.

Reaching a cooperation with the Human Race of the Wu Realm.

After hundreds of years of bitter Cultivation, leading the Qiuhuo Army to slaughter the Azure Dragon, eating its meat, and drinking its blood.

…

As Wu Yingxue's story continued, Xu Xi's expression became increasingly doubtful of life.

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about it.

That Wu Yingxue's path would become brilliant and bizarre.

But wasn't this too outrageous?

Ever since slaying the Azure Dragon, Wu Yingxue's style had become increasingly off, with her Inner World devouring infinitely, and absorbing the principles of heaven and earth—it was practically a protagonist's template.

No.

Is this reasonable!?

Did he really have to die to stimulate the potential of others?

Xu Xi was left in a mess. When he heard that Wu Yingxue had annihilated the demons of the Wu Realm with a single spear, he silently compared it to the path he had originally carved out in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

"Yingxue… your speed of progress is truly incredible."

The girl had become so powerful, far surpassing himself, and Xu Xi felt happy about it.

But besides being happy, Xu Xi also felt that the world was full of malice towards him.