Tianming's parents were also on the run, so he could empathize with the bitter feeling.

"A real man should fight without holding back when the time calls for it," Xiaoxiao said, as if she had an epiphany. Oddly, it sounded more convincing coming from a girl like her.

"Me?" Yu Ziqian didn't understand it. He tearfully looked at his resolute master. "Master, you've protected me for two decades, yet I couldn't do the same for you for even one day...." His tears began flowing as he said that.

"Are you kidding me? I'm your master, so why would I need your protection? That’d make me a useless old man! Buzz off, stupid brat!" Jiang Qingliu stood on the head of his qilin, guiding them toward the divine herb. "Old friend, it feels like we’ve returned to our twenties. Back then, I was filled with ambition and desire just like the day we went to the Voidsky Realm. I wonder if we'll be able to return this time."

It had been a few centuries since then, and...