Li Sisi's words slowly spread across the sea surface.

Bai Ruxue stood before Li Sisi, her expression incredibly calm.

"Miss Bai, I've finished speaking," Li Sisi looked at this master of the North Sea, "After today, Master will go to the Crimson Fire Ruins in the Desolate Lands to attempt breaking through to the Ascension realm, and I will follow. From now on when we meet again, who knows how many years later it will be. Please take care, Miss Bai."

"Take care, Miss Sisi. Please convey my gratitude to Elder Fuchen, and also give him my wishes for a smooth tribulation crossing, but..."

Bai Ruxue's tone shifted, her firm voice like Mount Buzhou supporting the heavens.

"To ask me to let go of Xiao Mo, my answer is still the same as three thousand years ago. I cannot do it!"

"To ask me to watch Xiao Mo pass away with my own eyes, I also cannot do it!"

"So what if it's a chaotic world? So what about karma? So what about the Heavenly Dao? I will bear everything for him!"

"In the previous life, he used his entire life to protect me."

"In this lifetime, I will also use my entire life to protect him."

"Miss Sisi, this is my answer."

"Miss Bai..."

Li Sisi didn't know what to say.

She knew she couldn't persuade her.

Finally, Li Sisi could only sigh and bow to Bai Ruxue, "Take care, Miss Bai. Sisi sincerely blesses Miss Bai and Mr. Xiao."

"Thank you, Miss Sisi. Take care of yourself." Bai Ruxue returned the courtesy with a bow.

After Li Sisi bid farewell to Bai Ruxue, she turned and flew toward the distance.

Bai Ruxue continued walking forward.

Without realizing it, Bai Ruxue had already walked back to Huan Fishing Village and arrived outside the courtyard.

"Sister Bai!" Seeing Sister Bai return, the little boy in the courtyard happily called out.

Seeing the little boy in the courtyard, Bai Ruxue quickly walked into the yard and smiled, "It's already the hai hour, why aren't you sleeping yet?"

"Sister said she'd be back before the zi hour, and I happened to have trouble sleeping, so I thought I'd wait for sister to return and just read some books in the meantime." Xiao Mo blinked as he looked at Bai Ruxue.

"Sorry, sorry." Bai Ruxue said apologetically, "Today sister went out because the gift for Little Mo is ready."

Xiao Mo's eyes sparkled as he said, "What gift?"

"Hehe~" Bai Ruxue said proudly, "Let's go to the seaside. We'll take a walk while sister tells Little Mo about it."

"Mm-hmm." Xiao Mo nodded vigorously, "Then Sister Bai, let's go quickly."

Xiao Mo pulled Bai Ruxue and ran out of the courtyard.

The courtyard where Xiao Mo lived wasn't far from the seaside.

After half an incense stick's time, the two arrived at the beach.

On this summer night, Xiao Mo walked barefoot in the seawater.

Bai Ruxue also took off her shoes and socks, slightly lifted up her skirt hem, and stepped on the beach with her pale white small feet.

Waves of sea breeze blew past, ruffling both their hair.

The tide soaked Bai Ruxue's small feet, washing over the woman's ankles, then slowly receding.

Crystal water drops slowly slid down from the woman's fair ankles and dripped back into the sea.

The woman's moist ankles reflected the night, gleaming with moonlike radiance.

One large and one small walked on the beach, enjoying the sea breeze and listening to the waves, their footprints behind them gently washed away by the waves.

Moonlight shone on the two, as if edging them with a faint golden border.

It seemed as if time had suddenly slowed down.

"Sister, what's the surprise?" Xiao Mo asked curiously.

"Well..." Bai Ruxue said as she walked, "First, Little Mo, sister must tell you something, but you can't tell the people in the village about this. This is a little secret between just the two of us."

"Sister, don't worry, I definitely won't tell!" Xiao Mo promised seriously.

"That's good. Let sister think about how to say this." Bai Ruxue thought for a moment, "Actually, Little Mo, sister is a cultivator."

"Cultivator?" Xiao Mo asked puzzledly, "Sister, what's a cultivator?"

"A cultivator... cultivators are what the aunties and elderly women in the village call immortals. They can use magic arts, live for many years, and can fly. For example, this. Look..."

Bai Ruxue turned around and hooked her finger toward the sea surface.

In an instant, seawater flowed backward, forming the shape of a flood dragon circling in the air.

Xiao Mo pretended to be startled and quickly grabbed Bai Ruxue's sleeve.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. This is just a small magic art of sister's."

Bai Ruxue moved her fingertip and that sea dragon rotated as her jade finger moved.

"And this."

Bai Ruxue drew with her jade finger, and suddenly a hundred-meter-long sea wall rose in the distance.

Finally, Bai Ruxue pointed her finger downward, and both the waves and sea dragon fell back into the sea surface as if nothing had happened, except the waves washing against their ankles became slightly larger.

"How about it? Is sister amazing?" Bai Ruxue put her hands on her hips proudly.

"Mm-hmm-hmm." Xiao Mo nodded seriously, "Sister, you're so amazing!"

"Amazing, right?" Bai Ruxue's eyes crinkled into crescents, "Then Little Mo, do you want to become a cultivator?"

"Eh? I can become a cultivator too?" Xiao Mo asked puzzledly.

"Of course you can." Bai Ruxue took out the Ascension Pill and Dragon Thunder Liquid, "This is the gift sister prepared for Xiao Mo. As long as Little Mo eats these two things, you can cultivate."

"Really?" Xiao Mo pretended to be half-believing.

"Little Mo will know once you try." Bai Ruxue handed the Dragon Thunder Liquid and Ascension Pill to Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo, as if taking medicine, used the Dragon Thunder Liquid to swallow the Ascension Pill.

The moment the pill and Dragon Thunder Liquid entered his stomach, Xiao Mo felt a warm current flowing through his body.

Actually, after eating these two things, Xiao Mo had prepared himself to accept the pain of having his meridians shattered because he had drunk Dragon Thunder Liquid once before.

The severe pain when he drank the Dragon Thunder Liquid was still fresh in his memory. It hurt so much he almost fainted but just when the pain was about to come, Xiao Mo felt his small hand being held.

In an instant, the pain disappeared without a trace.

Or rather, the pain was transferred.

Xiao Mo saw Ruxue crouching in front of him, tightly holding his small hand.

Even though she was in pain enough to furrow her brows and cold sweat appeared on her forehead, she still looked at him with a smile.

After one incense stick's time, Xiao Mo felt the spiritual meridians in his body were completely unobstructed, and the pill was consolidating his spiritual meridians and even opening up the constitution within his body.

"Mm, all done."

Bai Ruxue stroked Xiao Mo's head.

"From now on, Little Mo is a little cultivator. Sister will teach Xiao Mo cultivation in the future.

Don't worry, Little Mo. No matter what difficulties you encounter later, sister will help you solve them.

No matter what happens to you, sister will protect you.

As long as sister is here, no one will dare harm you."

"No." Xiao Mo shook his head.

"Eh? Little Mo doesn't want this?" Bai Ruxue's eyes showed some panic, "Does Little Mo dislike sister?"

"That's not it." Xiao Mo shook his head vigorously.

"Because I will also work hard to cultivate. I don't want Sister Bai to always protect me."

"When I grow up, it should be my turn to protect Sister Bai!"