...It’s Li Zhi.
So much time has passed, yet Li Zhi seems unchanged.
Indeed.
He is the only one among the seven Divine Envoys who has never touched the original sin. His faith is much steadier than theirs.
As soon as Li Zhi appeared, the two guards immediately greeted him as "Lord Li Zhi," and promptly made way for Lu Sheng.
As Lord Li Zhi stepped forward and gestured for Lord Chen Yin to pass, they naturally had to clear the path quickly.
Lu Sheng said nothing, simply walked toward Li Zhi.
However, Li Zhi’s gaze fell upon her bare feet, his brow slightly furrowed.
"Did you really walk all the way barefoot like this?"
When Lu Sheng reached him, Li Zhi looked down and asked.
Lu Sheng had imagined many scenarios of meeting Li Zhi again, the first words he might say to her.
But she hadn’t expected Li Zhi’s first words to be asking whether she walked here barefoot.
Though hundreds of years had passed, Li Zhi’s tone made it seem as if she had never left.
As if she... had never committed those terrifying acts of slaughter.
"Yes." Lu Sheng lowered her eyes, nodding slightly.
Her Primordial Spirit had returned, her Divine Soul healed; only then in the Divine Realm did she regain her original form. It’s just what she was wearing... During the last great battle, she indeed was only in her nightgown.
Thinking of the past, Lu Sheng felt herself momentarily dazed.
When she came to her senses, she saw Li Zhi turning his back to her, naturally squatting down in front of her, speaking softly: "The ground is cold, I’ll carry you back."
Though such scenes had happened countless times before, Lu Sheng instinctively stepped back.
She was the sinner of the Six Realms, once the demon of bloody massacres, bearing innumerable heavy sins.
Even if she was alive again, how could she deserve to be treated like before by such a good person as Li Zhi?
"What, not used to it?"
Li Zhi didn’t stand up, his voice still gentle, "When you were little, you loved to run around barefoot, every time I found you it would be like this, carrying you back."
...When she was little.
Lu Sheng’s nose suddenly stung.
All seven of them were Father’s children, but the order of birth differed.
Li Zhi was born first, nearly a hundred years before her. Then Ling Yue, Ning Yu, Tan Yuan followed. Next were Yu Si and Wu Mian, and she was the last to be born.
So, from childhood, Li Zhi was the most mature among the seven of them.
Though lacking any human-like blood relation, Li Zhi always treated her as his youngest sister, sheltering and adoring.
But she didn’t understand feelings before, or was cold-hearted. Growing up, she overlooked Li Zhi’s care, indifferent to others, allowing no one close.
As Li Zhi insisted on carrying her upstairs, Lu Sheng no longer resisted.
Lying on Li Zhi’s back, feeling him steadily carrying her. For Lu Sheng, this sensation was both familiar and strange.
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