Qingliang Temple, backyard.

A large group of children gathered together, chattering incessantly.

"Don't worry, Donor Li will definitely come back."

"Is the eldest brother the legendary immortal?"

"Then you don't have to ask! The candle lights automatically as soon as you raise your hand, and a lot of food changes. If it's not a god, what else could it be?"

"Little brother, what have you learned from being with the gods? Can you use it to see?"

The little red faces looked at Zhou An with curiosity.

Following the 'immortal', who is about the same age as them, he naturally becomes the center of attention.

It's just that Zhou An is not used to it and is even a little at a loss.

Fortunately, among the children, the little novice monk saw Zhou An's confused expression and immediately understood, and shouted: "Okay, okay, don't ask, the sweet potatoes should be roasted, let's go there quickly."

Bar."

"Eat sweet potatoes!"

"Go, go, go."

The sweet potatoes were very tempting, the little novice monk's words were very meaningful, and the children ran to the kitchen shouting.

"Follow me quickly."

The little novice monk left a word and followed him.

It was finally quiet.

Zhou An let out a long sigh of relief and walked towards the main hall in the front yard.

Through the open door, a bright moon hung high in the sky. Xiao Hei was lying in the courtyard, and countless silver light spots flowed into the open canine's snout like a stream.

'It's good that it's still there.'

Zhou An must be feeling anxious.

After finishing his meal, he found that Li Kui had disappeared, and he was immediately worried. He thought that Li Kui had left him and left. Fortunately, he saw that the dog was still in the temple, otherwise he would not have known what to do.

Immediately afterwards.

Zhou An sat down on the steps, stunned.

until……

"Little brother, it's time to eat sweet potatoes."

A finger timidly poked Zhou An's shoulder.

Zhou An suddenly came back to his senses and turned his head to look.

It was a little girl of five or six years old, wearing braids, holding a steaming sweet potato in her hand, and handed it to his face: "The little master specially asked me to bring this to you, eat it while it's hot."

"Hungry, hungry..."

(Okay, thank you)

Zhou An stumbled and said.

"Hungry? Then eat quickly."

The little girl seemed to be impatient. Seeing Zhou An's dawdling, she simply stretched out her hand to peel off the sweet potato skin for him.

After a while,

"Here."

An earthy-yellow sweet potato was handed to me.

Zhou An looked at her straightly, as if he wanted to take her appearance into his heart, took it silently, and ate it one bite at a time.

just now,

in a trance,

Zhou An almost regarded her as his little sister.

If the little sister had not died, she would have been at her same age and would have been running behind him all day long, calling her brother.

"You have finally finished eating, then I will go back."

After a while, the little girl saw Zhou An finishing the sweet potatoes and rushing to the backyard in a hurry.

"There are a lot of sweet potatoes in the kitchen. If you still want to eat, come and get them."

In a blink of an eye, the figure disappeared.

Looking at the departing figure, Zhou An couldn't calm down for a long time. A tear slipped from the corner of her eye and fell to her lips, with the sweet taste of sweet potato still lingering in her mouth.

I just don’t know why, but it’s a little salty and a little bitter.

At the same time, Xiao Hei slightly raised his eyelids, glanced at it and ignored it, but continued to swallow the moonlight from the sky.

…

…

the other side.

A bright golden meteor streaked across the sky and stopped over a mountain peak.

The divine light was restrained, revealing Li Kui's figure.

The breath is sharp and sharp, like the bright sun.

This epiphany-like breakthrough allowed him to go through two self-refinements in a row. Counting the times in the previous period, he has had six self-refinements so far. He only needs to go through the remaining three times to [return the elixir].

suddenly.

Li Kui lowered his eyebrows and looked down, as if he saw something. He raised his eyebrows and swooped down.

The small Qingliang Temple is getting closer and closer.

boom!

A small figure huddled in the corner of the vermilion temple door, the moonlight illuminated his side face, it was Zhou An.

When he saw Li Kui coming back, he immediately stood up and ran over.

"You, you, are you going to leave me?"

At this moment, after more than ten days of nursing, Zhou An finally regained his ability to speak normally.

Upon hearing this, Li Kui walked straight up to him, squatted down, met his eyes, and asked:

"Do you want to stay here?"

Zhou An shook his head without hesitation, speaking slowly and forcefully every word:

"I want to follow you!"

"Come, sit down."

Li Kui and Zhou An sat on the steps together, looking up at the bright moon.

"Actually, I want you to stay here."

"Why?"

Zhou An asked.

"Because you will be happy here."

Li Kui spoke frankly.

Because of the disaster, Zhou An lost his family, but there are many children in Qingliang Temple who have the same experience as him, and they will identify with each other. Director Xinquan is an accomplished monk and will guide them.

Therefore, Qingliang Temple is a place worth staying.

Zhou An is a smart boy, and he quickly understood the meaning of Li Kui's words.

I just think of a little girl as old as my sister.

His eyes became more determined.

"I, I want to protect them,

“I don’t want hunger to happen again, and I don’t want more families to be destroyed.

"I want to learn more skills from you to protect everyone. I want to change this world!"

Although his speech was a little stumbling, it was absolutely sonorous and powerful.

"You want to change the world?"

"right!"

Zhou An nodded heavily.

Although he is young, his mind is mature.
To be continued...