After finishing those words, the elderly farmer with streaks of grey in his hair slowly moved away, gradually disappearing from everyone's sight. Even if they wanted to chase him down, it seemed impossible, as if an endless starry sky stood before them, preventing anyone from getting close.
"Xiao Chen, thank you..." Ah Bing walked over, calm now after the initial shock.
"Speaking like that is too formal." Xiao Chen only then began to inquire about Ah Bing's family and their situation over these years.
Just as Dugu Shanshan had said, her family had been living in seclusion here all along, but the Dugu Sword Demon, in order to practice his swordsmanship, had withdrawn from the secular world and then returned to it, and afterward retreated again, having disappeared for many years now, his current whereabouts unknown.