The sky was out of reach, and the green bamboo forest was like an endless sea.
In an instant, Lucy felt as if she was alone in the world.
The intense feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and fear surged in her small heart instantly.
“Lady Jessica… Lady Jessica…” Lucy sobbed, looked in a random direction, and rushed forward with brisk steps.
However, the surrounding sea of bamboos appeared the same from any angle.
Lucy did not know how long she walked, but the forest seemed to have no end.
Even when she was out of breath, there was still no exit sign.
There was fear in Lucy’s eyes, and she pursed her lips, about to burst into tears again.
“Where am I… Lady Jessica, idiot Casper, where have you all gone… I want to go home…” Little Lucy, who now appeared like a fifteen-year-old girl, desperately wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Finally, after weeping a few times, she squatted on the ground, hugging her knees and crying.
At that time, behind a few green bamboos not far from Lucy, Caspian and Jessica stood side by side, quietly watching Lucy curled into a ball.
They were near, but Lucy did not notice them at all.
Lucy cried so hard that it was heartbreaking.
Jessica thought it was pitiful, and she was about to step forward.
However, before she could even take a step, Caspian stopped her.
When Jessica turned to look at Caspian, she immediately found him shaking his head lightly at her.
“But…” Jessica opened her mouth, wanting to say something.
“When you wrote to me before, you told me that Lucy was extremely lazy in her cultivation, and you were reluctant to make her work hard.
You hoped that I’d take the opportunity of this nation’s official religion election to persuade her to practice hard and don’t waste her talent.”
Caspian looked at Jessica and continued, “If you go now, my effort will be all wasted.”
“But… But I feel so distressed seeing her this way.”
Jessica looked at Lucy, and tears glimmered in her eyes.
Their friendship started when they were young, and Lucy was not only a maid in Jessica’s mind but more like her own younger sister.
Since her little sister cried helplessly, how could she, the elder sister, not feel distressed?
Caspian still shook his head, unmoved.
“You and Lucy have a deep relationship, so you can’t bear mistreating her.
However, you must think of it this way.
Do you want to be soft-hearted today and give up letting her practice hard, or hope that in a hundred years, you and her will separate due to death.”
When Jessica heard the words, separate due to death, her body trembled.
“Our life can be increased by 60 years when we go from a warrior to a Pulse Control Realm cultivator.
However, 60 years is nothing for a cultivator.
In the future, if the realm is high, any seclusion will be for at least ten or twenty years, and there are countless situations where things can go wrong after that.
Besides, you‘re born with the Pure Jade Physique, and your cultivation speed is by no means comparable to ordinary cultivators.
You might not even need 100 years to ascend to the Heavenly Spirit Realm.
At that time, if Lucy can’t follow in your footsteps, do you think she can still be with you?”
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