This day.
The Disciple Quarters.
Xiao Ran was simmering soup in the kitchen—Black Chicken Spirit Ginseng Soup, a great tonic for women.
Chuyan sat before the stove hole, controlling the fire with wood-manipulation, keeping the heat flawless down to the last drop of water.
It was difficult.
After all, dry wood and raging fire were hard to control.
Sword Plaza cliff.
Lingzhou Yue lay slanted on a pine branch, drinking.
Though her figure had grown slightly plumper, she still lay on the pine branch light as drifting catkins. The slow mountain wind billowed her green robe, spreading out in a white haze; her air was languid, yet she was dashing as an immortal.
At some unknown point, an Immortal Boat and a falcon flew in from the northeastern sky.
Facing the autumn light of the noon sun, the Immortal Boat and falcon drew closer from afar, and soon revealed two extremely imposing silhouettes.
Two figures stood separately upon the Immortal Boat and the falcon, seemingly a man and a woman, both with their hands clasped behind their backs, looking rather cold and stern.
A little closer, and it could be seen that the two wore the Dao Alliance's Auspicious Cloud Sword Robe. A sword-cloud-shaped alliance emblem was engraved on their chests, and within the emblem was carved a high-level defensive restriction, emanating a pressure that could not be stared at directly or defied.
Upon reaching Sword-Wielding Mountain, before entering its airspace, the two leaped down.
Arriving at Sword Plaza, they bowed respectfully together toward Lingzhou Yue, who was reclining sideways on the pine branch.
"East Floating Overseer Heishi, Law Enforcer Ta Hongzi, greets Senior Lingzhou."
The man was called Heishi.
He was a middle-aged man of short stature, with potato-flat features, dark skin that was also smooth and oily, combining