After Bai Ye followed Liu Sixteen to Luopo Mountain, he settled in and refused to budge. Even when Wei Bo personally came calling to invite him, Bai Ye could not be bothered to offer a polite word. His expression remained indifferent as he merely shook his head, an unmistakable order to leave. Great Mountain Lord Wei, who was about to receive the divine title "Night Roamer," immediately took his leave, not daring to disturb the most contented cultivator in the world.
Even though he knew that Great Teacher, foremost among the Confucian Temple Ten Sages, was currently over at Piyun Mountain, Bai Ye remained in the residence where he had settled on the mountain. He kept a low profile, only occasionally taking a stroll to the mountaintop where the old Mountain God shrine stood, admiring the scenery—sunrise over the East Sea, sunset beyond the western mountains.
For some reason, Bai Ye always ran into that somewhat strange black-clothed little girl. Yet the little girl said to be Luopo Mountain's Right Guardian never came close to chat. She simply stood far away, a cotton satchel slung across her body. The first time, out of courtesy—and naturally, more for the sake of his friend Jun Qian—Bai Ye greeted Zhou Mili. The little girl pursed her lips in a smile and nodded hard, cradling a Green Bamboo Staff and Golden Flat Shoulder Pole in her arms, her little hand gripping the strap of her cotton satchel.
Bai Ye could not exactly keep staring wide-eyed at a little girl forever. He forced out a smile, and seeing that she still did not speak, he continued admiring the fiery clouds at the horizon by himself.
Hearing footsteps behind him, Bai Ye realized that the little girl had tiptoed away. Once she reached the Divine Dao