Memories of the past surged into his mind.
All the fragmented scenes replayed themselves in his mind.
"You are... the wooden hairpin?" Qi Yuan looked at the young girl.
Back then, after emerging from Heaven's End, he had carefully prepared a meeting gift for Jin Li.
Unfortunately, he had not met Jin Li by Seventh Moon Lake.
The two of them stood at opposite ends of time and space.
As snow piled upon Qi Yuan's shoulders, the one sharing that snowfall was Moon Girl.
Later, he traveled alone to Land's End. Moon Girl left the mark of the moon upon his arm, and he left the hairpin with Moon Girl, hoping she could give it to Jin Li, who existed in the future.
"I'm not some wooden hairpin. I'm Daddy's daughter." The High Priest stubbornly raised her head.
Qi Yuan looked at her, his heart filled with countless emotions.
At that moment, everything connected.
He and Jin Li had communicated only through the Exquisite Jade Tide.
They had never met, yet Qi Yuan could sense that she was merely an ordinary young girl.
He remembered the scattered words he had heard in the Five Elements Forbidden Ground.
Back then, Grand Sun had encountered a powerful enemy. In the end, he was defeated, and after nearly exhausting every method at his disposal, he had only managed to injure that enemy's leg.
He had also heard Jin Li speak of embarrassing incidents from her youth. When she ascended the throne, she had fallen flat on the ground. Her leg had been injured long ago, and it had never fully healed.
So the powerful enemy who had fought Grand Sun back then had been Jin Li's former incarnation.
But later, why had she become Moon Girl, then Jin Li?
The High Priest seemed