Dark Night frowned slightly. "Husband, I need to stay behind for Xuanji's affairs here. If you return to the capital alone, will it be dangerous?"
Bi Xuanji needed to set the cultivation world of Jin in order. To be honest, Dark Night had to remain.
Because setting the cultivation world in order was no easy task.
There had to be a Super Master capable of holding down the entire scene.
Those on the Cultivation Path did not submit to royal authority, but they submitted to methods. Though Bi Xuanji had reached the Dao Fruit Extreme and her shadow arts were unfathomable, she still could not suppress the entire field with a raised hand. Dark Night could!
Therefore, Dark Night had to stay.
Which meant Lin Su's journey of ten thousand miles back to the capital could only be made alone.
Dark Night felt somewhat torn. Before she had returned, her husband had struggled alone amid the whirlpool. Since she had not known or seen it, she had no choice but to let go whether she could bear it or not. But after returning, she had never left his side for even half a step...
"Don't worry!" Lin Su smiled. "Lin the Great Shit-Stirring Stick, who can come and go freely amid armies of thousands, will be fine wherever he goes!"
Dark Night burst out laughing. "The title Shit-Stirring Stick was pinned on you by court officials. By now, I'm afraid hardly anyone dares mention it anymore, yet you still keep bringing it up?"
That was true enough.
Back when Lin Mouren had first made his debut and entered the Literary Altar, he had stirred the Literary Altar into something neither fish nor fowl.
When he entered officialdom, officialdom likewise became neither fish nor fowl because of him.
When he entered