The storyteller spoke with great relish, each word concise and polished.
This tale, though told who knew how many times, still left every commoner present staring blankly in a daze.
Then Liu Di suddenly asked, "And then?"
The storyteller gazed into the void, a wistful smile appearing on his face. "Then, she reached the edge of T1. Space suddenly tore apart. As the T1 City Lord felt as though he had been pardoned, she stepped into the void and traveled through the air to T2."
"By then, her hair had grown very long, and she wore a white dress."
"Many T2 residents knelt in worship."
"But she still hadn't found her younger brother. She continued walking through the void. Legend had it that she traveled for many years, and her state of mind changed as well. Her gaze remained gentle, yet she had become as inviolable as a goddess."
"When she arrived above T3 Zone, Lan Long, that tyrannical City Lord, actually trembled in fear and dared not show himself."
"Then she kept going."
"She crossed the oasis of T4, passed over a great river, and found a path to T5 in a cave, becoming the first person to reach T5 on foot."
Liu Di's eyes flickered as he asked, "Then she found her younger brother, a man named Gu Xiao?"
The storyteller glanced at Liu Di from afar, shook his head, and smiled. "It wasn't that easy."
"At that time, T5 was at war with invaders from T6. The flames of war stretched on without end; corpses lay along the roads, and cold flashes filled the sky."
"When the City Lord arrived, with only a thought, tens of thousands of weapons from both sides turned into peach blossoms that drifted away on the wind."
"At that moment, tens of