Leading the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, she leaped down from the clouds!
Dense points of light descended with long trailing tails. Some people in the town noticed the strange sight in the sky. How had such a remote little town ever seen anything so miraculous? They all raised their heads to watch, failing to notice the chickens, dogs, cattle, and sheep trembling on the ground...
"Look at the sky! Could the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals be here to take the fairy maiden away?"
Ziyi looked up, then hurriedly told Dong Yong what he should do afterward. As she watched the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals draw ever closer overhead, she understood that the White Dragon Immortal General had deliberately delayed for time.
"Dong-lang... After I leave, you must live well. Marry and have children soon. Never do anything foolish for my sake, or I will never be at peace..."
"Ziyi, what are you afraid of?"
Dong Yong could tell that Ziyi was terribly nervous and afraid. Following her gaze upward, he saw a group of strange figures clad in iron armor dropping straight from the sky, their target the Old Scholar Tree!
At the teahouse by the town entrance, many had already recognized who the points of light in the sky were.
"Heavenly Soldiers and Generals! The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals have come to seize the fairy maiden and take her back to the Heavenly Court!"
"Villains! It is truly hateful to tear apart loving couples! How can they be so overbearing and tyrannical?"
The scholars, enraged by the Heavenly Court's harshness, cursed and spat out polished phrases with every breath. Those timid and afraid of trouble quietly edged farther from the crowd, lest they anger the immortals and be implicated. Beneath the tree, Dong Yong spread his arms to shield