With the death of the Grandmaster Sweeping Monk, Yang Wenzhu's name spread far and wide.
Yet Yang Wenzhu paid no heed to any of it.
After lending Xiao Feng a hand, Yang Wenzhu continued traveling the world.
He deliberately evaded the investigations of those factions, easily slipping past every person they sent after him.
It was not until Tianbo Mansion's Yang family announced that Yang Wenzhu had been expelled from the Tianbo Mansion Yang family and would not be buried in the ancestral tomb after his death that the news spread in all directions.
Yang Wenzhu then declared that from then on, he represented only himself. The Jianghu was thrown into an uproar.
However, no one knew what had become of Yang Wenzhu.
After that battle, Yang Wenzhu had all but vanished from their sight.
What no one knew was that a small hut had appeared by the East Sea, where a young man sat atop the reefs every day, day after day, watching the sun rise and the sea surge.
This continued for a full hundred years.
Until Jin rose to power and utterly destroyed the Northern Song, until the Southern Song was founded, and even Yue Fei was framed and killed, the entire Southern Song began to fall into difficult times.
Yet by then, the young man's white hair draped over his shoulders. Still, he had the hair of a crane and the face of a child, looking no different from a young man who had gone gray early.
No one could tell that he was an old man who had lived for more than a century.
That day, Yang Wenzhu rose as usual to contemplate heaven and earth, especially the turning of the sun and moon, when he heard voices from nearby.
"Nianci, remember this: the