Yu Ningsui counted on her fingers, her face turning a little pale.
"Three times."
"Right." I looked at her. "That's the price of being a child of destiny. The Heavenly Dao gave you fortune and opportunities ordinary people wouldn't encounter in ten lifetimes, and it gave you calamities they wouldn't face in ten lifetimes either. So stop thinking you can live quietly as an Inner Sect Disciple of the Upper Sect. Wherever you go, peace won't last."
Yu Ningsui fell silent for a while, then smiled. "That's fine. I don't want a quiet life anyway."
Three days later, outside Qingping City.
A moon-white sword vessel rested at the dock outside the City Lord's Mansion. It was a fast vessel from the Upper Sect, its hull shimmering with light and covered in Dao Patterns.
Guan Heng stood at the bow with four cultivators whose auras were steady and deep. Even the weakest was at the Tower-Ascending Realm.
Yu Ningsui stood below the sword vessel with a pack on her back. She wore a plain white robe, her white hair neatly tied, and Yan Jueshuang's sword hung at her waist.
As a Supreme Sealbearer, she was naturally entitled to inherit the sword.
Yu Ningsui looked up at the enormous vessel. The sea breeze lifted the loose strands by her ears, lending her an air of peerless independence.
"Ready?" I stood beside her with my hands behind my back, looking down at Zi Ying and the others who had come to see us off.
"Mm." Yu Ningsui answered while waving to the spirit cultivators of the Four Domains below.
A new peace pact had already been established. As a symbol of friendship, the Market Ward in the Azureduck Mountains was naturally thronged with people from the Four Domains.
"Let's go." Yu Ningsui turned