The plan begins!
Everyone went down to start making preparations.
Lin Bai slowly made his way toward a cliff above Five Peaks, Nine Academies.
"Tempest Cave!" Lin Bai arrived at the cliff and looked at the long-abandoned cave dwelling there. He smiled faintly, then turned his head and saw a White-Robed Woman standing atop the cliff.
She was Bai Xiaoxiao.
Only, Bai Xiaoxiao had already taken off her imperial robes and was now dressed in white.
Lin Bai slowly walked over and came up behind Bai Xiaoxiao. She said, "Do you still remember? Back when we studied under a master at Divine Relic Ridge, we drank and chatted here so many times! Facing the bright moon, the vast sky, and the earth, we talked and laughed with abandon!"
"Back then, you weren't the Lin Bai whose name now shook the world, and I wasn't the Emperor Xiao of the Divine Martial Nation!"
"We were merely two ordinary martial artists."
Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes held the warmth of remembrance as she spoke.
"I remember." Lin Bai chuckled softly. He stood beside Bai Xiaoxiao and looked up, gazing at the cliff opposite. It seemed that somewhere there, a woman still stood beneath the moon, drinking wine steeped in loneliness and sorrow!
Bai Xiaoxiao asked, "How confident are you that you'll come back?"
Lin Bai said, "Less than fifty percent."
Hearing that answer, Bai Xiaoxiao closed her eyes in pain, her entire body trembling.
Lin Bai drew a deep breath, slowly stepped forward, and pulled Bai Xiaoxiao into his arms.
Bai Xiaoxiao said softly, "Lin Bai, let's go."
Lin Bai frowned. "Go? Where?"
Bai Xiaoxiao said, "Anywhere. Anywhere is fine. We can use the ancient arrays left behind on the Barren Ancient Continent to travel to other worlds, or to the Spirit World. Anywhere