Back then, after Zhao Tiedan emerged from the God of War Stele, he headed to the Eastern Continent to look for Lin Bai.
But at that time, Lin Bai had just been expelled from the Eastern Continent Academy. After searching the academy to no avail, Zhao Tiedan began wandering around the Eastern Continent. When he passed the border between the Eastern and Western Continents, he happened to encounter Holy Maiden Jiuci. As a result, this fellow... merely saw half of Holy Maiden Jiuci's face, yet she had already stolen his soul.
After Zhao Tiedan found Lin Bai, whenever the brothers sat together drinking and chatting, Zhao Tiedan could not say more than three sentences without bringing up Holy Maiden Jiuci. He would go on about how wonderful, beautiful, and considerate she was, until Lin Bai, A Ning, and the others were sick of hearing it.
Before Lin Bai left for the Celestial God Tomb, he told Zhao Tiedan to stay safely inside Sword King Manor and not run around. He also said that once he returned from the Celestial God Tomb, he would take Zhao Tiedan to the Western Continent to ask for her hand in marriage.
They had all thought it was just something he had said offhand, but Zhao Tiedan had taken it seriously.
Now Lin Bai found himself caught between a rock and a hard place. No matter how difficult the Western Continent was, and no matter how sacred this Sacred Maiden was or how devoted to the Buddha she was, for Zhao Tiedan's sake, Lin Bai had to find a way to make her leave the clergy.
When he had spoken those words casually back then, Lin Bai had never imagined that Zhao Tiedan would fall so deeply in love with Holy Maiden Jiuci, thinking of