Half a month later.
At the border between the eastern and central regions of the Torch Dragon Domain stood a small city called Cloud Ferry.
Lin Heng arrived first and had long since reserved a spot at the most prominent and eye-catching restaurant.
Unlike the territories of the mundane mortal realm, every expense here was exorbitant.
Thanks to his status as the chief strategist under the Azure Crane City Lord, the treatment he received naturally could not be compared to that of ordinary cultivators.
Yet in the shadows, many eyes still habitually watched him.
Finally, after waiting for roughly half an hour, a familiar aura approached from afar.
The door was pushed open, and Jiang Jingyi stood outside. Dressed in a plain white gown, she still carried the graceful, drifting poise she had possessed when they parted.
Only, her aura still remained at the peak of the Mahayana Realm, without the progress he had imagined.
Their eyes met, and their half-year separation seemed, in that instant, to transform into all the moments they had shared before.
"ヽ(｀▽′)? Jiang... Sister!"
"ヽ(??▽?)ノ Show-off..."
Lin Heng spread his arms. Jiang Jingyi paid no heed to anything else, rushing into his embrace like a young girl and hugging him tightly.
"You damned Show-off, it really is you!"
"Hahaha, who else could it be but me? You really made me search for you these past six months. I thought I'd never see you again."
"Hmph, I think you were hoping you'd never see me again." Jiang Jingyi clung to him, her voice slightly choked as she raised a hand and pounded hard against his back.
No one knew what it felt like to be stranded in a foreign world, constantly guarding against unfamiliar cultivators outside and living with painstaking caution.
Though the people from the