Seeing those two familiar figures, Li Yun could not help feeling a surge of surprise.
"Saint Sect Green Paulownia, Saint Sect Purple Mountain—it's you?"
"Quick, come in, please come in..."
"Hahaha, fellow Daoist Li, did we give you a shock? Sorry for dropping by unannounced!"
"Not at all! Why would you say that?"
"I've been wondering how I could properly thank you both. If you hadn't given me those tokens for the ceremony, how would I ever have had the chance to visit the Evergreen Ancient Domain and see such a wondrous Sacred Realm?"
After a round of greetings, Li Yun invited Green Paulownia and Purple Mountain into the courtyard and personally brewed each of them a pot of tea.
"Fellow Daoists, no patrol duty today?"
"Haha, we can't patrol every day. We may be Saint Sects, but we get tired too, you know. Our patrol assignment ended the day before yesterday."
"Then we heard you'd rented a little courtyard here, so we arranged to come visit together."
"Ha, then I'm the one at fault."
"You gave me the tokens that let me enter the Evergreen Ancient Domain. I should have come to visit you first."
"Instead, you beat me to it. Sigh..."
"Oh, come now. We had patrol duties before, and you didn't even know where we lived. How could that be your fault?"
"Uh..."
"By the way, you've spent the past two years traveling, haven't you? How was it?"
Once they were seated, the three began to chat.
"It was... it was wonderful."
Li Yun wore a smile, his thoughts as clear as crystal.
He had only just rented this courtyard, yet Green Paulownia and Purple Mountain had found him at once. That meant every move he had made in the Evergreen Ancient Domain over the past two