Learning how much painstaking effort Lu Xiaotian had gone through to project himself into the Demon Realm, Luo Qing felt a sweetness well up in her heart. As her cultivation gradually grew stronger and Lu Xiaotian's strength rose as well, Luo Qing felt that all the waiting would ultimately be worthwhile. One day, she and Lu Xiaotian would meet again.
Lu Xiaotian's projection clone and Luo Qing spent several days together, strolling hand in hand through this picturesque land of mountains and rivers, where flowers bloomed everywhere. For Luo Qing, this was an experience she had never had before. Even when she had first met Lu Xiaotian in Moonwatch City, they had soon hurried off to join their respective sects. Though Soaring Heavens Palace and Ancient Sword Sect were both righteous sects, the barriers between their sects ran deep. Even though Luo Qing had feelings of affection for Lu Xiaotian, she could only keep a certain distance from him out of consideration for their sects and masters.
Luo Qing had been a genius disciple of Ancient Sword Sect, yet even she had been constrained like this, to say nothing of Lu Xiaotian. He had been bound by even more restrictions from his sect, and he had also been forced to dash about in pursuit of cultivation resources, leaving no time for romantic entanglements.
Later, the distance between them grew ever wider, until the battle at the Snow Region Dragon Cavern finally allowed Luo Qing to break free of every restraint and reveal her feelings. Yet the Snow Region Dragon Cavern had nearly become the place where the two parted forever.
Later, Luo Qing awoke inside an ice coffin, alone and cut off from the world. In between came long years of solitude, but that long wait had all transformed into