The Farewell by the Seaside

Wang Xian raised his head and gazed at the leaves suspended across the night sky.

Then he lowered his gaze to the rooms where Song Tian and Bai Xue were sleeping, their lights flickering on and off, while his thoughts drifted to the first time he had met Hu Keke.

A faint smile crept across his face.

He said softly, "Master, you don't know this, but when I first fell from a height of ten thousand zhang at Ghosts' Bane, I landed on and killed the general who was hunting Hu Keke!"

"Song Tian was my neighbor back when I was at the Wutong Academy, and Bai Xue is the granddaughter of an enemy I once fought to the death... Do you think I'm being foolish, helping them like this?"

Yang Wanjin shook her head. "As long as you're happy with it. Are you afraid that one day they'll end up on the other side and fight you to the death?"

"Not at all."

Wang Xian chuckled. "If I worried about that, I'd have been hunted down and killed countless times by now."

From Tang Qingyu to Long Qingmei, and even the battle outside Sand City on the Heavenly Road—

Wang Xian had never feared that one day his enemies might grow stronger than he was.

The stronger his enemies, the fiercer his fighting spirit became.

After a moment's thought, Wang Xian told her about meeting Dongfang Yun at Azure Cloud Mountain.

He said wistfully, "It was then that I realized there were even broader worlds beyond the Four Great Continents..."

At his words, Yang Wanjin's expression turned solemn.

She murmured, "There were some things I'd planned to tell you when you were older. I didn't expect you to meet a sage on Azure Cloud Mountain. It seems your fortune