It Left My Brows, Only to Rise in My Heart

It was only when Wang Xian had boarded the ship.

The great ship carried the young man away from shore, slowly pulling farther and farther away. Murong Wan'er remained sunk in deep shock.

Who could have imagined it?

Who would dare even think it?

The young man standing before her had been on brotherly terms with the Ten Kings of Hell beneath the Nine Hells, and had even made them so angry they cursed him out loud.

Just as Wang Xian had said, if the King of Hell hadn't appeared in her dream, how could she have known that after just one night, Wang Xian would be leaving the Southern Border?

Afraid he might slip away early, she had even gotten up at the crack of dawn and come to the docks to wait for him.

Who could have known that Wang Xian's words would still break her composure?

Everyone had their own path. Wang Xian had already helped her and Sa Tongtian set foot on the road of cultivation, and helped Hu Keke reclaim the throne.

He had even helped the Crow and Little White take human form and survive their heavenly tribulation.

Any one of these things would have been unthinkable in the Southern Border. Only someone who had been to the heavens above the Nine Heavens, as Wang Xian had said, could have done them.

She silently clutched a Storage Ring, not even knowing when Wang Xian had slipped it into her hand.

His parting instructions echoed in her ears: "These are Five-Element Spirit Stones. You can't refine them yet... Think of them as travel money for when you ascend."

With a thought, a gray Spirit Stone appeared in her hand.

But no matter how hard she tried, the Spirit Stone didn't change in the slightest.

Furious,