A purple figure flew down from the sky, landing on the ground only after an unknown length of flight.
She wore the same purple dress as before, but her hair had turned completely gray.
Xiao Yi Xian gently curled a lock of white hair by her ear and smiled. With a turn of the Dou Qi within her body, her snow-white hair returned to its former purple.
"Mm!"
She lightly sniffed her long hair. It still carried the faint medicinal fragrance of the past and felt soft and silky.
As she moved forward, Xiao Yi Xian unknowingly stepped on a rotten tree root. Its creak seemed to prove that no one had come here in a very long time.
Towering grass grew everywhere. Walking along the road she had once traveled, all kinds of scenes from the past surfaced in Xiao Yi Xian's mind.
This road was the only way to reach the little valley—the "only road!"
When Xiao Yi Xian had been young, she had often passed through here to play in the nearby sea of flowers.
Even that poisonous fruit had been discovered there. It had also been the beginning of the tragedy...
Xiao Yi Xian walked step by step along the uneven path. She did not fly to her destination; more than anything, she wanted to walk there one "footprint" at a time.
The last time she had come had been three years ago, on her sixteenth birthday. Though she had not shed any tears then, her heart had been deeply stifled.
This time, she had come here on her nineteenth birthday. A peculiar feeling welled up within her, and her mood seemed to grow heavy without a sound.
When she reached the outside of the little valley, the three words "Peach Blossom Village" carved on the