After several more months of fruitless searching, Chen Lin stopped holding out hope.
Still, he had Feng Yuqing and the others continue posting bounties and widen the search, while he planned to enter the Gambling Fortune Lake Scenario to investigate himself.
"Keep an ear out and find out who obtained Li Fuyao's Relic. Add this to the Bounty Notice: anyone who hands over her relics will receive the same reward as someone who finds that Spirit Treasure!"
Inside the newly built main hall at the Mountain Gate, Chen Lin sat in the seat of honor and issued instructions to Feng Yuqing and the others.
Li Fuyao's relics might contain a means of locating her Minor Spirit Realm, so they needed to search carefully.
This concerned information about Chen Ling'er and the others.
Then he looked at the man beside him.
He sighed. "Life and death for practitioners are decreed by the Heavenly Dao. Don't grieve too deeply, Second Brother."
This man was Yue Tianyi.
After all these years, his cultivation was still at early Void Refinement.
He and Xue Honglan had been dual cultivation companions. Ever since learning of her death, he had remained despondent.
"I've made you worry, Fifth Brother."
Yue Tianyi sighed as well.
When he learned that Chen Lin had slain Li Fuyao, he had been overjoyed, thinking the great stone pressing down on his head had finally been removed, and he could once again live together with Xue Honglan.
He had never imagined they would instead be forever separated by life and death.
Seeing that Yue Tianyi still could not emerge from his grief, Chen Lin shook his head and stopped trying to console him.
Few practitioners, especially high-tier practitioners, placed much weight on love and loyalty. That Yue Tianyi and Xue Honglan had shared such