"If you don't have anything else to do, then leave. I need to study time," Wendy Yu Shan said. It wasn't that she didn't welcome Lu Yin; she simply had a way of speaking like that.
Lu Yin rarely saw her show her true feelings. The clearest instance had been when he returned from the Tree Starry Sky. Back then, Wendy Yu Shan had genuinely been happy.
"I want to experience time," Lu Yin said. That was why he had come. The Progenitor had controlled time, and Chu Yuan controlled time. Any powerful enemy he encountered in the future might control it, too. It could only help to learn more about time.
Besides, he wasn't completely incapable of controlling time himself. Reverse Step was an opportunity.
Wendy Yu Shan thought for a moment, then held out her hand. Her fingers were long, slender, and snow-white. It was a beautiful hand.
"What for?" Lu Yin asked, puzzled.
"Hold it," Wendy Yu Shan said.
Lu Yin paused and glanced at her hand before taking it. It was soft and warm to the touch, and felt pleasant.
Wendy Yu Shan's face reddened slightly, but she quickly recovered. "I'll cultivate time. You can sense it for yourself. If you can't, don't force it. I might not even be able to feel it myself."
Lu Yin nodded and glanced at their joined hands. Then he calmed his mind and closed his eyes.
Wendy Yu Shan closed her eyes as well. Gradually, space grew indistinct.
In the distant western reaches of the Outer Universe, where the Dark Phoenix Clan had once lived, the clan had lost all dignity after Arrow Sect seized them as mounts. Even after Arrow Sect's Little Giant later joined the Eastern Frontier Alliance, they had still been reduced to rewards bestowed