Within the Balak Kingdom, somewhere in the wilderness.
Night was as dark as ink, with sparse stars and only a bright moon hanging high overhead, casting its clear radiance over the makeshift camp.
When Holy Knights squads carried out missions, they always assigned someone to keep watch at night, guarding against raids by Fallen Ones or wild beasts.
Tonight, Qian Renxue and Tian Yue were on watch.
Tian Yue sat atop a relatively flat rock, propping up her cheek with one hand while idly using a thin wooden stick in the other to poke at the coals beside the campfire, producing faint crackling sounds.
She secretly glanced at the platinum-gold figure sitting cross-legged nearby, eyes closed.
Qian Renxue wore a simple white undergarment beneath a light suit of armor. Her long golden hair was loosely tied behind her head, with a few stray strands falling across her forehead.
The moonlight traced the perfect contours of her profile, but it also made her coldness and distance all the more apparent.
Sigh—
Tian Yue sighed inwardly.
Snowy had not truly been happy since what happened with Jiang Bai. Every day, she either cultivated, exterminated Fallen Ones, or shut herself away.
This couldn't go on—
She wanted to talk to Qian Renxue and take her mind off things, but she was afraid of disturbing her meditation. After struggling with herself for a long while, she finally gave up. All she could do was continue poking at the fire in boredom, gazing up at that lonely moon.
What a long night. I really want someone to talk to—
At this moment, Qian Renxue was not deeply meditating as Tian Yue had assumed.
Her consciousness had sunk deep into her own Spiritual Sea.
It was a vast, boundless golden ocean, its light gentle and sacred,