The Final Step

"Do you truly promise, Your Excellency, that if one day I wish to leave, you will never stop me?"

After a long while, the woman in white finally spoke.

"A gentleman's word is not pursued even by four horses. Besides, by the time you wish to leave, with your cultivation then, even if I wanted to stop you, I fear I would no longer be able to do so as easily as I did today." Ye Tian finally let out a breath of relief and nodded heavily.

"Then this humble woman thanks Immortal Master for bestowing upon me such a heaven-sent opportunity." The woman in white performed another graceful bow and lightly nodded at Ye Tian.

"It is merely mutual benefit and a win-win arrangement. After entering the secret realm, I will still need to trouble Madam Lin to contribute her strength toward repairing and altering the feng shui laws of this small outer world." Ye Tian did not think he had bestowed this opportunity upon her. Some things were better made clear.

The woman in white smiled faintly and raised her hand. Her entire body transformed into an enormous white flower, revealing once more the foundation of her Great Dao.

"This humble woman shall naturally spare no effort and do everything within her power to assist Immortal Master."

Having left behind those final words, the enormous white flower flew toward the wind chime in its entirety. In the blink of an eye, as the wind chime swayed, all the white petals entered it. Ye Tian hurriedly calmed his mind and reconnected his divine sense with the little red snake, observing the changes in the small outer world within the secret realm.

Within the secret realm, although the desert and Gobi had been restrained and locked down by the previous