Spring gave way to autumn, and more than twenty years passed.
Hundred Herbs Planet. Golden Ginseng Valley lay in the southeast of Hundred Herbs Planet, blessed with an excellent location and bustling with passing merchants and travelers.
The streets thronged with people, while carriages and horses filled the air with clamor.
Within a secluded small courtyard paved with blue tiles stood a two-story azure pavilion and an azure stone gazebo. Han Benlin and Su Yuyan sat in the gazebo, chatting.
Han Benlin had spent these years at Su Yuyan's side. They had hunted demonic beasts together, lived and died together, and gradually developed feelings for one another. However, Han Benlin had never revealed his true identity.
News of Han Changming's advancement to the Void Refinement Stage had reached Hundred Herbs Planet, and Han Benlin had heard it as well. Though delighted, he became even less willing to reveal his identity.
Su Yuyan was a Rogue Cultivator who had always made her living by hunting demonic beasts. Her parents had also been Rogue Cultivators, and while fighting over treasures, they had died at the hands of the Huang Clan of Yellow Maple Island. The Huang Clan had several Spirit Transformation cultivators overseeing it; Su Yuyan had no way to avenge them.
Over the years, she had suffered plenty of bullying from disciples of major powers and had developed a deep dislike for disciples of cultivation clans and sects. For the time being, Han Benlin did not wish to reveal his true identity, fearing it would earn Su Yuyan's loathing.
"Fellow Daoist Han, thank you. Once I'm more flush with funds, I'll repay you at once."
Su Yuyan spoke gratefully. She had attended an auction and lacked enough spirit stones to bid on an item, so she had borrowed a sum from