Jiang Wang left Cloud Kingdom one morning.
Facing the morning glow, he vanished into the winding mountain road.
He had never appeared here publicly, nor had he ever allowed himself to linger in this place for too long.
Just as he had never permitted himself a moment of weakness.
A casual question from Jiang An'an had kept him tossing and turning on the soft couch at Cloud-Stopping Pavilion for a long time—
"Big brother, what places have you been to?"
In those beautiful, wide eyes, he saw a thriving curiosity about the world.
Jiang An'an was already nine years old, yet she had scarcely ever left Cloud Kingdom!
The only time had been when Ye Lingxiao personally served as her protector, with Achou accompanying them, while Ye Qingyu captured and killed Luo Huanhuan, Zhang Linchuan's substitute incarnation.
That chivalrous adventure Jiang An'an so relished, filling several sheets of letter paper with its tale, had essentially only happened because Ye Lingxiao had not felt at ease leaving her alone in Cloud City.
It had been five years since she left Maple Forest City, and Jiang An'an had spent a full five years in the High Heaven Secret Realm. Even the occasional trip down to Cloud City counted as travel.
What was it that had clamped down upon her freedom?
Jiang Wang had already worked very hard to move forward, yet he still felt that he was moving too slowly.
When he had come from the Lost Realm to Cloud Kingdom, pressed for time, he had traveled swiftly and urgently, hiding his tracks all the way.
Now, leaving Cloud Kingdom and returning to Qi State, he had far more time to spare, and no longer needed to hide by day and travel by night. Though he could not exactly swagger about openly,