Fifteen years later.
Outside Black Marsh Prefecture.
"Uncle... where exactly are we going?"
A young girl of about twenty, dressed in a white martial outfit, drove the carriage ahead while turning back to ask.
Aaron, his face handsome as carved jade and his temples touched with gray, looked like a middle-aged man who had incurred no shortage of romantic debts in his youth. He took a drag from his dry tobacco pipe and said leisurely, "To dig up treasure!"
"Heehee... if you really have treasure, Uncle, you have to give me a share." The girl giggled, clearly taking it as a joke.
The girl was named Bai Shuixian, a descendant of the Bai family whom Aaron had found.
Back then, he had severed contact with the Bai family. First, it was to isolate his identity as the Azure Dragon Boss; second, it was to avoid dragging them into his cultivation.
But later, as he came to understand the cultivation world better—and after the Azure Cauldron Sect and the Black Blood Sect went to war—large numbers of Rogue Cultivators fled into the mortal world. The restrictions gradually loosened, and few cultivators truly cared anymore.
And when faced with the tragedy of the Bai family's decline, Aaron ultimately could not bear it...
Well... mainly because he had nothing better to do, so he embarked on the long search for the Bai family's descendants.
Then, ten years ago, he finally found the Bai family's descendant—Bai Shuixian. He raised her to adulthood, taught her martial arts for self-defense, and incidentally let her avenge the Bai family of old.
If it were all laid out, it would surely make for a long, inspiring legendary tale—though the protagonist was a girl.
But to Aaron, it was merely a small diversion amid the long years.
Other than