Modern Era.
The Sword Sect's outer sect, inside Ascension Hall.
Every so often, people could be seen walking out of the hall.
Without exception, each of them looked a little dazed.
By noon,
Chi Jiuyu finally emerged from Ascension Hall too. She looked up at the sky, then turned her head and tapped the railing beside her, which was as smooth and white as jade.
Feeling its solid, real touch, she finally believed it.
"So I really came back..."
With a soft sigh, she walked down the steps.
Like the others before her, she was still a little dazed.
As she recalled all she had witnessed on this journey into the "past," her emotions grew more and more complicated.
Her master, her Martial Uncle, the True Immortal seniors, and all those pioneers who had fallen along the way...
Without them, how could there be a today?
Chi Jiuyu reminisced and sighed.
When she recalled the fragments concerning her parents, her mood suddenly sank.
She had never seen her parents, not since she was old enough to remember.
So it wasn't as if she had very deep feelings for them...
Not really.
For a long time after she could remember things, she had even resented her parents a little.
She resented them for abandoning her when she was so small.
As she grew older and found a goal of her own, she stopped dwelling on it.
But it wasn't as if she didn't care at all.
After she grew up, her master had always wanted to explain what had happened to her parents.
But she had instinctively avoided the subject.
Honestly, before setting out on this journey into the "past," she had only known the barest details of what happened back then.
Emm...
All in all, she still felt conflicted about