Yan Miao smiled at Lu Ye. "I told you to come by more often, yet it took you this long to visit."
Lu Ye felt embarrassed. "Trivial matters kept me tied down. Great Elder, please forgive me."
"What brings you here this time?" Yan Miao asked. Under normal circumstances, Lu Ye would not come here. Whenever he did, it was always for something.
Lu Ye pointed at the Soul Race woman beside him and explained the situation to Yan Miao.
Yan Miao understood. "So you want her to stay here until you return."
"If that would be inconvenient for you, Great Elder, I can take her with me."
"There is nothing inconvenient about it," Yan Miao said. "Leave her here. The Soul Race... they are not commonly seen. Looking across the starry sky, they are, like our race, considered a rare race. Go without worry. I will personally keep watch over her."
The Soul Race woman's cultivation was the same as Lu Ye's, at Star Constellation Realm Late Stage. With Yan Miao, a Moon Jade Realm cultivator, personally watching over her, there was no fear of her stirring up any trouble.
Lu Ye took out the token controlling the restriction on the Soul Race woman and handed it to Yan Miao. Only then did he turn and step through the portal, returning to the Barren Star.
He did not return to Peerless Island. Instead, he took out a Sound Talisman and sent Chu Shen a message explaining the situation, then contacted Ban Ci and arranged a meeting place with her. Only then did Lu Ye board his Star Boat and depart.
When he arrived at their agreed location, Ban Ci was nowhere to be seen. Lu Ye waited for nearly half a day before an elegant and exquisite Star Boat