"What happened?" Shui Yuan could neither laugh nor cry. She had thought that after hiding away here for a month, the two of them must have been living in blissful freedom. But judging by her junior brother's state, things seemed different from what she had imagined.
"A misfortune in the family—too much to tell in a few words!" Lu Ye waved a worried hand. He had practically thought he would die here. If the one-month deadline had not been approaching and so many people had not been sending messages urging him to hurry to the Nine Provinces Garrison Hall, he would not even have been able to leave.
"Lu Ye..." Hua Ci's gentle, water-soft voice came from the Bamboo Lodge. "Time to drink your medicine!"
At the sound of that voice, Lu Ye's expression changed. He immediately circulated his Spiritual Power, his body swaying crookedly as he shot into the sky and vanished in an instant.
Inside the Bamboo Lodge, Hua Ci emerged carrying a huge bowl. It was filled to the brim with emerald-green liquid, and even the steam rising from it was green...
Shui Yuan looked up and was astonished to find that, completely unlike Lu Ye's haggard state, Hua Ci was radiant and glowing. Her fair skin was flushed with rosy color, so tender it seemed as though water could drip from it.
After only a month apart, Hua Ci seemed to have grown several years younger. Shui Yuan even felt that Hua Ci's cultivation had become somewhat more profound.
"Why did he run away?" Hua Ci looked in the direction Lu Ye had fled, a faint smile playing on her lips. Then she lowered her head to look at the medicinal brew in her bowl and drank it all.
She had gone to great lengths to