At the moment when all eyes above and below Tiger-Embracing Mountain were fixed upon the ceremony, Zhang Tie sat silently in the Elder Pavilion that belonged to him atop the mountain behind the ancestral hall, staring at the things in his hand...
What Zhang Tie held were two utterly ordinary black mulberries.
They had been brought to him by an elder from Demon Slaying Valley who had come to attend the ceremony. The elder had told Zhang Tie only that Pandora was currently cultivating a secret method in a hidden place within Demon Slaying Valley and could not leave for the time being. After learning that Zhang Tie had cleared his name and returned to You Province, Pandora had asked him to bring these two black mulberries. She had said nothing else.
For Zhang Tie, that was enough.
These black mulberries were the ones Zhang Tie had picked in the wild during his trial in Wild Wolf Valley all those years ago and brought back as a gift for Pandora. Now that Pandora had sent two black mulberries back to him, to Zhang Tie, they represented only two words—longing!
As he looked at the two black mulberries, Zhang Tie seemed to see Pandora's dark eyes. At this grand ceremony, his very soul was steeped in melancholy.
What was rarest in this world were lovers true to one another.
The more successful a person became, the higher they stood, the more they understood what was truly precious.
"Elder, the auspicious hour has arrived!" Steward Yu's voice sounded behind Zhang Tie.
Everything before him was much like the first Wheel-Turning Ceremony held on Yiyang Mountain. Even Steward Yu, whom he had not seen for a long time, seemed not to have changed much.
Steward Yu, who had once served Zhang Tie in