Clear Sky Sect.
In a spacious room, gray-black stone walls surrounded them, and stone furniture such as a stone table and chairs filled the space.
Soft bedding covered the stone bed. By the window sat a small soul-tool lamp, while several books brought back from Shrek rested on the corner of the table, adding a touch of life to the ancient, plain room.
Outside the window churned a sea of clouds.
A figure with short pink-blue hair sat by the window, listlessly fiddling with little trinkets on the table.
"Ah..." Looking at the scenery outside, Wang Dong sighed.
She had once loved sitting here and watching the clouds, watching the mist roll past the mountainside, as though all of Clear Sky Castle were floating in the sky.
But after seeing the world beyond, she now found the clouds rather irritating.
"I wonder... whether that guy saw the note I left him." Wang Dong muttered to herself.
She had no idea how many times she had said those words over the past ten-odd days.
Yet she still brought them up subconsciously.
The day before the holiday began, Big Uncle had suddenly sent someone to Shrek, saying that the sect had urgent business and ordering her to return immediately.
She had thought the Clear Sky Sect might have some emergency. Since the holiday was about to begin anyway, she had simply returned to the sect with the messenger.
But to her surprise, everything was exactly as it had been when she got back.
Soon afterward, Big Uncle had sent her to Ascension Pavilion to obtain a soul ring. After she officially became a Soul Elder, however, she was stopped when she tried to return to the academy.
She had gone to ask Big Uncle and Second Uncle several times why, only to