The two figures, one wreathed in flame and the other dressed in white, raced through the night, skimming over endless mountain ranges toward Misty Cloud Mountain in the eastern part of the Jia Ma Empire.
Along the way, they chatted from time to time. Yun Yun mostly asked about Xiao Yan's cultivation experiences, and the admiration and tenderness in her eyes grew ever more pronounced.
Xiao Yan, meanwhile, answered with a mixture of truth and fiction, occasionally tossing out a few perfectly timed remarks that made Yun Yun's heart race and her cheeks flush.
The system's prompt sounded in his mind from time to time, each one announcing that he had stolen the original protagonist's good fortune and earned Super Villain Points. Xiao Yan found it immensely gratifying.
[Ding! The host travels with Yun Yun, Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect. Their affection deepens, completely severing the fated bond between the destined protagonist and Yun Yun. Destiny points -5000!] [Host's destiny points +5000, Super Villain Points +10000!]
After half a day of racing onward, the eastern sky began to pale, and a towering mountain range that reached into the clouds appeared in the distance.
The mountains rose straight into the heavens, their peaks shrouded year-round in mist. Immortal qi swirled through the air, while countless halls and pavilions clung to the slopes, their sweeping eaves and raised corners magnificent and imposing. Seen from afar, the place looked like a celestial realm.
That was Misty Cloud Mountain, the sacred ground of the Jia Ma Empire and the foundation of the Misty Cloud Sect.
The Misty Cloud Sect had stood in the Jia Ma Empire for centuries. Its foundations ran deep, its disciples numbered in the tens of thousands, and experts were as plentiful as clouds. Even the Jia