Battle Through the Heavens: I Can Solidify All Talents

"Today."

Luo Qingxian took a deep breath, then slowly let it out.

That breath turned into a wisp of fragmented starlight in the morning glow, vanishing in an instant.

"How long will you be gone?"

Xiao Qing fell silent for a moment.

"A long time."

"Will you come back?"

Xiao Qing did not answer.

"I'll call Father and the elders to see you off."

"No need." Xiao Qing shook his head. "Leaving is just leaving. There's no need to disturb anyone else."

Luo Qingxian was silent for a beat, then nodded gently.

She knew Xiao Qing disliked such formalities. In forty-two years, he had never attended any clan banquets or celebrations. Today would be no exception.

"Then I'll accompany you to the end of the Luo River."

With that, she took the lead, walking upstream along the riverbank.

Xiao Qing followed behind her, just as he had when he first arrived at the Luo River forty-two years ago.

The river flowed slowly beneath their feet, while the scenery along both banks passed them by.

The outline of Luo God City, the bluestones by the river, the crooked old pine atop the nameless hill at the source—every place held forty-two years of memories, every glance a farewell left unsaid.

At the end of the Luo River stood a cliff.

The river poured over its edge, becoming a vast waterfall that fell for thousands of feet. Its roar echoed endlessly through the valley.

Above the cliff was the end of the Western Heaven Continent. Below it stretched boundless wilderness all the way to the meeting point of heaven and earth.

Luo Qingxian stopped at the cliff's edge and turned to face Xiao Qing.

Her eyes were not red, nor were there tear stains on her face.

Yet in the morning light, her