Refusal, Setting Off to Return to the Sect!

[In January of the fifth year, you have one more month left. After this month ends, you will set off to return to the Green Lotus Sword Sect.]

[This month passes both quickly and slowly.]

[It is fast because you feel like you have not spent much time with your family before having to embark on the journey again.]

[It is slow because every day of this month you are very busy, occupied with refining more pills for the lineage, mentoring your mother and Mu Xinger to improve their Alchemy Skill, and planning the development of the lineage's industries...]

[After you finish handling everything you believe you can do, you are finally able to set your mind at ease.]

[At the end of January, you prepare to take Li Ruilin and set off once again, but at this moment, several strangers suddenly come to find the lineage.]

[After receiving news from your grandfather, you head to Muye Hall.]

[When you arrive at Muye Hall, you discover that among the newcomers is an old acquaintance, none other than the Northern Garrison Army vice general you encountered previously.]

[Behind him is a stunning figure. She wears a plain-colored, diamond-patterned soft satin dress, unadorned with golden hairpins or jade ornaments, with only a mutton-fat jade hairpin loosely securing her hair. She is as pristine and simple as a white orchid touched by morning dew, yet this cannot conceal the overflowing noble air emanating from her very bones.]

[Her face is covered by an extremely thin layer of shark-silk gauze, grayish-blue and semi-translucent, gently enveloping her brows, eyes, nose, and mouth, leaving only a jawline as smooth and clear as jade, alongside the soft curve faintly discernible beneath the gauze when her lips are lightly pressed. That gauze must be an extremely precious material,