"Follow her. If you're exposed, cut off this lead completely!"
Izuna had already set things in motion. Even though the ninja before him did not know of Mingye's covert methods, he still felt that things were not as simple as they appeared. Moreover, he did not believe Mingye would let that couple go.
"My lord, I do not understand. Are you really not going to kill them?"
Mingye walked to the window. Outside the inn, the world was still shrouded in misty rain. It was as if the sky had sprung a massive leak over the Land of Water. In the three days he had been here, the rain had never stopped. The weather was even worse than in the Land of Rain, yet it did not sour Mingye's mood. After a long silence, he suddenly laughed, as though speaking to himself and explaining it to the ninja at the same time.
"Till the seas run dry and the rocks crumble! There is only one way for a human couple to stay together until the end of time! Has this damp weather rusted your brain too?"
"Your subordinate admits his mistake!"
Mingye's tone was calm, but to the ninja, his voice sounded like that of a terrifying underworld king—cruel and chilling. The ninja hurriedly took his leave and vanished from the inn with the Body Flicker Technique.
"People in love are the most entertaining. I really do enjoy this sort of thing! Hehehehe...!"
On one of the few mountains in the Land of Water, Hozuki Gengetsu arrived at a wooden courtyard halfway up the mountain. Byakuren sat cross-legged in a jade-built pavilion. The moment Hozuki Gengetsu entered the courtyard, he opened his eyes and asked the approaching man, "How did it go?"
Hozuki Gengetsu kept stroking the small beard on