The sudden transition from the level of spirit and soul into the real world left Yu Ci slightly disoriented. He leaned against the railing and blinked a few times before recovering. At that moment, what came into his view was a fiercely familiar, gentle, and delicate face.
"Uncle-Master Gan?" Yu Ci hurriedly straightened his body; as for standing at attention, that was hardly necessary. Gan Shizhen did not mind this, and Yu Ci also found it very difficult to treat this slender, gentle woman with the attitude due an elder.
"Am I disturbing you? Were you practicing your arts?"
Gan Shizhen smiled faintly, yet she showed no intention of sitting down. This time Yu Ci truly could not remain seated; he stood up and smiled, "Just wandering outside the body in spirit."
Giving such a reply, Yu Ci himself found it strange why Gan Shizhen would come to look for him. During this period of time, the female cultivator had been in seclusion in a quiet chamber specially cleared out at Dan Cliff, consolidating her current realm. She had only attended the night banquet organized by the Xuan Yin Sect and Suixin Pavilion in the middle, purely out of courtesy.
Yu Ci had once heard He Qing mention that this slender and lovely uncle-master would accompany the sect's forces to ascend to the Outer Domain of the Nine Heavens, bidding farewell there as well, and continue her own cultivation in the boundless, desolate space until returning to the Siming Sect. There was a special name for this, called "reading ten thousand books, walking ten thousand miles"; it was a trial used by the Siming Sect to cultivate their top-tier talents.
One could well imagine that after the female cultivator's return, her status within the Siming Sect would inevitably experience a