Gu Nianjun Enters the City, the Lady Makes Her Arrangements, Wang Delights in Giving, an Impending Encounter?

Flying Dragon City was a spectacle of gold-brick towers and jade mansions, luxurious to the utmost. Thick snow blanketed the rooftops, and several Frost Geese skimmed low through the air. The streets teemed with people, carriages and horses passed in orderly streams, and armored soldiers occasionally patrolled along the roads.

While still at the Immortal-Seeking Inn, Li Xian had asked a waiter and learned that Flying Dragon City had three grand sights: the "Sunlit Golden Summit," the "Worry-Relieving Tower," and "Dragon-Roar Gorge"... Every year at this time, many wanderers of the martial world and refined scholars hurried to Flying Dragon City to sightsee.

The Great Martial Dynasty possessed vast territory, tangled rivers, and towns as numerous as ox hairs. Any town that could leave its name upon the map of the realm counted as a city of some standing. Flying Dragon City was uniquely situated and unlike any other, so it had been marked upon the maps.

Li Xian, Jin Yi, and the others entered the city. Having walked less than half a li, Li Xian spotted an old acquaintance among the passersby. Her purple dress fluttered gracefully. More than a year had passed since he had last seen her, and she had grown ever more slender and graceful, with extraordinary beauty that no crowd could conceal.

This woman was Gu Nianjun. When they had met in the prefectural city, she had looked down upon Li Xian quite a bit. After that parting, they had not met again for a long time. Li Xian had weathered countless perils and wandered from place to place, escaping One Accord Manor, entering the Flower Cage Sect for a time, and then joining the remnants of the Candle Cult... He had never expected to encounter her again in such a distant place.

Li Xian