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At Duan Yun's request, Ming Xing reluctantly led him in another direction.

It was where her elder sister, Ming Yue, cultivated in seclusion.

Honestly, Duan Yun's desire to admire her sister left her rather put off.

On the way, Duan Yun learned roughly what Jade Radiance Palace had done to stop Crimson Decay.

In short, it was a chivalrous thing to do.

The founder of Jade Radiance Palace, Wang Chenghua, was said to have been a deeply chivalrous man. That improved Duan Yun's opinion of the palace considerably.

In his eyes, they were no longer Martial Arts Myths, aloof as snow atop an icy mountain and untouched by mortal concerns. They were fellow martial artists who had done something for the world.

Ming Xing, however, thought nothing unusual of it. "People only ever see the surface. There are plenty of powers like Jade Radiance Palace. I know of a Lineage surnamed Zhang that has guarded an enormous Bronze Gate on Cloud Summit Mountain for who knows how many years.

"But our martial arts inheritance is tied to Crimson Decay in the first place. We're not being as chivalrous as you are."

Duan Yun had long been called a devil, and still was. True heroes had been absent from the world for so many years that when he came along and held himself to a higher standard, people found it sinister.

The more righteous his deeds, the more wicked they seemed.

As Ming Xing's Jade Radiance Method drove back the Crimson Decay around them, the flowers visibly thinned. Patches of bare soil came into view.

Then Duan Yun saw her.

The Martial Arts Myth who seemed to exist only in legend, whose standing in Jade Radiance Palace was even a little higher than Ming Xing's.

Ming Yue.

The bright moon hung