Departure

"Ah, don't look like the sky is falling. These things can't be rushed. Your master once spent ages unable to see through it too. The more you care, the tighter you draw it in. With your current cultivation and age, there's truly no need to rush." Venerable Cheng Wei patted his disciple's shoulder. "The Five Sects Assembly is quite fun. Go and enjoy yourself properly."

"Enjoy myself?"

"That's right. Have your friends take you along. If Qi Refining cultivators don't raise hell, are you supposed to wait until the Tribulation Transcendence Realm to poke a hole in the heavens? If you cause trouble, someone will naturally clean up after you. Don't be afraid~"

Wen Xu silently shed a sympathetic tear for the Sect Master.

After this master and disciple had, for once, seriously finished a lesson on matters of the heart, Wen Xu descended Springless Peak and had to head to Sect Master Peak for work again. Perhaps because of his master's words, this time he simply stopped deliberately suppressing himself. He straightforwardly divided his mind in two, contemplating himself while handling the trivial paperwork.

Sect Master Gu, who saw through it at a glance: ...I hate these eyes of mine. What on earth did that one from Springless Peak teach him again!? Can this ever get better?!

Gu Wufang silently recited the Heart-Calming Formula three whole times before preparing to bury his head back in official documents. Then—

"Who! Who touched the spiritual energy barrier this Sect Master set around Juyong Hall again!"

Departure

"Why! On what grounds were we chased off the Floating Cloud Stairway and sent to Spirit Medicine Peak to dig dirt?!"

"...Do you want to go to Sect Master Peak?"

"N-No, that's not the point. Could it be that we all guessed wrong?" What the