Tan Lin rubbed the cool jade slip between his fingers.
In the end, he flipped his hand and put it away. After sealing away that trace of Primordial Spirit Body Origin, he stored it within his Sea of Reincarnation.
He slowly turned around and gazed into the boundless starry sky. His eyes became deep and calm once more, all emotion thoroughly restrained.
Buzz...
And just then,
Ripples spread through the void before the cliff as an unparalleled beauty in a jade-green gauze dress stepped out.
Tap... tap...
Chi Yao stood at the cliff's edge, her green dress fluttering lightly in the wind like a secluded lotus quietly blooming.
She did not look at Tan Lin. Her gaze was directed toward the depths of the sea of clouds where her younger sister had vanished. Those clear, beautiful eyes were as still as a deep pool, without a single ripple.
Tan Lin halted and looked at her.
Only then did Chi Yao slowly turn her gaze back to meet his.
They stood only a few steps apart, yet it seemed as though hundreds of years and countless unspoken, complicated entanglements lay between them.
The last time they had been "alone" together on Dao-Unifying Cliff had been on that rainy night. She had come carrying an umbrella, and in the end, she had left that umbrella with him.
Yet she did not know whether he had still kept it.
After so many years, perhaps it had long since been destroyed by some accident.
Whoosh...
For a moment, the cliff summit was silent, save for the mournful howl of the wind.
Chi Yao's gaze was calm—so calm that it was almost indifferent.
She studied Tan Lin from head to toe for a moment, her gaze finally settling on the hand that had been holding