"Thank you both for your generous offer. I appreciate it, and I will consider the matter carefully.
"However, relocating a lineage is no small matter. It requires long-term deliberation."
Seeing that she had not flatly refused, Suiren Lianlei and Jiang Wanqing exchanged a glance.
"Then we shall not impose any longer."
Suiren Lianlei clasped her hands.
"There are still matters to attend to in the palace. Farewell."
"Take care, Fellow Daoist Gu."
Jiang Wanqing gave a formal bow.
"Travel safely, both of you. Forgive me for not seeing you off."
Gu Qingying returned the gesture.
Whoosh... whoosh...
Two streaks of light shot into the sky from Wangshu Pavilion, tearing through the void as they headed toward Ziwei Ancient Star, vanishing beyond the horizon in an instant.
Gu Qingying stood alone at the edge of the terrace, allowing the biting wind to stir her long hair and skirts.
She looked toward the direction in which the two women had departed, then toward Gou Chen Ancient Star. Finally, her gaze seemed to drift toward somewhere farther away, somewhere more unknowable.
"If you knew about today, what would you think?"
She murmured to herself. A faint trace of melancholy crossed her cold and beautiful face.
"Your disciple... truly makes one... not know what to do."
"And you...
"Did you truly... leave behind no clues at all? From the looks of it, even your disciple, the current Great Emperor, has found nothing over these years..."
The cold wind howled, sweeping up mountains of snow. No one answered.
Ziwei Ancient Star, Flame-Yellow Divine Kingdom, Jiang Family Ancestral Land.
As one of the oldest top-tier powers in the Ziwei Star Domain, the Jiang Family Ancestral Land covered an immense area, its palaces stretching endlessly and its grandeur boundless.
Though it had suffered damage during the