Parting from the Fair Ones, Bound for the Star Road

A long time passed. The sun had set, vanishing into the depths of the East Sea. Shadows swayed beneath the trees on the little island, and the plants gave off a sweet fragrance.

Night fell. Stars glittered in the dark sky, and moonlight cast its cool glow over the earth. In the breeze, the island lay still amid the deserted sea.

"If we were mortals and lived here in seclusion, rising with the sun and resting when it set, shut away from the clamor of the world, perhaps we'd be happy."

Yin Luoyang stood and stretched, outlining her flawless curves.

Her golden hair gleamed beneath the bright moon. Her skin was smooth as ivory, and a faint smile touched her lovely face.

"Then for the next month, we won't be cultivators. We'll be ordinary mortals. No divine power, and no using the Source Ring to go wherever we please. We'll live ordinary lives!"

Yi Qingwu smiled. Her peerless beauty was like a spring breeze sweeping across the island, lighting it up in an instant.

Dressed in flowing white, she moved beneath the moon with an ethereal grace, as though she had strayed from a heavenly paradise into the mortal world. Yet she said she wanted to be an ordinary person.

"I spent twenty or thirty years as a mortal. Everyone in my hometown is mortal. When we have time, I'll take you there!"

Jiang Yun was a little surprised, but some cultivators did yearn for mortal life and wanted to experience it. He smiled and agreed.

"Then let's cook together. Mortals need dinner, and I want to hear about your past, Yunlang," Yin Luoyang said softly as she rose.

She had heard Jiang Yun talk about the Big Dipper, but knew little about Earth. The Source Ring seemed to have