"The beast tide during the Monster Uprising was terrifying, but for some reason, all the low-level Demon Beasts in the Secret Realm avoided the Spirit Ascension Tower. I only escaped by luck because I hid inside."
"So you intend to take this opportunity to leave?"
"Yes. Once Husband has had a little time to recover, we'll leave tomorrow."
Wu Wenxuan gazed at the distant mountain silhouettes, lost in thought.
"This Half-Limit Secret Realm is too frightening. We'd be better off leaving the Secret Realm and fleeing into the mountains, living out our lives in peace."
In peace?
Mo Chen could not help finding Wu Wenxuan a little ridiculous.
"Without getting rid of that peculiar demonic aura inside you, how can you live in peace? Once you run out of spirit liquid, you'll undergo demonization again. You might as well follow the current and look for other ruins left by the Demon-Transforming True Person in Sunken Spirit Valley. There might still be a way out of this."
Wu Wenxuan sat on a bench in the bamboo pavilion, still staring silently at the green mountains in the distance.
Mo Chen did not try to persuade her again.
Some people simply would not turn back until they slammed into a wall.
They each sighed, then parted ways.
Mo Chen flew out of the bamboo pavilion, leaving Wu Wenxuan sitting there in a daze.
Only after Mo Chen disappeared into the bamboo grove did Wu Wenxuan take the waist token from her robes and weep alone in the pavilion.
The night wind rustled through the bamboo grove, until her sobbing could no longer be heard.
As for Mo Chen, he returned straight to the entrance of the Spirit Ascension Tower.
The Spirit Ascension Tower had three floors.
He had visited the first two,