"Brother Jiang."
The woman appeared before him amid a sky full of streaming light. Jiang Yang smiled faintly and replied:
"You're here."
The cultivators around them were all scrambling for spirit treasures and had no attention to spare for them. Neither of the two cared for the scattered odds and ends strewn across the ground, so no one disturbed them for the moment.
"Mm."
Tai Pei'er nodded lightly, then asked:
"You must have noticed the Transformation in the heavens, Brother Jiang?"
"Yes."
Jiang Yang had gained much from watching as well. He sighed softly before saying:
"That Great True Person fell short at the very last hurdle after all."
Tai Pei'er did not seem particularly concerned. It was all merely a replay of the events of her previous life, so she said:
"He was nowhere close. The whole point was to force him to dash himself to death against that wall. If it really were so easy, wouldn't all those great figures have plotted in vain?"
Jiang Yang had long since prepared himself for what her words implied. Gathering his thoughts, he said:
"A fine scheme."
"All right, enough chatter. Come into the mountains with me, as we agreed."
Tai Pei'er silently calculated the time and urged him onward.
"What good would going into the mountains do now?"
With her tugging at his sleeve, Jiang Yang questioned her in return.
They had indeed reached an agreement in the secret chamber earlier, saying they would join forces to seek an opportunity, but neither had known the full picture then.
Now that Jiang Yang had manifested his mystic pupils and taken everything in, he needed little thought to realize this was not something he could meddle in at his current level.
That place was filled entirely with Purple Mansion True Persons. Even