After leaving Seimei Shrine, Chen Miao walked all the way to Auntie Cai's café without looking back once.
Holding the coffee Auntie Cai had handed him, Chen Miao sat down by the floor-to-ceiling window facing the street. Its bitterness filled his mouth.
Recalling the eyes of that Azure Dragon left him feeling heavyhearted.
He had clearly gone there to find out what those supposedly "righteous" Onmyoji were really like, and, while he was at it, test his first tier-three status, Yin Control.
Yet the moment he stepped through the shrine gates, a single look had stopped him in his tracks.
It would have been one thing if this had happened in the Mortal World, but this was reality!
That made it rather hard for Chen Miao to accept.
And why was Great Xia's totem coiled within a shrine belonging to the Island Nation's Onmyoji?
Who were the descendants of the dragon here, anyway?
Chen Miao was in a terrible mood, and he stopped using [Clearheart] to suppress it.
By the time he finished his coffee, listening to the elderly customers nearby reminisce about the old days, his mood had gradually settled.
Ultimately, he had let his success go to his head.
After returning from the Mortal World, his Yin Virtue and various other gains had brought a massive surge in his strength.
But Xiao Bai had arrived right around then.
After discovering in their fight that Xiao Bai was his natural counter, the arrogance born of Chen Miao's newfound strength had been beaten down.
Then, on his trip to Beitai City, he had crushed the Island Nation's Mountain Physiognomy Organization's plot with overwhelming ease, giving him a new understanding of his own strength.
After returning to Lin'an City, he had encountered the kidnapping of Shi Manman.
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