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After chatting a little longer, Li Chen said he wanted to look around the Snow Mountain Immortal Wonderland.

True Person Ice Lotus readily agreed and, showing remarkable "understanding," instructed Lü Mumu, "Mumu, you know this place best. Accompany Commandant Cheng and show him around. Be sure to attend to him properly."

Clearly, this was a deliberate attempt to give the two some time alone.

And so, amid pristine snow and exquisite jade palaces, Li Chen and Lü Mumu strolled together like a perfectly matched pair.

They reached Contemplating Sword Cliff, where Lü Mumu usually practiced her swordsmanship. Its sheer icy face was covered in exquisite traces of sword intent left by successive sect masters.

Setting aside her tangled thoughts for the moment, Lü Mumu happily introduced them to Li Chen, as familiar with each as treasures in her own collection. "Look at this Flying Snow Startling Swan Sword. The third sect master created it. It's graceful and nimble. And that Icebound Thousand Miles over there is heavy with killing intent. I've only grasped the barest surface of either."

Li Chen listened with a smile, then asked, "Which one do you like? Want to understand it more deeply? I can teach you."

Lü Mumu assumed he was joking to cheer her up, so she casually pointed to the most obscure and intricate Star-River Shattering Shadow Sword Art at the very top of the cliff. "That one, then. They say no one has fully grasped its essence in a thousand years."

Yet the moment she finished speaking, Li Chen merely raised his eyes and swept his gaze over the densely packed sword marks, then held two fingers together like a sword and casually swung them!

In an instant, sword light as radiant as a river of stars flowed from his fingertips. Its