By rights, after leaving the Medicine Gate, Yun Chao and the other two should have led their disciples away. Yet everyone walked all the way to the town at the foot of the mountain without anyone bringing it up.
"Are you planning to keep walking forever?"
The cool voice broke the silence, and those ahead stopped one after another.
Lan Fang Ziyi rubbed his nose and laughed awkwardly. "We were all waiting for you to say something. If you didn't speak, how would we dare say anything?"
After all these years apart, Lan Fang Ziyi's personality was just as it had been.
Yun Chao, however, seemed to have shed his sharp edges and become much more reserved. Qin Ming had not changed much either. He was the steady, dependable sort and had always been an example to the other disciples of the Jade Sword Sect.
Su Jiu looked at these old friends before her and smiled faintly. "What are your plans next?"
"Slay demons." Qin Ming was succinct, his goal perfectly clear.
Yun Chao said quietly, "I'll take these disciples back to the sect first. Some of their cultivation levels are too low for them to come with me." He paused briefly, then added, "How has your health been since you woke up?"
Su Jiu shook her head. "There's nothing seriously wrong anymore."
After his earlier joke, Lan Fang Ziyi had fallen silent. "I plan to go to the Forbidden Zone."
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to Lan Fang Ziyi.
The Heavenly Secret Sect disciples thought he had gone utterly mad. "Eldest Senior Brother, how many lives do you have to spare that you'd dare go to the Forbidden Zone?"
Lan Fang Ziyi ignored that disciple and stared intently at Su Jiu. "If I'm not mistaken, you're planning to go to