Lijiang City.
Pinewind Academy.
A graceful figure walked over at an unhurried pace.
It was Gui Ling, who had crossed space and time to descend here.
He looked at the complex of buildings, which could be called quaint and elegant, yet did not even qualify as insignificant in his eyes, and felt somewhat ill at ease.
"A mortal body..."
He frowned.
Crossing space and time under the karmic guidance of the "Wuxian Overlord," he had temporarily replaced another person, a woman named Jiang Xiaoyu.
Although he would erase all memories within this body after leaving, along with every trace, he had still condensed a wisp of Magic Power inside it to make moving about easier.
But...
It was only a wisp of Magic Power.
A veteran Space-Time Envoy like him had undertaken far more than eight or ten erasure missions in other space-times.
Although stuffing his freely transforming energy state into a mortal body, and retaining only a wisp of Magic Power at that, made him very uncomfortable, he had no choice if he wanted to minimize his "influence."
"When undertaking missions in other space-times, we must not cause too great a disturbance there, lest changes in space-time create more ripples..."
This was an iron law engraved in the memory of every Space-Time Envoy.
Thus, his next actions had to be reasonable and natural.
As he pondered, he used an invisibility spell and quietly slipped into this academy, which had almost no experts worth mentioning.
Taking the stance of an outsider, he began searching quietly with his rather indistinct karmic arts.
Before long...
Several figures chatting and laughing appeared before him.
His gaze had already settled on one of them, on that faint karmic aura about him...
A sharp gleam flashed through Gui Ling's eyes.
"Li Xian?"
Although the karmic