Only when he brought the two children back the next morning and saw Tang Hao waiting at the dormitory entrance with a resentful look did Lan Changsheng realize what he had forgotten.
He slapped his forehead. "Something needs my attention over there. I'll head back first."
Then he put the two children down and vanished, without even managing a greeting.
Lan Changsheng really did have something to attend to! Just now, the flowers he had planted had sensed a herd of wild deer lingering at the forest's edge, hesitating over whether to enter.
Lan Changsheng sped all the way to the forest's edge and looked at the twelve wild deer ahead. They stood at the tree line, nostrils flaring as they sniffed the air. The presence that had once terrified them and cost their companions their lives had disappeared.
In its place was a scent full of warmth and safety.
The lead deer scraped the soil beneath its feet with a hoof. It was damp, but there was a feeling of solid ground underfoot. It gave a cry and took the lead, walking slowly into Sunset Forest.
The other eleven wild deer followed behind it, slowly disappearing into the shadows of the trees.
Lan Changsheng stood in a tree, looking down at his palm. An extremely thin golden halo lay over it, slowly fading, growing fainter in the morning light until it finally disappeared.
The corners of his mouth curved upward.
[Divine Trial, Second Trial. Current progress: eighty-one percent.]
Though the road ahead was still long, the first step had been taken. The rest was only a matter of time.
He did not teleport, but slowly followed the path back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, observing and measuring as he walked from one patch of