What Mu Bai did not know was that everything happening inside Peony Pavilion appeared on a Light Screen set up in a secret chamber. A woman of twenty gazed affectionately at his figure, at his smile and features, her eyes already swimming with tears.
Did you know? Since we parted, longing had become a sickness, and like a galloping steed, it had never once stopped!
Unable to find Mi Yan or learn anything about Ling'er, Mu Bai simply found lodgings across the street from Peony Pavilion and settled in.
He refused to give up just like that. Going to the Venerable Domain to find Mi Yan would be no different from fishing a needle out of the sea. Besides, Mu Bai sensed something in his heart: Ximu City held something he cared about.
With his mind unsettled, Mu Bai had no inclination to cultivate. He set up a small stall along the street downstairs, laid out several bottles of pills, and sat on the ground.
The blazing sun beat down overhead, and every breath carried the scorching sting of windblown sand.
Mu Bai felt nothing in his heart, so he did not feel the searing heat either. He sat there for half a day, letting the fierce sun and sandy wind run rampant.
Toward evening, the sun sank lower, and the evening breeze brought threads of coolness, sweeping away the heat that had baked Ximu City all day and the exhaustion of people who had spent the day rushing about. Only then did more pedestrians gradually appear on the street, slowing their steps as they laughed, chatted, and browsed along the road.
Mu Bai had set his stall directly across the street from Peony Pavilion, an excellent location. A closer look at his wares revealed that every pill was of