The cold wind howled, scattering the lingering snow in the courtyard and blowing the white blossoms from its pear trees.
A massive Green Mountain Sword Boat landed on the Snowfield.
His expression grave, True Person Guangyuan led several elders of Shiyue Peak across the carpet of pear blossoms and into the room.
What Yuan Qu had said when Zhuo Rusui emerged from seclusion a few days earlier had long since spread throughout the Green Mountain Nine Peaks.
Only then had the people of Green Mountain learned how far Zhao Layue had come.
The youngest Sea-Breaking Peak cultivator in history-she had surpassed even True Person Jingyang in his day!
Even in the Green Mountain Sect, she was a peerless treasure.
The news that Zhao Layue had been seriously wounded in the Snowfield naturally shook Green Mountain. A Sword Boat was dispatched overnight, with True Person Guangyuan, a Heaven-Connecting Great Figure, personally leading the party.
After an unknown length of time, True Person Guangyuan and the elders of Shiyue Peak emerged from the courtyard.
Seeing their expressions, the Wind Saber Sect Master and the other cultivators all breathed sighs of relief. The Green Mountain Sect truly deserved its reputation as the orthodox sect with the deepest reserves. Shiyue Peak possessed countless rare treasures and immortal medicines, and they had brought an entire boatload this time. If they still could not heal Zhao Layue, there really would be no justice in heaven.
Deep in the night, an exceedingly faint figure took advantage of the instant when clouds obscured the starlight to land in the courtyard. The pear blossoms on the ground did not stir.
Pushing open the door, the visitor lifted off his veiled hat, revealing a still-youthful face and two distinctively faint eyebrows.
Looking at his old friend, whom he